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Sunday, 5 April 2015

[www.keralites.net] Cleanest Village.in Asia - Beautiful village called Tamnath near Karjat, Maharashtra.

Beautiful village called Tamnath near Karjat, Maharashtra. Cleanest Village in Asia. Here is a village in Maharashtra which will change your perception forever. With clean roads, good sanitation and exemplary waste management, the village is a perfect example of how a collaborative effort by a community can change things for good.

The place is unlike any other place I have been to in India as it was really clean and had no plastic bags strewn around.

The village also focused on sanitation and had achieved 98% sanitation (as told to me by the Sarpanch).

When I saw this, I got interested in learning about how the villagers achieved this. The village has a small temple dedicated to a late seer who focused mostly on cleanliness. He basically conveyed a single message in his lifetime, "Cleanliness is equal to Godliness".

Did you know: The Cleanest Village in Asia, is in India

People of this village in general have a sense of hygiene. Also, the Sarpanch is very particular about sanitation. So he gives a subsidy to anyone who wants to build a toilet at home.

However, it isn't like the village has sweepers who come early in the morning to clean up everything. The villagers themselves took the responsibility to not litter at all and so there isn't much of a need to clean up everyday.

The Sarpanch is very proud of the cleanliness and sanitation standards of the village. He asked me to make a film promoting the importance of good sanitation facilities in a village.

He encourages every girl of the village to not marry a guy who doesn't have a toilet at home, even if her parents are forcing her. He suggests that the girls ask the groom's family for a toilet at home, if they wish to marry their son to the girl.

The most stunning thing is that they have a wall of shame on which they put the names of the villagers who go for open defecation. The lines written on the wall mean that these particular villagers endanger the health of the entire village!

This is the location of the cleanest village I ever saw, if you ever want to pay a visit. Just remember, keep the plastics and the filth outside!

-Ruchir Saraf

- See more at: http://www.thebetterindia.com/21203/my-story-in-photos-the-cleanest-village-i-have-ever-seen-maharashtra/#sthash.izETdX7Q.dpuf

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[www.keralites.net] Interesting Knowledge....Did you know..?

Did
you know........

The YKK on your zipper
stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikig

DID YOU KNOW 3.14 is
PIE backwards.

DID YOU KNOW The dot
over over an i is called a tittle:

DID YOU KNOW Cashews
grow like this:

Moreover, you can't buy
them in the shell. The shell is poisonous!

And pineapples like
this:

Now let's shrink things
down. Here's what velcro looks like close up:

Here's what chalk looks
like under a microscope:

And here's what sand
looks like under a microscope:

Speaking of sand, there
are more stars in space than

there are grains of
sand on every beach on Earth:

Thanks to Carl Sagan for this knowledge.

Speaking of things that
are huge, a Blue Whales heart is

so big, a small child
can swim through the veins:

There's enough water in
Lake Superior to cover all

of North and South America in one foot of water:

Let's think bigger: If
you dug a hole to the center of the Earth

and dropped a book
down, it would take 45 minutes to reach

the bottom:

Here's what Jupiter
would look like if it were the same

distance to Earth as
the Moon:

And here's what a
sunset on Mars looks like:

DID YOU KNOW There are
more bacteria cells in

your body than actual
body cells:

Anywhere from 2 to 9
pounds of them. We're more bacteria

than we are human!

DID YOU KNOW John
Tyler, the 10th President of the United States,

has a grandson that's
alive today:

John Tyler had a son, Lyon, when he was 63.

Lyon had a son, Harrison Tyler, at 75.

JUST THINK: We know
more about the surface of the

moon than the bottom of
the ocean:

Speaking of the ocean,
there are more atoms in a glass of

water than glasses of
water in all the oceans on Earth.

Now let's talk about
time:

Speaking of time:
The Ottoman Empire still existed the last

time the Chicago Cubs
won a World Series:

Keep this in mind, too:

The Great Pyramid was
built circa 2560 BC

and Cleopatra lived 69
BC 30 BC

and the first Moon
landing was in 1969, AD

which means Cleopatra
lived closer to the Moon landing than

she did to the building
of the Great Pyramid.

Speaking of the
pyramids, they were as old to the Romans

as the Romans are to
us:

Should we keep going?
The difference in time between when

Tyrannosaurus Rex and
Stegosaurus lived is greater than the

difference in time
between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now:

Here's one more: In
1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time

38 years later, in
1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

and 28 years later, in
1969, man landed on the Moon.

That's 66 years.

Also, did you know that
since Pluto was discovered, it hasn't yet

completed its orbit
around the sun? Will complete in 2178!

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