 Happy World Environment Day. So proud as UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador to be here and I am going to take the opportunity to moderate this conversation but of course it will be free flowing and I know that you have questions but I have questions too for Sadhguru and for Eric. Eric has spent the last week or more travelling through India, visiting different cities, interacting with people and his energy and enthusiasm is awe inspiring and it has been admitted publicly by many people in government that no other executive director has given this kind of love, attention and time to a movement like Eric Solham has so India put your hands together for Eric Solham. Sadhguru I have been a long admirer of yours and every person here is here because they love you and I think I could include myself in that. I am reminded of a very powerful quote that I repeat very often and I am going to share it with all of you here. It's by Babadhyam it says in the end we will love, protect, in the end we will protect only that what we love and we will love only that what we learn about and I think you have been instrumental in making so many of us learn to love nature and ourselves and help us understand that we as human beings are not separate from nature, we are not apart from nature but we are a part of nature and what we do to our environment we are in fact doing to ourselves our own health. So thank you for that Sadhguru, thank you so much. I want to start with a question which is one that is connected to Rally for Rivers. I'm very proud to have participated in that campaign. It was a movement that galvanized civil society like no other and it has seen a kind of participation that is unprecedented and I know that your concern and love for India's rivers is deep and I think the theme of wheat plastic pollution is so deeply connected with Rally for Rivers that you came forward as well to say that this is something we have to do. Can you share with us what in your experience is of course the greatest need for India's rivers and how you have connected the message of wheat pollution to Rally for Rivers? Namaskaram and welcome to your warm day. It's wonderful to have Eric and Dia here. Unfortunately we are still looking at a mega problem in small pieces but that's how it works in the world so we are focusing on one at a time but this is not a separate problem. These are all just one problem. Essentially this problem is about the way we live. Essentially that we as life have forgotten that we are life. We as life have forgotten that our life has something to do with every other life. Not just in the impact that we cause as existence, our life's existence is connected to everything around us and there is no such thing really as in and out because what is in me and what's outside of me because every day something is coming in, something is going out. People say nearly seven kilograms of intake and exchange is happening per day. So we've just lost contact with life, our own life and everything else that nourishes our life. This is the fundamental disaster which is manifesting in so many different ways in the world. In our country this land which was referred to as the land of seven rivers at one time because as we know both in this nation and everywhere else, most civilizations always thrived on river banks because water being the source of life. But today I am not a environmentalist in any sense but from my personal experience I have seen rivers depleting in an alarming way from how I have seen them thirty, forty years ago and how they are today is no more a small concern. It is a serious problem if we don't handle this in war footing. I am using the word war intentionally because every day the way we are living is a war. It's a war with everything. At least let's reverse the war towards our well-being. It has to be done like we have a war on our hands because the condition is… condition of the land, the soil and water in the country is alarming, very alarming, okay? With one point four billion people on your hands or one point three billion people on your hands, allowing soil and water to get depleted like this is we… we still kind of in God's hands, we have not taken the nation in our hands, that's what it means. So if we have to take charge of this, it's very important the rivers. Rivers are a measurable entity because water's depleting you can see it, but this depletion is happening in the air, this depletion is happening in every possible way. They may not all be as dramatic as water shortages, so we picked on water to start with. Now plastic has been the theme of United Nations and it is a very deep concern. It is a classic case of who we are right now, how irresponsible we are as human beings because out of many materials that we have developed on this planet, plastic is one of the most fantastic materials. I know a whole lot of people will get against me for this. I am saying this because a material that can be recycled thousands of times over and over again is a perfect material to make sure that what we use is in a cycle, that we don't have to continuously dig something new. We can use the same material for centuries if we handle it right. But we have handled it