Vaidic Srijan

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is social face of any corporate, which is now being implemented as a mandate from Government of India, pushing the corporates to put in 2% of their annual profitability back in to social ventures for the betterment and sustainable development of the under-developed or under-privileged strata of the society around the corporates. Through CSR programs, philanthropy, and volunteer efforts, businesses can benefit society while boosting their brands.

Companies that adopt CSR programs have often grown their business to the point where they can give back to society, e.g., the government mandate starts for the organizations reporting an annual profit upwards of ₹ 100 Crores. Thus, CSR or CER (Corporate Environmental Responsibility) is typically a strategy that's implemented by large corporations for the good of Society or Environment respectively. After all, the more visible and successful a corporation is, the more responsibility it has to set standards of ethical behavior for its peers, competition, and industry.

“Biodiversity means Business II: Greener EU-India Supply Chains & Technologies”

It was an Indo-EU joint initiative for a symposium on Biodiversity Conservation and its massive positive impact on economy. It was organized on Thursday, June 2nd 2022, during 12:30 – 18:30 (IST) / 9:00 – 15:00 (CET).

The Delegation of European Union to India and Bhutan (EUDEL) aims to work closely with the Indian government, States, CSO, and businesses towards the adoption and implementation of a new global framework for biodiversity, including critical elements outlined below:

1. Overarching global goals for biodiversity for 2050, in line with the United Nations 2030 SDGs and the vision of living in harmony with nature.

2. Ambitious global 2030 SMART targets consistent with EU commitments, addressing the drivers of biodiversity loss, and matching Indian Strategies.

3. Strengthening the implementation, monitoring and review process with a regular review cycle to look at progress towards the targets, based on science-based gap-analysis and foresight process, with common headline indicators for both parties.

4. A dynamic, enabling framework based on financial needs and gap assessment.

5. Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of using genetic resources, including through digital sequence information.

6. Respect for the rights and the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities, an inclusive approach with the participation of all stakeholders.

Under a general title "Biodiversity means LIFE", the 2021-2021 EU campaign is meant to illustrate the potential socio-economic benefits of adapting the EU Green Deal Strategy to Indian circumstances (in particular as regards biodiversity in agriculture, land use, coastal areas, and green infrastructures/nature-based solutions). The “Biodiversity means Business II: Greener EU-India Supply Chains & Technologies” event will wrap-up the campaign. Inputs from Experts and practitioners will be provided, collected, analyzed and summarized in a final end-of-campaign report which will be ready before the CBD COP15 in 2022 Q3.

We were invited as a panelist in the discussion, as an expert on Waterbody & Wetland Rejuvenation & Restoration coupled with the biodiversity conservation in all our projects.

This episode is an excerpt of the same session.

The Carbon Capture Challenge 2022, was and Accelerator Program launched through Startup India on 9th March, 2022. This was a focused program to nurture the carbon capture ideas from the early-stage startups into a scale-ups. The applicants were supposed to be carefully selected on the basis of them having good expertise in the areas of carbon capture (sequestration / sink) technologies and their ideas were required to be mandatorily be in the MVP stage. Each startup was also mandatorily required to be ready for demonstration / proof of concept stage, by the end of the cohort.

The challenge was organized by Startupworx in association with Startup India.

We got the invite to participate through Startup India and submitted the online application. The contest ended officially on 21st of March, 2022 and scrutiny of the application started. By 31st March, 2022, we got a mail confirmation for qualifying the 1st round and an invite for presentation in the Level -2.

2nd April, 2022 @ 8:00 PM IST to 8:30 PM IST, was the time slot allocated to us to have a presentation before the jury from Startupworx to match the working timeline between India, USA & Canada.

This episode of the podcast is excerpts from the same session.

15th April, 2022 was the launch of Cleantech Innovations Challenge 2022, organized by NCL-IIT(BHU) alliance "Incubation Centre" supported by NCL, Singrauli, Coal India Limited and IIT (BHU) Varanasi along with partner institutions namely IIT Mandi Catalyst, Mandi, HP, NASSCOM, Bangalore, DERBI Foundation, Bangalore, AIC BAMU Foundation, Aurangabad, NEATeHub, Assam, Tides Business Incubator, IIT Roorkee, TEXMiN Technology Innovation Hub, ISM, Dhanbad, IIIT Innovation & Incubation Centre, Delhi, FiiRE, Goa, INCeNSE Technology Business Incubator, IISc, Bangalore, Deshpande Startups, Hubballi, Karnataka, EPIC Foundation, a-IDEA, ICAR-NAARM.

This challenge was the nation's 1st 'Clean Tech Innovations Challenge' for the coal sector. Director (Tech), Coal India, Sh. B Veera Reddy launched the challenge on 31st March 2022 in presence of Sh. Bhola Singh, CMD, NCL and Prof. Rajnesh Tyagi, Coordinator, NCL -IIT (BHU) Incubation Centre, IIT (BHU) Varanasi along with partner institutions.

