Creating Bio Villages to achieve national goal of mitigating the climate change - Vasudevan Karthik Deva

 Name: Vasudevan Karthik Deva

Date:  10/10/2022

Title of the Post: Creating Bio Villages to achieve the national goal of mitigating the climate change 

Content of the post:

Climate change and its impact is a broad and global issue, it's local and sub-national level interventions that matter when addressing it, in a vast country like India. Samrat Deb is the State Climate Fellow from the Directorate of Biotechnology under the Department of Science and Technology, Tripura. He was working on designing and redesigning policies to make them climate neutral in the long term and made an ambitious pilot initiative of the government called “Bio-Village”. The bio-village concept was first introduced by the Directorate of Biotechnology in the year 2018 in Tripura. Its primary objective was promoting organic farming, and delivering sustainable development. Since then, the project’s scope has broadened to include components such as biogas, improved breed of livestock, solar equipment, and energy-saving electrical gadgets. 

We should take small steps that can be taken at the school level by the authorities and students to address broader issues, like climate change, and also conduct workshops for college professors, using a similar approach of knowledge sharing and discussions to look at college-level interventions. Local administration should take initiative to implement the above concept for creating more and more Bio-villages with the participation of non-profit organizations, schools, colleges, universities, etc., to mitigate the impact of climate change.