so irresponsibly, such a wonderful material has become poisonous, it has entered everything. They are saying all… a whole lot of microbes are carrying plastic in them. See if lot of plastic gets into you, you can do your morning yoga better, maybe you will be a little more flexible if that's what you're thinking, that's not how it works. So this has been of profound concern to me always, but to bring attention it took a certain amount of time. I am glad now the nation is sitting up and listening at least, it's time to act, it's not time to debate, it's time to act. And I have done so much work with people in the last thirty-six years and variety of issues, but though there are so many wonderful people who will immediately respond, I don't believe the larger population will correct things by themselves. They need the push of law, that's why for everything we are saying we need a policy because without the push of law the larger population will not move and if they take hundred years to change their ways that's not good enough. If it has to change quickly, law has to come into place, that is why we are looking at single use plastic band. Thank you so much Sadhguru, that was deeply insightful. I am going to turn now to Eric Solham to tell us why the United Nations environment program chose beat plastic pollution as the theme for this world environment day. Could you please let us know why? Good morning to everyone, can you hear me? Good morning, a couple of days back we had a beautiful state in the south, we were travelling and we were first watching a number of farmers were transforming their agriculture into nature-based farming, fantastic to see, beautiful trees, a fantastic landscape, hard working farmers, then all of a sudden we came to some open fields and full of plastic. In the most beautiful, spectacular, fantastic parts of India again and the number of plastic plastic bags, plastic pollution of all sorts. A couple of days later we went from Agra up here to Delhi, watching out of the windows again plastic upon plastic along the railway line. This is bad, this is as Sadhguru said when we went to Mahatma Gandhi's memorial, he said this is violence, this is violence against Mother Earth, my stop is I mean is visibly horrible do we want to see this rather than to see the incredible beauty of the Indian nature but it's also violence against our common human being because well two days back a whale was dying in Thailand, it had been eating 60 plastic bags, can you believe it in the stomach of the whale, it was 60 plastic bags, before it died it vomited plastic bags and then it died. Not just this way, we had a whale in Norway dying in similar circumstances and other whales in Spain, there was an elephant dying in Kerala, you see cows, you see camels, sea turtles, seabirds dying from eating plastic. So this is when we push this as you say, wonderful material out in nature, well we are killing our common creatures on planet Earth, all the animals. But at the end of the day it's violence against ourselves because do we really want to drink drinking water the source of life and in this drinking water there are small fragments of plastic and Indian non-government organization made a survey of the best drinking water on the planet, not the worst, the drinking water which is put into bottles coming from mountains from the Himalayas or from the old alps, I mean the drinking water we really believe is the best, but even in that drinking water nearly there was small fragments of plastic which we drink, get into our body and by the way if we eat fish from the oceans, this fish has been eating microbes, shellfish, small other creatures and then plastic get into the fish and then into our body, so I think there is no doubt we need to change, we need to change for the sake of Mother Earth, we need to change for the sake of the animal kingdom, but we need to change for the sake of ourselves. This is in the most simple and clear terms I hope, why we have started this global campaign, let's beat plastic pollution and I'm happy to say that we are so proud that the Indian government, Prime Minister Modi, but the government but of course many other political forces, it's not just Prime Minister Modi, it's the chief ministers of many states, even some of them against the Prime Minister, they are all picked up this cause because they believe in change and believing in making India clean, and finally remind yourselves that the greatest of all Indians, maybe the greatest of all human beings and for sure one of the greatest human beings who has ever walked on planet Earth, Mahatma Gandhi, he said it very rightly, he said cleanliness is godliness, and I think he said that because he thought it was not God's plan that we humans should pollute this Mother Earth, but God's plan that we should cater for Mother Earth, as we cater for our children, this is the most beautiful one planet we do have and we need to take good care of it. Thank you so much Eric. I just quickly add why I chose to become an advocate for beat plastic pollution, not just because I am a UN environmental ambassador, but it resonated so strongly with me personally as well, it's very you know plastic has become such a permeable part