India’s 1st monthly Magazine on CSR DECEMBER 2018 VOLUME-7 ISSUE-08 `100/- www.csrvision.in Promoting Responsibility for Sustainability TRRAINTrust for Retailers and Retail Employees of India INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH DR. RAJIV KUMAR Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog GUEST COLUMN DR. SRIKANT SHARMA MBBS, MD B.S. NAGESH Founder, TRRAIN Trusts, Chairman, Shopper’s Stop DECEMBER 2018 NEW DELHI TRRAIN is a seed just sprouting, miles to go... 1 2 NEW DELHI DECEMBER 2018 From the Desk of Editor-in-Chief Dear Readers rulers to destroy the local culture and belief systems and impose the Islamic culture by constructing a mosque. The Merry Christmas! act of converting the name of Prayagraj to Allahabad by the Mughals is also similar to that of construction of masjid in India has already entered into the nearing phase of place of Ram temple. 2019 election season. The BJP came to power through a Secondly, if a hooligan or gunda, from another community historic win in 2014 after giving a hope to Indian electorate like ISLAM or Christianity, occupies your house, forcing you that Ram temple will be built to honor the long standing to live in a corner and leaves the house after years, obviously, demand of majority of Hindu people.After BJP came into ransacking your place of worship and leaving imprints of the power in 2014, BJP also won in UP, which increased their long stay through their names and markings. What the hope of hindus that temple will be built, more so with a will be the first thing you do when you get the house back? Hindu oriented CM candidate Yogi Aadityanath, a former Obviously, one will clean the house, specifically the markings Mahant of Gorakhnath temple, Gorakhpur, UP. Ram temple and imprints left by the occupant and reinstate your place construction is expected to create huge political mileage for of worship. Based on this logic the first government after any party succeeding in getting the Ram temple built. As BJP independence should have cleaned the house of India by is expected to gain this political mileage based on its track undoing all the wrong done by the invading cultures like record of supporting the Ram temple construction movement Muslims (Mughal) and Christians (English). These were not including the famous RathYatra led by L.K. Advani. Being done till 70 years after independence forcing the country men afraid of the potential success of BJP, Congress has been to live under the stress of the symbols of invading nations and trying to block this process of temple building by appealing cultures for e.g. Mosque in place of Ram temple, mosque to the Supreme Court of India to delay the verdict to post inside a premise of Mathura temple, mosque in place of 2019 LokSabha election apart from regularly attacking BJP Vishvanath Temple. These initiatives,including construction for not doing enough for construction of Ram temple. Other of Ram temple, renaming of the towns from the name given opposition parties have been supporting Congress in their by the invading power to its original names are desired steps opposition to the BJP. to be taken by any responsible government irrespective All the opposition parties reflect no respect for the interest of political identity as a pure governance role. Similarly for the nation or the interest for majority community that is opposition political entities need be responsible enough hindu in their conduct while the country is called Hindustan. to look beyond their political and vote bank interest and Similar opposition is also against of renaming the towns respect the decision and actions that is desired for a nation by their ancient names which were changed by the Islamic as a whole and not oppose the government for just the sake invaders (Mughals) for e.g. Faizabad renamed as Ayodhaya, of opposition which is ultimately expected to damage the Allahabad renamed as Prayagraj. Through these initiatives electoral prospects. BJP is fulfilling long standing expectation and dreams of This issue covers a lead story on TRRAIN Trusts. majority community which are not expressed violently. This issue covers the interview of Dr.Rajiv Kumar, Vice- Beyond all these political controversies few basic facts Chairperson, Niti Aayog and the Guest Column of Dr. Srikant need be appreciated, first every invader gives its priority for Sharma on Pollution. destruction of the cultures and religious beliefs, monuments Happy Reading. Be responsible and promote of the invaded country/society. The destruction of Ram responsibility around you. Please write to me your opinions temple by Babar and construction of Babri Masjid under and suggestions. You may also log on to www.csrvision.in, his directions is a proof of the intention of the invading our portal which is loaded with plethora of information. In our previous issue, we made a mistake of mentioning the name of Mr. Annu Kapoor in place of Mr. Anu Malik. We deeply regret the mistake. 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His latest books are Modi & His Challenges (2016), Resurgent India: Ideas and Priorities (2015) and Exploding Aspirations: Unlocking India’s Future (2014). He is a widely recognized economic columnist and a leading speaker on issues in Indian political economy. Presently, he is: (i) Founding Director of Pahle India Foundation (PIF), Delhi; (ii) Chancellor of the Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics (A Deemed University, Pune). PIF, a non- profit think tank focuses on facilitating economic policy change based on objective and rigorous research. He concurrently serves as The Government of India nominated Independent Director on Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. 6 NEW DELHI DECEMBER 2018 INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH In the traditional era, then Planning Commission’s recommending innovative methods for creating Q development planning centered on economics only, employment? neglecting all other sub-systems of development like socio- Our focus is completely on employment because cultural, governance, political or environmental systems. Is A we think that employment generation is principle Niti Aayog under PM Modi, attempting to pay due attention objective and growth can come after, based on this to these systems which were neglected in Nehru era? principle we have prepared a document called The The mandate of Niti Aayog is completely different Strategy of New India at 75, which means when India A from the Planning Commission; therefore it is not a completes 75 years of independence that is 2022, it has successor institution to the planning commission. The 41 chapters and in each chapter, we have defined a principle mandates of the Niti Aayog are:- target and we have suggested what are the ways forward a) Firstly to promote Co-operative Federalism, this is after identifying the challenges. We also have a lot of not to behave like a donor to the State Government but focus on Small and Medium enterprises, they are the like a partner for developing state specific development generators of employment.