Welcome everyone in the room and zoom for the October 9th version of the town of Rochester select board meeting and this time I checked to that it is posted on the website right and and three public places and email to interested parties so we can move forward with this meeting contrary to our last attempted meeting where there was a failure for it to post to the website so in honor of upholding the open meeting laws we canceled the last like board meeting and we'll pick up where we left off there and the first item that was on the agenda for that meeting and is on the agenda for this meeting is the meeting minutes for the September 11th meeting which I read through and they look appropriate to me I move to approve unless you have any changes no I second that all in favor okay and have is Larry Pleasant done in zoom or he is going to maybe show up in person to talk about emergency emergency management so we'll put him off for a little bit and we had the August treasurers report which I would do thank you for putting that together and we're about ready to move into our budget and finance committee season so I guess we'll be taking a much closer look at these treasure reports in those meetings so I've moved to approve the August report I second it all in favor all right and we have the capital assets policy we're going to propose amending that policy software and movable equipment threshold amounts to up to $10,000 what was it and this was recommended by Nathan by Nathan the auditor right and what was the limit the threshold for less than $10,000 but we trust Nathan for a lot of guidance and things so I've moved to approve this recommendation I second that all in favor all right and number four on our agenda here is there was a park use application for October 11th for library children's author as a guest on the park but the word from the crew here in the office is that considering the weather they're going to withdraw this application and do it inside so this is a move point so we'll check that one off of our list and we'll move back on to Larry who you're here to talk about emergency management I understand you're in discussion with people on the shelter committee and such you feel that it would be very helpful to have some some radio communication yes we could have we were sorely missing radio communication during the near disaster the near disaster near disaster that was kind of like a dress rehearsal yeah at least for us it yeah so you want to tell us like who you're thinking should have these and how many we're talking about sure so so what we're looking for our our five and an extra five in a backup making six total we'd like to be able to communicate on two bands one is the emergency band obviously so we can be in touch in the event of emergency but we don't want to chatter on that and we have to talk about some of these medicine or something so we'd also like to get I believe it's called a V VTAC VTAC or VTEC chip I heard some people talking about it on a zoom zoom meeting and they said that's exactly what that's made for us this this kind of thing do you know about the VTAC yeah VTAC there's four of them one of them VTAC four is made only for that we use VTAC one on fire scenes and we also use VTAC some for fire extractor traffic so I would say if you're going to get anything VTAC three because I'm not interested in having any on the top to dark or anything else so I so you guys have got in terms of the fire department you've got some pretty high end radios I understand I was talking with Steve I believe it is that central Vermont communications that's yeah they run about a thousand bucks and a thousand bucks he was recommending to me that there is a cheaper one the Kenwood NX 1200 AVK run about three hundred dollars which would probably do the job he says that's what they sell to a lot of smaller departments and emergency groups and stuff so when something I say is you get what you pay for you get what you pay for yeah the thing is is they're gonna have five radios they aren't gonna know where three of them are and out of those three they're all gonna be dead I mean I've been in the fire department 50 years and we've used them once and we have plenty of radios to give to the ones that need it the ones that have radios that want them shouldn't have them how many radios do you have how Terry enough I mean I think we got 12 12 13 so when you have a fire call what's your use use little usual usage you have guys on with traffic if there's traffic control do you their radio then who else do you have and all the officers have them and all the officers and Kristen how many do you usually have a spare then oh we have two three spares you have two or three and we could get some up for it if we needed it like I mean I had plenty of radios to give the ones that needed it okay that's that's the big question the problem I have with having more radios is I cleaned out the seller when I started on this board and every single radio that was down there was obsolete and not worth a cent and nobody wanted them and so my feeling is if we have too many of these things they're not going to they're just not going to be useful if we have enough in the fire department and in emergency situations we distribute them to the people that need them I think that's the better way to go where we can keep track of just a few because in all the emergency situations that I've been in in my life and there's been quite a few with the power situations that I've seen the more people you have on a radio the worse it is you need certain few people to be in charge and you need Indians and that's really the basic thing now I think in your position as emergency management you probably in a situation that requires like Irene or something you would have a radio because he would see that you had a radio and I think that's the way we should work that stuff I should be only the heads right exactly that hand every person there that's a joke right I'm with you a hundred percent because as far as to go look for people you aren't gonna do it we're gonna do it so we're gonna have a base of operations right a command center will be set up here yeah probably right here and someone's going to have to be staffing that well there's a radio right over there yeah so we need to be in in communication so I need to be in communication there may be somebody else on the road thank you for going house-to-house again it'd be good to stay in communication as best we can well you find house-to-house you gonna find fire department's going to do it for safety reasons so we're gonna have people have radios okay so is it possible once I get so my question is is it possible that we could get a second chip installed in an existing set of radios some some number to be determined maybe three perhaps I don't know if we could take those have the people stick another chip in it charges for whatever that is 200 bucks that'd be perfect right it's fire getting on a chip you're talking to you really gonna have to get a radio print so you're gonna be a year get that yeah that's what I was wondering so what is I mean the only thing which is something they're welcome to look into I just think that it's an easy process I mean right so so what would be a recommendation from you because you're a game radio they'd be some stipulations on it because I don't care if you are we don't want you chatting all the time right and I don't think that's a frequency that's the only reason you know what the state police will shut us off because they aren't gonna put up with somebody talking on it right so it's gonna have to be a I gave a lesson when I handed out during Irene and the people had them knew how to use them and we didn't have any problems right and another thing about radios too is they need to be exercised frequently like you can't just can't be mom tractor they'll be dead or maybe an hour album and after you know they are cheap main thing I don't care if you buy the cheap ones it's still going to open batteries yeah so I guess your Larry's thought on this is that of having a way to so he wakes up in the middle of night and then the roads are washed out and it's not gonna be your first priority is not gonna be to drive to his house to give him a radio but if you had something no he needs to come to command center and then he'll have radio because he's not gonna do any good at home when we have an emergency in my training with both the ambulance and I took a fire department training there's an incident commander correct one person that runs the show you got it is there is there a circumstance where the shelter team would not fall under that they would fall underneath the incident commander and and it would not be the whole crew it'd be one person down there in charge right so that incident commander depending on what the problem is would either be chief or first person on chief would not be that probably or or Larry it'd be one of him but there again I don't know what he's taking the classes or not yes but you should mm-hmm so the incident commander would be the one to be the point person if the fire department had a couple extra radios say they would be only the point person for what's going on we have a trouble up here they're an Irene that should have been taken care of that we got trouble and come down the but if the show before he makes a call he needs to talk to people the other people if the shelter team is being activated the select board knows about it right the only one radio down there the fire department will also know about it so at that point in time we typically have a meeting to determine whether to open the shelter or not so at that point if there were a couple extra radios housed at the fire department it would be easy for them to access the fire department and then you could have your two or three or five radios whatever you needed chances are we're gonna be already called with they're gonna be busy you're gonna be busy you're in charge of the scene so I'm in charge of safety of everything that's right that's right so I'm here in a in a support position to handle media to handle questions from citizens just so that somebody's the point if there was a need for radios you could grab them from the fire department where they're monitoring and exercising them just like we did down there in there be under the jurisdiction right that would get one would be under the jurisdiction of the fire chief right that would be aware that if the shelter team was because you got the radio already right anyway but he would need one to go right but if you're in the command area you don't leave the command post right you do not leave or myself or somebody else who's right in line would would be would be manning or humaning the the command post at all times correct right bring a sleeping bag yeah yeah now I just just to add this may be a benefit or maybe a waste of time to even mention it but I live off-grid and I have enhanced my