Suniho V Zhimo of Xukhepu village accepts an award from the President of India Pratibha Patil during a national function held on March 23. The Government of India awarded the Nirmal Gram Puraskar to 23 villages from Nagaland for sanitation.
Dimapur, March 26 (MExN): The Government of India has awarded the Nirmal Gram Puraskar to 23 villages from Nagaland for sanitation. The President of India gave away the award on March 23, at a national function in Delhi. Three persons were nominated from village councils (in lieu of PRIs): Suniho V.Zhimo, Xukhepu village, Samuel Kikon, Seleku Village and Saku Kichu, Ao Kashiram Village, along with one District TSC Coordinator Mersen.
Suniho V.Zhimo spoke on behalf of all the awardees at the Nirmal Gram Puraskaar Award ceremony 2010-11, New Delhi. At her acceptance speech, Suniho thanked the President of India for honoring them with the award. “As elected representatives of different tiers of the village council, we realize that it is our primary duty to make our areas hygienic, clean and livable,” she said. She also mentioned that the Total Sanitation Campaign was a great opportunity to not only provide toilets but also to make the people aware of the need of maintaining a clean and health living environment.
Also, Suniho said “I come from a small village, from the state of Nagaland in the Northeastern part of India known for its natural beauty and cultural heritage from the district of Zunheboto. The need for a toilet cannot be better felt than by a woman, who has to face the indignity of a defecating in the open and risking her health. I therefore, resolved that as the leader of my village Council I would motivate my village community to join hands with the village administration to build toilets and have a clean environment.”
Suniho thanked the government of India for the initiatives taken for people of the rural areas. “We assure that we will certainly sustain this achievement with more and more villages in our state, particularly those of my districts are being motivated to make their village a clean village by seeing the good example set by villages which have already achieved the status of Nirmal Gram,” she said. Many villagers, especially children, today take pride in keeping their villages clean through proper disposal of waste matters. ‘Today our lives are more healthy, dignified and progressive as never before,’ he stated.
Suniho V.Zhimo spoke on behalf of all the awardees at the Nirmal Gram Puraskaar Award ceremony 2010-11, New Delhi. At her acceptance speech, Suniho thanked the President of India for honoring them with the award. “As elected representatives of different tiers of the village council, we realize that it is our primary duty to make our areas hygienic, clean and livable,” she said. She also mentioned that the Total Sanitation Campaign was a great opportunity to not only provide toilets but also to make the people aware of the need of maintaining a clean and health living environment.
Also, Suniho said “I come from a small village, from the state of Nagaland in the Northeastern part of India known for its natural beauty and cultural heritage from the district of Zunheboto. The need for a toilet cannot be better felt than by a woman, who has to face the indignity of a defecating in the open and risking her health. I therefore, resolved that as the leader of my village Council I would motivate my village community to join hands with the village administration to build toilets and have a clean environment.”
Suniho thanked the government of India for the initiatives taken for people of the rural areas. “We assure that we will certainly sustain this achievement with more and more villages in our state, particularly those of my districts are being motivated to make their village a clean village by seeing the good example set by villages which have already achieved the status of Nirmal Gram,” she said. Many villagers, especially children, today take pride in keeping their villages clean through proper disposal of waste matters. ‘Today our lives are more healthy, dignified and progressive as never before,’ he stated.
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