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Petition to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Save Ganga from Willful Destruction
Ganga after Maneri Dam

Dear Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh,

We the undersigned express solidarity with the tapasya of Swami Gyan Swarup Anand involving fast unto death to save river Ganga from total destruction.

We are deeply pained by the fact that you have failed to honour your promise of giving the protection due to Ganga after it was officially declared as the "national river".

We are disturbed by the fact that the high powered National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) headed by yourself has failed to live up to its mandate and proved as effete as the earlier Authority created for implementing the Ganga Action Plan.

We condemn the wasteful and non transparent manner in which thousands of crores of rupees are being mis spent or siphoned off under the garb of “Cleaning Ganga”. This sacred waters of Mother Ganga need no cleaning. All that is needed is that the government agencies stop destroying the river in the fragile Himalyas by building bumper to bumper dams and polluting it with sewage and industrial effluents.

We demand that:

  1. Ganga waters be allowed to flow freely in the Himalayas and plains: Ganga ko aviral behne do — in order for its water to retain their purity. Blocking their flow through dams and an endless series of tunnels deadens the water. Even aquatic life does not survive in such waters. River water retains its purity by constant exposure to the sun, air and its own riverbed.
  2. Scrap with immediate effect all the under-construction projects at Alaknanda Ganga, Vishnu-Ganga, Nandakini Ganga and Mandakini Ganga. The government must ensure that no such projects are undertaken on Ganga and its tributaries--Alaknanda, Mandakini and Bhagirathi-- that disrupt the natural flow of its waters. 
  3. Ensure that the speed of the flowing water from Narora to Prayag is not less than 100 cubic meters per second. At festive sites during special sacred occasions such as Magh Mela, Kumbh and Parv-Snaan, the speed of water should be, at a minimum, 200 cubic meters per second.
  4. Stop diverting through canals 90% of the river water for irrigation purposes because that destroys its ecological flow. Only a small fraction should be diverted for irrigation. 
  5. Stop the sanction of grants passed  for the supposed cleaning of Ganga till such time as an honest review is undertaken of the money thus far spent and a transparent and accountable system for using the funds in a purposeful manner has been put in place.
  6. Stop pouring sewage into the sacred waters of Ganga. Let sewage water be treated and used for non-domestic purposes.
  7. Shift the industries that pour poisonous and polluted waters into the river from their current location to at least fifty kilometers radius away from the river. Their effluents should not be allowed to come anywhere near Ganga waters even after treatment.
  8. Undertake massive reforestation of the highly denuded and endangered Himalayas in order for them to sustain the various rivers that originate there and prevent landslides.
  9. Declare immediate moratorium followed by a total ban on land use change of Ganga's, including its tributary Yamuna's, flood plains.
  10. Undertake massive greening and beautification of the banks of river Ganga and its sister river Yamuna in all the cities and towns through which this holy river passes.
  11. Make it mandatory for every city, town and village to undertake systematic water harvesting. This will ensure that the bulk of their water requirements are met from what they have harvested locally and that the upstream towns and cities will not need to suck away all the fresh waters of our sacred river.
  12. Treat Ganga with the respect it deserves after being accorded the status of  "National River" (Rashtra Nadi) and nurture it as the most revered symbol of Indian civilization.
  13. Enact a strong law in parliament to ensure it gets the special care and concern appropriate to a national river. The law should force the governments of all the states through which Ganga passes to take necessary steps for the efficient management of the river and protection of its waters.

