THE BHUMI MIRROR

Vol. 1, Jan 2009

Latest News Project Snapshot Idea of the month

BHUMI New Year Kanini To collaborate with
Celebrations at Mam- HTML successfully completed at Anbu NIIT / Aptech for certi-
mala Resorts, Mahabs Karangal fying the students com-
on 28 Dec, 2008. pleting the Kanini Pro-
Gameboy winner of Speak Out gram.
the month! Govt. Girls Home, Purasawalkam - Classes - by Praveen Nookala,
- Akhila Hari@PVR have commenced for students of Class 5 CC Team
for Handmade Scrabble and 6 in addition to those of class 8 and 9. BHUMI Finance
Joy to the World
Little Einsteins Think Green Nov & Dec 2008
Coming soon... Bhumi joined ‘Nizhal’ in a regular weekly Membership fee col-
activity to develop the PWD park @ Kot- lected : Rs.10,360
BHUMI New Year turpuram from 27 Dec 2008.
Planted saplings at 70 houses in, Bethelpu- Total Expenditure :
Celebrations! Rs.11,408
ram, East Tambaram with the help of
‘Nizhal’ & ‘Isha Foundation’ Birthday Bumps !
Career Counseling Jan 14 – Shalini Murthy
Completed 1st phase of pilot @ Srinivasan T
Dr.P.V.Rao School on Dec 14, 2008 Sarayu Sundarajan
Subhashree J
Total 10th students in pilot program : 16 Jan 16 - Aarthi N
Jan 17 - Yuvaraj
A model Indian village– Prashanth P
Click to go to the gallery Ralegaon Siddhi Naveen C
Jan 18 - Ranjeet Kapoor
Painting competition Ralegaon Siddhi, a success story Jan 19 - Anisha Kuruvila
@ Dr.P.V.Rao – In 1975, when Anna Hazare, a Mathiyazhakan
Jeyashri P
retired army man, went back to Jan 20 - R Madankumar
his village in Ahmednagar district, Maharash- Jan 21 - Ramalingam R
Annie Hepzibah Y
tra, he found the village reeling under drought, Jan 23 - Vivek Agrawal
poverty, and unemployment. He decided to Archana
mobilize people and, with collective support Nikita Lohia
Anu
1st Prize - Sathish of villagers, he began to introduce changes.
Jan 24 - Vindhya Koppaka
Jan 25 - Nimal I
2nd Prize - M Today Ralegaon Siddhi is being taken as a Sankar T
Vijay Aarthi S S
role model for other villages by the Maharash-
Jan 28 - Prathiba Devi W
tra government and by other states too. Mas- Ravindran K
3rd Prize - sive tree plantation has been undertaken, and Jan 29 - Kirti Rekha Panda
M Jagadeesh hills have been terraced to check erosion. Jan 30 - Akila L
Charumathi S
Large canals with ridges on either side have
Feb 1 - Rajesh A
been dug to retain rainwater. As a result, the Feb 2 - Hemalatha
water table in this area is now considerably Padmavathy S
higher and the wells and tube wells are never Feb 3 - Lakshmi N
Chitra Jha
dry, making it possible to raise three crops a
Feb 5 - Chandrasekhar
year where only one was possible before. Raja
Click for enlarged version or
Swathi R
go to the gallery
The village's biggest achievement is undoubt- Ramalingam S
Feb 6 - Vinoth G
Whiz kid ! edly in the area of non-conventional energy. Padmapriya V
Awesome All the streets in the village are lit by solar Feb 7 - Mohamed Ali G
sketches by lights, each with a separate panel. There are Feb 8 - Kalaivaani J
Priya A
Sowmya, four large community biogas plants and one of
Srinivasan
Balamandir them is fitted to the community toilet. There is Feb 9 - Bhuvana S
a large windmill used for pumping water. A Vaishnavi K
Full Gallery number of households have their own biogas
plants. The village is self sufficient. Happy Birthday All !

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