7th CLEAN-India Annual Meet
Glimpses
The 7th Annual CLEAN-India Meet was held during
9th-10th Feb 2004 at TARA Campus, Ghitorni and The Chinmaya Centre
for World Understanding, Lodi Road, New Delhi.
The CLEAN-India MEET is an annual event which provides a forum for
CLEAN-India members across the country to interact and voice their
concerns about the state of environment in their respective
cities/towns. Over 400 students from member schools of Delhi and
from Kodaikanal, Dindigul, Kurnool, Pondicherry, Mysore, Bhopal,
Varanasi, Ranikhet, Amreli, Aurangabad, Muzaffarnagar and Pune
participated in the 7th CLEAN-India Annual meet.
Day One |
Various activities were
conducted for the students, teachers and NGO coordinators from
regional centres. Workshops
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Care for Animals, sensitising on
the issue of trade of animals, by Mr. Anirudh Mukherji, Wildlife
Trust of India |
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Hands-on training on Paper Recycling
using TARA mini paper recycling plant |
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Making Paper Products from recycled
paper. |
7th CLEAN-India Meet Supported by: European
Union & MoEF
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story about a magnificent place, where people of every size,
colour and race are living together in harmony
Raw sewage, plastic
and Styrofoam are now gracing the water.
The heat increases the water’s pungent aroma.
And apart from giving us nasal congestion,
It’s really a killer upon ingestion.
Yes, our water is really about to choke
Here floats a mattress, there a can of coke.
The number of plastic bags thrown away increases through
ignorance.
The hopelessly overflowing bins
Are body of evidence of our sins.
The bag only just demanded in the shop
A step further along, to the floor it’ll drop.
Such a wasteful society, but can’t they see,
That the world they destroy belongs
not only to me?
Squashed burger wrappers & stuff that’s no good
Are clogging up drains and cause roads to flood.
The city’s appearance takes no further gains
Through plastic containers of fast-food chains.
So many times would I like to shout, "stop"
When I see people letting their rubbish drop?
The roads are littered with tons of waste
Makes you stumble, if you are in haste.
As if all this garbage wasn’t damage enough,
The air is so bad – it’s making you cough.
The numerous diesels of countless cars
Keep running while our lungs bear the scars.
To cure the chest disease most people suffer
With every year it only gets tougher.
The air pollution index is hitting the roof,
But most of the people want further proof
that to take a deep breath in Causeway Bay
may shorten your life by more than a day
Changing bad habits is a small price to pay
For the health of our children, wouldn’t you say?
Just think about how deprived they all are,
Never seen a clean spot apart from afar
Only on TV will they be able to see
The bright blue skies, which used to be
But there’s other pollution we could discuss
And that is a nuisance less evident to us.
I’m talking of the noise we all have to bear
The stress factor of which
many aren’t even aware.
Did you never stop and ask yourself why
people are shouting even when they’re nearby?
The hearing of so many people is going to hell
and not just the old folks’ – the young ever notice the
permanent hums
that’s ever-present, invading your ear’s drum?
The environmental pollution can be
added and added…
Why don’t people want to understand
the impending disaster that’s clearly at hand?
It would be so easy to make a few rules
Teach them to our children in the schools.
For adults to acquire this precious knowledge,
we wouldn’t even have to send them to college
Just make them pay for the damage they cause
And soon there’ll be less environment flaws.
We will be the glorified heroes if we are to fight against
pollution and protect the environment.
Kaleswari
CLEAN-Nagercoil |
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