Jail bars will not keep save water campaign away, this is what BJP Rajya Sabha MP Avinash Rai Khanna believed.
On a mission to save water, Khanna is making efforts to send across the message of saving water by holding workshops in the seven jails in Punjab.
Already, senior BJP leader has got installed the water recharge system in the Hoshiarpur jail with a contribution from his MP-local area development (lAD) funds.
This is not all! He has also roped in Hoshiarpur Deputy Commissioner in his campaign, and penalizing the people who waste water by washing their cars with water flowing out of pipes, gardening their lawns, among other things.
Giving a call to save a litre water everyday, BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir in-charge initiated a new chapter in his campaign on the water conservation by releasing a sticker with a message “save water save life”.
Senior BJP leader Balramji Dass Tandon released the stickers in the presence of party’s organizational secretary Ajay Jamwal and Punjab government’s assistant media advisor Vineet Joshi.
BJP stalwart Tandon appreciated Khanna’s efforts saying water is the elixir of life and its conservation is the best gift for our future generations. “This initiative to bring the campaign in common masses will show excellent results,” he said.
Khanna, speaking on the occasion, said that these stickers will pasted near all the sources of water such as taps, hand pumps, wells etc to educate people that to save life water conservation is the need of hour.
MP Khanna had also written a book — Ek Sanklp to Save Water, Save life — regarding the need and ways to conserve water. Raising concern over depleting water table, Khanna has suggested simple ways to conserve water in his book, which he said that he has shared with the President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, and Water Resources minister, and other party leaders.
He said that various seminars, workshops, competitions have been organised to spread the message of water conservation, including Delhi’s Tihar Jail, Punjab Technical University, Subsidiary Training Centre in Hoshiarpur.