BVHA Master Plan for Vrindavan
0. Contents
0. Contents...... 1 1. BVHA Master Plan...... 2 2. Map of all green zones...... 2 3. Making zones of adoptation to clean Vrindavan...... 2 4. Forming committees requesting leading citizens to participate...... 2 5. Preserving the beauty and the presentation of all business around the heritage buildings...... 3 6. Traffic control...... 3 7. Sewage water...... 3 8. Stop visual pollution...... 4 9. Riverland...... 4 10. Plant and protect trees: always & everywhere...... 4 11. Sound pollution...... 5 12. Air pollution...... 5 13. Religious Leaders support...... 5 14. VIP and technical support...... 6 15. World Heritage status...... 6 16. Legal advise...... 6 17. Clean Vrindavan...... 6 18. Yamuna...... 7 19. Heritage Tours...... 7 20. Volunteers...... 8 21. Monkey issue...... 8 22. Ground water level...... 9 23. Drinking water quality...... 10 24. Find Political support...... 10 25. Find funding...... 10 26. Making BVHA declarations and petitions...... 10 27. Awareness & Education...... 11 ASI issues...... 12 Brij Sevaka instructions...... 12 Vrindavan emergency water management...... 12
1 1. BVHA Master Plan
Goal To further elaborate this BVHA Master Plan for Vrindavan, also consulting the other existing studies and material: • Original Vrindavan Master Plan written by Sevak Charan 28 years ago • Braj Foundation MP • Ecocity Vrindavan MP • TERI World Bank solid waste management study (not available yet) • Proposal made by Keshi Daman for requesting government to create a special area called Braj Mandal • Proposals of Mr. K.P.S. Gil, Chandi Heffner and Padmanabha Goswami for improving the Vrindavan ghats, Yamuna, forrestation etc.
2. Map of all green zones
Goal Make a map of all green zones open to the public and have them cleaned.
To Do Gather information on: • Access (open, restricted, closed) • State / conditions (well maintained, neglected, need trees) • Size • Location • Owner • Comments
3. Making zones of adoptation to clean Vrindavan
Goal Have different temples, schools, people, … adopt a part of Vrindavan. Each will take care of the cleaning of their part.
To Do Make a map of zones: • Streets • Green zones (see point 1.) • Kundas o Govinda Kunda o Davanal Kund o Tadiasthan Kund o Jaipur Mandir Kund o ... Make a list of people interested Make promotion / publicity
4. Forming committees requesting leading citizens to participate
Goal Make committees dedicated to one specific task; get the committees organised and make them perform tasks to achieve their goals.
To Do
2 Make promotion on BVHA meetings: read out committee list and ask who wants to help to coordinate or participate. (Mayank)
5. Preserving the beauty and the presentation of all business around the heritage buildings
Goal Preserving the beauty and the presentation of all business around the heritage buildings, like Govindaji Mandir
To Do Make a list of all heritage buildings Take photos Collect business info Take name and phone of managers of businesses around heritage buildings Site info: State: age, condition, stone, repairs needed, trees in the area Owner details: mission name, manager details, acarya, property
Business info: beautiful – ugly – encroached, property, …
All cement walls in the city one color: pink? (as Chandi Heffner has done with the Parikrama Marg from Keshighat to Tadiasthan)
6. Traffic control
Goal Prevent traffic jams and nuisance, preserve the meditative atmosphere in Vrindavan
Problem description There is too much traffic in Vrindavan There are big motorised vehicles in old part of the town There is a lack of parking places (now people park in the streets) Speeding
To Do Mapping of problematic areas Brainstorm on possible solutions and come up with feasible propositions: • one-way streets • create parking places • restrict access of cars and trucks (loading and unloading) to limited moments of the day • fines • ... Define interlocutors with municipality and police to present propositions
Available parkings • Pagal Baba • Madan Mohan • …
Voluntary system?
7. Sewage water Goal No untreated sewage water flow directly in river 3 Effective filtering and treatment of sewage water
Remarks: Only local solutions will work. Basic and cheapest. Where and how?
