World Environment Day: ‘Let’s Take A Pledge Towards Protecting Our Planet,’ Ministers Urge Twitterati

New Delhi: This year, the World Environment Day is being celebrated with ‘Only One Earth’ as the theme, focussing on ‘Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature.’ With this theme, the United Nations Environment Programme calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet. Keeping in line with the theme, several ministers took to Twitter to promote the message of living sustainably, and help protect and restore the planet.

President Ramnath Kovind urged Indians to do their part to make the planet cleaner and healthier, he tweeted,

On World Environment Day, let us reaffirm our commitment to protecting our planet for future generations by promoting sustainable development and responding to challenges of climate change. I urge all fellow citizens to do their part to make the planet cleaner and healthier.

Nitin Gadkari, the Minister for Road Transport & Highways says that sustainable lifestyle can help protect Mother Earth and Humanity,

There is #OnlyOneEarth for humanity to exist. With only sustainable lifestyle, we can protect our Mother Earth and Humanity. This special day, let’s take a pledge towards protecting our planet.

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Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya encoruaged his followers to ensure a better planet for future generations.

On World Environment Day, let us pledge to dedicate ourselves to the protection of Mother Nature. Let us collectively do whatever possible to ensure that we leave an even better planet for the coming generations.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister tweeted the following,

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Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal talked about how simple practices can make big difference,

On the occasion of World Environment Day, let us all pledge to take at least one small step to protect our environment. Follow simple practices- no to single use plastic, conserve water, plant trees & choose public transport. There is only one Earth and we must protect it.

NDTV – Dettol have been working towards a clean and healthy India since 2014 via the Banega Swachh India initiative, which is helmed by Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan. The campaign aims to highlight the inter-dependency of humans and the environment, and of humans on one another with the focus on One Health, One Planet, One Future – Leaving No One Behind. It stresses on the need to take care of, and consider, everyone’s health in India – especially vulnerable communities – the LGBTQ population, indigenous people, India’s different tribes, ethnic and linguistic minorities, people with disabilities, migrants, geographically remote populations, gender and sexual minorities. In wake of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the need for WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) is reaffirmed as handwashing is one of the ways to prevent Coronavirus infection and other diseases. The campaign will continue to raise awareness on the same along with focussing on the importance of nutrition and healthcare for women and children, fight malnutrition, mental wellbeing, self care, science and health, adolescent health & gender awareness. Along with the health of people, the campaign has realised the need to also take care of the health of the eco-system. Our environment is fragile due to human activity, which is not only over-exploiting available resources, but also generating immense pollution as a result of using and extracting those resources. The imbalance has also led to immense biodiversity loss that has caused one of the biggest threats to human survival – climate change. It has now been described as a “code red for humanity.” The campaign will continue to cover issues like air pollution, waste management, plastic ban, manual scavenging and sanitation workers and menstrual hygiene. Banega Swasth India will also be taking forward the dream of Swasth Bharat, the campaign feels that only a Swachh or clean India where toilets are used and open defecation free (ODF) status achieved as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, can eradicate diseases like diahorrea and the country can become a Swasth or healthy India.