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As of today, June 18th, Dr. Agarwal is on the fifth day of his fast unto death. Please show your support for him by writing a letter asking the dam projects to be stopped. See our Get Involved page for contacts.
posted by Indian Council for Enviro-Legal Action @ 6/17/2008

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Pardeep K. Gupta on 6/15/2008
To, Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil Hon'ble President of India Sh. Man Mohan Singh Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Sh. K. G. Balakrishnan Hon'ble Chief Justice of India Sub: RELIVE THE ANCIENT CONCEPT OF REVERING GANGA Ref: Ganga Water is not even fit for irrigation punish the culprits immediately Madam and Sirs, The applicant wants to show his concern on behalf of "WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA", as follows on the above subject matter. The belief in our ancestors and the older people who are above 70 years that before going to the Abode of Almighty if few Drops of Ganga Jal are poured in their throat, they will be relieved from any bad work which they have intentionally or unintentionally committed during their life period. This concept is fast evading from the conscious thought of believer in mythologies, spiritualism, humanitarians and scientists not because of they are denying the power of Mother Nature in the form of GANGA but because of few of the scientists, environmentalist, decision maker, advocates, authorities, politicians, municipalities, contractors, and journalists who fought individually or sometimes in groups to save the Belief. Because their legal fight, administrative fight, scientific fight or fight against polluting industries, fight against the municipalities which drain their untreated effluents in Ganga, fight to gain supremacy of being declared Hindus, fight to declare themselves as real protectors of Ganga has gone in vain. We the people of INDIA has shown our in competency in work, our in competency to raise the matter legally, our incompetency to disapprove the scientific engineered manipulated data and reports, our incompetency to oppose the environmentalists who for paltry gains raised the ambiguous data and our incompetency to expose our failure which has been told by the committee of Parliament and CAG. Legally speaking we the people of India has lost the battle in the Highest Courts. I do not suppose that "Citizen of India" in the Judges is not worried. I do not agree that the Ministers in Charge who took decisions on Hydroelectric Power Projects for generation of Energy (Electricity) from the Power and Energy of Ganga have forget the Life line of crores of People from Gangotri to Bengal. All those who took such policy, administrative, judicial and political decision will not allow their dependents to pour few drops of Ganga Jal in their mouth at the time of going from this materialistic world. The above stated does not mean that we have lost the battle, which we are fighting among ourselves. We all in unison have to regain our faith, to revive our commitment to the cause and its effects, to forget the irregularities, which we committed and have to think afresh on the subject matter as a divine duty. We the People of India irrespective of the posts we hold should have to work being effected by our own mistakes. At least we have to shun the attitude of affront towards each other for our own mistakes. The people of India who are policy makers have to rethink and recalculate the utmost urgency of additional requirement of Power (Electricity) and the source by which it can be attained. The people of India who have initiated the new projects on the Ganga have to stop the work immediately forgetting about the Public money incurred on the incomplete work and start taking measures to recover the public money which has been siphoned off by the corrupt contractors and officers.(CVC and CBI should be entrusted the work in time bound frame.) The Industries which are not complying the directions of the courts or not taking measures for controlling the pollution in their effluent should be closed immediately by the ESS of CPCB and MoEF invoking section 5 of the EP Act, and the officers responsible should be proceeded against as per section 15 of the EP Act in time bound programme. The Administrators of the Municipalities or District Magistrates of the areas in whose areas untreated effluent is being discharged should be dissolved and the officers suspended for delinquency in Duty and proceeded against as per section 15 of the EP Act. All efforts should be made to save Energy(Electricity) in Government Offices, Public Undertakings, Public Offices, Courts and Municipalities by installing CFL's immediately. All efforts should be made to finalize the atomic energy deal with USA in public interest resolving all the issues and evading political overtones. NOTE: IF WE FAIL THAN ONE FINE DAY OUR GENERATION TO COME FILE IN HON'BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FOR DECLARING US AS CRIMINALS AND THE HON'BLE COURT WILL DIRECT THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER GANGA AS ANCIENT MONUMENT. LETS BEGIN THE FIGHT IN RIGHT EARNEST Having hope in our belief and Democracy! Sincerely yours, Pardeep K. Gupta President "OUTBURST" An Organization to Establish Rule of Law in Public Administration 205, Vibrant Resorts, Village Kolhupani, Aamwala Marg, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 16th May, 2008 Copy is being circulated to all concerned.

Dr. Vyomesh Chitravansh on 6/17/2008
We the HAMARI VARUNA abhiyan Varanasi are organising meetings and rising voice at holy city Varanasi. Maa Ganga must be free. we athe Banarasies are with you on every steps of this holy mission. our co-convener Surya Bhan is also there in Utterkashi with Prof Agrawal. He has full authority to any promise behalf on us for the mission.

