Cow dung logs to be used for cremations, havans

Jalandhar, July 8

In an attempt to check unnecessary felling of trees for cremations, havans and religious ceremonies, the Rotary International has come up with a unique concept of using cow waste as an alternate energy source.

Titled ‘Gau Kasht’, a machine was installed at Sri Sribhuti Gaushala of Sri Radhakrishnan Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Mandir here on Friday. Explaining the concept, district president of Rotary International Nupur Sandhu said, “Gau Kasht is the log made of cow dung. This will help save our precious environment as on the one hand precious trees will be saved and on the other, the available cow waste will be put to good use. We already have ‘protection of environment’ as one of the seven focus areas of the club.”

She added, “Acharaya Pundrik Goswami from Vrindavan inaugurated the project. The machine was transported from Madhya Pradesh, where this project of Gau Kasht is already doing very well.”

She further said, “As per a survey, we need approximately five quintals of wood to burn one body during funeral. But we only need three quintals of Gau Kasht for the same work.” Terming today’s installation as the beginning of the drive under ‘Save the environment’, Sandhu said team members of this project would encourage and guide all gaushala owners to install this machine.

Project director Rotarian Mahesh Gupta, director vocational, former District Governor Barjesh Singhal, Assistant Governor, Rajesh Bahri, secretary district signature project Rotarian Sunil Dutta, Rotarians Prabhpal Pannu, SK Bansal, Col RMS Sandhu and BK Maini were present.