Earth Day 2020: How a group of citizens revived a British era lake in Salem
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2020
- Salem is one of the largest cities in Tamil Nadu, India. More than 1 million people live here. Piyush Manush is the convener of the Salem Citizen's Forum (SCF). SCF is an informal group, involved in protecting Salem's environment. The lake was built by the British for irrigating nearby farmlands. The lake is spread across 58 acres and used to be a major water body of the city. But gradually it became a dumpsite for Salem's municipal solid waste In 2010 SCF took over the work of cleaning the lake
But first, they had to get rid of the garbage and then desilt the waterbody
Using the silt of the lake, the SCF created 45 small islands
Bunds around the lake were also strengthened. Sitting spaces and a park were made along the bunds. The lake can hold 21 million cubic feet of water
The Yercaud hills that encircle Salem is its catchment area
To accomplish this restoration, the forum had to fight several battles
Especially against the real estate lobby. The cost of reviving the lake was kept as low as possible? The lake now looks picturesque
It has also become a green patch within the city. Now the residents of Salem comes here to relax. 
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"The Land Mafia"......these guys call the real estate moguls for exactly what they are.....well done the citizens of Salem
@chidambaranathan s u a real estate mogul? fuck a land thief
Most Land Mafia in TN are DMK folks
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The land mafia includes criminals who steal sand and soil from the rivers and lake,these idiot criminals causes floods in Kerala too because they have influence over politicians.
@@user-nx4ti8xs1o poda sangi
BIG congratulations from Canada. This was a truly inspiring effort by just NORMAL people trying to do things better. Your work turned out wonderfully. Everyone should be very proud of what has been accomplished.
Doug F. Congrats from the country Toronto.
@chidambaranathan s mr land mafia hii
@Tristan Russell This is a good news story. It's too bad, you feel compelled to shit on others. Go do something good. Join a group like this, wherever you are.
@@billpetersen298 i am a bit late here good advice you gave this cynical a pessimistic person lets hope it sticks cheers from Toronto stay safe
This is how education has made a difference in South India. Such nice citizens such nice officials to give permissions and not create hurdels. So much of awareness. So inspiring
And the guy Piyush who started this initiative was a North Indian. People are good where ever they are, only politics and politicians teach us to hate based on Religion Caste Ethnicity Language and Country.
10 years ago people would say that South India is among the most uneducated and backward in India, now we can see howbbackward the North is
@Kim sung Un he studied and grow in tamilnadu
@@AlexS-oj8qf bro but we west are also best .alone countribute 1/3of gdp only two states .45%of taxes of India
@Panda Heart
Your comment is wrong,it can be countered with " if they were educated the lake would not have got polluted "
Seriously I am feeling very and proud for SCF. I am from Udaipur, city of lakes, but we also need people like you in our city.
may be you can create a forum and ask Piyush for consulting.
I think they are Tamils
Great result.
We need more such projects on our planet !
Great job , world need the people like you , love and respect from pakistan
He is right. Government projects are costlier. A lot of money is squandered here and there through corruption.
so many shameless corrupt people in India feeding there family 3 times a DAY WITH SHIT OF POOR PEOPLE
Bro piyush is fraud guy... He have many compliments in local police station... He is a paid militant...
Maa'm.
1.Piyush Manush is a fake environmental activist. Claims require evidences. He promised that he would revive a lake. Our Tamil people gave him sufficient financial support through online platforms. The result was the lake became worse. He went away with no response.
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2. Months before an organisation called by the name 'isha' bagged guiness record for making largest no. of students(in the locality of Salem) in an afforestation drive. Immediately Piyush jumped to this and started spreading rumour that 'not even a single tree was planted'. He has an ocean of media. Before someone can become aware of his rumour the many medias already made the damage.
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3. Sadhguru and his co made an entire forest in Salem. Piyush Manush then gives a surprising counter that because of the forest Sadhguru created there may be a possibility of stopping calcium and magnesium flow to the soil. That was very weird reaction. Even if someone comes and does afforestation and happens to be a mystic piyush does not encourage them. For evidence kindly see the before video.
4. Piyush Manush became famous by the name "environmental activist " and Ted-talks that he was given a chance to work with famous Actor Vijay. He got the chance to do the role of "environment. activist." Then a breaking news from all tamil news channels came. It was a news that Piyush Manush had been not paying his rent for years. He was arrested. However he came out with bail.
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5. He accused Isha of grabbing elephant corridors without evidence. The case reaced Tamil Nadu High Court. From sadhguru side the lawyers submitted google maps of past years + forest maps from international organisation+ map from Tamil Nadu forest dept. .
