Dimapur, September 20 : The Kohima Village Youth Organisation (KVYO) today expressed solidarity with Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) to observe 5th October-2016 as “A day to enable environment recoup its vitality for human sustenance.”
The KVYO therefore in a note made appeal for the vehicles to remain off the road and shutting down of power-driven industries and businesses in the capital town.
According to the KVYO, some “modalities” were practiced by forefathers before the advent of Christianity, formal education or even before they could perceive the vulnerability of the environment.
The KVYO stated: “To maintain environmental equilibrium our visionary forefathers observed certain days as ‘ritualistic forbidden days’ (Penyie or Kenyü) to honour mother nature, and strictly observed those days by invoking nature blessing so that natural calamities like hailstorms, fire, windstorms, earthquakes and floods etc, would not strike our land or crops, and to show their reverence for mother-nature they practiced total cease work with the hope that it would restore balance in nature and prevent natural calamities.”
“When our illiterate forefathers can show so much wisdom and concern for a cause which they are yet to be affected, we the present generation who are confronted with environmental crisis in our everyday experience should not remain passive or indifferent but actively participate in all initiatives to save and conserve our environment.”
The organization admitted that the event would “definitely paralyse the day to day activities” but that it was for a “dignified cause”, hence, “worth doing it.”
The KVYO has urged citizens of Kohima district to cooperate with the AYO “by taking a walk to work-place, schools and colleges and work with human driven energy to feel a day with nature, and contribute in their small way to save the environment.”
