The Hindu 26.06.2013
‘Harvest rainwater, recharge water table’
A large number of schoolchildren
participated in a rally to create awareness on rainwater harvesting
taken out in the town on Tuesday.
K. Baskaran,
Collector, flagged off the rally from railway station. The rally passed
through Gandhiji Road, South Alankam, and reached the Cholan statue. The
students carried placards with catchy slogans such as “rainwater
harvesting today is protection of drinking water tomorrow”, “Harvest
rainwater to improve groundwater”, “plant trees to get rain”, “no world
without water”, “rain comes once in a while and groundwater will be
there forever”.
Nearly 2,000 students from Jayam Para
Medical College, Mannai Para Medical College, Our Lady Nursing College,
Government ITI, Municipal Higher Secondary School, Kalyanasundaram
Higher Secondary School, and Rajah’s Higher Secondary School, Christian
Girls Higher Secondary School took part in the rally. Savithiri Goplal,
Chairperson, Thanjavur Municipality, Ravichandran, Municipal
Commissioner, Srinivasan, municipal engineer, and Shannmugha Prabhu,
Susheela, Municipal councillors participated.