Signatories to the Petition

  1. Dr.D.N.MISRA   Retd Scientist CSIR
  2. Sandeep Jain   
  3. Naren Herrero   Spain
  4. Veena Malik   
  5. Arvind Kumar Garg   
  6. Deepa Singh   
  7. Dilip Singh   
  8. Jaychoubey   
  9. K.Anoop   Self
  10. Aditya   Dubey
  11. Harpinder Singh Kalra   
  12. Vinay S. Pandey   First Flight Couriers Limited
  13. Alka Mishra   Khwahish Foundation
  14. Ravindra Nath   
  15. Neeraj Chauhan   
  16. Manu Chandran   Pachaponthan
  17. Manu Chandran   Pachaponthan
  18. Ajitthmuni   Pachaponthan
  19. Ajith   Person
  20. Sushil Jhunjhunwala   
  21. Harpinder Singh Kalra   
  22. Nayank Patel   Commercial Real Estate Owner/Management
  23. Manish Kumar   Dynamic Tarang [P] Ltd
  24. Apoorv   
  25. R.N. Soni 'अक्षर'   
  26. Vimal Kishore   Doctor
  27. Amit Singh   Lucknow University
  28. Sachin Pande   Sun EducationalTrust
  29. Ashok Pande   Sun EducationalTrust
  30. Sulekha Pande   Sun EducationalTrust
  31. Natwar Thakkar   Nagaland Gandhi Ashram
  32. SHASHANK KR PANDEY   
  33. DG Goswami   Human Right Protection Council Of Gujarat
  34. Aryan Dhoundiyal   Ccset Academy Antigua
  35. Prakritidhondiya   School
  36. Bhartendu Savani   
  37. मिथिलेश व्दिवेदी   Journalist
  38. Aju Mukhopadhyay   
  39. Anil & Renu Goenka   Self
  40. Nidhi Jain   Manushi
  41. Parveen   
  42. Vinod Bodhankar   Jalbiradari Pune District
  43. Debashree   Teacher
  44. Annalisa Adami   Homeopath
  45. Renu Bali Khurana   Ex Capt.
  46. Fabbri Nicole   
  47. SURESH THAKUR   FILM MAKER
  48. Kiran Rana   
  49. VIKRAM B.BAURA   CEO SATYA INVESTMENTS
  50. Renaud Fabbri   
  51. Kavita Rathi   
  52. Rakesh K Jaiswal   Eco Friends
  53. Arati Nayak   
  54. Alvaro Enterria   
  55. Ajitkumar   Yug-mandir
  56. Sangita Gairola   The Living Tree
  57. Harini   Urban Research Centre
  58. Pawan Tawania   
  59. Ashish Pandey   
  60. Farooq   Dolphin International School
  61. Shuba Kukillaya   
  62. Dharamkriti Kumar   
  63. Narayan Kumar   PRAVASI BHARTIYA SAMAJ
  64. Lakshmi Bhargava   None
  65. Rima Kashyap   Shakti
  66. Mohammad Yaseen Dagroo   Current News Servive Srinagar Kashmir
  67. Surendra Gambhir   University Of Pennsylvania
  68. Puneet Bhagat   
  69. Swaamishreeh Avimukteshwaraanandah   Jyotirmath, Badarikashram, Himalaya
  70. Durgashanker   
  71. SATYAPRAKASH TRIPATHI   
  72. K.V.ANO   
  73. Sarath Nambiar   
  74. Kirti Vayeda   
  75. Pallvi Chuhan   
  76. Madhur Thakar   
  77. AshishManubhai Maheswari Pandaji   
  78. Fatima M Noronha   
  79. Dharmabhushan Pt. Shridhar Gauraha   
  80. Aparajita   
  81. Padmini Viswanathan   
  82. Mohan K. Tikku   Independent Journalist
  83. Sherein Bansal   
  84. Mukesh Srivastava   Professor, National Law University, Bhopal
  85. Chanda Seth   
  86. Manvendra Singh   Allahabad University
  87. Manvendra Singh   Allahabad University
  88. Ramanuj Tiwari   Self Business
  89. Parthasarathy   
  90. Usha Parthasarthy   
  91. Aparna   
  92. Kiran Dhar   Retired
  93. RAMESH CHAND SHARMA   GANDHI YUVA BIRADARI
  94. Usha Krishnaswamy   
  95. Usha Krishnaswamy   
  96. Dr.Devendra Nath Misra   Retd.from CSIR
  97. Shiv Shukla   Tata Inbstitute Of Social Sciences; & Unicef
