THE ART OF LIVING SEVA TIMES Patrika, Welfare Society, Rotary Club-Inner Wheel Club, Lions Club and other organisations came together to organise it. Belongings that were not of use

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ss drive in Gandhi Camp under the project 'Pragati Ki Aur'

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nAOL preparing fuel similar to Diesel from plastic waste

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nSri Sri Initiates Peace Process In Kashmir

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n Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar appealed to all the devotees of Art of Living during the satsang that they should support Prime Minister’s decision and should facilitate the people standing outside the banks and ATM’s, so that the situation and people are at ease.

n In the city of Agra the volunteers distributed water and fruits on the initial two days. They also issued coupons to the people standing in the queues and sent them a text message half an hour prior to their turn, by this act there was no confusion and the people could save 5-6 hours. This service is still on in the Bank of India branch.

n In Sant Kabir nagar on 15 Nov distributed water, tea and biscuits to the public waiting at the bank. They also helped elderly and women to fill the forms in the bank.

n In Moradabad also similar services of helping the visitors in the bank was seen.

n In Jhansi also the volunteers helped the visitors at the bank by providing refreshments to the ones waiting in the queues for long time. Also in Meerut and Bareli on 18 November.

n In different places of Jaipur also similar gesture of helping the public at the banks was seen.

n Also in the states of Kerala, Maharashtra,

Volunteers help managing crowd at banks & ATMs

Demonetization: volunteers distributed Tea, Snacks & water

Seva Times Team l Bangalore

Demonetization of the currency and withdrawal of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 notes on 8 Nov made a big impact and the public was

found lined outside the banks and ATM’s in huge numbers for the withdrawal and disposal of cash. In the long queues were elderly, unwell citizens, women and children. Art of Living volunteers

across the country came forward to ease the situations outside the banks at ATM’s and distributed water and refreshments and made it easier for those waiting in the queues.

Moradabad: Volunteers giving water and refreshemnt outside ATM.

Sant Kabir Nagar: Refreshments at ATM's.

Bhuranpur (MP): Volunteers helping to fill bank forms.

West Bengal, Punjab, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh witnessed similar

services of the volunteers towards the visitors at the bank.

Be a good follower to become good leader

Sri Sri Says...

n Gurudev, How can one become a better leader?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Be a good follower first. If you have to be a better teacher, you have to be a good student

first. If you wish to be a good businessman, you need

to learn to be a good customer first. Then you will know what a customer needs, and how a customer should

be treated.Also, a good

leader never imposes his leadership. He should a l w a y s keep in

mind that he is just facilitating. A good leader stands behind and lets everyone else go forward. A leader is one who leads from the back.There are two types of leaders:1. Those who walk at the front and have

others follow behind them.2. Those who are the first to open the

doors and let everyone else walk forward, and they go last.

I would say the second one is better. They are more compassionate. Such a leader would know that everyone has arrived and walked ahead. Otherwise if you as a leader are walking right at the front, how would you know whether people are coming behind you or not. Some people may have dropped out while walking behind you. So as a leader, should stand back and see to it that everyone moves forward.

Gauri Shitole lThane (Maharashtra)

Sri Sri Gram Vikas Karyakram lighted up lives of 285 residents of Dapurmal and Khorgardwadi villages through “Transformation, Training and Advice” by providing solar electricity through 2.5 KW microgrid systems.

Rupesh Kumar Singh of SSRDP says that they found lack of roads and electricity as the major problem of that area. They immediately searched for resources for making lives of residents easy.

In a short film made on the project Snehal Naik Director, transformation, training and advice said, “We want to

replicate the same in many villages.” Aim of transformation is electrification through solar grids and establishing a long period automatic working system.

Rakesh Kumar Singh AOL said, “Our team initiated the work before Diwali and brought electricity to many villages in India.”

Sri Sri Gram Vikas Karyakram Director, Deepak Sharma said that country cannot develop till electricity, water and toilets are made available to distant villages in India. He said that the main idea of our rural development is provision of basic infrastructure for Industrial activities for youth and continue them.

