उदयपुर । सृजन द स्पार्क संस्था द्वारा हिन्दुस्तान जिंक के सहयोग से इस वर्ष आयोजित होने वाले ‘‘एक सकून जष्न ए परवाज़‘‘ कार्यक्रम के बारे में यषद भवन में आयोजित प्रेस वार्ता को संबोधित करते हुए हिन्दुस्तान ज़िंक के मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी सुनील दुग्गल ने कहा कि हिन्दुस्तान जिंक कला और संगीत को बढ़ावा देने के लिए हमेषा आगे रहा है। वल्र्ड म्यूजिक फेस्टिवल, स्मृतियां और सृजन द स्पार्क जैसे राष्ट्रीय और अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों का आयोजन हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के सहयोग से किया जाता रहा है। उन्होंने आह्वान किया कि लेकसिटी की पहचान यहां की संस्कृति के साथ-साथ संगीत के लिए विश्वविद्यालय से हो जिसके लिए सभी कलाप्रेमी संस्थाएं मिल कर कार्य करें जिससें कला, कलाकारों और कार्यक्रम एवं उदयपुर को विष्वस्तरीय पहचान मिल सकें। उन्होंने कहा कि हावर्ड जैसी यूनिवर्सिटी संगीत के लिए उदयपुर में हो जोे कि विश्व में उदयपुर को प्लेटफार्म प्रदान करें।

हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के मुख्य वित्तिय अधिकारी अमिताभ गुप्ता ने कहा कि हिन्दुस्तान जिंक कला और साहित्य के लिए अपनी जिम्मदारी निभाने के लिए हमेशा से अग्रणी रहा हैं उन्होंने कहा कि जिस तरह जयपुर की पहचान लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल के लिए है उसी प्रकार उदयपुर संगीत का मुख्य केन्द्र बने।

देष के प्रसिद्ध संगीतकार आनन्द मिलिन्द को इस वर्ष हिन्दुस्तान जिं़ंक सृजन पुरस्कार 2018 से नवाजा जाएगा। इनके साथ ही राजस्थान सहित देष में साहित्य, संगीत एवं कला के लिये अपना बहुमूल्य योगदान देने वाले 7 अन्य व्यक्तियों एवं संस्थाओं को भी इस बार पुरस्कार से नवाज़ा जाएगा। 28 सितंबर को सायं 7.45 बजे, लोककला मंडल में आयोजित होने वाले एक सुकून जष्न ए परवाज कार्यक्रम में विख्यात गज़ल गायक पंकज उधास अपनी प्रस्तुती देगें।

सृजन द स्पार्क के अध्यक्ष पीएस तलेसरा ने बताया कि गज़ल, शास्त्रीय संगीत एवं गायन के जरियें भारतीय संस्कृति की धरोहर को संजोये रखने के उददे्ष्य से गठित की गई इस संस्था द्वारा स्थानीय कलाकारों को मंच प्रदान करने के लिए अनेक कार्यक्रम आयोजित किये गये हंै। संस्था द्वारा अब तक तीन बार राष्ट्रीय मुषायरा आयोजित किया गया जिसमें ख्यातनाम शायरों ने भाग लिया है। संस्था के 2015 में आयोजित पहले कार्यक्रम में प्रख्यात गायक रूपकुमार राठौड़ एवं दूसरे वर्ष 2016 में शैलेष लोढ़ा, 2017 में देष के प्रसिद्ध संगीतकार आनन्द जी को सम्मानित किया जा चुका है।

‘एक सुकून जष्न ए परवाज़‘ के सचिव अब्बास अली बंदूक वाला ने कहा कि हिन्दुस्तान ज़िंक सृजन अवार्ड हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के सहयोग से दिया जाता है जिसमें एक लाख रूपये की राषि दी जाती है जो इस वर्ष संगीतकार आनंद मिलिन्द की प्रसिद्ध जोड़ी को प्रदान किया जाएगा। गत वर्ष की भांति इस वर्ष भी साहित्य कला एवं संगीत के क्षेत्र में उत्कृष्ट कार्य करने वाले लोगों एवं संस्थाओं कला प्रेरक अवार्ड दिये जा रहे हैं जिनमें सृजन आमीर खुसरों अवार्ड नई दिल्ली के गालिब इंस्टीट्यूट को, सृजन वीडी पालुस्कर अवार्ड चित्तौडगढ़ की मीरा कला संस्थान, सृजन खेमचंद प्रकाश अवार्ड दुबई के कस्तुब पिंगल को, सृजन औंकारनाथ ठाकुर अवार्ड मुबंई के पण्डित भवदीप जयपुरवाले, सृजन कोमल कोठारी अवार्ड उदयपुर के रियाज़ ए तहसीन, जावरा मध्यप्रदेश के मास्टर मदन अवार्ड अहमद रज़ा को दिया जाएगा।

