Skip to content Skip to navigation

Nagaon students against fire crackers

Deepavali, one of the festival celebrated all over the country by Hindu people. Deepavali means different things to people of different states of the country, in keeping with the different legends associated with this festival of light and sound. Irrespective of the reason behind the celebration, the spirit of Deepavali comes alive through illuminating sparklers and loud crackers. The celebration of Deepavali starts after Laxmi Puja and the wholesale and retail sales of crackers starts 15 days before Deepavali. The sound of crackers and rows of candle lights decorate the festival. But now-a day it is usually noticed that people pay less interest in lights and its become their pleasure to burn costly crackers. The huge sound that emits from those crackers are really disturbing and it also cause air pollution too. The interest of crackers are usually found among the teenagers or youths. But when the youths will come out to check this pollution then we can say that 75% of this problem is tackled.


Today, the students of Nowgong college in Nagaon, a city of north eastern Indian state Assam took oath that they are not going to pollute the atmosphere with crackers. They all decided to light the earthen lamp to decorate the Deepavali festival. They also urge the people to come forward to support and to save the environment being polluted with the crackers. The students of Nowgong college gathered and at around 11.30 am in the morning they pledged that they will avoid using the crackers this Deepavali.

Comments

pranab's picture

Good initiative.Nagoan college students had done good things for the society. I feel brusting crackers in dipawali is a waste of money and time and instead drain away ones pocket money and does harmful to human beings by polluting air.There is no logic in celebrating puja by brusting crackers.
Mowsam Hazarika's picture

Good initiative.Please keep it up !

Pages

Add new comment

Random Stories

Book by Bedabrata Baruah released

18 May 2015 - 7:52pm | Azlina Khanam
A book penned by former Union minister Bedabrata Baruah was released by veteran journalist Kanaksen Deka at Guwahati Press Club on Monday. The book titled ‘Mot-Abhimot’ is a collection of articles...

ATM Conman busted at Tangla

27 Feb 2016 - 5:01pm | Shajid Khan
ATM conman named Manindra Basumatari (25) son of Mahikanta Basumatari a resident of Sijouguri village under Dhekiajuli PS was nabbed by Tangla police today. He is one of the fraud racket, which was...

Next media OPD clinic on Saturday

14 Nov 2018 - 12:31pm | AT News
Guwahati: Northeast India’s pioneer healthcare institution Down Town Hospitals will conduct the next media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on Saturday (17 November 2018), where Dr Hrishikesh Bora (...

Himanta left red-faced at AMCH

11 May 2014 - 5:41pm | AT News
CID will probe the Sarita Toshniwal murder cases in AMCH. This was what Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Sunday when the health minister visited the state’s first medical college three days after...

Other Contents by Author

With the huge gathering of more than 5000 people attended the namaz at Nagaon Iddgah field, on Wednesday morning. The prayer was attended by the people of all ages. At the end of the prayer, the people greeted each other.
6-years-old Shreyashi Saikia of Loyla High School performed Satriya Dance during North East Children Book Fair 2010 held at Nehrubali, Nagaon on November 14. It is note worthy to mention that the expressions and the mood of performance enthralled the audience present in the cultural show. The North East Children Book Fair 2010 held on November 6-14. While talking to the media, the secretary Munindra Saikia informed that the Book fair was quite successful with a sell of about Rs.70 lakhs.
The NE Children Book Fair 2010 was inaugurated today at Nehrubali in Nagaon. At 9.00 am, Assam Forest, Environment...
Indian Council for Cultural relations (ICCR) conducted a workshop on Bharatnatyam, Satriya and Bihu dance in collaboration with Antara Kala Kendra, Nagaon which successfully concluded on Sunday. In connection with the closing ceremony of the workshop, the participants attended the same, performed at the cultural programme held at Nagaon district library auditorium. After lightening the earthen lamp, the principal of Antara Kala Kendra Mandira Bhattacharya greeted all the participants and the audiences and on her brief speech thanked the ICCR for the project as well as the guardians of the participants for their whole hearted support to make it a successful one. The Satriya dance which was...
Jana Kalyan Sanstha, a social organization of Dhupguri in Nagaon district has recently started training on milk production under the Diary Project (STEP - Support to Training and Employment Programme for women) where 504 poor women were enrolled. STEP is a policy, under the Government of India's department of women and child development, the project aims at improving the economic status of rural women through efficient and modern dairy management.The function was inaugurated at Dhupguri by the president of the organization Ahmed Ali which was attended by retired Veterinary doctor Debendra Nath Muktiar and Dr. Suren Keot of Dhing. While addressing the women Dr. Muktiar told that after the...
About 1500 activists of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) marched a rally at Nagaon on Tuesday. The activists of KMSS gathered at Nehrubali and marched a rally and demonstrated infront of the office of the executive engineer, PWD roads for more than two hours.. The protesters demanded for the immediate repairing of road connecting Kampur with Nagaon via Kathiatoli. In the demonstration, the state president Mulan Laskar addressed all the activists in which he told that the road condition of Kampur to Nagaon is very miserable. He also mentioned that if the government failed to repair the road, they would continue their agitation.
With the durga puja round the corner, the different durga puja committees across the town are in the midst of creating colorful pandals and the famous structures. The Nagaon Bengali Sanmilani, one of the oldest organizations of Nagaon gearing up for Puja Celebration. More than 30 numbers of artisans from Kolkata have been engaged to decorate the puja pandal which is almost complete. According to the celebration committee, the artistes from Kolkata have completed all the idols and the pandal would be completed within a day. Dipok Debnath, the secretary of the organizing committee while talking to Eastern Chronicle told that the committee has been organizing and celebrating the festival since...
The top national leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assembled here today in a public rally held at Nehrubali in Nagaon . After a formal prayer by the party leaders at Batadrava than , the leaders landed at Nagaon around 1.30 pm which was greeted by BJP MP Rajen Gohain with Gamusa. The Bangladeshi influx issue is the main poll plank of BJP. The youth icon of BJP and the party’s lelction observer for Assam Varun Gandhi along with National president (BJP) Nitin Gadkari, Gen Secretary Bijoy Goel, national vice president Bijoya Chakraborty and Ranjit Dutta got a warm reception at the public meeting which was attended by more than 5 lakhs people. The entire top leaders were...
According to preliminary findings of the Million Death Study (MDS), about 25 percent of deaths in the age group of 25-69 years and 19 percent of all deaths occur because of heart diseases, including 33 percent of deaths in the urban areas and 23 percent in the rural areas. Speaking on the eve of World Heart Day, which falls on September 26, celebrated at Nagaon Press Club, organized by Cipla, Dr Pranab Saikia observed, “Cardiac problems are no longer limited to towns or to the aged. Heart problems are undoubtedly the number one killer for the whole of India and all Indians. Every year more than 17 million people die of cardiac diseases all over the world and India has the unhealthy...
To create an awareness of integration among the different community of our country, the ministry of Youth Affairs...