Holistic Industrial Ecology

Rihand Township has been laid out in patriotic outlook. All its gates, roads, places etc were either named on behalf freedom fighters or on the name of mountains giving an image of India. In year 2010, I was invited by Malaviya Mision, an NGO as guest lecturer. Dr. Dinesh Dinkar, a Hindi teacher of DAV, Rihand was anchoring. He himself title as Rashtrakavi. Metaphorically he described Rihand Township as if it is a small Bharat with prosperity and luxury. In my speech, I radically attacked on his idea and suggested to include people living outside the Rihand Township Boundary to complete the picture of India with inclusion grim poverty. At that time I suggested there is need of an holistic industrial ecology where labourers and people living just out side the boundary should have opportunity to come along with managerial class of the Industry. In stead of maintaining a gradient by raising boundary (whose height depends upon on the level of economic inequality existing between outside and inside the boundary), there should be a well-carved out CSR plan for developing a continuous slope of this inequality. Children of Managers and Majdoor should be given equal opportunity as well as equal platform for moving ahead in the life. 

After year long effort of Navodaya Mission and continuous advocacy for this cause, finally the time has come when children of managers and majdoors shared the same dias, performed programs together and have a photo click together. Some bright children of labourers were also given chance to study in campous school free of cost and admission of a few more students are consideration. This is really a moment of rejoice for acceptance of this idea.