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As we sit at work, there are many others who’d have already started flying kites. It is Makar Sankranti a day after tomorrow and Lohri today. Children would know no limit to celebrations as they are inching towards the end of winter breaks.

Yet, there are many others who are getting perturbed, who are getting injured, who are being killed … thanks to our celebrations. The winged beings, the birds, who generally rule the vast stretched sky get gravely injured and killed in these few days because of the glass-coated manjha.

However, realizing what effect these few days of kite flying bring to the world of winged lives, there are several children from across the city of Jaipur coming forward against kite flying. Self-motivated, these students have come forward, holding campaigns to awaken people. Well, no, these students are not campaigning against kite-flying, but giving certain measures that can help these flying lives whom we render flightless.

And then there are certain other groups, some of them non-profit organizations trying to create an awareness against injuring birds during the festivities. NGOs like Angeleyes, Pragya Chaitanya Foundation Trust, Help in Suffering, Sewa Samarpan together have urged the people of Jaipur city to help them in the cause.

There’s nothing much that the kite-lovers need to do. All that has to be is:

1. Avoid flying kites during 6 to 8am and 5 to 7pm.
2. Use Sadda (cotton thread), instead of glass-coated manjha.
3. Always dispose off the left-overs of the kites in dustbins only.

Call on the helpline whenever you find injured birds.

For these few days till the festivities continue, there are special camps are being organized and helplines have been arranged, which would support treatment for injured birds.

1. Angeleyes will be around Inox Vaishali Nagar, Khatipura, Jhotwara, Sirsi Road, Vidhydhar Nagar.
 Contact no.: 9782000077

2 .Raksha will be around Old city, JLN Marg, Civil Lines, C Ccheme, MI Road, Shastri Nagar
Contact no.: 9828500065

3. Help in Suffering will be around Mansarovar, Durgapura, Maharani Farm, Sanganer, Pratap Nagar and Malviya Nagar.
Contact no.: 0141-2760012, 8441058871

4. Sewa Samarpan will be around Raja Park and Malviya Nagar.
Contact no.: 9252560000

5. Naya Sawera will be around Albert Hall and Ramniwas Garden.
Contact no.: 9649020121

The Tourism and Wildlife Society of India too has urged people to contribute in the cause. He says that Rajasthan and Gujarat, the two states, where the festival of Makar Sankranti is celebrated most exquisitely, gets some birds that are close to extinction. And thus these are the two states that should be helping in conserving birds the most.