Friday, September 07, 2007

Famous author Amitav Ghosh’s book, The Hungry Tide, on Sunderbans might have earned numerous accolades

Dr. Saugata Hazra of Oceanography Department, Jadavpur University told B&E, “The sea levels are likely to rise by 5 mm/year. As Bangladesh is a deeper centre of the delta, the land is subsiding more there, which means the coastal floods are more likely and the cyclone inundation is more.” Though government came up with the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) in 1992 it’s inadequate so far, as there are no guidelines. A National Water Policy was established in the year 1999 to get public & private participation in the utilisation of water resources. Recently, there was the National Environment Policy, National Conservation Strategy & the National Environment Management Action Plan, formulated by the government, but concrete steps need to be taken to save the nation. It’s a catch- 22, and best is to take decision now! The government of Bangladesh cannot wait for a miracle to happen.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

... for HCL, if it won’t go green!

Look behind theHCL scenes and there’s more to it than meets the eye. Greenpeace, which is actually proving to be the ‘villain of peace’ for environment unfriendly technology companies, is taking HCL to task now. Greenpeace toxics campaigner Ramapati Kumar states, “The plan (by HCL for eco-friendly products) is not only shockingly inadequate, but also ignores the responsibility on their part to manufacture clean products.” He even calls HCL’s statement on RoHS compliance “specious & misleading”.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

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