Students seek security for Aravali, meet Hardeep Puri in Delhi

Around a hundred children in the age group of 10-15 years from different cities of the National Capital Region of India knocked on the doors of the Haryana Bhawan and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in Delhi on Tuesday, demanding deletion of certain proposals in the draft NCR regional plan. demanded. -2041 Aims to reduce the security of the Aravallis.

Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri also shared photographs from his meeting with the children on his Twitter account, saying he was delighted to interact with budding environmentalists and addressed their concerns about the Aravallis.

“We are very upset to hear from our parents and teachers and after reading in the newspapers that a new NCR Draft Regional Plan 2041 has been proposed which includes words like ‘Aravalli’, ‘Forest Area’, ‘Natural Conservation Area’. Our natural ecosystems are the only shield that can protect us from the climate crisis looming over our heads. When we live in one of the world’s most polluted regions, the NCR Draft Plan Why has 2041 abandoned the target of ‘Proposed to be 10% of the total area of ​​the region’ of the NCR Regional Plan 2021? Climate action demands a rapid increase in afforestation efforts by the government,” said Pragati Public School, Delhi. Arjav Jain, a student of class VIII, said.

Mudit Sharma of Blue Bells International School, Delhi said he met the resident commissioner at Haryana Bhawan and the housing and urban affairs minister at Nirman Bhawan with bundles of letters and signed sheets from students and teachers. “We presented native Aravalli plants of Goya Khair and Dudhi to them in the hope that they would serve the interest of our future and enhance the protection of Aravallis and other natural ecosystems. As young citizens of India battling global warming, climate change, severe air pollution, we would like our government to work on a plan to increase the forest cover target of Delhi-NCR to the national average of 20%,” Mudit said.

In the past few days, over 12,000 students and 900 teachers from schools in Delhi, Haryana’s Gurugram and Faridabad, Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district and Rajasthan’s Alwar have written letters addressed to the Prime Minister of India, the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Affairs . The affairs and chief ministers of the four NCR states requested them to ecologically strengthen the new NCR scheme to ensure that children and people have breathing rights and water security in the already highly polluted and water scarce National Capital Region of India. not have a negative effect.