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            Now days if we think of anything natural first things that comes to our mind is that it would be a slow process. Also it may have less output than other artificial variants. But its not necessarily true.  Natural process are infact more robust. One of strong argument in favor would be that it has evolved over millions of years and has survived various changes and catastrophes.  Same applies for farming s well.           Natural farming tries to use of all positive aspects of nature. For e.g. farmers use ploughing to soften soil. This enables roots to grow and spread easily. In natural farming earthworms and microbes available in soil do this work. Natural environment is created for them. Microbes and earth worms dwell in dark and humid climate. They need organic material as their feed. With this understanding in natural farming organic mulching is spread over soil. With mulching its block light f...

      Attitude of throwing away waste has created its pile up. These pileup's run risk of competing with sky scrapers.  Above statement is a exaggeration for now but can become reality if not handled with care. Lets try to understand major type of urban waste generated in most of the households This classification and grouping is important as then we can address them together.  For e.g. 1. Recyclables: They can be segregated and sold to scrap dealers. Which intern would be re-cycled also will generate some revenue. Medical solid waste has to be handled by experts so has to be sent to Medical waste treatment plants. Clothes can be either donated to NGO's or needy individuals.  2. Organic waste: House hold organic waste can can decomposed into manure. With improvement of Farming related processes there are many ways in which organic waste can be converted to manure. One of the popular method is Vermicomposting. This process is natural process with artificial ...

                     Image above can we relate with it ? I think yes green trees, small waterbodies, birds, sports in urban landscape. We can relate with it as a wish but not something which is readily available to all.  So as part of series related to corporators responsibilities want to cover important topic of sustainable neighborhood .  Before going into solutioning part of it lets understand and observe the problems that may occur or we would have already faced in some or the other way.  Water scarcity during summers  Increasing cost of electricity and that too with frequent power cuts. During vacation looking for place away from city which is green and has fresh air for rejuvenation. Smoggy atmosphere which may feel suffocating Debris of all kind of waste generated, which looks and smells bad   Health of people in neighbor hood getting worse day by day. ( most of them have high blood pre...

    As discussed in my earlier post corporators have certain listed responsibilities to be carried out in their 5 years tenure. For most of their work they are supported by local Municipal corporation. So for these task they just have to direct authorities towards issues and get it resolved. This leaves them with ample energy and time which can directed towards other areas of improvement.  In this post we will try to explore one additional areas apart form his basic work where a corporator can work on. When we talk of development my focus would be to work it out in hierarchical fashion. Each work should act a building block for higher development. In corporate terms a project with mix waterfall model and  agile methodologies.  Waterfall model can focus on building and strengthening foundations whereas agile can be used for continuous improvement on varied fronts. ( These are ones I am aware about but there may be even efficient way to achieve it ) Basi...

    To be frank thought of this topic as election for nagarsevaks or corporators are near around. And like all elections in India, people interested in politics have already started soft campaigns. Soft because their names are not yet announced as candidates for these election. Once names of candidates to fight for post is declared then real drum beating would start.      Before we deep dive in this topics lets understand where wards is positioned in Indian politics           As you can see above diagram with flow of command where Government of India is at top and wards is the lower most node. We can say wards are working at real grass root level. And are closer to people and their ground realities. It won't be exaggeration if I say collective idea of all ward representatives is idea of whole country. So they have immense responsibilities.      Person elected as representative of ward is call corporators. They are ref...

           Have been involved in photography for some time now. So as every other photographer always in constant quest for new platforms to project my work. Instagram is one of the most popular platform.            Unfortunately predominantly being a mobile app most of their feature are enabled only on mobiles including uploading pics. For mobile photographers its not a concern at all. There are many mobile app for photo editing apps. This makes its easy to load pics from mobile itself.            But there's a catch 😉. And all photographers ( those with dslr and camera pics) will definitely  concur with pain in ass this app is for us. Reason being pic from dlsr camera's are quite heavy. Need special software for high level editing. Once done it has to be copied to mobile for being uploaded on Instagram. Dslr à PC à editing software à mobile à Instagram     ...