A resident of Khorgardawadi village said that it was for the first time that he saw light in his village. Earlier festivals were celebrated in darkness. Another village resident Ganpat Prathi said, “Our children had to study in candle light or light from earthen lamps. In our childhood there was no electricity, but now our children have got it.”

2 villages saw light after years of Doom

children and elders together celebrating the gift of light in the village.

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Lamp of Gratitudelit this Diwali

Seva Times Team

Diwali is a festival of happiness and lights which signifies victory over evil and brings new hope in our lives. While all of us are enjoying this festival with love and enthusiasm, sweets and crackers, there are few sections of our society who are abandoned and are unable to celebrate these happiness due to lack in lives and continue to live in darkness. Art of Living volunteers celebrated this festival with the under privileged section of society and brought in happiness and lit a ray of hope in their lives.

This year also they spent memorable moments of joy, bursting crackers, lighting earthen lamps and eating sweets. In Abu Road of Rajasthan Art of Living family members celebrated Diwali with tribal children and prisoners. The local coordinator Sangita Aggarwal said that in many villages poor families cannot celebrate Diwali. Keeping this in view they held a Yoga meditation camp for the prisoners. Thereafter all prisoners were given sweets and good wises.They also celebrated Diwali festival with poor families of Kui and Sangna villages of Bhakar area and distributed sweets, crackers and new clothes.

Wall of Goodness brought smile to

every faceChindwara. The Wall of Goodness, a three day mission that made everyone smile. Along with AOL Foundation, Rajasthan Patrika, Welfare Society, Rotary Club-Inner Wheel Club, Lions Club and other organisations came together to organise it. Belongings that were not of use can be utilised by others. People kept these at designated place and needy people picked what they wanted.

Chindwada: During fest 'The wall of Goodness' a police officer giving a gift to a needy lady.

Rajasthan: Sangita Aggarwal and other volunteers celebrating Diwali with the tribal children in Sangli village of Mount Abu.

Chattisgarh: Do Come home next Diwali As well , It was a very emotional moment when one of the physically challenged elderly woman who was gifted a saree told the volunteers to come home next year. The volunteers were in tears they hugged her and showed their love and respect to her.

In the Sangli village of rajasthan, volunteers playing fire crackers with the tribal children.

Gorakhpur : Volunteers celebrated Diwali with the poor children of Bathihata’s harijan basti and lit lamps in the memory of the martyrs.

In Kolkata in collaboration with Rajesh Somani volunteers of Art of Living went for bringing change in the lives of orphans and helpless people with the intention of making a change. Volunteers went in Bibi Ganguli Street, Bu Bazar and to a house named ‘The Refugee’, where they distributed sweets & crackers to about 300 orphan children and 50 aged people and celebrated the festival. During the celebrations they also played with them. There were about 35-40 volunteers. Somani in his address said, “For me it was a big festival. With Diwali lights it was victory of good over evil. This gives a feeling of happiness to the world.”

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Earthen Lamps brings

happinessGorakhpur: Art of Living volunteers celebrated Deep Utsav. They

lighted earthen lamps to illuminate the city with lights and good wishes in public places. local residents also enthusiastically joined them.

In Kolkata the volunteers celebrated Diwali with 300 orphan children and 50 old people , they distributed sweets and bursted fire crackers , the children were very happy

and the elders showered a lot of blessings .

Volunteers in Chattisgarh distributed free earthen lamps to locals so that they buy more and more earthen lamps and encourage

the potters and the potters could also enjoy and celebrate Diwali.

In different places in Kolkata the volunteers organized “ Deep Dhan “ “ Light a Lamp “ to promote to be Swadeshi by

lighting earthen lamps than the electric lamps.