To Do Possible solutions • dry toilets and only biodegradable soap and washing powder in ashrams • reduce water use • septic tanks (three chambers) • oils from cooking or motors must be sucked in newspapers and burned since no special place for reception of these products exists. Don’t discard them in the sewage water • install metal filters to take out plastic before reaching Yamuna river • leading filtered water into land (for irrigation) through pipes with holes • wet areas to filter sewage water • sewage pipes should not go into Yamuna at the ghats
8. Stop visual pollution
Goal No billboards in Vrindavan Advertise on Vrindavan Today
Problem description There are big billboards with advertisement. Alternative: advertise on Vrindavan Today for free Shops have large billboards
To Do • awareness raising • suggestion: choose special areas to put posters with educational / spiritual messages
9. Riverland
Goal Stop illegal construction on Yamuna land and use it as much as possible for solution of black water or as cultivation land
To Do Stop constructing, take away encroachments: talk to municipality representatives Bring Yamuna channel back to Vrindavan
10. Plant and protect trees: always & everywhere
Goal Maintain and create more green in Vrindavan
Problem Description PWD (Public Work Department) destroys trees unnecessarily
To Do Forestation of river banks on both sides of the Yamuna Protect Vrindavan’s trees and sand Make Gopinath Gardens 4 Make a list of green areas in Vrindavan (see point 1.) e.g. Brahma Kunda, Vrinda Kunja, Rangaji Bagirha, Yamuna Kunja, Pandavali Kunja, Davji, Shaji Mandir, Gandhi Park, Kisor Ban, …
Get and inform: • Gardeners • Cleaners • Guards • Transporters Supervision by Visnu, Arjuna, Jnanananda, …
11.Sound pollution
Goal To preserve the medidative atmosphere of Vrindavan
Problem Description • loudspeakers of Ashrams • motorised vehicles: o blowing the horn o motor sound
To Do Make list of offenders Approach offenders with letter Letter Sevak Charan
12. Air pollution
Goal Reduce air pollution in Vrindavan
Problem Description Sources of air pollution: • motorised vehicles (cars, motor-rikshas, motorcycles, scooters, …) • burning of garbage • burning to get heat • burning for cooking • burning of dead people Burning outside and also inside of houses
To Do Possible solutions: • limitation on motorised vehicles inside city • no burning of garbage
13. Religious Leaders support
Goal Get a broad platform of support for the BVHA Master Plan, including from spiritual leaders.
To Do Personal visits of members of BVHA to the ashrams,… Let people fill out forms during these visits and at the entrance of frequently visited temples. Increase events on which promotion for the BVHA MP can be made. 5 14. VIP and technical support
Goal Try to obtain the support of important and famous people (politicians, artists,…) and researchers and technical professionals for the cause of a healthy, clean & green Vrindavan.
To Do Put interviews with VIPs on websites Meeting with UP Chief Minister Mayavati & the ASI Chief Boycot Thermacol plastic producing companies, with support of VIPs Brahma Kunda events with VIP artists Obtain support from CDO (Chief Development Officer) Suhas Elwai (former CDO: Ajay Pandey)
Support of research institutes University of Yale TERI, VITO
15. World Heritage status
Goal Get Vrindavan a status as a pilgrimage town or UNESCO World Heritage Site
To Do Contact Katie Walter and Unesco South Asia Coordinator Mr. Parasurem
• Write and promote petition • Write letters • Get VIP support • Convince leaders • Make a website about the proposal • Design and print a poster • Contact Minister of Tourism • Get letters from temples • Options: o whole Vrindavan o or Keshi Ghat o or Braj Mandal o or ASI buildings o or Radha Gopinath
16. Legal advise
Goal To give advise on legal issues of the associations and trusts, and on the running court cases (trees, bridge), start and follow up new court cases whenever necessary.
To Do Find committee responsible & members Define feed back & reporting system (f.e. monthly report?)
