ABOUT EXNORA :-

Exnora International is a wide spread environmental movement founded in 1989, focusing on mobilizing and empowering communities to participate in preserving nature and preventing environmental degradation, thereby improving the quality of life of the common man.

Founded in Chennai by renowned social activist and "master motivator of masses" Mr. M B Nirmal, Exnora International is a Non-Profit, Non-Political, Secular, Non-Governmental, Environmental Service Organisation. It was formed with the aim to realize a cleaner, greener and more enviro-friendly world. Within the 16 years of its existence it has grown into a wide spread movement covering many parts of India. Today Exnora International is a force to reckon with.

A decade and a half ago, in September 1988, Mr. M.B. Nirmal, a bank officer who also wrote about the positive experiences he had during his visits abroad in popular magazines motivated his close friends and others. They were concerned about accumulating municipal garbage in the streets with out being cleared and came to the conclusion that the solution rested with the involvement and participation of those who generated the garbage and not entirely with those who are in charge of collection and dumping (E.G. Local Body). The concept gave rise to the formation of EXNORA, a non-government organization meant to formulate and practice EXcellent, NOvel and RAdical ideas in solving problems of society involving the same people who are the sources or originators of the problems.

Till the turn of the century, issues of environmental protection and management was much the preserve of specialized environmental groups, scientists and administrators, though very often the cause of its degradation was all humanity and its impact was on every one. Exnora's fundamental philosophy is that no environmental protection or management is meaningful unless it becomes the conscious choice of all or substantially all the population.

Exnora since the start has seen that mismanagement of waste was the most important cause of environmental degradation, and that this affected the poor more than the rich. The inability of the local bodies to manage the waste was due to the sheer volume that was generated and lack of resources. This problem needed a solution that involved the participation of people who after all are generating the waste. Exnora's success was in its ability to motivate people and involve them in the sanitation of their area. This became possible by bringing them together through neighbourhood communities called Civic Exnora's. Over the past decade and a half, Exnora has been able to motivate and form thousands of Community Based Organisations (CBOs) named "Civic Exnora" across India, who took "Civic pride" in their locality, managed their waste in an environment friendly way and in part were able to participate in the governance of their locality.

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