Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the people to respond to the environment issues in a more sensitive manner.
“Today is the National Pollution Prevention Day. Let us strive to ‘save green, stay clean’.” Mamata on Sunday tweeted adding how her Government had taken measures to save the environment.
“We have set up a six-member committee headed by the Chief Secretary to look into the environmental issues,” Mamata wrote adding she had joined Instagram to connect to more number of people on the social media.
National Pollution Prevention Day is observed every year on December 2 in memory of the Bhopal gas victims. On the same day in 1984 about 3,500 people died after being exposed to methyl isocyanate gas which had leaked from a reservoir from a pesticide plant of a multi-national company.
More than 30,000 people were directly affected by the gas leak which caused women giving birth to deformed babies years later.
A nature lover herself the Chief Minister had taken extra care in decorating and planting trees throughout the State since she roared to power in 2011.