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Anurit Kanti

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The author is correspondent at BW Businessworld, he has a keen interest in sustainability and environmental economics

Latest Articles By Anurit Kanti

Will Make Transport, Logistics World-Class In 2 Years: Nitin Gadkari, Minister For Road Transport & Highways At World Food India 2017

"We have 12 million ports, and all their efficiency has increased and this year we are expecting 7000 crore of profit from the port sector," Nitin Gadkari

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Building Partnerships Globally And Internally With Stakeholders Integral For Food Safety: Ashish Bahugana, Chairperson, FSSAI

"The global approaches to food safety, the significance of alignment to global standards, the scientific approach to regulation of food safety and the importance of global partnership needs to be highlighted. In order to benefit from other countries, the questions to note are- is India going the right away, the mutual equivalence of regulatory measures and best practices from global standards,” Preeti Sudan, Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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Huge Economic Benefit Of Investing In Food Safety: Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Director, Agriculture, World Bank

"We are conducting a study on the economics of food safety in India. There has been great progress in India with respect to ease of doing business, but food safety is not explicitly included in the rankings of ease of doing business," Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Director of Agriculture, World Bank

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Food Safety Continues To Be Our Primary Responsibility: Pawan Agarwal, CEO, FSSAI At World Food India 2017

"We at FSSAI would like to play a supportive role for the food processing industry for this transformation. We are merely six years in operation, under the integrated food safety law in the country," Pawan Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer of FSSAI

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Coordination Between Agencies Integral For Curbing Pollution: Dr DK Aggarwal, Ex-Member, NGT

“Most of the work done by the government is a cosmetic job, and it is not a continued long-term plan. Just talking about it and data generation will not help, we need a wholesome approach towards curbing pollution,”Durgesh Nanda

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Your Health And Environmental Health: 2 Sides Of The Same Coin

Globally air pollution is responsible for 6.7% of all deaths and 7.6% of DALY’s lost. In India, 0.59 and 0.92 million deaths annually are due to Household and Ambient Air Pollution respectively

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It’s Not About Climate Change, It’s About Climate Justice: Dr VK Saraswat, NITI Aayog

"The biggest challenge is that the courts have done their part, whether it’s the Supreme Court or National Green Tribunal, but there is no recognition of the data by doctors and the scientific reports, taking action on that basis that it’s actually a health emergency,” Mr Sudhir Mishra

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Relevance Of Measuring Ecological Footprint In Today’s Time

Each city, state or nation’s Ecological Footprint can be compared to its biocapacity. If a population’s Ecological Footprint exceeds the region’s biocapacity, that region runs an ecological deficit

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Corporate Sector Can Play Key Role In Achieving Urban Sanitation Goals, Report Says

The comprehensive report entitled State of Urban Water and Sanitation in India is one such activity based on rigorous consultations with stakeholders and data collected over three years, Vice Chancellor, TERI University

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Need For A ‘Searcher’s Approach’ For An Incentive Framework Towards Sustainable Development

The concept of Searcher’s Approach can be applied towards policy creation which intends to be an incentive framework for sustainable development

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