RSP CEO calls for wildlife conservation

Rourkela: “Our endeavour would be to leave this world as a more beautiful place than we inherited”, said G S Prasad, Chief Executive Officer of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) while inaugurating the Wildlife Week 2012 celebrations at the Civic Centre here today.

Expressing his happiness over the participation of large number of school children in the celebration, Prasad said, “By nature, children are honest and so are the animals.”

Saying that several species of beautiful animals had become extinct over the years, he pointed out that it was the price mankind was paying for urbanization, industrialization and the so-called modernization of civilization.

Prasad further said that it was high time projects on the lines of ‘Project Tiger’ are launched to save the vultures, which are natural scavengers but are a threatened species now.

He exhorted everybody to use plastic bags responsibly and to segregate wastes into bio-degradable and non bio-degradable categories and dispose them of accordingly as cattle were affected by ingesting them.

In his address, D Basu, ED (P&A), said that these celebrations were meant to reaffirm our commitment to the conservation of the subtle ecological balance.

Manjari Prasad, president of Deepika Mahila Sanghati, released education materials on “Wildlife Conservation and Animal Welfare” and distributed the same to children who came up with masks of endangered animals to emphasize their conservation. The programme ended with the screening of a short educational film on wildlife.

Among others, R K Nehru, ED (MM), P K Pradhan, GM (TA&CSR), many senior officers of RSP, Rupa Basu, vice-president of Deepika Mahila Sanghati and teachers and students of many schools were present on the occasion.