Gou Gram Yatra arrives in Pune next month
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Friday, November 13th, 2009 AT 12:11 PM
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PUNE: Vishwa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra, a national tour aimed at bringing out sustainable development of Indian villages by focusing on cow-based way of life, is set arrive in the state early next month.
The 108-day awareness movement, which started from Kurukshetra, Haryana, on September 30, will traverse through around 400 major places in the country before concluding at Nagpur on January 17.
“The Gou Gram Yatra will arrive at Pune on December 11 after reaching Ratnagiri first a three days earlier during its tour in western part of the state,” joint secretary of tour organising committee Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari informed a press meet Monday.
“The tour is joint endeavour of saints, environmentalists, scientists and scholars who have a strong belief that cow-based way of life could bring about development in rural parts of the country as well as entire India,” he said.
Dharmadhikari said the Yatra has been educating farmers and other masses about the numerous benefits of indigenous varieties of cows in fields like agriculture, health, employment generation.
A special signature campaign has also been launched as a part of the Yatra, in which 50 crore signatures will be collected in support of the demand to declare cow as the national animal.
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