UK environment and forest minister sanctions Rs 3 lakhs for LOSA. Urges people to give up the use of plastics to save environment.

The Minister of environment and forest of Uttarakhand Dr. Harak Singh said that the government of Uttarakhand is committed to wipe out plastic from the Himalayan state as its one of the worst enemies of our environment having most hazardous implications.

A single bottle of plastic takes three hundred years while its lid take 500 years to perish completely. If the incessant use of plastic bottles and polythene is not curbed forthwith the time will come when our oceans will become the mountains of hazardous plastic materials thus posing suicidal for the present generation added Dr. Rawat.

Addressing the well attended gathering at Lansedowne main Bazaar in an annual function of Lansedowne Old Students Association on 10th June Dr Harak Singh said that improving the ecology and environment of the hill state of Uttarakhand is our primary and prime duty and we can do so by way of becoming self aware through conpletely giving up the use of plastics and polythenes to replace them with paper bags and other alternative eco friendly materials.

This should be the primary civic responsibility of the citizens and the tourists who throng the Uttarakhand hills for enjoyment during summer vacations alongwith their childrens in large numbers. However, the responsibility of the local populace is more important to keep their town plastic free and neat n clean.

Dr. Rawat said Uttarakhand is blessed with extremely pleasent environment, scenic beauty, fresh oxygen and mesmerising surroundings and therefore its our moral civic responsibility to maintain its dignity and environmental parameters.

Therefore use of plastics should be given up forthwith and the flagship initiative of the prime minister Narendra Modi, the Swach Bharat Abhiyan should also be given full impetus to keep our surroundings neat and clean.

Feeling proud to have Uttarakhandies in several coveted positions at the centre as well as in states like NSA Ajit Doval, Army chief Vipin Rawat, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, UK CM Trivendra Rawat, Raw Chief Dhasman, DGMO Anil Bhatt, Dr. Rawat said the incoming and the current generations should feel inspired from their outstanding achivements and follow suit in the future to raise Uttarakhand’s head high nationally.

Portraying his achievements before the assembled people Dr. Harak Singh Rawat said he has come to Lansedown because he feels it his home and would leave no stone unturned to do everything possible for the development of this popular hill station and its people despite the fact that it’s not his political constituency.

Dr. Rawat had been minister in UK government as well as in the undivided Uttar Pradesh for several years and MLA for more than five terms. He’d changed several political outfits from being independent to Congress to BSP to Congress and finally BJP.

He is considered to be a dynamic leader of the hill state despite being in different parties and adhering to changing ideologies.

He was previously the minister in Harish Rawat government looking after Agriculture and other departments as well but had changed sides and joined BJP alongwith 10 other lawmakers having been rewarded the ministry yet again when the saffron party formed the government with a historic mandate in 2016/ 17.

He is the MLA from Kotdwar. The Lansedown Old Students Association had invited the minister as the chief guest on its seventh Annual meet in which the LOSA members from all over the country and even abroad join each other every year in the month of june and deliberate on various significant issues including exchanging pleasentaries and old memories.

Assuring the people of Lansedown and Kotdwar to convert these areas into the best tourist destinations of Uttarakhand in order to boost tourism he said while the door to Jim Corbett Park has been opened for Animal Safari from Dugadda/ Kotdwar Pauri Garhwal side, a proposal for opening a wild life sanctuary in Kotdwara for the treatment of wild life had also been approved by the centre thus making these areas as the best wild life viewing hub in the near future to encourage tourism, wild life safaries, employment generation and financial gains for the hotel industry as well as the petty shopkeepers.

Mrs. Akruti Gusain, the beauty peagent and the legendary folk singer Narendra Singh Negi also spoke on the ocassion.

The minister felicitated the veteran 98 year old losaite and the former principal of Central School Lansedown with a Shawl and citation and distributed scholarships to several poor and meritorious students.
Several interesting cultural folk dances and songs were also presented at the event.

Dr. Harak Singh Rawat assured the LOSA of a consolidated financial support of Rs. Three lakhs from his ministry.

The programme was compered by Narmada Gusain, mother of the beauty peagent Akruti Gusain who is also a Losaite having been born and brought up in LANSEDOWNE.