International Day of Action for Rivers, 2020.

The People's Movement for Subansiri Brahmaputra Valley (PMSBV) today (14th March, 2020) celebrated the International Day of Action for Rivers on the bank of a wetland called Merbeel near Subansiri river. Merbeel is an important source of water and livelihoods for the people living in the adjacent villages but this wetland turns into a branch of the Subansiri river during monsoon. Dirghuram Doley, an elderly of Pirika village, prayed the river and asked kindness to the people. He prayed coolness of everybody's mind as the mother Subansiri's water is cool. He asked the holy river to cure all the diseases suffering by the people who live on the Subansiri river basin.

More than a hundred participants, mostly women and youths took part on the occasion and discussed about the future of water bodies and climate change.

Earthen lamps were lit and leave them on a banana raft to float on the water of the wetland.


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