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NGO plans to feed poor in Jaipur, begins installing roadside fridges

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A city-based NGO has come up with a unique initiative to feed the poor and needy by distributing surplus food which is either disposed of or remains unused in most urban households. The NGO Annakshetra has announced to install refrigerators of 450 liter capacity each in 11 high-profile residential localities of...

Community fridge installed in Bhubaneswar to feed needy

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BHUBANESWAR: In an Odisha first, two voluntary organizations on Sunday installed a community refrigerator in front of a restaurant at Sainik School square here to feed hungry people of the city. People, who have surplus food, can donate to the fridge instead of throwing it. The initiative is jointly taken by two organizations- Bhubaneswar Knights Round Table (BKRT) and Bhubaneswar Queens Ladies Circle (BQLC). They named the community fridge initiative as 'Annapurna'. The motive of the initiative is to eliminate food wastage and feed the hungry people. "We don't want anyone to sleep hungry in pain or worry about food," said Anuradha...

Differently-abled labourer, farmers, drivers: How the poor in Chattisgarh village fell for IAS man’s money ...

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For about a decade, life has been hell for 42-year-old Babulal Yadav. The differently abled landless labourer in a desperately poor corner of Chhattisgarh has made countless trips to the local police station, answered questions by several investigators and lived in fear of random searches on his small shanty just outside the market in Kharora, around 50km from Raipur. The irony: Yadav is not accused of any crime or conspiracy. He is one of 446 people, mostly poor carpenters, farmers and vendors, in whose name a senior state bureaucrat is accused of setting up fake bank accounts to allegedly launder crores of rupees. Yadav has instructed his wife...

Roadside eateries cause havoc

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The failure of health authorities in checking the hygiene of roadside eateries in Tiruchi has raised concern among the people. Similar to many other cities, Tiruchi is no exception to the mushrooming growth of roadside eateries. A section of unemployed youths and experienced “parotta” masters continue to set up roadside eateries in different places of the town. They...

PM words a big pat on back for Jaipur Foot founder

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Two tweets and a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to one of its centres in the Philippines has come as a big encouragement to Jaipur based Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), a philanthropist organisation that provides free prosthetic ‘Jaipur Foot’ to needy amputees. “’I want...

Lions to set up food bank for poor in Patna

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Over 100 tonnes of food is wasted in Patna everyday, over half in homes all over the state. They constitute the leftovers, which a family cannot consume, or that go waste at hotels and restaurants. “It happens all the time, especially, when there is a marriage around,” said TR Gandhi, former governor of Patna Lions Club. But members of Lions Clubs in Patna, many of whom are into food business...

Two new 400KV sub-stations to boost power supply to Ghaziabad

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Uttar Pradesh energy minister Shrikant Sharma on Saturday inaugurated and dedicated the two 400KV electricity sub-stations to citizens in Ghaziabad. The two sub-stations at Indirapuram and Ator will considerably enhance the installed capacities and will cater to nearly 2.5 lakh households. The project was initiated during the previous regime in 2013 and faced number of bottlenecks before the new sub-station could finally get complete. Sharma, while speaking at a function in Indirapuram, said that the state...

'Rotary Fridge' ensures excess food goes to hungry

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Many restaurants is the city incinerate excess food, even if it is fit for human consumption. Realising that this food could be used by those in need, Rotary Bangalore Brigades has launched ‘The Rotary Fridge’ as part of their ‘Campaign Against Hunger’. The club has tied up with...

Will the steep hike in towing rates curb roadside parking?

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Can the recent hike in towing rates ease traffic congestion in the city? Will there be reduction in the use of private transport, owing to lack of parking space? R Hithendra, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), sees a slight reduction in roadside parking at a few places, while urban mobility experts claim that introducing pay-and-park system would ease...

Mulund church serves poor warmth and hot home food

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MUMBAI: In probably the first initiative in the city to provide hot home-made food to the poor and hungry, a Syrian Christian church in Mulund has installed a new refrigerator and a microwave oven on its premises. Since January 1, the 150-odd Malayali families of the North Bombay Mar Thoma Church have been rolling extra rotis or packing upma left...

Urban Agrihood: Detroit Produce Project Feeds 2,000 Households for Free

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The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI) has developed a multi-acre urban agricultural campus in Detroit with gardens and an orchard designed to feed thousands of local residents. This so-called “agrihood” reflects a different approach to neighborhood...

