Sewa Parv or the Festival of Service is being celebrated across the country. The Govt officials in J&K are on the tenterhooks. Seminars, workshops, musical programmes, cleanliness drives are being held across different states and UTs. Govt has also announced a series of programmes that began from September 17th 2025 and would culminate on Oct 2nd the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Sewa Parv is a national initiative to celebrate the spirit of Sewa (service) in its truest form of patriotism. This nationwide campaign has been anchored by the Ministry of Culture’s guiding vision “Vikas bhi, Virasat bhi” (Development as well as Heritage).

The initiative seeks to weave together cultural pride with a deep sense of social responsibility, but are our Govt officials really serious about their responsibilities? Are our Govt officials or even citizens really concerned about their duties? We talk a lot about our rights but never fulfil our duties as citizens. Programmes like Sewa Parv are meaningless if we don’t inculcate these values into our lives. The Govt officials have to be more serious on these issues because they are the people who propagate and promote these campaigns ?

Mobilizing Gen Z & Alpha 

Under the nationwide Sewa Parv 2025 celebrations this author spoke on Climate Change in Kashmir with special focus on protection of our water bodies especially Doodh Ganga........

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