Webinars held on the eve of World Environment Day

Varanasi: Webinars were organised by several organisations and messages were sent to appeal to people for protection of environment on the eve of the World Environment Day on Thursday. The World Environment Day is observed on June 5 every year.
Mahamana Malaviya Research Centre for Ganga at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) organised a webinar on ‘skill of living with the environment amid the outbreak of Covid-19’. Noted environment scientist and chairman of MMRCG Prof BD Tripathi said that people will have to protect the environment while following the prescribed safety norms to prevent Covid-19.
Former head of the department of sociology, Prof AK Joshi, Dr RJ Vishwakarma and many others took part in the webinar. Meanwhile, the BHU vice-chancellor Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar would release a booklet on environment at a brief function at the Central Library on Friday.
Diesel Locomotive Works GM, YP Singh claimed that the unit has been working for the cause and said that it has its own sewage treatment plant and industrial effluent treatment plant for treating waste water.
Meanwhile, the forest department has also appealed to the farmers for plantation, particularly medicinal plants. Forest officer Mahaveer Kaujlagi said that the farmers are invited to take benefit of the medicinal plant farming under Namagi Gange programme.