Community efforts

Once on the brink of collapse, Chilika Lake's revival is now a global model of ecological success, thanks to bold interventions and community efforts.

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur spent a staggering $6.24 million on a banana taped to a wall and ate it. But do you know that Ashok Gade, a farmer from Maharashtra, transformed the humble banana into a range of delicious products like biscuits, chips, and jams, earning Rs 50 lakh a year?

In the span of one year, Dr Jitendra Kumar Soni, District Collector in Nagaur, Rajasthan, ensured that 3,068 schools had a working electricity connection.

The members have installed a compost machine, and today, most of the wet waste generated is transformed into compost and used on the gymkhana's cricket field. They supply the surplus to the BMC and neighbouring societies.

Faced with severe water shortage due to reduced snowfall and receding glaciers, a Ladakh village has built an artificial glacier successfully through community efforts that now fulfills all its water needs. Samten Choephel takes a closer look.