Kolkata gets ‘Food ATM’

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Kolkata: ‘Food ATM’, a 320-litre refrigerator laden with leftovers, is ensuring that the poor and needy in the city do not go hungry, thanks to an initiative by a restaurateur here. Asif Ahmed, the co-owner of Sanjha...

Hunger heroes to the rescue

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--> Ritika Jain | Tue, 1 Nov 2016-07:35am , DNA NGOs like Feeding India, The Robin Hood Army, SPYM, etc collect leftovers from weddings, hotels, etc to feed the poor daily Two years ago, Ankit Kwatra, 24, had attended a typical Delhi wedding where he saw a spread featuring 35 diferent cuisines across the world. After speaking to the caterer, he found that all the leftovers that were enough to feed at least 10,000 people, would be thrown in the trash. The thought of so much food being wasted, when it could be donated, haunted him and thus Feeding India was born. “Our NGO works on a hyper local...

For joy of giving! Going extra mile to feed hungry mouths

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BENGALURU: How many times have we been guilty of ignoring those begging for food on the roadside? The answer, unfortunately, is innumerable. Some of us couldn’t care less and some of us, even though we do, don’t know what to do about it. Harshil Mittal, a 23-year-old software developer from Bengaluru, got tired of seeing hunger stricken faces everyday on his...

Kolkata gets 'Food ATM'

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Kolkata, Aug 22 (IANS) 'Food ATM', a 320-litre refrigerator laden with leftovers, is ensuring that the poor and needy in the city do not go hungry, thanks to an initiative by a restaurateur here. Asif Ahmed, the co-owner of...

Smart street lights illuminate Jaipur

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Chosen as a ‘smart city’ a year ago, Jaipur has now become the first in the country to install environmentally friendly smart lighting on its streets. Following the examples of smart cities in US and Europe, the pink city has installed the first 320...

Wall of dedication in Bhopal: Leave what you don’t need, pick what you do

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Inspired by the concept of neki ki deewar (wall of kindness) in different parts of the country, a youth group has installed a samarpan ki deewar (wall of dedication) in Bhopal. The wall provides a platform to residents, government and non-government...

Indirapuram sub-station to power over 2 lakh homes in trans-Hindon and Noida

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The new 400KV sub-station at Indirapuram will provide a major boost to the electricity supply in trans-Hindon area and neighbouring Noida. Apart from having a capacity to provide supply to over 2 lakh households, the substation will considerably enhance the installed transmission capacity in comparison to the installed distribution capacity. The higher side of the transmission capacity will mean that ample power can be drawn from the grid and supplied...

Minu’s fridge filled with goodness

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Most restaurateurs install big fridges inside their kitchens, Minu Pauline’s 420 litre fridge is on the road outside her restaurant. The 28-year-old banker turned restaurateur says she did this for a very specific reason: She wanted to feed many more people than just her customers. Nanma Maram (the tree of goodness) is an idea that banks on innate kindness, on empathy and hope. Judging by the enthusiastic flurry of attention and press, it’s also an idea that has the potential to trigger a powerful wave of enthusiastic volunteerism and sharing. “I have often seen the homeless and the hungry, especially the aged,...

Sunshine story: Community fridge in Oshiwara supplies food to the needy

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Representational picture Mumbai gets it second community fridge, as an Oshiwara resident sets up a refrigerator for underprivileged people, daily laboureres including BMC workers, and auto rickshaw drivers of that area. Preeti Khurana, owner of an import business has taken the initiative to set up the community fridge. This is the city's...

Caring for downtrodden: Serving the poor, with love

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Madurai: Inspired by the divine teachings of Tamil saint Thiru Arutprakasa Chidambaram Ranalingam, popularly known as Vallalar, Gandhimathi used to attend Avaval (joint prayer for the welfare of humanity) in a house near Kela Masi street in Madurai 20 years ago, which is when she met Siva Anbanantham, a Sangmarga Anbargal. Siva Anbanantham, a staunch Vallalar devotee, spent most of his time serving the community by providing free food for the destitute and elders and so his family left him. Seeing him struggling single-handedly to mobilise funds and also cook the food to provide the free meals, Gandhimathi and a few other people helped him in preparing the food. That was 16 years ago. Today,...

Residents of Gurgaon’s Sector-54 install a 24*7 community fridge to help the needy

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The residents of Gurgaon have installed a 24*7 community fridge that’s for all and by all. Stationed at the exit gate of Suncity flats in Sector-54, Gurgaon since last Friday, the...