Seva Times Team lDhamtri (Chattisgarh)

During the Diwali festival the local Art Of Living family took a step towards bringing awareness and empathy to the Potters community at large in India,

they promoted and brought a w a r e n e s s among the local people to light only e a r t h e r n lamps this f e s t i v a l

season. This is a move to support the poor potters, preserve our tradition of lighting earthern lamps and to discourage not so

good quality imported electrical lamps.In lieu with Gurudev’s vision of “Swadeshi “our volunteers and teachers took a step towards this and bought 10000 earthen lamps from the potters and distributed it to the locals. This was a gesture to encourage the potters and bring happiness in their

lives during Diwali festival, due to the trend change of using electrical lights

Earthen lamps promoted and happiness of potters restored

In kharasia village of Chattisgarh while residents were busy decorating their houses for Diwali, the youth came forward to share the essence of the festival in a special way with lot of compassion. The Art of Living family celebrated the happiness of Diwali with those hapless children and old aged members in the orphanages and old age homes, who find it difficult to celebrate the occasion with their limited resources.The Art of Living family started a campaign through hundreds of their volunteers for collecting some special

gifts and distributing them amongst needy people. People living in the city appreciated their campaign on social media and even those people, who were not associated with Art of Living sent new clothes, tiffin, food, crackers and other gifts. With this overwhelming response from the locals, the volunteers could reach out to more and more people and give them crackers, clothes, toys, reading material and shared moments of happiness during Diwali. Children and elders were very happy and joyful. They thanked and blessed The Art of Living family members.

Celebration of happiness on Diwali

Blankets distributed to needy on DiwaliBalod. Winters knock at the doors as the festival of Diwali gets over. The Art of Living volunteers gave the message to contact them if anybody saws anybody without warm clothing in nearby areas. Fruits and blankets were distributed in old age homes.

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Seva Times Network lBangalore

Plastic is a kind of product that does not dissolve naturaly in the mud as it is a tough material that cannot be disposed off just like other biodegradable products. If it is left in the mud then it has the capacity to stop recharging of water. In order to improve the quality of plastic products so that they are able to dissolve, certain synthetic products and colours are added to them which are harmful to the health of the people.

Keeping all these facts in mind The Art of Living International Centre at Bangalore, installed the pyrolysis plant for the disposal of plastic to produce oil or fuel. In this plant, around 200 kg plastic

can be put. This plant was established on

13 May 2015. Much fuel is not needed to run the plant as it uses the gas that is the by-product. This pyrolysis plant is functional and plastic from nearby villages is collected and is being disposed in it.

During the year 2013 – 2014, 1.1 crore ton of plastic was used. According to a survey, 60 major cities of India dispose 3501 ton of plastic waste. Green plastic bags are swallowed by cattle that mistake it for fodder and die and the plastic bags that do not degenerate for years, keep lying on the surface of the ground and are a big hindrance to the recharge of ground water.

Art of Living preparing fuel similar to Diesel from plastic

Upto 200 litres fuel can be obtained from 200 kg plastic

is converted into 100 to

plant decomposes 2 to 2.5 ton of plastic monthly

This process is called pyrolysis. In this process products containing carbon undergo treatment under very high temperature and thermal breakdown takes place due to the shortage of oxygen. 200 kg plastic is converted into 100 to 200 litres of oil or fuel.

This fuel is equivalent to diesel in its calorific details. The gas that is generated in this process runs this plant. During the process, plastic is cut into small pieces. In this plant different kinds of plastic can be treated but used plastic is preferred.

Here it is cooled by the water of the cooling tower. This cooled steam is condensed and accumulated in a gas tank. The heavy oil that is produced is also filtered and kept in an oil tank. This oil is used in boilers, generators, etc.

There is a reactor in the pyrolysis plant that decomposes 2 to 2.5 ton of plastic. The temp. is supervised by a special panel. Once steam starts forming then it passes through a drum. When the carbon from heavy products settles down then the steam passes through a condenser.

PYROLYSIS The Mechanism of preparing Diesel

3501 Tonwas the plastic waste

of 60 major cities

1.1 Cr. Tonplastic was used

During yr 2013-14

Rajesh Kundu lAlipurduar (WB)

On 27th September on World environment day youth organized local traditional dance in block Kalchini of district Alipurduar “atithi dewo bhawa”. This event was conducted by Art Of Living along with the Indian red cross society, Alipurdwar chamber of commerce and industries and basa owner association. Alipurduar is a famous tourist attraction of west Bengal tourist association. Baksha National Park, Chilpata forest, Jaldapara National Park are famous tourist attraction

for adventure. For encouraging these famous spot, Art of Living teacher Ram Kumar Lama and his team of volunteers organized an event. The volunteer’s cultural team conducted a rally, in which Gauro, Nepali, Tamang, Mak cultural dances were represented. In this event Rajabhatkhawa village head- Smt. Rina Lama, Indian red cross society district head Sri. Swapan Acharyaji Bahaduri, Sri. Albert Sangama, General Secretary of Alipurduar Chaber of commerce and industries Prashantjeet dew and many more were present.