battery system myself with cells I have a satellite communication and I have a cell phone repeater so I'm in pretty I'm pretty good shape if things go out I could still get it I can still I could still be I'm still be able to call out so if everything's put everything's down as long as the satellites are still working we can get out I can go to your house you can come to my house we have hot showers so in the long or the short of it is then the radios that would be accessible from the fire station would be the higher-quality radio anyway it would be showed how to use them because we like I said you're gonna be on all we have to have a training with a couple of people they'd be exercise you probably rotate rotate them around me easier to do the training the day you hand them out because if you do it now they aren't gonna know right you can't use but you might be a busy man you might be somewhere else where not and whoever's there may not know that we have permission to take the distance you are gonna take them I'll have an officer bring it to you and then there'll be a distribution system set up for that yeah I mean that'll be their command and they'll be able to we're good about getting you go around and I got people on both sides of the river so it really right because they will be aware of people that may need assistance that you may need to know you have to go get somebody somewhere yeah okay I'm so glad we clarified that thank you yeah thank you thank you for bringing up but it's good that we're talking about it now not in the middle because I do think that the process we have a group of radios controlled by a group and they can distribute from there because the waste I saw down here the disposal of that stuff was just heartbreaking really I said holy cow all this money just yeah and ours are on like a rotation of being maintained and going to the coming back with new parts exactly you can rely on which is expensive and you don't have cheap ones or right it doesn't pan out and they don't reach out yeah so it really doesn't all right thank you that's possible scenario we have another part use application and that one is for August October 20th at 4 30 to 7 the Rochester PTO giant pumpkin way and that probably won't get hampered by inclement order so I'd move to approve that I second it all in favor all right hi right we had a request to talk about our friend the owl here and and what it is and what did it cost and who initiated the purchase I guess that is it seems to be working all right now I think there was a bad cable connection or something but I think it's pretty obvious what the owl is doing is allowing zoom to seamlessly interact with the meeting visually and audibly and that we paid a thousand dollars for it and I believe we use ARPA funding for that and that happened first purchase right when we resumed in-person meetings in 2020 so it's it's basically it's just a tool to facilitate open meetings of people that can't or don't want to be here in person you can choose one or the other because it's cause any echo while you're doing that or you have your hand up so we'll let you go owl was an acronym for something does it stand for something no so I just muted his phone also muted so he's on you'll need to unmute your Robert are going to save your question for the public comment period so we can move through the agenda and just take notes and remember what you wanted to say but would and please only sign in either on your computer or the phone because as you heard you can cause a disruption there my question now your question was is there is an acronym for something yeah it's just that well it's you know kind of they think that owls are can look every direction and this has like a 360 degree view it it responds to whoever is speaking and focuses the okay in that direction so if I just if I described it in America was a tool that allows zoom to facilitate open meetings would that be that's correct yeah thank you yeah so Robert leave that to your to the public comments so we can get through the agenda because it's I don't think that's proper with regards to the owl is Robert let you wait till the public comment session to talk about this I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry the concern about the owl is on the agenda and I have every right to speak about it tell me what to do in the public comment you do so please no okay I've muted him come back in the public comment talk about this you're you're welcome to witness the meetings but you're not here to direct the meeting so we answered the question and we answered the question that's on there yeah so the next item on the agenda is to turn this off okay so we have where were we number nine is formally approving the Nimrick as the firm to do the townwide appraisal so I understand Julie approach several several entities 17 some of them are no longer in business Nimrick is pretty darn familiar with our information it was the best price so I think that's it's kind of a no-brainer to award that to Nimrick yeah other towns are using the same service yeah so I propose you do that I second that do we have any idea when the 2026 2025 2025 that's when they're gonna start the proposal sorry it's gonna start but it takes a year to pull together grievances yeah and our last one was what 2012 2011 2012 so yeah it's happening yeah I'm sorry on the agenda it looks like we skipped over the access mobility elevator lift to your contract oh I'm sorry pardon me so the um the access mobility elevator lift is a three-year contract for the maintenance of that and I've moved to approve we have no choice no choice yeah on the second I don't know how many elevator lift companies there are out there right all right yeah just notice that and then we have a management representation letter for Payson Holly which is our auditors auditors right they did the draft of the audit for finishing fiscal year 23 we're lucky we're lucky to have them yeah yeah so I've moved to move to sign that letter second all in favor all right okay this is actually you have to sign it and I'll sign who me this is treasure nice they're great people to work with so Tony welcome any exciting news from library other than that slowly getting painted painted yes you probably will I don't know will you have any contact with some of the historical people and so on about the painting and we're just just doing the upper piece and the front yeah that's all not touching the lower section at this time because I think we've got to do something different there yeah I'm not sure what but that's a whole different game so we're just getting the upper painted okay and in the front yeah thank you yeah and I was gonna oh we're having a trustees meeting tomorrow afternoon by 30 I believe and our library director is here and we'll probably say a few things that are beyond what I would say I just wanted to introduce myself as the new library director I'm Maya Newroot if you don't know and I would like to say that I am so thrilled to have this job it's an amazing library Jeanette has done such an incredible job with it so I am looking forward to many years of building the collection and creating more programs and finding ways to keep the library relevant for everyone in the community I invite you wholeheartedly to come and check us out at any point and if you want to hear a Vermont farmer talk about his cute little animals and the cute little books he writes about him he'll be here tomorrow so thank you Mike thank you Mike thanks for taking it I'm glad you're excited about it yeah yeah all right any I see they've been stockpiling sand and with broken trucks yeah they're still dealing with broken trucks and they did the final inspection on the bridge which that's good and everything's good there there's they got a lot of truck issues right now that the new truck and the drive shaft fell off there was a smash the radiator so we're gonna have a new radiator in that and then the other truck has to go back in that's under warranty though isn't it no because the drive shaft fell off that's not a warranty system so we'll have to stretch that going to the pump and he is hauling sand he's you know we put a bunch of barriers up because we had to build the painted there and and he kind of stacked some blocks up around it which I think was he said he'd been wanting to do that for a long time so that was good that we were able to get that done so that's always pretty much doing getting ready for winter I guess that's about it we're just coming yep it is Terry if you've got any Martha you got a question I'm sorry a question for Frank because you're based you're the board's liaison with the road crew right I just I always call them at some point within a week or two before Halloween and to just remind them they're the ones who always take the benches and the picnic tables off the park and store them for the winter that was just it's getting to be that time so if you think of it the next time you see them yeah I'll mention to a Martha thank you thank you very much I appreciate it I'm the park I am the park committee that's why I'm bothering no problem all right Terry what's new in the utility world well I thought usually about the checkbook has got quite a bit of money in it and something you guys need to take out and put it into the the reserve funds there's like 92,000 in it and you haven't done it last couple years should be getting done every year to see where we stand and so we can do some maintenance that should be done yep and I wrote it my report that next year I'd like a couple of manholes that need to get replaced we got two sewer pumps that's going to have to get replaced and then water I think we should try doing a couple hydrants each year because we're way behind you know armor 40 50 years old they're starting work really hard and doesn't seem good way to free them up but you know years ago we had me make up this you know what we should be doing and we haven't done any of that mainly because we hadn't had any money until we raise the rates last time and but looks we're doing pretty good on it so we need to start doing some of this maintenance or else somebody's gonna get kicked in yeah so and you want to just pick some of those things off a list and start I did write it down my sheet when you read it that for budget finding this all right that'd be good and you know I just put down rough numbers I have no idea what it's gonna cost I mean but you when we have our meeting then you can come in and talk about what do you what do you recommend we stuff in the reserve I think you should stuff all you can there's some things that are still not quite even though the rates have come up I was looking at the draft audit and we're still at like negative 20 in the books so really then show it getting better because it was at negative 80 so we're doing a lot better than we were so we're just not quite a hundred percent out of it so I just I just want to go over