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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