BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a post-rally discussion in the city called for a mass-participation to make the ongoing sanitation campaign a total success.
They also underlined the need for transforming the sanitation campaign into a social movement for building a healthy society.
They viewed that concerted effort of all quarters particularly the community people side by side with the government are needed to attain total sanitation coverage by 2015.
District Administration, Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) and Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) jointly organised the discussion held in the conference hall of Shilpakala Academy on Friday to mark the National Sanitation Month October and World Hand Washing Day-2015.
Main thrust of the programme was to gear up the ‘National Sanitation Campaign for all’. “Sanitation for All must for Improved Life” was the main slogan of the discussion.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Helaluddin Ahmed and managing director of Rajshahi WASA Dhirendranath Sarker addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Sudhir Kumar Ghosh, superintending engineer of DPHE, in the chair.
Chief executive officer of Rajshahi City Corporation Ajahar Ali, Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury, divisional director of Department of Health Dr Hedayetul Islam and Project Coordinator of SKS Foundation Mijanur Rahman Akanda also spoke.
During his concept-paper presentation, Engineer Sudhir Kumar Ghosh said the hygienic sanitation campaign should be successful for the sake of keeping the environment free from pollution side by side with saving people from being infected with numerous air and water-borne diseases.
Helaluddin Ahmed opined that motivation and involvement of the affluent section of the society in the campaign would help reduce dependence on government allocation and foreign aid to this effect.
He called upon the field level government officials and public representatives to engage community and religious leaders at the grassroots in the campaign so that it could be turned into a social movement.
Terming the schoolboys and girls as the most vulnerable to worm infection, Dr Hedayetul Islam called for making them aware about health hygiene and using sanitary latrine together with proper hand washing before taking every meal.
Success of total hygienic sanitation programme depended on its sustainability and the NGOs, members of civil society and affluent people would have to play the key role side by side with government efforts to make the programme a success, he added.
Around 200 persons including officers and staff of DPHE, public representatives, development activists, students and members of the civil society attended the meeting.
Earlier, a rally was brought out from the Monibazar area and that paraded the city thoroughfares.
Speakers at a post-rally discussion in the city called for a mass-participation to make the ongoing sanitation campaign a total success.
They also underlined the need for transforming the sanitation campaign into a social movement for building a healthy society.
They viewed that concerted effort of all quarters particularly the community people side by side with the government are needed to attain total sanitation coverage by 2015.
District Administration, Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) and Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) jointly organised the discussion held in the conference hall of Shilpakala Academy on Friday to mark the National Sanitation Month October and World Hand Washing Day-2015.
Main thrust of the programme was to gear up the ‘National Sanitation Campaign for all’. “Sanitation for All must for Improved Life” was the main slogan of the discussion.
Commissioner of Rajshahi division Helaluddin Ahmed and managing director of Rajshahi WASA Dhirendranath Sarker addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Sudhir Kumar Ghosh, superintending engineer of DPHE, in the chair.
Chief executive officer of Rajshahi City Corporation Ajahar Ali, Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury, divisional director of Department of Health Dr Hedayetul Islam and Project Coordinator of SKS Foundation Mijanur Rahman Akanda also spoke.
During his concept-paper presentation, Engineer Sudhir Kumar Ghosh said the hygienic sanitation campaign should be successful for the sake of keeping the environment free from pollution side by side with saving people from being infected with numerous air and water-borne diseases.
Helaluddin Ahmed opined that motivation and involvement of the affluent section of the society in the campaign would help reduce dependence on government allocation and foreign aid to this effect.
He called upon the field level government officials and public representatives to engage community and religious leaders at the grassroots in the campaign so that it could be turned into a social movement.
Terming the schoolboys and girls as the most vulnerable to worm infection, Dr Hedayetul Islam called for making them aware about health hygiene and using sanitary latrine together with proper hand washing before taking every meal.
Success of total hygienic sanitation programme depended on its sustainability and the NGOs, members of civil society and affluent people would have to play the key role side by side with government efforts to make the programme a success, he added.
Around 200 persons including officers and staff of DPHE, public representatives, development activists, students and members of the civil society attended the meeting.
Earlier, a rally was brought out from the Monibazar area and that paraded the city thoroughfares.