  98. Sajan Pillai   
  99. Raghavendra P K   
  100. यतीन्द्र नाथ चतुर्वेदी YATINDRA NATH CHATURVEDI   
  101. P.Mastan Rao   Human Rights
  102. Raka Sinha Bal   Angaja Foundation
  103. Priya Dixit   Education
  104. Mohit Shukla   
  105. Harihar Singh   VMC Institute Of IIT-Jee
  106. Bijoy Kumar More   Director
  107. Winod Karve   Senior Consultant (Retired)
  108. Vijay Shankar Shukla   Mumbai Kamgar Shramik Sangh
  109. Radhika Agrawal   
  110. Abhinav Mishra   Manager In Deloitte
  111. Abhinav Mishra   
  112. Vishnu Tiwari   Director Of NGO
  113. PRATEEK   
  114. Archana Raj   
  115. J P Manas   Www.srijangatha.com
  116. Kapil Vayeda - Dwarka   
  117. Kavita Malaiya   Soham Siciety
  118. Vijay K Malhotra / विजय कुमार मल्होत्रा   
  119. Madhu Bhaduri,Former Ambassador   Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan
  120. Shinu   
  121. Juned Khan   SPWD
  122. Jannavi   
  123. BALAGANGADHAR.B.R.   ASEDA
  124. Ashwani Agrawal   Kotak
  125. Raman Sinha   JNU
  126. Rajat Poddar   
  127. Pradeep   
  128. Subeesh M P   NIO
  129. Vayujith   
  130. Sitaram Ts   
  131. Brig (retd) Prem Hejmadi   
  132. Sumit Sinha   
  133. IQBAL KHAN   Pucl,ap
  134. Jaya Vindhyala   Pucl,ap
  135. Prof. M. Hasan   IRADA
  136. M. P. RADHAKRISHNAN NAIR   Gurvayoor Group
  137. Sriram Vangal   
  138. Jijith NR   
  139. O P Nautiyal   Ex.GM (ONGC) ,Poet,Consultant
  140. Meenakshi   
  141. Soumya Aravind Sitaraman   
  142. Varun Arya   
  143. RP Shahi   Indiidual
  144. Manoj Dalbehera   PRAYAS
  145. Kittu Reddy   
  146. योगेश आमेटा   
  147. Raghuvinder Yadav   Nagrik Chetana Manch
  148. Tanveer Ahmed   Kashmir One Secretariat
  149. KEDAR DASHORE   
  150. Vijay Dashora   
  151. Archana Awasthi   
  152. K Sivakumar   
  153. Dr. Girdhar Mathankar   Sahjeevan Samiti
  154. Dr. Girdhar Mathankar   Sahjeevan Samiti
  155. Murali Ambala Kolliyil   Cementech
  156. Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy   
  157. Bharath KS   
  158. Suneel Joshi   Jal Biradari,Maharashtra-Sanghatak
  159. Vandna Tripathi   U-S.D.A.
  160. ड्रा. अलका सिहं   अमृता
  161. MADHU ELAYATH   
  162. Mamta Jaitly   Vividha
  163. Anand Sampath   
  164. Dr. J. C. Majumdar   CCFI
  165. Pawan Kumar Gupta   SIDH
  166. Dr Anjali Nauriyal   Principal Correspondent, The Times Of India, Dehradun
  167. Shalini Rai Rajput   
  168. Hemant Dhyani   Ganga Ahvaan
  169. Akhilesh K.   Delhi University, Delhi
  170. Avimukteshwaraanandah Saraswatee 'Swaamishreeh'   
  171. Jyotirmath, Badrikashram, Himalay   
  172. Vidyashree Charitable Trust   
  173. Ganga Seva Abhiyaanam   
  174. Dr Aparna Dar   IIT Kanpur
  175. Poornamba   
  176. Dr.Priyadarshini Shukla   
  177. Gopikannan   
  178. E.D.S.SARAVANAN   Self Employed
  179. Ds Chauhan   
  180. Tanuja Raghoo   
  181. Amit Gupta   
  182. Ankush Poddar   CA
  183. ANUP KUMAR CHAKRAVARTY   IIT MADRAS
  184. Hemachandran Karah   CSDS
  185. Ravi P Bhatia   Retired Professor Delhi University
  186. Dominic Emmanuel   Delhi Catholic Archdiocese
  187. Ch.Narenra   PUCL
  188. राघवेन्द्र अवस्थी   गंगा सेवा अभियानम
  189. Dr. Sushil Arya   NIMA
  190. Dr.R.M.Bharadwaj   Delhi University
