Aaj News Service
Mahoba, 5 June. On the occasion of World Environment Day Gramonnati Sansthan organised a workshop under the chairmanship of notable social worker Shiv Kumar Goswami. The workshop expressed concern over the exploitation of natural resources, leading to an increase in environmental pollution. While shedding light on the current state of environment pollution Goswami said that Mahoba had 6 to 8 per cent area forest covered, whereas to maintain environmental balance around 32 per cent area should be forest covered.
Bundelkhand was suffering from droughts due to changes in environment which occurred because of indiscriminate felling of trees by the forest mafia for their pity self greed and due to indiscriminate mining of rivers and hills. During the past years, the government planted lakhs of saplings by spending crores of rupees, but because of drought and departmental work culture all the saplings dried. Hills like Gorakhgiri, stated to be warehouse of medicinal herbs, are today devoid of greenery.
Goswami said that Charkhari, said to be the Kashmir of Bundelkhand, was today struggling with shortage of water due to changes in the environment. He said that if people did not pay attention towards environmental conservation, not a few thousand, but entire village and towns will be deserted.
He said that people did not understand the importance of water conservation, even though they were struggling with water related problems, and said that unless we changed our attitude towards and become aware of need for conserving natural resources, the people would keep on suffering from natural disasters like drought.
Spokesperson Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia said that UNO announced World Environment Day to fight the ill-effects nuclear waste, global warming and electronic waste. He said that sapling plantation was needed to get rid of drought and declining ground water table. He emphasised on the need of sapling plantation, water conservation and maintaining environmental balance through people’s participation.
At the end, Director Dr Arvind Khare of Gramonnati Sansthan thanked all the present guests in the workshop. On this occasion along with large number of people, Rajendra Nigam, JP Yadav, Dileep, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ram Sharan Singh, Umadevi, Shila Devi, Kamlesh, Praveen, Shyam, Mohan Rai, Ramavtar, Keshavdas Saxena were also present.
(Translated from the original report published in Hindi newspaper Aaj)
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