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In Mumbai
Posted by: "Pushpender Gusain" psgusain2001@yahoo.co.in psgusain2001
Mon May 5, 2008 7:12 am (PDT)
Dear Friends,
Namaskar!
I am in Mumbai from 11/05/08 to 19/05/08 and look forward to meet our
Group members from Mumbai.
Regards,
Pushpender Gusain, Chandigarh
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Posted by: "(no author)" (no email address)
Mon May 5, 2008 7:43 am (PDT)
Dear friends,
I am sending an urgent request to all list members, asking you to please
contact Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri to exercise his discretion in
extending Dr. Harshvanti Bisht's permission to maintain her
Birch/Bhojpatra Plantation in the Gangotri region.
As you may know that two years ago, Dr. Harshvanti Bisht, a reknowned
mountaineer and conservationist, was finally reallowed by the Forest
Department for two years to access her plantation that she had been
laboriously tending for almost twenty years. Despite all the hurdles
placed before her, she has continued her work these last two years,
however as the 2008 deadline looms, it is obvious that her work must
continue as the plants are still too small to grow on their own. As such
she is requesting an extension to work till 2015. She has written to the
Principal Secretary Environment & Forests, Minister of Environment &
Forests and Chief Minister of Govt of Uttarakhand, but all in vain. Now
She is asking friends and well wishers to send letters and email to the
C.M. and others to encourage him to do the right thing.
The Chief Minister's email address is bc.khanduri@nic.in . Prof Shekhar
Pathak has already sent letters to him, and hopefully the internet
community can do the same.
Dr. Bisht has kindly drafted a sample letter for supporters to send.
Prof. Pathak's letters are also attached. Also, do visit
http://savegangotri.org to take a look at her heroic efforts to save the
environment of Gangotri.
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To,
Shri B.C.Khanduriji
Hon. Chief Minister
Government of Uttarakhand
Dehradun, India
Re: Sub-Request for the extension of time to Bhojpatra (Silver Birch)
plantation work at Bhojbasa, near Gaumukh.
Hon. Chief Minister Sir,
This is well known fact that today Mother Earth is passing through a
great crises where She herself and Her inhabitants are facing the wrath
of environmental disturbances in the form of global warming, climate
change, cloud bust, floods, land slides and contracting glaciers etc.
UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has expressed
great concern for Asian glaciers. With regard to India, Gangotri glacier
has been declared as the hotspot.
Every year thousands of pilgrims, KANWARS, tourists, trekkers and
mountaineers visit Gaumukh. Among them, there are people who behave
irrationally. They treat the beautiful ecology of this area as a product
for consumption and exploit it. They abuse the ecology and environment.
Due to the arrival of tourists and pilgrims the commercial activities
are going on and the beautiful Birch trees are cut for fuel and timber.
These Birch forests are truly the guards and protectors of the fragile
ecology of this region. Therefore the protection and rejuvenation of
Birch forest is most required today.
But I feel sorry to say that I have come to know that Dr Harshvanti
Bisht, Uttarkashi, who is doing Birch plantation work since 1992 and who
has very successfully raised the Birch plant nursery at Chirbasa and
planted 12500 Birch saplings at Bhojbasa has been denied the permission
to work after Nov 2008. She has experimentally achieved the success in
high altitude plantation in Himalayan region which has not been done by
any department in the country so far. This type of denial to work to a
person who is honestly doing the work means discouraging the
environmental conservation in higher Himalayas.
This is quite strange that pilgrims, tourists, kanwars and mountaineers
everyone can go to Gaumukh and exploit the region but a person who is
planting the trees is denied the permission to do environmental
conservation work (planting of trees). Being Uttarakhandi by virtue of
born in Uttarakhand, I feel that such good environmental conservation
work should not only be permitted but supported by the state government.
Hon. Sir such good, religious, social and environmentally important work
should not be discouraged. In-fact the number of people visiting to the
area should be checked according to the carrying capacity of the region
and all eco-conservation work should be protected and promoted.
Therefore it is requested that the Birch plantation work of Dr.
Harshvanti Bisht should be extended further till she wants to work there.
With regards,
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Rajiv Rawat (MES, PhD Candidate)
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
web (personal): http://www.rawat.org
web (projects): http://www.prayaga.org
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