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Corporate Social Irresponsibility – Indian Sundarbans Delta
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[pic 1][pic 2][pic 3][pic 4]Corporate Social IrresponsibilityIndian Sundarbans DeltaA Vision[pic 5]                                                                                                                      Group 9:Amit R Sapkale (43/53)Deepak Dayal (117/53)Ujjwal Kumar Bunkar(434/53)U C Varuun (420/52)         Indian Sundarbans Delta: A VisionGanga-Brahmaputra-Meghna BasinGanga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) is the second largest hydrological system after the Amazon. It covers 1.75 million km square with 644 million people in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. Its surface runoff is 1350 billion meter cube. It is a global biodiversity hotspot covering diverse habitats. The Indian Sundarbans Delta (ISD) is a part of the GBM basin in Asia. The Sundarbans, shared between India and Bangladesh is home to one of the largest mangrove forest in the world. Deposition in Sundarbans DeltaHolocene deposition on the lower delta plain of the GBM was about 5000 years ago but land building and sediment compaction are ongoing processes, making it a highly dynamic and evolving system.[pic 6][pic 7]Development Challenges in Indian Sundarbans DeltaAbout 99.99% revenue area of Indian Sundarbans Delta is ruralPopulation in ISD 3.8 million (Census 2001) with an average population density of 925 persons per km squareAbout 42% of the population is below poverty lineAverage decadal growth is 19.27% (1991-2001)Access to infrastructure is very poor. With more than 94% of the inhabited land doesn’t have the access to electricityEcological Significance of SundarbansIt is one amongst the largest mangrove patches in the world. Globally, 4.3% of the mangroves are in Sundarbans. It has a very rich biodiversity; flora, fauna, terrestrial and aquatic. It is a world heritage site and biosphere reserve (only costal tiger habitat with a large population of tigers).Meeting Conservation Challenges: WWF in Indian Sundarbans (since 1978)Mitigating human-tiger conflictStrengthening conservation infrastructureLivelihood diversificationMangrove restorationSustainable aquacultureAccess to water and energyInstitutional strengthening and capacity building for communitiesTrans boundary platform with BangladeshClimate Change Impacts in Indian Sundarbans Delta Rise in the sea level per year is around 466% (from 3.14 mm/ year during 1990-00 to 17.8 mm/year during 2000-09) which resulted in the net land loss of 65 km square. There is a 26% rise in frequency of high to very high intensity cyclones (1881-2001). Surface air temperatures over the Bay of Bengal have been found to be rising at a rate of 0.019°C per year.[pic 8][pic 9] A Vision for Indian Sundarbans Delta