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21321. Engineers from Tamil Nadu turned teachers to help children of farmers, MGNREGA workers
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- These four engineers and friends started taking classes in July after the schools distributed the textbooks.
- Four engineers and friends from Tamil Nadu — Arvind, Vignesh, Bhavanishankar, and Sarathas — have turned teachers amidst the pandemic, helping the children of farmers continue their learning during the lockdown.
- In the quaint hamlet of Thondaiman Oorani in Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, these four engineers are working hard to bridge the digital divide in a village which has over 1,500 residents. Most of them are farm labourers and MGNREGA workers, for whom owning a smartphone is a luxury.
21322. Launching DalKhichdi – A Made in India Video Sharing App
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- Taking a lead from Prime Minister Modi’s Atma Nirbhar Bharat, entrepreneur/actor Ranjha Vikram Singh launched his social influencer app called DalKhichdi (DK).
- It is touted to be India’s answer to the Chinese app that has been banned recently by the Govt. of India.
- The app is designed to be an Indian video sharing networking service, fashioned for a global platform.
21323. दिल्ली: एक शख्स ने पहल की तो साथ आए लोग, गंदे नाले को साफ कर बना डाली सुंदर सी झील
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- शहर से लगभग 30 किमी दूर दिल्ली-गुरुग्राम बॉर्डर के पास स्थित रजोकरी, साल 2017 तक गंदे पानी का जलाशय था, जो सालों से विषाक्त हालत में पड़ा था। प्लास्टिक के कचरे और सड़ते पानी से जाम नालियों के कारण तालाब पूरी तरह प्रदूषित हो चुका था। डीजेबी के तकनीकी सलाहकार अंकित श्रीवास्तव और आर्किटेक्ट मृगांका सक्सेना की टीम ने देखा कि जलाशय में कूड़े कचरे और गंदगी का अंबार है। उनकी देखरेख में डीजेबी ने आईएफसीडी के साथ मिलकर दिल्ली के पहले डीसेंट्रलाइज्ड सीवर सिस्टम में रजोकरी तालाब के कायाकल्प की शुरुआत की।
- आईआईटी बॉम्बे से एनवॉयरमेंटल साइंस और इंजीनियरिंग में ग्रेजुएट अंकित कहते हैं, “दिल्ली में लगभग 600 जल निकाय हैं और इन सभी को पुनर्जीवित करना अंतिम लक्ष्य है। हालाँकि हमारे पास ऐसा कोई मॉडल नहीं था जिसके जरिए हम इन्हें पूरी तरह बदल सकते थे। इसलिए, हमने शहर की स्थिति के अनुसार अपने खुद के मॉडल को बेहतर बनाने के लिए एक इन-हाउस टीम बनाई, और 2017 में रजोकरी परियोजना, पायलट प्रोजेक्ट के रुप में शुरू की गई।” इस प्रोजेक्ट को दो भागों में बाँटा गया – प्यूरीफिकेशन सिस्टम का निर्माण और आसपास के क्षेत्रों में लैंडस्केप बनाना, जिससे न सिर्फ इसकी सुंदरता बढ़े बल्कि झील का लंबे समय तक उचित रखरखाव के साथ यह अधिक सस्टेनेबल हो सके।
- डीजेबी टीम ने जलाशय में एक अनोखे प्यूरिफिकेशन आइलैंड की भी शुरूआत की। इसमें मूल रूप से जियो-नेटिंग के साथ 2X2 मीटर के पीवीसी पाइप ढांचे से बने राफ्ट हैं जो कि कन्ना और साइप्रस जैसे हार्मोन ट्रीटेड पौधों से जुड़े रहते हैं। ये पौधे न केवल पोषक तत्वों और अन्य लाभकारी जलीय पौधों की वृद्धि करते हैं, बल्कि प्रदूषकों को भी अवशोषित करते हैं और यूट्रोफिकेशन (खनिजों और पोषक तत्वों के साथ जल के अत्यधिक संवर्धन और ऑक्सीजन की कमी को पूरा करने की अनुमति देता है) को रोककर संतुलन बनाते हैं। अंकित के अनुसार, इसका उद्देश्य मछलियों को इसमें छोड़ना और उनके नेचुरल इकोसिस्टम को बढ़ाने के लिए पानी को साफ और उपयुक्त बनाना है।इन सभी नवीन उपायों के कारण, रजोकरी सीवेज ट्रीटमेंट प्लांट अब 600 किलोलीटर (6 लाख लीटर) सीवेज को शुद्ध करने की सुविधा प्रदान करता है।
21324. Pivot and Persist: This Chandigarh-based hospitality startup ventured into fruits and vegetable business to survive the pandemic
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- Starting their venture at 12,000 feet in Chitkul, Himachal Pradesh, the startup has now expanded across the Himachal region.
- Chandigarh-based LivingStone Stays is utilising its connects with the apple farmers in the Himachal region, and is targeting to sell apples worth Rs 1 crore.