Nutan Thakur on 6/23/2008
India used to be a land of Rishis and sages. We are the proud inheritors of the culture initiated and propagated by such legendary persons as Vishwamitra, Vashista, Narad, Yajnavalka, Agastya, Bhrigu, Durvasa, Garg, Jamini, Dadhichi, Kapil, Valmiki and Vyas. If we had Vishwamitra who could control his senses to an extent that only Menaka, the ultimate beauty, could affect her, we also had Vashista who dedicated his life to the society producing such brilliant and rare students like Rama, Laksman, Bharat and Shatrughna. If there was Valmiki who started his life as a dacoit and later got himself transformed into the immortal poet of one of the world’s oldest and best known epics, the Ramayana, we also have Narad, one of the most knowledgeable saints who was respected by one and all but also had the habit of putting in such words here and there that could prove explosive for the persons concerned. While Agastya Muni had the ability to drink the entire ocean when challenged, Vyas was a man who could write such contrasting notes as the wars at Kurukshetra and the Srimad Bhagwat Gita at the same time. Durvasa, a saint quite well known for his touchiness and sudden bursts of anger accompanied by such curses which not even the King of the Gods had the power to overcome was also one who, when pleased gave Kunti the boon which enabled her to have six unparalled sons each one of whom was second to none in valour and wisdom. Then there was Dadhichi, the son of Atharvan, a saint who did not hesitate for a second when the situation so demanded and the Gods came to him begging for their survival as against Vrita, who had become the leader of the demons. And why only the saints and the Rishis. Our land also has been witness to Bhagirath, a King of Kosala and the descendant of the Suryavanshi king Sagara. While due to some curse of the sage Kapila, sixty thousands of Sagara’s sons had turned into ashes and the empire was turning into a ruin, it was Bhagirath who took the vow to bring Ganga from the heaven as required for the penance of his ancestors to get fulfilled. Bhagirath went to the Himalayas and stayed there for years praying to the God almighty day and night. Such deep and committed was he to his vow that ultimately even the Gods had to relent before him. First came Brahma and then Lord Shiva and they were left with no option than to fulfill his demand of sending the river Ganga on the earth. After so many years we have again come to a stage when the river Ganga is receding back. Due to the sins of the successive generations of mankind as regards themselves and as regards the nature and the environment ,the massive river is slowly turning into a pale shadow of what it used to be. The day is not very far away when we might be left only with the river bed where the river once used to be. So great is our greed and avarice that we seem to be totally ignoring the ill-effects of such a result. Blinded by our selfish intentions and personal motives, we seem to be thinking only in terms of materialistic comforts and monetary well-being. If we could have our way, we would even sell the entire river to people on per square feet basis to dry it and to form buildings on these dried plots. The effects of such harmful, nonstop and ruinous actions have started being visible. The global climate change, ozone depletion, global warming, raising of water level, rapidly dwindling forests and the death of many kinds of flora and fauna are just a few samples of what we are to see in the successive years. But, even these are being able to open the eyes of the rich and the powerful who regard the nature and its resources as the products to be milked to the hilt in a use and throw manner. It is because of this that we need a Bhagirath once again. We need a person who does not think in terms of money and land and personal comforts and cars and bank balance. We need some one who is equally adept in bookish as well as practical knowledge base. We need a man who has the heart of a saint and the brain of a scientist. We need a man who can avail of all the riches of the world and has had enough opportunities to do so, yet had the courage and conviction to leave it all to lead a simple and Spartan life in the most dedicated fashion because he thinks that India is a poor country where it is his duty to live as any other poor Indian. How many such Indians we have around us today? How many of the engineering graduates of those days when the engineers were rare in number and were treated like kings do we have amongst us who studied at the best institutes in India and abroad at a time when most of the Indian could not even think of going to America? How many of them have the ability and firmness to go to a small place to live in and dedicate his life to the cause of tutoring the younger generation particularly when one is universally regarded as an expert of world fame in a highly complex technological field of very high demand? It is these things that make Sri G D Agrawal so unique and venerated. It is these characteristics which add to his aura and give him a rare cadence. It is this which makes him different from so many ordinary mortals around us. And when a man of such background and such features decides to put forth his live for a cause which he regards as worth it and goes all out for it, he is bound to create ripples. India can not ignore such a person nor can it overlook his act and its concerned ramifications. What Sri Agrawal has done has only raised his stature in the eyes of every citizen of India. His efforts have already started showing results. But like Bhagirath, Sri Agrawal does not believe in settling for half-measures. He is a man of different mettle. But, we all know that he will be successful in his cause. No government can ignore him nor can anyone risk any damage to a great soul like him. We are all praying for his well-being and are also completely hopeful of his success in the endeavour so dear to him and so much the need of the hour. Dr. Nutan Thakur, Editor, Nutan Satta Pravah, Lucknow #94155-34525

CG Krishnamurthi on 6/26/2008
Pranams to one and all... Long live Prof. Agarwal. As per an estimate, Government of India can save a lot of electricity by improving the transmission /distribution by upgrading the current sub-standard cables, substations and transformers. And encourage people and companies to conserve electricity. Spoiling the environment, livelihood of common people depending on this great river and Sanctity of the Mother Ganga will only create more problems. I'm surprised even with eminent personalities such as Justice Sri. Bhagwati, Environmentalist Sri. Sundar Lal Bahuguna, Sri. Rajendra Singh and Sr. Lawyer Sr. M.C Metha being involved in this movement along with Prof. Agarwal the Government is not heading... I request the Government to do the right thing... Jai Hind

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