Shri
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister
Government
of India
North Block
New Delhi July 15, 2019
Dear Sir
NDA
2 - Suggestion No 01
I have a number of suggestions to make to you
purely from an ordinary citizen’s perspective,
but I thought in your busy schedule it would be difficult for you to
spend too much time on a long
communication.
Hence,
I will be sending you just one suggestion every fortnight for your
consideration and possible action.
My first suggestion in this series is :
a)
Instruct
all Government Departments, PSUs and all organisers of Functions (including BJP
functions/meetings) where you are
invited to speak / inaugurate that no floral bouquet or garland should be
given to you or to anyone else on the dais.
b)
As
you very well know, these floral gifts
are simply taken by you and then handed over to your staff who either take it
home or discard it. Even if they take it home, it gets discarded after a few
days.
c)
As
such, this a huge expense that is
needlessly incurred and doesn’t add
any value – in fact it reduces value of the tree from which these flowers have
been plucked.
d) Flowers
/ garlands, bouquets are, in fact, “end-of-life” gifts because they spell the end of life
for the flowers.
e) Flowers
look best where they belong – on the trees where they
have sprouted and it is only proper that we leave them there.
f) Instead, if the organisers are very keen to give
something, let
them give saplings or plants
because these are “beginning-of-life” gifts and will lead to greening of the country.
Kind regards.
(Hemendra K. Varma)
Encl : a/a
cc : Dr. Jitendra Singh – MOS in PMO
Shri Nripendra Mishra, Principal Secretary to PM
Shri Pradeep Kumar Sinha, Cabinet Secretary
1 comment:
Well said. I second it.
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