कार्यक्रम संयोजक जीआर लोढ़ा ने प्रेसवार्ता में सृजन द स्पार्क द्वारा संगीत के लिए शुरू की जाने वाली अकादमी एवं योजना के बारे में जानकारी दी।

‘‘सृजन द स्पार्क’’ ‘‘एक सुकून जष्न ए परवाज़ 2018‘‘ की अध्यक्षता हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी श्री सुनील दुग्गल ने की। पे्रसवार्ता में हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के हेड कार्पोरेट अफेयर्स प्रवीण कुमार जैन, सृजन द स्पार्क के सदस्य उमेश मनवानी, अन्य पदाधिकारी सहित हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के अधिकारी उपस्थित रहे। कार्यक्रम में प्रवेष निःषुल्क परंतु निमंत्रण पत्र द्वारा होगा।

हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क के हेड कार्पोरेट कम्यूनिकेषन पवन कौषिक ने बताया कि हिन्दुस्तान जिं़क सामाजिक कार्यक्रमों में अपनी पूर्ण सहभागिता के साथ ही अपनी संस्कृति एवं सांस्कृतिक विरासत को बढ़ावा देने के लिए अग्रसर रहा है जश्ने परवाज़ का चैथा संस्करण इस ओर अगला कदम है।

Hindustan Zinc officially launched Project “Zinc Football” today to provide professional football coaching to the rural children of Rajasthan who are in the age group of 5-12 years. Hindustan Zinc has built a world class residential Football Academy at Zawar near Udaipur in Rajasthan with state-of-the-art facilities.

 Logo of Zinc Football was also launched by Sunil Duggal, CEO-Hindustan Zinc, President-Vedanta Football – Annanya Agarwal, IG of Udaipur – Vishal Bansal and Collector of Udaipur – Bishnucharan Mallick.

 Hindustan Zinc Football Academy is India’s first technology based Academy. The Academy would provide international standard training facilities with ‘F-Cube’ Training and Assessment Technology, the world’s first intelligent and interactive device for football and fitness training, skill assessment, cognitive development, practice and also factor in important parameters like skills, nutrition, physical, psychological and mental development. 

 The Zinc Football Academy will also be equipped with 3 FIFA Quality Turf and also a 7v7 size Natural Grass Ground for training and practice equipped with Team Dugouts.

 The scouting of Football talent was done by Hindustan Zinc by going in the deep rural areas. 4500 children were scanned and finally 30 children have been shortlisted in the first batch which are fully supported by Hindustan Zinc who have also taken the responsibility of giving scholarships to all the students for their formal education also. Zinc Football intends to train over 2000 passionate boys and girls by fully skilled football trainers through 64 community football centres – Zinc Football Schools, across Rajasthan. 

 Speaking on the launch, Sunil Duggal, CEO – Hindustan Zinc said, “We at Hindustan Zinc are committed for working towards projects that support the public at large. With the launch of Zinc Football, we wish to establish Rajasthan on Indian football map, and eventually take our country to greater heights in sports. Our vision is to develop 10,000 football players in Rajasthan and in the next 3 years and emerge amongst one of the top 25 positions in football across the world.”

 “ I was very excited to see Zawar’s ‘Kumar Mangalam Football Tournament”. I saw thousands of people watching matches with great interest. This is when I thought we should develop a full-fledged football academy and scout young talent and give them world’s latest training and other facilities” Sunil Duggal said.

 Annanya Agarwal, President, Vedanta Football said, “Being a footballer myself, I am very passionate about football. India has a lot of talent but very little infrastructure. There is definitely a gap between what we need and what we have. This needs to be bridged. Our aim is to put India firmly on the world footballing map and see India among the top-10 teams in Asia and top-25 in the world within the next five years.”

 Vishal Bansal, IG-Udaipur said, “I would like to congratulate all the young talented students of Hindustan Zinc Football Academy. I am pleased to see such latest technology being implemented to train the young talent.”  Bishnucharan Mallick, Collector, Udaipur said, “Hindustan Zinc has set a benchmark for other corporates as it is working with a lot of vigor and passion in different spheres. I wish them all the best.”

 Hindustan Zinc has partnered with ‘The Football Link’, one of India’s premier football development organizations with professional expertise in organizing large-scale football initiatives for developing grassroots football in the country. The Founder of ‘The Football Link’ – Chetan Mishra spoke about the ecosystem of sports which is very different in India and abroad. He said, “There is a lot of talent observed in Rajasthan with high endurance, fitness level and speed amongst the children. Our dream is to see young talented individuals play in the world cup.”

 Hindustan Zinc is India’s only and world’s leading integrated Zinc-Lead-Silver producer. The Company has been associated with sports and has been promoting sportsmen for almost 4 decades when the company made its football stadium at Zawar in Rajasthan in 1976. Since last 40 years, National Football Tournaments are being organized every year at Zawar Stadium. The company has also supported several athletes in the past who have brought numerous laurels for the country in international events.