all that first before we like say we're gonna throw how much into it right and I don't really think it's that we can just say okay we're gonna take 30 and put it here and 50 and put it there like I think we have to you guys separate water from the sore so we'll come up with a number that we can a little bit to make sure that that we fully understand this if we do it each year you're gonna know what you can afford to do yeah next year it's a number that we have to run through the auditor so before we can say what we would happen would be you know like I foresee it being at the end of the audit when we get like our final audit then we would know what our books ended you know the prior year and then we would be like okay now beginning this year we can go ahead and transfer 20,000 to the water and fit into the sewer or whatever the case we almost have to do it a year after you we need to wait until our audits been finalized yeah this year you need to look into it this year because sewer pumps gonna get done this next year where you got money or not yeah and we'll all we'll connect with Nathan because it's putting us weight I'm figuring I'm down 20% on on what it's costing us and what we're getting hit for it 20% less than what they should be so it's time to change them what are the pump stone stairs so the ones are gonna go in we've already paid for them the holes you haven't paid to get them in there because the other one's gonna be all taken they gotta take bottoms off to make them fit into what's there so it was more expensive buying the pump or putting it in well I'm the condor right I think I gotta run the condor over and up to the box because it's not there's a junction box inside and it's no way we're gonna do that bull again yeah so you foresee putting it in being more expensive than buying the pump itself no probably not as much but as much but a chunk yeah it might be it might be a little expensive this time because he's got to do some electric we gotta do a little digging configuration and I'll have some like I'm court put a boot in so it doesn't leak I'm gonna call him this fall and see if I can come down so I'll have a good number yeah in the spring I think by getting it ready now I get a better price that they won't be so busy in the spring that we can do it and be good to get that number sooner than later for the budget session so we can I gave a rough number rough number okay that would be probably I think pretty close but yeah we got to start doing some of the stuff I mean yeah because it's gonna cost big bucks then so yep okay and then we need to get the mowing done down to school that we feel the grass is this high I'll talk to Joe and we need to double mowing to tone because it's fall I know he's getting married this weekend I think yeah but he's got a couple guys leaving that work for him mowing all right let's get to hey and down there no yes terrible that's the I mean next year you got to really think about getting us done it's gotta be done weekly on that field that we're gonna keep it alive yeah yeah yeah I'll text him get a hold of them all right is Jeff get part in the zoom yes hey welcome Jeff I'm not a whole lot to report but Harry Falconer has helped us to put in application for the municipal the Merck program municipal energy resilience assessment we have put in an application there for a level two energy audit and a level two energy audit is a level one is a walkthrough we've had all of those that we need level two is an actual diagnostic analysis of the building and recommendations for improvements Harry and I in discussing it felt that the office was the best primary target for us with almost fifty nine hundred dollars annually in fuel and electricity followed by the town garage yeah that's generally you can pretty much count on getting your first choice and possibly the second choice that's that's what I've been led to believe yeah I know there are 22 towns that already have gotten grants through this program and that the second round closes at the end of the month and I probably need to apologize to all you guys for burying you with the fuel data and graphs you presented it well it's easier to see what was going on with it so I appreciate it that's not that not like some of the things we can see well that's um that's a good step forward I know it's taking a lot of little steps to get there but thank you for being persistent no problem no Christian you got any grant updates I've just got two little things we've received our reimbursement for our grant and aid on Cooper run and North Hollow so we received the full twenty seven thousand dollar reimbursement and for FEMA we we're still working on things we've currently got three projects we have a Jones Mountain and then we have a debris what they allowed us to combine all of our debris locations into one and then a project on North Hollow so I've been spending hours in the portal answering questions and providing documents so that's where we are with that North Hollow by the farm yes yeah fine Mike right that intersection they found fish there yeah I saw that so yeah so that two-foot culvert's gonna turn into something else and we're not sure exactly what it is yet because they'll have to do the other one below it too so we'll have to wait and see on that fishing for money they actually were they look like they're right I was surprising really I'm surprised all right so now we move into the public comment section of the meeting in which we hold at three minutes so Robert now is your chance if you had something that you wanted to say this is your your time to do it if you're still there he is still here his phones muted but his computer if you just want to unmute your computer Robert or maybe he doesn't have anything does anybody have anything you've got a couple of different anybody that out there that wants to talk about anything else and we'll we'll now it's your chance and go in once go in twice and thank you all for coming I move to adjourn I second all in favor


What's everyone take down here? Welcome back to another video. Today I have some more hockey cards to share with you. These are for the most parts. This lot here is ones that I purchased from a Facebook group that I'm in for hockey cards. The first time I purchased off of anybody from that group, which is awesome. He had really great stuff for cheap and he didn't cost too much for shipping either. Plus I have two other things that I purchased off of eBay that I'm going to be sharing as well in this video. So up first, the lot that I purchased. We have first a Oliver Kylington young guns, which I do personally collect him. So that one there is awesome. This one is just an insert that he threw in for Sebastian Ajo, but I do PC him. So that one's nice. We have a young guns for Wayne Simmons, which was cheap. And I absolutely love Wayne Simmons. So whenever I've seen that he had a young guns card for him, I decided to jump on the opportunity. We have an Evander Kane young guns. I don't have that many Kane cards. And I definitely don't have that many thrasher cards. So for me, this is a win win. I love the player. I love Evander Kane. He's awesome. So this is a great card for me. I'll put that on the stand in the back. Next we have a young guns for Jean Gabrielle Pajot. I follow Pajot. You guys know that he's one of my favorite players in the league right now. I absolutely love him. He's on Islanders. He's been doing great. And I miss him on the Ottawa Center just to be honest with you. Recently I purchased a autographed Pajot puck and I don't have anything nice to display it in. I wanted to purchase one of the display cases that have a hockey puck and a hockey card in it, but I didn't have as young guns to card to put in it. Now I do. So I'm going to be putting this on display in that with the autographed puck in the same display case. That's going to be looking awesome. And I can't wait. I'll update you guys when I purchase that. And I also have a Derek Forberts future watch autograph card numbered out of 999, which is awesome. I collect future watch cards, but only whenever they don't cost me an arm and a leg. Some I see really expensive. Derek Forberts is somebody that I follow. I have, I think a ton of his cards is young guns, his rookie materials cards. So I've seen this that the seller had it. I decided to get it. Now the seller also had a ton of other cards. Some of them in my opinion were overpriced. Some of them I just had to personally pick out the best of the best. And that's what I did. So none of these cards cost me over $5. They were all almost on the cheap end. So it didn't cost too much for that. It didn't cost too much for shipping. The other things that I want to mention are things are two cards that I got off of eBay up first. It's not really a card, but it is a mini jersey for Danny Heatley. Now I wasn't collecting way back when these were released, and I really wish that upper deck were to do these again because they look really cool. This one here is unopened and I'm probably going to leave it that way. However, it looks really cool. And this is the first one that I own. So I've definitely seen it. You guys know I collect sends. So I wanted to get that. And another player that I personally collect is Jacob Vorcek. Now this is his rookie jersey card that is numbered out of $2.99. Now at the time that I purchased this on eBay, I only paid under $1 for it. And I think it was $1.50 to ship. I won it on an auction. Nobody else bid on it, which is awesome because I absolutely wanted this card. I didn't realize it was numbered out of $2.99. I thought it was just his rookie jersey card. So that to me is awesome. The patch is huge. And it's a player that I follow. So that is sick. That card looks amazing. This is definitely going to be one that's up on display for me. But these are the cards I recently picked up and purchased. I've been kind of slowing down on finding cards, purchasing cards. But I am still uploading videos because I have so many videos that I pre-recorded at the time. I think I have over 30 videos. And now I'm at the point of recording and uploading one video a week at least. So I'm keeping on track of it. But right now I'm slowing down on purchasing hockey cards unless I find a great deal like I did for these ones. This here was only $2. This one here was $1.50 for shipping. And I think I paid 75 cents for the card itself. And everything else, all the other cards were under $5, which was awesome because they're definitely players that I collect and PC and definitely ones that I want to include in my collection. So hope you guys enjoyed this video. I'm going to leave this here. I'll keep you guys posted if I get anything else. And I'll keep you guys posted when I get the display case for the Pazzo Young Guns and his autograph puck. I'll be tossing those in there. And I'll share those with you in a future video. See you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace.


