Rajya Sabha member from the State Anil Madhav Dave called on Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti on Tuesday and presented her the first copy of the Bandrabhan vision document of International River Festival 2013.
Bharti overviewed the vision document titled ‘Hamari nadi — neeti, niyam, netratav’ (Our river – policy, rules and leadership) and released it.
Dave told the Union Minister that the students and professors of many institutes and universities including Indian Forest Management Institute, Bhopal, Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal, Kushabhau Thakre Journalism and Mass Communication University, Raipur and National law Institute University, Bhopal worked to compile this vision document by working on conservation of small and large rivers besides brainstorming and discussions on various aspects before predicating it. Specialists, fishermen, boatmen and river side dwellers also took part in the preparation of this document. The document is the result of efforts made by many known and unknown river dilettantes, he added.
Dave told the Minister that the vision document is not the final report, instead termed it as a beginning in the direction of rivers cleansing.
He requested the Minister to call on people’s suggestion and support for it so that it could be made more factual and result oriented.
The senior BJP leader and the Upper House parliamentarian also invited the Union Minister to be guest at the 2015 International River Festival to be held at Bandrabhan, Hoshangabad on February 13, 14, 15 and 16 next year. The theme of that would be Narmada, catchment area, chemicals and crisis.