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not what the Environment can do for us but what we
can do for the Environment."
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ALM Contest
2006
The Executive Chairman & Managing Director, The
Orchid - Vithal Kamat, film personality, Dia Mirza and
Suresh Gokhlaney MD, Eureka Forbes gave away prizes
to the winners of The Orchid Advance Locality Management
(ALM) Competition, 06 at a felicitation function organized
at The Orchid. The competition was jointly organised
by the Asia's first ecotel, The Orchid and Eureka Forbes
Institute of Environment (EFIE).
The competition involved ALM's across the city, which
were put through three stages of selection process -
primary, secondary and tertiary. The Orchid's green
team did the primary and secondary selection of checking
the entries. The tertiary functions of auditing the
places and selecting the final winners was done by an
external jury consisting of eminent personalities like
Dr Kashyap (EFIE), Mr Bhagwat (Orchid ALM Trustee),
Mr Patil & Mrs Seema Redkar (ALM Officers - MCGM)
Green Team members (Orchid) Mr. A D Zirmute Dy. H S
Zone 5, Mr. A P Abhyankar A H S N Ward (MCGM Officers).
Zone 1
- L D Ruperal Marg & Sophia College (Joint Winners)
(ALM)
Residents Welfare Association (RWA), OVAL TRUST A ward
Zone 2
Dilip Gupte
Zone 3
N Dutta Marg K/W (ALM)
Residents Welfare Association, Vakola Citizens Forum
K/E
Zone 4
Viceroy Park R/S (ALM)
Zone 5
- Diamond Garden M/W (ALM)
Residents Welfare Associaation- SOARES ROAD
Emerging Alm-Ghatla Road
Special Mention-Pestom Sagar Residents Association
Zone 6
Naval Civilian Housing Colony (ALM)
Fatima Church (special mention)
Besides the
ALMs and RWAs, individuals with outstanding contribution
to the cause of environment were felicitated. Those
who were felicitated include Dighavkar Pratap Ramchandra,
Dy.Commissioner of Police, Zone II, Mumbai, Hira Punjabi,
Sister Menona Sodder Rscj, Bhau Katdare and Ram Mone.
The Orchid ALM trust website was also launched at the
event.
Congratulating
the winners Mr Vithal Kamat, Executive Chairman &
Managing Director said, "ALM's have been instrumental
in aiding and abeting the BMC in maintaining sanitation
in the city. The Orchid will provide all necessary support
and guidance to these ALM's and we hope that this competition
will infuse a fresh spirit in the participating ALMs
to keep up their good work".
(please uploadenclosed file pics.zip)
Nirmalya
Composting
Over 100 tonnes of nirmalya (decomposable offerings
such as flowers and sweets)was collected from ganpati
mandals from the suburbs of Malad to Borivli.The Orchid
decided to help the city deal with the tonnnes of garbage
generated during this festive season.Nirmalaya along
with other garbage is directly dumped into waterbodies
at the time of immersion. Untreated garbage is a big
hazard for marine ecology, poisoning many lifeforms
including fish on which we feed. The Orchid in conjunction
with the BMC decided to turn this waste into wealth
by converting it into vermicompost. The waste has been
collected at the Gorai dumping grounds and the process
of turning this into vermicompost has begun.Ashok Mam
and Milind Chavan have successfully initiated the project
on behalf of The Orchid
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