A New Contest for Ganesh Mandal on Water Awareness by NMC.

Noticing the severe shortage of Drinking water, the Nagpur Municipal
Corporation has launched a new alert contest for Ganesh Mandals on water awareness. The civil body will appreciate with a prize of Rs.1 Lakh followed by Rs. 51000 as second prize and Rs. 21000 as a third prize. The contest has been planned by Vijay Zelke Chairman of NMC Waterwork consultative committee. This time Nagpur is facing a drastic change in water supply and very less water supply. Some areas in Nagpur do not have a drop of
water supply for like 8 Days. Keeping all these things in mind a lot of awareness
activities are done by Ganesh Mandal in Ganeshotsav. The city is facing a
shortage of raw drinking water in high amount. NMC is initiating various
techniques and projects and taking various types of measures for conservation
of water. Awareness through the Ganesh Mandal will help in reaching towards
people very easily and effectively. In this competition, Ganesh Mandal will
compulsorily need to display floats on four major topics,

• Water Recharge
• Prevention from polluting water bodies
• Increase in groundwater level
• Measures to tackle future demand for water.
NMC is initiating this new contest to save water for drinking purpose and to
aware people to save more water.