Greenathon

Yesterday I attended the Greenathon(The Yamuna Clean up Drive). The Drive is organized by Swechha(an NGO) with the help of some sponsors like NDTV, Toyota etc. The puspose of the drive was to organize a camp where people volunteer themselves to
clean the yamuna. I went to the place called Kudesiya ghat near ISBT to do my bit of contribution towards the cleaning of the Yamuna. I was very much happy to see the young guys gather there to clean up the river. The enthusiasm on the people was unlimited. Every one was giving its best to do something to clean the river. The NDTV seems to be the main organizer of the event. They were handling the cloves, plastic boots and shovels etc to the people for the clean up drive.
There were few points which came to my mind though.So many people put their efforts to clean the river but definitely after some day the same situation will come. The river will be filled with the plastic bags, flowers, cloths and other kind of stuff. We need to address the root cause of the problem. The people should be made aware about the importance of the river to the existence of the Delhi people. People should be feel obliged towards the river and think twice before throwing anything in the river. One more thing which I thought is that the purpose of the Greenathon drive is to clean the yamuna and in a sense make our environment better. But by using the so much plastic in the form of gloves and boots will more harm the environment than the work done by all of us to clean the Yamuna. Furthermore a bulldozer the equivalent amount of work, done by all of us in 24 hrs, in just few minutes. So we need to think of involving technology in cleaning drive and should educate people about their responsibility to make these kind of drives effective.