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Green India Clean India
Amit Abraham has very wisely said “Clean your mind and our country will automatically get dry cleaned.” India, our beloved motherland is in the direst need of cleanliness. The general state of our cities, towns, colonies, rivers, oceans, lakes, hill-stations, parks, gardens, public transportation systems, railway stations, public toilets, etc, all indicate we as a nation are not pro-cleanliness! The nationwide ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ is another proof of our vice of apathy to the squalor lying uncleaned around us!
As the entire nation is abuzz with the cleanliness drives and campaigns under the impetus of ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ launched by the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendera Modi, let’s contribute to it by making ourselves clean first. We must ensure we become the real participant in this crusade against the dirt and squalor in true spirit. We must start the cleanliness drive from our own home and surroundings. Our zeal and enthusiasm for the cleanliness drive is useless, if our own home and surroundings are unclean, and we are spending hours cleaning the streets in other areas.
The best way to begin this cleanliness drive is your own room, your own cupboard, your own toilet, your own kitchen, your own garbage. Do you keep your own room and surroundings clean? Are you able to maintain the cleanliness around you? If you really do, you feel the satisfaction and contentment of being clean! Now you can lend a helping hand and your expertise in keeping the neighborhood clean! This is how we must go about this cleanliness drive. Remember, only a lit candle can light other unlit candles. Similarly, people who keep themselves clean and their surroundings clean, can help other people to achieve cleanliness objectives. Let the cleanliness begin at your own home! If each one starts maintaining cleanliness at his/her own home, the entire nation will automatically become clean.
The next step after maintaining cleanliness is preserving the greenery. The need of the hour is conserving and preserving the environmental beauty and purity of the surroundings. This task is quite Herculean. The only solution to the critical environmental issues is people’s mass participation in saving the environment. Mass forestation drive, and stopping the use of fossil fuels altogether can solve this problem.
There are other alternative fuels available. The government must act strictly. There should be a ban on fossil fuels. The government must create forest belt near every city or town. Toxic emissions of industries must be strictly regularized. Installation of toxic smoke and effluents treatment plants must be mandatory at every industrial unit. With these measures strictly and immediately implemented the environmental health will improve considerably. Unless the people come forward, this mission cannot be accomplished. They must minimize their carbon footprint. They must adopt eco-friendly ways of life. Government alone cannot do anything. People will have to act proactively. We must not forget that if we have to stand in the categories of advanced nations, we will have to make our country as clean and green as them.
Green India Clean India
Amit Abraham has very wisely said
“Clean your mind and our country will automatically get dry cleaned.” India,
our beloved motherland is in the direst need of cleanliness. The general state
of our cities, towns, colonies, rivers, oceans, lakes, hill-stations, parks,
gardens, public transportation systems, railway stations, public toilets, etc,
all indicate we as a nation are not pro-cleanliness! The nationwide ‘Swachch
Bharat Abhiyan’ is another proof of our vice of apathy to the squalor lying
uncleaned around us!
As the entire nation is abuzz with
the cleanliness drives and campaigns under the impetus of ‘Swachch Bharat
Abhiyan’ launched by the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendera Modi,
let’s contribute to it by making ourselves clean first. We must ensure we become the real participant
in this crusade against the dirt and squalor in true spirit. We must start the
cleanliness drive from our own home and surroundings. Our zeal and
enthusiasm for the cleanliness drive is useless, if our own home and
surroundings are unclean, and we are spending hours cleaning the streets in
other areas.
The best way to begin this cleanliness drive is your own
room, your own cupboard, your own toilet, your own kitchen, your own garbage.
Do you keep your own room and surroundings clean? Are you able to maintain the
cleanliness around you? If you really do, you feel the satisfaction and
contentment of being clean! Now you can lend a helping hand and your expertise
in keeping the neighborhood clean! This is how we must go about this
cleanliness drive. Remember, only a lit candle can light other unlit candles.
Similarly, people who keep themselves clean and their surroundings clean, can
help other people to achieve cleanliness objectives. Let the cleanliness begin
at your own home! If each one starts maintaining cleanliness at his/her own
home, the entire nation will automatically become clean.
The next step after maintaining cleanliness is preserving
the greenery. The need of the hour is conserving and preserving the
environmental beauty and purity of the surroundings. This task is quite
Herculean. The only solution to the
critical environmental issues is people’s mass participation in saving the
environment. Mass forestation drive, and stopping the use of fossil fuels
altogether can solve this problem.
There are other alternative fuels available. The government
must act strictly. There should be a ban on fossil fuels. The government must
create forest belt near every city or town. Toxic emissions of industries must
be strictly regularized. Installation of
toxic smoke and effluents treatment plants must be mandatory at every
industrial unit. With these measures strictly and immediately implemented the
environmental health will improve considerably.
Unless the people come forward, this mission cannot be accomplished.
They must minimize their carbon footprint. They must adopt eco-friendly ways of
life. Government alone cannot do anything. People will have to act proactively.
We must not forget that if we have to stand in the categories of advanced nations,
we will have to make our country as clean and green as them.
So, let’s turn over a new leaf; let’s not make India stink and reek; let’s make it the heaven it used to be!