BSS, Rajshahi :
Collective efforts of all government and non-government agencies concerned including the community people has become an urgent need for attaining hundred percent sanitation coverage for the sake of freeing people from various air and water borne diseases.
To this end, time has come to transform the sanitation campaign into social movement with mass-participation for building a healthy society. There is no alternative to make the sanitation campaign a total success.
The observations came in the inaugural meeting of the national sanitation month and hand washing day at Jafar Imam Tennis Complex conference hall in the city yesterday. Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) organized the programme in association with offices of Divisional and Deputy Commissioners.
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 Abdul Hannan and Managing Director of Rajshahi WASA Ajahar Ali addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with Superintending Engineer of DPHE Sudhir Kumar Ghosh in the chair.
Chief Executive Officer of Rajshahi City Corporation Dr Sharif Uddin, Deputy Commissioner Kazi Ashraf Uddin, Superintendent of Police Abdus Salam and UNICEF Representative Moinul Islam also spoke.
Chief Guest Abdul Hannan said the hygiene and 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.
He 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.
The field level government officials and public representatives were urged 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, he called for making them aware about health hygiene and using sanitary latrine together with proper hand washing before taking 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, Mr Hannan added.
Around 65 persons including government and non-government officials concerned and staff of RCC and DPHE, public representatives, development activists, students and members of the civil society attended the meeting.
3 food shops fined in Rajshahi
BSS adds: Members of Department of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) fined three food shops Taka 13,500 on charges of selling sub-standard foods in the district on Thursday.
A team of the DNCRP conducted a raid in Nawhata Bazar area under Paba upazila of the district and found the shops guilty of preparing, possessing and selling foods in unhygienic condition.
The team fined the shops Taka 13,500 and realized the money from the shop owners on the spot.
Deputy Director of DNCRP Mahabubur Rahman said the drive against the violations of consumers’ rights will continue.
Collective efforts of all government and non-government agencies concerned including the community people has become an urgent need for attaining hundred percent sanitation coverage for the sake of freeing people from various air and water borne diseases.
To this end, time has come to transform the sanitation campaign into social movement with mass-participation for building a healthy society. There is no alternative to make the sanitation campaign a total success.
The observations came in the inaugural meeting of the national sanitation month and hand washing day at Jafar Imam Tennis Complex conference hall in the city yesterday. Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) organized the programme in association with offices of Divisional and Deputy Commissioners.
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 Abdul Hannan and Managing Director of Rajshahi WASA Ajahar Ali addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with Superintending Engineer of DPHE Sudhir Kumar Ghosh in the chair.
Chief Executive Officer of Rajshahi City Corporation Dr Sharif Uddin, Deputy Commissioner Kazi Ashraf Uddin, Superintendent of Police Abdus Salam and UNICEF Representative Moinul Islam also spoke.
Chief Guest Abdul Hannan said the hygiene and 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.
He 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.
The field level government officials and public representatives were urged 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, he called for making them aware about health hygiene and using sanitary latrine together with proper hand washing before taking 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, Mr Hannan added.
Around 65 persons including government and non-government officials concerned and staff of RCC and DPHE, public representatives, development activists, students and members of the civil society attended the meeting.
3 food shops fined in Rajshahi
BSS adds: Members of Department of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) fined three food shops Taka 13,500 on charges of selling sub-standard foods in the district on Thursday.
A team of the DNCRP conducted a raid in Nawhata Bazar area under Paba upazila of the district and found the shops guilty of preparing, possessing and selling foods in unhygienic condition.
The team fined the shops Taka 13,500 and realized the money from the shop owners on the spot.
Deputy Director of DNCRP Mahabubur Rahman said the drive against the violations of consumers’ rights will continue.
