Today the senior BJP Leader L. K. Advani expressed the concerns over the increasing level of pollutions in the river Ganga. He stated that it was claiming more lives than those caused by bomb blasts. Inorder to argue that the pollution in Ganga was a serious matter, Advani, in his latest blog posting, quoted Swami Chidananda Saraswathi of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh.
Today most people do not realize that nearly a million people living along the banks of the Ganga die each year due to illnesses caused by its polluted water…
A few dozen people dying in bomb blasts in India becomes big news worldwide and rightly so. But the tragic deaths of many people, who are dependent on the Ganga, goes unnoticed even in India. We must change this, Advani said quoting Swami Chidanand. Advani observed that Ganga is languishing in such polluted state that people hesitate to bathe in her waters even in Kashi. According to him this is caused by reckless and ill-planned industrialization and urbanization, made worse by lack of elementary civic facilities in towns and villages along it. He added that in the upper reaches of the river, hydro-electric projects have caused considerable damage to the Ganga and ita natural ecology, leading to drying up of long stretches of the river-bed and depriving the nearby villagers from their main source of water.
While making suggestions for the measures to clean the river, the BJP leader quoted Swami Chidanand, We must call the mission which I call the 3-T Mission—toilet in every home, tap in every home bringing clean water, and tree plantation on a massive scale in every village and town.
Again, quoting Swami Chidanand, Advani said on his blog that, Milions of people abroad would be inspired if India takes up this comprehensive Ganga Mission. They would even be willing to make generous contribution to this project.
News Report By, SM
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