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First of all, thanks for all those who are cooperating and making successful. Team Aptha

wishes all its readers a Very Happy Mothers Day. May 8th has been celebrated as Mothers day which

is the second sunday giving a tribute to the incarnation of god in human form.

As we all know 31st may of every year is celebrated as Worlds No Tobacco Day. Generally, on this day

the ill effects of tobacco are explained to every one. But, it seems every one already know the ill effects

of tobacco and there is no need to explain them again. It is the commitment of the individual that is more

important than the motivation given by others in getting rid of such kind of habbits. Atleast this No

Tobbacco Day we all take the resolution of reducing the usage of tobacco and slowly getting rid of thisdangerous thing saving our lives and lives of others.

To make the magazine Aptha Akshar available to every one and to make it more flexible and transparant,

team Aptha is makingAptha Aksharan online magazine. The February issue of Aptha Aksharis

released in the form of a soft copy and is made available online. The next issues ofAptha Aksharwill

also be launched in the form of soft copy and any one who wants to avail the magazine can do so by

sending a mail (email ID: aptha.magazine@gmail.com). The soft copy of the magazine is sent through

them by mailing the soft copy to them. Also, articles, ideas and opinions are always welcome.

Hope all the readers will accept the changes made byAptha in bringing outAptha Akshar. Dont forget

to give all your suggestions and comments regarding the working of Aptha Akshar, its theme or anyother thing which the you wants to convey. Every one of us can also join and meet at Facebook for

discussing the topics, opinions and the working of Aptha Akshar.

Also, the link of the soft copy of magazine will be made available in the Face Book. Every one who

wants the magazine can open the link and down load the magazine through Google Docs.

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, started as a student driven organization carried forward by TEAM APTHA. A

small gesture of care and love by students to serve the society in ways that will help to appreciate life as it should

be.

The prime objective of Aptha is to build a society wherein every child who is underprivileged treated with utmost

love, care and support to provide for a generous future

Aptha has conducted many activities in the campus to generate funds for the organization and simultaneously

spending the same in conducting inspirational and motivational activities, presentations, competitions at the

orphanage and ashram.

Organizations which Team Aptha visited and assisted till todate are:

Visakha blind school, Yendada

Oldage home, YMCA

Shanti Ashram, MVP

Aptha conducted games like kabadi, kho-kho and caroms at the ashram to initiate team spirit and strengthen the

intimacy between children. Apart from conducting games and sports, Aptha also organised some competitions

like drawing, painting and craft making to build up their thinking ability beyond their constrained imagination

and was successful in accomplishing the same with the zeal that they showed us to learn the art .Our Team

honoured the best children with Gifts and prizes who won in the activities conducted .

As a support Aptha contributed few things like first aid kits, game kits, stationery & provisions as a small

gesture of care for children. Aptha also started extending its helping hand to oldage home by distributing the

basic amenities.

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Aptha wants to go beyond its present operations and expand its operations on a wide scale so as to

provide better services such as satisfying basic needs of food, clothing and medical requirements for

children, providing better education for under-privileged children, etc.

To achieve these objectives on a large scale, Aptha wants to build a social network with all the interestedstudents and volunteers to support the activities which Aptha wants to perform directly and indirectly.

This social network will support Aptha in all its operations and build a very robust and expanding chain

to strive for betterment of the society. The members of this network will help each other in identifying

the organizations which are in need of funds, the services which Aptha can perform which helps the

needs and also in the activities of Aptha in generating funds.

As a part of this, Aptha is coming out with a monthly magazine. The funds generated by selling this

magazine would be used in providing better education for the selected students who are under-privileged.

This magazine will consist of management and technical articles which help students to build their

knowledge. These articles will allow students to think about the practices and processes adapted in the

industries and inter-relate the theories which they learnt in class with the best practices in the industry.

New ideas from the students would be invited which helps them to innovate when they go to industry

and perform better. The magazine is majorly for the engineering and management students. Also some

social articles will be included in order to make its readers aware of the society and the practices which

are adapted and which are to be implemented for the betterment of the society. The social network of

Aptha again plays a vital Srole in promoting the magazine; expanding its network and making it work

more efficiently with the help of this magazine.