Millions of commuters travel every day through metros, trains, buses, private taxis, autos and their own vehicles. Most of us have to buy something or the other while returning home. Some of us are even asked over phone to buy some groceries or some vegetables or some stationery for the child to complete homework. In residential colonies, local vegetable sellers take millions of rounds throughout the country to sell vegetables. Local shopkeepers look at our convenience as a regular customer. And the convenience is a polythene bag – a small foldable polythene bag.

The journey of polythene bags begins – from shopkeepers to our homes and from our homes to the garbage. Spills from the garbage bins and occupies roads, drainage etc. These single use polythene bags reach to the area of no return, or rather, no bio-degradation.

We pay for creating plastic waste and adding to the pollution.

Why can’t we carry our own bag, a simple cloth bag, to buy vegetables or groceries even from the local suppliers?  Why we have to depend on our convenience and comfort and accept polythene bags? Don’t we have a choice or is it that we are uncomfortable carrying a cloth/canvas bag and polythene bag looks better?

This is where, the middle-class , counted amongst the majority of Indian population can dent the plastic pollution. We stop insisting to have polythene bags to carry items. If the shopkeeper does not have, we stop expecting him to get anyhow from the nearby shop.  We stop looking only for our convenience, our comfort and our necessity. For once we look at the impact this one intentional ignorance leads to – an unintentional damage to the environment.

India currently consumes about 4 kilograms of Polythene per person, and it is expected to increase significantly during the next 25 years to almost 13 kilograms per person, as per a recent study. India is expected to add more than 18 million tonnes of polythene demand by 2041, based on population growth.

Very sadly – ultimately the demand will drive the supply of polythene bags in near future.

Going by the annual consumption of polythene bags, even if we stay away from polythene bags for a day, this is set to reduce significantly the quantum of plastic waste by as much as 25,000 tonnes.

Later, this one day can become a week and even a month. We may not feel the necessity for polythene bags for once, after few years.

Finally, one day, even Kanta Bai will also use only cloth bag for groceries.

“Manthan”, an initiative by Hindustan Zinc, is a series of stories to bring awareness about various concerns like air pollution, water pollution, plastic pollution, noise pollution, climate change, road safety and wildlife protection.

The Change begins with ME and soon becomes WE – actually just a flip of putting the foot down…

A small plastic straw might be something that comes with most beverages that we order, like juice and soft drinks. Remember how many times you have kept the straws aside and drank your drink without the straw. Once made, we use it or not, we are adding to the damage caused by these plastic straws. We are part of the people contributing towards the ‘top 10 garbage found in the ocean’. We contributed to 8.3 billion plastic straws polluting the beaches every year. Can we not drink the juice or soft-drink or cold beverage without the straw ? A lifestyle cannot cause damage to life.

Seattle becomes the first largest U.S. city to ban plastic straws, even though the US still continues to use about 500 million straws every day. Reason – Most plastic straws are too lightweight to make it through the mechanical recycling process. Return is our new addition to the ‘4R’s as part of care for the environment.

According to Forbes, about 120 billion pieces of plastic cutlery in which straws count up to the maximum, are produced in India every year. India is also making efforts to curb this pollution. According to ‘Banega Swachh India’, a 13-year-old boy from Gurgaon has replaced close to 5 Lakh Single Use Plastic Straws till today, and aims to eradicate 1 million by the end of 2018. Several parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka & Kerala have initiated campaigns to reduce the use of plastic straws by 80%, by replacing them with alternatives like bamboo straws, by the end of 2018.

Interestingly, Straws are most commonly made from type 5 plastic, or polypropylene. However, this type of plastic isn’t accepted by most curb side recycling programs. Hence, because of this difficulty, they end up in landfills & polluting our oceans, causing harm to both water and marine life.

The small size of plastic straws makes it dangerous to seabirds, as they misunderstand it for food, and ingest it. According to BBC, several researchers do not agree to the concept of reusable straws, as they present hygiene concerns to people. Some of these concerns include remaining saliva, chewed teeth marks and the spread of illness & diseases because of bad oral hygiene.

Straws on an average weigh 0.42 grams. All the plastic straws in the world that ultimately end up in the ocean, add up to 2,000 tons. Packaging Solutions Giant, Tetra Pak alone produces over 25 billion straws every year. Tetra Pak is developing ‘Paper Straws’ by the end of 2018, to reduce plastic pollution. Plastic straws are the 6th most common type of garbage found in the world.

If we can say NO to STRAWS, who do we want us to tell. Can HZL be the first corporate to REFUSE the use of plastic straws and RETURN to the vendor? It is just a matter of one thought, one decision and one NO.