National Geographic’s SUPERFACTORIES turns lens on Welspun Group’s mega facility

The latest edition of National Geographic’s SUPERFACTORIES is taking viewers into the workings of textile & line pipes industry by giving a behind-the-scenes preview of the sprawling state-of-the-art factory at Welspun Group. Premiering on December 24, 2021 at 8.00 pm, the documentary is bringing to light the inspiring journey of the Group – exploring its offerings and giving a glimpse into the inner workings of the brand. 

The documentary will showcase the company’s operations and how it has managed to establish a large footprint in the country with its mega facility. The 44-minute documentary will celebrate the accomplishments of the Welspun Group and the journey of establishing itself as one of the leading brands in the highly competitive industry in India and abroad. Providing an insight into the manufacturing process at the Welspun factory, the film will also highlight the vision, achievements and challenges of the legacy brand; with the second generation now carving out the future path. 

“Our special programming- SUPERFACTORIES was created with an aim of providing viewers with an unprecedented access to information and help them deepen their understanding of the functioning of high-tech factories. Textile & line pipes are undoubtedly one of the most prominent and largest industries in the country and through the inspiring narrative of Welspun, one of the most established players in the industry, we are giving viewers a peek into their story,” said a National Geographic India spokesperson. 

“Welspun Group has been serving customers and communities from a position of strength for over three decades. We’re grounded in our purpose to lead tomorrow together and create a smarter, more sustainable world. In doing so, we are setting new benchmarks in the industries we represent. So, to have one of the world’s premium informative networks chronicle this journey is a proud and exciting milestone for us,” said Ms. Dipali Goenka, CEO & Jt. MD, Welspun India. 

Echoing similar sentiments, Mr. Vipul Mathur, Managing Director & CEO, Welspun Corp Limited added, “We are elated to partner with National Geographic to capture how we’re building a global energy transportation network and growing beyond national borders. As Welspun moves towards a thriving future in an ever-changing world, this documentary will capture our transformational story.”

Welspun Group is among India’s fastest growing multinationals and has a strong presence in over 50 countries and noteworthy businesses in Home Textiles, Infrastructure, Warehousing, Steel, Retail, Advanced Textiles, Line Pipes, and Flooring Solutions. 

Myntra’s ongoing EORS-15 is also the greenest, going plastic free and reducing dependency on the grid

The 15th edition of Myntra’s flagship EORS, being held from 18th to 23rd December, will be the most environmentally-friendly EORS edition to date, with a slew of environmental friendly initiatives undertaken by Myntra over a period of time. Investments in paper packaging in place of plastic packaging and solar power utilisation, are two broad areas where Myntra has made significant in-roads in its commitment towards building a greener enterprise.

 

Myntra operates 5 Fulfilment Centres (FCs) across India, of which the ones located at Bilaspur in Haryana and Bhiwandi near Mumbai in Maharashtra are solar powered. In addition to this, Myntra has enabled roof-mounted installation for a solar plant at one of its RPCs (returns processing centres) in Mumbai, taking the collective capacity of solar panels to 2.35MWp.

Another important area where Myntra has achieved immense headway in sustainability, is packaging. As of November 2021, Myntra has completely discontinued the use of polythene covers or plastic for outer packaging and replaced it with paper packaging. This has led to reduction in plastic consumption by over 1.4k tonnes in 2021 thus far. Myntra has also replaced plastic tapes with paper tapes, saving another ~115 tonnes of plastic this year and is using recycled carton shreds for inner packaging wherever possible.

 

Myntra’s sustainability journey has been marked by an orchestrated effort to create a positive environmental impact. With the goal of going 100% plastic-free packaging achieved, Myntra is set to leave a profound mark on the industry. One of the other key earlier initiatives by Myntra include, partnering with Canopy, a not-for-profit environmental organization, to ensure that the packaging used does not encourage deforestation, by scaling packaging from recycled and alternative materials. Myntra is also the first fashion e-commerce company in the country to partner with the Better Cotton Initiative, the largest cotton sustainability programme globally that aims to make cotton farming sustainable. In addition, through ‘Myntra For Earth’, a dedicated store offering conscious collection on the Myntra app, the company offers thousands of styles from over 90 brands to provide ethically and consciously made fashion, lifestyle and beauty products to customers looking for eco-friendly choices.

