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TEDxDelhi Veer Bhadra Mishra

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2010 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Varanasi based Professor Veer Bhadra Mishra has a PHD in Civil Engineering from the Banaras Hindu University. For 25 years, he ran the Swatcha Ganga Campaign, a unique effort focused on cleaning the river Ganga, by creating an interaction between science, technology, culture, faith and people at national and international level. This work has been recognized by UNEP at the time of UNCED (United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development) at Brazil in 1992. The technical option developed by the Swatcha Ganga for cleaning Ganga at Varanasi uses natural processes and gravity, thus ensuring minimum use of electricity, and effectively removing harmful bacteria from waste. Dr Mishra has also initiated projects in the field of literature and Indian classical music associated with temples and rivers: the Sankat Mochan Sangeet Samaroh and Dhrupad Mela of Varanasi. He was one of 7 Heroes of the Planet, according to Time Magazine (August, 1999).

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