SRINAGAR:
To ensure planned construction and conservation of water bodies and making villages clean and polythene free, statewide “My Village, My world” was launched in Jammu and Kashmir today.
Minister for Rural development and Panchyati Raj, Abdul Haq launched the campaign from Baramulla in north Kashmir. The campaign also took off across the state at districts and panchayat levels in each village in their respective areas.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Haq said “the campaign is aimed to make environment of rural areas of the state hygienic and healthy, besides ensuring planned development of rural areas, preservation and conservation of water bodies and polythene-free environs in the villages.”
He said growing urbanisation, haphazard constructions, social volatility and environmental degradation have adversely affected the support systems of human life – agriculture and tourism – to such an extent that with every passing day the situation is going from bad to worse not only in the urban areas but in the rural areas as well. “And if we fail to act now, we will have to face the adverse consequences” he said.
The Minister said that unplanned constructions in rural areas is resulting in adverse impact on our natural and built environment including encroachment of roads, choking of streams and springs, incompatible land use and excessive use of natural resources. (AGENCIES)
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