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Economists have tried to influence governments to include environmental and social concerns into development policy. However, there is a wide gap between what is being done, and what needs to be done. Every nation is struggling to operationalise the Sustainable Development Goals within their economy, and India already has policies and measures in place. However, the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ has not significantly narrowed.
Different regions of India have diverse infrastructural requirements. To cater to these demands, amongst other things, India needs to raise its tax collection and this mandates economic growth. However, the country needs to shift from conventional economic growth to a growth relatively decoupled from consumption of natural resources and environmental degradation. Such growth needs to be equitable, inclusive and sustainable.
The challenge for India is more complex than the Global North, primarily because of the phenomenal diversity in cultures, economic opportunities, and natural resource endowments. While diversity is necessary for resilience, it needs local solutions in the path of sustainability.
Against this backdrop Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune has set up the Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD).
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Gurudas has a Ph.D in industrial sustainability and environmental management. He has been the ‘Endeavour Fellow’ of the Government of Australia, where he studied sustainability initiatives within small and medium industries, and city councils. He was also the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
Gurudas is the recipient of the 22nd Dewang Mehta Award for Best professor of management.
He is the author of five books, of which two are in English and three in Marathi. His Marathi book ‘अनर्थशस्त्र’received the Government of Maharashtra “C.D.Deshmukh Award in Economic Literature”.
Gurudas has been an expert on several committees and panels, including UN-ESCAP program, government of Maharashtra, and Pune Divisional Commissioner’s office. He contributed to the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority Draft Plan as an ecological expert.
He is a member of Pune International Centre, Energy, Environment and Climate Change; member of Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.
Gurudas has completed several projects funded by organisations such as World Resources Institute, Global Forest Watch, Centre for Environmental Education, UNICEF, and others.
Aditi has a Post-graduate degree in Mathematics and has completed post-graduate diploma in Sustainable Resource Management and Nature Conservation from Ecological Society.
She is a co-founder of Jeevitnadi -Living River Foundation working with the objective of river revival through people participation.
In 2016, she created the forum Brown Leaf with the vision – ‘Not a single dry leaf should be burnt in India’.
She writes kids fiction. Her books encourage curiosity in the often-neglected subjects like History, Geography and Ecology. She has authored four books and several stories.
The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, was established in 1930 by the Servants of India Society. It is the oldest research and training institute in Economics in the country. It is dedicated to research into the socio-economic dimensions of Indian society and carries forward the legacy of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Gokhale was the one who founded the Servants of India Society in 1905. His rationale was to promote education, and develop capabilities among Indians to govern a newly independent nation. Over the decades, the Institute has established strong credentials in empirical and analytical research. The Institute is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. In recognition of its contribution to higher learning and research in Economics, the Institute was awarded the status of institution Deemed to be a University, in 1993.
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government customers ServiceNow moves workloads to Microsoft Azure for highly regulated industries
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government customers ServiceNow moves workloads to Microsoft Azure for highly regulated industries
City Chakra Mission, a project by Centre for Sustainable Development, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics is launched with this very objective.