"If we have to go for Atma Nirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) it cannot just be a slogan as we have to have a Swayam Nirbhar Gaon (self-reliant village). Urban communities have already polluted the air - it is not the poor as they pollute the least, but it is the urban rich or elites who pollute it and then shift urban poor into slums in these areas" rightly said Medha Patkar.
Dr Lubna Sarwath
Noted ecologist Dr Lubna Sarwath who is also the Telangana General Secretary of Socialist Party (India) said that "young people want their world leaders to see the crisis as a crisis. But leaders are failing to see the crisis as a crisis." She called upon the young to act upon to save the right to water which is the elixir of life. "We must ensure that every water body is not polluted in our vicinity. Ground aquifers should not be polluted."
A discussion led by Mallika Bhanot and moderated by Gurumoorthy Mathrubootham was held on environmentally destructive Char Dham highways project in Himalayas connecting Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath on which Chairman of a High Powered Committee appointed by Supreme Court, Ravi Chopra, has given a report with which majority of the members of committee, presumably under the influence of BJP government, do not agree, was also held.
Bobby Ramakant - CNS (Citizen News Service)
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