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The author is a member, the Managing Committee of the Indian Cancer Society, Delhi and was member of the Governing Council, of the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre. He is past president of AIMA and a former member, the Board of Governors, IIMC.
The underlying idea is to reduce the carbon footprint of the school. This programme also drives students to use natural resources in a responsible manner and practice effective methods so that these become a way of life for them
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The author is a former Additional Secretary General of FICCI, a former President of AIMA & former Member, BOG of IIMC Kolkata
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Challenges posed by climate change, hugely impacted by our obsessive consumption patterns, are immense, writes Krishan Kalra
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A Hyderabad-based company, promoted by youngsters with Silicon Valley exposure, set up in 2013, has recycled more than 100,000 tonne of plastic waste collected through a large network of ragpickers
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Regular Urban Floods disrupt the life of millions and cause immense damage to infrastructure and huge economic losses. A lot of this is preventable with scientific studies and systematic municipal action
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Air pollution is causing serious damage to the health of people, especially in the big cities, yet not much has been done about it so far
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Empowerment of women is crucial for the growth of our society and, happily, during the last few years, we have seen a rapidly increasing number of women distinguishing themselves in various walks of life
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Considering that a lot of our population lives in villages and probably has little or no access to modern day packaging – despite the small-pack onslaught of shampoo, soap, toothpaste, biscuits et al by aggressive marketing companies – and are also unlikely to waste food, our national per capita waste generation should be around 250 grams per day
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It is estimated that every urban citizen in the country generates about 600 grams of solid waste every single day ... With an estimated population of 142 crores it adds up to about 355 tons a day or 130 million tons annually – enough to drown us all under its weight unless we make it our religion to manage our waste by assiduously segregating it at source
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The need of the hour for India is to make new hill stations and not kill the existing ones that were built by the Brits a century ago for much fewer people
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