The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : `Emotional pollution has spoiled nature'

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Saturday, Jan 08, 2005

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`Emotional pollution has spoiled nature'

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, DEC. 8 . Nature cannot withstand high-level of tension and negative emotions in the society, the founder-president of the Vyakthi Vikas Kendra (VVK) and Chairman, International Association of Human Values, Sri Ravishankar said today.

Talking to presspersons here during a transit halt from Colombo to Nagapattinam to visit tsunami-affected areas, he said emotional pollution had spoiled the nature. The calamity had traumatised the people severely, he said, adding that VVK volunteers were actively involved in consoling the people through relief and confidence-building measures.

Sri Ravishanar said the VVK had supplied 200 tonnes of relief materials, including tents, medicines, and milk powder, to Sri Lanka. Another 250 tonnes of relief materials was meant for distribution to the affected people in Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The VVK would soon undertake relief operations at Aceh in Indonesia. The entire relief materials were worth Rs.150 crores and a further Rs.50 tonnes of relief materials were being mobilised.

The immediate aim of the VVK was to facilitate fishermen to develop courage to return to their work, by initiating them into meditation, he said, adding that it was also looking forward to starting orphanages and starting income generation activities in the affected areas in the long run. It operated 11 relief camps in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and not less than 5,000 volunteers were at work.

Sri Ravishankar said it was a wonder that none of the Buddhist shrines in Colombo and Shrines in India along the coastlines had suffered any damage. The coming together of several countries to serve the tsunami-affected people was a positive development, he added.

The VVK State president, Kittu Rao, who accompanied the spiritual leader, said the Kendra's Tiruchi Centre streamlined the relief materials, mobilised from various districts, to the areas affected by the calamity.

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