Guv Tamilisai Soundararajan: Need to preserve environment

Hyderabad: Telangana state Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday emphasised the need for the preservation of nature and environment. She was addressing the valedictory function of the 80th All India Industrial Exhibition.

She said whatever may be the environment of our business, people should love and protect nature. “We should prevent cutting of trees. We have to safeguard the greenery of the state and as well as of the nation. We have to plant trees. The state government is coming out various schemes like the Haritha Haram to preserve the environment. We should encourage ‘Green Telangana’. Activities for protection of nature have to be increased,” she said.

The Governor said it is heartening to know that the Exhibition Society has been conducting Numaish annually for the last eight decades for a noble cause, particularly for education. The society is patronising 18 educational institutions, mostly meant for girls, which is highly appreciable. “Conducting the 46-day exhibition, popularly known as ’Numaish’ very safely is not an easy task,” she said.

The Governor said it was in late 1938 that few graduates of Osmania University conceived this idea of organising an exhibition to display products indigenously manufactured with a view to encourage and promote industrial development in the erstwhile Hyderabad.

It is highly appreciable, because whatever may be the efforts put into manufacturing, but the marketing and the exhibition of materials encourage and boost the manufacturers.

She remembered Ms Sarojini Naidu on her birthday and said she was fond of nature. “She delayed her release from prison one day to see the blooming of a rose on the plant which was planted by her. She came out and lived a public life and served as a first Governor of the state in an era where the women hesitated to come out of their house,” she said.