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How Famous Social Workers in India Are Shaping the Nation’s Future

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Women Empowerment in India Role and Types

Empowerment of women is the desperate need for the hour. Women’s equality is a universal phenomenon but in the country of India, women are not treated equally in society. while men enjoy many privileges. on the other hand, women are restricted in many fields of life like education, jobs, and basic human rights are too not offered. In the modern year of 2022, India is far far behind in women empowerment compared to many developing countries like America and UK.

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Braja Kishore Pradhan rose from humble beginnings to a successful career as a corporate philanthropist. During his formative years, his family was not poor, but they did not have too much money either. He witnessed from close quarters the day-to-day struggle of underprivileged communities within the vicinity of his house. He was moved by their plight and wanted to help them.

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Braja Kishor Pradhan (born 1987) is always inclined towards society. He is an Indian business tycoon, a serial entrepreneur, social worker, investor and Philanthropist. With just over a decade into entrepreneurship, today his businesses range from software development, recruitment, hospitality and more. He also works in community and contributes towards society for social cause.

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A global virus has reoriented our shared beliefs; let it not break the human spirit braja Kishore pradhan founder of Aahwahan takes an initiative take a look:

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“Health on Wheels”

Aahwahan Foundation has announced its healthcare initiative -“Health on Wheels”, a mobile van hospital service that made healthcare available to the region that has less or no access to such kind of healthcare facilities.

Be it the slums of Karnataka or rural areas, the foundation has reached and aided thousands of people. Within this program, a van with medical kits & professional doctors travels to different rural regions to help people who are unable to afford fees for private hospitals.

This programme helps villagers to understand the significance of personal hygiene & sanitation. Also creating awareness among the women of the rural section about pre & post-pregnancy healthcare. The NGO has successfully assisted in 33 delivery cases during Covid.

Powered by Infinera CSR India, an established operator in transport networking, Aahwahan Foundation was able to launch the “Health on Wheels” campaign to provide free medical facilities to rural India. The team of Infinera CSR has offered support and assistance to Foundation’s various projects like School development, and Food for hunger. It has and always sought out strategies that could contribute to uplift the society.

Braja Kishore Pradhan, founder, Aahwahan Foundation commented that “With the cooperation of Infinera CSR India, we are delivering a free door-to-door medical service across India. Currently, we have seven operational mobile hospital vans facilitated with all necessary healthcare & medical equipment. The van provides professional medical treatment, consulting, tests including blood tests, ECG, etc. & medicines. Each mobile hospital van caters to the needs of around 4,000 slum people every month.”

At Aahwahan Foundation, we believe in being a part of every social cause and reach out to the weaker sections of society. The people who want quick access to medical facilities can avail of the toll-free number (1800-201-2314). “Health on Wheels” is a blessing in disguise to rural India.

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Odisha MLA Locked Up At His Office, Car Set Ablaze  Talcher: Some miscreants targeted ruling-party MLA Braja Kishore Pradhan by setting his car parked at his camp office in Nandira village under Bikrampur Police limits in Talcher late on Saturday night.

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An EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BRAJA KISHORE PRADHAN, Founder - CEO of AAHWAHAN FOUNDATION

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Miscreants lock up Odisha MLA in room, torch his vehicle

Miscreants lock up Odisha MLA in room, torch his vehicle

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Braja Kishore Pradhan’s SUV, bike were similarly targeted in August

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Odisha woman, claiming to be MLA's wife, attempts suicide before CM Naveen's residence

Bhubaneswar: The police on Thursday rescued a woman who claimed to be a ruling BJD MLA’s wife and attempted to commit suicide in front of the residence of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here.

The woman claiming to be wife of BJD’s Talcher MLA Braja Kishore Pradhan slashed her wrist using a blade after failing to meet the chief minister, who was at the state secretariat when the incident took place.

The woman who was sent to hospital alleged that she has been denied justice after being harassed by the MLA.

Seeking redressal of her grievance, the woman said she came to meet the chief minister at his residence Naveen Niwas.

The woman claimed that the Talcher legislator married her three years ago.

On May 17, she had entered the MLA’s quarters at Unit-IV in MLA Colony here by scaling the locked gate, officials said.

Prior to this, she had also staged a dharna in front of the legislator’s house at his native village of Handidhua in Angul district on May 9.

The woman alleged that she had terminated her pregnancy twice on the insistence of the MLA. She had lodged a complaint against Pradhan at the Mahila police station and had drawn attention of the National Commission for Women (NCW).

Pradhan, on the other hand, has been rejecting her allegation. The woman has been detained by police.

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Braja Kishore Pradhan rose from humble beginnings to a successful career as a corporate philanthropist. During his formative years, his family was not poor, but they did not have too much money either. I have always been inspired by the commitment of philanthropic groups to social progress. When I was young, my family would often spend summer vacations at my uncle’s house. I witnessed from close quarters the day-to-day struggle of underprivileged communities within the vicinity of his house. I was moved by their plight and wanted to help them. I used to make small savings from my pocket money and buy chocolates/biscuits for the slum children. When I used to hand them the goodies, they would just stand still, speechless, but the expression on their face said it all.

