Hundreds of girl students at Mahila Vidyalaya Sati Kund Haridwar pledged to make the city green through planting sapings around their homes to mark their annual function in Kankhal on Friday, the objective being to conserve environment in response to the call of the seer from Parmarth Niketan.
Presiding over the function as chief guest Swami, Chidanand Saraswati said, “There can be plan A and plan B but never Planet B. Thus we should try to conserve our only breathing planet – the Earth. It is pathetic that schools are getting closed on account of increasing air pollution these days. let this situation not arise in Haridwar.”
He further said that they must follow the age-old traditions of worshipping trees and thus conserve the environment. “The right stage is to start from school level,” he said, asking the students to concentrate on Acchai, Sachhai and Safai (goodness, truthfulness and cleanliness.
The secretary Mahila Vidyalaya Veena Shastri said, “If you wish to change the society things should begin with educating the girls. They are the front runners of the society. The whole family becomes educated if one woman of the family learns to read and write.”
The principal of the school Shashi Prabha said, “Through these girls, the message would reach a thousand homes to keep our environment clean and green. We have celebrated a meaningful annual day today,thus pledging for plantation of saplings.”
Chidanand Muni planted a Rudraksh sapling inside the school premises to mark the occasion.