We qualified the 1st round, to get an opportunity for presenting to the second round jury from NCL & IIT. This episode is the audio excerpts of the same presentation, held in September, 2022.

On 22nd March 2022, A National Conference was organized by Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan Government College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, on the subject of Water Quality, Biodiversity, Global Environmental issues and solutions.

Eco Club, SPCGC was the organizer, supported by Dr. Vikas Saxena, Assist. Prof, SPCGCA, as Organizing Secretary, and coordinated by Dr. Rashmi Sharma, Dr. Manoj Rawat, Dr. Aditya Sharma from various departments of SPCGC, Ajmer.

The event was also supported and recognized by UNFCCC and Rajasthan State Department of Science & Technology.

The conference provided a platform for Academicians from all fields, Professionals, researchers and environmentalist involved in water resources management to exchange knowledge and gain an insight into the state of the art in the current technology, techniques and solutions in sustainable water management as they have been developed and applied in different countries. Participants included a wide variety of stakeholders from research and academia, to industrial sectors as well as government organizations. Over fifty researchers from all across the country, from various universities, presented their research papers during the conference.

Chief Guest for the event was Dr. Rajendra Singh, Water Man of India, while the key note speaker was Mr. Madhukar Swayambhu, A Water Hero awardee and founding member of Vaidic Srijan LLP - the inventors of "Cownomics Technology" for resurrection of the native ecology of Waterbodies & Wetlands.

This podcast episode is excerpts of the same World Water Day Conclave.

This second session is with Mr. Atul Mohan, followed by Q&A session for the overall session, including the episode -1, with Mr. Madhukar Swayambhu, Dr. Bhakti Devi and followed by the addressal by Mr. Mohan.

Jal Leadership is an entrepreneurship development skill program to make water entrepreneurs in the country because University’s vision is to make 750+ water entrepreneurs covering every district of the country.

Under the program, the university invites industry leaders and role models to interact with the budding under-training entrepreneurs in order to learn and understand from those who have already been-there, done-it-all kind of experience in the Water sector.

We had a two hour interactive session with this first batch of ten (10) students & wannabe waterpreneurs, spread across the country. This podcast is a recording of the same session, divided in two episodes.

Jal Leadership is an entrepreneurship development skill program to make water entrepreneurs in the country because University’s vision is to make 750+ water entrepreneurs covering every district of the country.

Under the program, the university invites industry leaders and role models to interact with the budding under-training entrepreneurs in order to learn and understand from those who have already been-there, done-it-all kind of experience in the Water sector.

We had a two hour interactive session with this first batch of ten (10) students & wannabe waterpreneurs, spread across the country. This podcast is a recording of the same session, divided in two episodes.

The School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi is a full-fledged institution under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, providing facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate education, research and extension in the field of Architecture, Physical Planning, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Architectural Conservation, Environmental Planning, Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Housing, Transport Planning, Industrial Design and Building Engineering Management. With status of an Institute of National importance by an Act of Parliament, the School awards its own undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees.  

Based upon Vaidic Srijan’s expertise and vast experience in the field of restoration of waterbodies, SPA invited Mr. Madhukar Swayambhu to deliver a talk to students on of UG & PG courses in SPA on 09" February, 2022 at 2:30 p.m to 4.30 p.m. to cover aspects related to "Rejuvenation of Waterbodies - the case of Varanasi".  

The session was hosted on google meet by SPA, the present podcast is the recording of the same session, Chaired by Dr. Meenakshi Dhote, HoD - Environmental Planning, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi.

Permaculture is the art of permanent agriculture, AND “Art of Living” is a way of Life!

Anything in excess is not good, not even farming. It has been observed that prolonged farming does more bad to the soil than good.

Here’s how.

Of the five factors needed for farming – air, water, soil, sunlight and nutrients in the soil – a farmer is heavily dependent on soil nutrients and availability of water for a good produce.

However, over a period of time, excess tilling of the soil, overuse of chemicals and irrigation without adequate drainage causes irreparable damage to the soil.

Now, if the lost nutrients are not replenished, then the soil becomes unusable, producing poor yields. Thus the world started looking at sustainable farming as a solution that can prevent the loss of soil nutrients and conserve water too.

In a layman’s term, sustainable agriculture is an ecosystem approach to farming.

This National Farmer’s Day, on 23rd December, 2021, the Permaculture Division of Art of Living Bangalore, organized a special session on Sustainable Agriculture, - Ponds, Plants and Planet – a talk on Ecological Integral Farming through the Cownomics™ Methodology from Vaidic Srijan LLP.

This podcast is the audio for the same session.

This is the story of in situ drain rejuvenation in the State of Punjab.

The video case study is available on our YouTube Channel, and the project made the front page news headlines on 7th July, 2021.

This podcast is just the story of same project.