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“Aawahan Foundation’s” CEO Mr. Braja Kishore Pradhan is a gentleman who created this best NGO “Aawahan foundation” He has completed his PGDM, PGDIT, and DSLM from the Indian Institute of Logistics. He also accomplished EPDM from XLRI. Braja Kishore Pradhan says he is the ‘voice of the voiceless’ this clearly states that he is an enthusiastic social worker. Though being highly educated he believes in working for the needy. He always is ahead of others in terms of help. He is a multi-business owner and a philanthropist. Senior Marketing Manager, Marketing Manager at Logicshore IT Consulting Pvt Ltd. an investor and a social work mentor. Mr. Braja Kishore Pradhan is a winner of more than 120awards in his field of excellence.

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Braja Kishore Pradhan, the #founder of #Aahwahan and the man behind the success of Aahwahan is one of the most renowned and successful philanthropist.

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Plastic Masks, PPE, Biomedical Waste Choke Water Bodies In India

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Plastic Masks, PPE, Biomedical Waste Choke Water Bodies In India

On September 16, when Subhash Chandran, a scuba diver, along with four others, went for their first underwater clean-up post the lockdown at Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam, they found floating in the seabed N-95, surgical and cloth masks and other biomedical waste. The divers removed over 1500 kg of waste over three rounds till September 27.

The Rushikonda beach was recommended by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for the coveted ‘Blue Flag’ certification on September 19, the International Coastal Cleanup day. The eco-label is given to the cleanest beaches in the world meeting stringent environmental and safety criteria. Over the years, there has been a 70 percent decline in marine species with many figuring as endangered species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. The single-use plastic protective gears are a new threat to aquatic lives.

Chandran, the founder of the scuba diving centre Platypus Escapes, had removed 17,000 kg of wet plastic over 57 days in November, last year. “It is an ocean of plastic and biomedical waste, flowing through open drainage systems from hospitals and litter on the beach,” he said.

According to the World Health Organization, every month the world needs 89 million plastic medical masks and 1.6 million protective goggles, which are made of polypropylene and may take even 500 years to degrade in the ocean.

While flamingos flocked to a locked-down Mumbai and a nilgai was reported to have walked on an empty road in Uttar Pradesh, the jubilation over nature having an edge over mankind stops short right there. “In our Mumbai’s Juhu beach clean-up drives during May-August, we found 10,000 masks, 1050 gloves and PPE kits discarded along the coastline,” claimed Braja Kishore Pradhan, founder, Aahwahan Foundation.

Chennai’s lakes polluted with medical waste

The National Green Tribunal had taken suo moto cognizance of indiscriminate dumping of biomedical waste in water bodies in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, earlier this year. “On July 6, panic-stricken fishermen from the Thiruchinakuppam road in Tiruvottiyur, Chennai found masks, syringes, blood bags and testing equipment dumped along the seacoast. Biomedical waste has also been traced in the Anakaputhur and Manivakkam lakes (in Chennai). The waterbodies in Vandalur, Otteri Nalla, Porur, Maduravoyal, Muttukadu and Puzhal had always been dumping grounds for medical supplies. Before Covid-19, a government hospital bed would generate around half a kg of biomedical waste per day which has now gone up to 3-5 kg (per day). Though the city leads the biomedical waste generation in the state, the handling capacity is only 25 percent,” said Prabhakaran, an environmental engineer at Poovulagin Nanbargal, an environmental group.

Ezhilan Nanganathan, a consultant physician said that while medicos take appropriate precautions in managing waste from Covid-19 wards, it is the biomedical waste generated from infected persons under home care that needs utmost focus.

A senior official from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) stated that reckless dumping along water bodies by clinics, smaller hospitals and pharmacies has escalated in the last seven months.

“We have identified two pharmaceutical companies among the violators. We cannot operate CCTVs everywhere as illegal dumping happens at odd hours in isolated, open spaces and waterbodies. TNPCB officials are working round-the-clock with manpower crunch as most districts have a single officer with just two engineer subordinates to assist. Monitoring and penalising offenders can only help to a degree. Inculcating responsibility and accountability among the public and stakeholders is more important,” said the official.

Poovulagin Nanbargal had sent its recommendations to the Tamil Nadu government demanding that at least one Common Bio-Medical Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility (CBWTF) be set up per district. They stated that nearly 47 tonnes of medical waste is produced every day in the state but there were only 11 facilities that could handle a maximum of 34 tonnes of waste as per pre-pandemic figures.

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Tamil Nadu had generated 401.29 tons of biomedical waste in August and engaged only eight CBWTFs. N. Mahesan, Chief Engineer, Solid Waste Management, Chennai Corporation was unavailable for comment.

