GUWAHATI, AUG 18: Puneet Sagar Abhiyan, a flagship campaign, by the Ministry of Science and Technology in collaboration with Ministry of Defence is running full steam by the National Cadet Corps cadets from 63 Assam Girls Battalion NCC Dibrugarh of NCC Group Dibrugarh with gusto and resilience.
Colonel Sanjeev Dogra, Commanding Officer 63 Assam Girls Bn NCC Dibrugarh explained that the centrepoint of Puneet Sagar Abhiyan is to create awareness in the masses, of the perils of plastic waste pollution, in the Rivers.
The girl cadets to this end, have undertaken various activities along the banks of rivers Brahmaputra, DoomDooma and Lohit with the onerous aim to rid them of plastic waste.
The cadets during the month long campaign have also visited the local shopkeepers and hawkers, exhorting them, to shun the use of plastic, which not only pollutes the waterbodies and the groundwater; but the micro-plastics are hazardous to our health.
An interactive session with NGO ‘Care North East Foundation’ was organised in DoomDooma to discuss on the ways to recycle the plastic waste. Poster making, Essay writing and Poetry writing competition on this theme were organised in various educational institutions in the districts of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Changalang, Lohit, Namsai and Lower Dibang Valley.
The highlight of the campaign was a plog run and collection of plastic waste along the bank of R Brahmaputra in Dibrugarh Town on Thursday.
Dibrugarh Municipal Board vice chairman Dibrugarh Ujjal Phukon flagged the plog run in which cadets and students from Victoria Girls High Secondary School, Saint Mary’s High Secondary School, Government Girls High Secondary & Multi Purpose School, Government Girls High Secondary School Amolapatty and Little Flower High Secondary School under the able guidance of Lieutenant Romen Phukan, Third Officers Mousumi Ganguly, Rita Bora, Minakshi Duarah, Sub RC Prusty, CTOs Chandani Sarmah, Momita Dey, participated with great fervour.