To cremate bodies in India alone we need to cut 500-600 lakh trees every year covering 1500-1600 sq km of forest land. On an average one body needs 400-500 kg of wood to burn completely. In the process 80 lakh tonnes of ash and 80 lakh tonnes of green house carbon dioxide is released in the environment.
Now consider this, If all of us Indians switch entirely to other methods of disposal of bodies, India would earn carbon credits worth Rs 6,500 crore.
In Kanpur, for example, cremations have become a burden on the living and the environment. Ash and bones lie piled on the riverbanks where bodies are cremated. They get deposited on the river bed in the months of December to June when thee is not enough water in the rivers to wash the ash and bones away.
i think it shd be banaras not kanpur becoz i heard tht its there whr people burn their dead ones for their "GATI" and its a place said to be gateway to heaven
ReplyDeleteThey burn bodies on the river bank in Benaras, Kanpur.. everywhere. People who cant bear the cremation related expenses just throw the body in water when nobody is watching. I have seen bodies floating in Ganga years ago in Kanpur.
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