Green India Rural & Urban
The world's worst recorded food disaster happened in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine, an estimated four million people died of hunger that year alone in eastern India (that included today's Bangladesh). The initial theory put forward to 'explain' that catastrophe was that there as an acute shortfall in food production in the area. However, Indian economist AmartyaSen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the problem, a more potent factor was the result of hysteria related to World War II which made food supply a low priority for the British rulers. The hysteria was further exploited by Indian traders who hoarded food in order to sell at higher prices.
Nevertheless, when the British left India four years later in 1947, India continued to be haunted by memories of the Bengal Famine. It was therefore natural that food security was a paramount item on free India's agenda. This awareness led, on one hand, to the Green Revolution in India and, on the other, legislative measures to ensure that businessmen would never again be able to hoard food for reasons of profit.
However, the term "Green Revolution" is applied to the period from 1967 to 1978. Between 1947 and 1967, efforts at achieving food self-sufficiency were not entirely successful. Efforts until 1967 largely concentrated on expanding the farming areas. But starvation deaths were still being reported in the newspapers. In a perfect case of Malthusian economics, population was growing at a much faster rate than food production. This called for drastic action to increase yield. The action came in the form of the Green Revolution.
The term "Green Revolution" is a general one that is applied to successful agricultural experiments in many Third World countries. It is NOT specific to India. But it was most successful in India.
The prestigious program to keep our nation neat and clean has induced our enthusiasm too. We have taken up many cleaning projects at various government hospitals and other public places in and around public. Apart from this, we are conducting regular Seminars and campaigns to create awareness among the people to keep the premises neat and clean. We also extend limited financial support to construct toilets in public places. We also create among the rural and urban population about hygienic way of life.
We are concentrating more on rural villages for conducting awareness camps. We have designed the programs to cover the issue of cleanliness comprehensively. When we stress the importance to keep the surrounding neat and clean, we highlight the issue of nature perseverance too. Similarly, we create awareness about the evil effects of alcohol, tobacco etc to help the rural population to lead a healthy life.