Bor WLS, Hidden Jewel !!

 

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“The time I spent in the jungles held unalloyed happiness for me, and that happiness I would now gladly share. My happiness, I believe, resulted from the fact that all wildlife is happy in its natural surroundings. In nature there is no sorrow, and no repining. A bird from a flock, or an animal from a herd, is taken by a hawk or carnivorous beast and those that are left rejoice that their time has not come today, and have no thought of tomorrow.”— Jim Corbett.

“Every time I have visited forests, it has taught me something new about life” … Me.

When the subject is forest & wildlife then I don’t need anybody else’s words to start but that of the man who himself has become immortal with a forest by his name & his words only have made or say still making me wiser every moment I spend in the forests! If you don’t know about Jim Corbett then don’t google or check Wikipedia but read his books & they are available in most of the languages. As well once you are through reading even one of his books then do visit forest, any forest & try living that forest from the perspective of Jim & then you will start knowing him better! Ok, the sharing is about forest (but not tadoba) which I accidently bumped on as I was on hectic work come forest exploring trip, for two Super Moms, one from tadoba & one from UKWS (this you can google), about which I will share later & just like the Marvel movies, later part of trip was so exciting that I started this sharing first which actually was my last stop! The occasion was wildlife week (which our State celebrates in the first week of October) and on the way back to Nagpur I was supposed to visit this place which is hardly 50 km away from the Tiger capitol. Interestingly this is the closest sanctuary gate from Nagpur & I had been here some 15 years back. My purpose was to meet young RFOs’ Ms Archana & Mr Nitin Borkar (And I met Mr Deshmukh IFS, ACF also) for discussing skill development of local youngsters via Credai tie up (plz google) as well donation drive or say handing over of recycled good clothes from city people of Pune (courtesy Jungle Belles) to these two RFOs’ which later they will be distributing among local needy people. These small acts help forest dept to maintain good bonds with the locals which comes handy when something unpleasant happens such as death of cattle or human life because of some wild animal etc! And as I am here, I thought of taking one safari just to explore the place or habitat & so I entered in the noon safari, very tired as travelling three places in four days & waking up every day at 4.30 am, is not something I can do now, when I am other side of 55, but I thought to complete the ritual! What happened in the next four hours can be compared with something in a cricket match when the last pair of batsmen (who are usually bowlers) comes to crease & when everybody is expecting the innings to be wrapped in next few minutes starts hitting fours & sixes, something similar happened!

Won’t stretch your curiosity more, I am referring to Bor wildlife sanctuary & if I was aww-stucked with its landscape, biodiversity then icing on the cake was sightings of tiger, leopard & sloth bear in one go! Agreed in any forest to sight these animals needs lots of luck too but it’s the ease or say comfort of those animals with which they wander in their habitat tell you the richness of biodiversity of the place, which only can be felt & not told, which I experienced in the very first safari at Bor, which is the reason of my sharing! Though it’s a small forest with just two gates & buffers, it's the strategic location makes Bor a very unique & important patch of forest. Its on North East direction of Tadoba & UKWS making it a perfect corridor as well stop over place for migrating tigers from above two forests towards Central Indian landscape i.e. Melghat & Satpura! Its spread around Bor dam’s backwater ensures availability of water throughout the year, which is one of the biggest boons for the forest. The safari track moves mostly around one side of the lake yet there is a lot of wildlife to explore on the hills which surround the entire backwater. One wonderful thing is it has a prominent plantation of teak wood yet the forest is rich with many species of plants, trees, & wild flowers. This year the rain gods are angry with our region yet whatever little rain was there, the forest was blooming with wildflowers & butterflies dancing over them! And the prey base is also very good with many spotted deer & sambhar we can see around, looking curiously at us.

