A No-Cost Mass Awareness & Mobilization Campaign. Background : In Madhya Pradesh since last Survekshan the ULBs have increased their efforts and had been constantly pushing hard among their citizens ensuring maximum participation in the ULB lead sanitation activities & practices. During the period several thematic drives and special campaigns were introduced & implemented at…
#JholaChallenge • Why Jhola Challenge? Shoppers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year. This translates to about a million bags every minute across the globe, or 150 bags a year for every person on earth. And the number is rising. The Jhola Challenge is an initiative to use Jhola and…
Green Vigil Foundation is a registered non- profit organization based at Nagpur with expertise in Environmental domain & vision of a shared sustainable future on the planet through education & mobilization of all stakeholder groups. The Foundation has been working towards Swachh Bharat Mission since inception, Nagpur with the organization believes in changing mindset of citizens…
At her age of 2, Bina Sahu got affected of polio leaving her handicapped. At her early age of 13, she lost her mother leaving her with the responsibility of 4 sisters as she being eldest. Her fathers a driver who struggled to meet the basic needs of the family. She tried finding a good…
Asheesh Singh, the Indore municipal commissioner, was behind efforts that cleared 13 lakh tonnes of refuse in just six months through bio-mining. As several parts of the country continue to struggle with India’s humungous garbage problem, an IAS officer in Madhya Pradesh has managed to clear over 13 lakh tonnes of refuse in just six…
A group of citizens from Bengaluru came together in 2014 to end the littering menace near the Jakkur lake through weekly cleanup and tree plantations drives About 200 years ago, the Jakkur lake was constructed to meet the water needs of the people, little did the then authorities know that the lake would cease to…
On January 12, on Youth Day, a 7-star shape was created through the human series at the Kshirsagar Stadium. Around 5000citizens including children gathered at 8 in the morning on the occasion of National Youth Day. Under the cleanliness survey 2019, the municipal corporation has claimed for getting a 7-star rating. Mayor Meena Joanwal quoted this at…
A group of Raipur residents got together and conducted a 12-day swachhta drive to clean the city’s entrance and constructed toilets to address the problem of open defecation. HIGHLIGHTS 70-80 volunteers removed 300 kilos of garbage Four bio-toilets were constructed on NH 30 Since 2014, the volunteers have cleared 87% of the city ‘First impression…
Pave the way for Agra’s clean-up brigade ‘India Rising’ that is working relentlessly for last 242 weeks to clean-up Agra. N“Back in 2014, I and three of my friends saw an open manhole, with its cover lying next to it, straight for a week. We approached Agra Municipal Corporation, seeking help, but since we didn’t…
Meet the new Swachh Mascot of Jammu and Kashmir, 87-year-old Rakki Devi who to fight open defecation constructed a toilet all by herself as she didn’t have money for the construction. In May, when 87-year-old Rakkhi Devi from Jammu and Kashmir’s Badali village in Udhampur, decided to break free from the practice of open defecation by building a toilet,…