Absolutely true alongside governments or other formalised body's incompetencies, I don't think they're exactly the same thing, but there-abouts. Definitely both are in the same category.
corruption is a dead-end-world
Incredible work. Finally someone actually mentions project costs, its incredible how much governments waste in implementing almost any project, in any field, in any part of the world. Would be nice to see some of the economic benefits laid out for projects like this, increased value of lakefront real estate, increased cooling effect from the water bodies, money saved from water recharge and the prolonged use for household ground water supplies during dry periods. Always constantly amazed by the incredible hydrology projects completed by communities across India.
Well of course thats partly true, but I think this was never supposed to have an economic impact. The most important aspect of those kinds of projects are definitely 1.the local community (social dimension) 2.nature and biodiversity (ecology) and only 3.economics. While economic benefits also affect the nature and community, I think its terrible to judge any kind of public project by its economic benefits!
You can't make money off volunteers that's why governments hate them, no backhanders, favors or gifts to be had.
@Nick you had me until i read " ncreased value of lakefront real estate" average people did this, poor people also did this, why should the wealthy benefit from it only. you know as soon as the allow it to be developed, the rich will put gates up.
49 dislikes from real estate mafias of salem 😁
That’s good one bro 😎😎😎😎
It's 140 as of now 😅
😂😂
They need a land to do their business to make money 😂
Born in bihar studied in salem posted in delhi .... Miss u 5 road ...
it seems that people down South are really aware, all these lakes reviving stories, new initiatives are all from south.
Love you guys
This is a lovely example of what communities can do... what humanity can achieve when we put our minds and efforts together without selfish motives getting in the way. I hope i can be part of something like this in my community. Thanks for the documentary
Such a beautiful sight,nature just needs some care and nurturing and we owe it...........
If u don't, nature will come back with vengeance.
@chidambaranathan s lol many hundred times did you post this response :D Sounds like you are envious.
Good spot for a water parki
Actually, if human population disappears, then nature doesn't need any care. It is self sufficient. But, because we are causing it damage in the first place, it needs some protection from us.
Great job sir...hope people like you were in Bangalore, we could have saved around 400 lakhs From 400 lakes it’s come down to 40. such a great inspiration video gets only 12 comments so far...
www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/is-your-house-standing-on-one-of-chennais-missing-lakes/article7971979.ece
Water bodies are being disappeared in all across the country because of inept buearcy & corrupt govt authorities who refused to stand up democratically elected mafia.members
Is it just me or you all felt a cool breeze watching all the trees.
I always dream of doing like this master piece,,,, in West Bengal,,,,,
Then do it. Bungal has so much of water bodies. You can turn it has nature intended.
I mean Bengal
Just save the pinds and canals if Kolkata, its no less than a city of lakes.
Why are you waiting, do it.
The divine mother nature would reward you generously for this endeavour. All of you have created heaven on earth! God bless you.
Congratulations Salem. Another telling example of how change can be materialised provided public are informed, proactive and participative. That said, the real test would perhaps be the consistency of maintenance and how far the collective enthusiasm would have trickle down effect on other inextricably linked areas that are in desperate need of reformative actions.
This is nothing short of a miracle. People in Tamil Nadu are well known for their intelligence. If only district administration and the local bodies have a right inclination and positive attitude towards such social initiatives by enlightened citizens, then no work would be too big to accomplish. It is the job of celebrities to get involved whole heartedly in such endeavours and throw in their weight to gather mass support for such social service. Those volunteers and the organisers who could produce this miracle deserve to be congratulated profusely.
How can someone dislike this video? What is there to dislike in such a beautiful thing done by salem people....this needs to be followed by other cities as well
I will tell you why they disliked it, the fact that the tax paying people had to come up and do this thing and it is being celebrated ( it is very good that these things should be celebrated), and the civic body did nothing just gave them the orders. I mean why the hell these IAS exams are so tough when the collector just signs papers and not run their department properly.
land mafias
I did dislike . Because the people who you see as heros in this video are frauds. They rent house, don't pay rent to owner, threaten him joining as group. The forest they try to create is bamboo, which is not a tree but a grass. That means no +Ve effect like trees. They sell the bamboo products and take all the money without giving back to crowd who funded. These group threaten every shop owner, collect money .
Madhu C , corrupt politicians definitely don’t like these video’s...
that land mafia group must have disliked this
this series always has such great interviews and music. hope y'all are staying safe during the epidemic
I am from Salem but settled in Sydney, Australia. Our daughter, Prarthna , directed me to look at this presentation. Congratulations. I would like to experience this when I visit salem next.
The only lake I knew whenI studied at Little Flower High School was "Circle eri". Now I notice that has been all turne into buildings! How sad.
Congratulation from Charleston SC, USA
Proud to see people are getting involved to keep our BHUUMI clean Our Mother Earth. 👍🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lots of love and respect from Pakistan ❤️
Hope metropolitan cities Chennai Mumbai Delhi and others understand this fact.. develop waterbodies to recharge groundwater..
