SILCHAR : In a bid to make cachar ,a cleaner district and as a part of district’s day celebration ,the district administration has initiated a drive to clean the municipal areas of silchar on tuesday.

Cachar DC Rohan Kumar Jha along with Superintendent of police ,Numal Mahatta, additional Superintendent of police, Subrata sen , District development commissioner,Rajib Roy kickstarted the mega cleanliness drive at capital point of silchar town and distributed bags to the workers of silchar municipal board.

DC Rohan Kumar Jha also took part in the drive and overviewed the cleanliness drive that was taken up in the various places of silchar town.While expressing his views,DC Rohan Kumar Jha said” Most of the drains in silchar and it’s adjoining areas have been chocked due to dumping of the garage for a period of considerable time”.

“We will take in hand the task of cleaning these drains with the help of silchar municipal board so that during the monsoon season the town is not inundated by the artificial flood” DC Jha mentioned .

He however reiterated that until and unless people become conscious and stop throwing garbage in the drain ,the cleanliness drive will be a futile.

Making an appeal to the street vendors,DC Rohan Kumar Jha said ‘ local markets set up near drains are dumping their garbage in the drain ,i would like to appeal to the people to stop dumping garbage in the drain,help us to help you”.
DC Jha urged people to handover the garbage to municipal garbage disposal vehicles for proper disposal and vowed to make the city a garbage -free city.

Sharing his reaction, Cachar police super Numal Mahatta said” litters endangers our environment and our economy,it pollutes our neighbourhood and destroys our city’s natural beauty”. He also appealed to the people to make the city clean by not littering on the streets and follow proper garbage disposal system.

The cleanliness drive was also attended by the additional deputy commissioner, Tridib Kumar Konwar ,Antara Sen, Nampui , assistant commissioner,Jonali debi, circle officer ,sonai ,Maria Tanim,circle officer (A)Aditi Nunisa ,Ruthi Selate ,BDO Jatrakk Karmakar and other officials of line department.

Later ,a theme song was also unveiled by DC Rohan Kumar in presence of Superintendent of police, Numal Mahatta, Additional superintendent of police, Subrata sen and amidst journalist at the new conference hall of DC’S office on the day.

It is worthy to mention that the theme song was written by a renowned poet , lyricist and a singer , Biswaraj Bhattacharjee and the song was recorded by a popular Bangla band of Barak valley “Dolchut”. This is stated in a press release issued from Regional office of Information & Public Relations Barak valley Zone Silchar Assam.