of our lives, I realize that we don't see plastic, you know, our morning starts with the plastic toothbrush and when I was traveling through, I did this show called Ganga the Soul of India and I had to travel from the source of the river all the way to sea and I travel through five states of India with the river and you know when you see the plastic waste in the most pristine parts of the country in pure nature, natural environment, where there is no human habitat, but plastics have reached there, it really hits you, you know, you realize that the source of the river was so pristine, so pure, so clean and somewhere along the way the moment human settlement emerges, you start seeing the pollution in the river and the plastics in the river and then I also noticed along my way that plastic waste was being incinerated, it was being burnt, plastics had reached places where electricity has not reached and I kept thinking there are no collection systems here, there's no management systems here, what is this going to do to the health of the people here and it got me really really worked up and passionate about trying to seek solutions and I want to quickly share for all of you who are wondering what can we do to beat plastic pollution, here's what I may be able to suggest to you because me and many others have been able to incorporate this into our lives and I hope that all of us can because then we will truly become a part of the beat plastic pollution movement. We at the United Nations Environment Program are encouraging and urging everyone to stop the use of single-use plastics which means refuse plastic bags, of course, Sadhguru your campaign expresses that very very profoundly, stop the use of plastic bags, carry plastic bags. If you use it, you use it like this, you understand what you're doing to the entire planet. I know, it's just terrible and I, it's suffocating and choking our waterways, our air, our soil and it's harming health, children, elders and just everyone and animals of course. So say no to plastic bags, carry your own cloth bag, it weighs lighter than a mobile phone. Say no to plastic straws before you order your drink, please tell the server not to give you a straw, we can easily sip our drinks, we don't need to, you know, it's so lazy now, Sadhguru having to suck on the straw. This is, you know, in India, in South India, in Telugu, we call it palchambu, what it means is for a cup, there will be a steel straw. This is only for babies. Once you've become by seven, eight years of age, you learn to drink from a cup directly. But once again, the entire so-called civilized world is back to drinking in straws. I was in Moscow, just now, today morning I came, even for water in a restaurant, they're putting a straw for water. So we have lost our ability to use our lips to latch onto the cup and drink water. I saw an amazing image, Sadhguru, yesterday of a young girl who posted an image for hashtag beat plastic pollution and she showed how she was drinking coconut water directly from the coconut. It was a very powerful image. What do you mean? We all drink like that only. We should be, but we don't. Most people drink it with a plastic straw. Okay, so the third item of plastics that we can easily refuse are plastic mugs and cups. We can carry our own mugs and cups and whenever the youngsters here and of course people who frequent coffee shops can carry their own mugs. The other item of single-use plastic, we can easily say no to, is packaged water, bottles of water. Now here, I am constantly told but it's so inconvenient. You know, when you're traveling, you're on the move, it's difficult, you need to rehydrate. How do we do it? Sadhguru, I met a lady yesterday, amazing, amazing young lady. Eric and I were blown by her, mind blown. She's 32 years old. She gave up single-use plastics at the age of 22. When she found out that India was hosting World Environment Day, she thought, what can I do to spread the message to encourage more people to stop the use of single-use plastics? So Rajeshwari Singh set a foot as a solo traveler from Vadodara all the way to Delhi and she did not carry packaged water. When I asked her, how did you rehydrate yourself? How did you hydrate yourself? You walk through highways and villages and towns and cities doing workshops meeting people in this heat, in the scorching heat alone with no support. She said, you know, India is an amazing country. Every 500 meters, you have matkas with water that good Samaritans place on the highways for people to hydrate themselves. And every village and town I visited, people were always happy to give me water. That's one thing that is the easiest thing to get. I travel with my metal bottle, Sadhguru. So that really helps. So no more lazy answers for replacing the packaged plastic bottle with metal bottles and carrying our own water to work and school and wherever it is we are going. The most, the one of the biggest hazards and the last item of single-use plastics, I'm sure all of us who discover how bad plastics are for the environment, especially the wasted plastic, we will discover that packaged food like, you know, that horrible things, styrofoam and then the cling wrap over four apples and two apples and two