Cultural program organised on world environment day

Volunteers performing cultural program in Alipurduar distt. of West Bengal on the occassion of world environment day.

Lovely lChindwada (MP)

Soni college of District Administration, Dainik Bhaskar and the Art of Living Foundation came together to sponsor absolutely free coaching to children for the Patwari recruitment examination. In order to beat stress in the candidates, Shweta Chadha, a teacher of the Art of Living Foundation put them on the path of yoga and meditation. Sweta Chadha was honoured by the District

Magistrate A.K. Jain, on the completion of the programme. The District Magistrate also praised the supportive endeavour of the Art of Living Foundation. This event was organised due to the efforts of the staff of Dainik Bhaskar, Manoj Soni of Soni Clollege and District Collector AK Jain, The students shared that yoga and meditation programme helped them to develop their mental capacities and they would continue with regular practise to reap more and more benefits.

Free coaching given to aspiring patwaris

Inter-active session during the free coaching program of aspiring patwaris in Chindwara of MP.

Sri Sri on tour of eight

countriesBanglore. The eight nation tour of Indian wellness guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who has had considerable success in bringing the warring factions in Columbia to a globally-hailed truce, is the first ever initiative by an Indian to stem violence in Central America, considered one of the most dangerous regions in the world engulfed with bloodshed. The 10 day tour will take Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela and Brazil. “The humanitarian impacts have become increasingly obvious,” the wellness leader said before leaving for Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. The visit is also monitored by the Ministry of External Affairs, Indian ambassadors in the region are expected to attend the meetings and offer their interpretation of its impact in the region. “We look to him to help us replace guns with peace,” Mexico City mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said while briefing journalists about Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s peace process.

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Mahatma Phule Krishi Award to Art of Living for water conservation

Gauri Shitole l Aurangabad

Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh awarded Mahatama Phule Krishi to Art of Living on 12th November. This award was conferred for the exemplary service done for water conservation, youth development, children development, chemical free

farming, hygiene & cleanliness, toilet construction, and model village. In this event Maharashtra high court civilian Ambadas Joshi, Jarje Rao from RSS, head of mahatama phule krishi head Bapurao Gaokar, scientist Vikash mandal of Marathwada and head Shankar Nagde were present.

Art of living representative getting Mahatma Phule Krishi Award in Aurangabad of Maharashtra.

Children prepared chana masala, Laddoo, pakoda,

gol gappe etc. for fair Arun Kumar l Agra (Uttar Pradesh)

In the block called Baroli Ahir which is situated in Nobri village, Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru’s birthday and Guruparv were celebrated as Children’s Day. A fair was organized by the children of Gyan Mandir. At this celebration, school children named the stalls after the poets and martyrs and organized a children’s day fair in their memory. As usual, this year also saw the enthusiasm of the children. This time they made different types of dishes from home. Teachers of Gyan Mandir gave information about Ayurveda through their stall that show cased Sri Sri Ayurveda products.Children of Gyan Mandir prepared Besan Laddoos, chana

masala, gol gappe, bhelpuri, mithai, pasta, paneer pakoda, paani pakauri, etc. and displayed them on their stalls at the fair. The people present at the fair appreciated the efforts of these children and said that for the complete development of children, such fair should be

organized from time and again.The Children’s Fair was inaugurated by block administrator Rakesh Dhankar he lit a lamp and hoped that the values and discipline of the children of Gyan Mandir would be imparted to children of other schools.

Children show their homage to poets & martyrs on children's day

Children prepared food and displayed in the stalls. Guests also bought some items from their stalls.

Santoshi Nimbadkar l Baagbahra (Chattisgarh)

In the memory of Late Shri Loonkaran and Kishore Chaurasia, a health checkup was organized by Chaurasia family. This health checkup was organized by Acharya Tulsi Mahapragya Mobile Clinic which is controlled by Terapanth Professional Forum.