Whale semi-metals have been shown to generate large spin currents due to their topological protection of spin polarized states and high current densities. These materials also possess intrinsic non-centrosimetricity, which allows for control of spin orbit torque. However, the question remains as to how these materials relax their spins at room temperature. Researchers have now demonstrated a spin relaxation time of 1.2 nanoseconds in WTE2 in films using time-resolved Kerr rotation, TRKR, which is much longer than previously observed in other materials. They attribute this to the combination of a large spin splitting near the bottom of the conduction band, low electron, whole recombination rates, and suppression of backscattering required by time reversal and lattice symmetry operations. Additionally, the researchers find that the spin polarization is firmly pinned along the strong internal out-of-plane magnetic field induced by the large spin splitting. This work provides insight into the physical origin of long-lived spin polarization in whale semi-metals, which could be used to manipulate spins at room temperature. This article was authored by Chishon Wong, Jelly, Gene Besbaz, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hey everybody, it's Brett and this 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with the Black Appearance Packages, stock number 24 J55. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used Jeep and Jeep Grand Cherokee headquarters. This 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited has a 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine with electronic start-stop. It's paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. This one's going to get you 26 miles per gallon on the highway, 19 city, and an average of 22 miles per gallon. This one has a couple nice options on it. It has the Black Appearance Package. This one also has the Luxury Tech Group II, and it has the Panoramic Sunroof. This syrup on there, it also has the passenger interactive display. So I'm going to show you all that in the video. Go around the vehicle, show you all the options, take a look at the original window sticker, and all that good stuff in the video. Rocky Mountain Pearl Coat is the color. This was a new color for the new body style Jeep Grand Cherokee. It's a paint coat PFJ if you're curious. And I'll show you the metal flake in it. It's got a lot of different colors to make up the Rocky Mountain Brown. You can see some golds, some greens, even some blues and yellows in that paint to make that color up. So really a cool color. Looks black at night. Coming around the front here you get the LED headlamps, LED running lights, and the limited package does give you the LED fog lamps. I'll turn those on at the end of the video to see just how bright they are. The Luxury Tech Group 2 gives you the front bumper parking sensors and note all the gloss black grille and Jeep lettering on there. That's all part of the black appearance package as well as the surrounds on the fog lights there.  And it comes with Pirelli Scorpion Verde 26550 R20 tires. Kind of an all season tread pattern to them. And you also get the blacked out mirror bezels and door trim on there as well with that black appearance package. And of course the Grand Cherokee lettering is all blacked out as well. Take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this. I'm not going to go through everything, but I will go through most of it for you. 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4x4 Rocky Mountain Pro Coat is the exterior color, global black interior, Capri leatherette access to seats, the 3.6 liter V6 with the electronic start stop, and the 8 speed automatic transmission. Everything on your left here is standard equipment including the Quadra Track 2 system, select terrain system, remote start, power lift gate. And what standard equipment means is that this is what the limited package comes with right out of the gate. So this isn't what the Grand Cherokee comes with, but the trim level limited. This is all the stuff that comes with that. So feel free to take a look at all that there, pause it, see if it's got everything you need. And then interior features. This one gives you the Uconnect 5 with the 10.1 inch touchscreen, standard Apple CarPlay, Google Android Auto, Jeep Connected Services, GPS navigation, heated seats, heated steering wheel, heated second row seats, and all your power driver stuff there. Then the exterior features. Obviously the 26560R18 tires are replaced with that black appearance group. Optional equipment starts right here. The Rocky Mountain Pro Coat is $5.95. The Luxury Tech Group 2 is a $27.75 option that gives you the Capri Leatherette access to seats. The ventilated front seats, intersection, collision assist system, ParkSense front and rear park assist with stop, surround view camera system, the rain sensitive windshield wipers, rear view auto dimming digital display mirror, rear backup camera washer, integrated off-road camera, manual second-row window shades, automatic dimming exterior driver mirror, the door and liftgate passive entry, and the memory steering column power tilt and telescopic steering wheel. And then the black appearance package is a $25.75 option. It gives you the 20-inch gloss black wheels, the performance all-season tires, and then the gloss black accents on the outside. Dual pane panoramic sunroof is $23.65, and the front passenger interactive display is $1,095. Total MSRP on this one is $61.430 to get your summit price with all the rebates and incentives on this particular Jeep Grand Cherokee in the upper right-hand part of the screen. And linked in the description below is a link to this vehicle on our website with all the incentives. Three-year 36 bumper-to-bumper, five-year 60 powertrain also reach out to one of our sales representatives. There may be more incentives that you may qualify that they have to look you up for, so definitely give them a shout. 26 Highway, 19 City, 22 Average, kind of in the middle for fuel economy and gas rating and smog rating. And then the big thing for me on Grand Cherokees has always been the safety of five stars for everything that's been rated. Because this is a 24, they probably haven't got around to rating everything yet, but I would assume the rest is going to be five stars as well because the Grand Cherokees are always a very safe vehicle. Always have been, ever since I've been doing these videos on these new Grand Cherokees, they've always been extremely safe when it comes to the government crash test ratings. You do get the LED tail lamps. Note the black accent in the center there with the Jeep logo. The limited and 4x4 also blacked out. Does have a power lift gate. Also the, I know it's kind of tough to tell because the Rocky Mountain does look so dark, but this is actually gloss black and then this is the Rocky Mountain right there. You can see that that's Rocky Mountain and that's the gloss black right there. So it's back storage area, plenty of storage back here. One of the coolest Easter eggs I think that Jeep's done on these Grand Cherokees as they've made the silhouettes of all the different body styles of the Grand Cherokees since they were new. Just kind of a neat little thing in the window there. There's also a Jeep climbing up that window too. You do get a compact spare tire back here. 12 volt power point these seats do fold down nice and flat and to get this gate down you press this button right there. It'll beep at you three times and then begin its descent. All the Grand Cherokees now come with the capitalist fuel fill which is a really nice feature, never get gas on your hands again. Let me just show you the back seats real quick. So these seats are heated on the outboard side meaning the passenger side and the driver side seats are heated. You also have factory floor mats. Back here is your USBs. USB-C is 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in and then you get your heated seat buttons right there as well. Note the gloss black accents on the interior as well. To get these seats down just press that lever there or pull that lever. It goes down nice and flat. There's hardly any way that anything can fall in between there because this is one piece right here. You can see just how nice and flat that goes down which is great if you're hauling a bunch of extra stuff. So the Luxury Tech Group 2 also gives you these window shades which is really nice if you got children sitting in the back or anybody sitting in the back protect yourself from the sun there. Get the wood grain trim on the doors. It does have child safety locks on those doors as well. Enter and go system. You can always tell if it has it by these three little lines there. You get the heated mirrors, blind spot monitoring, built in directional signals on there as well. Inside the Capri Leatherette Access 2 bucket seats. Both these seats are heated, cooled and power and lumbar on the driver's seat factory formats up here as well. Auto headlamps, power telescopic and tilt.  Memory driver's seat, power windows locks and mirrors. Hop inside, take a look at the instrument cluster here as well as the radio. So you get the 12 inch digital display here. And you get your digital speedometer, compass display, outside temperature display, lane departure warning. There's just a bunch of different settings. This is your driver assist. You can go down to your vehicle information. You get oil life, tire pressure, start stop, fuel economy, gauge summary, back to oil life, trip information, off road mode terrain status. So that changes when you switch your terrain thing here. So I can go sport, I can go auto, I can go snow, slippery conditions and then sand and mud. So really cool stuff you can do with this system. And then we have audio messages, settings, and then back to driver info. So you get seven different panels you can look at in there. It comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel. I really like the leather that Jeep's using on all their steering wheels this year as well as Ram. It's more durable, but it's like a soft touch leather. It's really cool. Cruise controls, adaptive cruise controls. I'm pretty sure any Grand Cherokee is going to come with adaptive cruise controls. Now they've pretty much made that a standard feature. Bluetooth and information center controls. You can also change the screen up to show the different panels right there. If you like that view better. I like the classic single panel. Then there's audio controls on the back of the steering wheel as well as paddle shifters. You get the wood grain trim inlaid on the inside of the steering wheel there. This is the Uconnect 5, 10.1 inch radio. It has just about everything you could ask for as well as all the radio settings, AM, FM, Sirius, Bluetooth, USB, auxiliary hookups, Alexa, all that good stuff.  