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Tiruchi
By Our Staff Reporter
TIRUCHI, DEC. 11 . Speakers at a seminar held here today underlined the role of volunteers of the National Service Scheme in creating an awareness of environmental protection through personal hygiene, especially through the use of individual toilets. They also urged the NSS coordinators attached to higher educational institutions to evolve exclusive programmes for tackling environmental, water and soil pollution owing to open defecation in and around water bodies in rural pockets. The seminar on `Role of students in creating hygiene society' was organised by the District Rural Development Agency. Presiding over the function, the Collector, V. Pandian, said the DRDA would implement an innovative programme from this academic year in coordination with the NSS units of colleges. Each NSS unit functioning in the colleges would be motivated to adopt a village for a period of three years, he said. Mr. Pandian said it had been planned to implement an action plan, with a specific agenda for each year. In the first year, a mass campaign would be launched in the adopted villages for creating awareness among the residents. The NSS unit would identify four institutions — two anganwadis and two schools — where toilets would be constructed in the second phase to motivate the school pupils to resort to personal hygiene. The focus would be on the construction of individual toilets during the final year. The Labour Welfare Minister, P. Annavi, who inaugurated the seminar, appealed to panchayat presidents to emulate the example of the Aaraichi panchayat, which had bagged a cash award of Rs.five lakhs in recognition of its environment-friendly activities. He said the seminar would evolve techniques for executing a joint effort by governmental agencies and college units for making rural environment free from the menace of pollutions. The Assistant General Manager, NABARD, P. Selvaraj, said 20 health sub-centres would be constructed in the district shortly under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) scheme. The Project Officer, DRDA, Manohara Singh and the NSS coordinator, Bharathidasan University, Veerasekaran, said imparting training in awareness campaign to NSS volunteers and setting up of committee for ensuring sustained follow-up were some of the modalities being worked out for achieving cent per cent hygienic rural society. Mr. Manohara Singh said the concept would be extended to school-level NSS units in course of time. The Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation, M. Paranjothi, also spoke.
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