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our responsibility towards water
conservation. It is possible that
there may be plenty of water
available at your present place.
But, you also have to always
remember crores of those people
who are residing in water scarce
areas, for whom every drop of Amrit Sarovar : Patwai, Rampur
water is like elixir.
going on at many places. I have
th
Friends, in the 75 year of come to know about Patwai
independence during the Azadi Gram Panchayat of Rampur,
Ka Amrit Mahotsav, water Uttar Pradesh. There was a pond
conservation is also one of the on the land of the Gram Sabha,
resolves with which the country but it was filled with filth and
is moving forward. 75 Amrit heaps of garbage. In the last few
Sarovars will be built in every weeks, with a lot of hard work
district of the country during of locals and school children,
the Amrit Mahotsav. You can the lake has been rejuvenated.
imagine how big this campaign Retaining wall, boundary wall,
is. The day is not far when there food court, fountains and lighting
will be 75 Amrit Sarovars in have now been set up on the
your city. I urge you all, and lakeside. I congratulate the Gram
especially the youth, to know Panchayat of Patwai in Rampur,
about this campaign and also the people and children of the
take up its responsibility. If your village, for this effort.
region is historically connected
Friends, the availability and
to the freedom struggle, or has
scarcity of water determine
memory of a freedom fighter, it the progress of any nation. You
can also be connected to Amrit must have also noticed that in
Sarovar. I am glad to know that ‘Mann Ki Baat’, I often discuss
after taking the resolve of Amrit about water conservation, along
Sarovar, work has been rapidly with other topics like cleanliness.
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