Essay On Environmental Awareness Campaign

The increase in pollution leading to environment degradation calls for an awareness as a tool for protecting of the environment. The Public environment awareness campaign programme aims at creating awareness amongst general public and different segments of the society for minimizing and controlling pollution. These campaigns are taken mostly by individuals, environmentalist, Social Organizations and government. Some of the campaigns activities taken include:

• • Anti Plastic Bag and Anti-Littering campaign

• Clean Yamuna campaign

• Prohibiting the use of crackers campaign

• Leaf burning campaign

• Billion Tree campaign – Planting one billion tree

• Youth Environment Awareness Campaign

• I want to be recycled campaign

Anti Plastic Bag and Anti-littering Campaign

Use of plastic bags has become a big menace largely due to its non-biodegradable nature. Many of the Plastic bags are not properly disposed of and they end up clogging sewers, gutters and waterways. These bags also

This campaign was participated by cadets from National Cadet Corps, several resident welfare associations, voluntary organisations and students.

Hundreds of students holding placards and banners gathered at the Jamia Milia Islamia University’s Ansari Auditorium and raised slogans in favour of ‘Yamuna River Cleaning’. The main motive of this campaign was to increase the participation of people in this 'Clean Yamuna River Campaign ' because if all of us join hands, then we will decrease the pollution level to a great extent by creating awareness and spreading to the masses about the ill effects of this pollution to our lives and environment.

Also under the Yamuna Action Plan II, the small drains were cleaned and covered and the $2.5 billion was allotted to Municipal Corporation for looking after big drains and setting up water treatment plants. The water treatment plants are very much in need because less than half of 3.6 billion litre sewage which Delhi alone produces is effectively