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Towards the Future:

Positive Change

Sulabh
A non-governmental organization that installs waste disposal systems, finds alternative employment for 600,000 nightsoil collectors, and runs a power plant generated by human excrement from public toilets.

Action for Securing Health For All

ASHA

Offers subsidized health care
Has helped to mobilize women's groups who organize weekly discussions about health and social issues. The women have begun asking authorites to aid income generating activities.
Helped a pilot project to improve slum conditions which have resulted in a 475 family co-operative housing authority that is recognized by the DDA and financially supported by the Oriental Bank of Commerce. The co-operative has awesomely improved their conditions with roads, clean water, electricity, a health center, a school, and more.

NAVJYOTI
Navjyoti is a Hindi word meaning "new light." It is also the name of a portion of the Delhi Police Foundation. Dr. Kiran Bedi believed that criminals with substance abuse could be brought out of helplessness to become beneficial to their communities through helping others. By the late 1990s, Mrs. Bedi's efforts resulted in Navjyoti and programs incorporating activites such as:

drug rehabilitation
children's eduation
the formation of women's development

DDA The Delhi Development Authority has expressed continued concern over the increasing number of slums in the city. The Estimates Commity of the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment of the DDA produced a report during March 1998 that recommended (1) investigation of the unauthorized occupation of DDA tenements and (2) an attempt to curb the continued increase of unauthorized settlements by making the government responsible for slum-dwellers' resettlement.

Delhi Water Supply and Sewege Disposal Undertaking
A dual-pipeline system has been proposed as of March 10,1998 to service housing societies and institutions that will be constructed in the future. Because water is in short supply in Delhi, rainwater will have to be harvested for a dual-pipeline system to be feasible. However, both the Indian Institute of Technology and Delhi University are using methods of rainwater harvesting that could be used in a dual-pipeline system

The result of the system would be twofold. One, treated water would be saved. And two, a push in efforts towards water conservation would be felt in Delhi.

Plans to Mitigate Traffic Congestion Being Considered by Delhi Authorities
1) Reorganization of traffic flow in Connaught Place

2) Proposed mass rapid transit system

3) New Roads running north-south and east-west

4) Introduction of more bus corridors

Pollution Reduction
1) Delhi Traffic Police are attempting to enforce anti-pollution laws that require vehicles to have pollution control certificates.

2) The government has attempted to open a "mini-effluent treatment plant" to minimize pollutants expelled into the Yamuna River

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DDA	The Delhi Development Authority has expressed continued concern over the increasing number of slums in the city. The Estimates Commity of the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment of the DDA produced a report during March 1998 that recommended (1) investigation of the unauthorized occupation of DDA tenements and (2) an attempt to curb the continued increase of unauthorized settlements by making the government responsible for slum-dwellers' resettlement.
Delhi Water Supply and Sewege Disposal Undertaking	A dual-pipeline system has been proposed as of March 10,1998 to service housing societies and institutions that will be constructed in the future. Because water is in short supply in Delhi, rainwater will have to be harvested for a dual-pipeline system to be feasible. However, both the Indian Institute of Technology and Delhi University are using methods of rainwater harvesting that could be used in a dual-pipeline system The result of the system would be twofold. One, treated water would be saved. And two, a push in efforts towards water conservation would be felt in Delhi.
Plans to Mitigate Traffic Congestion Being Considered by Delhi Authorities	1) Reorganization of traffic flow in Connaught Place 2) Proposed mass rapid transit system 3) New Roads running north-south and east-west 4) Introduction of more bus corridors
Pollution Reduction	1) Delhi Traffic Police are attempting to enforce anti-pollution laws that require vehicles to have pollution control certificates. 2) The government has attempted to open a "mini-effluent treatment plant" to minimize pollutants expelled into the Yamuna River