17. Clean Vrindavan Goal 6 Vrindavan is free of litter in the streets, sewage canals, forests and river; garbage is being reduced & recycled as much as possible and disposed only on the official dumping ground(s); (local) government cooperates with civil society, actively participates and adopts objectives and complements the strategies of this Clean Vrindavan Project; inhabitants & tourists are aware & doing efforts to keep Vrindavan clean Short term focus (1 year): - well thought conception and installation of collection and disposal system; - reduction of littering by tourists in the street and halt of illegal dumping by municipality
To Do See Annex: Clean Vrindavan Committee - Action Framework Find committee responsible & members Define feed back & reporting system (f.e. monthly report?) Stationing metal garbage bins for plastic bags protected from the animals to be stationed inside the compound of busy shrines. Two prototypes are available: 1 for two bags, and 1 for four bags. This is a proposal which would have to be combined with a system to collect the plastic bags from those locations with bins and putting new bags at the same time, plus transporting the garbage to the official dumping ground. That system would not work in the public street due to the high quantity of garbage which is produced there. This system is useful for the many little garbage items the pilgrims throw everywhere as they move from temple to temple. This system has the potential to separate garbage in classes like glass, metals, plastic and paper (organic garbage is generally fed to animals immediately in Vrindavan).
18. Yamuna
Goal Have streaming Yamuna water cleaned Bring Yamuna river back to the Ghats Remove flyover bridge pillars
To Do Install metal grill into Yamuna Persuade interlocutors in Delhi to make sewage treatment in Delhi and other upstream places work well Get political support to remove pillars and build the bridge elsewhere Study feasability of bringing back Yamuna to the Ghats
19. Heritage Tours
Goal Develop and organise Braj Vrindavan Heritage Tours: Some special places to understand the greatness of the holy Dham of Vrindavan, the Land Of Love. To improve knowledge of Braj and Krishna’s pastimes with Indian residents and tourists and international visitors.
To Do Conceive several tour routes Get support of stakeholders: local government, ashram responsibles, tour guides, transporters,… Use luxurious bullock carts for the part of the heritage tours in Vrindavan, to promote cow protection. Make promotion on internet, in newspapers, schools (school excursions), radio,… Train tour guides, devotees and volunteers Find Heritage Tours Committee responsible & members, and define feed back & reporting system (f.e. monthly report?)
Places to include in tours
Govardan, the mountain of love and protection Radha Kunda, Lake of Radha’s love Varsana, Radha’s childhood palace Nandagram, Krishna’s childhood palace
Sanket Terkadamba Pavan Sarovar 7 Vrinda Kunda Javat Some Mandirs made by Kings Jaipur Mandir, the jewel of architecture Surya Kunda Munger Raj Mandir
Raval, where the Goddess of Love Radharani appeared Gokul, first palace of Nanda Maharaj Durvasas, mystic yogi mandir Radha Syama Sundar, the bangle of love Radha Damodara, save the west with Praphupada Vrindavan’s love conducter, Yoga Maya Mandir Davja, the most powerful of the Hindus Brahmanda Ghat, where Krishna eats clay Mathura, Krishna’s birthplace Visram Ghat The school of love for Krishna, Sandi Pani Muni school Food for children, Aksaya Patra Radha Govindaji, heart of Sri Rupa in Vrindavan Madan Mohan, Krishna, attractor of all Balaram-Iskcon, Love for all foreigners worship Krishna Radha Ballabha, holy festival Radha Banke Bihari, just for some seconds Narasinga Mandir, Divine protection Chaitanya Imli Tala, the love distributor Radha Ramana, self manifested love Radha Gokula Nanda, the Guru and his Chela
Visnu Viste Braj, Rangaji Mandir Brahma Kunda, the Creator made a lake for Krishna Gopesvara Mahadeva, Shiva takes shelter in Krishna
Office of BVHA Yamuna, Darsan at Keshi Ghat
20. Volunteers
Goal A well-functioning volunteer system exists and is able to send local and international volunteers to the different action points within the BVHA Master Plan and Committees (environmental teaching in schools & developing educational material, cleaning, flyer distribution, organising ecological events, making documentaries, tour guiding, etc.)
