DLSA-NEERI model on rehab of needy persons to be replicated in Bengaluru
22 Jun 2020 01:19:18
Staff Reporter :
Water Institute of Bangalore University and UVCE Foundation India have proposed to replicate the model of District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Nagpur, and National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), in Bengaluru for rehabilitation of poor persons by teaching to them non-hazardous and safe sanitisation techniques. DLSA, Nagpur under the leadership and guidance of Sanjay Mehare, Principal District and Session Judge, has been working for rehabilitation of homeless as well as migrant workers and persons who returned to their home in Nagpur district losing their source of livelihood due to outbreak of COVID-19. The model is to be replicated in Bengaluru looking at the importance and success of the activity started with the initiative of DLSA, Nagpur for rehabilitation of homeless and migrant labourers by teaching to them sanitisation techniques with the help of CSIR-NEERI and NGOs.
Dr M Inayathulla, Director, Water Institute of Bangalore University; and UVCE Foundation India have communicated this to Abhijeet Deshmukh, Secretary, DLSA and Civil Judge Senior Division. UVCE Foundation India, in association with Bangalore University, established the inter-disciplinary centre Water Institute as part of its celebrating 100 years of existence of UVCE with an aim to address water and environment related issues that have formidable scientific challenges and significant practical relevance. DLSA, with NGOs, started work of rehabilitation of distressed persons by counselling them and appealing to the employers to give them an opportunity to work and earn. In response to the appeal, certain construction companies came forward and some labourers got rehabilitated.
Considering non-hazardous and safe sanitisation as need of the hour, DLSA-Nagpur decided to rehabilitate distressed persons by teaching them sanitisation techniques and various environmental aspects having job potentials in the prevailing circumstances. The aim is also to protect public health and environment from excess use of chemicals/ disinfectants. DLSA, with the help of NGOs, trained 110 staffers of the court on sanitisation techniques. DLSA held a meeting with NEERI and representatives of NGOs for designing and organising a workshop on non-hazardous and safe sanitisation techniques and various environmental aspects, and also to provide training literature in English, Hindi and Marathi.
At the request of DLSA, NEERI under the guidance of its Director Dr Rakesh Kumar, and Dr J S Pandey, Chief Scientist and Head Climate Change and Skilling Division, CSIR-NEERI, is organising a workshop on ‘Environmental Protection and Risk Minimisation relating to Precautionary Disinfection and Sanitisation of Office Spaces’ in next week.