Around 460 people were benefitted from free checkups here. Out of these, 178 people underwent a general checkup, 193 patients underwent eye checkup, 89 people went in for dental checkups, and 14 got their ECG done and lab testing was

undertaken for 62 people. 47 patients even received free of cost spectacles and medicines. This health check-up camp became successful as it was organized under the aegis of the Art of Living Foundation. Volunteers extended invitations to come for check-ups to registration, participation, preparing tags for doctors, etc. just all preparation were done by the volunteers of Art of Living. Others who contributed through their services were Naresh Jain, Bhikam Chanda, Mohneet, Kushal, Shri Maal, Sanjay Agarwal, Yashwant Jindal, Nand Kumar Dhanuvanshi, Manish Shrimal, Girish Monadi, Arihant Jain, Piyush, etc.

Volunteers serve at the health camps, 460 people benefitted

Women participating in the rally for awareness towards"Drug De-Addiction.

Awareness program in Jhansi on world Diabetes dayArun Kumar l Jhansi (UP)

On World Diabetes Day, private as well as government sector organized a rally to spread awareness about diabetes on

14th November. The rally was flagged of by DIG Sharan Sachan, Ajay Kumar, CMO Dr Vinod Yadav, former minister Pradeep Jain Aaditya, Mayor Shri Ravi Sharma,

Yashovardhan Gupta, Dr Saigar and Social worker Niti Shastri. The Art of Living was represented by its members and volunteers along with other social workers’ associations.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar with other guests inaugurating the peace talk on Kashmir in Jammu.

Launches South Asian Forum for Peace

Seva Times Team l Jammu

The Art of Living, founded by the humanitarian and spiritual leader, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, brought together multiple stakeholders including ex-militants, families of victims of militancy, youth leaders, women, entrepreneurs, parents bodies, select Kashmiri NGOs, Sufi leaders, academicians, media, persons in art and culture, representatives of the Sikh community and dissenters including those who resorted to stone pelting to deliberate and have a dialogue on the situation in Kashmir as part of the ‘Kashmir Back to Paradise’ Conference. It is for the first time in recent months that such a diverse and large representation of stakeholders from Jammu and Kashmir came together for a dialogue on peaceful and prosperous Kashmir.

"Many of you have traveled 12 and 15 hours to get here because you are deeply pained

by what has happened in the recent months," said Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, addressing this august gathering of Kashmiri stakeholders. “I have not come here with a ready-made solution. We will all have to come together, sit together and bring out a solution. Solutions cannot be found in the streets, not with stones and guns."

As the way forward, the South Asian Forum for Peace was launched. The Forum would span eight South Asian countries to bring them together, to co-operate and work in areas such as entrepreneurship, skill development, cultural exchange, educational partnerships and women empowerment initiatives among others. This is not the first time that Gurudev has been involved in resolving geo-political conflicts. Gurudev was successful by using his good offices in bringing a five decade old civil war in Colombia to an end. For this, Gurudev was awarded the highest Colombian civilian award. His role in promoting the Gandhian principles of non-violence paid off.

Sri Sri Initiates Peace Process In Kashmir

Gauri Shitole l Thrissur

In Thrisha village of Thrissur district a “Healthy Village“ project has been started by Dr.Sarika , the mission of this project is to bring awareness among the villagers r e g a r d i n g

i m p o r t a n t aspects like

T r a d i t i o n a l farming, dwelling

cows, traditional food and Ayurveda cooking,

waste management, sanitation, herbal garden, women health and hygiene. A program was announced from 25-28 Oct’2016 on “Health Trainer program “44 participants came

from different districts of Kerala. The participants came from across the state of Kerala to reap the benefits of this program. 70 participants also

attended the health camp, during the training other aspects like Gaushala visit, Gau pooja, seed and herbal

planting etc were included.

The participants of both the programs were divided into

six groups and were allotted projects which they would be doing in their villages. They also took the responsibility of organizing the “Ayur

Jagruti “and “Health Camp” in their villages, so that others can also reap the benefits of these programs.

n YLTP conducted and helped the rural youth to abandon addiction of tobacco and alcohol, organic farming, rearing of desi cows and natural manure training imparted so that they can opt it as a source of income.

n Organized Sri Sri Farmer’s forum and natural farming workshops where the farmers are inspired to practice natural farming.

n The International Inner wheel Club honored her with the “Deepak Jyoti Award for her medication.

