Sramana 2006 07

SR No.: 525059
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 234
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 10 MB

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178 Śramaņa, Vol 57, No. 3-4/July-December 2006
c) Street-dogs- The barking of street dogs in the night also create sound pollution. In the whole world India is on the top, so for sound pollution created by dogs is concerned. Here, there is no control over dogs and other animals alike. They move freely in the street and make unwanted sound. They bark in the group, which disturbs all persons sleeping in the night.
So with a view to finish the sound-pollution loudspeakers should be utilized where there it is needed, not for making sound and disturbing others. In the cities traffic-order should be maintained. The dogs be tamed properly, they must not be left freely in the streets.
Cutting of Trees and Destruction of Forests
The township is extending very fast due to the increasing population of nation several colonies and industrial states are being established of different places in the country, for which open and unoccupied lands are needed. So in order to get open and unoccupied and trees are being cut down and forests are being destroyed. The greenery has lost its value. In this way the present human life is suffering from following problems.
i) Loss of Oxygen The trees supply us oxygen, which is the most necessary thing for the existence of life. There can be no life without oxygen. Therefore cutting of trees causes the loss of oxygen. In other words, the cutting of trees results into the loss of life.
ii) Shortage of Rain - The trees and forests retain monsoon. So the places which have large number of trees and big forests get heavy rains which help the residents of those places in farming and other purposes. The places where there are neither trees nor forests do not have rain and become deserts. The cutting of trees causes shortage of rain.
iii) Lack of Fruits and shadows - The trees supply to the human life sweet fruits, green scenes and cool shadows and also food for the animals tamed. The human life suffers from the loss