Diki Bhutia, Director – Eco Initiatives at Karma Lakelands Gurgaon

Karma Lakelands is a clean, green, serene, Eco responsible hospitality and residential community, making lives healthier and happier. There is an emphasis on minimising waste. Single-use products cause harm to our mother earth; hence, no single-use products, e.g., paper, plastic or thermocol are allowed.

As regards community being helped by Karma, firstly, in the setting up of a demonstrable and replicable model on waste minimisation and bio composting of entire waste. Secondly, the bee farming initiative that is intended to help promote pollination. Bees are known to help pollinate nearby gardens and farm crops (8Kms.radius) so the plants produce more fruit and seed. That means more blooms and higher vegetable yield.

Karma Lakelands also has the Karma Day Care Centre which has been home to around 70 children for over 17 years now. A lot of children of construction workers who were brought up from the very beginning at Karma Day Care are now employed as interns in the operations of Karma Lakelands in the front office, serving, and various other departments.

Four Zones at Karma Lakelands are already being nurtured by recycled water from the neighbourhood residential societies / restaurant e.g. Our Bamboo Forest is nurtured by recycled water from the McDonald’s Restaurant. The Devakad Sacred forest is nurtured by recycled water from Godrej frontier Group Housing Society. Our Rewilding Zone & the golf course get recycled water from Monsoon Breeze group housing society. For the Ficus Forest…Banyan, Peepal, Gular & Pilkhan trees, we use recycled water that we get from our own staff quarters.

Karma Lakelands’s unwavering efforts to raise environmental awareness within the hospitality industry and beyond have not gone unrecognised. We were recently awarded with Number one Golf Club and Golf Course in the Eco-friendly and Sustainable category, by the Golf Industry Association, October 2022 and Best Golf Resort in Delhi NCR, by Today’s Traveller, October 2022.

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