Working Team

Aapala Paryavaran – Water Special

Aapala Paryavaran- Film Festival

Aapala Paryavaran- Film Festival- 2008

Audio- Visual is the best medium to generate awareness among people from various backgrounds, educational institutions Environmental Film Festivals. Nine Film Festivals are conducted from the past nine years by receiving active participation from films made by various organisations and students.

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Nandanvan: Competition

Nandanvan is a very innovative and novel competition that the organization has been conducting for 4 years. The objective of this event is to encourage all those garden lovers who grow whatever little they can in whatever space is available to them.

Aapala Paryavaran- Publication

Aapala Paryavaran- Publication/Magazine – Estd.2004

Keeping the tagline ‘Environmental education to every home’, ‘Aapala Paryavaran’ magazine in semi english is helping students, their teachers, parents in the process of environmental education. Information about nature –environment, introduction of environmentalists, informing people about various environmental issues, incidents, attractive and suitable designs are special features of this magazine.

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2. 2015, July2. 2015, July
3. 2015, August3. 2015, August
4. 2015, September4. 2015, September
5. 2015, October5. 2015, October
6. 2015-Nov6. 2015-Nov
7. 2015, Dec7. 2015, Dec
9. 2016, Feb9. 2016, Feb
10. 2016, March10. 2016, March
11. 2016-April11. 2016-April
12. 2016, May12. 2016, May

Jal Saksharata

Jal Saksharta- Water Awareness Project.  This project creates awareness about importance of water, uses of water and water conservation. Awareness programmes with different groups to encourage people to set up rain water harvesting plants in their localities, waste water recycling plants are conducted.

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2008 Awareness Creation Rainwater Harvesting Inorbit Mall Vashi2008 Awareness Creation Rainwater Harvesting Inorbit Mall Vashi
2009 Madhavrao Chitale- jalsaksharata2009 Madhavrao Chitale- jalsaksharata

Clean Creek Movement

Every year awareness is created and campaigns are done like ‘Clean Creek Movement’ for Thane Creek’s conservation and cleanliness.

Devraee Afforestation projects

Devraee Afforestation projects- 2015 Tree plantation drives are initiated in site like Runda, near Kalu river, Titwala, Kalyan. Dist. Thane

DEVRAI SEED COLLECTION DRIVE MAY 2023

DEVRAI ECORESTORATION PROJECT GALLERY

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Devraee Vanrai Bandhara
Devraee prepration for next plantation
Plantation by public Participation 
Plantation By school students
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Film Club Activity

PDM also has archive of hundreds of documentary films and short films in sixteen categories like wildlife, birds, biodiversity of lakes, rivers, wetlands and oceans, forest, nature, environment, water, land and agriculture, sustainable development, energy, solid waste management, sanitation, climate change eco-friendly festivals, pollution (air, water, sound, e-waste, radiation-health food pollution), animation films, people and poverty in hindi, marathi and english. These films are screened during film festivals, awareness talks in schools, colleges, in PDM offices etc. These films are collected by organising film festivals every year.

  1. Vasundhara short film competition of three days is one such major film festival that is a joint effort of PDM and MPCB (Maharashtra Pollution Control Board) organised every year since 2008. PDM has named this Film Festival as Apla Paryavaran LaghupatMahotsav. Every year films from professional and amateur category are screened at YashwantraoChavan, Nariman Point or RavindraNatyaMandir, Dadar. This festival is attended by the participating filmmakers, students and nature lovers. Guidance and help is also provided to make environmental short films. It is inaugurated by Chief Minister, State Ministers and other dignitaries of MPCB also attend inauguration ceremony. Winners are felicitated by cash prize, trophies and certificates and local newspapers cover this event. Many institutions, people have participated in these film festivals. Eight Film festivals were conducted from the past eight years.

  2. Since 2009 a huge film festival of three days for school students is arranged at GadkariRangaytan, Thane since 2009. Every year the theme of the festival changes and around 6,000 students attend it and is always a huge success. This year the theme was solid waste management, water conservation, last year it was wildlife before that birds. Every year films from CMS Vatavaran (Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi) are added to the film archives. PDM is also associated with Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) from the past sixteen years and have multiple films of this organisation in its archives.

  3. Kaushalya Hospital, Thane had provided their auditorium in the year 2013 for film festival which would be organised on second Saturday of every month.

  4. PDM (Kalyan and Dombivali branch) have conducted two film festivals from the past two years with the support of Rotary Club, Inner Wheel and Kalyan Mahila Mandal.

  5. PDM organised a film festival at Aarey Colony to promote the message of Save Aarey, which was a joint effort with the Save Aarey team at Goregaon. The films from PDM archives were screened for local Aarey crowd and students from various schools, which got an excellent response.

Eco- Friendly Festivals

Holi with Natural Colours:

Workshops, lectures and programmes to teach people to make natural colours with easily available household materials are conducted. Emphasis is also made to avoid burning large holikas by cutting trees, instead people are encouraged to use dry twigs and leaves fallen on the ground.

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Green Ganesha

Different aspects of the festivals like idol making with clay and paper pulp, colouring of idols with water colours, decoration with paper, reduction in height of idols and encouraging immersion in artificial tanks, is propagated under this banner in different schools, colleges, societies and even corporate places.

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2014 Bedekar vidyamandir2014 Bedekar vidyamandir
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Noise & Pollution free Diwali:

Bursting crackers during Diwali is most popular amongst children. Thus creating awareness amongst school children about the ill-effects of crackers mainly with respect to noise and air, is the purpose of PDM team. Students are also involved in actual noise monitoring using suitable systems.

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Gudhipadva- New Year Celebration:

Last two years we are celebrating Gudhipadva(Hindu new year) by pollution free Sky lanterns instead of crackers. Everybody is now copying this new way of celebration.

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Rakshabandhan-vrukshbandhan:

This is a symbolic act to adapt trees in one’s vicinity and know more about them. Very popular in schools, children make rakhis out of bio-degradable natural waste material and tie it to trees in their school campus.

 
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Vatpournima:

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Awareness Workshops

We organise many Environmental Awareness workshops on different topics related to environment. Lectures as well practicals by Eminent Faculties in the Environment field.

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