Assam: Students, professors form human chain for green Diwali

NAGAON: NSS unit and Nowgong College Students’ Union in association with Regional Office, Nagaon of Assam Pollution Control Board, on Friday organized an awareness programme at the college premises for celebration of upcoming Diwali as green Diwali. As part of the awareness programme, a human chain was formed by thousands of students and urged people to celebrate the upcoming festival of lights as green Diwali avoiding firecrackers as well as fireworks.

During the campaign, the students of the college also pledged to celebrate the festival of lights as green Diwali avoiding the firecrackers or other fireworks. The proceedings of the awareness campaign was initiated by Dr Bhuban Chandra Chutia, coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Nowgong College and the programme officer of NSS Unit. Members of Institutions Innovation Council and students of Department of Physics with the help of faculty members made water wheels (diya) to celebrate the festival of eco-friendly Diwali in a favorable manner. It also appealed all to celebrate the festival by bursting balloons instead of crackers as it pose threat to the environment around.

Dr Manas Jyoti Nirmaliyai, Assistant Programme Officer of the NSS Unit said that this awareness in Nowgong College will avail benefits for many covering the larger society. It will encourage people from all walks of life to celebrate the festival. The cultural secretary of the Students’ Union of Nowgong College also spoke on the occasion and said that the firecrackers or other fireworks would affect the breathing, sneezing of the general public. Referring to Delhi’s pollution and public sufferings in the past years, he called upon the people of the small town to celebrate green Diwali. Over thousands of students, professors and other non-teaching staff of the college participated in the programme.

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