PROMOTING RURAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
INITIATIVE Simple ideas make lofty technology. Rural traditions of life and workmanship need a scientific revamp still maintaining its rural identity. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has been goading scientific transformation through Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) is located in eight IITs and coordinated by the Office of the Principle Scientific […]
SECOND WARNING TO HUMANITY
ARCHIVE Twenty-five years after global scientists issued a “warning to humanity” about dangers to the environment, a new update released last month says most of the planet’s problems are getting “far worse.” In 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, […]
ECONOMIC REFORMS & TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL INDIA
OPINION Rapid agriculture growth and rapid rural employment growth were always the focus of India’s policy makers. Mahatma Gandhi envisaged India as a Nation of self-sufficient autonomous village republics. Land – the summum bonum of rural existence, and agricultural structure was the most important determinant of India’s development. Highly skewed distribution of land was responsible […]
WOMEN OF SCIENCE, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE
Innovation For People’s Cause
COVER STORY The Prime Minister and President of India at the convocation addresses at IIT Mumbai and IIT Hyderabad respectively underlined the role of knowledge, innovation and enterprise for prople’s service Prime Minister At IIT Mumbai (Powai) The nation is proud of the IITs, and what IIT graduates have achieved. The success of the IITs […]
HOUSING FOR URBAN POOR A GARGANTUAN CHALLENGE
COVER STORY The inward migration of massive chunks of population from rural areas and peri-urban areas to urban areas in search of livelihood and better living conditions is continually exacerbating the shortage of housing in our cities, writes A SHANKAR. Urbanization is central to a country’s economy – and in India, the urbanization rate corresponds […]
HOUSING FOR ALL BY 2022
COVER STORY In its seven decades of journey since independence, the real estate and housing sector, has come a long way from early years of restrictive policies, deficient planning and highly inadequate resources, to reach a progressive, planned, organised and reformative stage, facilitating urban transformation and speedy economic growth. The present government’s vision is to […]
US Secretary of State gives award for corporate excellence to PepsiCo
PRESS RELEASE On November 1, 2019, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the prestigious Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) to PepsiCo India for its efforts to save more than 17 billion litres of water through community water programmes and positively impacting thousands of community members. PepsiCo India has been named as global ACE […]
Raising funds through beauty pageant
PRESS RELEASE Binita Shrivastava is an innovative entrepreneur, a passionate professional and a philanthropist. She is using her startup platform, Visionara Global India which oversees into events, public relations, media and productions; to raise funds for to support a non-government organization (NGO) through her initiative VG Mrs India — A National Beauty Pageant (A Gateway […]
Khadi found replacement of plastic water bottles with bamboo bottles
PRESS RELEASE Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), which is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in a big way, launched several new products which are in tune with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Nitin Gadkari launched a unique bamboo water bottle, Kacchi […]