bananas. We can say no to that. There is absolutely no reason why we should be buying our vegetables and fruits packaged in plastic. And the other thing that we must absolutely learn to say no to is cutlery and spoons made in plastic. Would you like to add anything to that, Sadhguru? This crazy behavior of ours, of convenience that is destroying our environment and our health? It's, it's wonderful. Whoever this lady Rajeshwari, what singer? Rajeshwari Singh. Okay. It's wonderful that she took up this mission. But I want you, all of you to understand, there are many people who are from my generation, they did not give up plastic. They've never started off on plastic. It's, it's only in the last 15, 20 years that this has happened. We never really used plastic like that. And if it all, if a plastic cover, once in a way a plastic cover comes home, my mother would fold it and keep it for future use and this same cover will be using it for two, three years, a simple plastic cover. So this was very much there with us. We've lost it only in the last two decades. So it's not so difficult to just go back and live as we were living at that time. So I cannot say I gave up single use plastic, but we largely never used it. Here and there it comes to you today, almost everything that you buy in the market. But I am not somebody who'll buy bananas in a supermarket. I know where to buy bananas. So bananas don't come in a plastic bag, they come as a front. So these are all important, whatever you were saying, these are all nominal things that we must do to express our commitment. But the solution, because the problem is bigger, the solution also needs to be approached as such. For example, right now, nearly 40% of plastic is in packaging. This is the area that we need to address big time because this is one thing that can be easily avoided. It's possible to avoid this. Bottled water is about, I think eight to nine percent of the plastics used in the world, nearly half a trillion bottles every year we are manufacturing. I've been in conversation with some of the largest bottle, pet bottle manufacturers who are manufacturing over sixty, seventy percent of the world's pet bottles, it's applying to all the major water industry and also the soft drink industry. They are all willing to change right now. I think those changes must be pushed. We want the local governments to push, Indian government we will approach in so many different ways to do this. They themselves, the industry themselves have realized for their own survival, they have to do this. Right now, these companies have come in collaboration with a few other universities from Netherlands and also a few other marketing companies and trying to make pet a continuous recycling process. That is, you never have to replace it. The same bottles can be used and reused for almost forever. It's possible to do that. Changing lifestyles is important but we are talking about seven and a half billion people. Changing all their lifestyles is going to be a long-term plan and by the time you change one generation, the next generation has gotten up and doing something else. So by law, bringing that recycling must happen. For these things to happen, one important point is see there are many grades of plastic, it's not one grade. Some of them are completely not recyclable. They must be banned, absolutely. Among the recyclable plastics, there are so many varieties. In United States, they told me, we are approaching some major industry with these solutions right now. We've formed a powerful group of people there. For example, I'm just telling you a simple example because we were in US, we were talking about the Coke bottles. These bottles are easily recyclable but simply because of the paper label on it, you cannot recycle. If you recycle with the paper label, it gets downgraded, it won't be food grade, plastic. Or the plastic label. Or the plastic label. Generally it's a paper label. If it is of the same material label, then it would be easy to recycle. If it was plastic and same grade plastic, it would be easy to recycle. Now they have paper labels. There is a plastic wrap around it but it's actually a paper label. So now we are talking to companies who are capable of printing on the bottle. So we want to go to the businesses with solutions, not just protesting against them, not trying to destroy businesses because that's not going to work because the economic concerns of a business and the economic concerns of a nation are important. And above all, this has been the way unfortunately, this is what we changed with Rally for Rivers. Always it is economy versus ecology. I'm asking all of you who are here. Suppose there is a fight between ecology and economy, what do you think will win in your home, in your community, in your country? Economy of course. Because people are thinking economy is today's concern, ecology is tomorrow's concern. No, ecology is today's concern. If this has to happen, we have to find solutions which will go with the existing polluting businesses. It's very important. Those businesses which are the major factors of pollution, we have to transform them, making sure their businesses are not destroyed but transformed to a more ecologically