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Banana waste products
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 17:21 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Professor of Navsari Agriculture University (NAU), Gujarat have developed edible candy high in fibre and nutrition made out of central core of banana plant pseudostem. The other products include fibre for textile and paper industry and organic liquid fertiliser which have been developed under the project which aims at efficient use of each and every
Eco Textile Park in Surat
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 17:12 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
The recently inaugurated Gujarat Eco Textile Park at Surat will produce textile products in an environment friendly way. Among the plant’s salient features are a common effluent treatment plant of 60 MLD, a solid waste-to-energy (Power and Steam) 10 mn kcal/hr incinerator, a 12MW natural-gas-based captive power plant with co-generation of steam, rainwater harvesting, a
Cleaning Ganga
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 17:05 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Hundreds of cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) gathered at Buxar ghat recently to clean the Ganga river; with an aim to create awareness about preserving the holy river. The national campaign, ‘Ganga Swachhta Ahiyan’ (Save Ganga Mission), was conducted during September in Allahabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Chapra, Patna and Munger by NCC cadets. Throughout
Contractual obligations
Outsourcing of housekeeping services are largely based on different types of contracts or agreements which have its own advantages and disadvantages
Unclogging of drainage
When water in the bathroom takes a longer time to go down the drain, there certainly is a problem
How to Calculate Cleaning Times
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 16:33 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Calculating cleaning times, or production rates, can be a difficult task due to the number of variables in each particular situation. But help is out there if you know where to look. Because there are so many variables – cleaning frequency, customer expectations, building surfaces, equipment used, and level of quality, to name a few
MBA students get down to brooming
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 16:29 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
More than 35 senior and junior MBA students of the Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM), Nashik, got down to cleaning one of the ‘most dirtiest place of Nashik’ this Dusserah. Varun Jindal, one of the students, told CIJ that it was a voluntary initiative taken by students as part of the Joyfest on September
Net watch on garbage bins
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 16:18 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has created a web based ‘waste carrier truck management solution’ system on its official website (pcmcindia.gov.in) which helps identify if garbage from bins in the township has been lifted by the trucks. With this, citizens as well as the civic authorities will be able to monitor all the 1,700 garbage bins
In tune with NATURE
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 16:15 in Professional, Technology / Features | Viewed times | No Comments
Vinod Sreedhar, an independent consultant/trainer, who does programmes on social governance, has started a ‘back to nature’ initiative by pooling in with three of his friends. He wants to teach and share with others the simple ways of reconnecting with nature and giving back to the environment some of the natural resources. As part of this initiative are his...
World Bank aid for water, sanitation
Published on 1 Oct, 2009 at 15:53 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
The World Bank has approved a US$150 million equivalent credit for the Andhra Pradesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project. The project aims to assist Andhra Pradesh to improve water supply and sanitation services in 2,600 villages across six districts of the state. It will provide piped water to 2.1 million people and extend sanitation
