Awareness
Water scarcity has reached alarming proportions, ponds and water bodies in Baripada town are being used as dumping yards. The Government, on its part, is showing little interest in renovating them. It is noticed that different shopkeepers have encroached on some portions of the ponds to open their stalls, in other areas they are filled [...] Continue Reading »
High growth of real estate projects in Bangalore leads to the water crisis of the city. Many newly developed areas in Bangalore, which were outskirts some years ago, are experiencing sharpe rise of apartment constructions. When the construction of any project started, the bore wells are dug at the same time as corporation water supply [...] Continue Reading »
Prayas, a city based NGO, is driving a tree transplantation service in Surat. The real estate developers, private plot holders, residential societies, industrial unit owners are approaching to the NGO for transplant trees around their premises. The builders and the industry owners had chopped several trees for their construction purpose. Now they are eager to [...] Continue Reading »
The members of Citizens’ Action Forum, HSR RWA Federation, RTI activist and several other residents forum have decided to take up the Agara lake restoration project by themselves. As recently, the High Court has cancelled the Agara Lake’s PPP contract, the residents staying around agara lake have decided to save the lake. They all agreed [...] Continue Reading »
The water content of Hyderabad has been reduced by the increase of the real estate projects in Hyderabad. As drilling machines digging deep into the ground to lay foundations for the high-rises in Hyderabad, the water-table has receded dangerously. Most of the developers have violated all building norms leaving little open space for the rain [...] Continue Reading »
Implementation of waste management projects will be mandatory for residential apartments in Chennai. The Chennai Corporation is working on a proposal for compulsory source segregation of waste material at large residential apartments in the city. If the residential complexes do not initiate these projects, they will be fined, as per a senior corporation official. The [...] Continue Reading »
Before applying to home loans any individual must look into his income, current expenses and track record from Credit Bureau as these are very much important for availing any home loan. According to a higher official of HSBC, buyers must opt for floating rate of interest in the current economic scenario while going for any [...] Continue Reading »
Kundanhalli Lake is surrounded by multi-storied buildings and apartments in Bangalore. The Lake bund is completely covered by the concrete jungle. According to the Supreme Court’s direction, it is illegal to construct any property within 30 meters from any lake bund. This rule is being violated by the builders and developers in Bangalore as many [...] Continue Reading »
One of the residents of Navi Mumbai by name Satish Lokare has designed an affordable solar system which will help functioning of home appliances as well as streetlights. To meet the needs of Indian homes, he has imported the solar power units from abroad and modified them accordingly. Right now, the solar system has a [...] Continue Reading »
The fashion of installing Rainwater harvesting system seems not to have fancied the minds of Bangalore residents. The main fact is that maximum of the population do not know the functioning and structure of this system. To prove the same, the “water man of Bangalore” Jeff D’Lemos a retired engineer says that he has been [...] Continue Reading »
