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Reaching out through communication: APD completes first year of IEC

Meda Release
July 4, 2017

aMangaluru, Jul 4: Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation, Mangaluru has reached a new milestone by successfully completing one year of executing various community outreach projects under the Inform-Educate-Communicate (IEC) initiative under mandate from Mangalore City Corporation.

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This initiative called for a continuous series of community level interactions with the public stretched over the last 12 months for addressing various issues like Solid Waste Management, Waste Segregation at Source and promoting Clean-Green Mangaluru.

APD Foundation undertook this ambitious assignment after being appointed as the strategic partners of Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt Ltd. (AWHCPL), the official waste handling agency of MCC. The Inform-Educate-Communicate (IEC) initiative is a part of AWHCPL’s contractual obligation towards MCC in providing comprehensive waste handling services in Mangaluru.

For several years mankind has been striving towards having a cleaner future for the generations to come by taking baby steps on grass-root levels in curbing the various types of pollution. In Mangaluru however, an initiative was taken to educate the citizens on the same matter through various campaigns by the Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation.

The chief objective of IEC is to invite citizen’s participation in waste handling activities and promote an enlightened culture of cleanliness and hygiene in MCC jurisdiction. APD Foundation undertook its first IEC project on June 2016.

Since June 2016, under the IEC campaign, APD launched around 15 projects, conducted 32 road shows, steered 27 outreach and 32 ‘grass-root’ camps, distributed almost 20,000 pamphlets, reached out to 45 educational institutions and educated around 10,000 students. Through these activities APD Foundation has overseen the responsible utilisation of nearlyRs. 15, 00,000 funding earmarked for the purpose. APD Foundation has also been recognised with the prestigious UN-HABITAT Award which makes available an additional funding of RS. 4.3 lakhs for approved projects under the terms of the award.

“As of this month, it has been a year since we initiated the IEC programme. Our key instruments towards reaching the objective is through holistic information, data sharing and advocacy campaign where we sensitise the citizens and promulgate the idea of dry and wet waste segregation. We intend on driving the citizenry towards taking a more involved role in segregating their waste and adopting a sustainable and responsible living,” says Abdullah A Rehman, Founder of APD Foundation. “In the current year, we are preparing to multiply our strategic partnerships in order to build and improvise our research and awareness programmes.”

According to Abdullah A. Rehman, the primarychallenge faced by the APD team is to convince the people regarding the advantages of protecting the environment, resource conservation and economic opportunities from leading sustainable and environment friendly lifestyle. Hence IEC plays an important role in overcoming the communication challenge.

“Our main aim is to educate the youth with more focus on schools and colleges as we believe that the future of the Nation is within its’ compound walls. It is also a psychological fact that people of all ages must see something repetitively to inculcate the subject in their lives, and thus we aim at repetitive acknowledgments”, Naveen D’Souza the IEC Programme head at APD.

According to PrakashKurup of AWHCPL, “The solid waste of every household creates waste at the end of the tunnel if it is not segregated. The penultimate motive of this IEC campaign is to raise awareness of segregation at the source.”

APD is also working on developing a people integrated website and toolkits wherein each waste generator will be able to access and find out how they can achieve segregation and turn their organization or residences into a zero waste producing establishment.

Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation is a registered public trust under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882. The not-for-profit Foundation is focussed on tackling the sources of air pollution - predominantly through tackling vehicular air pollution and proper waste management.

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June 13,2020

Mandya, Jun 13: Degree colleges will begin classes after the lockdown is lifted and dates for examinations will be announced later, said deputy chief minister CR Ashwath Narayan on Friday.

Speaking at College of Agriculture, Mandya (VC Farm) on Friday, Ashwath Narayan said the lockdown will be completely phased out on June 30 and degree colleges will begin classes after that. “We will speak with all stakeholders to chalk out measures as to how to reopen degree colleges amidst coronavirus scare. All students must continue their studies and be prepared for exams,” he said.

Narayan said the cabinet has approved to upgrade VC Farm as a university and an ordinance will soon be promulgated in this regard. “There is a need to change the present curriculum to meet present day requirements. VC Farm will be made into a world class agriculture university and a vice chancellor will be appointed,” he said.