sensitive way of operation. This has to be looked at on all levels. You can just tell a local vendor you can't use plastic. What is he supposed to use? We must go and tell him this is what you can use, what is alternate product and how he can use it and how it is more beneficial for him and the customer. These things have to be brought about rather than simply protesting against business and industry because long run that's not going to work, economy will win. So if ecology has to win, you have to marry ecology and economy. They have to get married. This is my effort. Eric, this is timely to ask you because Sadhguru has mentioned the umbilical link between ecology and economy and he's also mentioned, I think in his own way, circular economy. And I want you to elaborate what that means because we all know that ninety percent of bottles, packaged bottles, are not recycled, which means that new plastic is being used. Yeah, but in India it is recycled. Yes, but the percentage is low, Sadhguru. That's not because of ecological concerns, that is because of economic depravity. Every bottle, some little child picks up and makes some little money. Yes, of course, there's money in plastic. So that's what the circular economy is. Eric, will you please share what the circular economy means and how much money there can be in managing our waste better, our plastic waste better, because it's something that will encourage Sadhguru, many more people to take up the action to manage plastic better. Let me start by one other comment because Sadhguru is my man. For a very simple reason, he brings together the two necessary perspectives, the change of the individual and the change of society and economics and politics. I mean, when we change lifestyle, if you start avoiding one use plastic, throwing away the straws, not using plastic bags when you go to the supermarket, well, it's a small act, one individual acting. It's important because together we are changing lifestyle like that is also a very, very clear signal. It's a signal to political leaders and to business that we need to change. And if you influence your neighbors to do the same, even strongly signal to political leaders and business that we need to change. So changing your lifestyle, yes, it's important by itself, but it's also having an influence on the rest of the whole well understood. He changed his lifestyle, but not just because it's all, one individual can change the world, but it was a message to wider India as to how these together and indeed from political leaders and we need business to change. But one small example, the other day we wanted to have the plastic cutlery and then we started going to shops in Maharashtra, trying to build another state because everyone has this profound individual demanding these from political leaders. If you want to understand what recycling and this cell phone. The first cell phone, it was shown to the world in 2007 called Steve Jobs. The founder, absolutely everyone, now has a smartphone. Age of seven or eight now has a, having these smartphones we can get into. You just make a couple of, there is an issue. We will close it to be 10 billion, which is good. That can poison all the problems which is there There is not enough minerals on planet earth for us to buy every second year. Well, we need to go into a circular economy, which means that whatever is in the cell phone is used again. Because here is minerals from Congo, this component in one cell phone from, it may be put together in China because most cell phones, but the components we use them over and over again. So what is in my, is in your cell phone tomorrow and Sadgurus cell phone next year. That's true with our bodies also. Sorry? That's true with our bodies also. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And that's how we will just use to take this into the modern world. Of course you will still get a cell phone which is more technologically advanced with more feature just used by the materials which we reuse. And of course the cell with plastic. I mean, why do we use plastic materials which we cannot use again? Putting on as you say, paper labels which make it impossible to recycle it. If we bring in the plastic we produce, the problem with simple suggestion. And that we will find a comment. I attended a number of the beach cleanups in India. And one key bags for milk. Milk pouches, yes. Milk pouches, yeah. There's in a number of them. Half a liter, 50 centimeter, feeding their children but then throwing away these. Well, if you put a little one rupee on these pouches or these bags, you pay one rupee more when you buy it but you get the rupee back when you hand it in. There's no loss for all those people handing in. Only those who purchase and don't hand in will be punished. We'll get in nearly all. Because most people come and pick the bags and hand them in to get the money. Then you create a circular economy where the plastic is used but then reused. Thank you Eric, that was very insightful. I'm sure all of us have understood now what it means to have a circular economy. Sadguru, I'm looking at that clock and I'm feeling very sad. This is coming to an end, this wonderful conversation. Thank you for your