Polluting Yamuna: Who is responsible? AFTER CAMPAIGNING 10 YEARS

DELHI

DELHI YAMUNA

DELHI YAMUNA

DELHI YAMUNA

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DELHI YAMUNA I.T.O

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DELHI YAMUNA I.T.O

DELHI YAMUNA

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DELHI YAMUNA

DELHI YAMUNA

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DELHI YAMUNA

24/4/10 Maharaja Ji finished up his tasks and camps associated with the river and cleaning up river banks. And on 25/4/10 people of Delhi disposed approx. 3,50,000kgs of used hawan samagri, flowers etc. I have some pictures to show this.

SIR /MADAM

PRANAM

I Gopi Dutt want to draw your attention to problem that Delhi has been facing since as long as 10 yrs now. I am talking about the pollution in Yamuna caused by devotional material, Polybags, Flowers etc. Our govt., different NGOs and now Maharaja Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji have put their best efforts to clean up the river.

Sri Sri Maharaja Ji is a spiritual guru he has no desire or want for money or fame. From South Africa to America, Iraq to Kashmir people worship him and follow him. Whole world wants to meet him, seem him and Seek his blessings, still he took over the charge to clean the Yamuna in Delhi from various disposed things. Maharaja Sri did the work with his own hands, he tried cleaning up the river by picking up the disposal on his own. He is the first spiritual guru in the world who left popularity and still tried to clean the Life Line of Delhi – The Yamuna. Do you know why? He did this to awaken Delhi.

But did we WAKE UP?

YAMUNA RIVER DELHI

AFTER CAMPAIGNING 10 YEARS

2011

23-2-2006

24-3-10

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Problem of polluting the river Yamuna
mainly through the Hawan Samigiri , Flowers etc.

25-3-10

We are presently organizing a 108 days programme called

Delhi ki Ganga – Yamuna Mahotsav.

To clean as much as possible of the poly bags and flowers from repeating error of putting

flowers and poly bags again unto the river.

Delhi ki Ganga – Yamuna Mahotsav

Our country - a neat and clean country which they dreamt of. Lets join hands for this Noble and Spiritual Mission.

Our organization, YFF, has undertaken a project to clean the rivers of INDIA starting in Delhi with The YAMUNA.

Thus, with your contribution we will try to solve this problem permanently.

PUSHPANJALI PRAWAHA ‘The flow of devotional flowers’ the new method in the year 2011 in Delhi We have planned to install special PATRAS 's, which will be placed in public places for the immediate disposal of these flowers. These will be subsequently disposed by our volunteers at an appropriate place.

This will help tremendously in the reduction of pollution in The YAMUNA. For this cause, our PUSPANJALI PRAWAHA message will be passed door to door in Delhi. A copy of the message is enclosed.

Due to paucity of funds, we have planned to seek sponsorship for conveying our message , in which the advertisement of the sponsor will be included in the message. This may help in the publicity for your esteemed company. We hope that you will make your contribution for this noble cause.

We have devised a 3 Point Programme to help

clean

Y amuna River in Delhi .

A) To stop people from throwing the Ceremonial flowers / Poly bags etc in YAMUNA River.
B) All things being currently thrown in YAMUNA to be collected & a recycling process to be initiated.
C) To organize Boy's & Girl's currently engaged in coin collecting & rag picking and give them employment & education.

" I FEEL THAT INDIA'S MISSION IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF OTHERS. "

- FATHER OF THE NATION

PUSHPANJALI PRAWAHA

A CAMPAIGN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

TITLE: Setting up of Pushpanjali Prawaha Patras (collection boxes) to curtail

the problem of river Pollution caused by Worship Materials.

BACKGROUND

Yamuna is unfortunately one of the most polluted rivers in the world, especially at the banks near New Delhi, the capital of India. Almost 58%of the city’s waste is dumped into the river. Though numerous attempts have been made to clean it, the efforts have proven to be futile. India is a very religious country and idol worship is common which is done by offering prayers with flowers, food (bhog), garlands etc. These offerings to God are often discarded into the river once they wilt, which in turn they decay later causing pollution of the water bodies.

