Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Saryu Roy, who is also the Convener of Damodar Bachao Andolan wants year 2017 to be remembered as ‘Pollution free Damodar Year.’
Talking to the media persons at his residence in Ranchi, Roy said that a campaign will be launched from May 29 to June 4, during which ‘padyatra,’ right from the originating point to the concluding point of Damodar River will be done and review meetings will be organised.
“Though a large part of Damodar River has been made pollution free, there are still some parts of it which is yet to be made free of pollution, we are going to conduct a special campaign from May 29 to June 04 where we will visit right from its originating to the concluding point so that a review could be done so that steps could be taken to make it pollution free completely,” said the Minister. The special campaign will be launched after that for a year to make those parts pollution free, he added.
Roy further said that when the drive was started back in 2004, Damodar was counted among one of the most polluted rivers in the world, but now a larger part of it has been made pollution free, added Roy.
“I want that the year 2017 is remembered as ‘Year of Pollution Free Damodar’ for which we have even started taking steps,” he said. This time ‘Damodar Aarti’ will be organized at each of the 24 sites in the evening where ‘Ganga Dashahra’ is observed on June 4 so that the message of making it pollution free reaches to the society, he added.
“This is just an effort to connect this drive to the society. It will help in connecting the villagers residing beside Damodar River,” Roy added.
Talking about the systematic error which was evident in JPSC examinations, Roy said that a strict direction must be passed to the system under the State Government that they will be held responsible if they deviate from the prescribed norms.
“All appointing bodies must be told to follow the norms literally and if they feel that there were defects in it, they must seek guidance from the Government so that complaints related to systematic error does not occur after the examinations are taken or results are declared,” he said.