GANGA 66th Issue | Page 10

Newsletter No. 65;
IRBMS
Bureaucrats and instead sought greater committee to living species and mining activities on the river
driven participation with the formation of the bed.
Ganga-Bhakti Parishad. 4.
Another significant demand was the complete ban provisionally who will act only in the interest of
on sand mining in the Ganga River Act. River
Just before the end of life of this great Soule and Favourable interest and in relation to all actions,
before he started fasting, Dr. Agrawal made pertaining to Ganga.
following four requests vide a letter dated This great soul breathed his last in Oct 2018 and
22.06.2018 to Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi before his last breath it is known that PM office
for necessary action:- had carried very little action on his request.
1.
To constitute a Ganga Bhakta Parishad
Ganga
and
only
look
after
Ganga’s
To bring the draft bill prepared by Ganga
Mahasabha in 2012 for discussion in the Parliament
immediately and get it passed. In the event that
this does not help then, form the above draft bill
item from chapter 1 to be bought into force by way
of an immediate presentational ordinances.
2.
To stop all H.E. Projects those are under
construction
over
Alakanda,
Dhauliganga,
Mandakini, Pindar and Nandakini and to cancel
also all the proposed projects on Ganga and all
Editor- Sujit Choudhury, Published by Girija Sankar
feeder Streams of Ganga.
3.
To
stop
and
enforce
the
cutting/
Chattopadhay, IRBMS, assisted by Nilshikha Das(©
Integrated
River
Basin
Management
Society)
deforestation of Forest, slaughtering / processing
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Integrated River Basin Management Society