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GOBARDHAN INITIATIVE
GETS A MAJOR BOOST
he Government of India is making Biogas is generated through an effective
efforts to create an enabling waste management process that promotes
Tenvironment for the generation a circular economy while protecting health
of wealth from waste, one initiative and the environment. It reduces GHG
being the GOBARdhan. The initiative is emissions, provides alternate sources of
coordinated by DDWS and promotes the employment, saves foreign exchange,
conversion of organic waste like cattle generates organic manure, and improves
dung and agricultural waste into biogas or savings. Currently, there are as many as 717
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), which are completed and functional biogas plants
eco-friendly fuels. from 240 Districts across the country, of
which 642 are under SBM-G.
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