To Do Set up Volunteer Committee (appoint committee responsible & members, define feed back & reporting system), physical reception point and special 24h phone number & e-mail Increase number of volunteers by making publicity through different organisations and channels Assure update and correct information in dedicated website for volunteers in Vrindavan Elaborate a good package with a broad range of activities to offer to volunteers, and assure practical application Provide accommodation, transport and other logistic support for volunteers Fluid communication between the different involved parties to assure continuity and effectiveness
21. Monkey issue
Goal Reduce the nuisance of monkeys in Vrindavan
To Do Study possible solutions and examples in other cities in India and abroad Find and convince interlocutors
8 22. Ground water level
Goal Try to reverse the falling ground water level in Braj area.
Problem Description Studies seem to indicate that in about 10 years, the ground water in the area might be completely depleted. An accelerating element will be the building of high rise appartments, luxury hotels and tourist villages, with high water consumption.
To Do • reduce, reuse, recycle water • study the problem and possible long & short term solutions • do water harvesting (brainstorm on possible ways) • reduce water use • awareness education (All must learn: water is scarce, water is Life, water can not be wasted) • …
9 23. Drinking water quality
Goal Improve quality of the drinking water in Vrindavan
Problem Description Decreasing quality of ground water due to contamination and salt Part of the drinking water comes from insufficiently treated Yamuna river water (water purification plant in Mathura)
To Do Check which studies have been done If necessary, make new study (TERI,…) Improve existing or install new water purification plant Get political support and funding Awareness programs to reduce contamination of water
24. Find Political support
Goal VERY IMPORTANT & INDISPENSABLE FOR MANY TOPICS WITHIN THIS MASTER PLAN: Politicians and other VIPs actively support different points of the BVHA Master Plan, and they see the BVHA as a serious counterpart in all Vrindavan ecological and development matters.
To Do Find and build up good relations with politicians and other VIPs that want to support our plans Mutual fluid communication and information between BVHA and politicians/other VIPs BVHA people with political connections should actively get involved (Mr. K.P.S. Gil, Lokesh Dixit,…)
25. Find funding
Goal VERY IMPORTANT & INDISPENSABLE FOR MANY TOPICS WITHIN THIS MASTER PLAN: Get private and government funding.
To Do If politicians and other VIPs see the BVHA as a serious counterpart, it is easier to get funding for the topics of this Master Plan. Find executing partners for large scale funding (f.e. NGOs, research institutes, universities, …) With a well elaborated and detailed BVHA Master Plan, contact possible private funders. Set up schemes for small scale funding (f.e. ashrams spend part of collected money on dham seva)
26. Making BVHA declarations and petitions
Goal Inform people and create public awareness Put pressure on governments and municipality
To Do Draft and distribute declarations and petitions about all topics on internet, through flyers, radio programs, posters and billboards, by going from ashram to ashram, … • to the authorities o courts o municipality o Jal Nigam (water management government department) o State Government 10 o ASI • to the public
27. Awareness & Education
Goal People are aware of the problems, possible alternatives and solutions & are doing efforts to improve the livability and cleanliness of Vrindavan and the Yamuna river.
Who • schools • households • general public • governments • tourists • international community • shopkeepers • ashrams • volunteers • the press
To Do Regular big awareness & cleaning events for clean & ecological Vrindavan are being organized: • Set up Event Organisation Committee • Preparation meetings with different participating organisations & individuals • Organisation event and broad publicity
School children are more ecologically aware through a school awareness program (regular environmental classes, cleaning excursions, visiting dump grounds, drawing competition, etc.) • Meetings with school boards to achieve their cooperation • Direct involvement of teachers in conception and set-up of educational program • Production of educational material and excursion programs • Installing a volunteer teaching system that is as continuous as possible • Work out an environment education package that can be offered to schools; if necessary, capacity building of teachers
Awareness spots are made and regularly shown on local and national TV and radio • Work out spot scenarios • Obtain cooperation of professional director and volunteers • Distribution to TV and radio channels
11 ANNEX 1: Additional information ASI issues
ASI : Archaeological Survey of India
Highways next to ASI building, to Parikrama, to Ghats, Holy River? Gautam Gupta (Delhi) – Meet with Mr. Gil Link of Yamuna Express way shaking of ground coming from Delhi road ASI Act 1958 no road express highway link construction next to monument Madan Mohan + Yugalo Kisor
Denounce illegal construction
Brij Sevaka instructions
Instruct people paid for cleaning and other seva
Sevakas have to write down offenders’ name To those offenders the BVHA can send a letter In case of repetitive letters and no improvement, BVHA can complain to Police or Officer Sevakas have to understand our system of moving garbage, what can be recycled, what to tell others, what leaflets to carry and hand out.
