Quality Practice Awarded to Chitvan, Kanha by TOFT

Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT), a UK based Tiger and Environment conservation NGO, did a survey of all Lodges in 6 popular tourism tiger reserves of India. Our operations at Chitvan, Kanha has been awarded "QUALITY PRACTICE" by them for the year 2009-2010. Practices Under Guidelines (PUG Rating analysis)was done by TOFT of our operations at Chitvan, which is a measure to grade our operations, construction, ethics on our water, carbon, and environment footprint. Primarily they measure, resource productivity, waste reduction, and local community economy being supported by the Lodge. What makes us happy is that we have been recognised in the first year of operation, and this motivates us further to enhance our benchmarks in times to come.

Water Conservation in Chitvan, Kanha

In view of the serious water crisis looming over all of us, we at Chitvan, Kanha have got into saving each drop of water. There are a total of 21 bathrooms, in Chitvan. All the water from the shower and wash basins is being now used to irrigate the 650 saplings that we planted this year. We calculated, and it worked out that we are now able to recycle about 5500 gallons of water on a daily basis. Process is now on to see feasibility of introducing the drip Irrigation system, and treat the water to reuse fully.