Heated and cooled seat buttons. You can control everything up there or you can control it down here with the more tactile buttons. This one does have the factory navigation system and there's highway 41. So that is working nicely. And you say it's a brand new vehicle. I have seen these come in where the radio is all messed up and it doesn't know where you're at. So that's why I always like showing it. Then you get the surround view cameras which are pretty neat. You get the surround view there. You get the backup camera. You get the wide view of the backup camera. You get the wide view of the front camera. The narrow view of the front camera. And then of course just your normal backup camera. You can zoom in on where a hitch would be if you would put one on here. And then you get the front camera with the... Those lines are dynamic meaning that they turn as I turn that steering wheel. So that's really cool. And why that's cool is if you're off-roading or you're going through the woods or something, you want to make sure you're not going to hit a rock or a tree or something. It's nice to have that and then you can clean the camera. It must be just the back camera that gets the cleaning. Anyways. Or we got to put some washer fluid in there. So those are all the cameras. Really cool system. You have your apps on here. I'm not going to go through every one of these but just kind of show you what is available. If you ever want me to do a full deep dive into this radio, just let me know. So far I don't have any takers on that. You get the off-road pages. I'll show you those in just a second because I think they're pretty cool. So this is your off-road pages. You get your steering angle if the transfer case is locked or unlocked. Once again, as I turn that steering wheel, you can see that angle changes and the wheels up top actually move. So that's pretty cool. And then you get your accessory gauges, pitch and roll. Oh, it's actually reading the roll in here. That's cool. Normally the GPS isn't available and then you have your select train. So once again, if I hit this, that changes up there. Just a different graphical representation. Do the sport with the racetrack there. That's kind of neat. And then you can do breadcrumbs with the cord, latitude, longitude, altitude. So a lot of really cool stuff you can do with this radio. And then system and other. So that's the whole radio. The other thing I wanted to show you is you get the passenger interactive display. And this is pretty cool. I'm assuming you could hook up a gaming system on this screen by plugging into the HDMI there. If you had a power source, which we've got a 115 volt, 150 watt plug in the back, I would assume you could hook up a gaming system and play games right on that radio. I haven't played around with the you can do wireless headphones to it. So there's a lot of cool stuff that you can do with this screen. I think you can even control the navigation system from there to help the driver. Anyways, you get the black surround on there. Looks really good. Wood grain trim goes down the dash right into the door. Really a good look. Nicely done by Jeep on this redesign. Second rail fixed glass power sunroof in the front. Assistant SOS buttons, map lights and then you get your sun shade controls sunroof control. So just press it once and it will come up to the middle and then you get to press it again. Actually, that's going to go all the way. So if you didn't want the sunlight in just do that headliner and then you can open the sunroof as well. It has the rear view mirror camera. So it's actually a video display of what's going on behind you, which is pretty cool. Once again, if you didn't like that, you can turn that off. And then it's just a normal camera or rear view mirror, I should say. Or you can turn it on and make it a camera. You can adjust the height. You can make it brighter or dimmer. So that's pretty cool. You also get your home link buttons for your garage shore security systems and lighting systems. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on all the lights here and do a final walk around. I'm also going to turn off the lights in the picture studio so you can see just how nice and bright these LED lights are. Let me know what you think of the Color Rocky Mountain Pearl. If you like it, give me a thumbs up and make a comment in the comments section below on YouTube. So give me one second. I'm going to turn off all the lights and then we'll do a final walk around here.  You can see that the front of the Jeep is very distinctive. You get the yellow LED lights on the top there. You also get the normal LED headlights, the LED fog lamps, and they're all angled perfectly. So you can definitely tell which vehicle is coming down the road. The fender lights are illuminated as well. You can see just how bright those lights are. And the big thing for me is just how wide it is. It's shining off way off into the distance on both sides. So it illuminates very nicely all the way across your field of vision there. So really nice job by Jeep with the lighting system on here. You also get the LED tail lamps. They've been proven to shine faster, brighter than normal halogens. So just a safety feature back here. They also look really good as well. That is everything I have on this 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. 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Hello friends that's your college It's good to be with you, and I'm recording this message which you'll have been on the fifth I really really sincerely apologize for the technical problem that I had in that day and this never happened and Maybe for other reasons best known that has happened, but which I am at which end to understand the problem In any way today as we After the World Environment Day you almost have come to know about the Seam of this year's World Environment Day, which is Ecosystem restoration and the UNEP has used this hashtag become Restoration generation calling upon this generation particularly all the young people to become a generation that would Restore back the ecosystem Now I believe they all have come to know about importance and significance of of the World Environment Day house since 1972 after the Stockholm conference we have been celebrating the World Environment Day of the year and this year's Seam as I've said is ecosystem Restoration and this is also the year in which the UN decade on Ecosystem restoration has been launched. That means from this year to 2030 the United Nations will be stressing on the importance of ecosystem restoration So in this small presentation, it will be discussing about the ecosystem Will be discussing about what are all the benefits of which I would like to Stress upon that point that what all are the benefits of these of this ecosystem and it's functioning And what is the output it comes with as a byproduct of the of the ecosystem functioning and how the benefits and the services that we receive from the ecosystems and To also look into we'll next look into the Degradation and how we have been You know affecting adversely this Ecosystem and after that will look briefly at how at different levels we all as Individuals as society as institutions would be able to to help Rebuild and reclaim the ecosystem So the definition of ecosystem as you all see there are the biotech Abiotech components It's a complex of unity of organisms and the environment which you live which functions as an ecological unit So the the interactions is so complex and so interling and everything is connected to everything else from this to this to this and everything to everything else and this forms that what we call web and we're going to Understand will not be able to understand the technicalities of it But we will just see the byproducts of it and we'll talk about how this ecosystem and ecosystem Was all so we have these different kinds of ecosystems particularly the forest ecosystem the mountain ecosystem these are two of the ecosystems that you can find In states like a mega lion states like like particularly like Nagaland We have these of course with a with the dominance of the forest ecosystem. We have all other Ecosystems which are functioning as ecological units in rivers and lakes in oceans and coasts and of course we have even the desert itself which doesn't may not have the biodiversity and may not have the the Kind of variety and variability in its in its life forms, but still a very independent and very important Ecosystem in the world. We have also peatlands. These are Swarms that which are mostly you'll find a lot of carbon in in these kind of areas and it said that once one once one one one one four to one one third of the Total carbon is found in such peatlands and of course, we also have the modified Kind of ecosystems in the farmlands and the urban areas and these are very also important What we are going to talk as I've said earlier is about let us try to appreciate what this these ecosystems actually do before we even think of What what what ecosystems we will try to restore if we understand how much we actually losing By losing the these vital ecosystems then only be appreciate and perhaps With this little small talk will be able to do to actually Move to take some steps to actually restore ecosystems around us So what ecosystems actually in their functioning as they form as such ecological units? They provide us with so many benefits and these benefits are called Ecosystem services which are actually categorized into Into these different Different different categories these categories include Provisioning services such as food water timber fiber genetic resources, which you're going to look and then they there are Regulatory services which in which we see that the the earth is being regulated and the movement whole of nature Is being regulated by by nature itself and by as the byproducts of Byproducts of the Of what these ecosystems functioning are the cultural services and the supporting services When it comes to provisioning services These ecosystems actually provide us with all that we need With all that we need say let's say food Food is so important to all of us And without food it's it's impossible to live and it is said that these natural ecosystems is the you know Provide directly for at least 1.6 billion people directly those people who depend on the forest and And the those in the seas that live and depend on the fish and the and the coastal ecosystem that are there We need a word. We need that timber. We need to feel what we need to find but we need Everything that we need actually comes from these Ecosystem services and more importantly the freshwater if you look at the freshwater Whether you say Mumbai Or whether you say New York all these huge metropolitans depend on their on their water resources from from the forest. I mean most of the water from Mumbai which has crores of people comes from Tansawarabang Street comes from from the Sanjigarh National Park and We have cities like New York with millions of people living and water coming all the way maybe More than 200 kilometers 100 to 200 kilometers away from the city being brought from from the forest and they have such a beautiful system by which they have Protected the watersheds and ensure that the that the water source would be would be clean and pure with all in a natural way We have the genetic resources. We can go on about this for a long time in fact when we come when we think of of These important resources as providing these genetic genetic Data germplacent that we need when you think of green revolution and India's self sustainability in in in food production It has happened because of course we say because of irrigation because of fertilizer because of You know the mechanization but most importantly It is also because we have these these beautiful disease resistant While varieties of price and wheat which has made production possible Otherwise it would be it's so much under attack from from so so many insects and because these there are different varieties which are Which are which which made it possible to have high yielding yet still Disease resistant kind of varieties because we still have the wild varieties. We have many of the medicines that we need actually most of the of the medicines we have have their origin in the in in in the in the in the wild and in the plant in the plant and the and the animals that are around them and this in fact if we talk of it, especially with every Whatever the every species that we lose whether it's small plant or a big one Every species that we lose actually it may reduce us the possibility of finding a solution or a remedy for the friend diseases So these are the provisioning and in the regulating services Like you think of the of all that's happening. We will talk about the At a global level or talk at a local level if you look at now, especially with corona around us people gasping for oxygen Looking for we are looking for oxygen concentrators and oxygen plants and all the wild nature Through these ecosystems and providing us with the oxygen that we need the sequestering