MY VIEWS IN TIMES OF INDIA ON POLLUTION & ON ENEMY WITHIN

Comments of MILAN K SINHA (PATNA) in
The Times Of India dt. 10.11.12

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''Its a good initiative by the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) headed by Bhure Lal, a seasoned bureaucrat but shouldn't it be extended to other states too as many other metropolitan as well as big cities are facing this problem, may be in lesser degree. We know well that India’s population is growing fast –its world’s 2nd most populous country after China and so is its energy needs. Still more than 70% of country's population lives in rural areas and depends largely on farm wastes and milch animal dung for meeting their day to day enery needs. India’s vehicular population has also increased many fold in recent past – presently more than 40 million passenger vehicles alone. In total, the country manufactures 11 million plus vehicles every year. To say, India’s energy needs, particularly Petrol/Diesel etc. is fast rising; coal production & consumption is also increasing in good pace; traffic congestion in big as well as mid -sized cities has risen to an alarming proportion thereby registering further deterioration in air pollution level. All these aforesaid facts & some more have greatly contributed to making India one of the worst countries in the world as regards Air Pollution ( It is generally defined as the contamination of life saving oxygen with obnoxious gases such as carbon mono oxide, carbon di oxide,sulphur di oxide, methane etc. mainly due to combustion of fuel - oil, coal, biomass & firewood, in vehicles, industries & household.) The country’s capital, New Delhi ranks among one of the top cities in the world in this regard. So, in order to fight this growing menace the following remedies must be tried very earnestly right from now with greater intensity: a)Reduction in emission of air pollutants including Green House Gases, b)Vast improvement in public transport system, c) Making Solar & Wind energy popular in all possible & time bound manner, d) Protection of existing forests & large scale afforestation, e) encourage people to drive less and walk & bicycle more, f) ensure stricter compliance of emission norms and g) create awareness among rural masses about the ill effects of air pollution and suggest them to try & use alternative sources of energy to the extent possible.''

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Times Of India dt. 21.10.12
Comments on Swapan Dasgupta's article : Fear of the enemy within

MILAN K SINHA (PATNA) says:
October 21,2012 at 12:25 PM IST

Good piece of writing by Swapan Dasgupta which took me too 50 years back. The country was behind the then Govt. led by Nehru and was feeling squarely betrayed by Chinese leadership mainly in view of the famous Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai slogan & sentiment. I vividly remember those days when we used to go to Katihar Rly station to salute and support our Jawans passing through that route in military specials. Infact, many changes took place in the intervening period in both India & China, but border issue remained as ticklish or even worse as it was earlier. Undoubtedly, China has grown much stronger than India in many respects and is de-facto super power of this region. We do have the potential to be better than China, but the question arises here again as to when our political masters appreciate this and start acting differently to make India really stronger economically & militarily.

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