Sustainable ModelsSachin Sebastian – 122

Shamin Babu - 135Shanmuga Sundaram - 136

Introduction

• Growth and Development• Requirements• Systems Analysis• Minimize resource depletion , environmental damage and

social instability• Concerns for protecting environment, avoiding depletion of

non-renewable resources and equity

Sustainable development affects Community

• ESG principles• Commercial businesses are attracted to market

opportunities, provide incentives for individuals, families and businesses to grow roots in the community

• Environment , Housing & Place• Health & Social Care• Tackling Poverty

• Children, Young People & Education• Enterprise & Skill• Access & Transport• Community Safety• Efficient & Effective Service• Communities through ESG design-Promotes better quality of life with

economic, social and physical health

Eco City Project

Electricity Access for Poverty Reduction

Nutri-gardens to address rural malnutrition

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established in 1974independent, not-for-profit, research institute focused on energy, environment and sustainable developmentEfficient utilization of energy and sustainable use of natural resources would propel the process of development.R K Pachauri – awarded Nobel peace prize in 2007

Vision Creating Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Future

Eco-City Project

Integrated Urban planning and management programmes addressing social and ecological health of the city.

 

TERI NMMC

ECO - City

Residential Industrial Government

Phase 1• Estimating city level carbon emission of Navi Mumbai• Preparing a comprehensive action plan for

implementing the Project

Phase 2• Implementation of the action plan developed in Phase • Implemented as PPP model (Public – Private

Partnership)

Outcome & Impact• 2.8 million tones of CO2 emission • Per capita emission is 2.51 metric tone CO2• Installation of bio methanation plant at various parts of

the city

Electricity Access for Poverty Reduction

1• What level of electricity access is required to enable

and sustain poverty escape?

2• What constraints, despite

increased access to electricity, mean that

people are not able to use that electricity productively

and how can they be removed?

Indian casesRajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana

Remote Village Electrification Programme

Village Energy Security Programme

Lessons learned and best practice• Delivery Models• Designing for productive uses• Technologies• Addressing unreliability of

supply

• The programme was launched on 15 August 2007 in Champaran district of Bihar.

• Six plants based on the technology of Biomass Gasification were in operation by the year 2009

• Husk is procured at very low cost for conversion to electricity

Energy deliver

y model

Burning of biomass in a restricted supply of air.Overhead supply line

Prgm Scale and

Costs

Installed 84 mini power

plantsElectricity to

over 200,000 people spread

across 300 villages

Impacts

More employment & income opportunities to farmers and entrepreneursAdditional income for women

Husk Power

Systems Madhubani Bihar

Scaling the franchise

model

Subsidy & longer

administrative process

Uncertainty

• creates a self-sustaining ecosystem in the villages it serves

• A business of rural electrification that transcends the conventional ideas around delivery of

electrical energy to massesHusk Power

Systems Madhubani Bihar

Key Lessons of the programme

Lighting a Billion Lives Thakurmunda Orissa

Energy deliver

y model

entrepreneur-based modelproviding solar lanterns through micro solar enterprises

Prgm Scale and

Costs

reached 2,549 villages

34 Technical Partners, 114

Partner Organizations

and 131 energy enterprises

Impacts

More employment & income opportunities to farmers and entrepreneursAdditional income for women

Fee for service model &loan finance model

Each solar lantern in its life of 10 years replaces about 500-600 ltr of kerosene, mitigating about 1.5 tones of CO2.

Nutri-gardensObjectives

Develop sustainable and practical strategies to address malnourishment amongst tribal children and womenImplement a pilot project in collaboration with the Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre of the Government of Maharashtra with the identified SAM

Results and Outcomes

The programme outreach was to the extent of 900 children from 42 villages

Around 80 families have started cultivating nutria-varieties for domestic consumption which include spinach, sweet potato, other green leafy vegetables, and so onParents, doctors, and Aanganwadi workers who closely interact and influence the dietary patterns of these children actively participated in the programme

