Sunday 31 March 2013

Earth Day 2013 Theme: The Face of Climate Change

Earth Day 2013 Theme: The Face of Climate Change

Each year, Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

Each year, Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.
At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. “Environment” was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news.  Although mainstream America remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson's New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962.  The book represented a watershed moment for the modern environmental movement, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries and, up until that moment, more than any other person, Ms. Carson raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and public health.
Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center.
The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes as national coordinator. Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land.
As a result, on the 22nd of April, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. "It was a gamble," Gaylord recalled, "but it worked."
As 1990 approached, a group of environmental leaders asked Denis Hayes to organize another big campaign. This time, Earth Day went global, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting environmental issues onto the world stage. Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It also prompted President Bill Clinton to award Senator Nelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1995) -- the highest honor given to civilians in the United States -- for his role as Earth Day founder.
As the millennium approached, Hayes agreed to spearhead another campaign, this time focused on global warming and a push for clean energy. With 5,000 environmental groups in a record 184 countries reaching out to hundreds of millions of people, Earth Day 2000 combined the big-picture feistiness of the first Earth Day with the internatithe environmental community. Climate change deniers, well-funded oil lobbyists, reticent politicians, a disinterested public, and a divided environmental community all contributed to a strong narrative that overshadowed the cause of progress and change. In spite of the challenge, for its 40th anniversary, Earth Donal grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. It used the Internet to organize activists, but also featured a talking drum chain that traveled from village to village in Gabon, Africa, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Earth Day 2000 sent world leaders the loud and clear message that citizens around the world wanted quick and decisive action on clean energy.
Much like 1970, Earth Day 2010 came at a time of great challenge for ay Network reestablished Earth Day as a powerful focal point around which people could demonstrate their commitment. Earth Day Network brought 225,000 people to the National Mall for a Climate Rally, amassed 40 million environmental service actions toward its 2012 goal of A Billion Acts of Green®, launched an international, 1-million tree planting initiative with Avatar director James Cameron and tripled its online base to over 900,000 community members.
The fight for a clean environment continues in a climate of increasing urgency, as the ravages of climate change become more manifest every day. We invite you to be a part of Earth Day and help write many more victories and successes into our history. Discover energy you didn't even know you had. Feel it rumble through the grassroots under your feet and the technology at your fingertips. Channel it into building a clean, healthy, diverse world for generations to come.

Earth Day 2013 Theme: The Face of Climate Change

Earth Day 2013 Theme: The Face of Climate Change

Earth Day Network Sets Global Theme to Highlight Growing Impact on Individuals Through Interactive Digital Campaign


       
By: Earth Day Network
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2013 – The global theme for Earth Day 2013 is "The Face of Climate Change," Earth Day Network announced today. Earth Day Network, the group founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day to coordinate the annual day of action that builds and invigorates the environmental movement, said that this theme was chosen because of the need to highlight the mounting impact of climate change on individuals around the world.

"Many people think climate change is a remote problem, but the fact is that it's already impacting real people, animals, and beloved places all over the world, and these Faces of Climate Change are multiplying every day," said Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network. "Fortunately, other Faces of Climate Change are also multiplying every day: those stepping up to do something about it. For Earth Day 2013, we'll bring our generation's biggest environmental challenge down to size – the size of an individual faced with the consequences."

Between now and Earth Day, Earth Day Network will collect and display images of people, animals, and places directly affected or threatened by climate change and tell the world their stories. The organization will mobilize its extensive global network of Earth Day event organizers and other partners to help collect the images. But they're also asking ordinary people to become "climate reporters" and send their pictures and stories that show The Face of Climate Change.

On and around Earth Day – April 22 – an interactive digital display of all the images will be shown at thousands of events around the world, including next to federal government buildings in countries that produce the most carbon pollution. The display will also be made available online to anyone who wants to view or show it.

The campaign is focusing heavily on social media. Organizers are asking people to tweet using the hashtag #FaceOfClimate, and "climate reporters" can also post photos to Twitter and Instagram using that hashtag for inclusion in the digital display.

