GREATER NOIDA: At a time when the groundwater table in Gautam Budh Nagar is depleting at a rate of 1 metre yearly, citizens of a little bit known village in Greater Noida are environment an example via rejuvenating present ponds of their hamlet and neighbouring spaces.
Apart from ponds in their own Dabra village, the gang has cleaned up waterbodies in Kalpura, Salempur and Shahid Sarovar over the last 12 months.
“Ours is a casual team, I usually announce a plan on social media platforms and folks accumulate on their own to wash up the ponds. There is not any money involved. In truth, people who volunteer carry their own instruments to wash up the ponds,” Ramveer Tanwar, an engineer via profession, informed TOI.
Their motion started with one local pond in Dabra a year ago, and it was quickly replicated via local boys for other ponds. “I started it, but quickly found a large number of younger folks short of to spend their weekend in such volunteer paintings,” Tanwar added.
Residents say they clean up hyacinth and rubbish from the surface of a pond with filtration methods using nets. They additionally clean the boundary of the ponds sooner than planting saplings on the fringes to offer protection to the outline of the waterbodies.
“Due to a loss of rubbish disposal amenities in the village, a lot of people had been dumping their waste in the pond. Plastic luggage and other items too had been loaded on the pond’s floor for years. Now we're seeking to clean the ponds with regular effort. The idea is to wash up all waterbodies of Greater Noida,” stated Tanwar.
Roit Adhana , another volunteer, stated, “This exercise has made our weekends meaningful. We in finding joy in helping revive the ponds. This is for all people and we want an increasing number of folks have a tendency to fortify their neighbourhood.”
During a consult with to Noida in March this year, Union house minister Rajnath Singh had stated that many water bodies in the dictrict had been in a bad condition and instructed citizens and NGOs to step in to save them.
Apart from ponds in their own Dabra village, the gang has cleaned up waterbodies in Kalpura, Salempur and Shahid Sarovar over the last 12 months.
“Ours is a casual team, I usually announce a plan on social media platforms and folks accumulate on their own to wash up the ponds. There is not any money involved. In truth, people who volunteer carry their own instruments to wash up the ponds,” Ramveer Tanwar, an engineer via profession, informed TOI.
Their motion started with one local pond in Dabra a year ago, and it was quickly replicated via local boys for other ponds. “I started it, but quickly found a large number of younger folks short of to spend their weekend in such volunteer paintings,” Tanwar added.
Residents say they clean up hyacinth and rubbish from the surface of a pond with filtration methods using nets. They additionally clean the boundary of the ponds sooner than planting saplings on the fringes to offer protection to the outline of the waterbodies.
“Due to a loss of rubbish disposal amenities in the village, a lot of people had been dumping their waste in the pond. Plastic luggage and other items too had been loaded on the pond’s floor for years. Now we're seeking to clean the ponds with regular effort. The idea is to wash up all waterbodies of Greater Noida,” stated Tanwar.
Roit Adhana , another volunteer, stated, “This exercise has made our weekends meaningful. We in finding joy in helping revive the ponds. This is for all people and we want an increasing number of folks have a tendency to fortify their neighbourhood.”
During a consult with to Noida in March this year, Union house minister Rajnath Singh had stated that many water bodies in the dictrict had been in a bad condition and instructed citizens and NGOs to step in to save them.
These Greater Noida youths spend their weekends cleaning up village ponds
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