NEW DELHI: After promoting the use of cow urine and products based on cow manure, such as hand sanitizers and face masks to control the spread of Covid-19, the National Cow Commission has intensified its efforts to encourage the use of more and more products of this type during the next festivals that aim to produce 33 million rupees eco-friendly ‘diyas’ (clay lamps), made of cow dung, during Diwali next month to counter Chinese products.
“The upcoming campaign to use ‘diyas,’ made from cow dung, will counter the lamps made in China and thus boost the Prime Minister’s ‘make in India’ concept,” said Vallabhbhai Kathiria, chairman of the commission. .
More than 15 states, including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have agreed to be part of the campaign. Around 3 lakh ‘diyas’ will be lit in the holy city of Ayodhya, while 1lakh ‘diyas’ will be used at the Ganges river ghats in Varanasi.
Manufacturing has started. We are targeting 33 crore of diyas before Diwali, ”Kathiria said, noting that the Commission, Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA), will act as a facilitator to help ranchers and other stakeholders produce not only ‘diyas’ but many others as well. friendly products.
The president himself, while addressing a press conference, displayed a number of products, made from cow dung / urine, such as hand sanitizer, paperweights, Ganesh and Lakshmi idols, incense sticks, candles and ‘anti-chips’. radiation ‘which he claimed would protect mobile users from the harmful effects of radiation.
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