Successful demonstration of defluoridation of water using Tulsi: Hearty congratulations to the team from SPM, Chandrapur

Author : P R Madhura

When I read this news item, I tried to speak with the Faculty of Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya, Chandrapur, Maharashtra (Phone: 07172 - 255778, 271599), Phone No. (MBA) 263046, Phone No. (MCA) 272813, Web: http://www.spcollegechandrapur.ac.in - to congratulate them on their great discovery.

• The email: spmchd@sancharnet.in as given on their website returns a stock message that it has a fatal error, as in case of many academic institutions, whose published email IDs never work.
• K.S.Raipurkar, HoD, Environmental Science of Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya, rudely disconnected my call thrice, for reasons best known to her and they don't have any direct landline.
• Also she wouldn't respond to a polite SMS request to let me know hers / her department's email ID.
• My attempt to get the phone number of R.K.Kamble, Sr. Faculty of Environment of Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya, was also equally futile.

If any of you know them or are able to communicate with them, I please convey my hearty congratulations to their team on their great contribution.

I also welcome any philanthropic entrepreneur or NGO working with potable water problems of people in the 'fluoridated water affected areas', from across the globe to take note of this discovery and try to use it, wherever feasible.