 

The six-day event, scheduled from 18th to 23rd December, is slated to cater to the fashion, beauty and lifestyle needs of over 4 million unique customers across the country, with ~25000 Kirana partners delivering their orders  in recyclable paper packaging, thus making it the greenest EORS thus far.

 

Sharing her excitement for the ongoing greenest EORS, Sharon Pais, Chief Business Officer, Myntra, said, “At Myntra our commitment towards sustainability is entrenched into multiple facets of the organisation, be it sourcing, manufacturing, storefront or delivery.  With     the 15th edition of our flagship EORS underway, we are excited about the fact that we will serve our customers across the country with their orders delivered in plastic-free sustainable packaging. It is also heartening to see how our partners have also joined us in this mission.”

About Myntra

Myntra is India’s leading platform for fashion brands and pioneer in m-commerce play.  An integral part of the Flipkart Group, Myntra brings together technology and fashion to create the best experience in the fashion and lifestyle space in India. The company has partnered with over 5000+ leading fashion and lifestyle brands in the country such as Nike, Adidas, Puma, Levis, Wrangler, Arrow, Jealous 21, Diesel, CAT, Harley Davidson, Ferrari, Timberland, US Polo, FabIndia, Biba, and many more, to offer a wide range in latest branded fashion and lifestyle wear. Myntra services over 27,000 pin codes across the country.

BEE organizes virtual workshop under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) organised a virtual workshop on Technology Transfer for decarbonisation of Industry on December 9, 2021, during “National Energy Conservation Week: 8th–14th December 2021”, marked as Iconic Week under “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”. The opening remarks were given by theDirector General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), followed by the commencement of the workshop in various stages.

DG, BEE said that on the occasion of National Energy Conservation Week, today’s dedication towards decarbonization of industry is very important. There are definitely a lot of challenges, but the efforts put into this and the transformation will not go unnoticed.

The speaker for the outcome of the first consultation meeting on “Green Public Procurement (GPP) for the Decarbonisation of Industry” was the Manager of Partnerships, Clean Energy Ministerial. It was also acknowledged that cement manufacturers should adopt “cleaner, more efficient, greener technologies for cement production.” Participants also identified a few voluntary actions on GPP at the state (sub-national level) and large-scale private sector level.

Head of the Secretariat Leadership Group for Industry Transitions, Stockholm Environment Institute spoke about the best available technology options for decarbonisation of the steel and cement sectors. Member from Climate and Energy Fund, Austria, deliberated on the Net Zero Industry Mission of Mission Innovation and its implications for industry. Sr. Director, TERI highlighted the best available technology options for decarbonisation of the steel and cement sectors.

The breakout groups on Steel and Cement discussed the main barriers to the application of the best available technologies within India; main opportunities for applying the best available technologies within India; role of Green Hydrogen in decarbonisation of cement and steel industry; role of material circularity in energy efficiency in Steel and Cement sectors; incentivizing the private sector to invest in technology innovation that would support the decarbonising of steel and cement industries; and the main gaps constraining investments in new technologies.

The workshop zoomed into specific technology transfer options for the decarbonisation of the steel and cement sectors in India. The workshop also facilitated discussions on the state-of-the-art technologies and know-how, as well as opportunities for deployment within India.

Entrepreneur Naziat Hossen is now a verified Musical Artist

Naziat Hossen is a Bangladeshi musician. He was born on 08 May 2002 in Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Naziat Hossen is a music lover. From an early age he had a strong interest in music and from a young age he dreamed of working with music. To realize his dream of working with music, he started composing music at the age of 19. Since then he has been involved in various beats of music and hip hop modern music Started working.

 

Naziat Hossen released several music on his own initiative. In the meantime, his released “Yap Lap” song is one of his songs. His “Yap Lap” song has gained a lot of popularity in a short time.It is known that Naziat Hossen new music dot dot is going to be released soon.

 

Several of his songs are quite popular which are” Yap Lap, Hossen , Naziat Hossen, Bad Boy “.Through the popularity of this music, he has been recognized as a musical artist from Google . Spotify, one of the world’s leading music platforms, has verified him and recognized him as a musical artist. YouTube has also recognized him as a musical artist by verifying him as an artist on his YouTube channel.Naziat Hossen’s personal information can now be found by searching on Google.Now Naziat Hossen is a verified musical artist.