"The Face of Climate Change will not only personalize and make real the massive challenge that climate change presents, it will unite the myriad Earth Day events around the world into one call to action at a critical time," said Franklin Russell, director of Earth Day at Earth Day Network.

2012 was marked by many climate change milestones. Arctic sea-ice cover reached a record low in September, a new high-water mark in a long-term decline. The United States experienced its hottest year ever; this, after the World Meteorological Organization announced that the first decade of this century was the hottest on record for the entire planet. Public perception of extreme weather events as "the new normal" grew as unusual superstorms rocked the Caribbean, the Philippines and the northeastern United States; droughts plagued northern Brazil, Russia, China, and two-thirds of United States; exceptional floods inundated Nigeria, Pakistan, and parts of China; and more. Meanwhile, international climate change talks stagnated. But glimmers of hope for a political solution began appearing in recent months, perhaps most notably in U.S. President Barack Obama's high-profile promises to tackle climate change during his second term.

This is why organizers say that 2013 is ripe for a major push to confront climate change.

Each year, more than one billion people participate in Earth Day-related activities, making it the largest civic observance in the world. On and around April 22, communities across approximately 192 countries voice their concerns for the planet and take action to protect it.

"We'll harness that power to show the world The Face of Climate Change," said Russell. "And we'll call on our leaders to act boldly together, as we have, on this critical issue."

To learn more about Earth Day 2013 and The Face of Climate Change, go to www.earthday.org/2013.

Earth Day Network mobilizes over one billion people in 192 countries through year-round advocacy, education, and public policy campaigns to protect the environment. www.earthday.org

EHSQ AWARENSS REGARDING UREA , BIURET, STRIPPER LEAKAGE, PRODUCT STWARDSHIP QUALITY, USE OF GRANULATED UREA

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CII IQ - LRQA Workshop on Organizational Maturity through Self Assessment Tools based on ISO 9004: 2009

CII IQ - LRQA Workshop on Organizational Maturity through Self Assessment Tools based on ISO 9004: 2009


Event Description
Organizational Maturity

In contemporary times, organizations are viewed and respected not only for their financial performance, but also for how they care for, and improve with their growth, value for each stakeholder. Modern benchmarking surveys compare companies on a host of parameters ranging from their strategy development, performance management, process management and especially stakeholder management that includes customers, people and with a growing emphasis, the society at large.

Organizations are considered mature when there is complete clarity on:
• What are the expectations and aspirations of every stakeholder?
• How relationships are nurtured for all round development?
• How diversified are results measurements and how these need to be balanced?
• How the company will able to sustain its Vision, Mission and Values in the face of adversity?
• How the organization contributes to the well being of society?
• How every risk is managed?
• Innovation is non-negotiable.


One of the true indicators of growing maturity is a strong correlation in growth in performance with increasing stability and maturity in internal systems and processes.

Maturity Assessment
While benchmarking programs are commonly deployed for evaluating comparative maturity levels across specific or varied parameters in several parts of the world, these are yet to arrive in India. Secondly BM levels are often not fully defined and are often empirical. The revised ISO 9004:2009 offers a self- assessment tool that offers standardized descriptions at each level of maturity for each parameter, developed through collective understanding of experts from around the world. The tool operates at both the strategic level as well as the detailed elements at operational levels.


Who should participate?
Senior Management & Middle Management executives across all industry verticals, involved in:
√ Strategic Planning √ Quality Management √ General Management √ Finance Management
√ Business Excellence √ Corporate Governance √ Performance Management √ CSR

Contents

The Workshop jointly organised by CII-IQ and Lloyd’s Register QA will cover the following aspects of maturity assessment through case studies, practical examples and accepted (benchmark) indices of performance:

• Management focus, leadership approach, results planning & monitoring,
• Sustained Performance, external environment, stakeholder’s expectation,
• Strategy & Policy Formulation, deployment, communication
• Resource management : Financial resources, People in the Organization, Partners and suppliers
• Infrastructure, Work environment, Knowledge, information and technology, Natural resources
• Process management ,Process responsibility and authority,
• Monitoring, Measurement, Key performance indicators, Internal audit, Self-assessment, Benchmarking, Analysis, Review
• Improvement, Innovation, Learning

Benefits
The completion of a self-assessment usually results in an action plan for improvement and/or innovation that can be used as an input to top management for planning and review.

