Govind Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttarkashi district.
Peak of Kedarkantha starts from a small village called as Sankri.
Kedarkantha is a mountain peak of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, India. Its elevation is 12,500 ft.
Elevation: 12,500 ft (3,800 m)
District: Uttarkashi
Mountain range: Sivalik hills, Garhwal Himalayas
For Arpit, it was a moment of epiphany. He noticed that the emitted soot had painted the wall black and wondered if it could be something bigger. “If it can colour the wall black, it can surely be utilised as paint,” he thought.
A Chakr Shield attached to a diesel generator
The device led to the founding of Chakr Innovations, founded by Arpit along with Kushagra Srivastava and Prateek Sachan, also engineers from IIT Delhi. Kushagra, CEO of the enterprise, says, “We are a team of 15 engineers from mechanical, chemical and textile backgrounds who have decided to follow our love for the environment and work hard to solve problems related to sustainable development.”
The word Chakr (or chakra) might remind many readers of the mythological Sudarshan Chakra, the deity Krishna’s weapon. It also means circle or cycle, which represents the philosophy and ethos for of their enterprise for the Chakr Innovation team. Kushagra says, “The pollution captured by our device is used for manufacturing of ink. In this way we convert discarded pollutants into a value-added product, thus completing a cycle.”
He adds,
“Air pollution is one of the leading causes of death in India. According to reports by Greenpeace India, every year nearly 1.2 million people lose their life due to air pollution in the country. It also causes the loss of 3% of GDP. One of the main sources of this pollution is diesel generators. This motivated our team to work on the technology that not only reduces the pollution from DG sets but also in turn reduces the pollution caused in manufacturing regular ink.”
At its pilot stage, there are over 30 Chakr Shields in operation. Spread across across NCR, they have been installed in telecom industry towers, FMCG industry plants and real estate companies.
“The devices have captured over 180 kg of particulate matter, which would have otherwise entered the atmosphere, polluting 900 billion litres of air,” Kushagra reports, adding the device can be used by anyone who uses diesel generators, including residential spaces.
Chakr Innovation’s business development team with samples of POINK
Kushagra says,
“The current technology can only capture particulate matter. We are working on the technology so that it can also capture pollutants like SOx , NOx etc. Also, we want to implement our device to other sources of pollution too, like chimneys, boilers and commercial vehicles.”
The startup has also partnered with BOSCH to aid them in product commercialization and further development. They are also working on applying the device for small scale industries which use furnace, with the plan to commercialize it
Stay updated on Chakr Innovation through their Facebook page or get in touch with Kushagra here.
This is a very special milestone in the journey called life. Wish God will make this milestone full of joy and happiness.
पोलिथिन की थैलियों व प्लास्टिक कचरे के दिनोंदिन बढ़ते ढेर से पृथ्वी का दम घुटने लगा है। केवल पृथ्वी ही नहीं, अजर-अमर कहीं जाने वाली प्लास्टिक व पोलिथिन नदी-नालों को छोड़ समुद्र तक में ताडव मचा रही है। इसकी पहुंच किस हद तक है इसका अनुमान इसी से लगाया जा सकता है कि भूगर्भ जल से लेकर समुद्र जल से तैयार किए जाने वाले नमक तक में प्लास्टिक के कण पाए गए हैं। पर्यावरण को चौतरफा चुनौती दे रही पोलिथिन से खतरे को देखते हुए ही पृथ्वी दिवस (22 अप्रैल) का इस वर्ष का थीम ‘प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण को खत्म करो’ रखा गया है।
Teach your daughters to be bold to fight against sexual harassment and teach your sons to respect women, exhorted a panel of experts at a meeting on women’s safety. The audience included parents who came together in view of the Delhi gang-rape incident and its repercussions on society at large.
It was organised by All India Institute of Local Self-government and Sphurti Mahila Mandal, Pune.
he meeting was held at the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) building on Tilak Road. Most experts said that victims do not come forward to report such cases and most are unaware of the law.
“Women are not aware of their rights. Currently, I attend workshops on women’s safety. I told the women that if they were threatened with rape, they have the right under Indian Penal Code section 100 to even kill rapists in self-defence. They were shocked. We must make women aware of their rights and make them bold enough to exercise them,” said Shahji Solunke, additional commissioner of police (crime).
NCP MP Vandana Chavan said, “Parents tell their girls to dress conservatively, come home at a certain time. But in case of boys, they give them full freedom. It is time that if we want gender violence to stop, teach boys at home about gender equality. Keep an eye on their movements and make them responsible.”
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