- Until now, LivingStone Stays had been receiving up to 80 bookings each month, on an average, and generating revenues worth Rs 8-10 lakh.
21325. Karnataka Man Works 3 Jobs, Donates Blood & Ferries Patients At Night in His Auto
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- Belgaum’s Manjunath has made a name for himself as being a nocturnal ambulance driver and has also found a place in the India Book of Records having saved more than 300 lives so far.
- The money that Manjunath makes working at IL&FS, which is about Rs 18,000, goes towards his maintaining his house and family, which consists of his mother, wife and son. The rest of the money he earns from driving the auto and doing the part-time job is spent on the upkeep of the auto, and a part of it is donated to an NGO called Ashraya Foundation.
- Almost a decade ago, when Manjunath did not own a vehicle of his own, a pregnant woman came by asking to be taken to the hospital immediately. Recollecting that time, he says, “I had to ask my friends for their vehicle and by the time I could get around to arranging things two hours had gone by. Though I took that lady and got her admitted, I couldn’t help wondering how much smoother things would have been for her if I had my own vehicle.”
21326. Meet the 16-year-old who’s made it his mission to stop the use of plastic straws
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- Aditya Mukarji, a student of Gurugram’s The Shri Ram School, is working to rid the world of single-use plastic. His door-to-door campaign led 150 restaurants and cafes in NCR to go plastic-free and averted the use of more than 26 million plastic straws.
- All single use plastic items, be it straws, bottles, wrappers, sachets, and other packaging material, are made from polypropylene, a material that can neither be degraded nor recycled easily. They keep piling up and have irreversible damaging effects on the environment. Among all these, plastic straws are a common sight in landfills, owing to the numbers used across the country.
- Aditya decided to act as soon as he realised the magnitude of the problem. The Class 11 student of The Shri Ram School, Gurugram, embarked on a door-to-door campaign in and around NCR to spread awareness about plastic, its detrimental impact, and eco-friendly alternatives.
21327. Pine Labs makes investment into Malaysia-based fintech company Fave
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- Pine Labs, the Noida-headquartered merchant commerce fintech company, has made an undisclosed investment into Malaysia-based fintech platform Fave.
- According to a press release, under the terms of the partnership, Fave’s QR code will become interoperable and integrated with Pine Lab’s point of sale terminals across South-East Asia.
- Both the fintech companies have their operations across South-East Asia. Pine Labs processes payments of $30 billion per year, and serves some 150,000 merchants across about 450,000 network points in India, South-East Asia, and the Middle-East.
21328. For the past 75 years, this old man has been teaching children under a tree free of cost
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- Nanda Prasty, from Jajpur, Odisha, has been conducting classes for children up to class 4, without fees, after which he urges them to join a primary school. The elderly have been proactive ever since the pandemic began and the subsequent lockdowns that were declared by making contributions, masks, sanitisers and PPE kits for the poor.
- Nanda Prasty, the man behind this noble gesture, hails from the Bartanda village and has been educating children in Jajpur. He takes classes up to class 4, after which he recommends they join a primary school to continue their education. In the evenings, he also takes classes for the elderly.
- “I used to work in the farmlands and saw that there were many people in our village who were illiterate. They were not even able to sign their names and could only do thumb impressions. I called them just to teach them how to sign but many showed interest and started to read the Bhagavad Gita. I now teach the great grandchildren of the students of my first batch,” Nanda told
21329. Retired Professor’s Plan Helps Make Entire Village Drought-Free in Just 2 Years
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- Ashok Sonawane, a retired professor from Nashik, digs trenches with the help of locals in Deshwandi village to make it tanker free. Ashok said things changed in 2018 when he was invited for the lecture on water conservation in Deshwandi.
- “A discussion started during the interaction with youngsters in the village, in which they expressed concern that the village was facing an extended drought,” he said.The educator said the students wondered how they could get into water conservation when the village received so little water, leaving the area bone dry.“I suggested there could be activities done around two hills that I passed during the visit. I also shared how trenches could get dug to allow rainwater to get stored in the belly of the ground,” Ashok added.
- After some discussions and another visit to the site, the retired professor and about a dozen youngsters teamed up to experiment with some rainwater harvesting initiatives.“Getting the permissions from the gram panchayat was the first hurdle. After much convincing, we got about 32 hectares of land to dig trenches around the village. The work began with some donations and contributions – like a digger and tools,” Ashok said.
21330. Meet the 11 startups from the 12th Batch of JioGenNext - the startup programme backed by Jio
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- On 20th July, 11 deep-tech startups started in the 12th cohort of JioGenNext Basecamp, a 3 months long mentoring programme backed by RIL that helps startups with product development, distribution and market access.
- These startups are building digital transformation products in the areas of Industrial and Consumer IoT, AR/VR, SaaS, Computer Vision, etc.
- The remote mentoring programme by JioGenNext, which chose these 11 startups from more than 800-plus applications it had received, will see startups undergoing intensive one-to-one mentoring, workshops and evaluation for proof-of-concepts in the Reliance ecosystem.