NCC Dibrugarh organizes awareness campaign on plastic waste pollution

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DIBRUGARH: Puneet Sagar Abhiyan, a flagship campaign by the Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, is being conducted by the National Cadet Corps cadets from 63 Assam Girls Battalion NCC Dibrugarh of NCC Group Dibrugarh with gusto.

Colonel Sanjeev Dogra, Commanding Officer 63 Assam Girls Bn NCC Dibrugarh, explained that the objective of Puneet Sagar Abhiyan was to create awareness among the masses about the perils of plastic waste pollution in the rivers.

The girl cadets have undertaken various activities along the banks of the 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 water bodies and the groundwater; but the micro-plastics are hazardous to our health.

An interactive session with the NGO ''Care North East Foundation' was organized in Doomdooma to discuss on the ways to recycle the plastic waste. Poster making, essay writing and poetry-writing competition on this theme were organized 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 River Brahmaputra in Dibrugarh town on Thursday. Dibrugarh Municipal Board (DMB) vice-chairman 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 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.

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