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water management to waste recycling, BAPS has succeeded in many
projects. |
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7
Million Alluminium Cans Collected for Recycling
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| With an added 91 tons
of aluminium foil, BAPS volunteers in England and Wales made it
the largest such effort in the UK. Three Environment Awards received:
Alcan Award, Care of Croydon Award, Brent Green Leaf Award. |
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5,000
Tons of Paper Recycled
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| At Mumbai, Rajkot, Surat, Ahmedabad,
Kolkata, Chennai and Vadodara. |
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| Millions of trees have been successfully
planted in thousands of villages. |
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Water
Conservation Projects
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- 5,475 wells recharged in 338 villages.
- Over 300,000 water conservation
awareness posters and leaflets distributed.
- First & largest drip irrigation
system in Gujarat has been set up at Sarangpur.
- De-silting Veri Dam, Gondal, 170
million litres of water storage capacity created.
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| and bio-gas are used for heating and
domestic purposes at many BAPS mandirs. |
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497
Rain Harvesting Projects
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| BAPS has constructed 85 check dams,
21 percolation tanks, 118 farm ponds, 55 underground tanks and carried
out 218 gully plugging. |
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National Livestock
Awards
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| have been won in the last 15 years
by cows, buffaloes and bulls bred at the 10 gaushalas (cattle farms)
managed by the BAPS. |
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