of the of the carbon dioxide Nature and the forest is still still the best lungs of the earth and because of them We are able to have what we are able to have this breathable air that we have having our disease regulations so much to talk about You know areas which have more biodiversity are less likely to have famine less likely to have Devastating attacks of of blight or insects or And these are because nature in itself has has its way of controlling By controls is still present there birds is still there butterflies is still there water regulation We have so much of droughts and floods in these these times You know, it's not that we have more rains and on our land now in India or anywhere else It's just that the water the same quantity of water that's been coming. It's not able to infiltrate into the soil It's not able to be to be regulated That's why we have we have so much of of of floods and all because everything just go as a run-off Run-off from our roofs directly into the into the water is so important courses So all these regulating service services are being provided by the ecosystems We have water purification so important waste management. These are all made possible through regulating services We have so many of the sacrifice. We have so many of the of the Elements of nature which take care even of regarding the waste the pollination we have You know nations like countries like us where people have to hire Hire a beekeeper and bring the bee artificially into their fields in order to have a better better yield and better crop Best regulation so much that is happening which I've also talked about a bit earlier It's best to being controlled by nature in a very wonderful Wonderful natural way without having to resort to pesticides and all all these are the regulating Services that our ecosystems are actually providing Spiritual and religious recreation ecotourism as you think we We who live actually near the the forest we still have plenty of of these things But think of the people living cities they spend so much just to get into a to a park to a Botanical garden and all that and how much the value How much they value these kinds of these kinds of natural? Settings and of our own inspiration educational cultural heritage we as tribals have a huge huge Culture which is based on on a natural resources based on our forest based on our other things around us and the in itk the the Indigenous technical knowledge that we have it's so rich and people are trying to learn from from from from the from the traditional knowledge that Tribals are having and other indigenous communities are having these are the Services that we get and of course the supporting services. We have soil formation soil is so important You know it takes about anything between 230 to 300 years just form one centimeter of soil and to make it even Plantable like fertile loamy soil will take thousands of years, which actually nature is providing us Nutrient cycling which is very important primary production Which is done by plants so important and all these supporting services are being provided to us by by the ecosystem by nature itself And it's so important. So all these things that we have Comes from nature which we often take for granted Where it's the water the oxygen everything that we which are very survival depend upon but unfortunately These very ecosystems the very thing that provide us so much in which a very very existence depend upon being Attacked and degraded and which we are on the path of destroying it Let's talk more about so many things so many things you have heard about what's happening to to the Greenhouse gasses in the sky what's happening to the ozone layer what's happening to the seas was happening to the mountains the loss of forest and all that Plenty of things to talk about. Let's just take this These some of the figures just a key figures that have been presented in one of the UNEP function that we had which is prior to the World Environment Day, which one doctor Barney Dixon and others have done some research and given come up with this paper Which I like to I'd like to quote some of the things that they have presented When it comes to forest about 420 million hectares converted to other land uses since only 1990 420 million hectares, it's more in the size of India. It's it's it's May be the whole of India and Pakistan together that much of Forest is lost and forest degradation could affect 1.75 billion people But that's a very serious as a very big figure Farmlands all the farmlands are being stressed and declining productivity and with declining productivity and the capacity to actually produce food would actually Have the other consequences of our very own food security that we have Oceans and coasts 66% of the ocean ecosystems are damaged So what happens when these ecosystems are damaged it affects the production of fish it affects the livelihood of the millions of people living in the coastal areas Urban areas are so stressed so stressed without and there's always a problem with safe drinking water and Basic air debris and many other things that basic human life would require and these are also very important and This this study by dr. Bani again went on to say that between 1992 and 2013 in this in this period of about close to close to 20 years You know to produce capital by produce capital. That means The industry is infrastructure that we make it has increased in these 20 years has increased by over 100% 100% so is the human capital the human capital by about say about close to 10% That means we have become more more Educated we have become more empowered. That's that's that's also wonderful, but during the same time of 20 years the natural capital the natural capital has actually decreased by 40% Has increased with 40% and this is this is very very very important for us to actually note 40% and actually we are saying that as of now We as humans are using 1.6 times and a very recent research is so is that he's gone up to 1.7 to 1.75 percent of of the actual capacity of the earth to produce To naturally produce in a sustainable manner That means we are actually supposed to take say say one lakh rupees But we are actually taking every year or every time more than 1.6 lakhs rupees and can imagine if a family live like that If I live like that, how long will be able to sustain the self and so we are really moving in a very in a very Tire dire condition condition and this therefore the restoration is very necessary Restoration is very necessary because it's very important for our own survival Food is so basic for our very existence food security If only we're able to restore the ecosystems then only our Security in terms of providing ourselves with the basic need food would be possible the global temperature as you know about global warming Without without the ecosystems being restored It would be impossible to to keep the rise in the global temperature below two degrees. That's what it says This research and it says just a degree the restoration of ecosystems would help Would help to actually prevent this this rise in the rise in the global temperature Species extinction actually forgot to mention us so much You IUCN report says that 20% of all mammals are threatened Threatened with extension one in every three amphibians 33% of amphibians are all threatened with extinction 37% of freshwater fishes are Threatened with extinction so much so much and we can do so much by simply Restoring the restoring the ecosystems we can contribute so much So all those three slides I've taken from what I've mentioned this Dr. Barney Dixon report in ecosystem restoration These are just repetitions, but I just want to show it and what I meant take away from what we see The loss in it the loss in the in the in in forests is so huge The words losing the forest and the size of the whole of North East India every We have forest fire and these are the pictures which I believe you all are very very aware of of The Zuku Valley fire this year. It's been such a serious serious fire and we all have seen what What natural disasters can do it has become not it's become a national news and Air Force and you know natural disasters Authorities have been called from From all over India and how important it is for us to actually preserve our ecosystems our population Population is so much Pollution of all kind we've all and an impact is everywhere. So it's very important that we restore our Ecosystems and this is why the world environment is very important that this is why the decade on Ecosystem restoration is very important and So the ecosystem restoration is the process of halting and reversing Whatever ecosystem has been degraded in order to improve and So that again we may have those ecosystem services Which so need we need so much in which are very survival depends upon those provisioning services those regulating services those cultural services those regulating services which we need and It can be in different forms Say from a degraded natural to a more intact natural ecosystems You have a degraded forest and try to make it more intact and it's often can be done through a system called Aided natural regeneration especially you are simply providing protection by simply You know stopping grazing stopping felling stopping interference of man The ecosystem the nature has in itself itself the capacity to recuperate the capacity to restore itself Or maybe from the great modified ecosystems to more functional Maybe with the help of an artificial artificial help of of humans It's going to take in that form too And this ecosystem restoration would help in so many ways It'll help as we have said that because of the services that being provided by the ecosystems It'll help in the health and welfare and help in food and civil security biodiversity economy and all other forms and these are a few of the of the notable points that the that the United UNEP Document has shown that just by investing four dollars US dollars per resident growing up trees can improve health of millions of people millions of people are high how filtering and by cooling air just four dollars, you know 250 rupees 250 rupees to 300 rupees would be enough to help millions millions of millions of lives When it comes to our food which I've said we depend so much in those ecosystem services Just by destroying the mangroves You know the mangroves are those forests which grow in the in the in the coastal areas They help in the in the regeneration of fish They help in the in introducing the forces of nature particularly tsunami Tsunami and all that it says that it could add 60 trillion young edible and commercially verbal fish and vertebrates to coastal waters every year By simply restoring these forests Biodiversity It's very important for us to have the all forms of life well together and live together and Contributing to the ecosystem by destroying just 15% of the converted land in right place We could avoid 60% of expected species extinction The economy itself will benefit the climate adaptation this particular Particular study which shows that in the restoration of the oyster reef the reef You know that the reefs are found like the coral reefs that are found in in in in the Ocean ecosystems This has been done oyster reef in Mobile Bay, Alabama reduced average wave height By 53 to 91% and not only that it helps in the in the production and proof and better stock of And better tourism and better fish availability and all the animal life availability And so also with climate change water We cannot Think enough of how important is for us to restore the ecosystems in order to secure to secure water And of course even in other ways as a security for all So we have seen what how important it is for us How important ecosystems are and how degraded they have been how unkind we have been to nature But what can we do coming to the end what can we do as a people what can we do as a society? We don't have many solutions as As a small people living in a corner in small corner in the north east of India in a small corner in Very insignificant place, but we can always Act locally and think locally. We've seen the global picture. It's a time for us to act Locally, so we should think global and act local.  