As I mentioned I had been here nearly 15 years back when there was not at all any basic infrastructure (today also, the place is cut off from our so-called development) but thankfully the rawness of the nature is still intact somehow & thanks to forest dept’s some senior officers such as Mr.Sreeniwasa Reddy & others, today Bor WLS has started its journey on wildlife tourism track. I was assisted by a young local boy named Shubham & our driver was Sarang, both were super excited to show us around & they were happy as well thrilled when they knew I had been here when they must be in their junior school! The interesting part was because the forest is pretty dense here, you can’t always rely on deer or sambhr call for sighting but jungle fowl & peacock calls also help a lot, something the bigger forests guides are not used to track. Here we were waiting at a smabhar call on a hilltop, but were unable to see what made the sambhar give an alarm call & decided to leave the spot after waiting & circling the place for a number of times. Yet there were calls of peacock & they were continuous on. There was one more gypsy with us & we decided to scan the place more thoroughly together, with eight pairs of eyes scanning the place keenly. And suddenly there was whistling from the other gypsy they were pointing towards a neem tree which stood alone in a thick grass patch & there was a handsome male leopard sitting quietly on the first V of the branches of the neem tree & scanning us with green eyes! This is why the peacock was giving alarm calls while the sambhar had stopped as the peacock could see it from another tree & we were looking at the ground for the object! It's because only the leopard wagged his tail, which the sharp eyes of other gypsy’s guide saw & called us, this is Bor!

And then happened another sighting of a young male tiger Om, which walked in front of us like a true king in making for nearly a kilometres’ distance. Here also, he was lazing in grass & stood up & started swimming in the water adjoining, I immodestly asked my driver to reverse the vehicle & take us up ahead on the road in the direction where the tiger had started swimming, leaving other vehicles clicking photos of the tiger in water. And to my happiness (I patted my own back) the tiger emerged right before our gypsy from the grass along the road which made us reverse for nearly a kilometer, happily! There are very few sights which can beat a young male tiger walking in his own mood towards you, occasionally locking his orange eyes with yours & you can feel the hair on your neck standing under the stare, even through the camera lens! He was barely two years plus & if he has such confidence to walk careless among few gypsys’ around, what more wildlife tourism needs to flourish, right? 

Outcome was, keeping away my all tiredness & fatigue, I decided to do morning safari again, just to explore Born ore in depth. And do mind there is not a decent stay place at Bor so we were staying in Vardha which is nearly 40 minutes’ drive & when we reached hotel by 8 pm past, the manager gave us suspicious look as our clothes & baggage was covered in red clay dust & he asked whether we met any accident or what! Joke was, he didn't have any clue about Bor or such a place near Vardha & thought we were from some other planet when I told him from where we have come! This is something Bor must work on i.e. making the place known to the outer world, though there are insta pages & things yet a bit more aggressive as environmentalists may think that the tourists are nuisance (sometimes) but they are needed to make the place sustainable & for that we need to have good (read as right) stay places at Bor also!  Next day morning we left for the gate at 4 am, again the hotel staff thought we were really crazy (which we are) & once inside the gate it was a different world. Morning breeze, fragrance of wild flowers, mist floating over the water body of Bor dam & an Osprey sitting on a dried branch of the tree in the water with prized kill of a fish in its claws, again a sight which I will cherish for long! As the drive continued, we came across one gypsy who told us a leopard had just crossed the road & went upstream of a water way & we thought of checking the spot as leopards are tricky characters & follow no fixed route. We went ahead & waited at the stream for the leopard's whereabouts & alarm calls of a peacock rang upstream & as the calls were moving up, we guessed the leopard must be walking up stream only. We turned back & went on the hill from where the stream originated & whoallaa (expression of amazement, lol), there was the ghost sitting right on the road & looking at us. I asked driver to stop right where we are & clicked few shots, for ten long minutes the leopard kept looking at us & when he realized we are not advancing nor are we a threat, he got up & started walking away from us on road & the moment we started the gypsy to follow him, he looked back & vanished in to the thickset of the forest! The driver has learned the lesson, which he will use in future of such sighting as leopards & sloth bears are very cautious animals & whenever you spot any of them best way is shut the engine off & stop & give them their time to be comfortable with your presence as then you can watch them at your leisure, that too is a chance!

With all such learnings & experiences, I headed out of the forest & met Ms.Archana, who is RFO at Bor & working for upbringings of local youngsters also. She later shared the clothes handing over pics to the locals & those happy faces brightened the darkness around, for sure! Guys, what makes some forest great or special is not sighting of tigers or a leopards, as you can get them in any forest; it’s the canvas of the landscape, habitat & stories unfolding on that canvas, is what makes a forest great & sure what I experienced in just two safaris at Bor, it is on way to become great, & with a promise to come back soon, I said adios to Bor WLS...!

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JEE, NEET, MPSC & Race for Comfort!

