Disclaimer: Below thoughts are purely mine and have not been taken from a site or any other source. I am not writing this article to criticize anyone or any organization but to bring the common problems, existing in our day to day life in front.
On the long stretch of ITO Flyover, that leads Delhi people towards Rajghat; a bike stops and a poor boy approaches towards the bike. The man on the bike asks the boy to take the packet from him and drop the contents in the YAMUNA. Normally, the contents are the Pooja samagri, flowers that have been already offered to god contained in polythene bags, generally. The poor, deprived of knowledge also drops the polythene bags in river. Sometimes in fun also, people drop things in river.
Hi, I am YAMUNA, yes delhi's river yamuna and this is my story. Like river Thames in england, I also carry out my journey in the midst of Delhi city. But in this journey, I am getting polluted day by day. and this pollution has posed a question for my survival. At one end, a campaign has been launched by Sri Sri Ravishankar to clean and save me and on the other end delhi people are making me dirty, as stated in above incident. I have been considered a pride of Delhi for many years and today my survival is in danger.
Let's see how I am getting polluted.
1. The plastic bags which people drop are non-renewable and keep on lying on my river bed. These polythene bags release chemicals in water, which are harmful for aquatic life, living in me and make my water polluted also. As these bags stops the incoming oxygen in river, hence the aquatic life gets deprieved of oxygen.
2. People living on my bank also use me for bathing and cleaning purposes, that also adds to my misery.
3. Another problem is the narrowing of my river bed. Due to the rapid urbanization of Delhi, my river bed has been narrowed down. This narrowing of my river bed has made my journey more difficult.
4. The sewage drainage from various areas is also dumped in my water.
Problems are many, but they do have solutions also. Following these steps can help to save me :
1. The people of Delhi need to understand that I am not a dumping ground, into which they can dump anything. Generally, people drop things such as flowers, that have been offered to god. People should realize that by doing so, they are polluting me. Instead of dropping these things in me, they can bury these things in earth / soil.The basic aim is that these things should not be misplaced here and there. By burying them in soil the aim will be fulfilled and I will be saved from pollution.
2. The government should try to remove the urbanization situated on my bank.
3. Government should take measures to restrict the access to my banks / bed by putting fences on the exposed areas to my bed / banks.
4. Nukkad Nataks can also be organized by NGOs, emphasizing on my importance and steps to save me.
5. An Ad campaign can also be launched giving information to saving me.
6. The government should keep a check on the sewages which are being dumped in me.
7. The awareness should be spread among the citizens of Delhi, that I am pride of Delhi and not the dumping ground. It should be the civic duty of all Delhi people to save me and keep my purity intact, otherwise I would lose my purity.The government has taken many steps to save me; like creating fences, putting awareness messages; but they have not been effective.
8. Media in today's time is playing a very big role in spreading messages. I would like to request media people and organizations to focus on this issue and spread the awareness of saving me.
I am the water source of Delhi and if anything wrong happens to me, the people of delhi will also suffer in turn.
Finally, I would like to say that it should be a collective responsibility of the government and citizens of Delhi to save me and help me to survive. A lot of campaigns have been done, a lot of posters have been published and put up on wall, but proper actions are still to come or missing.
I would like to request all readers of this blog to understand my value and spread the message of not polluting me. A lot damage has been done, but you can control the further damage.
If you have any idea or thought to save me, do not hesitate to write here.
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THINK EVER,
DO EVER,
SAVE RIVER
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