On May 19, 2013 (Sunday), MAD headed towards Tamsa Stream passing by Tapkeshwar Temple (Ancient Holy Place in Doon). Their cleanup drive was also covered by media and accompanied by local residents,
Famous news Paper "The Tribune" appreciated their deed...
Making a Difference (MAD), an association of 800 youngsters in Dehradun, has taken up the cleaning of dwindling streams which have been choked due to excessive pollution and gross neglect by people as well as the government.
Many of the
erstwhile perennial streams are now beyond any scope of revival. It is certain
that the streams flowing below the Bindal bridge and below the Rispina bridge
are dead with all their biodiversity.
From east
canal to west canal, Dehradun has no canals. MAD has now resolved that it would
not allow those few streams to meet the same fate. Last year in May, they had
zeroed in on the Tamsa stream which comes from the Bijapur dam to Dakra and is
filled with the filth on the Tapkeshwar temple premises. It is the only stream
which is the source of water supply for the town. Concerned over this, MAD
volunteers held a mega clean-up drive and an awareness campaign on the premises
of the Tapkeshwar temple on May 13 last and collected over 15 quintals of assorted
garbage.
On hearing
that people continue to pollute the stream, a team of 40 MAD volunteers were
back in action yet again today. These included students from Summer Valley
School, Brightlands, Doon University, the Dehradun Institute of Technology and
Graphic Era University.
The Mahant of
the Tapkeshwar temple extended full cooperation and support for this drive and
provided them with some spades and also organised tea for young volunteers.
Wearing
gloves, gumboots and masks, the youngsters started their work to clean the
dried-up stream full of polythene and other pollutants.
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