Organic market Anant Mandi was organised at Gandhi Bhawan on Sunday. Anant Mandi was launched by Anant and Goruban with an aim to promote organic foods and healthy lifestyle in the society.
Stalls of organic vegetables, fruits, dairy products, cereals, herbal medicines and chemical-free soaps, shampoos, oils and hand washes were set up at Anant Mandi.
A colorful art space was also created by the youth to entertain customers visiting the mandi, with drum circles and narrated songs, poems and stories by Yunwao of the city and people of all ages arriving in the mandi. Farmer Durgesh in the mandi says that he liked Anant Mandi, seeing this market; he got more encouragement to do organic farming.
One of the regular visitor of Anant Mandi Sandhya Soni said that vegetables found everywhere in the market are grown with the help of chemical fertilizers which is harmful to health, so it is better to come to Anant Mandi and buy organic vegetables which are good for health, She said that all of us should use organic things.
There was an Adlaa Badli Swap-sale in Anant Mandi, Where people can exchange one of their items in return of any item. Swap-sale’s Volunteer Yashika Tripathi states that the purpose of the swap sale is to exchange old items instead of buying new ones so that we can reduce marketization.
Next Anant Mandi will be held at Gandhi Bhavan on November 24. Senior social worker Vandana Shiva will be present in Anant Mandi to be held on November 24.
To understand the purpose of “Jai Jagat 2020", Which was started from Rajghat, Delhi on October 2, 2019, on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which will reach Geneva, Switzerland on October 2, 2020 next year. A meeting was organized at Gandhi Bhavan which was attended by people from different sections of the city. Mohsin Khan, Volunteer of Jai Jagat Yatra informed in the meeting that Jai Jagat Yatra will reach Bhopal on November 28 and a 5-day program Jan Utsav will be organized in Gandhi Bhawan to welcome Jai Jagat Yatra.