By Restoring India’s Kham River, a City Revives Its Cultural Legacy https://www.wri.org/insights/kham-river-restoration
The Kham River Restoration Initiative demonstrates how a social-ecological approach to waterway management can transform cities and improve lives... They mapped 249 waste entry points with drones and installed traps. Rerouted sewage to treatment plants and built new ones. Set up a facility for textile waste from factories. Cleaned the river and discovered springs that were buried under debris. Fixed waste collection across the city, removed 170 dump sites. The municipal commissioner joined weekend cleanups himself. Citizens showed up every Saturday. The key was stopping waste from entering the river in the first place, not just cleaning it.
It has dramatically reduced environmental degradation and flood risk along the Kham River. And as the first river in India not connected to the glacier-fed perennial Ganges River to have an Urban River Management Plan, the Kham is setting a precedent for smaller-scale and seasonal rivers to create formal management frameworks. These plans also expand cleanup work to other bodies of water at the regional basin-level, beyond municipal bounds.
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Rasta Satyagraha- Part 1: When the System Didn’t Move, Chaitanya Patil Walked the Mumbai-Goa Highway CITIZEN WALKS WHERE SYSTEM FAILED Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), Maharashtra https://www.moneylife.in/article/rasta-satyagraha-part-1-when-the-system-didnt-move-chaitanya-patil-walked-the-mumbaigoa-highway/79178.html
Chaitanya Patil (28), an engineering graduate from Raigad, has completed a 490-km on-foot audit of the battered Mumbai–Goa highway and submitted a 59-point hazard report to Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.
‘RASTA SATYAGRAHA’ — A WALK OF SHAME FOR BAD ROADS
•Walked entire NH-66 stretch •Duration: 29 days
•Identified: •Potholes, •Missing signage, •Incomplete bridges, •Accident black spots, •Exposed iron rods & debris
59 critical danger points documented with: •GPS data, •Photos, •QR-coded digital report
75–85 km of work still pending, Service roads incomplete, Bridges half-done, Lives fully at risk
Patil even collected accident-causing debris by hand — broken glass, metal pieces, hoardings — items that authorities somehow “missed” for years.
WHO IS CHAITANYA PATIL?
•Engineer from Kasu village, Raigad
•Flagging highway flaws since 2019
•Earlier complaints led to repairs within 24–48 hours
•Proved one thing brutally clearly:
Problems exist because silence is convenient, not because solutions are hard
Wa by Jaikishin.. When a citizen walks half a thousand kilometres to do what institutions were paid to do— It’s no longer activism. It’s an indictment.
The road to Goa shouldn’t require courage. It shouldn’t require sacrifice. And it certainly shouldn’t require a Satyagraha. Fix the roads — before more citizens have to walk over broken promises.
New Court Order May ERASE The Aravallis, Expose Hills To Mining & Construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nplSe5cTpcc Let's Get Real -- we’re not talking about the Aravallis being destroyed by bulldozers. We’re talking about something far quieter—and far more dangerous - they're being erased by definition.
A technical change in a ruling by the Supreme Court has quietly reclassified over 90 percent of the Aravallis as 'non-Aravalli', stripping them of legal protection.
This change in definition could decide the future of our air, water, biodiversity and climate in Delhi–NCR, a region already gasping for breath, and dealing with deangorus levels of pollution.