Rooftop: rainwater harvesting systems in Schools

The Government of Karnataka, through the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department, has launched a rooftop rainwater harvesting programme for 23,683 schools across the state. The programme seeks to provide each student with 1.5 litres of drinking water every day through harvesting rainwater from rooftops of the schools.

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Cleanliness Drive

A cleanliness drive is being launched in six major cities of Chhattisgarh Raipur, Bilaspur, Bhilai, Durg, Rajnandgaon and Korba under the Centre-sponsored programme. While German Technical Corp will prepare the…

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Seeking Public Opinion

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is planning to invite public opinion on the anti-littering law before getting it approved by the Delhi government. Under the law, fines for offences like…

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Water Conservation

As part of its water conservation plans, the BMC will make it compulsory to install dual flush and automatic sensor toilet systems in new construction projects. The use of dual…

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Eco-friendly Group

How to put idle time to its best use can be learned from six Mumbai based housewives. The ladies formed an environment friendly group called ‘Are you reducing, reusing, recycling?’,…

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India: Turning Old into Gold

More and more individuals and organisations are practising the concept of recycling in their everyday lives. Discarding the largely western culture of use-and-throw, many are now into using and reusing…

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