Malaikodi - Sri Narayani Siddhar Peetham
This temple complex located eight km away from the town of Vellore, spreads over 150 acres of land, and comprises of the shrines, a kitchen, an anna-daanam (free meals) center, where about a thousand people eat every morning and evening, a gosala (cow-shed), an elephant shed, farms, Sripuram (spiritual park–120 acres), 100-bedded children hospital, school, administrative center, and shops outside the temple. The waste (largely organic) was being burnt outside until two years ago.

Now the temple practices ZWM. It has 10 male calves, which feed on banana leaves used for serving food and the kitchen wastewater and abhishekam water. There is a biogas plant. Between April 2002 and November 2003, the project has generated 33.8 tonnes of compost (worth Rs.52, 280) and earned Rs.22, 400 through sale of recyclables. The compost generated is used in the temple garden, agricultural fields, nursery development and hill restoration project. Seeing the success of the project, the temple management has now extended ZWM to the Malaikodi village, which has 341 families.

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