A service to cows: Sadhus to clean plastic waste in Junagadh
A service to cows: Sadhus to clean plastic waste in Junagadh
By Japan K Pathak
Junagadh/Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 13 August, 2009
The increasing incidence of digestive problems in cows due to consumption of plastic waste has given the Hindu sadhus a cause for concern in Saurashtra’s Junagadh town.
A group of Hindu sadhus including Vaishnavacharya Kishorcandraji, Gorakh Ashram Mahant Shernath Bapu, Tansukhgiri Bapu, Shastriji Bapu, Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Jitubhai Hirpara, Suresh Bajaniya, Kumarbhai Rawal among others on Wednesday announced here to start a drive of removing the plastic waste from the streets in Junagadh. Sadhus have planned to pick up the plastic waste once in a month to prevent holy cows consuming plastic waste and to create awareness among the people.
During their unique ‘plastic cleaning walk’, Sadhus will advice people to despose plastic waste only in garbage containers. Sadhus will also tell cattle owners to treat the cows properly.
According to experts, plastic is the main culprit in about 15 per cent of the 16,000 animals treated every year for digestive problems.
Talking to DeshGujarat Shri Jitubhai Hirpara said: “people use plastic bags to carry vegetables. Besides, vegetables coming to market are often packed in polythene sacks which are thrown away and subsequently eaten by cows suffering from pica, an abnormal craving for substance not fit to eat. The cattle being not selective in eating, plastic gets ingested easily.The hapless animals suffer anorexia (lack of appetite) after some quantity of plastic is stuck in the stomach.”
August 13th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
IF THESE 50 LAKHS SADHUS AND SO CALLED SANYASIS BECOME ACTIVE AND DO SOME SERVICE TO SOCIETY , THIS NATION WILL BECOME HEAVEN.
MANY ARE BURDEN TO SOCIETY. DO NOTHING AND LIVE AT MERCY OF SOCIETY.
GO TO HARIDWAR, HRISHIKESH, AND MANY PLACES, THEY ARE BURDEN TO SOCIETY….
JAI SHREE KRISHNA…..
August 13th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Agree with you. They don’t harass anyone most of the time, but they don’t contribute in driving the nation forward either. While some of them may be saints in real meaning, most of them are just living at the mercy of society.
I apologize if I am offending someone but I absolutely hate it when some of the so called Sadhus come at your doorstep to ask for money even if they are young, healthy and do any work effectively. If you give them 2 Rs, they will ask for 5 Rs and say what can you do with 2 Rs these days? If you don’t give them anything, some of them curse you.
Better at least they are doing something. I agree with you Kent. If you go to Haridwar, Kashi, Mathura, Hrishikesh and many other places in India, they are just smoking Ganja or Charas in their Chillam and ask for money.
August 13th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I think we all should take some responsibility here, if not in terms of cleaning, at least minimizing plastic wastes. If we shout at top of our voices against “Gau Hatya” (Beef consumption), but don’t show any concern on this issue, we are nothing but hypocrites.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:26 am
This is the result of following west without thinking. We had glass milk bottles and we used cloth shopping bags years ago. We were eco friendly to begin with,but by following west blindly we created plastic flowing on streets for poor cows. We should go back to those practises and plastic should be recycled just like papers.If everybody starts picking up and noone throws it will get clean sooner. India was far advanced,just foreigners did not have enough brains to understand and made look bad and indians without thinking started copying and creating mountains of waste. west=waste and east= ista dev.