Overview

Drishtee has strong presence in 3 states of India namely, Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

caters to a minimum of 20 – 25 villagesDrishtee is building a rural distribution network

providing an effective channel for enterprises to sell products and services

Number of ‘milkman routes’ in a given district

• Computer Education

• English Courses• Rural BPO • Government

Services • Health• Insurance • E-commerce• Microfinance 

Strategic Framework

• The support and ownership of their local communities

Community

• Relevant capacity that can be harnessed or opportunities to develop capacity

Capacity• Capital or Credit

to finance their enterprises

Credit or Capital

• Access & Market linkages to critical services & products

Channels

Strengths

Enterprise Development• create appropriate institutional framework to

support entrepreneurial development

Enabling Access• Drishtee provides access to critical products

and services to the rural population• products and services include, Education,

Health, Finance, Retail products, Agricultural and non-agricultural products.

Women EmpowermentUnequal access to economic opportunities

Reviving Rural Economy• innovative business model• Financial support for individual entrepreneurs

Strategic Solutions : Supply Chain

Challenges1• No active marketing or distribution• Accessibility• Intermediaries 

Opportunity2• Huge market in rural India

• Increased outlay for rural development• National Rural Employment Guarantee

Scheme 

Value Proposition1• First mover advantage• Unique distribution model

Current & Future Network2

• Existing network of over 3,000 RRPs• Largest organized rural distribution

Strategic Solutions

Education & Livelihood

• To substantially expand its basic computer and spoken English courses.

• To introduce new courses which enable the students to find employment opportunities within the village

• Rural outsourcing center (BPO)

Products Distribution

• Drishtee Rural Retail Points • saves the opportunity cost involved in the form of wage loss,

business hours, time and transportation cost.

1975

• This same village was caught In a web of poverty and illicit liquor trade.

Anna Hazarae

• Watershed development Programme

Present Situation

• So far, 48 nulla bunds, 5 cement check dams and 16 Gabion structures

• The per capita income of the villagers has increased from Rs. 225 to Rs. 2500• After the success of watershed development programme in Ralegan Siddhi, Hazare

replicated it in the neighboring four villages.• Training institute to impart training in watershed development was established.

Jal Bhagirathi Foundation

Optimize the management of scarce water resources in desert communitiesCommunity mobilization through mass contact programs, such as “Jal Chetna Yatra,”JBF also provides workshops, conferences, and public meetings, hoping to engage local and state government in a discussion about water rights.

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”Every Company has a special continuing responsibility towards the people of the area in which it is located. The company should spare its doctors, managers to advice the people of the village and supervise near development undertaken by co-operative effort between them and the company" -JRD Tata(1969)

Tata Steel is guided by the approach that wealth created must be continuously returned to society. The responsibility of combining the three elements of society - social, environmental and economic – is of utmost importance to the way of life at Tata Steel. It is the combination of these three elements that ensures that business is sustainable for all stakeholders.

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Environmental Initiatives beyond complianceDevelopment of Roads from waste plasticRainwater harvestingWater foot printing3000+ villages illuminated using solar lamp

Community DevelopmentBenefit sharingLocal Infrastructure DevelopmentImpact the lives of communities around our area of operations & ensure compliance to statutory conditions

ProjectsTata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS)Tribal Cultural Society (TCS)Tata Steel Family Initiatives Foundation (TSFIF)Tata Steel Skill Development Society (TSSDS)EducationMedical Services

Development

Agriculture DevelopmentUnder the National Wasteland Development Mission converted 13000 acres into productive land

Infrastructure Development

Skill Development

Education

What makes Tata Steel a Sustainability Leader

Community DevelopmentNational Jharkhand Odisha Chhattisgar

hLiteracy Rate

74 67.9 73.5 71

Per Capital Income

60972 31982 46150 46573

HDI 0.519 0.464 0.442 0.449Rural Population

77%26.2%(SC/ST)

85%22.8%(SC/ST)

Education on Human Rights- Empowering Panchayat Raj InstitutionsSafeguarding the right of child to attend school

- Mid day meal kitchen with association with Govt, ISKCON- Fellowship programs-Infrastructure support- ‘1000 school Projects ‘ plan in Odisha

Financial Inclusion-Self Help Groups, Skill Development Training-

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