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan goes for a toss at night shelters in Jaipur

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Raju Bairwa, a daily wage worker comes to Jaipur everyday from Dausa district looking for work, but on most days he fails to get work and has to stay back in the city. Standing outside the night shelter near Khasa Kothi waiting for his turn to get inside, he tells this correspondent that he usually goes back to his village, but at times he stays back to look for work the next day. “I get free food, a bed to sleep in and a quilt for the cold night at the night shelter, but I have to use the pay toilets to relieve...

Now, a food bank to feed the hungry

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People line up to collect food at Ashiana Food Bank on Mosque Road, Frazer Town, in Bengaluru. DH PHOTOS A one-of-a-kind food bank in Frazer Town, east Bengaluru, is feeding around 200 poor people every day. Al-Aman Educational and Welfare Trust, an NGO, collects leftovers from restaurants, parties, corporate and government functions, marriages and households, and...

Plan to sell cheap sanitary napkins

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Appalled by the sight of women using unhygienic cloth and even jute to deal with menstrual bleeding, a bunch of IIT-Delhi students have set up a unit to produce sanitary pads which even the poor can afford. It was during an education trip to Rajasthan last year that the group of 10 students came face to face with the problems village women face. Back in Delhi, the group conceptualised a project named ‘Titli’ and went to the slums and villages of Delhi to understand more about...

Hotel fed beef to cows, claims Jaipur mayor

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Jaipur’s Mayor Ashok Lahoti has claimed that Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) officials were sent on Sunday night to...

FSSAI launches platform to use leftover food

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On the occasion of World Food Day, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India introduced an initiative -- Indian Food Recovery Alliance (IFRA) – in collaboration with food recovery partners in the country to fight hunger and also prevent food wastage in India. This Web-based platform, launched at the national...

Education department proposes additional hostel for needy students

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Nashik: In order to educate maximum number of needy children, the education department of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has proposed for an additional hostel facility for students of school no. 16, behind police commissionerate. "Currently, our hostel in Jethwan Nagar has 48 students. We want another hostel in the city, to accommodate 50 students of NMC school no 16. The facility will be for students who are orphans or from a very poor background, which will reduce the school dropout rate," said administrative officer of the NMC's education department Nitin Upasani. Upasani...

City youngsters on a mission to feed the hungry

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When Coimbatore-based software engineer P Krishnasamy decided to tie the knot early this month in Erode; the first thing he ensured was that the food prepared at his wedding did not go waste. The youngster immediately wrote to No Food Waste, an NGO that collects excess food in Coimbatore and distributes among the homeless and hungry. "Though I expected a lot of food to go waste due to the rain; fortunately, the leftover food was minimal. The caterers at the wedding took in charge and distributed the surplus food to the poor, hungry people. I have always believed that it's our duty to save any existing resource and make good use of them." Just like Krishnasamy, other youngsters in the city...

Road cleaners, coloured garbage bins for a squeaky clean Ghaziabad

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Ghaziabad: To strengthen the door-to-door solid waste collection initiative officials of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) said they will soon procure more vehicles over and above the 80 they have now. Private firms will also be roped in to cover the remaining 35 wards. With the launch of the scheme on Sunday, solid waste from 65 of 100 residential wards here will be collected every day from the residents’ doorstep. “The...

Jaipur’s property tax potential untapped: Economic Survey

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The Jaipur civic body collects only 5% to 20% of its potential property taxes and has the scope of increasing its revenue collection manifold by making use of technology, a satellite-based imagery of the city has revealed. The data analysis is part of a chapter on urbanisation published in the recent Economic Survey of the union finance ministry. “Bengaluru and...

Now, Coimbatore has Tamil Nadu's first sidewalk fridge to feed poor

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Coimbatore: The first sidewalk fridge in Tamil Nadu to feed the poor was launched on Sunday at R S Puram. An initiative of city-based NGO No Food Waste and local restaurant Kollywood Cafe, the fridge will allow the public to share excess food with poor people....

Jaipur cafés hiring differently-abled as chefs and waiters

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Cafes run wholly and solely by people with disabilities are now becoming a trend in Pink City. These restaurants have unique and interesting ways in which the customers can interact with the special employees. A franchise from Nathdwara, Thadiwala, which hires only hearing and speech impaired female employees, has started its outlet in...

