Centre for the Study of Social Systems
School of Social Sciences
SEMINAR NOTICE
Topic: Class, Caste, and Gender Relations: Female Workers in Kerala 1930 - 2010
Speaker: Dr. Anna Lindberg
Director, SASNET—Swedish South Asian Studies Network
Lund University
Date & Time: 23rd February 2012 (Thursday), 11.30 a.m.
Venue: CSSS Committee Room
All are cordially invited
CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC STUDIES AND PLANNING
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
SEMINAR NOTICE
SPEAKER: Prof. Nobuhara Yokokawa
TOPIC: Dynamic Comparative Advantage and Evolution of Capitalist World System
DATE: Thursday, February 23, 2012
TIME: 4.30 P.M.
VENUE: Room No. 341, SSS-II
Centre for Studies in Science Policy
SEMINAR SERIES
End-of-life Automobiles and the Challenge of Recycling in India
by
Captain N.S.Mohan Ram
[VSM, Indian Navy (retired), Advisor, TVS Motor Company Limited].
India’s vehicle population has increased exponentially over the last two decades. The government has yet to formulate policies, systems and regulations to deal with end-of-life automobiles. Currently, scrapped vehicles are cut and sold by low-tech units resulting in low recoveries and environmental pollution. They employ child labor and use unhygienic practices presenting serious ecological hazards. By 2020, with proper recycling procedures, we can recover annually over 15,00,000 tons of steel scrap, 180000 tons of Aluminum and 75000 tons each of recoverable plastic and rubber. We have to dispose over 25000 tons of residues in landfills. This figure will increase by about ten percent every year in line with the increase in vehicle population.
Capt Mohan Ram is a pioneering engineer, who has awarded the Vishist Seva Medal (1977) for designing India’s first indigenous frigate - INS Godavari. He was also the President and then Director of the TVS motor company and was crucial for turning it around in 1991-93.
Venue: Room no. 227, SSS(I)
Time: 4.00 pm Date: Thursday, February 23rd , 2012
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