The information gained from the self-assessment could also be used to:
• Stimulate comparisons and share learning throughout the organization (the comparisons can be between the organization's processes and, where applicable, between its different units),
• Benchmark with other organizations,
• Monitor progress of the organization over time, by conducting periodic self-assessments
• Identify and prioritize areas for improvement.

The tool offers a quick assessment for companies wanting to participate in business excellence awards.
Date and Venue
Start Date: Apr 04, 2013, End Date: Apr 05, 2013
Venue: Pune, , , India
Contacts
Mr Mohanish Kapur
[Executive]
Confederation of Indian Industry
CII Gurgaon Office
249-F , Sector 18
Udyog Vihar
Phase IV
Gurgaon-122015
Haryana
India
Phone : 91-124-4014060-67
Fax :91 124 4014080
Email : mohanish.kapur@cii.in

India of Tomorrow: Imperatives of Growth, Security and Governance


Annual General Meeting and National Conference 2013
India of Tomorrow: Imperatives of Growth, Security and Governance

 
Event Description
CII’s National Conference and Annual Session 2013 is being held on 3-4 April 2013 at Hotel The Ashok, New Delhi. The theme for this year’s National Conference is “India of Tomorrow: Imperatives of Growth, Security and Governance”.

Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India would inaugurate the CII National Conference on 3rd April 2013.

The National Conference would bring together Union Cabinet Ministers, Chief Ministers, key policy makers, strategic thinkers, corporates and media under one roof.

The theme “India of Tomorrow: Imperatives of Growth, Security and Governance” would focus on issues that would help create an enabling environment where Industry can play a greater role in Nation Building. Some of the key subjects for discussion include :

• Future of India’s Industrialization
• India's Food Security and the Second Green Revolution
• The Governance Conundrum: Is it Law or Enforcement
• Overcoming India’s Implementation Gap
• Economic Reforms and the States: Are We in the Next Phase?
• India of Tomorrow: Politics, Religion and Governance
• The World Economy and India: Prospects and Challenges
• Can Good Economics be Good Politics
• Public Sector’s Role in Industrial Future
• What next for India’s Companies? Governance, Operating in India, Overseas Acquisition

Over 2000 business leaders especially decision makers from the Indian industry, Administrators and experts would attend the National Conference.

SELECT SPEAKERS

Mr Anand Sharma
Minister of Commerce & Industry and Textiles
Government of India

Mr Praful Patel
Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Government of India

Mr Kapil Sibal
Minister of Communications & Information Technology
Government of India
Mr Arun Jaitley
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha and Member of Pariament,
Bharatiya Janata Party

Mr Rahul Gandhi
Vice President
Indian National Congress

Mrs Sheila Dikshit
Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi
Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman
Planning Commission
Government of India

Dr Sam Pitroda
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information
Infrastructure & Innovation and Chairman
National Innovation Council

Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Chief Minister of Haryana

Dr Raman Singh
Chief Minister of Chattisgarh

Mr K V Thomas
Minister of State (I/C) for Consumer Affairs
Food and Public Distribution

Mr Arun Maira
Member, Planning Commission
Government of India

Mr Ajit Seth
Cabinet Secretary
Government of India

Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad
Member of Parliament & Deputy Leader
BJP Parliamentary Party (Rajya Sabha) and Chief Spokesperson
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Mr B J Panda
Member of Parliament
(Lok Sabha)
Biju Janata Dal

Mr Manicka Tagore
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Indian National Congress (INC)

Mr Tarun Vijay
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
Bharatiya Janata Party