Now, food tokens to feed hungry in Chennai

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Chennai: Next time, when you walk into a restaurant and your waiter asks your consent to add Rs 30 more to your bill, don’t yell at him. He is only trying to help a hungry man or woman who may be just across the road. Welcome to the new concept of “One Token = One Meal” by the Food Bank–Chennai, a fledgling organisation, that has feeding the hungry on the streets of the...

Discovering the joy of feeding the hungry

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As the world celebrates Food Day today with an aim to eradicate hunger, we take a look at the youngsters in the State who have been doing their bit to feed the hungry. A dose of goodness Come a wedding or birthday party in Guruvayoor area, and the phones of Shabeer K M and his friends will start buzzing. No, they are not an invitation to attend the event but a welcome nod to collect the leftover food from the function. The group calls themselves Athazhakoottam (supper group). Shabeer, the brains behind the idea, says, "I used to observe poor kids and adults begging for food in public places and at the same time the well-to-do crowd would dispose of excess food from functions. That's when I...

MP’s neki ki deewars spark moral dilemma as people ‘steal and sell’ donated items

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Unscrupulous people are taking away and selling donated items such as clothes and footwear kept at the neki ki deewar, an initiative that allows the public and charities to give surplus and unwanted household goods to the needy. Set on a roadside wall, it is a charity rack where people can hang or drop whatever they want to gift to the destitute. The poor people can...

To serve, with love

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Food for thought Every Sunday afternoon, a group of individuals from the city collect surplus food from restaurants, hotels and wedding venues and redistribute it to rumbling stomachs who otherwise can’t afford a square meal. They are the members of the Robin Hood Army. Their battle is against hunger and wastage of food. It may easily escape one’s eye, but between fancy parties, opulent weddings and glossy food photography, an enormous amount of food gets wasted, day after day. Abhishek Singh, a professional, works as a volunteer with the Robin...

3-year-old abucted, raped, left on roadside in Jaipur

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Jaipur: In a horrific incident, a three-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped in Rajasthan’s capital city Jaipur on...

India’s food regulator plans leftover banks to feed the hungry

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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is in the process of creating a network of food banking partners to collect and distribute leftover food from large parties and weddings to the hungry. A notification to create a separate category of food business operators (FBOs), who will be licensed to deal only with leftover food, has been...

City corpn installs community fridge to feed the poor

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Tuticorin: Sweets for Diwali, fruits and juice were among food that was contributed to the community fridge 'Akshaya Pathram' that was installed at the Thoothukudi corporation's main building on Tuesday. It was dedicated as a Diwali gift for those in need of food in the city. This first of its kind fridge in the city was inspired by similar charity 'open give and take away' projects at Chennai, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli. Corporation commissioner Alby John Varghese, who dedicated the fridge at the entrance of the corporation main building on Tuesday afternoon, told TOI that people started placing food items in minutes after it was installed. 'Akshaya Pathram' is part of a bigger project that...

Kolkata's famous eatery introduces 'Food ATM' to feed the poor

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Representational picture 'Food ATM', a 320-litre refrigerator laden with leftovers, is ensuring that the poor and needy in the city do not go hungry, thanks to an initiative by a restaurateur in Kolkata. Asif Ahmed, the...

Are Mumbaikars ready for community fridges?

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MUMBAI: Last week, social media was buzzing with the news of a popular eatery in Kochi, which installed a community fridge outside the premises, so that people could donate excess food for those who wish to eat anytime they want. The idea of seeing a refrigerator full of free food, which is open to the public 24x7, on the sidewalks, intrigued many...

Gurgaon: Fresco introduces community fridge to fill hungry stomachs

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With a view to reach out to the poor and needy and provide them food, members of residents’ welfare association (RWA) of Fresco Apartment, Sector 50 has introduced the concept of a community fridge. Under this initiative, the residents would bid to ensure that no needy person goes hungry in the society. The community fridge has been kept at the society’s gate, so that it is easily accessible to the needy. The community food project, titled Any Time Food (ATF), is the product of collaboration between Kadam, a social responsibility group of Fresco...

Noida society installs community fridge for needy people

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To avoid wastage of surplus food, the residents of ATS Greens Village, a residential society in Sector 93-A have come up with an innovative idea of helping poor people by saving the extra food for them. The residents have installed a community fridge at one of the society gates where food is kept by them and taken by...

Odisha: Public refrigerator installed to feed the poor

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BHUBANESWAR: Bhubaneswar Knights Round Table and Bhubaneswar Queens Ladies Circle, two voluntary organisations, on Monday installed a community refrigerator at Sainik School Square...




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