So have now got the time to sum up the learnings from the Day 2 of the training on Environmental Management programme at EPCO (Environmental Planning and Coordination Organization) Bhopal.
Here we go.......
Day 2 was quite a brainstorming session and of course the most debatable one as the groups that went on the field the previous day are supposed to give presentations on the field experience and the guided topics. Group A had been assigned a field visit to an urban slum and Group B to a rural area.
The first presentation was of group A. It was a good presentation, the Shnati nagar slum they visited was a good example of the Community development programme. Some astonishing facts included the Rain water harvesting system implementation and the waste disposal. The slum dwellers were quite active and the samiti had really done a commendable job in terms of daily disposal of waste and water harvesting plants. The only issue that came up was the re-habitation proposed by the govt. The group was very enthusiastic about the developments but the other group that is mine were not convinced that the facts they are quoting are real.
Any way after a heated debate which was intervened by the facilitators, we got our chance to present and our presentation was based on the shortcomings of the 'Niraml gaon' we went to. As the village was awarded the status of 'Nirmal gaon' with a cash award of rupee one lac our expectations from the village were quite high in terms of Health, Education and Sanitation. What we observed was that all the progress was superficial, nothing commendable has been done, the ground reality was different from the one mentioned 'on-papers'. For example construction of NADEP pit; it was there but didn't put to use, the sewage system was not up to the mark, women did not attend the school and to a large extent the children too, open defecation was prevalent, solar panels were not working. The facilitators who went with us made us realise the fact that the change is gradual, motivation level has to be increased then only you could expect a consistency in the performance.
The next session was a knowledge talk by Mr. Kailash Pant, a renowned personality with many awards to his accolade especially in promoting Hindi. He spoke about the issues like 'Self esteem' nature in terms of the cultural degradation when we talk about nature it is not only the 'natural resources' but also the 'human resources'. Some points that strike the conscience were:
मनुष्य बनने का क्या लक्ष्य होना चाहिए ?
पद यात्रा का महत्व
His session was followed by a talk by Mr. Dhurva Shukl a famous writer and thinker. 'सच का सामना ' is a great book in which the present concern of depleting natural resources has been addressed in a very innovative manner. The book is yet to complete but the portion I read till now is mind stirring.
He also raised some very serious aspects of human behaviour which have led to the condition of today. The disrespect of nature that human race has done in his view is the root cause of all the destruction, he termed it as प्रकर्ति का अनादर , प्रकर्ति से झगड़ा . This disrespect of nature has made man think himself to be the superior and the only race that exist on the earth. He raised a question of 'Qualification of existence'.
The most interesting part of his talk was the techniques used by the people of previous generations(when technology was not dominant) to locate the winds, the winds were supposed to have names like पुर्वय्या , पूचुआ and they guided about the crop rotation techniques, the reason behind keeping a mud pot under Durga's feet is to know the growth of the wheat crop in advance.
Some ideas and concepts that I liked are:
Flooding Customer care centres rather than Citizen care centres
Pollution of language
मानसिक पर्यावरण का प्रदूषण
Wall Marts and the malls of today increase cholesterol and the local sabzi mandis increase energy
The last session for the day was the calculation of Water footprint which was meant to calculate the quantity of water consumed by us per week and consecutively per year. It was an eye-opener, we were shocked to know the consumption of water by us and to our surprise it is not the food for which we consume much water, it is the Industrial products and the Life style that consume an enormous amount of water.My consumption came out to be 2358434 litres per year..... hope to control it from now on. Have learnt a lot from the WFP ( water footprint calculator), will describe the process in the later blog.
to be continued.........
Here we go.......
Day 2 was quite a brainstorming session and of course the most debatable one as the groups that went on the field the previous day are supposed to give presentations on the field experience and the guided topics. Group A had been assigned a field visit to an urban slum and Group B to a rural area.
The first presentation was of group A. It was a good presentation, the Shnati nagar slum they visited was a good example of the Community development programme. Some astonishing facts included the Rain water harvesting system implementation and the waste disposal. The slum dwellers were quite active and the samiti had really done a commendable job in terms of daily disposal of waste and water harvesting plants. The only issue that came up was the re-habitation proposed by the govt. The group was very enthusiastic about the developments but the other group that is mine were not convinced that the facts they are quoting are real.
Any way after a heated debate which was intervened by the facilitators, we got our chance to present and our presentation was based on the shortcomings of the 'Niraml gaon' we went to. As the village was awarded the status of 'Nirmal gaon' with a cash award of rupee one lac our expectations from the village were quite high in terms of Health, Education and Sanitation. What we observed was that all the progress was superficial, nothing commendable has been done, the ground reality was different from the one mentioned 'on-papers'. For example construction of NADEP pit; it was there but didn't put to use, the sewage system was not up to the mark, women did not attend the school and to a large extent the children too, open defecation was prevalent, solar panels were not working. The facilitators who went with us made us realise the fact that the change is gradual, motivation level has to be increased then only you could expect a consistency in the performance.
The next session was a knowledge talk by Mr. Kailash Pant, a renowned personality with many awards to his accolade especially in promoting Hindi. He spoke about the issues like 'Self esteem' nature in terms of the cultural degradation when we talk about nature it is not only the 'natural resources' but also the 'human resources'. Some points that strike the conscience were:
मनुष्य बनने का क्या लक्ष्य होना चाहिए ?
पद यात्रा का महत्व
His session was followed by a talk by Mr. Dhurva Shukl a famous writer and thinker. 'सच का सामना ' is a great book in which the present concern of depleting natural resources has been addressed in a very innovative manner. The book is yet to complete but the portion I read till now is mind stirring.
He also raised some very serious aspects of human behaviour which have led to the condition of today. The disrespect of nature that human race has done in his view is the root cause of all the destruction, he termed it as प्रकर्ति का अनादर , प्रकर्ति से झगड़ा . This disrespect of nature has made man think himself to be the superior and the only race that exist on the earth. He raised a question of 'Qualification of existence'.
The most interesting part of his talk was the techniques used by the people of previous generations(when technology was not dominant) to locate the winds, the winds were supposed to have names like पुर्वय्या , पूचुआ and they guided about the crop rotation techniques, the reason behind keeping a mud pot under Durga's feet is to know the growth of the wheat crop in advance.
Some ideas and concepts that I liked are:
Flooding Customer care centres rather than Citizen care centres
Pollution of language
मानसिक पर्यावरण का प्रदूषण
Wall Marts and the malls of today increase cholesterol and the local sabzi mandis increase energy
The last session for the day was the calculation of Water footprint which was meant to calculate the quantity of water consumed by us per week and consecutively per year. It was an eye-opener, we were shocked to know the consumption of water by us and to our surprise it is not the food for which we consume much water, it is the Industrial products and the Life style that consume an enormous amount of water.My consumption came out to be 2358434 litres per year..... hope to control it from now on. Have learnt a lot from the WFP ( water footprint calculator), will describe the process in the later blog.
to be continued.........
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