Hundreds of common people joined the ‘People’s Climate March’ organised here on Sunday. The gathering signed a petition to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urging him to take decisive action to stop mindless industrilisation in Odisha, which is going to be the worst victim of global climate change impact.
The People’s Climate Change is spearheading a worldwide movement to protect environment, said Ricken Patel, Executive Director of the 38-million member civic organisation, Avaaz.
Odisha has been ravaged by increasing frequency of natural calamities of greater ferocity in recent years in form of super-cyclones, super-floods, droughts and erratic weather patterns. The Government has to take strong, decisive and immediate action to save future and precious environment of the State from the pollution being created by industries, said representatives of various organisations that joined the march.
Among others, former Vice-Chancellor of the Utkal University and environment expert Dr Binayak Rath, Sudarsan Das of HDF, Nishikant Mahapatra of the Aam Aadmi Party, Maj Priyadarshi Choudhury, Nilambar Rath of Odisha live, Dhanada Kanta Mishra, Saumya Ranjan Mohanty and Rohan Paul participated in the event.