Siasat and COVA organize Meeting on Rally for Rivers by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - Mind Boggling PPT on Water

[COVA Network]

Rally for Rivers in Hyderabad

 

 

 

Sadguru, Mr. Mahmood Ali (Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana, Dr. Mazher Hussain (ED COVA), Maulana Sadiq Mohiuddin at the Meeting on Rally for Rivers in Hyderabad.

 

Siasat, the largest circulated Urdu daily news paper of Hyderabad and COVA organized a meeting in Hyderabad on 15^th September 2017 as part of the Rally for Rivers Campaign launched by Satguru from 3rd September to 2^nd October 2017 in India to spread awareness for saving rivers.

 

Siasat Report

The Rally for Rivers held its large awareness event here with representatives of Telangana government participating. On the morning of September 15, the Hyderabad leg of the River Rally also saw Sadhguru on a bike rally along a 9km stretch on Necklace Road, starting at Jal Vihar at 7am. He was accompanied by 80 bikers, a group that included nine women and all belonging to Wanderers, a Hyderabad based motor cycle club. Later in the morning, Sadhguru also attended an event that had been organised by The Siasat Daily and the well-regarded NGO COVA (Confederation of Voluntary Associations). The meeting was attended by leaders as well as many students of the Muslim community. Present were Cleric Maulana Sadiq Mohiuddin; Zahid Ali Khan, the Chief Editor of Siasat; and Vishweshwara Reddy, MP, TRS. Mazhar Hussain of COVA welcomed Sadhguru to the event saying “We called you to a meeting, this is now a mission”. Cleric Maulana Sadiq Mohiuddin quoted and spoke of the teachings of the Quran, saying that water was one of the gifts of the Almighty to life on Earth. All life depends on water, we must respect and value it. Without wazu (ritual cleansing), you cannot offer prayer. It is advised that man should protect water, not pollute it or waste it”. He thanked Sadhguru for taking up Rally for Rivers and addressed the Muslim community: “We should participate in this, and we should do anything we can. We owe it to our future generations.”

 

Rally for Rivers

30 Days • 16 states

23 Events • 7000km

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3 Sept – 2 Oct.

Sadhguru himself is driving from Kanyakumari to Himalayas to create awareness.

 

Our Rivers Are Dying

Ganga, Krishna, Narmada, Kaveri – many of our great rivers are depleting fast. If we do not act now, the legacy we hand over to the next generation will be one of conflict and deprivation. These rivers nurtured and nourished us for thousands of years. It is time we nurture and nourish them back to health.

Saving Our Rivers

The simplest solution to rejuvenate India’s rivers is to maintain a minimum of one kilometer tree cover on riversides.

Forest trees can be planted on government land and tree-based agriculture brought in on farm land. This will ensure our rivers are fed throughout the year by the moist soil. This will also reduce floods, drought and soil loss, and increase farmers’ incomes.

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For an outstanding presentation on perils of not being careful with our rivers and our water, please see the PPT attached: Letter Written in the year 2070

 

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COVA (Confederation of Voluntary Associations), is a national network of voluntary organisations working for communal harmony and community empowerment in India and peace in South Asia and South East Asia through formation of COFI (Countering Online Fanatic Indoctrination) Networks in 12 countries of the region. COVA is also engaged with multilateral bodies like the United Nations Organisation, G20, BRICS, OIC and others for structural transformations of the world order to make society  more equitable, sustainable, just and peaceful.

[COVA Network]

Ashish Bhai, 

thanks for the mail and for the concerns raised by you. some other friends have also raised similar issues. Will respond to you shortly- by 22nd Sept- as caught up in two major programs on 21st. It will be good to have a discussion. 

Will certainly share your mail also.

Regards

Mazher 

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COVA (Confederation of Voluntary Associations), is a national network of voluntary organisations working for communal harmony and community empowerment in India and peace in South Asia and South East Asia through formation of COFI (Countering Online Fanatic Indoctrination) Networks in 12 countries of the region. COVA is also engaged with multilateral bodies like the United Nations Organisation, G20, BRICS, OIC and others for structural transformations of the world order to make society  more equitable, sustainable, just and peaceful.

Address: COVA,# 18-13-8/A/508/B, Bandlaguda, Chandrayangutta, Hyderabad- 500 005 Telangana, INDIA. Phone: +91 40 24442984, Fax: +91 40 24444527

E-mail: covan...@gmail.com;  URL: www.covanetwork.org

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On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Ashish Kothari <chikik...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has this so-called Rally for Rivers said anything about the ongoing murder of Narmada River, with the shameful spectacle of a country's Prime Minister dedicating a dam to the nation while just upstream of his heavily fortified event there are thousands of people protesting the submergence of their lands and houses? It is sad that civil society is also falling for such approaches. A 1-km tree cover on river banks may be useful, but it will do nothing to solve the root problems of our rivers, which is how they are treated in a 'development' approach that justifies industries, dams, mining, dredging, and the biggest disaster of them all, river-linking. I hope the Sadguru has said something against all this ... if not, this Rally for Rivers is just a tamasha. Sorry for the strong words, but it is heartbreaking to see things like this happening while the country's decision-makers systematically destroy rivers like Narmada, or many in north-east and Uttarakhand/HP by major hydro projects. 

If the Rally has indeed raised these issues, and challenged the govt to change its treatment of rivers including their blockage by dams, I would very much like to know, and am happy to apologise for the above mail. 

I am not on most of the e-groups that your mail has gone on, so if you would be kind enough to send it (or not, its up to you!). I am adding a couple of networks I'm on. 

ashish 

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