Instructions for behaviour of sevakas: Don’t fight with anyone, ALWAYS SMILE
Our dham seva slogan: You bow 2 times to pick up plastic = 1 Dandavat
Vrindavan emergency water management
Request authorised by BVHA
• no plastic should be allowed to touch the open waters of the Yamuna or the sewage channels • grills have to be installed to hold back even gudka packets • all must learn: water is scarce. Water is Life. Water can not be wasted. Water must be kept clean. Dirty water makes sick. • Water becomes salty by using urea as fertiliser and that influences the ph of the Kundas • Clean Kundas make the ground water table rise • Suggestion: fines of 500 Rps must be charged to any offender • Yamunaji’s waters are polluted. That must be changed. • All properties must have a three chamber septic tank • Don’t throw plastic in the street because it ends up in the water • use only biodegradable soap and washing powder • don’t use plastic cups, plates, … in bhandaras. Use steel for permanent use or leaf plates and clay cups for one time use • plastic bags must be banned from Braj Mandal • Oils from cooking or motors must be sucked in newspapers and burned since no special place for reception of these products exists. Don’t discard them in the sewage water
12 • Don’t burn plastic. It poisens those who breathe the smoke and it returns to the land and ground water by the poisonous rain
Please please help! Your children’s health depends on you. Your caring friends of the Braj Vrindavan Heritage Alliance
13 ANNEX 2
Clean Vrindavan Committee - Action Framework
RESOURCES OBJECTIVELY INSTRUMENTS ASSUMPTIONS (budget, manpower, VERIFIABLE FOR equipment etc.) INDICATORS VERIFICATION GENERAL OBJECTIVE (long term – 5 years)
Vrindavan is free of litter in the streets, sewage canals, forests and river; garbage is being reduced & recycled as much as possible and disposed only on the official dumping ground(s); (local) government cooperates with civil society, actively participates and adopts objectives and complements the strategies of this Clean Vrindavan Project; inhabitants & tourists are aware & doing efforts to keep Vrindavan clean
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE (1st phase – after 1 year) Focus on: - well thought conception and installation of collection and disposal system; - reduction of littering by tourists in the street and halt of illegal dumping by municipality
RESULTS
(1) There is a well conceived official dumping ground(s) for long term use which is properly used (2) No more illegal dumping is done by municipality, and half of the current illegal dumping grounds and public places are cleaned and kept clean (3) Garbage collection and transport system are improved and expanded; animal proof garbage bins and anti-litter signs are installed in at least all tourist areas and parking lots (4) Garbage filters are installed on sewage canals and maintained (5) Individuals and organisations are collecting recyclable garbage on the streets and other places, and selling it. Actively involve the Sweepers and Sweepers Union (6) At least one big awareness and cleaning event for clean and ecological Vrindavan has been organized, involving schools, civil society, inhabitants, temples, shopkeepers, (local) government and press (7) Children of at least 3 schools are more ecologically aware through a school awareness program (regular environmental classes, cleaning excursions, visiting dump grounds, drawing competition, etc.) (8) Awareness spot is made and regularly shown on local and national TV and radio (*) (9) A well-functioning volunteer system exists and is able to send local and international volunteers to the different aspects within the Clean Vrindavan Project (environmental teaching in schools & developing educational material, cleaning, flyer distribution, organising ecological events, making documentaries etc.) 14 ACTIVITIES
1. There is a well conceived official dumping ground(s) for long term use which is properly used 1.1. Lobby with municipality 1.2. Fencing dumping ground 1.3. Hiring big machinery for excavation 1.4. Staff and/or volunteers for check and control and organizing of dumping ground 1.5. Stimulate individuals/organizations to pick and sell recyclable garbage items from dumping ground
2. No more illegal dumping is done by municipality, and half of the current illegal dumping grounds and public places are cleaned and kept clean 2.1. Lobby, pressure, awareness on municipality 2.2. Social control: civilians and volunteers can call to a hotline to report illegal dumping and littering (which can be reported in the press); patrolling by volunteers (“dump and litter watching”), especially in tourist areas & parking lots 2.3. Mapping of illegal dumping and littered public areas 2.4. Adoption of illegal dumping grounds, stretches of roads and parks by ashrams, organisations and individuals (sponsoring workers)