Pushpanjali Prawaha is an unique initiative undertaken by Youth Fraternity Foundation with an exclusive mission of “Facilitating National Development with complete Environment Sustainability”. YFF believes in the cycle of creation, perfection and destruction. Under this initiative, the flowers that are thrown after they are offered with great devotion at the feet of deities in temples or used as decoration, are collected and recycled further for various uses. This is done with the intention to mitigate pollution in the water bodies like the Yamuna, which has been in recent years converted into a dirty stinking stream of muck by continuous indifference.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The major goal of the project is to provide an objective means to assess, shield, control and mitigate the Pollution of the rivers caused by disposal, by setting up Pushpanjali Prawaha Patras (a waste collection box) in and around delhi in order to collect the used worship and ceremonial materials (flowers, garlands,poly bags etc) and to provide employment and education to the poor children by engaging them in activities of social cause.

OBJECTIVES

To control the contamination of the river like Yamuna created by disposal of waste materials and worship materials and other harmful resources.
To create awareness among the people about harmful effects of the Water Pollution.
To encourage people to cooperate in making the river Yamuna free from the pollutants by not throwing the waste materials into it.

To encourage people to use the special ‘Pushpanjali Prawaha patras’ to discard the waste flowers, garlands and other worship materials after there usage.

To seek for children currently engaged in coin collecting & rags picking and ensure employment & education for them.

JUSTIFICATION

There is a rampant threat to the Indian rivers due to spiraling urbanization and industrialization. Availability of fresh water has become a vital discussion in today’s world. The interaction between human population and natural environment, related sustainability of water resources is of increasing scientific, societal and political importance. There is severe water crisis in many states within India which is due to mismanagement of water resources. All the major rivers and tributaries across the country have become the victim of (indiscriminate discharge of untreated domestic and industrial effluents, mining and agricultural run-off) point and diffused sources. Vast stretches of many major rivers including Ganga and Yamuna have became virtual sewers and rendered unfit for human use. This situation has evolved despite the huge investments made by subsequent governments in cleaning them up. As a result, our endurance and that of rivers -- is at stake.
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Although many efforts have been made to control the pollution of these rivers but it is important to widen the methodologies and streamline all these towards achieving the primary goal. Identification of the type of effluent and adopting a method to control the pollution is the main objective of this project. Disposing of the Worship materials into the river can be minimized by collecting the wastes and recycling them for various useful purposes in the future. The only way to do this is by setting up of the collection Boxes (Prawaha Patras) in respective areas chosen.

EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Employment Opportunity for the youths.
2. Free Education and employment to the orphans,rag pickers, women and senior citizen.
3. Rehabilitation of the River Yamuna and improve the quality of water.
4. To create awareness among the people to keep the Yamuna clean by not disposing the ceremonial items into it.
5. More usage of the Pushpanjali Prawaha Patras (waste collection boxes).

APPROACH AND STRATEGY

The present study envisages to make use of diverse ways for minimizing the pollution caused by the disposal of the Ceremonial materials (flowers, garlands,poly bags etc). It has intended to enroll many young volunteers to accomplish the diverse tasks of this project. It has considered incorporating the street children who are engaged in rag picking and coin collecting. Ensuring employment and education to them by involving them for this social cause. Selection of the areas for setting up these prawaha patras( Waste Collection boxes will be made in consultation with Govt. officials. Information regarding the outcome of this innovative plan will be made available on the Internet through our official website www.yffindia.blogspot.com

DETAILED METHODOLOGY

Methodology involves the following Plans
1. Identification of potential areas through precise enquiry and survey.
2. Investigation of the management of the wastes in those pre identified areas.
3. Construction of Pushpanjali Prawaha Patras(waste collection boxes) in those areas and collection of the waste materials into the respective boxes.
4. Collection of these waste materials will be done by children who are generally rag pickers or coin collectors as they will be given employment and education by the organization at no costs.
5. Recycling of collected waste materials (flowers, garlands,poly bags etc.)
6. Formulation of various ways to create awareness among the people about the harmful effects of river pollution and encourage them to use the Puspanjali Prawaha Patras ( waste collection boxes) and keep the river bodies pollution free.
7. Information regarding the outcome of this innovative plan will be made available on the Internet through our official website www.yffindia.blogspot.com.

GOPI DUTT

Delhi- 9818592979

Email- yff.india@gmail.com