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Wte tey and bring about a paradigm shit rom the quantitative to
the qualitati
aspects o water use or domestic, agricultural and industrial
needs. In addition to wa
use eciency, there has to be emphasis on the prevention o water
pollution. Te
Swj mement n be speee by Pn Pnyts set up by Gm Sb
n Ngpks.
E. MaNaGEMENT of cliMaTE chaNGE aNd SEa lEvEl riSE aTThE local
lEvEl:
The Science Congress welcomes the steps taken at the global and
national levels to me
the challenges arising rom climate change. However, the adverse
impact o unavoura
changes in temperature, precipitation, sea level and pest
pandemics will be elt mos
at the local level. The coping capacity o local communities to
withstand the harm th
may occur to agriculture and livelihoods will have to be
enhanced through educati
social mobilization and regulation. Fortunately, India has
elected local bodies with o
third representation to women. These grassroot democratic
institutions will have to
empowered technically, administratively, nancially and legally
to introduce appropria
mitigation and adaptation measures. For this purpose, the
Science Congress recommen
that one woman and one male member o every Panchayat /
Nagarpalika / local bo
may be trained to serve as Climate Managers. They should become
amiliar with metho
o introducing drought and food codes, in the event o drought or
foods. In the ca
o agriculture, contingency plans, alternative cropping
strategies, ood, eed, odder a
water banks and other proactive calamity management measures
should be develop
Just s gn esees e essent seuty, see esees e neessy
p seuty.
f. Bio-haPPiNESS:
Jawaharlal Nehru oten said that, we are poor people inhabiting a
rich country. T
situation prevails even now. How can we break this linkage?
Appropriate combinatio
o biodiversity, biotechnology and business can help to end this
irony. Biovillages wh
biodiversity is converted into jobs and income with appropriate
micro-enterpris
operated by Sel-help Groups o women and men, can help to promote
and sustain an e
o biohappiness.
It is requested that an earmarked provision o Rs.100 crores may
be made in the budgetDepartment o Science and Technology which is
the nodal Ministry or the Indian Scien
Congress Association. While making this request, the Indian
Science Congress wishes
recall the statement made by Shri Jawaharlal Nehru 60 years ago,
te utue bengs
sene, n t tse w mke ensp wt sene.
At the end o 60 years o Indias tryst with destiny, it would be
useul to keep the abo
statement as our guide to the uture.
National Challenges and Scientific Respons17
The 95th Session o the Indian Science Congress Association
(ISCA)
was organised at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam during 3rd to
7th
January, 2008.
Beginning with the vision o sustainable development envisaged
by
the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)
in 1989, ollowed by the specifc goals set in the United
Nations
2000 Millennium Declaration or sustained development,
poverty
eradication, environmental protection, controlling
population
explosion, urbanization and ood security, conservation o
species
and ecosystems, energy and water, an international consensus
to address these issues has emerged as the need o the hour.
The
problems o the 21st century with special reerence to
sustainability
requires contemporary scientifc solutions to bridge the gaps
in
cultural, geographical, socio-economic and environmental
diversity
awareness. Keeping this in view the ocal theme o the 95 th
meeting
o the ISCA was proposed as Knowledge based society using
environmentally sustainable science and technology.Honble Prime
Minister o India Shri Manmohan Singh inaugurated
the 95th Session o the Indian Science Congress on the 3 rd
January
2008, in the august presence o Shri Kapil Sibal, Honble Minister
o
Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Govt, o India, Shri
Y.S.
Rajasekar Reddy, Honble Chie Minister, Andra Pradesh and
other
distinguished dignitaries.
The fve-day scientifc congress was attended by more than
6,000
participants including three noble laureates (Robert Curl Jr.,
Paul Nurse
and R. Kornberg), 200 Foreign Delegates and many distinguished
past
presidents o Indian Science Congress Association, scientists,
policy
makers and experts rom India.
Children Science Congress, Science Expo, Virtual Congress o
Mahila
Kisans, as well as many cultural events were organized during
the
congress.
