Vice President emphasises the need educate people on ecological importance of rivers and water bodies

M. Venkaiah Naidu today stressed the need to educate people about the ecological importance of rivers and water bodies, and urged the people not to pollute or degrade them. In a Facebook post, after visiting Tungabhadra dam at Hospete in Ballari district of Karnataka, the Vice President underlined the need to preserve and conserve our finite water resources for future generations. "A river is very much like a living entity and let us pledge to keep its purity and sanctity intact", he said.