Indians 4 Social Change

Onset of the Make-In India Campaign The Make-in India Campaign was launched by PM Narendra Modi in September, 2014 with the motive to initiate and encourage manufactures within the country. It has significantly helped to boost skill enhancement as well as employment generation. So far, twenty five sectors have been …

Mass Stranding of Pilot Whales As reported by BBC News, “The number of short-finned pilot whales who have died after they were stranded on a beach in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has risen to 73, officials said”. Indeed, this issue of mass stranding has become rampant on the …

Introduction In Udaipur’s Bichawada village, a Rajasthan caste panchayat is punishing two men for standing up to the destruction of trees. Situation The panchayat fined Onad Singh Rs. 45,000 for standing up to the cutting of the trees. His cousin then tried to defend him and he was fined Rs. 21,000. After …

With less than 2 weeks to go for everyone to start out with their New Year Resolutions, the Delhi Government that has aimed for perhaps the most challenging of resolutions for 2016. The recent declaration of the “odd-even rule” by the CM of Delhi, has been greeted with mixed responses. …

Occurrence of The Tragedy The tragedy of the recent Chennai floods, which, mercifully, as of Saturday has begun to abate, is that it could have been avoided (another matter that the city displayed tremendous character in dealing with the crisis, just as social media once again showed us that it …

Death Toll Rising While the nation was busy debating over the subjects far less important, victims of Chennai floods died. 400 are dead so far and the toll is still rising as the rescue teams search the ruins for any survivors. And now that we HAVE survivors, credit can only be …

The Day It All Started A city of 4.3 million people, Chennai faced the wettest November in a century this year. And December 1 probably broke all records with 490 mm rainfall, highest in 100 years resulting in bringing this city to a standstill. Roads flooded, industries shut down, people …

Introduction It is a well-known actuality that the air pollution levels in Delhi are horrendously high—and that such high levels of particulate matter and toxic gases are released by vehicular engines. In fact, the air pollution levels have ranked Delhi as the most polluted city in the world; this consequently …

The rapidly increasing air pollution in Delhi and the increasing number of vehicles have opened the eyes of the Delhi Government to suppress these much worrying problems. The Delhi Government has thus come up with the Odd-Even plan, which aims to restrict the number of vehicles on the road every day. What …

Introduction: The Chennai floods, which have been wreaking havoc since the past one week, do not seem to retreat, as the weather forecast has predicted heavy rains in the coming days. Due to the floods, around 450 people have died, several have been displaced, there have been  huge losses of property …