A crucial platform for pressing public health challenges
IH News Desk
REGIONAL, March 26, 2027: A Regional Workshop on Public Health & WASH for North Eastern States, a NeVolution initiative was held in collaboration with NITI Aayog Wednesday at Chumoukedima. The Regional Workshop serves as a crucial platform for addressing the region’s most pressing public health challenges related to water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management.
By fostering cross-sectorial collaboration and community-driven solutions, the workshop aims to support efforts in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 - Universal access to clean water and sanitation and improving overall health outcomes across the region. To address these challenges, the Regional Workshop on WASH and Public Health in the North Eastern Region will focus on three key pillars - Swachh North East: Sanitation, Solid & Liquid Waste Management, Swajal North East: Water Quality, Biological & Chemical Contaminants; and Swasth North East: Public Health Implications of WASH.
Percentage of households with tap water coverage in NE States till date - Arunachal Pradesh 100% coverage, Assam 81.46%, Manipur 79.59%, Meghalaya 82.01 %, Mizoram 100%, Nagaland 92.76%, Sikkim 91.03 %, and Tripura 85.42%.
Minister, Rural Development and SIRD, Metsubo Jamir, in his address, highlighted the issues concerning the people of the State, where bottlenecks such as lack of adequate infrastructural facilities, poor resources base and general lack of technical know-how has handicapped the NE region, and in particular Nagaland State, in the developmental progress, consequently hampering the goal to achieve the desired level of all round development, especially in the rural areas.
The diverse and broad social ethnicities, traditional taboos, topography, geo-physical and agricultural practices of the North Eastern Region pose a great challenge to our great nation in bringing about development in this isolated, remote part of our country. He also pointed out that the national programmes for poverty alleviation should be responsive to the local needs and regional particular requirements.
Highlights of the programme included the technical session where the key points discussed were Swachh North East: Sanitation, Solid & Liquid Waste Management, Swajal- Drinking water in NE: Water quality, Biological & Chemical Contaminants, Swasth NE: Public Health Implications of WASH. At the inaugural session, ‘Accelerating Public Health (WASH) outcomes: a regional call for action in aspirational districts and blocks’ was delivered by Programme Director, NITI Aayog, Yugal Joshi.
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