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Coeval Discourse II : “Eco Perils with the onset of winters in India”

The Institute hosted its ‘Coeval Discourse II” with eminent speakers from the field of academics, Medicine, Law.The session was chaired by a very eminent environmentalist Lt.Col(Retd) Mr.ShaktiRanjan Banerjee. The welcome address was delivered by Sri.Gautam De, Regional Director,ICCR Kolkata who elicited that it was high time for the citizens to set measures in order to control the pollution rate and attain a sustainable living. The academician and theDirector of BharatiyaVidyaBhavan, Kolkata Chapter, Sri.G.V.Subramanian shared a wonderful illustration on how threatful a future could be for the next generation if the society would continue to thrive in the digital deltaic , automobiles and practices deforestation widely.

He further appraised the audience about some of the measures that their institute adopted to curb the prodigious rate of pollution. His examples and illustrations cast an insight on how hazardous the sustainability would be if the surging of pollution matrix would not be restricted at the moment. The same thread was also pulled by Dr.RituparnaChatterjee, a consultant ophthalmologist of an esteemed medical care unit of Kolkata. Her deliberation, statistical figures helped the audience to acknowledge the health deficits caused by the influx of pollution all over the country and especially in the Northern region. She enlisted some of the precautionary measures including the health care tips to be adopted to stall the impact of the pollution on our healthy living. An interactive deliberation was pulled off by the legal practitioner Mr.ShayakChakroborty who tried to skim the key causes of pollution in the country especially in the Northern region being enveloped with pollution during the onset of winters due to various agricultural practices , inefficient implementation of policy mechanisms, derailment of jurisprudence and lack of government interventions .

His case studies elucidated the ignorance of effective policy mechanisms at the state and the central level inducing the proliferation of the rate of pollution during winters. In order to transmute the actual situation to the audience addressing the discourse, Dr.PuneetAgrawala Medical practitioner from Delhi joined the discussion and boasted the actual situation of north India along with the underlying causes inciting the Environmental caveats in details. The chair Lt.Col(Retd) Mr.ShaktiRanjan Banerjee did sum up the discourse by highlighting the need of sensitization, effective policy mechanism and adoption of livelihood practices on an individual level to void such eco perils during the onset of every winters in our country

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