Environment :

Environment can become clean and upgraded only through the country wide active participation of citizens. People as a team can participate in cleaning the environment like the cleaning of Kali Bein River. Spiritual leaders can play a very important role in persuading the devotees in the clean environment movement which will promote the evolution of beautiful minds. Local groups can be formed to demonstrate and teach about cleanliness in the local residential areas. Welfare associations, NCC Cadets, Scouts, Guides and NSS Volunteers can proactively form these groups. Industrialists should follow the prescribed norms for environmental standards in all their institutions and make the buildings friendly to differently challenged people.

Government employees should keep their offices and their environment clean as they would like to keep their homes. Parents and teachers should teach about the need for environmental friendly requirements to the younger citizens. Citizens can plant trees and nurture them in their neighbourhood every year as a mission. Our public infrastructure, airports, railway stations, bus stations, sea ports and Hospitals form the face of the nation in the global environment. It is the responsibility of all the stakeholders including the citizens to promote cleanliness in all these public facilities.

Role of Home Makers :

Home makers have an important role to play in addition to shaping the family. They can equally contribute to societal upliftment. I have come across a project called Siruthuli which has been taken up in Coimbatore. This project on large scale rain water harvesting and activating the water bodies, aforestation, sewage/waste water treatment and solid waste management, integrates large number of people from different walks of life. A home maker is providing the leadership to this project. Many of the Panchayats across the country have women members who have been giving leadership in various rural development initiatives. Imagine the difference which can be made in the six hundred thousand villages with such actions.

Children are our Wealth :

Some recent incidences of crime against children have shocked the whole nation and left deep scars in all of us. Children are our national wealth. Cruelty to children is against the fabric of the society which cannot be tolerated at any cost. Concerted action by all concerned in the society such as watchful neighbours, fast action oriented police machinery, vigilant media and speedy exemplary punishment to the perpetrators of crime by the judicial system is the need of the hour. In addition, as a preventive action we have to identify the people who have such tendency in the society through modern psychological test aids. Eradication of cruelty towards children should be the mission of every Indian since they are our future.