need of the hour

what is Sustainable development exactly? and why is it the need of the hour?
As Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future.

Sustainable development does not focus solely on environmental issues, it includes economic and social development too.Basically, the field of sustainable development can be conceptually broken into three constituent parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability.
Economic Sustainability: clearly identified information, integration, and participation as key building blocks to help countries achieve development that recognises these interdependent pillars.
sustainability is a process which tells of a development of all aspects of human life affecting sustenance. It means resolving the conflict between the various competing goals, and involves the simultaneous pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity famously known as three dimensions (triple bottom line) with is the resultant vector being technology, hence it is a continually evolving process; the ‘journey’ (the process of achieving sustainability) is of course vitally important, but only as a means of getting to the destination (the desired future state). However,the ‘destination’ of sustainability is not a fixed place in the normal sense that we understand destination. Instead, it is a set of wishful characteristics of a future system.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

COUNTRY IN BLOODSHED..... BUT STILL "HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY"
ITS OUR 61ST INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE DAY WE GOT FREE FROM BEING SLAVES...
ITS THE ESSENCE WHICH SAYS WE ARE INDEPENDENT!!
-WHAT HAS THIS DAY REDUCED TO? A MERE HOLIDAY..
-MINISTERS COMING LATE FOR THE SO CALLED "FLAG HOISTING"
-CHILDREN AWAITING SWEETS TO BE DISTRIBUTED
-HOLIDAY FOR PEOPLE TO RUSH TO MALLS
-AN EVENT FOR EVERYBODY TO SHOWCASE THEIR "SPEECHES" IN SOCIETY..
NEVERTHELESS, ITS INDEPENDENCE DAY..
WE ARE "FREE" TO DO WHATEVER WE WANT!!

BUT THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY I AM RATHER TOO DISMAL AND SO I DECIDED TO WRITE THIS POST IN "CAPS" AND THAT TOO IN "RED"
AS OUR COUNTRY, NATION, MOTHERLAND IS IN BLOOD SHED!
WE PROUDLY CALL OURSELVES "INDIANS"... OH! THE LARGEST RUNNING DEMOCRACY, UNITY IN DIVERSITY.. AND I THINK THE LIST IS NEVER ENDING..
BUT TODAY WHEN I SEE WHAT MY NATION IS SUCCUMB TO, FROM AMARNATH TO AHEMDABAD I FEEL WHERE IS MY NATION HEADING?
WE ARE STILL IN THE SHACKLES OF CASTE AND CREED POLITICS, AND ON THIS DAY IT PINCHES ME TO SEE MY FELLOW BEINGS "INDIANS" FIGHTING AMONGST THEMSELVES...
I DON'T WANT TO COMMENT ON THE NEGATIVES FURTHER, RATHER I HAVE PROMISED MY SELF TO DO MY PORTION OF RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS THE SOCIETY.
ALSO WITH FAITH IN ALMIGHTY AND A RAY OF HOPE ON THIS AUSPICIOUS DAY I THINK WE ALL WILL REALISE THAT WE ARE "INDIANS" AND NOT "HINDU", "MUSLIM', "SIKH" OR "CHRISTIANS"............

energy and enviornment

India has been experiencing sustained high economic growth in the recentyears. However, there exists substantial amount of unacceptable poverty among the people in the country. The expressions of symptoms of such poverty include among others inadequate educational and health attainment of the people and lack of access to basic amenities like modern clean energy, safe water and sanitation which are crucial determinants of capability development. There exists in fact significant amount of energy poverty among the people, particularly in the rural India which has more than 70% share of its population, in the form of use of traditional inefficient biomass as the primary fuel with injurious health effect and the lack of connectivity of the households with electricity. The eleventh five year plan of India which has recently been initiated has taken the approach of inclusive faster growth for the development of the Indian economy. This paper analyses the implications of this high inclusive growth in respect of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability of the energy use required by such growth and the removal of energy poverty, which have to be addressed in India's energy planning. The paper defines the concept of sustainable development and points out its resource accounting implications in respect of energy related resource use. It focuses in this context on the instrumental role of the efficiency of energy use and energy supply, fuel composition and technology in determining the strength of the linkage between the GDP growth and the growth of energy use and that between the energy use and the pollution intensity of energy. on the other hand, the notion of energy poverty and discusses the problem of equity and energy development in a dual society like that of India. It then reviews the past trend and pattern of energy use and the future projections of energy requirement and supply with special reference to the twin issues of equity and environmental sustainability. In this context it makes a decomposition analysis of the past energy use and CO2 emissions in India for examining its environmental sustainability and if economic reforms of India could make any impact on it. It makes further a brief review of the methodologies of projections and policy planning for the future energy sector development in India as existing in the recent literature. Finally, the paper discusses certain selected issues of energy security and macroeconomic viability of such energy development in the background of the sustained steep rise of oil prices and high cost of carbon free new technologies. It concludes by highlighting certain policy issues relating to pricing, technology and institution for the attainability of inclusive growth and particularly for meeting the gaps in such attainment that would possibly remain as per the existing alternative projections for the future. However, this paper does not pay any special attention to the climate change related global policy issues that would affect India and gives priority to the national level issues relating to energy equity and energy related environmental sustainability of Indian development.
As we know, Energy is central to achieving sustainable development goals. Some two billion people have no access to modern energy services. The challenge lies in finding ways to reconcile this necessity and demand for energy with its impact on the natural resource base in order to ensure that sustainable development goals are realized.
The time for action is now.Every extra dollar they have to spend because of high gas prices is one dollar less they can use to put food on the table or send a child to school.

sarva shiksha abhiyan

a programme for achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) as mandated by 86th amendment to the Constitution of India making fee and compulsory Education to the Children of 6-14 years age group, a Fundamental Right.SSA is being implemented in partnership with State Governments to cover the entire country and address the needs of 192 million children in 1.1 million habitations.
A view of govt. to enhance education facilities in our nation, build schools in the most rural areas and to provide quality elemantry education to all children the future of nation. It has a special focus on girls and children with special needs.
Education to a girl child is the main focus of this education to all programme!
The targeted provision for girls under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan include :
• Free textbooks to all girls upto class VIII • Separate toilets for girls • Back to school camps for out-of-school girls • Bridge courses for older girls • Recruitment of 50% women teachers • Early childhood care and Education centers in/near schools/convergence with ICDS programme etc. • Teachers’ sensitation programmes to promote equitable learning opportunities • Gender-sensitive teaching-learning materials including textbooks • Intensive community mobilisation efforts • ‘Innovation fund’ per district for need based interventions for ensuring girls’ attendance and retention.
Programmes like EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION are very essential for freeing girls from house hold responsibilities, moreover The SSA works in a convergent mode with the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme to promote pre-school education by providing for training of Anganwadi workers, primary school teachers, and health workers for a convergent understanding of pre-school .
Its under SSA that NPEGEL NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR EDUCATION OF GIRLS AT ELEMENTARY LEVEL has also started.Its focussed to reach the "hardest of girls" in every cluster of society.
ALL its policies are a great boon for our nation, if and only if it is implemented more severly...