United India Apts, MV I Ext: No to market manure, yes to vegetable waste
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United India Apts, MV I Ext: No to market manure, yes to vegetable waste

The society has initiated a plan to generate homemade compost in its eight pits dug along the boundary wall, expecting to save almost Rs 20,000 a year!

United India Apts, MV I Ext: No to market manure, yes to vegetable waste The compost pits at United India Apartments

United India Apartments, a cooperative group housing society in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar Phase I Extension, will no longer need to buy organic fertilisers for its gardens. The society has initiated a plan to generate homemade fertilisers, using vegetable waste from households.

As an experiment, the managing committee has dug as many as eight 3x6-ft pits along the society boundary wall. Inside them, six layers of vegetable waste have been put one on top of the other, and the surface has been covered with soil.  

The initiative is Purusottam Das Bhatt’s brainchild.

Bhatt, the managing committee president, explained, “The idea is to save money for residents and yet provide better facilities by implementing new ideas. By next year, we will save about Rs 20,000, which we used to spend on manuring our gardens.”

In November last year, the managing committee urged residents to set aside their vegetable waste. After collecting a sizeable amount, this was dumped into pits with a layer of gobar khad, which acted as organic fertiliser. “We should have our home-grown fertiliser ready within 120 days. So by the end of April, we will be able to use it. We spent only Rs 2,000 to purchase the khad from Ghazipur.”

The society has five parks — four 40x40 sq m and one 3,000 sq m.