Tag: Public-Private Mix
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Coonoor River Phase-5
A 11 day exercise aimed at a re-cleanup of the middle stream and a further widening of 500 meters of hitherto untouched ground was brought to a successful conclusion on 08 October, thanks to the funds made available from funds provided by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and INTACH Nilgiris Chapter. It is hoped that our efforts…
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The Two Million
Most ought to be familiar with The Four Million, a collection of 25 short stories by the American writer O Henry, the title of which refers to the then population of New York where most of the stories are set. The Two Million referred to over here refers to the quantity of waste in kilograms,…
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World Cleanup Day 2021
It all began in the small northern European country of Estonia, in 2008, fifty-thousand people united to clean up the entire country in just five hours. On that day, a global bottom-up civic movement was born and spread like wildfire around the globe. This captured the imaginations of people worldwide, who were inspired to follow…
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Time for Nature
518 cubic meters of landfill space spared ; 2 million litres of water saved ; 1.65 lakh litres of petroleum conserved ; and 1,100 trees prevented from being axed This is no empty boast on the part of the Coonoor Municipal Corporation and Clean Coonoor. As on this World Environment Day, the theme of which…