VARIOUS SEVA ACTIVITIES

Gauri Shitole l Sangli (Maharashtra)

Mandir in Janravvadi of Sangli district in Maharashtra. There are not enough schools in and around this place to impart education to children. The Gyan Mandir is doing a commendable task by providing education to the underprivileged children of that area. Sangita is a role model in herself, inspite of the hardships in her life she emerged out of those situations and dedicated her life to be of service to mankind. She had always been very influenced by her father’s teachings and his principles and was totally shattered when she lost her father in 1999 and at that point in her life, she learnt and practiced the Sudarshan kriya and benefitted out of it immensely, this brought a lot of transformation in her life

and then she went on to become a trained faculty and decided to dedicate her life to be of service and spread happiness by conducting yoga and meditation programs.

She has been an inspiration to so many by her dedication. She takes care of 200 children in the Sri Sri Gyan Mandir and they planted 3000 saplings in the school campus.

Sangita Patil in service to mankind

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Healthy village project started in Thrissur kerala

Seva Times Team l Jammu

The Art of Living has offered to rebuild 27 schools burnt in Kashmir to save the education of over 4,500 students of the Valley. It was disclosed in an interview by Sanjay Kumar, who has hosted a conference “Kashmir: Back to Paradise” held by the Art of Living here.n What all ground activities are

you going to initiate in Kashmir?Earlier, the Art of Living interventions in J&K have spanned four broad areas: Trauma-relief programs for all sections of society;

bringing a sense of harmony by facilitating dialogue between people of diverse viewpoints; working to alleviate the plight of people in migrant camps; and initiating youth leadership programs, addressing the issues of youth caught in the web of militancy or affected by it.

We will continue this program. Besides, the recent escalation of unrest in the Kashmir valley since July 2016 had unfortunate fallout - burning down of 27 educational institutions by miscreants. The arson has affected more than 4,500 students, evoking strong condemnation from parents, educationists, traders and

mainstream civil society. In the light of this painful incident, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has offered to rebuild the 27 schools burnt down in Kashmir. Many people have responded with a willingness to support this initiative.n Do you think by creating

a common platform for diverse stakeholders to share their views on the current situation of unrest and some developmental activities, such as constructing school buildings etc., they will come up with a lasting solution without political willingness?

The stakeholders are mentioned

just above this. One thing to understand here is that there is no ethnic unrest here. Kashmiris are one people, whether they are from the Pandit community or from the Muslim community. The purpose of this conference is to involve all of them, including politicians, to bring in a lasting solution, including rebuilding of schools. Once peace regains its place in the Valley, terrorism will stop. Because the people of Kashmir will say no to this, they will stand up to say no.n What are your plans to uplift

the socio-economic status of the vulnerable Kashmiris and

establish peace in the breeding ground of cross-border terrorism?

Education and awareness are the primary goals of bringing people together at this conference. Rebuilding of schools is another area of bringing them together. People are fed up of violence. Business is suffering. Once they all come together, peace and development will become a reality. Without peace, there is no development. Please remember this. Look Kashmir is not a breeding ground for terrorism. It is run by vested interests.

Art of Living offers to rebuild 27 schools burnt in Kashmir

participants worked on these programn Rain water conservation introduced. n Pesticide free

farming, maintain good quality seeds. n Medicinal farming and home gardening. n Rearing desi cows and spreading awareness about the advantages of Indigenous/desi cows and make natural manure with the cow dung and the production of Bio gas. n Sri Sri Kissan Manch, kerala facilitates the opening of shops for the sale of Organic produce. n In a short span of three months the Thrissur volunteers sowed seeds in 3 acres of land. n Agriculture farming started in the local “Viyur Jail”. n The program participants extracted ammonia out of the Cow’s urine and made a natural fertilizer. n Kerala‘s Traditional Ayurvedic cooking, which varies as per the season was practiced. n The participants collected 500 authentic recipies whichhey will be presenting it in a book form.