Culture

A daylong Conference on "FUTURE ENERGY" was held on 1st November’17 in the auditorium of Vivekananda Kendra Institute Culture (VKIC), Uzan Bazar; The Vivekananda Kendra Skill Development Group, one of the Pillars of Kendra, organized this Conference on this theme of Global & National importance, 

Vivekananda Kendra NARDEP is working in the field of development and conservation of Natural resources since last 1986.

T.N. Khoshoo in his unique book “Mahatma Gandhi – An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology” writes “Gandhiji’s entire life and work is an environmental legacy for all humanity. This was not because he wrote a big treatise on the environment, or led a movement to stall a dam or any industry, or clean a river, or whatever. This was because he was a practitioner of sustainable development in the real sense of the word. Here then was a Man who was in harmony and peace with the environment and with himself”. In this issue we have given a few famous quotes of Mahatma Gandhi.

E.F.Schumacher was a German statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. His book “Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered” was ranked by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books published since World War II. In this issue we have given a few of his quotable quotes.

Collector S. Natarajan has launched a mass cleaning exercise to make Rameswaram island clean and an ideal destination for spiritual tourism.

Hon.Prime Minister Shri.Narendra Modi released the Synopsis of the "Green Resilient Rameswaram" on 27th of July in a public function. The release of the document is another milestone in the march towards our objective. 

Please click here for the report of the function and two audio visual clips.