India is at a “good position” within the battle against the coronavirus pandemic and therefore the country will fight the disease determinedly and enthusiasm, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday.
Shah spoke after participating during a mega plantation drive initiated by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) that features a target to plant about 1.37 crore saplings in their country-wide campuses by this month-end.
“The world is seeing that if a successful battle has been fought anywhere across the world against the coronavirus it’s India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he said
“It was feared that how would an outsized country like ours would face this challenge as long as we’ve a federal structure of governance, dense population of 130 crore people and no single chain of command,” Shah said.
He was speaking after planting a peepal tree at the CRPF officers’ training academy campus in Kadarpur village here.
The 130 crore people of the country, all the states and each individual fought this battle against COVID-19 together nation, he said.
Across the world , governments are fighting this disease but in our country everyone has joined hands, Shah said.
“We are at an honest position during this coronavirus battle and can continue this fight determinedly and there’s no atmosphere of fear. we’ve the eagerness to battle it and enthusiasm to defeat it (coronavirus),” Shah said in his address to the chiefs of varied CAPFs and troops who heard him over a webinar link.
As the home minister of the country, I can proudly say that the safety forces of the country have a “big role” to play during this battle fought by India, he said.
Shah noted that COVID-19 may be a very contagion that challenges the very existence of the human kind.
Saluting the ‘corona warriors’ of the CAPFs and other security and police forces, the minister said they need set a replacement example of rendering their duty and fighting the pandemic at an equivalent time.
He said over 31 CAPF personnel have laid down their lives while rendering COVID-19 duties out of which ten personnel are from the Central Reserve police .
“I assure you that your sacrifice won’t enter vain. Your sacrifice are going to be written in golden words,” he said.
Talking about the importance of trees in environment protection, the house minister urged the personnel of those forces to adopt a minimum of one plant and make sure that they protect it till it grows bigger than them
“Consider the plant like your child and treat it with the love and care that you simply mention your children,” he urged the personnel
“We face challenges of worldwide warming, rise in temperature and depletion of the ozonosphere. Only trees can save us from environmental challenges and that they can help to reduce the prevailing pollution and zip else,” he said.
He said the house ministry, under the continued mega plantation drive, has chosen the utmost of these plants which have a lifetime of over 100 years in order that they will help preserve the character for long.
Shah also said that he believes that his ministry should have a culture that each one projects or initiatives launched by it should reach successful completion.