Green Circle Dwarka Chapter organized a health talk on pollution at Max Hospital on January 24, 2026. A total of 34 participants attended the event. The program began with A.K. Saigal, who spoke about the activities and initiatives of Green Circle. This was followed by an informative session led by Dr. Shubhanshu Raj Goyal, who explained the harmful effects of air pollution on the lungs. Dr. Shivangi Sundaram, a consultant in surgical oncology, then discussed the negative impacts of air pollution and its link to cancer. After the talks, a question-and-answer session was held, during which attendees expressed their satisfaction with the discussions. Raj Agnihotri and Anurag Mohan encouraged everyone to contribute to Green Circle’s future endeavours. Chitra Jain and Seema Mittal presented potted saplings to the speakers as a token of appreciation. Romila Gandhi, on behalf of Green Circle, thanked the speakers, Max Hospital, and the audience for their participation. Nearly 35 members participated.

Nainital 11.1.26 and 18.1.26

Green Circle Nainital, jointly with Shipra Kalyan decided to conduct a cleaning drive in Shipra river. The Shipra River is one of the rare north-flowing rivers, hence important to keep it clean and alive. The drive was participated in by volunteers of Shipra Kalyan and Green Circle Nainital. 12 sacks of biodegradable waste were removed. The municipality will lift the waste. Also, it was decided to conduct the same drive again on 18th January 2026

Green Circle’s Geo-tagging of trees, the second phase, which tagged about 200 trees in People’s Trust campus. 40 volunteers from BMS Rotaract club participated in the program. Kumar Kalyandurg, Vasanth Kumar, Sandip, Selva and Biju joined the volunteers in listing the trees. 566 trees were QR coded. As of now, 811 trees were tagged out of 1000 trees. 20 Students of Sai Shankar Vidhyashala also joined the project. Temporary labels were fixed and will be replaced with QR plates. Venu and Sunny, who curated the project, guided the student volunteers in tagging the trees. People’s trust, Managing Trustee Harish Uthaiah thanked all for the volunteering

Dwarka: An awareness program on the prevention of pollution and its impact on health was held at the Super 30 Centre, Mahavir Enclave. Romila Gandhi and Seema Mittal apprised the children about the importance of the 3 Rs—Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle—and shared simple ways to help prevent pollution. Chitra Jain and Anuraag judged the posters prepared by the Super 30 girls on environmental themes. The girls presented skits and poems and also recited slogans highlighting environmental issues and the need for conservation. Certificates and refreshments were distributed to all the children at the end of the program.

Green Circle birding & wildlife community listed birds early in the morning. Some species identified by them included the Golden Oriole, Zitting Cisticola and Grey Hornbills. Karthik, Vaijayanthi, Namrata and Selva participated in the bird watching and listing. The survey was undertaken in the Naniah park and People’s Trust green area. Birders recorded a list of 50 species in ebird portal

The activity was followed by Green Circle’s Geotagging of trees, the second phase, which tagged about 200 trees in People’s Trust campus. 25 volunteers from BMS Rotaract club participated in the program. Kumar Kalyandurg, Vasanth Kumar, Sandip, Selva and Biju joined the volunteers in listing the trees. Overall 283 trees were QR coded and tagged out of 1000 trees. Temporary labels were fixed and will be replaced with QR plates. Venu and Sunny, who curated the project, guided the student volunteers in tagging the trees. People’s trust, Managing Trustee Harish Uthaiah thanked all for the volunteering

Green Circle has given the final shape to the above project with Team BMS. Project team met at BMS BSN block on 16.9.25 to decide the modalities for geo taginng of trees under a MOU entered between GC and BMS. The technical advice is given by BMS MCA team under the supervision of Prof Sridevei. The project will be executed in People’s Trust. Test launching will be done on 20th Sep. Once successfully launched, we will invite all for the inauguration of the project at BMS. The main aim of the project is to create a web application for identifying species name of any tree and generating a unique ID with QR Code for each tree. When someone scans the QR from any mobile device they will be redirect to a web interface showing the details of the tree they scanned. The user are provided with detailed information like the location of the tree which is tracked using GPS, images of the tree, species classification of the tree, detailed description of the tree and medicinal and environmental benefits of the tree. One the other side, the admin is provided with a dashboard with the list of all trees with its location and list of all volunteer , where can modify/delete any tree.

The technical team of this project consists of Prof Sridevi BMS, Student innovators Mr Venu and Mr Sunny Samuel from BMS

Project Proponents Team Green Circle Bangalore

Nitish, BMS student innovator says

Nitish writes…… We extend our sincere gratitude to Selvarajan Sir and the Green Circle NGO for their support towards our project ClimAware, a proposed extension to SkyPulse. We are pleased to share that we have successfully filed a proposal to the Tech4Good Initiative for USD $4745 today. ClimAware is a low-cost early warning system developed by the IEEE ComSoc Student Branch Chapter at BMSIT. Unlike conventional approaches that rely heavily on expensive sensors, ClimAware utilizes everyday radio signals — satellite, FM, and VLF waves — to monitor weather variations hence keeping it extremely cost effective. By deploying the system strategically at Devanahalli, Kengeri, Varthur, and Nagasandra, it will be capable of providing early alerts for thunderstorms, lightning, and fog before they reach deep in the city. The initiative is designed to complement the already approved SkyPulse project, thereby strengthening Bengaluru’s weather forecasting ecosystem through faster, more reliable, and hyperlocal forecasts. With the support of Green Circle, we take an important step forward in building a climate-resilient Bengaluru. 🌍💡

Green Circle Dwarka recycles e-waste to fund tree planting drive.

In a mission to save environment, Green Circle Dwarka Delhi Chapter recycled e-waste in a tie up with Karo Sambhav , e-waste aggregator. ‘We have honoured our commitment to plant trees from the amount generated from recycling e-waste collected from Nayantara Apartments, Dwarka. Planting was done at the same apartment’ said Abha Gupta, Secretary of Green Circle Dwarka chapter.

She added that Karo Sambhav passed on the proceeds of collected e-waste to Green Circle , which was utilised for plantation as per agreement. A K Saigal of Krishna apartment said , ‘Green Circle will repeat this collection drive in coordination with Karo Sambhav and the activity will be extended to all Dwarka apartments in a phased manner’ Volunteers from Green Circle who participated in the drive included Chitra Jain ,Seema Mittal,Abha Gupta,Ashwani Saigal,Manoj De and P V Lakshmi. From Nayanthara Apartments, Meenakshi Garg, Nisha Singhal, Poonam Singhal, Pravin Singh, Naresh and Ambuj participated in the plantation drive. Meenakshi Garg of the Apartment said, ‘we are thankful to Green Circle that they utilised the money for planting saplings in our premises. On the one hand e-waste were properly recycled and on the other the money generated was used for planting trees inside our compound’