We're proud of our heritage and so also with every With every society with every tribal society and every society at large Because our traditions have always been to be one with nature We have indigenous technical knowledge We have a strength in our customs and we have always had these ethos the protection ethos And protection is always the best form of restoration. We have seen this in Konoma. How Konoma have changed that sanctuary that drug open that the kind of forest that was There was restored and And the following benefits that come from it People from all of the world come to know about it become a national attraction The tourism and ecotourism that flows from it. It benefited not only Konoma, but even all the other communities nearby So anything that the community can do Especially in a society it is going to really work And I really believe that as a society if you think if you can do something for nature to restore the ecosystem That is the best solution and and Nagaland has proved it especially in Konoma or whether it's Konoma or whether it's the the Amur Falcon and I believe that we'll see some As institutions, I believe that we really need we really can help Really can help in the ecosystem restoration to Education of the next generation, you know education that you're giving if it is a wholesome education that also includes in it I'm not just saying include as part of syllabus but more emphasis and practical things about environment Joining hands with the governments and NGOs governments are always looking for for willing institutions to come forward and work with them to make Environment education attractive and make it, you know gift rewards to students who are involved in involved environmental environmental works evolve them to appreciate multiple benefits of ecosystems and This would really help and then as students and about as individuals The best thing that we can contribute is to talk to people about forest ecosystems loss raise awareness talk make Environment and environment awareness a part of your topic in in your discussion with your friends in discussion the family Discussion when you meet only when we when we gossip about many things make it one also one of the many topics We'll plan indigenous trees very important for us to plan indigenous trees indigenous trees are very important for the support of other life forms birds local birds and butterflies and animals steps against Forest fires very important. It's really requires the community because All the forest fires 99% of forest fires at least started that people you know nothing like a natural fire As students as individuals we also can participate in local efforts We join a nature club club and then have and be proud to be able to reuse reduce recycle in whatever way you can And finally we can also green a campus. I have seen your campus in a field of pictures And I've seen particularly this tree these these this is a rock area and what I'm just trying to say is It's good to have a green campus But it'll be better if you make that campus Not just green But alive ecologically This garden is beautiful, but you will not find a single flower Which can host a bee or can host Birds can host butterflies. I mean we have so many so much of we have given so much importance to to to beauty and to being spik and span and presentable and we have forgotten what I'm Requesting you is to think even in your own compound your own campus of rewilding Rewilding our campuses you can have less attractive gardens But which can host butterflies you can have more of Areas will more of trees that are actually indigenous. We may not look it We may not be looking very very attractive But these are being used by by birds and butterflies and bees and we're very helpful for them And we're very helpful to at least sustain sustain the The the urban biodiversity that we have and maybe with these few words I just want to say thank you. Thank you for for for listening and looking through it We maybe we can reimagine recreate restore Thank you so much once again. That's a college for this opportunity I really apologize once again for what am I in about the inability to join at a fifth, but thank you and made this Maybe we'll be able to get half more opportunities to meet afterwards Thank you very much


Hi, welcome to this new series that we are starting from today, and this is a series on MPD 2041, as it is called. It's Master Plan of Delhi 2041. And 20 years down the line, how Delhi is to be shaped, what kind of land use change patterns, what kind of mobility, what kind of typologies we are going to do. And this is probably we are talking about the NCR. So this journey actually that we have seen in the process of planning right from 1961, when the first plan was in vision, to 2041. So this is actually we are going to explore today, and then we'll run various of the episodes, where we'll talk about sectoral issues of mobility, housing, how 2041 Master Plan is with that. And because this is all about our Delhi, and all the questions. So today, what could be better than this, that Professor Dhanuroy, who is in Delhi, means, not just to make a plan with people, but with their idols, and what they call an alternative. What could be the path on the path of the heart, the vision of the city. And how this vision, the process and the work of making this vision, a lot of people are saying that it is very exclusive, because no one has participated in it. So Professor Dhanuroy, you are very welcome. You are free to speak English or Hindi, whichever you want to. That is why I started with both the languages. And what do you think about this Master Plan? It is a plan, because a lot of your planners and architects should not have a plan. There are a lot of people like that. But if you want to become a Yojna, then why is it necessary? And in 1991, when we see that there are a lot of social housing in the Yojna, but today we are talking about TOD, transitory integral. So if you explain the whole name of this journey, it will be much better. Then we will talk about other things. Thank you very much for inviting me to this interview. There are a lot of misunderstandings about the Master Plan and about its roots. It has been so many years, it has been six years. No. In the mind of the Yajnakars, it was made for 1,000,000 people, 1,000,000 people. But gradually, gradually, gradually, there are about 10,000 people living here today. That is, 10 people. And still, they are living in the city. So this means that the Yajnakars are still going on. And it is going very well. Whenever we think about where to go in the rest of Delhi, we say, let's go to the old Delhi. We will eat there, we will see birds over there. If we want to buy something in the market, we will go to the market. That is why the history of making Yajna in the city is quite old. It is not that we have to make Yajna today. But this idea of making Yajna in the city was also in a disaster. And it is very important to understand this. If you are aware, in 1947, there was this partition of the country. And in 1948, i.e. as Pakistan and India were divided, there were about 5 lakh refugees in Delhi, night after night. At that time, the population of Delhi was 11 lakhs. You can understand that the population of 11 lakhs is suddenly 16 lakhs. So what can happen to the city? But despite that, a Ministry of Rehabilitation and Ministry of Rehabilitation invited all the 5 lakhs in 5 years. Some were empty houses in the old Delhi. Refugees were put in them. But no one really got the property rights. They are still there. Their families are still there and they have been sold. But biologically, the second thing they did was what we call the Ring Road today. The Inner Ring. There is medical, university. What year is this? This is between 1948 and 1955. So this is the basic formal planning that we talked about before? Before the master plan. That's why I told you about it. Because when they invited, and if you look at Ring Road, all the cities are named. Nauruji Nagar, Lajpat Nagar, Kanjit Nagar, Mukherjee Nagar. All these cities are 27 cities. Rajendra Nagar is one of them. Yes, Rajendra Nagar is one of them. All the cities that you can see in Ring Road, all those cities are made up of refugee colonies. In which the refugees who came from Pakistan were saved. They were given a plot card. There was a flood of electricity in the plot. There was a shortage of electricity. And every family was given a loan to their homes. So it was done very well. But why do I call it a disaster? It is because of the 27 colonies. There are only 5-6 colonies that we call Kohi. This is the mountainous area of Delhi. It is the southern ridge that you know very well. There is Kudubh Meenar. And then there is the central ridge, which is behind Rashtrapati Bhavan. And then there is the northern ridge, which is on the way to university. So this Kohi mountain, this mountain is made up of Katora. So there are 6-7 colonies in this Katora. And this means that the soil that used to come out of it, the soil that used to come out of it, it used to come out of the river of Barapula Nale. It used to come out of the river of Yamuna. It was near Okhla. But the remaining 22 colonies, they used to come out of the entire ridge, i.e. outside of this Katora. And their drainage used to come out of the Najabgarh Nale. And because of the Najabgarh Nale, they used to come out of Yamuna to visit Vazirabad. Now why do we call it a disaster? Because all this soil, when Vazirabad went to Yamuna river, near Uttar Yamuna, then right next to it, there was Delhi's water supply. And that's why it went to Ganglapani. It went to Yamuna. And it came back as a water supply in Delhi in the form of a pump. And in 1985, there was Mahamariya in Delhi. And it was very bad. And the only reason for that was that this water came to Ganglapani. This water came to Ganglapani. Now it was worrying from that time that the city should be made up in a bad way. Because if they could understand this earlier and they should have understood that this water will go to Yamuna and if it goes to Yamuna, it will come back to water. So they understood the engineer very well. What did they do? From where the water comes out, from the Najabgarh Nale, and from where the water comes out, from Yamuna. So for the water supply, they made a bond between them. So that they could meet each other. And this is the bridge of the Prime Minister. This is the first bridge on Yamuna. A sure bond. And the water collected behind it, that water is now supplied to Delhi. But it will not be far from it. The water will flow in the Yamuna river. And now you have stopped Yamuna. This means that there is no water for the sister. So the entire canal, from 1958 to today, is now in the Yamuna river. Today too. We always want to learn from disasters. So this is the way of thinking. If there is a disaster, then you should plan for it. You should find a solution for it. And from that solution, there will be a second disaster. Then you should plan again for that disaster. Then you should find a solution for it. And from that solution, there will be a third disaster. So this is the history of the master plan. Now I am going to the master plan of 1962. The work of which was to think about all these things. And to make a plan of 20 years based on that. The most important thing in the master plan, and that is behind every plan, is the reality of that time. The reality of that time. You should know everything about the situation. And the master plan in 1962, because the birth of a tree, the census, it was before that. So you got to know from the census, that there are so many people in Delhi, that's why you can plan.  