Well, to be fair they understand it all very very well. Which is precisely the reason why it doesn't happen. As the top boss stands to:
Lose revenue (land acquisition for construction or mining)
Has to work harder (look for better ways to dump garbage)
Lose out on kickbacks (the price difference of many folds was explained in the video, they stand to lose that).
Which is why big cities will never has projects like this unfortunately.
Chennai in fact learned from its floods . its corporate s took Care of lakes nowadays . ground water is now efficiently managed .
Delhi is doing it, Delhi government has started waterbody revival.
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Well said.
i hope this inpires others to take means into their own hands! This shows that striving towards more harmony with nature comes with huge gains for everyone ivolved!
Man this is 8th wonder of the world
Huge huge respect
Piyush, you're real angel ❤
Grateful for your work. Thank you :)
Brings so much joy and happiness just watching it, imagine being able to live in a place like this. Lots of love and best wishes
"They speak in 50 crores, 42 crores, 55 crores. I don't know why it costs so much..."
Although volunteering work reduces the cost involving human resources, but everyone knows why the Government contracts are inflated by a tune of 500% to 1000% then what it really costs. Let's take this as example and calculate. I approximated all the costs; they might differ or more itemized work may also be needed in reality.
Let X be total project cost
Equipment cost: 20% of X (22L, same as ground reality)
Material cost: 20% of X
Architecture and planning: 10% of X
Contractor margin: 20% of X
Government officers salaries involved in project: 5% of X
Quality and assurance: 5% of X
Logistics: 10% of X
Other costs I am not aware: 10% of X
So here total amount comes to 22/0.2=1.10Cr or let’s assume as 10% its 2.20Cr. You can see how much is going to corrupt politicians and contractors
Rightly explained..
Such people are the real heroes and savior of mother earth. They should be awarded and protected.
Such awareness and selfless nature can be seen only in South India❤️
Feeling like a wonderful dream come true ... God bless Mr.Piyush Manush and the team !
This is such a positive step. Bangalore needs to learn from Salem.
I got goose bumps watching this. Imagine seeing this transformation in front of you. And the next generation enjoying the benefits of this green space. This is why India will not only be a world economic power, but a great society as well.
Masha Allah
Bohat khoobsurat kaam kiya hai aap loug nay
Love you from 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
Congratulations! Well done to all Salem citizens. You have shown what is the meaning of unity in reviving the lake. Thank you for the donations, sarifices and hard work for keeping this lake alive. Keep up with the good work. If you take care of the nature, it will take care of you. Kudos guys.
Great job guys, this is a good example of how citizens can take initiative do things better than we depend on the government. It’s so peaceful to see the beauty of nature👏👏👏👏, wishes from Kerala 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Mr Piyush has done lot of such work for Salem, and faced 1000s of issues. This guy is an example of how one should be Gratitude to this Mother Earth...
One of my close friends was involved in this project from the get go. It was a big effort and this is home! Great to see! Keep it up!!
Congratulations! Outstanding and inspirational effort. One hopes it can be replicated elsewhere in India. (I suppose I should point out that I am from Salem, Massachusetts in the US... Not India :) )
My Respect & ADMIRATION has grown a lot more for You Sir ji! 🙏
This is amazing! The Salem community is an inspiration!
Congratulations to all of you and the people of salem for restoring the lake. All of you are true nation builders.
What an fantastic work! Noble services! May Allah bless you all for the good deed This is true inspirational..
Respect.. It is very hard to fight against the construction mafia . I have a huge respect for Salem residents.
I have watched another project that Mr. Manush was involved in. This man has earned my deepest regard for the work he has been doing. Bringing back workable ecosystems. The entire Country cannot help but benefit from these works. To bring back water management and viability to so many places and improve not only biodiversity but the lives of so many people is a miracle. This man's vision, his ability to engage the populations in helping to better their 'homes' is truly remarkable. Thank you to all the citizens that worked so hard to improve the world and your world. You overcome incredible obstacles and put in so much work. You are heros.
They are doing the work which the government should have done. Hats off to them. Even from kindergarten they are teaching we should put trash in dustbin, I don't why people aren't doing that.
AMAZING!!🎉🎉🎉🎉...
HATS OF TO YOU PEOPLE.
JAI HIND🇮🇳
Hats of to your perseverence. Posterity will remember your efforts.
Absolutely can't get enough of hearing such stories. Congratulations citizens of Salem. You show the world what is possible.
Best work I have seen till now in water body restoration.
One of the main reasons you were able to do within 25 lakhs is free work force..
Imagine paying 500-600 persons every Sunday 6 months..
Qualified and able persons should come to forefront of politics then the country will prospere
Well, today the eligibility criteria is how many people you've murdered or how much communal hatred you've managed to spread or which family you've been born into.