Mr Ashish Bahuguna
Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture

Mr Saurabh Chandra
Secretary, DIPP
Government of India

Mr M F Farooqui
Secretary
Department of Heavy Industry
Ministry of Heavy Industries and
Public Enterprises

Mr S R Rao
Commerce Secretary
Government of India

Dr K Radhakrishnan
Chairman
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Mr Ajay Shankar
Member Secretary
National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council

Dr Ashok Gulati
Chairman
Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices

Mr R S Butola
Chairman
Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Mr Arup Roy Choudhury
Chairman & Managing Director
NTPC Limited

Mr B P Rao
Chairman
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Mr C S Verma
Chairman and Managing Director
Steel Authority of India Limited

Mr Harish Salve
Senior Supreme Court Counsel

Mr Ajay Jakhar
Chairman
Bharat Krishak Samaj

Dr Janmejaya Sinha
Chairman - Asia Pacific
The Boston Consulting Group

Dr Surjit Bhalla
Managing Director
Oxus Research and Investments

Mr Kavin Bharti Mittal
Head of Strategy/New Product Development
Bharti Softbank Holdings Pte. Ltd.

Mr Rajan R Navani
Managing Director
Jetline Group of Companies
*invited
 
Date and Venue
Start Date: Apr 03, 2013, End Date: Apr 04, 2013
Venue: Hotel The Ashok, Diplomatic Enclave, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, , , India
 
Contacts
Mr. Marut Sen Gupta
[Deputy Director General]
Confederation of Indian Industry
CII Central Office
Mantosh Sondhi Centre
23 Institutional Area
Lodi Road
New Delhi-110003
Delhi
India
Phone : 91-11-24629994 - 7
Fax :91 11 24682229
Email : marut.sengupta@cii.in

Ms Abha Seth Kataria
[Director]
Confederation of Indian Industry
CII Central Office
Mantosh Sondhi Centre
23 Institutional Area
Lodi Road
New Delhi-110003
Delhi
India
Phone : 91-11-24629994 - 7
Fax :91 11 24682229
Email : abha.seth@cii.in

Friday 29 March 2013

GMP Audit Check List- Process Validation



GMP Audit Check List- Process Validation

List of the points to check before the GMP audit regarding the Process Validation


1.    Is validation, properly done to all critical production procedures? (Indicate all critical production procedures for which validation is done?
a.    conducted in accordance with previously defined procedures?
b.    result maintained?
c.   extension and degree dependable on the value and complexity of the product and process?

2.   Do the validation program and documentation provide
a.   evidence of suitability of equipment and systems?
b.   the performance and reliability of equipment and systems?
c.   the competency of personnel?

3.   Are the adopted Master Processing Procedures based on the process validation?

4.   Are further validation steps done if significant change occurred in Process, Equipment & Materials?

GMP Audit Check List- Equipment



GMP Audit Check List- Equipment

List of the points to be checked for GMP audit regarding equipment

  1. Is brief description of major production and quality control lab. Equipment indicating construction, validation and suitability of other materials (polypropylene, chrome plated brass, PVC, non-reactive plastic materials) provided?
  2. Are the equipment of appropriate design, construction and adequate size suitably located?
  3. Are the equipment surfaces coming into contact with any raw material, intermediate bulk or finished product made of inert materials (e.g. stainless steel)
  4. Are the equipment properly maintained and easily cleaned?
  5. Are there procedures for cleaning and maintenance available? ( Indicate responsibility, contractual details, maintenance routines which could affect product quality)
  6. Are all equipment for cleaning and maintenance recorded? ( Indicate type, frequency, details of reports/modification, use of report)
  7. Are all equipment properly grounded where required?
  8. Is there any program for calibration of measuring equipment?
  9. Is the result of the calibration documented?
  10. Are all open mechanical belts, pulley, etc equipped with safety guards?
  11. Are major equipment clearly marked with identifying numbers?
  12. Are qualification, validation and calibration programs available for equipment used for production, quality control heating ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), water system, steam, compressed air, gasses etc.?( indicate policy/protocols for qualification and validation, revalidation, calibration and their recording)