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Indian Traditional knowledge can Enable the Sustainable Development:

Padma Shree Chaitram Pawar at India Exim Bank’s Seminar

Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank)
organised a seminar in Hindi on “Indian Knowledge
System: Environment and Sustainable Development”
under the aegis of Bank, Town Official Language
Committee (TOLIC), Mumbai March 10, 2025.
Environment and social activist, Padma Shri Chaitram
Pawar was present as the chief guest of the
programme. Sh. Arindam Das Gupta, founder and CEO
of Tamul Plates Marketing Pvt. Ltd.; Ms. Jaimala
Gupta, founder of a social enterprise Anoothi; Sh.
Apurva Bhandari, founder of Sankalptaru Foundation;
Ms. Nidhi Jamwal, senior environment journalist and
Ms. Yamini Shah, Associate Director, School of
Civilization, Somaiya University, Mumbai were present as speakers for the event.
Ms. Harsha Bangari, Managing Director, India Exim Bank, and Ms. Deepali Agarwal, Deputy Managing Director, India
Exim Bank and Sh. Chaitram Pawar inaugurated the seminar along with the guests and Sh. Girish Thorat, Chairman,
TOLIC. Senior officials of various banks, financial institutions, and insurance companies, member institutions of TOLIC
Undertakings, based in Mumbai, were especially present in the seminar. Professors and students from various colleges
based in Mumbai also participated in the seminar.
During the seminar, the speakers deliberated on various aspects of environment, sustainable lifestyle inherited in Indian
traditions, challenges being faced by the communities, honing the local skills of local women to integrate them in the
value chain, and role of Indian languages in sustainable development. Padma Shri Chaitram Pawar highlighted the role
of local resources in achieving 16 goals out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in his village Baripada in Dhule
district of Maharashtra with the help of villagers. He opined that Jal, Jungle, Zameen, Jan and animal husbandry are the
utmost need of the human existence and Indian traditional knowledge and Indian villages have the resources that can
enable the sustainable development.
On this occasion, Ms. Harsha Bangari, Managing Director of the Bank noted that “In Indian culture, nature has always
been honored as mother nature. Indianness is all about maintaining harmony with the nature. In today's world, as we
face severe challenges like climate change, India's age-old practices combined with modern innovations can offer effective
solutions.”

IDBI Bank launches Financial Inclusion Programme in Unbanked
Villages

With a view to including the rural inhabitants in unbanked villages into the folds of banking, Shri R.K.Bansal, Executive
Director, IDBI Bank Ltd. launched the Financial Inclusion Programme in Badud and Baswan villages in West Nimar district
of Madhya Pradesh.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Bansal said that “the launch of financial inclusion programme in the allotted villages is a
step towards bringing the economic growth of the village at par with national growth and hence all household should
open an account with IDBI Bank”. IDBI Bank has set up a separate Department to implement the Financial Inclusion
plan as envisaged by the RBI and GoI.

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