MAD Volunteers Clean Tamsa Stream ( DEHRADUN )

On May 19, 2013 (Sunday), MAD headed towards Tamsa Stream passing by Tapkeshwar Temple (Ancient Holy Place in Doon). Their cleanup drive was also covered by media and accompanied by local residents, 

Famous news Paper "The Tribune" appreciated their deed...  

Making a Difference (MAD), an association of 800 youngsters in Dehradun, has taken up the cleaning of dwindling streams which have been choked due to excessive pollution and gross neglect by people as well as the government.

Many of the erstwhile perennial streams are now beyond any scope of revival. It is certain that the streams flowing below the Bindal bridge and below the Rispina bridge are dead with all their biodiversity.

From east canal to west canal, Dehradun has no canals. MAD has now resolved that it would not allow those few streams to meet the same fate. Last year in May, they had zeroed in on the Tamsa stream which comes from the Bijapur dam to Dakra and is filled with the filth on the Tapkeshwar temple premises. It is the only stream which is the source of water supply for the town. Concerned over this, MAD volunteers held a mega clean-up drive and an awareness campaign on the premises of the Tapkeshwar temple on May 13 last and collected over 15 quintals of assorted garbage.

On hearing that people continue to pollute the stream, a team of 40 MAD volunteers were back in action yet again today. These included students from Summer Valley School, Brightlands, Doon University, the Dehradun Institute of Technology and Graphic Era University.

The Mahant of the Tapkeshwar temple extended full cooperation and support for this drive and provided them with some spades and also organised tea for young volunteers.

Wearing gloves, gumboots and masks, the youngsters started their work to clean the dried-up stream full of polythene and other pollutants.

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Emotional and Heart Touching

We always hear a Tag line in advertisements and see it written at many places, "INCREDIBLE INDIA",

This evening i was simply browsing over Youtube, to see how INCREDIBLE our country is, reached to a link that made me question a lot of things to my own soul, i really had tears in my eyes after i watched this video..

Now whenever you have any unnecessary demand, just think of these innocents who don't even know this word DEMAND,
MAD has already taken initiatives to MAKE DIFFERENCE ..... I just hope everyone does..


THIS VIDEO WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED BY myamazingindia YOUTUBE

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There Won't Be A "TOMORROW"

It was a dark sunny day

With crowd on the road,

With trees leaning down

To unleash the code

“No eating, Drinking or littering”

Was written all around

What all we could see

 Was just a crying ground

Lots were left behind,

And lots were to come.

The only challenge was,

To prevent the rising sum

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Garbage Disposal Report

A letter that was written to "MUKHYA NAGAR NIGAM ADHIKARI" bY "MADians on April 3, 2013.... 

To 
The Mukhya Nagar Adhikari,
Nagar Nigam,
Dehradun.
SUBJECT: REQUESTING YOUR CONSIDERATION ON MAD’S GARBAGE DISPOSAL REPORT FORWARDED TO YOU BY THE HONORABLE CHIEF MINISTER OF UTTARAKHAND.
Respected Sir,
This is with reference to Making a Difference-By being the Difference (MAD)’s report on the improper garbage disposal system in the city. In January this year, a delegation of Making a Difference volunteers met the Honorable Chief Minister Shri. Bahuguna to submit to him our documented research work on the fast falling hygine levels in the city. This 76 page report which contained all relevant details about over 16 places in DehraDun city which have become garbage hotspots also contained a series of valuable solutions as recommendations for the Government as well as the Municipality to tackle the problems identified and enumerated.
The report was forwarded by the Honorable Chief Minister to the Urban Development Department wide letter VIP(M)/291/XXX-V-1/2013(i) requesting them to evaluate our findings. The same report was then forwarded to you wide letter 386/IV(2)Sh.Vi.-13-02(vividh)/07 by the Department, requesting you to act on the report’s submissions..

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