The voluntary participation of all the residents of this village in Makloor mandal in the Swachh Bharat programme on Monday would certainly be a motivation to other villagers to follow suit.
Residents, including the young and old men and women holding crow bars, spades, baskets and brooms gathered at the Gandhi statue, the rachhabanda of the village, and fanned out to all corners to participate in cleaning work after a brief meeting. It was reminiscent of celebration of a festival as the villagers cutting across the party lines came together. Within hours the village has got a facelift with clean roads.
The Sarang Seva, a voluntary organisation, arranged drinking water and tractors for removal of garbage. A couple of farmers pressed into service their tractors and other vehicles for the success of the programme. A large number of schoolchildren contributed their mite removing waste plants and garbage.
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Speaking on the occasion, P.R. Somani, the founder chairman of Nizamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who motivated the villagers for the Swachh Bharath, advised the villagers to keep environs neat and clean to ward off diseases and inhale pure air. It was the responsibility of every person to maintain good and pollution-free atmosphere in the village, he said.
The Sardar Vallabhai Patel Rural Health Federation president Dr. J. Bapu Reddy, said that the villagers should keep away from bad habits of alcoholism and gutka consumption to lead healthy life. Villagers mostly were suffering from malnutrition and waterborne diseases, which could be avoided easily if they had knowledge of them.
He suggested them to build toilet for every household as open defecation would cause harm to environs.
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Earlier, the villagers garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and paid tribute to him. They also shouted slogans of ‘Swachh Bharath, Swachh Telangana’.
Sarpanch K. Jalandhar, MPTC S. Lingam and others were present.