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Widespread  campaigns  are  already  on  for  an  eco-friendly  Ganesh Chaturthi festival but still a large section of the society are unaware of the pollution and environmental damage caused by Plaster of Paris idols and chemical  paints.  Some  large  Ganesha  Pandal  committees,  to  attract  maximum crowd conveniently forget the environmental impact caused by  the idols. 

The main pollution is caused by the Plaster of Paris Ganesh idols and the chemical paints used in them. 

• Plaster  of  Paris  (POP)  is  not  a  naturally  occurring  material  and contains  gypsum, sulphur,          
   hosphorus  and magnesium. The idols  take several months to dissolve in water and in the process poison 
   the waters of lake, ponds, rives and seas. 
• The  chemical  paints  used  to decorate  the  Ganesh  idol  contain  mercury, lead, cadmium and carbon   
   and this increases the acidity and heavy  metal  content  in  the  water. 
• Several  accessories  used during the Ganesh  Puja  like  Thermocole,  plastic  flowers,  cloth,  incense,    
   camphor  and  numerous  other  materials  are  dumped  carelessly  adding  more  strain  to  the already 
   polluted  rivers  and  lakes.
• The  polluted  water  causes  several  diseases  including skin diseases.  
• The  pollution  from  Ganesh  Chaturthi  idols  also  damages  the  ecosystem,  kills  fishes  and water lants. 
• In many areas, the same polluted water gets pumped into homes.

Alternate :

• Use eco-friendly clay idols painted with natural colors.
• Use  permanent  idols  made  of  stone  and perform  a  symbolic immersion and reuse the idol each year.
• Avoid public water bodies to immerse the idols, instead immerse  idol in bucket or tub. Careless  dumping   
  of  Ganesh  idols  in  water  bodies blocks  the  natural flow  of  water.  This results  in stagnation  and   
  breeding  of  mosquitoes  and other harmful pests.


MUMBAI: About 300 children who are part of Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA) cleaned up the Girgaum Chowpatty beach on Thursday morning - the day after Gauri Visarjan.
The shoreline was filthy in the morning, with flowers, idols, decoration material, broken glass, etc. 
Children got down to work in right earnest, armed with gloves and aprons and did a commendable job of cleaning the beach. 
Please see the album which has pictures of the beach before the cleanup, during cleanup and after!

Female Feticide (or foeticide) is the act of aborting a fetus because it is female. This is a major social problem several countries, including India. Foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by medical professionals has today grown into a Rs. 1,000 crore industry (US$ 244 million). Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted . According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in the 0-6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981.


Lakhanpal, a small village in Punjab has turned the tide, with 1,400 girls for every 1000 boys


Increasing awareness of the problem has led to multiple campaigns by celebrities and journalists to combat sex-selective abortions.


we need to save child girl please all of you follow this article and show your contributions.

Gutka is not "Unche Log Unchi Pasand" But it is "Neche log nechi pasand !"


As many as 5000 people in the country are admitted to hospitals everyday due to tobacco related diseases, 274 die daily and above 100,000 die every year due to smoking. The worldwide deaths caused by the use of tobacco are above 5 million every year.


 



The event was attended by a large number people including a group of students from Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi.  Dr. Mati said that half of the Pakistani men are regular smokers and about 55 percent families in Pakistan have at least one person who smokes. He said that sheesha was equally injurious to health. He said that major part of household income is being spent on smoking instead of health and education. Thus smoking is badly impacting our economy as well. He was of the view that smoking causes an estimated 90 percent of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80 per cent of all lung cancer deaths in women. An estimated 90 percent of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.
Dr. Saeedullah Shah said when a cigarrete company anywhere in the world earns $5000, one smoker dies. “I would say they kill a smoker every time they earn $5000,” he stated. He said it was alarming that above 70 percent people with cardiovascular diseases are smokers. Smoking causes failure to taste food; it shrinks arteries and causes various cardiac diseases. He said smoking is major cause of heart attack. “Heart attack death rate is 70 percent greater in male smokers than non-smokers”, he added. 
Dr. Kamran Rasheed said various cancers including acute myeloid leukemia, bladder cancer, cancer of the cervix, cancer of the esophagus, kidney cancer, cancer of the larynx (voice box), lung cancer, cancer of the oral cavity (mouth), cancer of the pharynx (throat), stomach cancer and cancer of the uterus are caused by direct smoking, secondhand smoking, chewing tobacco and using pan, gutka or sheesha. “Smokers face an increased risk of certain types of throat and stomach cancers, even years after they quit,” he remarked.
Meanwhile, Shaukat Khanum Cancer Memorial Hospital and Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Islamabad Campus have jointly launched a campaign aimed at curtailing the consumption of tobacco through awareness raising in order to save masses, especially the young generation from its hazardous affects.
In this connection, experts from Shaukat Khanum Cancer Memorial Hospital and management as well as students of SZABIST will hold a chain of activities including seminars, walks and fairs to disseminate the anti-tobacco messages through all possible means. Students will distribute pamphlets at different places such hotels, parks, educational institutions, and shopping malls so that more and more people made aware of the horrifying result of tobacco consumption.
The campaign was launched to mark the “World No Tobacco Day” here at SZABIST where medical experts from Shaukat Khanum urged the media not to advertise or glorify use of tobacco products from its platform so that the increasing trend of its consumption could be discouraged.
Speaking of the occasion of the campaign’s launching Muhammad Zohair Sahoo, a medical expert from Shaukat Khanum, said that 80 percent of the total smokers worldwide belong to the less income generating countries including Pakistan.
He also said that there are 250 types of dangerous chemicals in the smoke of tobacco, which cause serious health disorders not only to the smokers but also to other around them.