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Tree Plantation on Gandhi & Shastri Jayanti
The Greater Mumbai Unit of the Indian Scout Guide Fellowship has organised a grand tree plantation ceremony at Ayurveda College, Sion in Central Mumbai.
It has long been seen that reckless tree-felling has directly or indirectly caused various global phenomena like global warming, increased pollution, soil erosion, unpredicatable rains among other issues. We all have seen major forests in places like the Amazon and closer like forests along the western ghats in Maharashtra in India and other places disappearing one tree at a time, usually many more!
The exploding population too is doing its bit to drive away the greenery from around us. Someone has said that "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven".
On October 2nd, which is is the birthday of two of India's great freedom fighters and leaders: Mahatma Gandhi & Lal Bahadur Shastri, the Unit will plant over 100 saplings with the help of NSS Units, eminent personalities and ofcourse our members.
This is a chance for every member of the Unit to personally do his or her bit to alleviate the problems caused by the vanishing green blanket of the Earth.
The Unit plans to have the plantations at more locations in the months to come. As always, your financial or material help is always welcome, but your presence, even more !
Mahatma Gandhi:
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) and in India also as Bapu ("Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Born on 2nd October 1904, Lal Bahadur Shastri was the third Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement. In his first broadcast as Prime Minister, on June 11, 1964, Shastri stated:
"There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations."
Shastri worked by his natural characteristics to obtain compromises between opposing viewpoints. He commanded a great deal of respect in the Indian populace, and he used it to advantage in pushing the Green Revolution in India; which directly led to India becoming a food-surplus nation, although he did not live to see it.
Tree Plantation - 2nd October, 2008
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