 

Naziat Hossen is now very popular on social media and various music platforms. His music is now available on Google,Spotify,YouTube,Tiktok,Sound-Cloud.

 

Naziat Hossen is a Bangladesi musical artist And has Verified Pages on various Streaming Platforms like Spotify, Jiosaavn, Amazon Music, AppleMusic, Soundcloud, and many more Platforms.

 

Naziat Hossen is now very popular for his music work.Naziat Hossen will soon get verified in Instagram & Facebook as well.

 

It is also known that a new music “Yap Lap” is going to be released soon.Search Google for more information about Naziat Hossen.

 

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Instagram : @naziathossen

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Increased Urbanization no Solution to Developing Sustainable India of our Dream- Kulpati Prof PB Sharma

The nations around the world are sold on the idea of increased urbanization as a solution to make the wheels of economic development go fast to meet the objective of trillion-dollar economies and to provide modern amenities to a larger proportion of the world population. India is no exception, as is expected to achieve the target of 50% population living in urban towns and megacities by 2050. No wonder as the world cities are regarded as the powerhouse of world economic growth, accounting for 60% of global GDP and hence  form the basis of developing a  prosperous world, as per the UN Habitat World Cities Report 2020. The report also mentions that the world cities occupy 3 percent of earth area but consume 70 percent electricity and account for 80% of total carbon emissions as of today! What more, the rapid urbanization is resulting in a growing number of slum dwellers, inadequate and overburdened infrastructure and great pressure on services such as waste collection and disposal, water and sanitation systems, roads and transport, worsening air pollution and unplanned urban expansion. 

 

Increased urbanisation for development strategy assumes that in the years to come the cities will be greener and sustainable by increased focus on energy efficiency, sustainable technology innovations and smart and intelligent systems to manage urban habitat. Smart and sustainable cities are being projected as a promise for a green and bright future to the global community.

 

 But the advocates of urbanization forget that increased urbanisation after the globalisation and liberalization created megacities and urban townships but also created several problems including exodus from rural areas to cities and metropolis towns. They also created slums. It is alarming to note that In India by 2011 the slum population was 5.41% and by 2017 it increased to 10.4% of India’s population. It is further projected to grow to 18% by 2036. Hence, if the business as usual continues by 2050 when urbanization is expected to grow to 50%, the slum’s population shall account for almost 40 % of population in India, says Prof PB Sharma, Vice Chancellor Amity University Gurugram. 

 

The UN Secretary General in his foreword to the WCR-2020 has said “We cannot go back to business as usual. Cities and communities are demanding that those in authority take the opportunity to build back better. To emerge stronger, we need a sustainable, inclusive and green recovery for people and the planet. That means dealing with the existing challenges of how cities are planned, managed and financed, and ensuring their development is compatible with the goal of net zero emissions by 2050”. The emphasis here is clearly on ensuring a green and sustainable future for the mankind.

 

I must not hesitate to say that the increased urbanization is the decease of the western mind and is not the best way for a country like India to create a green and bright future to either the current or the future generations. A better way for a country like India where 80 percent population is still living in rural areas would be to find better ways of developing a New and Sustainable India of our dream. 

 

A better way would be, to “Go Rural with a High-tech Mind and Scientific Solutions” and build rural areas as  vibrant economic growth centres of new India, creating millions of jobs and usher into an era of mass entrepreneurship, powered by the innovative genius of young India,  said eminent academician  Prof PB Sharma making a strong case for going back to basics of sustainable , happy and developed habitat during his deliberations at the North Zone Vice Chancellors  meet at Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh  organised by Association of Indian Universities, AIU. The VCs meet was to explore the role of the universities and institutions of higher learning in realisation of the SDGs for a nation like India. 

 

Presentations at the VCs conference were made by a galaxy of experts from Indian universities, online education providers, UN-Habitat, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs and School of Planning and Architecture who all deliberated on contribution of HEIs in making Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable to meet the SDGs. 

