Clean India Mission and Common Indian

Clean India Mission and Common Indian

Clean and healthy surroundings have been one of the foremost identities of a human being. Cleanness is the strong base for a healthy, luxury and comfort living. In this regard, India has been poorer compared to several other countries in the world. Indeed, it is a motivating initiative by the current prime minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi for a clean India mission to pay a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our Nation. Mahatma Gandhi had been a great lover of cleanness. He had noticed a clean society will attract global attention and will boost the overall development.

The clean India mission has been widely witnessed by renowned politicians, television stars, industrialists, cricketers, and several other eminent personalities. This mission has been taking place several heading in both print and electronic media. We have been seeing many iconic people with cleaning and witnessing the mission.  Even if, it is motivating but very less enthusiasm is being seen within the common people of India. The reality is that the very first effort by a common person is not getting recognition or praise from his/her villagers or society. Thus, before building up, enthusiasm is dying. It is sad to say that we need recognition or appraisal for cleaning our own surroundings!

Our mindset has become so narrow that to carry out works either we need immediate results or motivation and/or praise from outside. Many of us lack self-motivation for work.  Incidentally, it is suggestive to buildup the enthusiasm for clean India mission within every common people by recognizing and/or praising their effort at even if at the lowest possible level. For example, every week each village panchayat can recognize each contributor & contributions and list them with photographs for public viewing in their respective offices. This will create an open healthy enthusiasm within the common people towards making clean villages or societies.
Likewise, the same protocol can be implemented to encourage urban people to develop clean cities. In another way, there could be some healthy competition to recognize the cleanest schools, offices, shops, or roads by the respective unions. This mission clean India has to be executed within by every common people, groups, and society. It needs to be in our body, mind, and soul. Needless to say, it is the moral responsibility to be in clean surroundings and it is also true, the success of the dream of a clean India cannot be achieved without the involvement of common people. We need to be aware, encouraged, and enthusiastic to make this mission successful. Nothing is more prestigious than an appreciation word for the cleanness.

Prabodha Kumar Meher with Prof. Serge Haroche, Nobel Laurate, Physics, 2012

It was a motivating time listening to a talk of Nobel Laureates.  After that meeting  and sharing words is really memorable. Here is A snap with Prof. Serge Haroche (2012 Nobel Laurate in Physics) during 6th Science Conclave 8-14 Dec., 2013 at IIIT Allahabad, U.P., India

Prabodha with Prof. Serge Haroche 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Prabodha K. Meher with Nobel Laureate  Prof. Serge Haroche 


Prabodha Kumar Meher with Prof. Harold Walter Kroto, 1996 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

It was really a nice memorable moment, meeting Prof. Harold Walter Kroto, 1996 nobel prize winner during the 6th Science Conclave December 8-14, 2013 at IIIT, Allahabad, U.P., India. Glad to listen him motivating talk. 

Mr. Meher with Nobel Laureate Prof. Harold Kroto
Mr. Prabodha Kumar Meher with 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Prof. Harold Kroto 

Nanopesticides: A New Hope by Prabodha Kumar Meher

Pesticides are being used in agriculture to control pests for better yield and production. Conventional chemical pesticides are toxic and a threat to environmental health. To get maximum yield without affecting the environment newer approaches are being implemented. One of them is Biopesticides available on market but it is not widely used as it has some drawback. And in the meantime, Nanopesticides are being under develop utilizing nanotechnology, which can be a better option for pest control and better agriculture.