You can say, how many in the census, how many in the census, how many in the census. And with that, you can say, that if there was so much in the census, then how much in the census, in the census. And based on that, you can plan. That there will be so much in the census. Now you should know in the census, that how much water people use. That's why so much money is available. You should know that how many people live in big houses. So how much land is needed. So how much land will be needed in the census. You should know that how many people go by cycle. How many go by bus. How many go by rail. How many go by car. So, what are the factors that you are trying to justify in terms of water pit initiative. So how far have we go in the census? How far have we gone? So niemand been86, So why are you trying to justify示ase us. Soena, So go ahead. Whats your take in Then he came to us to tell us about 10 Ustads from the US. He came to us to tell us about 10 Ustads from the US. He made a bridge with a golden gate on the back of his head. He came to us to tell us about 10 Ustads from the US. And this Ford Foundation had made the whole arrangement. He came to us and told us that we should study the bridge. Secondly, he told us that you have to set your mind based on that bridge. Your mind means how many places should be for cyclists on the road? How many places should be for cars? How many places should be for buses? Because all this is based on numbers. And you project those numbers to see how many places should be for cyclists on the road. You can even think that there are so many people on the bus today. We want more people on the bus. So then you can plan accordingly. And you can make any plan without these primary studies. So first you have to do primary studies. And then you have to make a plan based on that. A plan, meaning no. You have to make a standard of how many places should be for one person. And based on those norms, then you have to make a plan for 20 years. It is very simple. It is not difficult. There is no need for Ustads from the US. But still, this can come to your mind. But at that time, we had to make a master plan. And I think the good thing is that that kind of master plan is an example of how you can make a standard of how many places should be for studies. In Nehru, there is a chart of Nehru as well. For example, when they made Chandigarh, they said to the minister, look, these poor people will come. Don't let them become a ghost city. So in planning, you have to make sure that there is very little expense for people to live here. That is why Ustads came here. We got to see something like that. There is a chart of Adhooni. Meaning, who do you consider to be Adhooni? Someone must have made Shah Jahanabad. They must have understood that what will happen to Shah Jahanabad after 100 years. So this means that there was some information. Our people had made Banaras. If you look at the old cities like Indore, Ujjain, Vizhaka Patnam. The name of Vizhaka Patnam was not there at that time. But it was called Banzargah. It is mentioned in the history of Al Baruni. It is mentioned. So at that time we knew how to make cities. It is not like we don't know how to make cities. But we don't know how to make Adhoonikh cities. So this is why Adhooniktha's plan is in these cities. And if I give you an example. In the old cities, there is only one straight road. And that is Chandni Chowk. From Lal Kile to Pratapuri Mosque. And there is no straight road. All the roads are turned around. But when the old Delhi was formed, a long road was formed from the same pattern in the old Delhi. That is, from the time when Raj Bhavan was there to India Gate. And all the other roads were straight. Or Golakar. And Golakar was made for that. Because after the understanding of a word, where will be the class 4 officer? Where will be the class 3? Where will be the class 2? Where will be the class 1? And according to that, it doesn't go fast. Like the old city didn't go that way. If you see, as soon as the road goes inside, like Chandni Chowk or any other road, there are alleys. There will be alleys in every alley. And there will be a house of Nawab in every alley. So all the Nawabs were sold. It wasn't like the class 5 was in just one place. So the mix queues that we call these days, you can see them in Shah Jahanabad. You won't see them in New Delhi. Anyway, in 1962, for 21 years, they made some targets for 21 years. What do we have to do for 21 years? For example, in 1962, they said that they wanted to make 6 lakh more houses for the next 10 years. For the next 20 years. Now they couldn't make 6 lakhs. They made 5 lakhs. But at least if they made it, they saved 1 lakh. They couldn't make it. And because of that, they said that they missed a little from the target when there was a review in 1981 that they missed a little. But that's why they missed it because they changed the public and the public. For example, this is not true. The public was only 8% bigger than the target. So that's why they said that this is public and that's why the city has been destroyed. This is not right. But this is a thought.  So in this way, these kinds of minds are responsible for creating further disasters. So in 1981, when they sat down to review the 1962 plan, they found that there were a lot of targets which had not been achieved. Let me tell you one target. Like in the Basat case, they talked about the industry. Housing was one. We can focus on housing. Please focus on all. My point is the first one was housing that you said. I told you about housing. They made 5 lakhs. So 1 lakh has been reduced. In the same way, they said that for the industry, 11 work centres and 16 industrial areas were to be built. At that time, there were only 2. One was in Oklah and one was in Shahzada. There was no other industrial area in Delhi. So they said that 11 more were to be built. So this means that it is a dream to see Delhi as an industrial centre. So there are only 2. We have to build 16 industrial areas. 16 were never to be built. They made 5. So this means that 11 were to be left. So in this way, if you look at the targets, they said that there is only one central business district. Canot please. Canot at that time. So they said that 2 more should be built. Not 2 more. But they said that all central business districts should be built. Even though a central business should not be built like Canot Place, but smaller than that. 5 more should be built in Delhi. In different places. They also could not build 5 more. So in one way, when they gave targets in Basat, you can review it in 81. How many were built? Why many were not built? What was the reason for not being built? And according to that reason, then you redevelop your plan. And you say... Because you said something very interesting. It just came out of all of a sudden. When you said that they had said it, then they had said it. So they were also teachers. Did you have any idea of taking advice from common people? Did you have any process of taking advice from common people? That if you want a 17, then why not a 17? If you want mobility, then what is the problem? Or was it just on teachers? Good boy. In the end, what was written in the act? That there should be public hearing. You should take suggestions from the public. Before notifying the plan, the draft plan should be in front of the public. Take suggestions in front of the public. And then you should give your public hearing on every suggestion. After listening to it, you have to answer it. Reason judgment and reason order has to be given. So at that time in Basat, what you said was very good. That he published the plan in three languages. He published it in English, in Hindi and Urdu. And he published it in the whole city. That means of Dhandora Peeth. And he announced on the streets that this is the plan which needs to be seen. It should be in the MCD's office. You should take suggestions, check the plan and it should be given. And at that time there were about 600 letters in the whole city. You can understand how big the city was. According to me there was a very big number. Yes, there was a very big number. 600 people You see the problem here is that people were not involved in making the play. People were only involved in commenting on the play. The educated people can comment on the play. The educated people have gone out of their way. The second thing is that there are some technical aspects, which people do not understand. Now, who do you call ROW? Who do you call FR? Who do you call FSI? People do not understand the play. So, there was no one to explain the play. So, if you are talking about democracy, you need to challenge the expert. You need what is called informed participation. Not just participation. We will have to be informed. This has never taken place. So, then in 1981, when they sat down to review the play, this was called MPD 2001. Because they are making the plan for 2001. They reviewed the 82 play. And they said, these are the targets that were set. How much have we achieved? And they found that except for housing, where 1 lakh shortage was there, for all the others, industrial, transportation, commercial, not more than 50% had finished. By enlarge less than 50%. So, that was the time for DDR to reach. We made a mistake in making the plan. This is in 1982 you are talking about. 1981. When the plan came up for review. Because I remember the first urban commission came in the same decade, 86, 87, which also laid emphasis on manufacturing and all. Please go ahead. We will just bring that also. And then there was this emphasis on manufacturing. But if you say you are going to build 16 industrial areas and you build only 5, then you have to think. Why couldn't you build the other 11? They didn't think. But, you see, there is the organic dynamic of the city. Where does the master come from? If you said that you are going to build 6 lakh houses, you have to build only 5, then 1 lakh families will not disappear. There are still 1 lakh families. Maybe more than 1 lakh. Because you didn't give that much weight to the migration. So this means that there will be more families who don't have a house. So if they don't have a house, then people will not be sitting like this. They will build their own house. And this is where the slums and the unauthorized colonies start. So this is what I call the organic spirit of democracy. That's where the state fails. People fail. I think that's very interesting. Organic spirit of democracy. If you go to India, it will be amazing. People's destiny. With your own will. This is so creative. We can do this. We need the government. We will build our own house. We will open our own industry. We will open our own business. And people did that. 50% to 60% shortfalls. In commercial areas. In industrial areas. People did it wherever they found space. And this entrepreneurial spirit. People's creativity. This was termed in 82. In the 2001 master plan. As being non-conforming. That means it doesn't conform with our idea. That means the planner's idea is right. People's idea is wrong. That is non-conforming. And it goes back to the 62 plan. Because in the 62 plan also. When the plan was made. The whole of Shah Janaabad was coloured grey. And coloured grey means this is a special area. It doesn't work with our planning. So they declared it as a special. That's quite interesting. But they also called it a special slum area. The whole of Delhi. It was written in the 17th century. They told everyone that this is a special area. So in the same way. People made it themselves. They either made it non-conforming. Or unauthorized. They declared it. And that is why you find for the first time. In the 1982-2001 plan. These two words emerge. That this is a non-conforming area. This is unauthorized construction. What should be done about it? Thank you so much. To explain it so easily. Because it's not easy. You don't even want to make it simple. You don't want to be so simple. That's why you don't want to. Thank you so much for your time. We'll continue with this series.