  191. Vijay Chandru   Intl Instt For Art Culture & Democracy
  192. MANOJ KUMAR MONDAL   IIT KHARAGPUR
  193. N C Raghava   Manushi
  194. Anantha Nageswaran   
  195. V.V.Subramanan   Individual Citizen Of Bharat
  196. SABAREESAN GOPALAKRISHNAN   Iskcon
  197. Arindam Chakrabarti   University Of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu
  198. Kris   
  199. Kripa   
  200. Gita   
  201. Kundan Singh, PhD   Institute Of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, USA
  202. DKM Kartha   
  203. DKM Kartha   
  204. Devendra Misra   None
  205. RK Bose   
  206. Abhishek G.   MRA
  207. Vinay Aditya   
  208. Bidisha Mallik   University Of North Texas, USA
  209. Indira Jagan   
  210. T. K. Jagan   
  211. Rajat Narain   Individual
  212. Pushpa Aggarwal   
  213. Arka Kumar Dasmahapatra   Professor, Sambalpur University,Odisha
  214. Bikram Swain   President, SAHAYOG
  215. Umesh Sethi   INDIAN CITIZEN WHO ELECTS YOU
  216. Surekha Krishnan   AID
  217. Mohan Bhagat   University Of Maryland,College Park,MD,USA
  218. Dr. Om Vikas   Retired
  219. Shree Venkatram   Unnati Features
  220. Vinit Kumar Upadhyay   
  221. Vishal Kudchadkar   
  222. Raghav Vashishtha   Pune University
  223. Ajay K. Mehra   Centre For Public Affairs
  224. Ajay Mahajan   Vividhara
  225. Ganeswar Sahoo   
  226. Roopa Ghosh   Teacher In The Middle East
  227. Solung Sonam   Self Employed
  228. K. P. Pradeep Kumar   
  229. Dr. Vijay Kumar Bhargav   Retd. Scientist
  230. Dr. V. Verma   
  231. Supriya Ambwani   
  232. Maj Gen Lakhwinder Singh   Manushi
  233. Amita Das   NIT, Jamshedpur
  234. Asha Kachru   Strainata
  235. A. P. Venkateswaran   ASIA CENTRE
  236. Abhinav Tewari   
  237. Neeru Kaul   
  238. Dr. Rekha Goyal   Mumbai
  239. Rakesh Goyal, PhD   CRPCC
  240. Somendu Maiti   
  241. D.P.Gupta   
  242. Tarun Kushwah   
  243. Gopal Kumar   IIT Kharagpur
  244. T.S.Rukmani   Concordia University
  245. Ashim Jain   ICAN, IFA (USA), IAC
  246. Dr. Subash Mohapatra   Global Human Rights Communications
  247. Rajni Kant Mudgal   Socialist Front
  248. Santosh Kumar Shukla   JNU,New Delhi
  249. Amit Kumar Gupta   
  250. Chanchalapathi Dasa   ISKCON Bangalore
  251. Avishek Roy   IIT Kharagpur
  252. Pal Singh Nauli   Sant Balbir Singh Ji
  253. P.N.Shali   Engineering Council Of India
  254. RK Srivastava   Hon.Fellow, CSDS,delhi
  255. Laveesh Bhandari   Indicus Analytics
  256. Aditya Mukherjee   JNU
  257. L N Singhal   
  258. Alpana Kishore   
  259. Faisal Khan   Napm/khudaikhdimatgar
  260. Rohit Nand   
  261. Harikrishnan   
  262. JP Cota   Individual
  263. Vikram Lal   Common Cause
  264. N. Kapahi   I.T.F.
  265. Raj Patil   Individual
  266. Parshuram Ray   Centre For Environment And Food Security-New Delhi
  267. Kanchana   
  268. S.V.Raju   Indian Committee For Cultural Freedomt
  269. Maj Pankaj Rai (Retd)   Individual
  270. Sonal Shah   
  271. Rahul Dev   Samyak Foundation
  272. Chandan Deep Nath   
  273. Veena Patil   
  274. R. N. Vakil   CEPT University
  275. R N Lohia   CEO Of Prestige Group Of Industries
  276. Murli Nagasundaram, PhD   



 
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