As the Yamuna Crisis worsens in National Capital, Oneindia’s Pankaj Mishra Talks To Youth cleaning the river front amid the exacerbating crisis. Pollution in the river, common during festivals, contains high levels of ammonia and phosphates, posing risks like respiratory and skin issues. Experts warn the river's natural cleansing ability is inadequate to combat the pollution.
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00:00Not any ordinary morning here at the banks of River Yamuna at the cusp of Delhi and Uttar
00:13Pradesh. These youngsters from several colleges have come with their clogging sticks and picking
00:21up the trashes that are here. What is there in the background cannot be cleaned by these
00:27youngsters. That's one thing that is understandable but their sheer grit and determination speaks
00:32volumes. Without much ado, let's speak to them. Your name and where do you come from?
00:36I'm Disha. I'm from Rajasthan. Currently, I'm a third year student in Delhi University.
00:41What brings you here, Disha?
00:43My zeal to actually show up for a good cause because I think we youth as you know present
00:50generation Gen Zs are blamed of a lot of things but apart from that I think we are a lot aware
00:57about many of the things and we are very emotional on that aspect and I think we should come up,
01:01we should show up so that we can be vocal about the same and environmental cause is a big thing
01:06we should all stand up for and this is a start from us.
01:11All right. There is no to be a message loud and clear. Ma'am,
01:14your name and what brings you here, how big a problem we are looking at right now?
01:18Hello, my name is Bhavna and I believe I'm a citizen of this country. It's my environmental
01:24duty to care for the environment. Moreover, I believe in number, I believe in power of youth
01:30and they coming together to take action and work in the field of advocacy to make the government
01:35hear our voices that our future is at stake, that this is not normal, that this is not the air that
01:40I want to breathe or the water that I want to even touch my skin on. So this is something that I want
01:47to and the number coming together and demanding something from the government is what I'm here for.
01:53Right, another candidate here flanking New York on her t-shirt, a city which is also based on one
01:59of the riverbanks. So you talk about Paris, you talk about London, you talk about New York and
02:04Manhattan, all of them based on the riverbanks. How happy you are to stand right next to Yamuna?
02:10Absolutely not at all happy. So I'm Rachel and I'm from Jammu and coming from a place that's
02:16filled with like you know mountains and greenery. I have been very active digitally and on various
02:21platforms about climate and sustainability but I think that getting a first-hand experience of how
02:26real and worse the situation is, it just makes you feel like you need to be very very proactive
02:31and it's not necessary that you have to come every day for the cleanest drives but in our own
02:36daily life as well we can make sustainable choices starting from this New York t-shirt
02:40and replacing it with a much better alternative and not a fast fashion kind of thing, yeah.
02:45Absolutely, I love New Delhi, maybe I love Yamuna should be the next one. No earth, no plan B for
02:51earth, that's also there. Yes, there is no earth B. Please go ahead, tell us what brings you here?
02:57So this is our form of protest by cleaning bank of river. We have been doing cleanup here since
03:042019. Back in 2019 when I had come here for the first time, it was looking like same
03:11and in corona time when everything locked up.
03:30This is our form of protest by cleaning up Yamuna bank.
03:33A man in a green t-shirt and sweating profusely,
03:37this shows his hard work. He is quite young, what is your name and what is your age?
03:41Hi, I am Lakshit, I am 22. I am currently studying Masters in Environment and Development
03:46from American University Delhi and I thought why not do, why not what we are studying in theory
03:53to do it actually in practicality in reality, so I am here for that.
03:57Keep it up man, keep it up, you inspire us, you inspire us. Your name gentlemen?
04:01My name is Hanif and I do volunteering, there is no earth B.
04:09How do you feel after coming here, do you feel it is too late?
04:13Yes, sometimes I feel it is too late because when I see so much pollution and all these things,
04:20then I really feel bad that government should do something about this.
04:24Only the weirdo knows where the shoe pinches and there are so many idioms,
04:28there are so many phrases telling us the way of lives but this is what we have come to.
04:34A frothy river Yamuna making its way, criss-crossing the parts of Delhi.
04:39At the back here, you would see the doors trying to protect, maybe trying to stop the flow of water.
04:46Unfortunately, what is passing by, what is crossing is killing the people living on the
04:51banks and also making their way to your living rooms through the vegetables, to your kitchen,
04:56your food items and the water level, the groundwater level which is also getting contaminated.
05:02From here, you would see there is a green belt this side which goes towards the Indian
05:07side and this side is the Indian side and this side is the Indian side.
05:11From here, you would see there is a green belt this side which goes towards the interior parts
05:16of Delhi but are these the green shoots that we are looking at? Indeed, these youngsters
05:22are the ones who will make ensure and media per se must take responsibility.
05:27And what India promises, do not just stop here during this chat festival when all the media
05:32glare has come here, we promise you a series on how to ensure that we hand over this
05:40particular legacy, the natural resources legacy to the coming generation and we keep them safe.
05:46Thanks for watching.
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