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 !