As part of the one week National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness campaign organized an awareness rally. The rally was flagged off by CMO who stated that the communitized departments in the state- Power, Medical and Education – are implementing the different activities and programmes successfully with the co-ordination of the village councils and the communities. He maintained that community participation is top most important to implement various programmes at the grassroots level for communitized departments. On drinking water and sanitation, the CMO urged the village councils to start practicing scientific method of waste disposal and maintain proper sanitation to contain the outbreak of disease like Amoebiasis, diarrhoea and hepatitis in the village.