“Apart from traditional education, we must concentrate on skill-based education as it should create more job opportunities. We are committed to establish more skill-based educational institutes in Mandya district,” Narayan said.

Later Narayan visited Shivaragudda near Maddur and inspected 48 acres of government land which could be used for establishing skill-based education institutions. “This land was earlier used for imparting skill-based education in a collaboration with Denmark. Sir M Visvesvaraya had established skill-based institutions here in 1923 and now they have become defunct. The then prime minister of Denmark had inaugurated this century old institution. We will revive it and this will help local youths,” he said.

‘Ticket promised only to R Shankar’

When asked, Narayan said R Shankar, who quit the Congress-JD(S) coalition and joined BJP will be given a party ticket to contest the legislative council election. “Except Shankar, the high command did not promise council tickets to those who quit congress and JD(S) and joined our party. It is true that there is hectic lobbying in BJP to get tickets,” he said.

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Tejashwini
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Friday, 24 Jul 2020

Sir when does degree clg gets reopen  in karnataka

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July 19,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 19: Palakkad Division of Southern Railway that has jurisdiction over Mangaluru Railway region has established a business development unit (BDU) to cater to the transportation of various sectors, including non-bulk goods traffic, namely, white goods, finished products, manufactured products, agricultural produce and raw material.

In a statement issued here on Sunday said that the BDU’s mandate was to facilitate seamless interaction between the Railways on the one hand and industry, trade representatives and rail freight customers on the other at appropriate zonal or divisional levels. The unit was also expected to help expeditious clearance of their proposals for freight movement.

Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Pratap Singh Shami established the BDU in line with the similar unit at the zonal level with other divisions of SR too setting up similar units. Palakkad BDU would work under the supervision of Additional DRM-II CT Sakkeer Hussain while Senior Divisional Operations Manager PL Ashok Kumar was its convener with Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Jerin G Anand, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer KV Sundaresan and Senior Divisional Finance Manager AP Sivachandrar were its members.

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May 22,2020
Bengaluru, May 22: Evacuation planes from Male in Maldives and Doha in Qatar landed in Bengaluru with returnees from Karnataka after they were stranded for two months due to suspension of international flights since March 23 and the extended lockdown, an official said on Friday.
 
"An Air-India flight (#0266) with 152 passengers from Male and its subsidiary Express flight (IX-0822) with 177 returnees and 5 infants from Doha landed here safely at 6.50 pm. and 9.05 pm respectively," an airline official told media persons in Bengaluru.
 
Both the flights are first from their respective countries to Bengaluru, bringing in returnees to the southern state in the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission, being carried out to evacuate Indians stranded the world over.
 
"As per the standard operating procedure and guidelines of the state health department, all the passengers were screened with thermal device and tested to ensure they were asymptomatic before leaving the airport," a nodal officer said.
 
The returnees were given a spare mask to wear all the time and a sanitiser to wash their hands.
 
"The luggage of all passengers was screened and disinfected before handing over to them after they completed formalities such as filling the self-declaration form and downloading of the Quarantine App for contact tracing later,” said the official.
 
The passengers were ferried from the airport in state-run buses in batches for 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and resorts across the city.
 
The flights were the 6th and 7th flights to Karnataka, of the national carrier and its Express arm, which are operating the service to repatriate thousands of Indians, including distressed workers, migrants, students, senior citizens and tourists, stranded overseas.
 
Five flights have flown about 650 returnees till date from May 18-21 under the mission's second phase to Bengaluru and Mangaluru on the west coast. The passengers have been brought from Dubai in the UAE, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Muscat in Oman, Dammam in Saudi Arabia and San Francisco in the US.
 
The remaining flights to Karnataka will land in Bengaluru and Mangaluru over the next 12 days till June 3 from 9-10 more destinations the world over.
 
In the first phase of the mission from May 7-17, the airline and its arm flew 6 flights to the state from May 11-15, bringing in 800 passengers, including 623 to Bengaluru and 177 to Mangaluru from London, Singapore, San Francisco and Dubai.

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