INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SYSTEMS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Key Issues and
Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements
Operational Districts: New Delhi,Gautam Buddha Nagar
Operational States: DELHI, UTTAR PRADESH
AchieveMents: Seminars on Bio fuel & Green Energy for Sustainable Growth and Impact on Climate Change
The Institute of Applied System and Rural Development IASRD has taken up awareness program for promotion of bio fuel for sustainable growth to compliment the efforts in ensuring energy security of the Nation. To achieve this objective the Institute has organized 11 seminars in 11 states namely:
1st Seminar was held at Delhi 2nd seminar at Nashik Maharastra 3rd seminar at Anand Gujarat 4th seminar at Lucknow UP 5th seminar at Bangalore Karnataka 6th seminar at Raipur Chhattisgarh 7th seminar at Dhanbad Jharkhand 8th seminar at Haridwar Uttarakhand 9th seminar at Jodhpur Rajasthan 10th seminar at Patna Bihar& 11th seminar at Aizwal Mizoram.
The basic objective of the seminar is to promote awareness for increasing the use of Bio fuel & Green Energy to ensure energy security for sustainable. The objective activities like Seminar & awareness programmes were financially supported in the form of Grants in aid by the various Ministries like of Earth Sciences Ministry of New & Renewal Energy MNRE. Ministry of Rural Development & also sponsored by the Govt. Oil Companies like IOC HPCL & BPCL.
Institute has also organized Awareness program for School Children on Impact of Climate Change & their Role to mitigate it in Raipur district of Chhattisgharh, Haridwar district in Uttarakhand and Gautam budh Nagar in UP. Fourth program has been conducted last year in Anand district of Gujarat. The primary objective of the programme is to sensitize and encourage the students of 6th to 10th standards in the age group of 10 to 17 for their active participation in mitigation of climate change and to help them to learn, understand and address the impacts of global warming today, at the same time encouraging the change in their attitudes and behavior needed to put up efforts on a more sustainable path in the future. Undoubtedly the climate change is going to effect the next generation adversely. It is therefore necessary to initiate action to arrest the change in deteriorating climate now. The children hence need to be mainstreamed into larger debates on climate change, hazards and vulnerabilities with an overview of the linkages between climate change and sustainable development which is threatened by increasing frequency of hazardous weather and the inability of the poor and most vulnerable to adapt to climate variability and extremes. The awareness programme on Climate Change is linked with the Tree Plantation Programme.
