Guwahati: The All Assam Engineers’ Association (AAEA), a group of graduate engineers in northeast India, commended Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat for making a fervent appeal to care for nature and protect Mother Earth.
The RSS chief, while delivering his annual address on the occasion of Vijayadashami, urged everyone to conserve water, avoid single-use plastic, plant tree saplings and finally save the planet for all living beings.
Sarsanghchalak Bhagwat, who leads the 99-year-old largest socio-cultural organization in the world, observed in his address from Nagpur on October 12 that the ongoing material developmental journey, inspired by an incomplete ideological basis of consumerism, has emerged as a journey of destruction for the entire creation on Earth.
He emphasized that rapid deforestation has led to the destruction of greenery, the drying up of rivers, and the chemical contamination of food, water, and air over the past few decades.
For a sustainable, holistic and integrated development on the basis of Bharatiya traditions, a unanimous ideological consensus across the country will be needed, he said.
Bhagwat urged everyone to practice three small but important initiatives. “First, let’s use water as minimally as possible and harvest the rainwater. Secondly, avoid using single-use plastic and thirdly increase the greenery with massive plantation programs where the conventional species of trees should be encouraged,” he added.
“Assam government should launch a colossal initiative to promote the practice of rainwater harvesting as we are a rain-fed state. By doing so, we can promote an example for the water-scarce human population across the world, which may face a severe freshwater crisis by 2050,” said AAEA president Er Kailash Sarma, working president Er NJ Thakuria and secretary Er Inamul Hye.
The forum appealed to authorities concerned to formulate policies for making the rainwater harvesting enterprise mandatory in every household, precisely the urban apartments with a large number of tenants.
It argued that rain gives relatively clean water with no cost that can be preserved and used in need following very simple and affordable technologies. The rainwater may be used as a primary source or a supportive step for the wells or ponds.
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“The growing dependence on underground water even for large irrigation purposes may pose a serious threat to already depleted groundwater levels. It is essential, and everyone’s responsibility, to support groundwater research to ensure that it can adequately support the growing population in the future,” said the AAEA.
