SANJAY AGARWAL-RANGPO-26TH MAY11
-A daylong meeting was organized by Sikkim Motor Transport Workers Association, singtam branch at Marwari Dharmasala .The main objective behind this was to aware all the populace of Singtam regarding the impact of griminess of bazaar & surrounding with the result of ailment in human & livestock health. As at the moment pigeon’s death is one of the example.
The meeting was presided over by Dawa Sherpa & conducted by Shri Mohan Paradhan president Basibihalo samity. And attended by Councilor Ram Naresh Pd. & Anita Tamang, From the Deptt Dr D.S Tewari Joint Director RP /FMD, P.P Pokhrel, & Tara Pd From Sirwani V.H, supervisor Laxuman Bardewa UD&HD, T.P Pradhan Newar Guti President / Sub inspector P.S Singtam, Smt Rinzing Bhutia Rtd Health Deptt Officer and representative of Sadvawana Samity, Tenzing Sherpa East District Convener SDF.Tinku Adhikari President SMTWO, along with his all office bearer, Kalyan Smaj President Indra Chhetri, along with large number of general public from Singtam Bazaar.
The Meeting was started with the welcome address of Bhaichung Tamang followed by address of Shri T.P Pradhan wherein he expressed about the chocked drain & water logging condition due to slow & incomplete work at Singtam is supporting the breeding of insects like mosquitoes & other ecto- parasites. On top of this old houses with celling rather difficult to come within reach for sanitization are also advantageous for insect breeding he added. He suggested the house to call house owner for next meeting, so that they could be aware for adopting hygienic measure while keeping pigeons. Beside he also informed the house on monkey menace at sigtam He also suggested the entire participant to extend all possible help to Para Vet of VH Sirwani while going through control & containment work on pigeon death. Next to him R Bhutia highlighted on sick pigeons collected near to her house were virtually covered with ecto parasite She suggested that all the social organization of Singtam has to extend all possible help to the concern Department to root out the causative agent permenantly. After studying their thriving mode all the intermediary factors like faeces, waste & dirt from their nest should be regularly removed. In this context house owner should be advised. She also spoke on social evil like substance abuse in youngster, drug peddler along with irregularity in scheming these vices by the concern agency. After this Tenzing Sherpa SDF convener East Distt.expressed gratitude to driver association on taking attention on such social problem of sensitive nature. He also highlighted on drinking water problem in Sigtam. Presently singtam dwellers are compelled to drink dirty water In this regard he requested Health Department to analyze the status of drinking water. If some chances are there to treat this water PHE Department must take interest on their obligation, he added. Speaking on Drugs addiction /trafficking problem, he suggested organizing association to aware all of their friends not to indulge in such evils of our society. After this Mohan Pradhan spoke on SBS Singtam with no updated system for smooth functioning He also highlighted on increasing congestion in singtam due to densely populated area with lack of expansion areas. Subsequently lack of parking area for vehicles now at Singtam is burning problem to be looked into. He also highlighted on Nepali Dharma Sala with no finishing work till date indicating our social statusas as of now Singtam is having well-furnished Marwari & Bihari Dharmasala but in this juncture Nepali Dhrmasala is taking years together for finishing work. So if we fail to realize now then we can never realize about our lacking later he added. After this Councilor Ram Neresh informed the house on illegal stocking of animal skin at Goli Tar. He also requested AH department to streamline meat inspection for quality control on regular basis. He suggested for imposing Cash memo system for meat shop so that consumer should get meat as per Government rate. Asfter him Councilor Anita Tamang also highlighted on the need of social awareness on health sector, human resource development, drinking water and maintaining hygiene in bazaar. Due to the lack of sanitation of houses where pigeons are dwelling at Singtam insects breed to such an extent, that in broad day light we are observing agony in living creature like pigeons. Although AH Department is adopting all possible measure in control & containment line up, even then we need to cooperate them in doing this difficult task of spraying at the pigeons nest. Beside she also highlighted on the need of improvement in school & hospital sanitation & hygiene.seing the increase in infiltration of human population every day in Sikkim we all have to be very allot to prevent our self from immerging diseases like bird flu, swine flu etc, she added. After this Tinku Adhikari also highlighted on drug addiction problem at Singtam.youth on account of disappointment with no reason & indulge in substance abuse eventually they fail to analyze the value of their own life. So for peaceful & healthy life we need to eliminate such social evils & his association is always ready to help in this area, he added. After this resource for the day Dr Tewari drew the attention of entire participant on the need of social awareness civics sense to initiate massive programme on cleanliness drive to remove all types of insects from the nest of pigeons. As visualized by our HCM Dr Pawan Kumar Chamling we have to work for organic Sikkim & using too much chemical may hinder this mission. So temporarily department is using Ectoparsiticidal spray but permanent solution is maintenance of sanitation &hygiene of each house at Singtam. Sanitary measure is not meant for controlling only one type of disease but also for healthy living we have to take proper care of sanitation and hygiene. So PHE, UD& HD, Police Department Food &civil supply Department after all have to work for sustainable progress of Singtam without effecting environment & biodiversity. He informed the house about the investigation undergoing at DI Lab for identifying the invitro changes in pigeons due to parasitic attack. Different organs may be observed for pathological changes in dead birds. Similarly DI Lab will also work on species specification & on study of life cycle of this ecto parasite. After this Dawa Sherpa sum up the deliberation of the entire speaker. He stressed on the needs of active cooperation to the personnel engage in control programme of pigeons at Singtam. Cleanliness drive, control in drug addiction & trafficking, proposal for new construction of car parking, in health sector &education he suggested the house to undergo follow-up action. Jointly all the organization has to work for all round development of Singtam & each time govt. mission should be on priority he added.
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