 

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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After a while you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.” ― Criss Jami

“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.” ― Shannon L. Alder

It’s not about getting into some govt job or IIT, it’s about achieving a comfort zone, forever… Me

Well, disclaimer at start, the article is about something of which I have zero experience i.e. MPSC or govt service exams & competitive exams for institutes like IIT or Medical (JEE/ NEET). Two reasons, one is I am from the lucky age-group where there was no entrance exam as our 12^th Std or Diploma marks decided our fate, though there was entrance for IIT but to my knowledge 12^th marks also used to matter. And second, I joined private service (& slogged there happily) though most of my family members were in different govt jobs & never ever had time for any govt service exam nor felt the need for the same! But I have some exposure with youths in different roles (even as guest lecturer) as employer & as consular for many of youngsters (except my own sons, lol) as well I have exposure to various govt depts (read as officials) thanks to my field of operation i.e. real estate! And when I read or say kept reading about the cancellation of many such exams right from NEET to even MPSC, due to various reasons (chiefly paper leak) I thought I must pen down & share as it might help a few, you never know!

First, let’s start with NEET / JEE as they come way earlier before a candidate appears for MPSC but before that lets know a bit about the entire system of competitive exams. Lately in our education system everything revolves around cracking some single exam & high time we must change this in itself, as maybe time has come to evaluate the necessity of the entrance exam system in the first place. For nearly four decades admission to medical / engg was being done through marks of 12^th & even today the diploma (polytechnic) admission is done on the basis of 10^th mark & all was fine. Rather by me its more comprehensive thing from the point of paper leak also as it's always easier to leak one single paper which is like master key to the exam like JEE / NEET but when you consider 12^th marks PCB/ PCM (I would say do google for meaning) then to leak paper of every paper as marks of three subjects were considered for admissions of respective field, is bit difficult for any criminal mind. And this tendency of leaking papers about which I will speak (write) at last is not going to vanish now for sure! At the same time because of one single exam thing which is like an entry pass to supposedly the best of colleges, there is a sudden surge in institutes/ classes (coaching classes) specialised in cracking this exam & that's the root cause of the paper leaks. This I am saying just on basis of logic as I know colleges as reputed like FC (I am deliberately taking name of institute) where students of 12^th Science doesn’t attend college at all even when they have got admission there on sheer merit & joins this so-called ticket assuring coaching classes & if you don’t trust me, ask any student you know there or inquire around & if my words are false then I will post Sorry & delete my this post! And this is not about only some FC college, but every major college which was once aspired by students that they should get admission here. And one more thing there are many phoney colleges (dummy) where all you need to do is take admission & don’t ever show up your face in college, you are free to attend full day coaching classes in Pune or even out station also (read as Kota or Latur) & the college will take care of your presently as well internal marks for practicals. Imagine if this is for the science branch what must be happening with Arts & Commerce branches & this all is at Junior level i.e. 11^th & 12^th!

Now, if this is the scene of basic colleging or education because some JEE or NEET named exam that students are refraining themselves from attending the college itself where they are supposed to learn basics of the subjects in depth & then prepare for the exam which is based on these subjects, isn’t something very seriously wrong with our approach towards the higher education, is my point of sharing! And if this is about JEE/ NEET then every institute right from Symbiosis (and such which are fully private) they also have their own entrance exams for getting admission here, may it be MBA or BBA or BCom or any such course. Outcome is, what we are making students ready for is mugging up for some single exam & you are in. This is why paper leak in such exams are easy when I look at these students giving everything to crack one exam & their parents included in the race then no wonder it looks like a see where hungry sharks are swimming searching for prey & dropping a bait like paper leak in this sea, is all some smart (read as criminal) mind has to do & there are plenty of them in our society (read as system)! No wonder there is nexus of coaching classes owners, private junior colleges who can empty money bags for the paper setters who unfortunately are teachers by profession & we all know how minuscule teachers are paid in our system, so these money bags are enough to make them blind (and deaf) towards their noble profession ‘s ethics & values! This is what we have to deal & remove from the root, is my object of sharing!

