Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, an environmentalist, called upon people of Punjab to be determined for initiating steps to keep air and water free from pollution in the state.

Baba Seechewal stated this here today on the concluding day of the yoga camp organised by the Police Department in association with the Patanjali Yog Samiti, Amritsar.

The environmentalist said, “We should keep environment pollution-free. The advancement we talk of would be hollow for the future generations if the environment is allowed to be degraded”. He favoured organic farming and waste water management. He said Punjab was passing through a critical phase of environmental imbalance and the successive governments in the state were responsible for this.

He said not only rivers and other natural water sources were polluted in the state, but the underground water was also polluted alongside depletion of forest cover.

He said every person in the state should plant trees on every auspicious occasion in their lives to give green cover to the state. He said he was pained to see water selling at Rs 14 per bottle where even selling of milk was considered a sin. He said we should try to initiate steps for making water and air pollution free so that future generations could be provided safer environment.

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