Ramakrishna Mission Convocation

Swami Prabhanandaji (second left), Chancellor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, presenting the diploma certificate to J.A Premalatha at the convocation in Coimbatore, recently. Poverty alleviation and food security would be the major challenges of the 21st century, V.Jayaraman, Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, said here recently. Delivering the convocation address of the Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education and the Faculty of General and Adapted Physical Education and Yoga of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, he said natural resources were fast depleting.

The forest cover had shrunk to a mere 19 per cent. Conserving natural resources and thereby bringing down the chances of disasters were the other challenges ahead of the country. “There is an unholy nexus between poverty and environmental degradation,” he said. There was a need for ensuring availability, accessibility and affordability of livelihood assets to the rural poor, Mr.Jayaraman added. Since Independence India had come a long way in terms of literacy, infrastructure - both physical and social - and economy. Today it was a vibrant economy, which had been able to maintain a GDP of eight per cent consistently. But, about 700 million people in the country still lived in villages. These villages were under poverty.

More than 200 million people in the country went to bed without food. The country had about 140 million hectares of land under agriculture. Seventy per cent of the population relied on agriculture. But, compared to countries such as China, India was far behind in terms of productivity. The agricultural GDP growth rate stagnated at 1.5 per cent after 3.5 per cent in the 1980s, Mr.Jayaraman pointed out. In addition, Indian agriculture was going to be the worst hit by global warming. Wheat and rice cultivation would suffer. However, science and technology could help the situation through the developments taking place in it.

Remote sensing, satellite communication and GIS could help in building livelihood assets and community resilience. The technology could be used to enhance agricultural productivity, monitoring natural resources, improving water use efficiency, building disaster resilience and increasing productivity in dry lands. Health, education, natural resources and prevention of disasters were the four main pillars deciding the nation’s progress, he said. Chancellor of the university and General Secretary, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Swami Prabhananda Maharaj, spoke.

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