Ramesh Arora
With the changing of time and advancement of technology, communication gap between man to man and country to country has decreased considerably. We are heading towards global family and our Indian way of life always talks of VASUDEVAM KUTUMBAKAM i.e the whole world is a family. We have not stopped here and we often say SARVE BAWANTU SUKINAM i.e everybody should be happy in all respects. This is basic Indian thought and we stick to it. Theory of communism have failed to some extent because they used to say (no to family, no to religion, no to property right, no to nationality etc.) but during second world war Russian leadership inspired public and army to fight for their fatherland and also motivated them to remember their fore fathers, Warriors and those who sacrificed for their country. In India we call our country as our motherland and further we are of the view that to achieve the ultimate goal of oneness in the world, the base of operation is country and thereafter we should think off others.
With Ideology differences, system differences, governing pattern differences, form of Government differences and with the conditions and problems faced by many countries with different dimensions are still coming close to each other , because their development and problems are interlinked. No country can grow in isolation. Different time efforts were made by different countries by coming close to each other through some associations and to reduce the difference between developed and developing nations.
In continuation of these efforts three days deliberations took place on the agenda of Enhancing the role of Parliamentarians in the Inter linkage between population issues and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development was the main object of a conference organized by APDA (The Asian Population and Development Association) headed by the former Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda and IAPPD ( Indian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development) took part under the chairman ship of Prof . P.J. Kurien, Dy. Chairman, Rajya Sabha and was held at New Delhi at Hotel Le-Meridien, on 13-15th Sept 2017. IAPPD is fully supported by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare /UNFPA/UNICEF and UN Agencies. The program was organized with cooperation of different forums FPA India (Family Planning Association India), IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation). The main emphasis was to achieve sustainable goals in the area of development and Government of India is also signatory to the sustainable development goals and seventeen goals have been fixed which includes
* End poverty in all its forms everywhere
* End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
* Ensure healthy live s and promote well-being for all ages
* Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
* Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
* Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
* Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
* Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
* Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
* Reduce in equality within and among countries
* Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
* Ensure sustainable consumption and productive patterns
* Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
* Conserve and sustainable use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
* Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
* Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development provide access to justice for all and build effective accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
* Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global partnership for sustainable development
Different countries like Cameroon, Djibouti, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malaysia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Japan, Philippine, Lao PDR, Turkey, Jordan and India participated in the Program/Conference.
The author of this write up was also invited by Indian Association of Parliamentarians on population and development (IAPPD) in international (Asia and Africa) Parliamentarians conference. Deliberation took place on different subjects of national and international concern and role of parliamentarians on transparency, accountability and good governance was also discussed to achieve the main objects and agenda of 2030 to which India is also signatory. Different other issues like Food Security and hunger and how to improve nutrition, Job opportunities for inclusive and sustainable growth and sustainable financing was discussed. Apart from investing in youth and population, which includes National investment plan for youth, Inclusive and Equitable education for all, Indian IT industry and youth. In other sessions universal health care and reproductive health care and national development with focus on youth, global compact and sustainable development and role of parliamentarians on transparency, accountability and good governance, role of legislation to achieve the 2030 agenda for sustainable development were main issues of discussion. It was an effort where by not only understanding of issue was increased but it also brought the parliamentarians of different countries close to each other to understand the problems of respective countries and also their efforts to attain the international goal of sustainable development.
(The author is Member Legislative Council J&K)
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