Green activist ends fast after government accepts demands
March 23, 2012, www.newzfirst.com | NEW DELHI – Environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, 80, who was on a fast-unto-death since Jan 15 to save the Ganga river, Friday ended his fast after the government agreed to call a meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), a central government constituted body for cleaning the Ganga, on April 17.
Agarwal, a former Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) professor and member of Ganga Sewa Abhiyan, broke the fast after drinking juice at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where he was shifted Monday from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh after his condition deteriorated.
“I will only take liquid diet till any concrete decisions are taken to save the Ganga. The government has called a meeting of the NGRBA on April 17 and I don’t know what will happen. I will only consume food after some concrete decisions to ensure uninterrupted water flow and purity are taken,” Agarwal told reporters.
Agarwal said he doesn’t have much time and won’t live long so the government should take measures to clean the Ganga before the January 2013 Allahabad Kumbh.
GoodNews FortheEarth:
Hanspeter Höpperger “She is a spirit being, not just a body of water. Along her banks thousands of sages have meditated and taught for millennia.There was a little private bay just upriver from Sivananda Ashram outside Rishikesh. It was surrounded by rocks and could only be reached by climbing over them and then down to the narrow strip of sand. That’s where I went every day to immerse myself in Ganga for at least an hour although the water there was ice cold. I very often felt embraced and even communicated to.
So, you are right, “I don’t know what it is, but sure had/has a tremendous impact on me.”
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