What we should do is go back to the basics & first make student learn every subject in totality & make attendance of colleges also equally important while giving them admission to higher courses & change the pattern of this single exam system, take series of exams in short interval or periodically as well make it objective where your knowledge of the subject will be considered not just some mugged up information which you spell out in three hours like a data machine as then not only the paper leakers will have difficulty but at the same time the students also will understand importance of learning the entire subject than just answers of few questions! And about parents, well that’s the main crux of the entire system’s failure as every parent wants their kid to crack IIT or Medical entrance because they think (& make their kid think) that here only lies your comfort zone of life. Its popular phrase in North India, “bass ek baar mera beta JEE crack kar jaye,mai pure mohalle me laddo batunga”, means once my son cracks IIT entrance I will distribute sweets in entire locality, like there is no other mission left in life for the father or mom! Guys, I was reading newspaper covering of Asiad Games which is ongoing in Japan & stories of the players who may not have given any entrance exam but kept practising for hours one single sport, their parents sold their belongings, took loan & today when the boy or girl has got medal for the country, that too is a career which is far bigger & successful than becoming an engineer or doctor & here there is no paper leak or any such short cut is available, is my point of sharing! Unfortunately, we have been getting trained by our parents only to go for shortcuts to get comfort & outcome is the race for JEE/ NEET & at any cost even paper leak, which may be good for a few but nightmare for rest millions who try sincerely without having a paper in hand in advance!

And if this is the case (read as attitude) for just getting admission in some college then we can imagine what people can do to get admission in the govt itself where MPSC comes in the picture! Well, for the ignorant (read as lucky) souls, MPSC i.e. Maharashtra Public Service Commission is State Govt’s organization which conducts or controls entry of candidates in the State Govt’s various depts! Now, you can imagine the kind of temptations here as if the paper setters of some college’s exams are getting offers of lakhs for getting admission, then here you are getting a govt job which is assurance of comfort for life & the same parents (read as mentality) who has got their son admitted in some college via some corrupt (or say wrong) way, now with degree-holder son along can go to any length to get this job, right?  Ok, MPSC’s main job is getting the right people to enter into the govt & for that make a right way (read as a system of exams or interviews) for the same. First & foremost no govt employee must be appointed here (MPSC), except few top persons which Central Govt did for passport office & hand it over to institute like TISC or TIFS (these both are Tata’s organizations, plz google it about them) & give them free hand. Try it for some particular dept or set of positions just to see the difference as every now & then if there is paper leak for MPSC’s any job opening then do mind there are always less jobs & more applicants who doesn’t get the job & they are bound to raise cry about foul play & there always will be opposition leaders/ parties supporting such candidates! In the end how many exams you will take again & how many staffers you will fire from the MPSC system, has govt thought about it? My question is why govt is hell-bent on keeping control of the entry ticket to govt job in its own hands as there only lies the failure of the entire system, is my object of sharing!

At the same time, India’s citizens, like that of any underdeveloped country, know the advantages of the govt system & the comforts (read as safety) it offers to a person & that’s why people can go to any level to get a government job. So, the problem doesn’t lie in the MPSC exam system but the attitude of the society towards the govt job & for that the govt instead of improving MPSC first need to improve their own backyard! Here (read as in govt) nobody gets punished for anything permanently for sure as there may some ACB (plz google) & temporary suspension & so-called elected members to keep control on govt servants but we all knows the futileness of the system & in the end all is well for everybody under the umbrella named govt job, this in itself needs to be changed first, is my subject & object of sharing! Last but not least, being ready for paper leaks even after you design a system which you think is perfect, which is not, we all know! There has to be a plan B where you keep ready to deal with paper leak so only the guilty must be punished & rest thousands should not be allowed to suffer for greed of a few, is what is the most important aspect. Form separate police or any such wing to detect crimes related to any paper leaks & make it offence that of National Security Threat level, which will make it top priority & no guilty will be spared. Trust me, leaking papers of some MPSC or NEET exam is far more serious than it looks as it takes away not just some admission or job from a deserving youngster but along with it takes away the belief of that kid from the entire system, which is the most dangerous outcome for the country at large!

As why people when offered job of even a Jr Engg in any govt dept doesn’t ask any question about the company (read as employer) & blindly accepts the job which may even has lesser pay-grade than the job of an engineer with some private firm (even MNC), have we ever thought why? Answer is simple, first, you have to slog in a private job, while in govt you don’t have to work as nobody is answerable to anybody (mostly). In a private job you will be fired for incompetence whatever position you may be working which never happens in any govt job, which means security even from incompetency & I am not even touching the under-table money, as that won’t be there if we deal with the first two in right way! As corruption by me, is not some govt or private organizations’ monopoly, it's the attitude of an individual & what the owner does to prevent it, which in govt is nobody, that’s the problem we have to deal with & then only we can correct this MPSC named system! There are good officers in govt system but the problem is about taking ownership & unfortunately it lies with the people whom we elect as our representees & of-late their interests are not the company (Society or State) they own but their own family, is a bitter fact!

