The Vice President inaugurating 'Mahabahu Brahmaputra River Heritage Centre' on the bank of river Brahmaputra in Guwahati on October 3, 2021.
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurating ‘Mahabahu Brahmaputra River Heritage Centre’ on the bank of river Brahmaputra in Guwahati today
Vice President calls for a national campaign to rejuvenate Indian rivers
Guwahati: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu today called for a powerful national campaign on the need to rejuvenate rivers and suggested to the Centre and the state governments to include lessons on the importance of water conservation in school curricula.
The Vice President, who arrived in Guwahati today on a tour of the North East, began his trip by inaugurating the Heritage-cum-Cultural Centre on the banks of river Brahmaputra. He noted that rivers have always been revered in India for their life-regenerating power, and said, “We save our rivers with a sense of immediacy”.
Naidu acknowledged that growing urbanization and industrialization have led to pollution of rivers and other water bodies in different parts of the country. “In the past, our villages and cities used to be dotted with several water bodies. In the quest for modernization, man, driven by greed, has destroyed natural ecosystems and at several places, the water bodies have virtually disappeared or have been encroached upon”, he observed.
– global bihari bureau
