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Masterplan Paradigm for Higher Education and Development in the Afro-Asian Countries in the Twentyfirst Century

by
Prof. Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi

Convenor, AfroAsian Higher Education Agency for Development (AHEAD)

Professor Dr. P R Trivedi (55) holds B.Tech., MBA, Ph.D., D.Sc. and LL.D.qualifications in Engineering, Management, Environmental Sciences, Human Rights and Environmental Laws. He has authored 30 Volume International Encyclopaedia of Ecology and Environment, 20 Volume Encyclopaedia of Disaster Mitigation, 50 Volume Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Development, 50 Volume Encyclopaedic Module on Human Rights, 10 Volume Paryavaran Vishwakosh, 10 Volume Encyclopaedia of International Environmental Laws besides many books on ecology, environment, pollution control, natural resources conservation and management.

More than 5000 environmental projects have been completed under his leadership. He has successfully organised training programmes in India, UK, USA, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mongolia, Uganda, Zambia, South Korea, The Netherlands, Maldives and Tunisia.

Professor Dr. Trivedi is pioneer in introducing the environmental education programme and clean-up campaign by involving more than two million school children in India. He has given the slogan 'Catch Them Young' for educating the children for the 21st century.

He has helped the Federal and the State Governments in creation of environment friendly as well as sustainable jobs by introducing Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral programmes in the areas of ecology, environment, pollution control and environmental communication.

Professor Dr. Trivedi has several more than 35 universities in India and other countries enabling them to sign Memorandum of Understanding for designing programmes in new and emerging fields relating to employment generation and vocationalisation of existing careers.

Between 1974 and 2005 he has successfully organised more than 1000 national as well as international congresses, seminars and workshops in collaboration with world renowned bodies for the protection of Mother Earth.

He has been honoured by many reputed national as well as global organisations for his outstanding contributions in the areas of formal as well as non formal environmental education, alternative, complementary and energetic medicines for his optimisation techniques with a view to bringing environmental sustainability.

Prfessor Dr. Trivedi is keen to help the respective Governments in Afro-Asian region for translating his programme of employment generation into action. He wishes to create employment opportunities for each and every person in the country by tackling the two important problems - unemployment and pollution with the sole idea of having more job givers than job seekers. He longs to see that all countries in the Afro-Asian region become members of AHEAD.