Rishikesh, Under the Great Global Cleanup program of Earth Day Network/EDN, a number of programs in collaboration with local coordinators Shyamlal, Lok Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan (LPSS) have been held in the recent past.
Taking the initiative forward, tomorrow i.e. 29th of January, 2020 Earth Day Network and Lok Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan will come together to organize an awareness workshop on green initiative at Ganga Resort, Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh at 11.00 a.m.
Over 500 students, teachers, saints and local community partaking in the event, which will be presided by Swati Singh, Principal, Purnanand School. Dharam Singh Meena, IFS, District Forest Officer has agreed to be the Chief Guest. Along with officials of Earth Day Network, B.P. Bhatt, Executive Officer, Muni Ki Reti Municipality will also be present at the occasion.
With the target of distributing 50,000 cloth bags to replace plastic bags in the area, seven hundred cloth bags will be distributed for free and once the target of cloth bags is completed, it will replace almost 12.50 lakhs of plastic bags from the surroundings of river Ganga. Along with that, a batch of twenty women who trained in stitching and sewing at the Stitching Centre set up at LPSS will be awarded certificates.
On April 13th, last year, a 9-day rally was flagged off from Devprayag to Haridwar which witnessed awareness programs to sensitize students of local schools, along with a plantation drive of 5,000 trees along the Ganges.
Thereafter on 2nd October 2019, a 3-day Padyatra was organized from Rishikesh to Haridwar. Enroute the 28 kms the team assisted with volunteers collected plastic waste and disposed it systematically.
The aim of Earth Day Network along with its local co-ordinators is to clean the Ganges from Devprayag, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Varanasi all along to Gangasagar.
Earth Day Network (EDN) an international environmental NGO has grown in numbers since its inception on Earth Day i.e. April 22, 1970. Today the network works with over 75,000 partners in 195 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement.
