As the world is observing the World Consumer Rights Day, today, March 15, to look into the rights of consumers with a theme “tackle plastic pollution”, heavy deployment of Indian forces will turn Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a plastic dumping area.
The heavy installation of armed forces personnel, which is the highest concentration of any armed forces across the world in a particular area, will cause a huge dent to the ecosystem of IIOJK as heavy use of plastic by troops will in fact turn into a place for dumping plastics the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the International Consumer Rights Day, today said every year, World Consumer Rights Day is observed on March 15.
It said on this day people get together to create awareness about the rights of the consumers. The best way, it added, to observe the day is to educate ourselves about consumer rights. This day also encourages the people to be more active in protecting their rights and ensuring that they are safe from malpractice, it maintained.
The report said in view of International_Consumer_Rights_Day; with a theme “tackle plastic pollution”, purposely to save ecosystem, ironically, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the huge deployment of Indian forces, which is the highest concentration of any armed forces in world, turned into a place for dumping plastics, especially at tourist places like Gulmarg, Phalgam, Sonamarg.
It said the world’s attention is needed to save Kashmir in terms of environment and resolve the lingering dispute as per the United Nations resolutions.—KMS
