USTM Students
Commemorate National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness Week

The students along with their respective faculty of the Department of Public
Administration and Department of Rural Development of University of Science &
Technology, Meghalaya organized an Awareness Camp on the occasion of ‘National
Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness Week 16th - 22nd March 2015’, at
Jorbil village, in Baridua, Ri-Bhoi District Meghalaya on 22nd of March 2015. In
this awareness camp the students had interacted with the villagers and shared
with them tips on leading a clean and hygienic life.
The students of the University have acumen about the problems related to
Sanitation, Hygiene, Health and Drinking Water in the village through the field
visits they had made to Jorbill. There were four interactional groups of
students who actively participated in helping the community of people living at
Jorbil to find out the solutions from various barriers of above mentioned
related problems in their localities. It was an opportune time wherein the
villagers took a lead role with prepared minds to be present in the camp to
rediscover and get equipped with the available resources at their disposal to
tackle the problems of Sanitation, Hygiene, Health and Drinking Water. Having
enchanting communication, the students have mesmerized the common people, and
indeed made the awareness camp a success.
PRO, USTM
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