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| Red Ribbon Express reaching Jammu on Nov 9 | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 3: Red Ribbon Express Project, the largest rural campaign on train to mobilize public opinion to fight against HIV/ AIDS, particularly the rural population and enhance the level of accurate knowledge of people about the dreaded disease is reaching Jammu on November 9 morning.
Apprising the media persons about the project and the scheduled two-day program of Red Ribbon Express (RRE) at Jammu Railway Station, Project Director, J&K AIDS Control Society M. A. Wani and District Youth Coordinator, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), Nisar Ahmed Bhat the coordinating agencies, informed that the broad objectives of the RRE are to provide communication and service package to rural population and reach the un-reached areas.
Divulging the details, it was apprised that the train will reach Jammu Railway Station at 4 a.m. on November 9. The NYK Jammu has identified 48 programme villages and 192 adjoining villages in six blocks of district Jammu and Samba viz Purmandal, Bishnah, R. S. Pura, Satwari, Marh and Khour.
The State level program on AIDS shall be organized at Jammu University Auditorium on November 10 at 4 p.m. wherein over 2000 youths shall participate.
The project intends to cover about 180 railway stations/ halting points across the country in four phases with the special train of 7 bogies in a Bharat Parikrama pattern. The RRE train will stay for two or three days in a halting station. The project will cover about 43000 villages directly and expected to reach 10 millions of people through media in . |
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