The social network not only concentrates wholly on the organizations for providing its services for the

children and old people, but will also look for building a green society by creating awareness among

people for building an eco-friendly society.

All those people who are interested in making a better society and who want to work for a social cause

are members of Aptha. Aptha cordially wants to invite all those members to actively participate and

involve in the activities and help to make a healthier society. Suggestions, comments and feedbacks are

always welcome.

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A must read book for everyone who wants to know about

the strategies, political gaming and the application of a perfect balance between economics, politics and

social welfare. Kautilya, who is more renowned

as Chanakya, one of the brilliant political and

economic genius whose strategies helped to form

a united India without even a single war. When

India was ruled by a number of smaller and

distributed kings and at the same time Alexander

known as the demigod started entering India by

already invading other countries like Persia,

Afghanistan, Egypt, West Africa etc, it was

Chanakya who strategized and pulled out the

wicked King Dhananda of Magadha to make

Chandragupta Maurya as the emperor of united

India.

Ashwin Sanghi through his book Chanakyas

Chant not only revealed the biography of

Kautilya, but also projected the politics of

contemporary India making a comparison

between politics and economic state of affairs

of India at Chanakyas time and the present age.

GangaSagar Mishra, a history student join a wealthy business man of his village in Uttar Pradesh

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in his tender age to support his family. After learning all

the tricks and tactics he starts a political party and makes

a local rowdy the mayor of the town. He selects a young

girl named Chandini Gupta and makes her the successor

of the mayor to make her the chief minister of Uttar

Pradesh and later the Prime Minister of India.

Ashwin Sanghi narrates each scene comparing the strategies and circumstances faced by Chanakya andGanga Sagar Mishra swapping between the chapters. The political situations, the economic situation

and the behaviors of the political leaders are being narrated very well. Seems the author have read the

minds of the political leaders while framing their strategies.

Ganga Sagar does everything to achieve his goal, his vision similar to Chanaykya. At one stage Chanakya

gave up the women he loved Suvasini just to make sure that Rakshas (the prime minister of the wicked

king Dhananda) to dwell in Magadha continuing as prime minister to Chandra Gupta Maurya as he is the

only one who has all the knowledge and intellect to support and cooperate with Chandra Gupta to rule

the kingdom successfully by tackling any kind of situation. At this juncture Suvasini who devoted herself

to Chanakya could not abide with this act of Chanakya cursed her that his knowledge and intellect would

not be passed onto the next generations. But later she rescue Chanakya by saying that anyone who

chants the mantra of goddess Shakti four hundred times a day for four thousand days and exercise all his

intellect to make a woman to rule the country will gain the intellect of Chanakya and passes it to the next

generation. To pass his knowledge and strategies to the next generations, Chanakya writes his famous

book Arthashastra The Science of Money. And after 2300 years arises the man Ganga Sagar Mishra

to gain the intellect of Chanakya to make Chandini Gupta as the Prime minister of India.

A definite page turner by Ashwin Sanghi where he projects the situations of political India as it is. It is

the reader who has to judge what is correct and what is incorrect? What is to be done and what not to be

done?

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In the present age every individual has his or her

own vehicle a two wheeler or a four wheeler. Every

individual in fact can afford his/her own vehicle and

is doing so. But, has any one of us ever reckoned

how much fuel we are wasting when each of us go

to our offices, colleges or even for shopping using

our own bikes or cars.

Road traffic accounts

for approx. 20% of

carbon emissions. In a

small family also,

everyone has their

own vehicle, adults

having their own cars

to go to office and the

children having their

own bikes to go to school or college.

Transportation is becoming more and more pol-

luted day by day. When each member of the family

is using their own vehicles, they are burning gal-

lons and gallons of fuel each day. The fuel gener-

ally being petrol or diesel is polluting the atmo-

sphere more and more each day. There

arises the

concept of

g r e e n

transportation

which is all

a b o u t

saving the fuel to the maximum possible extent by

having a safe and comfortable journey. In this case

nothing is getting

compromised, neither

the safety or luxury of

transportation nor the

decrease in the level of

pollution. Both are

being achieved making

it every ones game.

