cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder environment.

Polluted Cities

Air pollution in metro cities of India

As per a research finding, 9% out of the ten most polluted cities in the world are in India. Burgeoning air and water pollution, in addition to inadequate waste disposal, rising e-waste, increasing paucity of natural resources are some of the few immediate and imminent environmental threats India is facing today. Societe Generale has been at the forefront of promoting clean and renewable energy and brought its knowledge to the conference where Sowmya Suryanarayanan gave insight on how organisations can embed sustainability within the values and culture.

The first day of the CSR Leadership Conference 2018 also had other interactive panel discussions and impacted talks, Rural Development, Reimagining Healthcare and making development efficient. The day ended with business leaders likefor selling fish in uniformand raising money in public glare. The harassment she had to face was immense, following a report carried by the vernacular daily, Mathrubhumi on July 25 this year, about the school going girl selling fish at the Thammanam Junction in Kochi, juggling between her studies and survival, Hanan was haunted by unscrupulous elements by harassing her, thus forcing her to put an end to the fish sales temporarily.

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Hanan could not start the fish sales, as she was involved in a nasty accident that impacted her spine and she was hospitalised. She, then became a hashtag sensation on the digital space following the trolling. When the young girl was selling fish to self finance to pursue her higher studies and when the