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Baba Seechewal connects gurpurab to environment issues
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Jalandhar: Trust Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal to find a good cause and connect it to a gurpurab. Religion is often a great force multiplier. A unique nagar kirtan to mark the birth anniversary Guru Nanak Dev Ji started from Dhanoa village in Hoshiarpur district last and went along the banks of historic Kali Bein, spreading the message about environmental issues.

Covering a distance of around 150 km on foot in five days, it reached Sultanpur Lodhi touching around 88 villages besides a few towns and eventually culminating at Nirmal Kutiya Seechewal. The rally started from Dhanoa as the Bein starts from there amidst a catchment area and a natural, source of water.

Baba Seechewal in his address to the devotees emphasized the need for keeping natural water resources clean and to save the underground water from pollution. He quoted extensively from Gurbani and Sikh history to drive home the point that to preserve the natural resources was a very much divine duty. While he asked villagers not to throw dirty water into the Bein, he also appealed to the people of the state, factory owners and the government to ensure that untreated water was not thrown into the rivers or other natural water streams.

28 November 2007
 

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