Seminar on single-use plastic and heritage walk organized by DPLOMC

A Correspondent

DHUBRI: A seminar on single-use plastic and heritage walk was organized on Dr. Oswal’s 79th birth anniversary by the Dr. Pannalal Oswal Memorial Committee (DPLOMC) coinciding with Children’s Day at Dhubri Lions Club premises on Thursday.

Nearly 100 higher secondary students from Assam Heritage, a senior secondary school, and Sishu Pathsala Higher Secondary School participated in the seminar.

An academician and member of (DPLOMC), Dhruba Mahato spoke at a length on the uses and abuses of plastic and cautioned that if people did not take steps to stop using single-use plastic bags and other similar materials, the day would not be far when the entire world would be engulfed by the plastic.

“Our ‘Use and throw’ mentality has become a lifestyle and in the case of throwing plastic and causing environmental degradation and polluting it too. Now we cannot continue with this habit as it will kill us one day if we do not put a stop here. So take a pledge to stop using single-use plastic right from now,” Mahato appealed.

President of the DPLOMC, Prof. Girindra Nath Goswami, a senior member of the committee, JM Surana, an ardent social worker, Dr. Debamoy Sanyal, Principal of Sishu Pathsala HS School and other dignitaries spoke on the life of Dr. Oswal and also on single-use plastic.

After the seminar, a nationally acclaimed handicraft artisan, Rita Das, meritorious higher secondary students – Barsharani Rabha and Pinky Basfore - were felicitated. Rabha and Basfore were given books and other study materials, while all the students were given a bag made of long cloth containing multiple-use bottle, the folder on heritage sites, pad and pen and chocolate and other gifts, including seedling of neem.

As a part of the programme, students were taken for heritage walk from Queen Victoria Park and they visited the oldest school in Dhubri district established in 1879, Brahma Mandir (1875), Armenian Church (1765 circa), Sikh temple (1662), Dhubri Post Office (1879), Dhubri Circuit House (1879), SP Office (1879), Treasury (1879), Lawn Tennis Court (1879), Dak Bungalow (1831), Dhubri Bar Association (1890), DFO Bungalow (1879), DC Bungalow (1879), Meteorological tower ( 1765 Circa), Panch-Peer Dargah (1662), Netai Dhubin Ghat, SP Bungalow (1879) and the oldest well built by Dhubri Municipal Board in 1883.

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