Environment Day celebrated in Coimbatore, The Nilgiris

Various organisations and education institutions celebrated World Environment Day in Coimbatore and The Nilgiris on Friday.

Programmes organised by them stressed on the theme of this year’s celebration ‘Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.’

Nilgiri Documentation Centre celebrated the day by recalling withdrawal of a hydro electric dam across the picturesque Catherine Waterfalls near Kothagiri 20 years ago on an appeal submitted by the public led by Save Nilgiris Campaign.

Founder of Save Nilgiris Campaign and the Director of Nilgiri Documentation Center, Dharmalingam Venugopal, spoke on the occasion.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd celebrated the day by planting saplings and by undertaking free gas stove service campaigns at its distributorships.

BPCL Territory Manager Pradeep Nair, who headed the drive, stressed the need to propagate giving up LPG subsidy for the major nation-building initiative that enables a needy person or a family to get LPG in the place of polluting fuels like fire wood and kerosene.

Students of the YMCA school at Udhagamandalam took a pledge to protect the environment at the celebration organised at the school. Guests, who spoke at the celebration, sought stringent action against persons responsible for polluting The Nilgiris.

The Coimbatore District Legal Services Authority, Friends of Police and R.K.V. Foundation jointly organised a free sapling distribution drive, at the Carmel Garden Matriculation Higher Secondary School, where saplings were distributed to the students, their parents and staff.

PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research planted saplings on the institutions premises. Medical Director of PSG Hospitals Vimal Kumar Govindan, who initiated the tree planting programme, said that the campus has more than 40 species of trees that were planted over the years.