The volunteers of Salem lake do not fit any of that, so are not eligible for our offices.
Politicians should be replaced with Artificial intelligence.
I am so happy to see this revival, it looks so beautiful now.
This is awesome! Those kids will talk about this forever!!! Good to see a city do this.
These people deserve all the love and respect from the community for their work. Hope, they can inspire many more people to be like them. Thank you.
You have restored some of my faith in humanity. Thank you for doing what you've done and thinking as you do.
Absolutely stunning work from all the citizens! You are all inspirations to us all!
Dislikes are by Real estates and contractors who missed making dozen million from the same work that citizens did in just 1.5 crore!! I ❤️ this. I would like to give my hand in such work. Hoping to find something like this to lend a hand around where i reside. 😍
what an amazing achievement by the people of Salem. i salute the entire team and especially the leaders to revive a beautiful lake and the ecological system .....thank you very much......this will be a proud story for decades to come.
congratulations for your great efforts...we need such kind of peoples in every cities of india....please i request every people to plant atleast one tree per month and keep your surrounding clean...
Great model sir, such model need to initiate in every district of TN n india...pls spread ur wings we wil support u n serve u as volunteer... Begging by indian youth.....Hatsoff.to u n ur team....from..br. Shahid Ahmed....Vellore
My foreign friends, you have no idea how well these guys have done. They have revived an entire lake for the price of a slightly expensive SUV. Incredible work.
such an incredibly wonderful job has been done by the forum.... hats off.... and many thanks to the channel that brought to us a story so inspiring
So beautiful. You guys do a great service for nature. God bless.
Wow, such an inspiring story! I applaud the Salem Citizen's Forum and all particpiants for their great effort and this major sucess!
My heart is soaring for those little kids. Take care of it at all costs... Well done my friends.
I stayed at Salem for 2 years until 2010. I had missed to see the lake. I love the city very much & really I miss it
A very great initiative by the people of Salem. Very happy to see such a beautiful thing . Please continue your good work.
Wow, i heared and read lot about you.Good people like will face lot of issues to achieve good things. Jai hind !!
What a inspiring story. Thanks to people like these , there is still hope for India to blossom !
Well said "Government speak in crores". A great achievement hard work, knowledge and trust of people paid off. Congratulations to the people of salem.
Really so beautiful.... Impressive
It is very good incentive to restoration and beautification of our loving nature.
I am grateful to all the members
Beautiful, man! Just made my heart warm.
Inspired me to do something with my life!
Well done chaps! What wonderful vision, energy and outcomes. The people hold the oligarchies in check and produce beauty where government could only produce inefficiency. Lovely to see, thank you for this video.
Good thinking, A good project cant ruins. Your people prove it. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️
Wow that looks great, nice work, I love these communal resident projects improving your local area, huge respect.
I admire the massive efforts done by each individual to achieve this laudable feat
This was truely inspiring, how all these people came together to help. 👍
Congratulations to Salem Citizens Forum. Your work is an inspiration to all. Thank you for saving the environment and lakes and helping balance the ecosystem. 🙏
Wow it's inspire us to do something for our nature.
Congratulations, Good work and keep up the spirit from brother Kerala
AMAZING!!!, WHAT A LEADER!!!, IF ONLY THERE WERE MORE!!!
Great job by Salem Citizens. Hands off to you all. Salem is my favourite City in TN.
Truly beautiful and an inspiring project!
Congratulations on the great initiative and hardwork. Such a great example to follow.
What a commendable job. Efforts from citizens for community benefit and the environment is our responsibility. Kudos to the entire team and leadership for such selfless projects.
Something that comes with human heart always had a great result and astonishing effect on ppls and the nature ... I'm so glad for these ppls and their effort is really commendable.
Thumbnail Looks Like Heaven 😊
Wow, great job done
Such an amazing channel. Respect to the people involved in making earth a better place
Really awesome citizens who all came together for reviving the lake it's a truly stunning lake with islands and lots of green trees.
U inspired us all
But piyush manush portraited as mafia.. that's the power of politicians..
Really???
Wish such a mafia is in every state. Then India. Will be a sight to behold.
By BJP IT wing boys.
@Heiwajima Shizuo but they don't like piyush
Great job. Knowledge and man power is always there. All we need is management and implementation. 👏❤️👍🙏 from 🇺🇸.
Beautiful,it is heartening to know the citizens concern in building better CEO living....
Efficient effort leads to efficiency results.
Super initiative 🤘
♥️From Odisha
Respect from coimbatore
Fantastic. SCF has done marvelous work with d assistance of locals & Govt. bodies.Yes.Some one has to take initiative to accomplish such fabulous task to fulfill. Great.
Amazing work done by people of Salem.
Really appreciable