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Padma Shri awardee and water conservationist Uma Shankar Pandey exposes the man-made crisis behind Banda’s record 48.2°C heatwave. In this exclusive interview, he reveals how rampant illegal sand mining in Ken River, mountain blasting, tree felling for Bundelkhand Expressway, and concrete explosion destroyed natural cooling systems in Bundelkhand.

Learn the shocking environmental impact, water crisis, mafia involvement, and urgent solutions for saving rivers, groundwater, and lives. A must-watch for climate, environment, and India sustainability discussions.

In this video:
00:00 - Intro
01:08 – Banda 48.2°C: Sand Mafia Killing The Heat Shield?
05:35 – 10,000 Trucks Removing Sand Daily!
08:00 - JCBs & Excavators Digging 300+ Feet Deep
09:50 - No Trees To Cool Air
12:00 - UP-MP Border Mafia Nexus
15:20 - Future: Complete Water Disappearance

#BandaHeatwave #SandMining #KenRiver #UmaShankarPandey #IllegalMining #Bundelkhand #WaterConservation #ClimateChangeIndia #ManMadeDisaster #EnvironmentalCrisis #PadmaShri #SaveRivers #TreeConservation #HeatIsland #UttarPradesh #India

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00:01How has such a big environmental crisis happened in Bebhanda?
00:06There was a license of 1,000,000 pounds.
00:11I don't know how many people were cut.
00:13Who is the one who asked?
00:16They say that there is a 22 truck with a truck.
00:22There is 45 tons.
00:24If you go down below, you won't get there.
00:28How can the law be done?
00:31What is happening in the law?
00:35You can't write a letter, you can't speak a business, you can't listen to the government.
00:41Who will say it?
00:43Who will say it?
00:44You will say it.
00:47You will do it.
00:48You will make a better job.
00:48You will make a better job.
00:53But first of all, you can see that the living living will save or not.
00:58He speaks, speaks, gives water.
01:00He gives water.
01:01He said, he said, where did he go?
01:03Where did he go?
01:11You think Bhanda's heat wave is just because of the climate change and the desert winds?
01:18Well, we all thought so too.
01:19But the real culprit here is deeper and manmade.
01:22Bhanda in UP recorded 48.2 degrees Celsius last week, making it the hottest spots in the world recently, turning
01:31it into a manmade heat island.
01:33Now, the low green cover, rocky terrain and rampant sand mining has completely destroyed its cooling factors.
01:42And to give us more details on it, we have with us today, Padmashtri Awardee, Activist Umar Shankar Pandey Ji.
01:52Thank you so much Umar Shankar Ji for joining us today.
01:55Thank you so much Umar Shankar Ji for joining us today.
01:59And the last week, we saw that on May 19th, we saw 48.2 degrees Celsius in that day, that
02:06was enough temperature.
02:08And after that, we saw how Ken River, and the other rivers, the other tributaries, the other rivers, the other
02:15rivers and the other tributes,
02:15the other avayad khanan, the other sand mining.
02:19There were many reports and interviews with you that you have also told about how this is going to increase
02:28the heat of heat.
02:29there is more of a big environmental crisis in the future.
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02:52Duda ko jho tunda karthi thi ho parvata karthi.
02:54To aap Banda ke dakshan mein jaiye to karibe 80 Kilo meter parvata.
03:01Pura pahaan ko tordiya gya hai.
03:04Jho Banda ki kere nadhi ke piche sade mein hai.
03:10Jho dakshan se hawaay hati thi garam hawaay unko roka ta.
03:13Ya.
03:14Manzul latata ta.
03:15Ida rap baschum ki tarap jayenge.
03:17To mohba or kabra hi padata tha.
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04:06So, there were a couple of trees that were in the middle of the village, which were in the middle
04:11of the village.
04:11The trees were in the middle of the village, and the trees were in the middle of the village.
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05:21ुमा शंकर जी अभी आपने जैसे 10,000 बाल बाल, 10,000 ड्रक्टर्स यूज अपके
05:28I have seen some reports from Ken River, which we have said that on a daily basis, if you look
05:35at average, there are 2,000-3,000 trucks that are used, only for the rate to get out of
05:41Ken River, only for Ken River.
05:43Ken has been killed by Ken's for 2005,000 trucks, every day. The water is not out of here, and
05:52the water is out of here.
05:55The water is on the water, the water is on the waves, the water is on the water, the water
06:00is on the water.
06:02in this case, in this case, you can see the whole process of this whole process.
