Reporting by Manas R Bannerjee
MALDA. Dec.29.(India)- In order to bring success in pulse polio immunisation on 15 January 2006, the district administration has launched an awareness programme with a difference.
The district magistrate said that they have been preparing a 30-minute documentary video film and an audiocassette for the ignorant people who love folk songs and its culture.
Today the district magistrate and the sabahdhipati were editing a mother copy of a video film that was finally made on district’s folk based songs and dramas just to make another audio cassette selecting five songs from it on the subjects of pulse polio, sanitation and literacy.
The objective of such a campaign is to make a good progress report on sanitation in this district, officials said.
The Malda administration had been criticized by the state officials in several monitoring committee meeting earlier owing to bad progress report on sanitation that had put the district in health hazards.
The songs have explained utility for setting up latrine in every house. But how the people belonging to below the poverty line group will avail it from sanitary mart organised by various NGOs in rural areas and its minimum costs?
" Video and audio cassettes will be distributed to each block soon. A few tabloids will also be made for its campaigning.
The programme would be continued from 2 to 15 January 2006 in the first phase", said Mr. Abhijit Choudhuri , the Malda D M .
The district magistrate said that they would have to meet the targeted figure of 60,000 this financial year setting up such latrine in rural belts.
In-fact ill date the administration has been able to set up 25,000 latrines this year, he added.
MALDA. Dec.29.(India)- In order to bring success in pulse polio immunisation on 15 January 2006, the district administration has launched an awareness programme with a difference.
The district magistrate said that they have been preparing a 30-minute documentary video film and an audiocassette for the ignorant people who love folk songs and its culture.
Today the district magistrate and the sabahdhipati were editing a mother copy of a video film that was finally made on district’s folk based songs and dramas just to make another audio cassette selecting five songs from it on the subjects of pulse polio, sanitation and literacy.
The objective of such a campaign is to make a good progress report on sanitation in this district, officials said.
The Malda administration had been criticized by the state officials in several monitoring committee meeting earlier owing to bad progress report on sanitation that had put the district in health hazards.
The songs have explained utility for setting up latrine in every house. But how the people belonging to below the poverty line group will avail it from sanitary mart organised by various NGOs in rural areas and its minimum costs?
" Video and audio cassettes will be distributed to each block soon. A few tabloids will also be made for its campaigning.
The programme would be continued from 2 to 15 January 2006 in the first phase", said Mr. Abhijit Choudhuri , the Malda D M .
The district magistrate said that they would have to meet the targeted figure of 60,000 this financial year setting up such latrine in rural belts.
In-fact ill date the administration has been able to set up 25,000 latrines this year, he added.
"A group of folk artists in Manikchak and other areas have prepared scripts of street dramas and songs. Their programmes have been recorded as documentary evidences to pacify the ignorant and reluctant people", a senior official said. SNS
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Workshop held at Malda on sanitation awareness
Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan. 5. — A workshop was organised today at the Malda zilla parishad bhawan to expedite sanitation work undertaken by various organisations in the four districts of North Bengal. Besides, the Malda district, units manufacturing sanitation materials from North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Cooch Behar districts attended the workshop. It was aimed to review the performance of the units in the districts, officials said. During interaction with government officials and the organisers of the workshop, it was revealed that the present performance of Malda district is better, but, some remote areas are lagging behind in the sanitation sector. A representative from an NGO said: “Though we have set up many additional manufacturing unit for installing public bathrooms and toilets, the development has not been homogeneous owing to inaccessible areas like Pardewnapur in Kaliachak III or some places in Harishchandrapur II, where the communication system is very poor”. At the same time, the NGO members informed: “Few panchayat pradhans and members treat NGO workers as contractors, which is creating misunderstanding leading to problems in executing sanitation work”. The district magistrate has stepped up vigilance in the concerned organisations related to the sanitation programme, officials said. “By March this year, public latrines and a drinking water project will be completed in each and every primary school in the district”, said Mr Abhijit Choudhuri, the Malda DM. #
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