Mani Dhingra: ‘Sustainability to me is an opinion and approach of life’

Name: Mani Dhingra
Lives in: Kharagpur, West Bengal
Country of origin: India
Period in Germany: September, 2013 to March, 2014
Educational institution: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Occupation: Research Scholar (pursuing PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)

After a DAAD grant during a investigate section ‘Urban Housing and Development’ of a Institute ‘Entwerfen von Stadt und Landschaft’ (ISEL) during a Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Mani Dhingra perceived her ‘Master of City Planning’ from a Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur in a year 2014. She has worked as a Research Associate during modernized investigate institute, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) in New Delhi for a year on meridian change and tolerable growth in India and opposite a world. Currently, she is posterior her PhD from Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur focusing on normal Indian cities to know how tolerable a aged settlements in India are.

Ms. Dhingra, a United Nations recently adopted a set of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ to open a pathway into a tolerable destiny within a subsequent 15 years. Do we consider we will succeed?

Mani Dhingra: These Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a subsequent step after UN‘s Millennium Development Goals whose sketchy formula are not achieved as targeted compartment year 2015. SDGs seem some-more like an aged booze in a new bottle though with some-more desirous targets of expelling gender inequality, craving and misery by 2030. The doubt either SDGs will be successful to grasp a aim of concept sustainability is utterly dire if a immeasurable desirous range is considered. However, a pithy inclusion of building countries for joining and creation swell in this instruction is a and point.

You know a conditions in Germany as good as in India. Regarding a hurdles we are facing: What are a categorical differences between a conditions in India and Germany?

Mani Dhingra: The conditions in Germany and India has resisting hurdles when it comes to sustainability. India is still lacking a common recognition among a open about a environmental and amicable issues that a universe is confronting since in Germany a things are on a improved side. They have already taken a jump to grasp tolerable growth by going CO giveaway cities. The scale of formulation in German cities takes place during micro turn area units that creates a execution of skeleton successful, while in India a bottom adult proceed is nonetheless to benefit recognition during particular level.

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