Although it is recognised that a green and clean environment is indispensable for sustaining and nurturing all forms of life, including human beings, so far, the onus to ensure it has been essentially on state and stage agencies and laws made by various organs of the state, which is not the solution. There is therefore an imperative need for responsible citizens to take the initiative to promote a clean environment through various measures such as creating awareness about preservation, promotion and sustaining it to convert into a peoples’ movement.
Recognising this need and to do our bit instead of expecting others to, we have decided to form an association called Green Pune Movement
The
objects of the association are:
a) To create awareness among various sections of the people of Pune, especially among school children and students in various educational institutions about green and clean environment in Pune to begin with and to extend to other cities/towns and neighbourhoods gradually as the organisation grows.
b) To work with various state agencies to ensure that appropriate policy frame work is adopted and persuade them to enforce such policies/ laws, rules wherever exist through citizens’ participation.
c) To take recourse to legal, administrative and judicial remedies to enforce laws dealing with environment protection, policies relating waste generation and disposal and place all such policies/actions in public domain.