3. Garbage collection and transport system are improved and expanded; animal proof garbage bins and anti-litter signs are installed in at least all tourist areas and parking lots 3.1. Analyse current and if necessary new more suitable garbage collection & transport system for Vrindavan 3.2. Purchase (if necessary) garbage bins, transport vehicles and garbage collection equipment 3.3. Get necessary manpower: municipality, contracted cleaning agency, volunteers 3.4. Install garbage bins & containers in all tourist areas and parking lots 3.5. Install anti-litter signs in all tourist areas and parking lots
4. Garbage filters are installed on sewage canals and maintained 4.1. Analyse sewage system outlets into Yamuna and sewage treatment plants (how many, how big, where etc.) 4.2. Define location & mechanical garbage filter type, and install on all sewage outlets into Yamuna 4.3. Provide manpower & equipment to guarantee continuous functionality of the garbage filter systems 4.4. Analyse functionality and possible improvement of the existing sewage treatment plants (money & manpower) 4.5. Yamuna cleaning: analyse possibility of removing floating garbage from Yamuna river
5. Individuals and organisations are collecting recyclable garbage on the streets and other places, and selling it. Actively involve the Sweepers and Sweepers Union 15 5.1. Inform sweepers and involve their union in order to jointly analyse possibilities and come up with feasible propositions regarding organisation of garbage collection, separation and selling 5.2. Reaching out to individuals and organisations that might be interested in participating, by organising an information event, TV- & radio-spots, … 5.3. Analyse and obtain partnerships with recycling companies
6. At least one big awareness & cleaning event for clean & ecological Vrindavan has been organized, involving schools, inhabitants, civil society, temples, shopkeepers, (local) government, volunteers, press etc. 6.1. Set up Event Organisation Committee 6.2. Preparation meetings with different participating organisations & individuals 6.3. Organisation event and broad publicity
7. Children of at least 3 schools are more ecologically aware through a school awareness program (regular environmental classes, cleaning excursions, visiting dump grounds, drawing competition, etc.) 7.1. Meetings with school boards to achieve their cooperation 7.2. Direct involvement of teachers in conception and set-up of educational program 7.3. Production of educational material and excursion programs 7.4. Installing a volunteer teaching system that is as continuous as possible 7.5. Work out an environment education package that can be offered to schools; if necessary, capacity building of teachers
8. Awareness spot is made and regularly shown on local and national TV and radio (*) 8.1. Work out spot scenario 8.2. Obtain cooperation of professional director and volunteers 8.3. Distribution to TV and radio channels
9. A well-functioning volunteer system exists and is able to send local and international volunteers to the different aspects within the Clean Vrindavan Project (environmental teaching in schools & developing educational material, cleaning, flyer distribution, organising ecological events, making documentaries etc.) 9.1. Set up Volunteer Committee, physical reception point and special 24h phone number & e-mail 9.2. Increase number of volunteers by making publicity through different organisations and channels 9.3. Elaborate a good package with a broad range of activities to offer to volunteers, and assure practical application 9.4. Provide accommodation, transport and other logistic support for volunteers 9.5. Fluid communication between the different involved parties to assure continuity and effectiveness
(*) TV-spot: Suggestion for contents: showing images of extreme dirtiness vs. sacredness, asking “do you think this is normal?”, demanding (local) government to take action and population to put pressure upon government and starting to be more aware as being part of the problem. 16 CLEAN VRINDAVAN PROJECT – analysis data for Committee
