It was such an inspiring morning at Swacha Graha Kalika Kendra in HSR Layout. Conceptualised by Solid Waste Management Round Table, Blor.This 1.5 Acre park has been converted into a learning space to showcase various models of home and community composting. Vegetable garden established with the compost that is generated. Everyday, 1000 kgs of wet waste is brought to this space and turned into compost. Bath tubs that were construction debris turned into vegetable growing cans 🤩😍 Beautiful installation made with metal and plastic caps of bottles which carry the story of waste pickers who have now become entrepreneurs. So inspiring. Definitely a must visit place for anyone who is interested in composting. It is so well maintained and one feels happy after the visit.

First of its kind learning centre to do home and community compost. Do visit their website it's quite helpful if you can't visit them. There is even a bio gas cum composting option that is very good for restaurants.

Really felt amazing learnt a lot about types of composting and how to do it and I'm I love with the cows ! :-)

It will be a great learning experience, if you are enthusiastic towards nature, gardening and keeping your place and surroundings clean. During Saturdays you can visit here to learn about composting. Staff and volunteers working here are very kind and knowledgeable people. I enjoyed visiting here and something new I took out from that place. A must visit place from my view.

The place was quite inspirating and very motivating to try at home. They teach home composting and are the first community composting unit. Places like these are the future of upcoming cities and developing cities like Bangalore.

Great place . Hallmark of HSR layout. Kudos to HSR layout citizens forum for this great intiative, first of its kind in the country..

The best place in the whole wide world to spend your time with nature!! On a serious note- it's a great learning centre where one gets know and learn about waste segregation, composting, growing and so on. Schools come here for hand-on sessions on composting, bio enzyme making and learning about sustainable practices. Their growing area is rich in seasonal fruits and veggies and its a delight to see the greenery around. Staff and volunteers here are very friendly and are eager to share their knowledge. One can also buy compost, cocopete and shredded leaf mixture which are essential for home composting. Kids can have fun feeding the cows, chasing roosters and seeing the earthworms at work!! Volunteers are welcome on weekend mornings to try out the various chores at the park, chit-chat, have fun and learn too!!

A wonderful place where you get to know about waste segregation, solid waste management and home composting. They conduct a lot of workshops about composting, gardening etc.

Kudos to who ever came up with the idea of having a learning centre exclusively for composting wet waste, which is the need of the hour! Who would have thought that one can simply walk up to a park and learn about various methods of composting kitchen waste, which is not just affordable but also easily doable! Kudos to the MLA who supported this project and to the HSR citizens forum team who have executed this so beautifully.. Way to go ???

Very good initiative and educational.

A beautiful sustainable space which creates black gold aka compost from hundreds of kg of waste. Hardworking earthworms, cow and chickens help in creating this space a living ecosystem with their magical manure. A huge learning and exposure for schools and growing minds, various boards made with plastic recycled into information and learning, celebrating waste management in Bangalore. A pride of Bangalore and a space to learn about natural cycles.

I felt this garden is somewhat different than normal park. Lot of scientific stuff is present where you will get knowledge that how recycling process happens and etc etc

Great place to learn everything about your own waste management and comosting. Go visit, learn and start composting to make a difference to the community we live in.

Swachagraha Kalika Kendra teaches you the in & out of Composting & Terrace gardening.. More than 15 types of composting & a running biogas unit all in one place.. A must visit for All.. Meet the experts & learn to know more. Become a composting champ!!

Good learning ground for children and adults! Good initiative.

One such great initiative looking to solve this problem is "SwachaGraha Kalika kendra", a composting learning center, It is a first-of-its-kind project in India, located in HSR Park , housing more than 20 composting models including a fully-functional Biogas unit. Besides gaining greater knowledge of composting and its benefits, the Learning Centre visitors would also get a chance to explore a multitude of home-gardening solutions. It is without a doubt the beginning of a very unique and impactful experience - an impending landmark for the garden city of Bengaluru. Must visit place

Awareness created on Waste segregation and composting.

Loved it.

India's best and five year old composting learning center and a solid waste management school. Sustainability every where.

The person preparing the vermicompost is amazing. Without formal education he is a store house of zero waste information and willing to share his knowledge. God bless

Went for day to understand and see composting. They are doing a very good job for HSR area. People can go there and learn about gardening too. They even compost for 5rs and 15rs.

