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Saving trees
We person started the groundwork for the redevelopment of Jeevan Bima Nagar, an flat assemblage that came up successful 1995. Spread crossed 15.5 acres successful Anna Nagar, we person 1 information for the probable developer - guarantee nary of the trees successful the nine is chopped down. Over the decades, residents person nurtured much than 1000 trees successful the nine and we privation this greenish treasure to beryllium intact.
TV Radhakrishnan, president, Jeevan Bima Nagar Flat Owner’s Welfare Association, Anna Nagar West Extension
A decentralised discarded absorption system
On January 4, Residents of Kasturba Nagar Association volition beryllium visiting america to explicate the discarded absorption exemplary they person adopted. The inaugural is being piloted by Mrs. Indu Jagannathan. We anticipation to instrumentality lessons from them arsenic good arsenic sermon ways to flooded challenges successful discarded absorption faced by residents payment associations. Earlier, we studied the exemplary followed by Casurina Drive connected East Coast Road and a assemblage successful Nungambakkam. An effectual decentralised discarded absorption model, which is besides affordable and sustainable, is our extremity for 2026.
Priya Rajashekhar, member, Kalakshetra Colony Welfare Association, Besant Nagar
Powering a greenish transition
Last year, we launched an inaugural to power to cleanable vigor root for our powerfulness needs. We are a assemblage with much than 160 villa-type houses; and 20-25 of america person installed rooftop star units successful a lawsuit of shared inspiration. I got motivated to spell successful for this strategy aft seeing it successful a neighbouring assemblage wherever my person resides. The 5.4 kW star portion has made a immense quality to however my powerfulness bills read. From ₹25,000 billed each cycle, the measure present ranges betwixt ₹5,000 and ₹10,000. The Association has been supporting this thrust by bringing connected committee vendors who assistance clarify nagging doubts residents harbour. We anticipation to adhd to the number of star rooftop installations this year.
Logendrakumar M.K., president, Chettinad Enclave Village Owners Association, Pallikaranai
No plastics, please!
This year, we are focusing connected shoring up a run to marque our gated community, Ceebros Garden successful Virugambakkam, and its contiguous surroundings environment-friendly. Towards this, we person formed a greenish squad ‘Swacch Ceebros’. Posters reminding residents that integrative carrybags are banned are placed astatine salient spots. The squad has besides been campaigning with vendors extracurricular the assemblage to not merchantability items successful single-use plastics, truthful this thrust volition proceed covering much ground. As we are much than a 20-year-old assemblage with implicit 350 flats, we person been studying discarded absorption models adoped by different communties. Our nonsubjective is to minimise the magnitude of discarded that has to beryllium collected by conservancy staff. As portion of this goal, we person started studying composting models. Space is the main situation to this inaugural but we anticipation to resoluteness this contented successful 2026.
Shankar Raman G, president, Ceebros Garden Owners’ Association, Virugambakkam
Replicating a societal project
Jagannatha Nagar and SIDCO Nagar are neighbouring colonies successful Villivakkam known for exchanging notes connected their champion practices. South Jagannatha Nagar Residents Association’s blackboard task is worthy of emulation. Residents person fixed jaded, lack-lustre blackboards astatine the Government Boys School successful the neighbourhood a caller overgarment of achromatic paint. These boards had mislaid their defining colour implicit the years and children recovered it a situation to work what had been written connected it. Residents pooled successful wealth and galore of them besides rolled up their sleeve to overgarment these boards to reconstruct its mislaid colour. The RWA has painted adjacent to 25 blackboards astatine the school. There is simply a authorities schoolhouse adjacent america and I americium hoping to get my Association to motorboat a akin task this year.
S.V. Kumar, treasurer, SIDCO Nagar Welfare Association, Villivakkam
In the institution of books
At DLF Garden City successful Semmencherry, we presently person a country with a heap of books. A origin that is conspicuous by its lack is simply a keeper of books. There are besides nary volunteers to support a catalogue of books that travel successful and put them connected the shelves neatly and systematically according to subjects. I would similar to instrumentality a leafage retired of the room astatine Tata Sherwood, a gated assemblage successful Bangalore for the space’s quality to thrust cognition seeking successful a lively assemblage spirit. There are besides lessons to beryllium taken from the Palakkam District Library, erstwhile my go-to spot for knowledge. I would privation the room astatine DLF Garden City to bespeak the qualities these 2 libraries represent, enabling residents to link implicit shared interests.
Dr. Vinatha Chettoor, resident, DLF Garden City, Semmencherry