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“We need to constitute a separate collection and disposal system for masks and gloves at source, without leakages. States like Goa and Kerala had a relatively better segregation system in place even before the pandemic and added just another vertical. The strengthening of Panchayati Raj institution, effective communication till the grassroots, decentralisation of responsibilities and funding are crucial. Small and medium enterprises must be incentivised and more emphasis laid on local initiatives. Around 70 percent of marine litter is a result of mismanagement on land,” said Swati Singh Sambyal, an independent waste management expert.

“Biomedical waste disposal is not lucrative enough for hospitals since they have to pay recyclers and therefore, some of them go for illegal dumping,” noted Anil Choudhary from the Green Waves Environmental Solutions, Telangana. A senior official from the CPCB said that it is upon the state pollution boards to keep the violators in check.

“The waste that we see ashore is only the tip of the iceberg as ocean beds end up taking the brunt. We removed 1000 kg of plastic in Kodi beach in a four-week cleanup drive since July. There weren’t many masks as villagers prefer cloth over single-use masks,” said Bharath Bangera, a Clean Kundapura Project volunteer, Udupi district, Karnataka.

Covid-19 has also backfired the significant wins over plastic waste. “The quarantine centres in Trivandrum have switched from stainless steel utensils to plastic cups and plates. No one is disputing the importance of keeping frontliners well-protected but it is time to go beyond single-use plastic safeguards and come up with environment-friendly and sustainable alternatives. Reusable masks, gloves and frequent handwash should become the norm. PPEs can be sterilised, washed, reused later to be shredded and recycled,” said Shibu Nair, India Coordinator, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives- Asia Pacific.

Marine litter

It is estimated that Asian rivers are responsible for 86 percent of the total global plastic emission to the ocean. An ongoing UNEP project started out last year studying plastic litter entering the Ganga river and as a second phase it will survey the types of single-use plastics that had increased due to Covid-19.

“The CounterMEASURE project aims to find how plastic waste enters river Ganga and the types of single-use plastics that had increased due to Covid-19,” said Atul Bagai,who heads the United Nations Environment Programme’s India office. The United Nations has designated 2021-2030 as the ‘Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development’.

“We have seen plastic debris in microscopic planktons, which form the basis of marine food chain but the quantum of plastic that has made it to the system of larger predatory fish like sharks, tuna and snappers is unknown,” said Naveen Namboothri, a marine biologist. Abandoned fishing nets are also deadly for marine lives and they constitute the majority of plastic pollution in oceans, last year’s report by Greenpeace had stated.

“Right now I am treating four turtles, which were entangled in nets and had their limbs amputated due to the strangulation. A large piece of plastic was found in one of them too. Consuming plastic can injure their internal organs and unable to feed, they die in pain and starvation. Lockdown or not, we continue to have dolphins and turtles, landing dead ashore. Oil spill is also another concern,” said Dr. Shantanu Kalambi, a veterinarian with the Reef Watch Marine Conservation Centre in Kundapur.

India joined the United Nations Environment’s ‘Clean Seas Campaign’ in 2018. The first step towards the goal was to frame a National Marine Litter Policy by studying marine pollution on the country’s 7,500 km coastline. “The work on formulating the policy got stalled due to lockdown. Marine litter is threatening to change the entire ecosystem as once debris enter the sea, we lack resources to clean-up. Plastic and biomedical waste littered near river mouths, get washed down the waterways and end up in ocean beds during monsoons. While it is dangerous for aquatic lives, it also makes marine food unsafe as once microplastics enter the human chain, they could be carcinogenic in the long-term. There have been sporadic developments in Chennai and Pondicherry on filtering plastics in the estuaries just before they enter the sea but marine litter issues can be tackled only through a collective discourse by all states along the coastline. Unless there are proactive measures to ensure awareness and nil littering by people, the high-budget river cleaning projects will only be a temporary solution,” said MV Ramana Murthy, Director, National Centre for Coastal Research.

According to M Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, there is a need to conduct studies on PPE and mask litter. “Research has been initiated to find the effects of the pandemic on marine ecosystem. The way forward is to estimate the source and also investigate how marine litter is reaching the ocean. There should also be policies to control at source by augmenting biomedical waste treatment facilities and improving the collection system to meet the increased load of marine litter,” he said.

India’s discourse is dominated by terrestrial issues, with a bare understanding of coasts. “Oceans make up three-fourths of the earth’s surface, produce 50 percent of the oxygen we need to survive and are a large carbon sink. Protection of the marine ecosystem has to begin by addressing the concerns of coastal communities, developing marine tourism guidelines, funding research on marine species, restoring beach habitats and stopping port expansions handling hazardous cargo in biodiversity-rich areas, home to key marine species such as cetaceans, sea turtles, corals etc.,” said Puja Mitra, founder, Terra Conscious, Goa.

This was first published on Mongabay-India.

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What is the Significance of a Social Activist in India?