Nagpur youths, NGO to join in support of Rally for Rivers

NAGPUR: Several college students will be standing at popular places in the city such as Liberty Talkies, RBI square, Lokmat square, Shankar Nagar, Law College square, VNIT college etc to promote Rally for Rivers, a campaign to raise awareness about the depletion of rivers. City

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Renovatio has collaborated with Isha Foundation, which has initiated the campaign. Students from colleges, supporters and volunteers will assemble and hold placards about the campaign from 8.30am to 10.30am.

“There will be no sloganeering or shouting. It’s going to be a peaceful activity to raise maximum awareness. As an independent NGO, we may not be able to take up grand projects but we can support those who are doing it,” says Nakul Agrawal, founder of Renovatio. This mass awareness event is supposed to take place in over 60 cities across India.

The campaign urges people to give a missed call on 8000980009 in order to quantify public support. The missed calls will act as a vote in support of reviving rivers.

The campaign aims to build adequate awareness and momentum among all sections of the society and the government. Its second step is to facilitate creation of a policy document at the national level and finally, the implementation of the policy. The

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will be covering areas such as Madurai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai, but will not pass through Nagpur. Rather, the rally will pass through Bhopal and Indore before moving towards Lucknow and Jaipur.

Ganga, Krishna, Narmada, Kaveri rivers are some of the focus areas. The rally flags off on September 3 from Coimbatore and culminates on October 2 in New Delhi, where the ‘River rejuvenation policy recommendation’ will be presented to the government.

‘Maintain a minimum of one kilometre tree cover on river sides’, ‘planting forest trees on government land and fruit trees on farm land’ are some of the solutions preached by the campaign. This will ensure that our rivers are fed throughout the year by the moist soil.



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