This not only is

applicable to the

individuals, but also to all the corporate and

governments collectively strive for the greater

cause. The Climate protection has become an

important issue in the logistics sector. Every

company will have to see that the logistics is made

eco friendly. However, a company that aims at

greening its fleet also needs to prove that it acts in

a responsible and eco-friendly manner.

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Though hybrid cars seem to be a hopeful solution it has its own

drawbacks. The automobile manufacturers are struggling to push

the hybrid cars in the markets (the hybrid cars of any type may it

be LPG base, electric cars or of other kinds). The main reason

for failure of hybrid cars in the markets may be due to the fact

that these are not on par with the conventional fuel cars available

in the market. Also there are significant numbers of cases where the safety of hybrid cars is an issue and

the cars have been called back. If the auto manufacturers put a little extra effort in overcoming the safety

issues of the hybrid cars and make them affordable, the chances that the hybrid cars getting successful

will increase dramatically. Also there must be

more number of manufacturers for

manufacturing hybrid cars so that there would

be a competition in the market improving the

quality of the products and service in the

market. Also the use of latest technologies like

using amorphous foldable solar panels for

making solar cars, using hydrogen gas as fuel

etc. will be more helpful in reducing the carbon

emissions.

Another best way of reducing the carbon emissions is the use of public transportation. Every corpo-

rate is any way having its logistics department to take care of their employees and clients transporta-

tion from their places to the work places. Instead of using n number of cars for their transportation, if

the company makes a policy that every employee no matter what his designation is (either white

collar or blue collar) should travel in the office busses to reach their work place, they can reduce on

both the amount of diesel used reducing the carbon emissions and also on the overall logistics costs

which helps the company in the long run.

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Also this kind of policy will always helps in improving the rapport

between the higher authorities and the subordinate employees

increasing the productivity of work. This will always be a good

HR strategy that can be adopted in a firm simultaneously reducing

the carbon emissions and gaining carbon credits.

Also, if the firms providing public transportation and logistics

services use the busses and trucks which are run on CNG

(Compressed Natural Gas) or LPG, the mileage of the vehicles will be more which reduces the costs for

the firm and also these types of fuels will naturally account for reduced carbon emissions. Though the

public transportation busses are already using CNG in Delhi and also in some other metros, these kinds

of busses have to be brought in more in number in all the cities and towns in India. By completely shifting

to CNG busses, there would be reduce in the carbon emissions drastically.

At the individual level if everyone takes a resolution to travel through public transportation and only

limit the usage of personal vehicles, the carbon emissions may be reduced to a greater extent. In fact

there is no need of a personal vehicle for each and every member of a family. Moreover, if one can use

bicycles for the nearby travelling such as going to nearest shop, for dropping and picking up of small

children and roaming within the locality, it would be of greatest help to our mother earth.

Every one today is interested in reducing weight and spends thousands of rupees on fitness equipment

forgetting the fact that cycling is one of the best exercises to reduce ones calories and reduce weight

quickly. This would be an added advantage of using bicycle for all who wants to reduce weight apart

from helping to reduce carbon emissions.

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When the independent India was struggling with many problems

of self sustained in many areas. There was acute drought one side

and soaring prices and market fluctuations, there was a situation where India could not even provide for

sufficient food for its entire people. Leaders at that time decided to import the food grains with the

subsidies given by the developed countries and international institutions like UNESCO and IMF. This

was the time where one man who decided not import the food grains and

Born on August 7 th, 1925 in Kumbakonam in TamilNadu and graduated in B.Sc (Zoology), he

spontaneously chose for a career in agriculture. He moved to Indian Agricultural Research Institute

(IARI) as a PG student. He got a UNESCO fellowship to research on potato genetics as Wageningen

Agricultural University, Netherlands.

