Ukhrul children sensitized on clean environment with "No to litter" slogan
Source: The Sangai Express / Mungchan Zimik
Ukhrul, February 09 2019:
Kasomtang Youth Organization, Ukhrul organised a one day awareness campaign on " No to litter" today to sensitise the children on clean environment and healthy living.
A social work was held ahead of the awareness campaign in which the children collected the waste scattered in the surrounding area of Kasomtang and cleaned the whole inter-link roads of the local areas.
Meanwhile, during a brief interaction with a youth leader Kharkhui Raleng, he expressed that the main objective of the campaign is to inculcate the children on good habit of clean living from an early age.
He further mentioned that children have to be educated to become more friendly with the environment.
According to him, Kasomtang has been declared a plastic-free zone in 2017 while the locality also received the district level award on clean sanitation.
He further maintained that recently, Kasomtang also received a National award on 'Ukhrul dust- First plastic free & ODF Hamlet' from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS) on the theme Swacchh Bharat Mission from Manipur.
Later, the children pledged to partake in the movement for clean environment and took part in an awareness rally.