All government offices will have to reduce electricity consumption by 10 percent: Chief Minister Chouhan
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Category : BHOPAL
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Bhopal 05 June 2022: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that instructions have been given to all government offices to reduce electricity consumption by 10 percent. If we save one unit of electricity, we reduce the emission of 900 grams of carbon dioxide. Solar panels will be installed in government offices where solar energy can be used. The energy obtained from the Sun is green and clean, so why should we use more electricity generated from coal. Environmental protection is our collective responsibility. The society along with the government, will have to work for it with commitment and mobility.
Chief Minister Chouhan was addressing a state level programme on World Environment Day at Kushabhau Thackeray Auditorium on the theme “Only One Earth”. All the districts were virtually connected to the programme. Chief Minister Chouhan honored the institutions and citizens working for environmental protection. Chief Minister Chouhan also released the book of Forest Department, “Protection of Narmada River Watershed – Tree Plantation Campaign – 2022”, a plan for tree plantation on the banks of river Narmada. A presentation was given by the Forest Department to the Chief Minister Chouhan on the Narmada plantation year 2022.
It may be noted that World Environment Day is being celebrated as Tree Plantation Resolution Day. Chief Minister Chouhan administered a pledge to the dignitaries present and all the citizens associated with the districts for environment-protection and service. Environment Minister Hardeep Singh Dang and eminent social worker and environmentalist Dhyaneshwar Jamdar and other public representatives were present.
Environmentalists Padmashree Popat Lal Pawar and Jamdar also addressed the programme.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that Amarkantak would be declared as a reserve forest. The people residing there will not face any kind of problem. From the point of view of environmental protection, suitable species of plants will be planted in place of the eucalyptus trees which are unfavorable to the local environment around the origin of Narmada. Chief Minister Chouhan administered five resolutions to the citizens of the state on Environment Day, which includes active involvement in tree plantation, saving electricity to conserve energy, pooling vehicles to ensure its economical use, adopting public transport and adherence to the Triple R’s i.e. Refuse, Reuse and Recycle according to Prime Minister Modi’s mantra.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that environment conservation would not be possible by celebrating Environment Day formally. We must put these resolutions into practice wholeheartedly. Chief Minister Chouhan said that my family and I are very conscious about saving electricity at home. Whenever I leave the room, I turn off the switch. Chief Minister Chouhan also asked the ministers and the officials present that- ‘Do they also do this?’
Chief Minister Chouhan, while encouraging the people of Bhopal to plant trees said that the people of Bhopal are invited to plant saplings with me on their birthdays. Our culture is to worship nature. Govardhan Puja also establishes nature worship.
We have considered rivers as our mother, so concern for them is essential. In the process of development, trees around the rivers have been cut in large numbers, but a balance between environment and development is necessary. Developed countries are not reducing carbon emissions.
If we continue to be selfish like this, then the crisis on the existence of the earth will continue to intensify. Scientists believe that by the year 2050, the temperature of the earth is likely to increase by 1.5 to five degrees. Melting of glaciers will result in water-flooding.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that tree plantation is the only way to protect the environment. On the occasion of Hariyali Amavasya, saplings will be planted in every village, panchayat, development block, district headquarters by the people of the state. Whether the world do it or not Madhya Pradesh will fulfill this responsibility, for which the cooperation of the people of the state is must. The state has to be the best in plantation in the world, our state will be green, the ground water level will increase, the tweet of birds will increase, the effect of global warming and climate change will lessen.
Environmentalist Padmashri Kisan Sarpanch Pawar, who led the transformation of Hiware Bazar in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra from a drought-prone village to a green and prosperous model village, said that we are teaching children that nature is our future. Sensitivity towards nature is essential. The ban on tube wells and crops needing excess watering, by the panchayat helped in raising the ground water level of the area. A network of mobile numbers of 800 people has been made for forest fires. This helps control fires quickly. Water budgeting and rearing indigenous cows in every household of the village has brought a positive change in the condition of the families. The concept of Kitchen for Health is also being implemented in the area. It may be mentioned that Hiware Bazar Gram Panchayat under the leadership of Pawar won the first National Award for community led water conservation in the year 2007.
It was informed that so far 16 lakh 50 thousand saplings have been planted by the people of the state in the Ankur campaign started for tree plantation in the state. Bhopal Railway Station, Heidelberg Cement, Damoh, IPCA Laboratories Ratlam, Neelam Welfare Society Shahdol, Police Training Center, Indore, Nagar Parishad Pipliya Mandi Mandsaur and Kamal Patel of Nawadpura village of Dhar were honored for the year 2020-21 under the Annual Environmental Award Scheme for remarkable work in the field of environmental protection. It was informed in the programme that the Forest Department has set a target of planting one crore 32 lakh saplings in an area of 18 thousand 406 hectares to convert the degraded forests into good forests in 33 forest divisions of 24 districts for Narmada conservation – Window to News
