CURATED BY – DHEERAJ KUMAR AHIRWAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Damoh, on the instructions of District Administration Damoh, under Swachhata Hi Seva Pakhwada, Student Sarva Kalyan Samiti District Damoh, program coordinator, Youth Achievers of the district Krishna Patel organized "Swachh Damoh Cultural Festival" in the auditorium of Prime Minister College of Excellence Government Gyanchandra Srivastava Post Graduate College Damoh. The program started with the worship and prayer of Mother Saraswati. All the guests were welcomed by the institution by presenting a plant and a symbol. The event was presided over by State Backward Class Commission Chairman Dr. Ramakrishna Kusmaria as the chief guest. District Panchayat CEO IAS Arpit Verma presided over the event. College Principal Dr. PK Jain, former President Advocate Association Alok Srivastava, Jan Abhiyan Parishad District Coordinator Sushil Kumar Namdev, Nehru Yuva Kendra Lekhpal Tej Khan, Mr. Jha from District Traffic were present as special guests. During the program, in the painting competition organized in Government Higher Secondary School Kumeria, Pathariya, Anuj Prajapati was awarded first, Mehak Rajput second, Jaswanti Mishra third and Ashi Vishwakarma was awarded with special prize. Also, Satish Patel and Mahendra Patel Team College and young folk song singer Ghanshyam Patel spoke on cleanliness. Bundelkhandi folk song was presented. Abhilasha Pandey, Pratiksha Rai, Ritika Vishwakarma, Gaurav Rathore presented speeches on the subject of cleanliness.

Chief guest Dr. Ramakrishna Kusmaria said that we have to start cleanliness from ourselves. If we take a pledge to make our village and city clean, then certainly Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign will be successful. We all need to work towards cleanliness and self-reliance to make India developed. People say that a person should live for hundred years, I say that we should live for hundred years healthy. Today we all have to go from here with this resolution. District Panchayat CEO IAS Arpit Verma, who was presiding over the program, said that cleanliness will come only through collective efforts of all of us. Today, social organizations are participating in public awareness campaigns with great enthusiasm, which is commendable. If there are any kind of places with excessive dirt in rural areas, then you should inform the District Panchayat about it and also take a pledge to make your respective villages clean and beautiful, only then our Damoh will be clean and our India will be clean. Praising the organization, he said that the student welfare committee and the coordinator of this program, Krishna Patel, are continuously working in the interest of the society, which is very commendable.

During the program, Jan Abhiyan Parishad Block Coordinator Vandana Jain, NSS in-charge Dr. Jitendra Chaudhary, Professor Meera Mam, Hariom Dubey, Anil Yadav, Vivekanand Center City Coordinator Pradyumna Singh, President of Parivartan Health Education Welfare Society Dheeraj Kumar and representatives of various social organizations Ashish Patel, Pradeep Sharma, Rajkumar Sen, Jitendra Thakur, Basant Patel, Shashank Asati, Shankar Gautam, Tulsiram Tiwari, Ganesh Yadav, and many others were present.