Past imperfect & present tense!

In the 21st century when mankind is at threshold of path-breaking innovations that can bring about a paradigm shift in the way s/he lives, perceives, thinks & changes the world around, it is unfortunate or rather an irony that amidst all the talks of technology & economic revolutions s/he has not been able to fully insure the lives of their own progenies. A look at the less civilised & more rustic wild life out there in the jungles would vindicate that it is this very thing i.e. the protection of the younger ones, which has always been & would always be a priority for any species, barring mankind & serpents perhaps.

World over it is not just the divide between haves & the have-nots, but also the disparity between the handful of children who are growing up in affluence while the majority eagerly waiting to hug misery. For they don’t need to wait till death, to get a glimpse of hell, (if at all), as for them the world itself has transformed into a living hell for them. The medium of atrocities might be disparate – from being forced to become a young soldier in a war camp, sexual abuse on the streets, sleeping with empty stomach in chilling winter nights or being openly traded like commodity at flesh market, the ends are the same. The gruesome reality today rampantly covers more than two-thirds of the world. Call it propaganda or ignorance, most think that gun to drug addicted children working for militias are restricted only to Sub-Saharan African countries, while the reality is pretty far from truth.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

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“It’s like going to a specialized shop or going to a large mall”

Currently, the main competitors for SREI are behemoths like ICICI, GE & Citibank. Argues Kanoria, “But the entire business model that we have (the integrated model), there is no other competitor, which is offering this entire thing in a similar fashion that we are.” While ICICI Bank, GE Capital or Citibank can provide only financing of equipments; for other services like leasing or rental, deposit of equipments, they have to come to SREI. SREI even helps them to sell equipments in the domestic, as well as the international market, via auctions. Kanoria sums it up, “It’s like going to a specialized shop or going to a large mall.”

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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The death of river Noyyal

Meanwhile, the effluents haven’t spared Tirupur city either. Since the ground and surfacewater are polluted, drinking water has become undrinkable. And it’s not only pollution, the groundwater level has plummeted to 800 feet below. One bitter example is that even the colour of the water that one gets from tender coconuts in these areas have changed. Outraged by the increasing impact of the pollution, the villagers surrounding Tirupur decided not to allow the units to take waterfrom their wells. The industrial units have to buy water from outside faraway places at a higher price. Some have gone to the extent of buying farmlands with wells to draw water and there sure are protests against it.

The fight against the pollution is going on. The court has ordered closure of textile and dyeing units until they set up treatment plant with reverse osmosis process. Now those units are setting up treatment units. As per government’s order, they have to complete it before July 2007. M.Balamurugan, Founder of an NGO named Kurinji Foundation states to B&E, “The dyeing units will construct the treatment plants and there’s no doubt about it. But will they run them considering that the running costs are so high? They will keep them as a show piece. What is required is continuous monitoring. We documented these cases in our short film Noyyal- Tho laintha thadangkal’ (Noyyal- the lost way). In the downstream region of Noyyal, many have skin diseases & other miseries.”

He adds another point, “Instead of accusing the dyeing units, in reality we have to point our fingers at the exporters. They don’t raise their payment to the dyeing units according to the rise in the cost of dyeing as treatment plants are involved. They feel their margin will decrease.’’ Well, profits are good; but at what costs?! Sure, dying never got more sinful!

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
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Currently, there are two ways to manage waste in India – one is landfills and the other is incineration

The core issues remain – absence of segregation of waste at source; lack of technical expertise and arrangement; no proper collection, segregation, transportation, and treatment/ disposal systems employed by ULBs.

The pathetic state of garbage disposal results from the fact that the policy-makers residing in the comparative clean Lutyens’ Delhi, have blissfully closed their eyes to the filth strewn across other parts of the country. There is no dearth of laws to keep the cities clean, but no one has the will to implement them. We simply depend upon the winds to fl y away the garbage from our vicinity into our neighbour’s backyard. That way, we’ll continue to live a degraded standard of life.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

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... on the green front! Defamed by Greenpeace, Apple makes amends

“Apple knows more about “clean” design than anybody, right? So why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contains hazardous substances?” reads the latest Greenpeace campaign. However, Steve Jobs still thinks that Apple is a green company and he also manifests that it is greener than its competitors like HP and Dell. “It is generally not Apple’s policy to trumpet our plans for the future. Unfortunately, this policy has left our customers and the industry in the dark about Apple’s desires and plans to become greener”.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative