NEW YORK: Pakshirajan Sundar Paripoornan, a prominent Indian businessman manufacturing human vaccine, has launched a movement named ‘Save Our Country’ to enthuse youth on the need to save fuel for saving the planet and ultimately, humanity.
He pointed to the scenario of global turmoil, unrest and economic turbulence. He said, “The factors for this turbulence are fuel shortage, weakening of the rupee against the dollar, shortage in electricity power generation, disappearing water bodies, pollution, adulteration inflation, to name a few.”
Paripoornan is the Chairman and Managing Director of Green Signal Bio Pharma Private Limited near Chennai, one of India’s largest vaccine manufacturers.
He said, “Let us not wait for somebody or everybody to tide over these turbulent times but let each one of us rise to the occasion and deal with the problem looming large over all of us.” The movement is concerned about saving fuel because fuel is not renewable and there is need to take a good look at the alternative source of energies.
While pollution and respiratory problems are some of the collateral, the steep price hike in imports within a limited time frame has hit the common man the hardest with costs going up all around. The fossil fuels come from under the earth where they are supposed to be and uprooting them will affect the oceans and the air we breathe making living very difficult one on the planet, he said.
“There are many who feel the way I do. I want to start this movement with the motto each one for everyone so that each one contributes and plays a pivotal role to make India a better place to live in. I am planning to involve high school children, college students and youth in this mammoth exercise,” he said.
We have asked the youth to propagate the message that people can stay put in whichever part of the nation they are but make sincere efforts to save fuel, electricity, water that have become scarce. This will also keep the delicate environment safe. The youth groups will be interlinked through the website and recognized for their involvement, he noted.
There is an urgent need to use bicycles and public transportation or at least car pooling to start with to save fuel. Walking to work should be encouraged from health point of view and from nation’s health point of view.
The campaign has caught attention in India. The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Chairman RS Butola walks 15 km to office while Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Chief Sudhir Vasudeva takes metro once in a week. The oil PSU heads have taken lead in shunning petrol or diesel guzzling cars to support Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily’s call for fuel conservation.
State gas utility GAIL’s Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi too walked from his residence to office and back while two joint secretaries in the Oil Ministry rode bicycles. Moily himself took metro to office on Oct 9 as part of a campaign to promote fuel conservation so as to help cut the nation’s massive oil import bill.
Moily had given a call to declare on Wednesdays, starting from Oct 9, as Bus Day or Public Transport Day for his ministry and 14 public sector oil companies, he said.
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