"OUR COUNTRY INDIA LOOKS DIRTY"[AGAINST]
GURU HAR RAI ACADAMY
NAVEEN KAPOOR
Good morning everybody.
Here I as a member of green brigade of my school would strongly disagree to my commendable opponents.
With the world caught up in bout of clean and green movement, even my school in its own small way is trying to put back a little what we had taken in past through Yogdaan Society registered under the Society Act of 1960, which has been encouraging the use of recycled paper not only within the school but in whole city.
There is always silver lining behind every gray scenario. Littered garbage in India today is not a matter of absolute filth. Where a nature lover, retired colonel V S Yadav started the waste management program in Tihar Jail, which not only proved to be economically viable but Eco friendly as well.
Today in technologically advanced India , waste management is helping a lot to clean the roadside waste. For instance Arvind Gupta, an IIT Alumnus and a former Telco employee, has designed around 250 teaching aids and toys out of waste which has been documented in low cost books and translated in 13 Indian languages and sold over 6 lakh copies, clearly indicate that India is not a filthy site everywhere.
As charity begins at home, clean city and clean country campaign has started from our own city under GANGA ACTION PLAN to improve the quality of river water. Many non-governmental organizations are working hard and are leaving no stone unturned to improve the quality of water.
Even clean city drive got a mighty momentum when cluster of tanneries in Jajmau were forced to adopt proper measures for treating their waste.
Clean and green city campaign dawned under the shade of Anita Bhatnagar Jain by planting record number of saplings. She set an example by picking up polythene bags and made people conscious in her own small way.
Our own president Shri APJ Abdul Kalam planted Jatropha tree and requested people to plant it in barren lands.
Waste management by NTPC by using ash in making bricks, using waste polythene in construction of roads, electric system of burning dead bodies in some parts of the country are some of instances which inspire me to say that our India does not look dirty.
India once suffered with a problem of night soil but now citizens are alert and NGOs are trying to keep their city, state and nation clean by putting up Sulabh Sauchalayas.
At last I would like to close my speech by saying that today Eco-friends and environmentalists are highly alert and present new theories.
“Progress must but environment first” is a tonic for clean and green country.
Thank You.