NYK launches campaign to create awareness on rainwater harvesting in Dhubri

DHUBRI: 'Catch The Rain Where It Falls, When It Falls' campaign was launched by Dhubri NYK (Nehru Yuva Kendra) at a meeting held in the office premises of World Vision here recently.

Speaking as the chief guest in the meeting, Dhubri Additional Deputy Commissioner Safraz Haque spoke at length about the importance and necessity to conserve water, reuse and recycle it for the good of the generations to come. Dhubri ADC Haque also thanked NYK for launching an awareness campaign on this issue in the district and hoped that it would generate the desired results in the days to come.

Assistant Executive Engineer of Dhubri Municipal Board, Abdul Jalil Sheikh, while addressing the village-level activists and volunteers of NYK as resource person, said that rain harvesting method and its related matters were so easy that it could be finished in five minutes but its implementation was important to create an impact which would benefit mankind and the environment as a whole for centuries to come.

"It is a fact that presently there is no urgency for Assam to go for immediate action to harvest rain water as there is hardly any crisis of water, but alarm bells have started ringing in certain areas. So we should be alert before facing a situation like Maharashtra, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar, where ground water level is getting low every passing year. In order to preserve and increase the ground water table, we need to act from now," Sheikh pointed out.

The meeting was also addressed by Assistant Engineer of Water Resource Department, Jawahar Boro and media person Ravindra Todi. Dhubri Additional Deputy Commissioner Safraz Haque inaugurated the rain water harvesting campaign and in his inaugural speech, he called upon the NYK volunteers to create awareness dedicatedly among the villagers on the need for harvesting rain water.