This "Swacha Graham kalika kendra" public park is at HSR Bangalore. it's a good place to know garbage and weste Utelization and segregation. A good steps by Bangalore gov, different companies and Waste management organizations. Here you can find numbers of methods to recycle and how to prepare a natural compost khad at home. We should use three Bin. 1. Green bin: for organic, kitchen and garden waste 2. Reusable bin: for Dry waste, plastic, paper, metals and Electronic waste. 3. Red bin: Rejected, sanitary and sharps waste. We can find different organizations with different methods of organic waste Bin. My dream garden, Orbin, Green technology, swachagraha, Shudh-labh, Byo binand Aaditi(stones soup) are among of them. I salute to everyone for there contribution of this environment friendly good work. I will also too try to do at my home as small scale. Q. 1 Why should I do it? So that it reduces waste that reaches landfills and reduces pollution to air and water So that different processes- composting, recycling, incineration can be applied to different kinds of waste Q. 2 How do I practice waste management at home? Keep separate containers for dry and wet waste in the kitchen Keep two bags for dry waste collection- paper and plastic , for the rest of the household waste Keep plastic from the kitchen clean and dry and drop into the dry waste bin. Keep glass /plastic containers rinsed of food matter Send wet waste out of the home daily. Store and send dry waste out of the home , once a week. Keep a paper bag for throwing the sanitary waste

Not even fully constructed.. it is half baked one... very little maintenance!!

Good place to walk and spend sometime in evening and to jog in morning

Great place to learn about zero waste living. Lokesh was great and showed us methods of composting. Will visit again to get hands on training.

An amazing place. In the middle of Bangalore City, you get to see live, how to do eco friendly natural gardening. Everything is live. You get to see, touch and feel everything. Very practical.. You want to learn gardening, go there

Good to learn about composting.

Good place to relax

This is India's first composting leaning school ....It's a very good move by bbmp and by the government towards clean environment..... But when I visited it seems to be not operational from many days....It is in need for an hour to learn composting and reduce wastage of wet waste of our home or community.....

First composting and urban gardening training center of the country.

It is the best learning center. I am learning home, community composting and community gardening. I love the volunteers day and the entire celebration.

Nice place to learn composting.They encourage to prepare their own compost rather than asking to buy compost from them.

One of the best place in HSR layout. So well maintained place . Natural place so peace full .. i have conducted my office meeting at this place.. it's so amazing to visit again happy to see the birds around and those two lovely cows 😍 special thanks to Dr Shanti n team to maintain this place .

Saahas team organised a workshop on home gardening. HSR layout residents have taken lead in imparting their knowledge. They have distributed 5 kinds of seeds & a grow bag to carry forward what was discussed.

New idea. Variety of composting solutions displayed in one place.

People please do visit this place...we could at least make out locality a better place by contributing 0.1% the least , following the ideas of swachagraha kalika kendra.

Inspiring. People say but the people here does. Every citizen must visit here to witnesses. I requested everyone to visit once and make use of workshop which they conduct on last Sunday of every month at 8 am. Hmmm it's free of cost. I pledge for clean city. Join hands

Such a good organization for production of vegetables using vermi compost

It is a centre where we see and learn all types of composting, and free sessions organised very well by selfless volunteers

Touch nature by urself learn n grow along with it

Many more such Kendras are required, inside Bengaluru metropolis and most definitely in other parts of the Asian continent. Excellent location for internship groups to work and promote civic cleanliness to every citizen.

Prak for adults to understand importance of SWM and various options for composting with model displayed..

Home composting, community composting and Gardening showcased very well. Kudos to HSR Citizen forum, SWMRT and Mr Roopesh.

Excellent place to know and see live models of composting for apartments.Training happens every last Sunday of the month

(Translated by Google) Delicious (Original) स्वादिष्ट

Good

Lovely place

A themed park on natural composting of household wastes. Various models are displayed. Quite informative. Schools should take their children to this park for getting first hand idea about composting. Unfortunately, the park is not having many visitors.

The time we donate for nature related activities are really precious i encourage people to have visit to such a beautiful place to get cozy with nature n learn a lot about how to create a sustainable environment for everyone

Best place to learn how to do effective wet waste compost preparation. Very informative and staff was extremely polite. Spread over few acres, it's nice to bring kids along. Apartment and house owners must visit.

Good initiative for environment

It is one of the wonderful place

An amazing place where can start your waste management journey. A very dedicated team leasing this learning center ... Kudos to them ... ??

Nice place

One of a kind park

As a part of CSR activity, we had been to swacha graha kalika kendra. This place is amazing and the people who made this place are the people residents of HSR layout. There we learnt how to make composed products out of the wastes that we produce in our homes. Also how to manage the wastes that we produce.

Good place to learn about composting and waste management.

A prime example of authorities and community volunteers working together to educate and display solutions to urban living. Composting techniques, sustainable terrace gardening, bio-gas solutions are on display in this park. Volunteers from HSR Citizen Forum and SGKK support group provide session for schools, corporates, government institutions from all over India and abroad in community based solutions. Truly inspiring park and a model that requires replicating everywhere!!

This is a great initiative!! Got a great overview about various kinds of composting methods.It was great to know that all the waste from HSR region is composted here. The community garden has lots of varieties of vegetables and fruits.

A must visit place to learn sustainable solid waste management practices. Lush green trees, community garden, community composting, native cows. A beautiful eco system in the middle of an urban city.

It requires space in our heart and mind to have solid waste management school in the heart of the city. Great place to learn, adopt and speak about sustainable living practices