Last but least, on one side there comes thousands of applications for lowest rank post of a peon (chaprasi) in a govt office, even engineers & MBAs’ apply but for a private firm there are no enough CVs for posts like site engg or sales officer, leave apart peon, as people want money but doesn’t want it hard way or right way! Same is applicable for IIT or Medical Colleges (Govt), even when you have got money for private college you seek for IIT & no wrong in it, but does only IIT make engineers, as the syllabus for civil engg (as I myself am one) is same any college you get admission! So, what you want to become, an engineer or an engineer for some particular college only & have job with some particular organization only, all this doesn’t depend on the institute but your attitude towards the course or field you have chosen; high time for our youths to understand & digest this basic funda of education as till then keep suffering in the grind of entrance exams & paper leaks of them, adios with this note!

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Sanjay Deshpande 

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Bapat, DJ, Punekar & Ganpati!

 

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“MAN HOW MUCH NOISE DO YOU MAKE IN THIS WORLD;

on occasion of 28^th April, International Noise Awareness Day”― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“And no sound from outside or anywhere. That must be the thing when you have money, I think. You never have to hear anything you don't want to, ever.”― Megan Abbott

“I wish there should have been the ability to close my ears too, just the way I can close my eyes to stop watching unwanted sights” … Me

Well, from the name itself you must have guessed the topic & add the above quotes in it, sure you may be deaf but not dumb if you can read (sorry, sarcasm)! Yes, it's about Ganpati & Punekars & one Mr Bapat whose name was talk of the town of late (plz google) & common thread joining these three is, sound or say noise pollution. Ganpati Bappa has gone back (I mean if you believe in the concept that by immersing an idol you can send back even gods’, keeping due respect for Bappa & religion) & what he has left behind is good memories & devotion & faith but what his disciples / devotes has left behind is many deaf or damaged humans also & reason is our noise pollution! At the start let me be clear (confess/ disclaimer) something, I am a believer of God, at my home there is ten full days (12 days, this year) of Ganpati & my sharing is not against immersion ceremony or celebration but our ways of celebration & I am not judge to decide what’s right or wrong, it’s up to the readers only!

This year’s Ganpati immersion procession went for 34 hours & holding entire city for nearly two days (read as cripple) can be a subject of debate & I won’t blame the police dept as they are part of society & it was ten thousand plus police which also are humans wearing some uniform against nearly one million humans, in case if anything goes wrong, you can imagine the odds of police controlling over this procession crowd! And then most of this mob is in frenzy mode for their own respective reasons & tempers or mood swings are at their extreme high & smallest of friction can turn the things nasty, this we must understand before we blame or comment on any dept or segment of society! Ok, before that about Mr Bapat, just to give background to the readers who has read about him only via memes of forwards, he is common citizen like you & me but dared to raise his voice (it’s a phrase & not sound pollution, lol bad joke) about social cause which was noise pollution during Ganpati festival. As usual what Bapat was pointing was ignored & the debate (if you call it debate) went of different track, Hindu & Non-Hindu & thankfully the guy is Hindu Brahmin (I don’t believe even in religions or castes by myself) or else the entire objection thing would have gone to different level! Bapat objected about sound levels during Ganpati festival & stated need of control on sound levels which many people took as ban or no use of loudspeakers or playing high level songs of music systems. And he did this in a meeting over Ganpati festival arranged by PMC where all segments of society including officials & elected members were there & Bapat was removed forcefully from this meeting for pointing out the sound pollution aspect of Ganpati festivals! And later also he pushed his point on social media which is like a hungry shark when it smells blood & here it was a pool of fresh blood.

