Delhi: NGO installing contact-free washbasins, water purification systems in schools

Amid coronavirus pandemic, an NGO is installing contact-free washbasins and sanitiser dispensers in a school in Manpur Khar here and a water purification system in ar educational institution.

Praanahar, an NGO co-founded in 2012 by two sisters -- Prakriti Singh, and Suhasini Singh -- is carrying out this initiative.

Its primary objective is installation of water purification systems in rural areas in and around Delhi to improve quality of drinking water.

"We are in process of installing a water purifier in SAH School Mathurapur, which will make clean drinking water accessible to ir students. y h a purifier and it wasn't operational for some time w. y have 300 children and we are installing a purifier," said Suhasini on Saturday.

In second school in Manpur Khar, NGO is installing contact-free washbasins and sanitizer dispensers.

"I want to start with one school to install se contact-free sinks. We have tied up with ar organisation and artisans are making sinks. I am planning to branch out with this initiative and n I will probably do it in Mathurapur school also," she ded.

Suhasini passed out from Shri Ram School. Prakriti gruated from UC Berkeley and is working as a research associate with J-Pal.