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People from antithetic walks of life, including women and children, from crossed the National Capital Region gathered adjacent Suncity Society Sector 54 successful Gurugram connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) arsenic portion of an consciousness run connected the Aravalli issue, demanding that the full upland range, dispersed crossed 4 States, beryllium declared arsenic UNESCO Protected Biosphere Reserve.
Holding the gathering nether the banner of “Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement”, a registered spot moving to dispersed consciousness connected the Aravallis, the participants enacted the contention implicit the explanation and extortion of the Aravalis involving a wide scope of radical and institutions with a fewer of the volunteers acting arsenic authorities and courts giving their reasoning and the other, arsenic citizens, giving the rebuttals.
A radical of children from marginalised inheritance besides did a poesy recitation.
“We citizens are alert that these developments emanating from Supreme Court judgements and Ministry notifications volition surely person terrible biology ramifications, truthful present we inquire for broad restoration of each 76,000 sq km of Aravalis, alternatively of definitions and sustainable mining plan,” said Shivani Yaduvanshi, improvement communications practitioner and a unpaid with the trust.
Dr. Kumpal, an educator, expressed her dismay done her poem connected Aravallis, and added: “I privation to explicit respect for those who are participating successful the Aravali Bachao run and they are the torch-bearers of anticipation for us.”
Dr Parul Sharma, different participant, explained to the gathering: “we are surely headed towards a wellness situation with AQIs successful NCR going to 900. How are we seeing a aboriginal for citizens, who are suffering the consequences of surviving successful precocious levels of pollution.”
“Recognising the powerfulness of community-based enactment is truthful important!” contributed Akshay Khurana, who works connected Zero-waste activities. “The Aravalis indispensable beryllium declared arsenic a UNESCO Protected Biosphere Reserve.”
One of the founding members of the trust, Anuradha P. Dhawan, said the enactment of the youngsters had accrued connected the societal media level of the “Aravalli Bachao Citizens’ Movement’’ since the contention implicit the upland scope had erupted successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court order. This, she said, showed that the contiguous procreation was acrophobic astir the situation and was a “welcome sign”.
Ms. Dhawan said the gathering contiguous was a benignant of an explainer with truthful overmuch disorder implicit the issue. We tried to dispel the disorder by explaining it successful a speech code with the volunteers enacting the full developments implicit the past fewer weeks, she said.
The participants besides demanded that each operation and mining activities and coal-fired powerfulness plants not adhering to planetary cleanable emissions standards beryllium unopen till the AQI successful the NCR came down to 50.
The gathering besides sought prohibition connected the Waste-to-Energy plants, making each municipality nationalist transport facilities escaped to trim the usage of backstage vehicles, and respective fold summation successful taxation connected backstage transport to offset the fund needed for immense enhancement of nationalist transport facilities crossed India’s municipality sector.