Introduction
Generally, pest refers to insects that destroy plants, food, etc. Pesticides have been widely using to get rid of these insects in agriculture. The pesticides are nothing but the chemicals or compounds used for killing pests, especially the harmful insects and microbes. Pesticides have provided a major contribution to agricultural development i.e. the “Green Revolution”. But conventional pesticides have high toxicity, non-biodegradability, and non-specificity; which can be resulted in a potential threat to our environment and human health as well. At the end of the day, we need a better environment and efficient agricultural yield. So to make this happen some new approaches have been emerged i.e. biopesticides, using other biological organisms and the nano pesticides, utilizing nanotechnology.
Biopesticides are biological in origin having little threat to the human or environment. It generally includes microbial pesticides, plant-incorporated protectants, and biochemical pesticides. The benefits of biopesticides are considerable, concerning human health and the environment. For instance, some of them are less toxic to get pest immunized. Biopesticides are quickly biodegradable so frequent reapplication may be required. Moreover, these are highly specific and environment friendly as the immediate effect is hardly seen in the field. But still, it was not accepted widely due to its drawbacks.

Understanding Nanopesticides
Nanopesticides utilize and explore the scope of Nanotechnology, which emphasizes the concept of particle size reduction and its properties. When the particle size comes to nano form (1nm to 100nm) the property and behavior of matter changes due to quantum size effect. For example when the particle of an element becomes very small (nanometer) in size, physically it facilitates more surface area to volume ratio leading to the changes in the physical like mechanical properties, electrical properties, and optical properties, etc. For instance, the increase in surface to volume ratio of some element could change the mechanical thermal and catalytic properties of that element. By applying these special characteristics Nanopesticide is developing. Nanoencapsulation of the pesticide is being done to minimize the doses and to get maximum effect with more target-oriented action of the pesticides. Here the pesticide or the chemical compound is encapsulated inside on an artificially synthesized nano matrix.

How it works
In the nanoencapsulation, nano-matrix coat is synthesized artificially in such a way that it facilitates the release of the pesticide only in the targeted environment like in specific pH condition, specific temperature, or in the presence of specific compounds. For example, the pesticide will release in the intestine, as the synthesized nano matrix will be dissolved in the environmental condition of the intestine of that specific insects, and will kill the targeted insects only. Nanopesticides for specific insects can be made using different nanomaterials. This reduces the doses as compared to the traditional pesticide where large doses of pesticides are sprayed. Thus it controls the release of toxic substances to the environment causing no harm to other beneficial organisms. Some encapsulation is done in such a way that it gets absorbed in the surface of the plant and facilitates prolong release which lasts for a longer time compared to conventional pesticides which washed away in the rain. Ultimately nano pesticides provide control over the frequent use of chemical pesticides.

Nanopesticides assure to provide a better solution to current problems with chemical pesticides. But the environmental impact of the nano pesticides made from nanoencapsulation needs to be deeply evaluated. We must keep in mind that “Technology-Yes, but Safety-Must” prior to implementing new innovations.

A Candle in the Wind – Prabodha Kumar Meher

I recovered this poem from my old mail box that I had sent to my elder brother. I had written this for the College Magazine, during my early graduation days at MITS, Rayagada, Odisha. That time I was struggling but my mind and heart were motivated. 🙂

Though I am posting it today Wednesday, 12th March, 2014. It deserve its original time. So, I am scheduling it to there.  I am not a poet but that time  tried hard to write it. And I can remember I was loving it.  🙂 

I hope “This Candle in Wind” will make you laugh, make you understand a struggling situation, give you strength to bear out odds… Here I reproduce it below exactly what I had written; I know lots of mistake but it was me that time 😀 . 

“A CANDLE IN  THE WIND”
 
 
 
THERE IS A CANDLE IN THE WIND
WHICH TRIES TO GLAZE AGAINST DARK,
TO DO SOMETHING FOR HUMANKIND.
 
THERE IS A CANDLE IN THE WIND,
IT KNOWS HERE IS LOTS OF OBSTACLE,
BUT IT HAS TO CROSS EVERYTHING.
 
THERE IS A CANDLE IN THE WIND
EVERYTHING TRIES TO SUPPRESS HIM
AGAIN, IT BURNS TO OVER COME  THE WIND.
 
THERE IS A CANDLE IN THE WIND,
WITH LOTS OF HOPE AND DREAM…
STRUGGLING FOR A WIN….
“THERE IS A CANDLE IN THE WIND”

Thanks for reading 🙂