06:12Do you see so many times in the Cane River, which is very harmful to the environmental prospects?
06:23I have 20 years ago in the Kain River, if you put 25 new money in the water, I have
06:30seen
06:3120 minutes.
06:32The most clean water is the Kain River.
06:39The Kain River was about 500 km.
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07:21I am not sure that's the point.
07:27I don't understand.
07:29If I need a truck license then it will be 10 bucks.
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07:54I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do
08:00I'm gonna do
08:01I'm not sure you
08:04I'm gonna do
08:10I'm gonna do
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12:02Umar Shankar ji, you have said a very good thing, that there is a law, because we saw last December,
12:10we had seen mining, illegal mining, which was a protest last December in Haryana and Rajasthan.
12:19Okay, so Banda, Banda, Banda में अभी कुछ बहुत सिमिलर हो रहा है, हम माफिया के बारे में बोल रहे
12:27हो, माफिया के बारे में जो बोल रहे हो, जो छोटी-छोटी नदिया है, जो बाड़ वाले इलाके हैं, वो
12:32वहां से भी रेत निकाल रहे हैं, तो कानून के होने के बावजुद ये ची�
12:40हो रहे हैं, जिसके वज़े से ये सारी चीज़े हो रहे हैं, अच्छा, तो अगर वो उधर कड़-बड़ करता
12:50है, तो कोई पकड़ने वाला नहीं है, हम, वहां का बड़ा माफिया, वहां भी माफिया है, बड़े माफिया है, बालू
13:09के,
13:11ठीक है न, सोट अब सोट और सोसल एक्टिबिस्त क्या करें, प्राण थोड़ी देदेगा, पत्रगार लिख नहीं सकता, समाजिय कारकाइद,
13:19बोल नहीं सकता, सरकार सुन संफे किससे कहने जाएगा हो, कहेगा किससे, हम, जिपने तो है नहीं, कि यह सुप्रेम
13:28UK, माणी सु
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13:49So, what would you like to say?
14:17How are the things here?
14:20Blasting is a whole blasting.
14:24People are being buried.
14:27Who will listen?
14:29In the kitchen,
14:3225% of people are fat.
14:35Stone is not a stone.
14:37It's not a blasting.
14:41Who will listen?
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15:02. . . . .
15:30time and it is a long time to go.
15:32What problems will happen in the bandhah?
15:35In the bandhah there will be water.
15:38When it is a bad thing,
15:40it's a bad thing.
15:42Even if it is a bad thing,
15:44it's not a bad thing.
15:47That's right?
15:49There is a bad thing in the bandhah.
15:50There are bad things in the bandhah,
15:51there are bad things in the bandhah.
15:56There was a bad thing in the bandhah.
15:58There were 35-35s in the bandhah.
16:28Based on this bandhah.
16:29The water is a little dry, the water is a little dry.
16:33There are these paths.
16:35There are some water in the middle.
16:37But the small paths are still here.
16:43The path of Prashasana has no idea.
16:46The path of Prashasana has no idea.
16:46If Prashasana has a study, why don't you talk about it?
16:48Because people should talk about it.
16:51They should be prepared for it.
16:52They should be prepared for it.
16:54They should be prepared for it.
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17:15Umashankarji, what do you need for this time? You are an environmentalist. You have done a lot of work with
17:24water conservation. What will your message be for locals?
17:59What will your message be for locals?
18:00What will your message be for locals?
18:59What will your message be for locals?
19:30What will your message be for locals?
19:48What will your message be for locals?
20:28What will your message be for locals?
20:30What will your message be for locals?
21:02What will your message be for locals?
21:03What will your message be for locals?
21:44What will your message be for locals?
21:45What will your message be for locals?
21:48What will your message be for locals?
21:51What will your message be for locals?
21:59We could do something in this country, but we could do something in this country.
22:09I would like to thank you very much for your support.
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23:16It's not water in the world.
23:17It's not water in Bangalore.
23:18Chennai, Delhi, Delhi,
23:21so in Bhairat,
23:22in 32nds, there's water in the country.
23:25There's water in the nil.
23:26Where is water?
23:27I want to buy water in the country.
23:29I have a lot of people.
23:32So I have talked about it.
23:34I have a lot of time.
23:35I have been given the time.
23:37I have not given the time of the world.
23:39I have no name for the government.
23:42I have not been given the time.
23:43I am a country.
24:10thank you thank you thank you
24:23thank you so much for your time
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