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• Initial proposal to World Bank for award winning project titled "Human-power based lighting solution for nomadic and tribal people". Eventually the 3-member team of Harshad Kamdar and Dilip Sankarreddy from Save Bombay Committee and Yogesh Kulkarni from Vigyan Ashram won "World Bank Development Marketplace Award 2007" for this project.
• Write-up on the installation of Mono Wheel Genset at Ullash Parisar Prathishtan Adivasi Ashram Shalas (UPP-AAS) at Karav, Kalyan Taluk, Thane District, Maharashtra on 15th August, 2006.

Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM)

• Integrated Solid Waste Management - Citizen Perceptions: Book written by Priya Salvi in 1997. Hamburger Umwelt Institut (Hamburg, Germany) and Save Bombay Committee (Mumbai, India) collaborated to bring out this research work.
• Integrated Solid Waste Management - A sustained and perennial solution: Paper by Priya Salvi, Kisan Mehta and Dilip Sankarreddy. Prepared in 2005.
• Integrated Solid Waste Management - A sustained and perennial solution: Presentation
• Resources up in Flames: Report prepared by GAIA in which the work of Save Bombay Committee is featured.

Urban Planning

• Emergence of huge number of cities in India and China: Issues of degradation of quality of living: Paper by Dilip Sankarreddy. Prepared in 2006.
• Emergence of huge number of cities in India and China: Issues of degradation of quality of living: Presentation
• State of Inspection and Maintenance Policy for Vehicles in India and Citizen Involvement: Paper by Kisan Mehta and Priya Salvi. Prepared in 2001.

Kambalwadi Village Progress Study Report

• Download report titled "Kambalwadi - Transformation of a Village": (.doc) | (.pdf)

Prakruti-VOFA Vidarbha Sadbhavana Yatra (10th Jul to 14th Jul 2006)

• Download report titled "Continuing Farmer Suicides in Vidarbha - Report on Underlying Reasons and Action Plan for Stopping Suicides": (.doc) | (.pdf)
• View Prakruti-VOFA Vidarbha Sadbhavana Yatra Invitation call poster

Organic Visits

• Detailed Programme of Prakruti Kolhapur, Satara, and Sangli Districts Organic Farms visit (18th Feb to 20th Feb 2006)

Articles/Presentations

• Mumbai in the Freedom Struggle and Now written by Kisan Mehta.
• Download Public Hearing Presentation of Petition on Reliance Energy Limited's Multi Year Tariff(MYT). MERC Case Nos.73, 74 & 75 of 2006. Presented on 21st March by Sandeep N. Ohri.

Bombay in 2001: Improving the Quality of Life of Our Citizens - Pragmatic Proposals from the Save Bombay Committee

• View scanned images of the pages of the report "Bombay in 2001: Improving the Quality of Life of Our Citizens - Pragmatic Proposals from the Save Bombay Committee".
• Download the zipped files of the scanned images: pages 1 to 70 | pages 71 to 120 | pages 121 to 186
• This was prepared in response to the "Revised Development Plan for Greater Bombay 1981-2001 of The Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay".
• Brief introduction about the proposals:

  The Maharashtra Region and Town Planning Act (MRTP Act) requires municipal authorities to formulate plans for the entire area under their respective jurisdiction. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay (MCGB) is required under this Act to formulate plans for the entire area of Greater Bombay and to revise these plans every ten years. MCGB failed to present the Development Plan (DP) by 1977, the due date. Instead it announced the draft DP only in 1983. SBC on studying the DP proposals, found that the information required to be submitted statutorily under the MRTP Act was not made available to the general public and this resulted in the plan proposals not being properly appreciated by the citizens. Following legal action taken by SBC, the Bombay High Court directed the MCGB to republish the DP with the necessary data and information.

  SBC undertook to study the DP proposals as formulated by the MCGB and to formulate a Citizens' Response to the draft DP. This Citizen's Response lays down objectives and measures for ensuring balanced development.