Assamese film director Anupam Kaushik Bora urges all to save Deepor Beel
- Jun 15, 2019,
- Updated Jun 15, 2019, 1:43 AM IST
Guwahati, June 15, 2019:
Assamese film director Anupam Kaushik Bora has emphasized the need for preserving Deepor Beel which could turn Guwahati a ‘World Class City.’
Endorsing the #LetsSaveDeeporBeel campaign Bora who shot to limelight for his film Bornodi Bhotiyai said, “Deepor Beel is an asset for Guwahati. When I look at Guwahati, I could see that Guwahati could have been a world class city which could have been a tourist destination because of the hills, plains, river and also this very precious asset Deepor Beel.”
He, however, rued that this very asset of Guwahati now stinks.
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“What I can see when you stand beside the Beel right now it stinks. That is one of the most terrible feeling about it. One of the most terrible things that could happen to this Beel.”
According to Anupam Kaushik Bora wetlands are very important for human lives, nature, the culture of Assam and people.
“We need to save it. There is no way out. We need to clean it. We need to preserve the whole wetland. We need to act from now,” he asserted.
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“I am from Majuli and it is a place which is full of wetlands. I am grown up in those areas. Fortunately, not the industries being raised there. That’s why those wetlands are intact. But here in Guwahati, the industries around the place, they also need to do better waste management. They need to take the initiative to clean the Beel and start campaigning in this regard. It is the very high time our Government starts looking into it,” he added.
“I feel from my heart that people of Assam should support this movement. We need to act from our side to make this Beel beautiful,” were his concluding lines.