About the Lecture
Urbanization is a reality of our times. In last 20 years, it has been rather rapid. As a result, the infrastructure to deal with civic issues has seriously lagged, resulting in all kinds of issues - scarcity of potable water, overflowing sewage, mountains of garbage and seriously poor quality of air. All of us must have seen the ad where Sri Amitabh Bachchan says that 13 of the most polluted cities of the world are in India! We must also have heard about the garbage mountains of Delhi competing with Qutub Minar. We must also have heard about world famous lakes of Bengaluru - the lakes that often catch fire - the Bellandur and Varthur lakes. We must also have read that almost 2.5 million people in India died of pollution in 2015 and almost 27% of all the deaths in India are caused by pollution. That NGT, High courts and Supreme court have been pulling up state and central governments on various civic issues is also known to most of us. Our cities indeed are facing serious civic and environmental challenges. Do we have solutions? Doable ones? Fortunately, the answer is - YES. This talk will examine what can be done to deal with these issues in a sustainable way with example from our very own city, Bengaluru.
About the Speaker
K P Singh is a civic, environmental and political activist, living in the city of Bengaluru. He has been active on the issues of Lake protection and rejevenation, rain water management, waste water treatment, solid waste management, traffic and pedestrian mobility issues of Bengaluru, from over 10 years. He has been active participant of his RWA for over 10 years as member of Managing Committee, General Secretary and President. During this period, he had executed several pioneering initiatives in his residential colony, Rainbow Drive to make it a model, sustainable community. Prior to that he spent over 20 years in telecom R&D and internet security related product development and services. These days, he spends his maximum time in supporting the ongoing movement to secure remunerative prices for farmers and to enable them to become debt and suicide free, through a consortium called All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Commitee ( AIKSCC), of which, Swaraj Abhiyan (led by Yogendra Yadav) is a very important constituent.