Littering Re-use & Reduction Cleaning Collection & Transport Separation Recycling Disposal - Control & Fining system: - stop plastic as much WHO? : children, adults, - sensibilisation Prevention & tourists & households as possible (e.g. tourists, temples regarding usefulness of Awareness - Anti-litter signs introduce cheap and - involve schools in garbage bins by - Health hazard awareness good alternatives for cleaning awareness households of people & animals plastic, use your own (excursions etc.) - Spiritual argument (involve reusable bag, - big cleaning & pilgrims & ashrams) education of awareness yearly event - Visual & harmony aspect shopkeepers and Vrindavan - Stop sweeping & throwing consumers, …) - stimulation: cleanest litter in sewage canals - promote reusable street comes into - who is littering most & plates and cups at newspaper where? Tourists- households & - Ecological message inhabitants? restaurants included in prasadam to - big cleaning & awareness - refund system children ISKCON yearly event Vrindavan (small or bigger Bangalore & to adults of - Ecological Award: Clean scale) for reusable Food for Life school, child, shop, ashram, items like glass - Develop educational … of the year bottles, metal cups material ecology for - Closed sewers help etc. children in schools avoiding litter in sewage - Stimulate use of system and river organic plates and - TV-spot - Install garbage filters in cups in temples - Local radio sewage system - News paper - Flyers - Websites
- clean illegal dumping - stimulate households - people who - paper recycling - what to do with Response grounds to use garbage bins for separate on the - selling plastic, unrecycled - clean surrounding of household litter dumping ground glass & metal to material: official dumping ground - Defining (extra) recycling shredding, - Sweepers Union dumping ground: with - bio-degradable, companies dumping, - get ashrams & boundary (against wind, recyclable, - refund system burning, plasma individuals to adopt animals, people), deep hazardous, rest (small or bigger incineration stretches of roads or enough, with guard waste scale) for parks (sponsoring - transport vehicles recyclable items workers) (tractors, riksha’s, - compost organic - make list of illegal bullock carts,…) waste dumping grounds in - design garbage bins: - cooperativo(s) Vrindavan and have them animal-proof & easy to - stimulate private adopted use&collect initiatives to collect - lobbying with (local) - garbage collection recyclable garbage government to close and equipment on the streets and clean illegal dumping - manpower other places, and grounds - separate garbage from sell it black water & Yamuna 17 To further analyse • Check garbage and black water policies in other Indian cities (Rishikesh, Manali, Shimla, ...) • Quantitative analyses: o How much garbage (kg and volume) is generated per household, per shop, per tourist, … per day? o What is the daily volume of garbage transported to the dumping ground o How many garbage tractors and trucks are there now? o Who owns these tractors and trucks (FFL, FOV, Municipality, …)? o Cost analysis of current situation and of situation with good garbage system? o How many illegal dumping grounds and littered areas are there, and where? • Which garbage transport vehicles are more suitable for which areas: trucks and tractors, riksha’s, bullock carts? • Bullock carts: could be used for (a) garbage collection and disposal, (b) general transport in city, (c) tourist attraction • How are sweepers organised? Link to the municipality? Are they employees or self-employed, … ? • Which places are most problematic and why? (e.g. Parikrama Marg in the Old Ghats, … because of tourism or because of lowest point of sewage canals?) • Why isn’t a system of animal proof garbage bins installed yet? Cultural and/or technical, … reasons? • Who are the stakeholders: sweepers, households, shop-keepers, tourists, municipality, cleaning agency, …? • What is the name and the task of the newly installed private cleaning agency (Vrindavan, Lucknow) • Health hazards due to garbage littering: bio-accumulative effects of the garbage’s toxic paints (heavy metals, …), effects of burning, of illegal dumping on ground water and irrigation water for agriculture • Health effects on animals on the land and in the river • Contact several Indian and other companies active in garbage treatment • Check if we can work together with some Engineering school or university • Sustainability of garbage system: build in capacity building and take-over after some time by municipality and/or local stakeholders • What do households & restaurants use: plastic or reusable plates and cups, and why? • …
Where is the water in Vrindavan coming from? • Water from the tap (faucet) • Water from the manual water pumps in the streets • Irrigation water • Indian drinking water in bottles
Similar analyses and frameworks need to be elaborated for the different committees, for instance: • Black water & Yamuna • Green Vrindavan • Volunteers • Fund raising • …
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