The ‘Amala Bharatam’ Campaign was started by the students of Amrita Viswa Vidya Peetham, Amritapuri Campus on August 15th, 2010. Amma gave them inspiration and guided them what to do and supported them to carry on. Later Ashramites and devotees joined this when Amma announced this project as Amala Bharatam – to clean India to make her healthy and beautiful – on her 57th birthday celebration on 27th Sep 2010. <\/p>\n
Here are some statistics of the Amritapuri based ‘Amala Bharatam’ Campaign as on 31st Oct 2010 <\/p>\n
Places and distances covered <\/strong> Towns covered \u2013 Vallikkavu, Vavvakkavu, Puthiyakavu, Karunagappally, Sasthamcotta, Oachira, Kayamkulam, Haripad \u2013 Total 8 No of students who participated in the Cleanup drive<\/strong> Volunteers belong to students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus from School of Ayurveda, Engineering, Arts & Science, Biotechnology and Business. In addition students from Amrita Industrial Training Centre, brahmacharies and brahmacharinies of MA Math and devotees also participated in the drive.<\/p>\n Truckload of waste disposed \/ buried \/ recycle during each drive<\/strong> Each truckload is around 8 \u2013 10 tonnes of waste \u2013 both recyclable and non \u2013 recyclable Disposal of waste: <\/strong> Other Key Information<\/strong> The volunteers are organised into various teams. Broadly the teams constitute of The kind of activities typically carried out during the cleanup drive is:<\/strong> The ‘Amala Bharatam’ Campaign was started by the students of Amrita Viswa Vidya Peetham, Amritapuri Campus on August 15th, 2010. Amma gave them inspiration and guided them what to do and supported them to carry on. Later Ashramites and devotees joined this when Amma announced this project as Amala Bharatam – to clean India to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,13,25],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clean","tag-amrita-university","tag-kollam","tag-students"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/files\/ngg_featured\/amala-10.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5vfgG-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.\tVallikkavu to Vavvakkavu \u2013 6 kms
\n2.\tVavvakkavu to Puthiyakavu on NH47 \u2013 5 kms
\n3.\tPuthiyakavu to Karunagappally on NH 47\u2013 4 kms
\n4.\tKarunagappally Town on NH47 \u2013 5 sq. kms
\n5.\tSasthamcotta Lake \u2013 Drinking water resource for Kollam district \u2013 4 square kms
\n6.\tKarunagappally Temple and Market \u2013 3 sq. kms
\n7.\tOachira Temple premises and Town \u2013 4 sq. kms
\n8.\tVavvakkavu to Haripad on NH47 \u2013 22 kms<\/p>\n
\nTotal road distance covered \u2013 37 kms; On NH47
\nTotal area covered in town cleanups \u2013 20 sq.kms<\/p>\n
\n1.\tVallikkavu to Vavvakkavu \u2013 300 volunteers
\n2.\tVavvakkavu to Puthiyakavu on NH47 \u2013 400 volunteers
\n3.\tPuthiyakavu to Karunagappally on NH 47\u2013 400 volunteers
\n4.\tKarunagappally Town on NH47 \u2013 500 volunteers
\n5.\tSasthamcotta Lake \u2013 Drinking water resource for Kollam district \u2013 400 volunteers
\n6.\tKarunagappally Temple and Market \u2013 400 volunteers
\n7.\tOachira Temple premises and Town \u2013 500 volunteers
\n8.\tVavvakkavu to Haripad on NH47 \u2013 22 kms \u2013 1200 volunteers
\nIn all, 4,100 volunteers participated in the dawn to dusk (6.30 am to 7.00 pm) cleanup drive in all these locations. <\/p>\n
\n1.\tVallikkavu to Vavvakkavu \u2013 20 truckload
\n2.\tVavvakkavu to Puthiyakavu on NH47 \u2013 25 truckload
\n3.\tPuthiyakavu to Karunagappally on NH 47\u2013 25 truckload
\n4.\tKarunagappally Town on NH47 \u2013 50 truckload
\n5.\tSasthamcotta Lake \u2013 Drinking water resource for Kollam district \u2013 40 truckload
\n6.\tKarunagappally Temple and Market \u2013 40 truckload
\n7.\tOachira Temple premises and Town \u2013 50 truckload
\n8.\tVavvakkavu to Haripad on NH47 \u2013 120 truckload
\nTotal waste disposed \u2013 400 truck loads over 8 cleanup drive<\/p>\n
\nAround 10 \u2013 15 percent of the waste is recyclable. Most of the waste is bio-degradable waste<\/p>\n
\nBiodegradable waste is buried in pits dug up by JCBS in suitable places identified in advance, both on the sides of roads and private property, depending on the availability.
\nRecyclable waste such as plastics, metals, paper, packaging material, etc. is transported to the recycling centre in Amritapuri. <\/p>\n
\nVehicles used \u2013 JCBs, Tippers, Trucks, tractors, medium and small sized tempos and carriers
\nTools used for the cleanup work \u2013 showels, spades, sickles, rakes, brooms, gloves, masks, etc. <\/p>\n
\n1.\tWaste gathering team
\n2.\tWaste disposal team
\n3.\tJCB \/ Tipper team
\n4.\tTools team
\n5.\tWater and refreshment team
\n6.\tAwareness Campaign team
\n7.\tFirst Aid team<\/p>\n
\n1.\tDeciding the location \u2013 extend and scope of work
\n2.\tIdentifying the areas to be cleaned
\n3.\tSurvey of the total volume and type of waste to be cleared
\n4.\tIdentifying spots for burying biodegradable waste
\n5.\tSecuring permission from concerned authorities for digging pits
\n6.\tInforming all concerned authorities \u2013 Municipality, panchayat, police, water authority, PWD, telephones, Electricity board, local establishments, etc
\n7.\tForming volunteers into manageable groups under a team leader
\n8.\tSourcing tools for the work to be carried out
\n9.\tAssigning tasks to each team
\n10.\tArranging for various resources like vehicles, medical aid, refreshments, etc to support the clean up drive.
\n11.\tTrain volunteers to carry out awareness campaign
\n12.\tDocument the work such as photos, videos, etc. to create material for awareness campaign in communities for volunteer registrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"