The aforesaid goals can be achieved through large scale participation and cooperation of those who have a ‘feel’ towards desert , who have some emotions attached with the desert and those who love and adore nature in its purest form. ‘Save thr desert’ as an NGO is working towards it at a micro level. The process involves —
- Holding Camps in the country side to educate the villagers to save the desert.
- Reminding the villagers of their rich culture and traditions and persuading them not to be swayed by or influenced by the builders.
- Organising camps in the villages persuading the villagers to stick to the natural desert crop and vegetation.
- Educating the villagers of the revenue and employment generation through tourism and cottage Industries.
- Distributing Pamphlets and literature relating to protection of deserts.
- Organizing cultural programmes under the cultural wing “Dharti Dhora Ree”(The Land Of Desert) with primary objective of creating awareness about desert.
- Collecting and storing the facts ,informations and datas relating to desert depletion.
- Taking notice of any large scale construction activity in the desert.
- Persuading Government to bring suitable legislation to save the desert.
- Inter-acting and coordinating with other global groups working in this arena, UNO and other such agencies.
- Persuading the Government to opt for constructing overbridges in desert areas as an alternate to roads which destroy the basic concept and identity of deserts.
- Locating and listing old Hawelis .
- Identifying and listing heritage buildings in dilapidated condition.
- Listing heritage buildings being misused as offices.
- Submitting Online Petition.
- Persuading Government to organize Desert sports such as Desert safari Car Race, Camel Race and other traditional desert games.
- To explore and start on experimental basis popular games like Cricket, Golf and hockey on deserts.Though difficult and appearing as impossible, once popular it can be a big success amongst the youth.
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