The Sustainability Platform (TSP), Asia and the University of Mysore are jointly organizing the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Partnership to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals on Friday and Saturday.
The Sustainability Platform (TSP), Asia and the University of Mysore are jointly organizing the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Partnership to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals on Friday and Saturday.
Ahead of Friday’s third international conference on knowledge partnerships to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the Parallel Student and Youth Conference: Youth for Climate Action, on the topic “Supply Chain: Addressing Equity, Sustainability and Resilience Challenges” A pre-conference workshop was held in Mysore on Thursday.
The workshop was jointly organized by the Supply Chain Centre, Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand. Sustainability Platform (TSP), Asia and the University of Mysore organized the third international conference on Friday and Saturday at the BN Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences (BIMS) here.
In the first session, shipping consultant and consultant Joe D’Cruz spoke on “issues and challenges in logistics with respect to equity and sustainability”.
He said, despite having incredible cargo capacity, India does not have its own carriers and relies on foreign ships to transport its cargo. There are no indigenous ships and 97 percent of the cargo from India is carried by foreign ships. This is why logistics cost in India is high and this issue needs to be addressed on priority as the country enjoyed maritime supremacy in the 13th century. th century, he explained.
Mr D’Cruz said that there is no Indian port among the top 10 ports in the world, although the country has about 13 major ports and many small and large private ports. It is time that the government understands the country’s shipping strengths and opportunities, and makes policies accordingly as every problem in the port sector is a firefighting exercise. There is no vision or policy for ports. He said that there should be a debate on logistics at a time when the government wants the cost of logistics to be low.
TSP Asia Council Member Lawrence Surendra highlighted the importance of workshops and international conferences and said that students get to hear from experts on various topics. “Through organizing these programmes, we are bringing experts to the University of Mysore for the benefit of the students,” he said.
The second session was on agriculture and supply chain issues. Sukhpal Singh, Director, Center for Management and Agriculture, IIM, Ahmedabad spoke on “Small Farmer Perspective” while Balachandran, CEO, Prakriti delivered the lecture on “Organic Outlet Perspective”. Lawrence Surendra presided over the session and shared his views.
Mr. Singh spoke on ways to measure farmer profit, contract farming and its implementation in India and other relevant issues. For value creation, marginalized communities have to be taken along and policies promoting such actions are needed, he said, cautioning against counterproductive policy making.
The last session was on sustainability challenges in the fashion industry supply chains.