Who we are ?
Nature Conservation Society (NCS) is one of the oldest NGOs in its space in India. It was founded in 1976 by a group of forest officials, educationalists and other like-minded people for helping the then newly-formed Palamau Tiger Reserve, Jharkhand to help reduce animal poaching, as well as harmonizing the interests of forest-dwelling tribes and the government’s intent for ecological preservation.
From this theme of “Sustainable ecological development” for a single geographical location (the state of Jharkhand), the society has expanded its activities into various other areas including Biodiversity conservation, Watershed management, Natural Resource management, Environmental awareness and Tribal upliftment, with activities spread across neighboring states (Bihar, Orissa) as well a pan-India consulting practice for some of the above tasks.
One of its important diversifications has been into supporting the Bio-fuel movement due to the abundant opportunities it provides for using fallow land in Jharkhand- it is now a leading supplier of subsidized Jatropha (“Bio-diesel plant”) saplings for interested farmers though a large plant nursery it runs .
Who do we help?
NCS has diversified its activities in these years to include programmes to empower women, youths, local communities and man-made impact on biodiversity and natural resources, but the basic objective continues helping Project Tiger be successful.
Scope of the project
- Procuring 500 large dustbins and distribution of the same to different societies across Mumbai.
- Inventorying the amount of plastic waste being generated daily, separated into wet (non-recyclable) and dry (clean) plastic.
- To work out a plan with the building managers and housekeeping staffs to come up with a weekly collection system from residents, which would then be stored in the basement of the building pending recycling.
- Parallelly, tie up to a few Plastics Recycling firms, to arrange a free monthly pickup of any plastic collected, subject to certain terms of the plastic not being wet and soiled.
- Conduct training sessions for House keeping staffs, as well as design flyers which can be circulated to residents urging them to segregate plastic.