 

Our major focus in India should be how to create jobs in millions and yet without the exodus of our population from rural to urban areas. The advocates of urbanisation shall argue that it is for the reasons of job creation and to usher rapid economic growth that the urbanisation-based development is needed. What they forget of course that the same jobs could be created in the rural areas had we been able to penetrate rural areas with good quality education, skilling and industrialisation in areas that matter for a sustainable rural development. High-tech aggrotech, Food-tech, info-tech, scientifically developed herbal Pharmaceuticals and whole lot of cottage industries, including in areas of modern technologies like low-cost electronics, and a large number of ancillaries of modern industries can be pushed in rural areas now that skilling and good quality education can make its inroads in rural India. This would not only decongest the cities that are already choking because of population exodus from rural to urbanization. Green energy technologies, water conservation in agriculture and improving the yield as well as quality of agriculture produce would be the positive outcome of go rural with high-tech minds. We spend so much of efforts to educate rural children in the cities and delink them from their native habitat in our urban centric industrialisation thus denying the rural India the benefit of its talented children. A high-tech rural centric development model is needed for a country like India for achieving the goal of sustainable inclusive growth in the coming years.

 

Professor PB Sharma while chairing the session on SDG-12 on Contribution of HEIs in Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns said “As we move deeper into the scientific explorations and mind boggling technology innovations now on, the education in Indian universities should take on board sustainability and sustainable development goals as the guiding principles for accelerating innovations and rolling out startups powered by the inspired minds of young India to make New India a prosperous and happy abode of humanity alongside achieving the goal of inclusive development powered by mass entrepreneurship and sustained focus on creating a green and sustainable future. I would advocate for a strong case for redesigning our education system tuned to sustainability.”

 

Prof Sharma also said that our age old traditions of education for man making was founded on the principle of Janani Janam Bhumascha Swargadapi Gariyashi (develop your motherland as the heaven on earth) despite the fact that education in ancient India has a universal appeal. The mass production led industrial development in India created increased demand for labour, both skilled as well as unskilled and also created huge migration of labour from villages to industrial hubs in large cities and metros. The great economic disparity that India growth story created during 75 years of India’s independence is a matter of grave concern. 42.5% wealth of India is still in the hands of the top 1% of population while the bottom 50% account for mere 2.8% of India’s wealth in 2020 as per a paper by Maitreesh Ghatak of London School of Economics (June 2021). It is also interesting to note that the corresponding figures for 1991 were 16.5% for top 1% and 8.8% for the bottom 50% of the population. Thus, the globalization and liberalization that made Indian economy to grow leaps and bounds also resulted into greater economic disparity due to growth-centric development devoid of equity and inclusiveness. The damage it did for environment and air and water pollution created further tears and distress in the Indian society, said Prof Sharma, who is also the founder Vice Chancellor of DTU and a former Professor of IIT Delhi

National Geographic India's documentary ‘Rays of Change’: AVAADA Energy brings forth the efforts of preparing one of the world's largest solar plants in India

Solar power, today, has become a key to a clean & carbon-free energy future and highlighting the importance of solar energy and ground-breaking engineering to fulfil the needs of people for sustainable solutions, National Geographic in India is launching a new documentary ‘Rays of Change: AVAADA Energy’. The film, which premieres on December 4, 2021, at 8 pm on National Geographic, will give the viewers a glimpse of the efforts to develop one of the world largest single location Solar Plants.

 

The film brilliantly captures the monumental effort involved in making one of the largest solar plants in the world, showcasing different project elements and their synergy. It also touches upon the human aspect by underscoring the influence of the project on human lives in the short and long term. From the plant’s planning, land acquisition, engineering innovations, and tackling the construction challenges of this gigantic project, the film covers every aspect of project execution for viewers to understand and appreciate.

 

“At National Geographic, we endeavour to bring inspirational stories of our nation’s growth and development through insightful and ground-breaking storytelling. The AVAADA Bikaner documentary is yet another attempt to further the knowledge of our viewers and give them a deeper understanding of the marvels around us. It emphasizes the increasing importance of sustainable living as we take viewers on this powerful journey of challenges and a project that is committed to bringing value to the lives of many,” a spokesperson from National Geographic 

 

“We are all aware of the importance of building a sustainable future for the generations to come, and this is a story of our efforts contributing towards it by building one of the World’s largest solar plants. We wanted to tell our story, and the team at National Geographic beautifully weaved in the narrative with their authentic style of storytelling, which will make for a compelling watch for all viewers,” said Vineet Mittal, Chair, AVAADA

 

 National Geographic’s upcoming documentary, ‘Rays of Change: AVAADA Solar’, will premiere on December 4, 2021, at 8.00 pm on National Geographic in India.