time, Sadguru. Thank you for your time, Eric. This has been deeply insightful. I know that we could continue to speak for a longer time but let us all pledge to continue to engage together and find solutions to beat plastic pollution. Let's not allow this campaign to end with World Environment Day but continue it every day till we have truly beaten the menace that plastic waste is creating in our lives and to the health of our environment. And of course, if you want to go beyond that, let's find ways to reuse, recycle, upcycle and reduce our consumption of plastics. Thank you so much. Namaskaram. Thank you. Have a wonderful World Environment Day and to everybody watching all over the world, thank you for your unbelievable participation. We are proud to host World Environment Day in India and this is an even more proud moment for all of us to be seated here with Sadguru and all of you wonderful people here who have joined us. Thank you so much. This, you used the word upcycle and I think that is an important phenomena. A few young entrepreneurs, again coming from Maharashtra, in many ways Maharashtra means a great state, at least for ecological concerns, it is becoming a great state for sure because even for all of the rivers, the first immediate action on the ground has happened in Maharashtra and this upcycling of using plastic material to not to just recycle it to a downgraded material but to actually make it into a better product than what it originally was. This is beginning to happen, young entrepreneurs are taking it up and doing it, but still I insist that across the world, United Nations agencies, environment groups must work for stringent laws because awareness is fine, it's wonderful. People's participation is always moving, a woman drinking tender coconut is romantic but solutions are in transforming the businesses which are involved in this. Right now, nations, large nations have been sending all their plastic waste to other nations as if if you dump it in another part of the world, their job is done. So right now in 2018, January 2018, China has refused some 20 and all different types of plastic. China was literally recycling almost 60, 70 percent of the world's plastic and now this plastic which China refuses to take, United Nations should make sure it doesn't go to Africa or it doesn't go to Antarctica, somewhere else worse. So the rich nations, affluent nations must recycle their plastic, not dump it in another nation. This is very important, these steps must be taken. Awareness is great. I'm sure all of them will strive to bring this awareness to their life, their children, their children, their neighbors, their friends, I'm sure every one of them will do that but still large scale action by law is a must. Thank you very much Eric for being here for this event and if all of you can just hold up this thing for a moment. I know this is more plastic bag but people in this country, if something has to happen, you have to create an emotional movement. By policy this country doesn't really move, you have to create a very strong emotional moment just so that this big plastic is good but people must understand this is not a foreign problem. We are suffocating ourselves, this must be clearly understood. Thank you very much for being here. If you're willing after our guest leave, I will allow you to roast in the sun for some more time. If you're willing I'll come back. Respect it sir guru. And all the nature lovers, the humanity lovers who are here to witness this great occasion of celebrating this environment in a befitting manner, a call given by Sadguru for the humanity, we are all here. Eric Solomon is here, Skannan who is instrumental and I'm a disciple of Sadguru. I'm here not as a minister but I'm as a disciple of his over here. A blend of culture and environment ministries which I'm heading now. The pleasure of being with Sadguru at his ashram, philanthropic thought he has for the humanity. When the God created human beings, thinking that this is my best creature, he created animals, the reptiles, the plants, the trees and he gave this vision that you have to walk with the nature in a win-win situation. And when God made this human being his best creature, and when this human being went from his path to war, then God sent Sadguru. Go and show this man, Sadguru, the path that the nature is to walk together as a warrior. Our relationship with nature is like a flower and a flower, not to wander this nature. God was very clever. He created small grass to be eaten by rabbits. He created a one-foot grass to be eaten by goats and the sheeps. He created bigger grass to be eaten by animals and the larger grass to be eaten by the giraffes and the camels. And the trees were given to be for the birds. But he gave this immense power to the man, humankind, that he can do any damn thing. He can cut that grass which is to be eaten by the rabbit and he can do hawks too for our birds also. He did not give this power to the strongest animal, tiger also, that he can climb up the tree and he can do that. But man can do that, he can cut that tree also. And he did it. And that's where Sadguru gave that philanthropic call. I think he envisaged it. When he gave his philanthropic call, that