His father died when he was only at the age of 11. But his uncles who are the part of their joint family

took care of him. Receiving his fathers values and ideas as inheritance and being under the able guidance

of his uncles, he quickly learnt many things. He liked the ideology and values of Gandhi similar to his

father and his uncles. This made him to choose a career in agriculture with a vision of improving the

productivity and make the nation self sufficient in food.

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No wonder the growth rate in food production in pre-independent

India was less than 0.1 percent between 1900 and 1947. With the

severe economic crisis in 1943 and again in 1957 made India

desperate and started importing food grains from other nations.

Swaminathan at this juncture thought that the food crisis in India

and imports of food grains from other countries will even deteriorate the economic conditions in India.

he says. There have been many comments

from the developed countries and institutions like

WHO and IMF stating that India will not be having

sufficient food for feeding its vast population within

a decade. But there was one man who arose with the

aim of fighting Indias food crisis and for sustainable

development in agriculture using technology. This

one mans quest for a hunger free world made him the

He started with

wheat as it is one of the staple foods in India. He

insisted the then government to import the wheat

grains from Mexico and also allot the lands for

experimenting the hybrid varieties of wheat which

gives more yield by consuming less fertilizers. To

every ones surprise the experiments were very successful. He immediately used this hybrid variety to

improve the productivity and by the year 1963, India was able to produce sufficient food grains. There

were also many experiments conducted on rice which the staple food of the Indians. One of his areas of

study has been the widening of the food basket by giving greater attention to underutilized crops like

millets and tubers. In 1971, India officially declared herself as self-sufficient in food production. Today,

though her population has continued to grow, the country produces more than enough for her needs.

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Not only in improving the produce of the food grains, he

concentrated the other parts of agriculture breeding cattle,

sericulture, picsiculture etc. In fact, it was his admiration for the

maintenance of native breeds of cattle for public good that led

Swaminathan to establish a National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources when he became Director

General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

These processes of agriculture and the hybrid grains were also been used in other countries of South

East Asia like Philippines, Srilanka, Burma, Korea etc. and also in the African countries. In fact, Philippines

also came out from its crisis using the Swaminathans suggestions and techniques to improve the agriculture

in their countries. The high-yielding varieties spread to other developing countries. By the mid-1980s,

more than half the wheat sown in such countries was these hybrid ones. The nutritional status of people

improved throughout the area, and mainly due to this, life expectancy in lesser-developed countries

increased by 10 years in two decades. Thus, while farmers all over Asia tend their fields just like their

ancestors did, the one vital difference is in the seeds they plant. William Gaud of the US coined the term

Green Revolution to describe this unprecedented quantum jump in food production.

He undertook numerous roles in different institutes and departments offering his valuable services like

director general of ICAR, principle secretary to government of India, member of planning commission,

director general of International Rice Research Institute before he founded MS Swaminathan Research

Foundation (MSSRF).

Apart from improving the agriculture in India, he did work on the world peace, employment, women

empowerment, ecological balance and sustainable development. Employment has to be created for

each and every individual in order to get rid of hunger and agriculture can create employment directly

and indirectly thus creating world peace and sustainable development was his concept. He also came

with a concept called which means that the literacy should be available to everyone by

practical experience and applying technology and not merely attending class rooms.

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he would say to his students. He also

implemented many bio conversion programs and created Bio-villages.

Numerous awards and rewards honored him of which some of them

are Padmashri in 1967, the Padma Bhushan in 1972, the Padma Vibhushan in 1989, Ramon Magsaysay

in 1971, the Borlaug Award in 1979, and Golden Heart Presidential Award of the Philippines in 1987.

There are many other awards and recognitions to this gentleman apart from these.

He believes all the farmers are to be educated and given the practical training imbibed with technology.

There should not be a farmer who depends on others either for information or for technology he says.

Most of the experiments done by MSSRF were done in cooperation with the farmers from nearby

villages, after all these farmers are the part and participle of the foundation.

With his outstanding efforts, unadulterated character and a clear vision with great effort M.S. Swaminthan

became a live example for the contemporary youth to take this inspiration, zeal and the enthusiasm with

untiring effort to achieve his dream the sustainable development with a balance between technology and

environment.

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