Outcome was, the entire Bapat thing no more was objection raised by a Punekar about which also many objected that he is migrant from Ratnagiri & who is he to comment on “Our” festival. Unfortunately, this trend is dangerous as every debate or discussion now turns into “Ours” & “Theirs” rather than focusing on the subject of the discussion, is my point of sharing & what we are doing about it? As Bapat wasn’t objecting about Ganpati festival or devotion but as a citizen he is objecting about the way we are celebrating (do mind, we) the festival & Ours or Theirs my personal opinion is, everybody has right to celebrate but not at the cost of other’s discomfort, this I am sure also was point of Bapat, nothing more. It's not about the use of loudspeakers or Dhol taasha & dancing on streets but if that is causing not just disturbance but physical damage to others who are living around your celebrations then it must be stopped, simple! This is where we need to focus as all those who backlashed Bapat (even physical attack) blame him for Anti-Hindu & non believer of God & outsider, those people should introspect this aspect of their own definition of believer (which I have doubt will ever happen) & if they are not doing it here is where govt must take lead along with Ngo’s & start working on it! As on its own nobody will take lead & stop use of DJ or loudspeakers but the way only after repeated awareness efforts right from schools to offices, people on their own stopped buying (and burning) fire crackers as the society realized they can celebrate even without firecrackers, same path must be followed for curbing sound pollution during any festivals or celebrations & not just Ganpati! Here, all those who are naming Bapat & his supporters that why only at the time of Ganpati, so they are anti Hindus’ but my take is, first from somewhere this is needed to be started & Bapat was referring to sound pollution at large & not some particular festival, just he was part of a meeting which was organized on occasion of Ganpati, so the point was raised here. And second, barring Ganpati no other festival continues for ten-plus days, so the impact of sound pollution is much more than any other festival, simple! Ask any family residing on the roads from where every other festival or Jayanti or Punyatithi (I am deliberately not taking names, can’t afford it, lol) procession goes (Sinhgad road, Dandekar Bridge, SB Road) and listen what’s their opinion about such celebrations, of whichever religion, caste or God it may be & you will know what Bapat was trying to tell! Oh yes, even one Mr.Punit balan who is a social name in Pune also objected to sound pollution & appealed to Ganpati Mandals for not using DJ, he also got trolled by the very same people who used to praise Mr.Balan for his generous contributions for many social activities, such was the opposition for curbing sound pollution! 

Now, coming to the aspect of law & enforcement & blaming police or any govt dept; in the early morning when I drive to my badminton game, on every signal right from PMT busses to educated citizens to college kids to moms with their kids sitting behind on two-wheelers & yes Zomato/ Amazon delivery boys, all of them jump red signal or ride in wrong way. There are cameras, & they all know jumping red signals is a crime & they can get fined for it, yet they do it, why? Because they think they can get away with it, they don’t think it’s that serious a crime & they don’t care for their lives or others, & same is applicable for the sound pollution while we celebrate! It’s the mentality of the society which police & govt has to deal with & when millions break the law repeatedly, then still it’s wrong but the right way is not taking direct strict action but slowly changing the mindset of such law breakers, accept it or not! As on any cigarette packet there is clear sign printed as “Smoking is Injuries to health” yet the smokers smoke but we have banned smoking in public places because your smoking pleasure should not become nuisance to others as then it becomes a crime, same way sound-pollution for any reason must be dealt & govt must empower the concerned depts accordingly! Stopping sale or renting of any public audio loudspeaker systems, and doing it only from registered shops, can be one effective way of curbing sound pollution! This is why the hon Comm of Police said their priority is safety of millions of people & controlling the crowd during procession & he is right! Though from next year we (Police) can be proactive right from beginning & curb all the loudspeakers & music systems in advance rather than filing crimes against the Mandals’ later & PCMC police force along with Nagpur & other cities has done it successfully, surely Pune police also can do it!

 Guys, Pune’s Ganpati festival is probably the best platform to make people aware about various aspects of the environment, especially sound pollution. Eco friendly Ganpati doesn't mean just to curtail noise as well river pollution by not using hi peach speakers or not using Gulal or not throwing the all Nirmalya (garlands, flowers, decoration) in river nor just avoiding use of Plaster-of-Paris or Thermacol. But it means using this platform at fullest for the cause of environment. We are thinking of reducing the damage but we are forgetting to use the power of this festival to reach out to the people for spreading the message about environmental conservation. And indeed, Ganpati celebration is the best energy generation period, & like any energy it's up to us whether its bad or good for us as our use only decides it. Instead of naming (read as blaming) people who are demanding curb on sound, as anti-celebration or outsiders, let's come together & reduce sound levels & make Pune’s Ganpati festival as a leader for showing the world how a society can celebrate in the right way. I think, then only even the Ganpati Bappa will bless us in true means, as he is after all God of Intellect (Buddhi); till then, use ear plugs or buds or go on vacation is one way & raise your voice on awareness front about sound pollution is another way, choice is yours, adios with this note!
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