when we have to walk with the reverse, which was our daily life, the whole country, the whole city, the whole village, and the whole world's humanity, all our humanity is free from the support of the rivers, and we have made those rivers our means to wash your sewage. Even the biggest thing to believe in is what can be done. The rivers that were in our daily life... The rivers that are Ganga Mai, and now I went to the Danube river in Hungary, have been used by the people of Vishu in that revenue river. This work cannot be done by a person, or a minister, or a Prime Minister. This work can be done by those people who support humanity and live their lives in this way. And for them today, Satguru is among us. Satguru has given a philanthropic call for today, No Plastics. But today, even a doctor of this plastic, you can understand the pain of this plastic carbon, how it enters the earth and the earth. You see, there used to be a crack in which small particles used to come out, the crush material used to be in it. When we used to use it for marriage, it used to stick to everything. And if it used to go into the earth, it used to be mixed, no one could separate it. We paid attention to it and banned it. But will we be able to fix the work of banning it? Will we be able to use the helmet of our traffic police? Will we be able to use the law to get rid of polythene? Will we be able to use the law to get rid of one-time use of plastics? Will we be able to use the law to get rid of polythene? When will this man wake up? Satguru is among us today. I thank him for his efforts. Satguru took one step forward for humanity. Across the cross, across the creeds. For humanity, the global mass leader. Today, for such matters as rivers and rivers, I thank Satguru for his efforts. And with all of you, I put myself in the hands of this foundation. May God give you the strength to become an ambassador of humanity. May you take our art and this company's branch further into the world. And I believe that your millions of people, becoming an ambassador and becoming a lover of the world, will send your message to the world. Your Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi is also moving forward in this matter. And I am happy to tell you that today, there is a meeting at 9 o'clock in the National Assembly, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mr. Gandhi. The Prime Minister, Mr. Satguru, has made a special contribution today to the 15th anniversary of Mr. Satguru. He will take the anniversary of Mr. Satguru. I thank him again for his efforts. Thank you very much. I would like to acknowledge the present government. I have… I'm a little technologically… Relentlessly for Rally for Rivers, I want to tell you that many major steps, policy steps have been taken to fulfill this promise of reviving India's rivers. Some… I mean, I can't go into all the details. One major thing is 84% of India's water was being consumed by agriculture. Now, this year, for this year's budget, 5,000 crores have been allotted for micro-irrigation, which can bring down water consumption by nearly 50% for agriculture. And for revival of Yamuna, 300 meters of plantation on both sides of the river, a few hundred crores have been allotted. And I'm sure our minister has a hand in all these things. And for the revival of Ganga, planting about 25 crore trees is on for this year. Just now, we've been called for a meeting on 7th of June with the Karnataka government that to plant 25 crore trees along Kaveri banks is on. We are part of that movement. And as a… as a part of setting up treatment plants, I think some six or seven thousand crores have been allotted just in the Ganga region that our minister, Sri Gadkari, has promised that in a year, at least 70 to 80% of the pollution will be gone. And one… I've been saying this, this is all it takes, just one or two years of action. We don't need to clean Ganga. If we don't let in the effluent, the sewage doesn't enter Ganga. If we take care of this, if we turn sewage treatment into a profitable business, it will be done in one season. She will clean herself. We don't need to go and clean her. So that is happening and he has promised within a year's time 70% it will be cleaner than what it was last year. And I think it's definitely going to happen. So we congratulate the government for taking these steps, far-reaching steps which are not election-winning steps. These are very far-reaching steps. We must congratulate and appreciate this. And every government in whatever states, all these governments need to take these steps. From those of you who come from different parts of the country, I want you to keep up this awareness and pressure on the local government so that they also take these steps and make this happen. Thank you very much. If all of you just… for three seconds, if you just put on the plastic cover, we'll take a photo shoot for you. We won't trouble the minister with it because he's a doctor. Promise you are wearing the mask to express that we will not make this little girl suffocate in future. We are going to create a better climate for her, she wants to. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Plastic. Oh, plastic, hey, yeah, plastic, hey, yeah