ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: Moving towards an open defecation free world | Dr. Kamal Kar | TEDxHeritageSchoolKolkata

Here’s Great Tip: Moving towards an open defecation free world | Dr. Kamal Kar | TEDxHeritageSchoolKolkata

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While in an urban scenario open defecation may be a concept that isn’t given much importance to, it is a highly prevalent issue and one tends to remain ignorant towards the magnitude of the problem. Learn how a community can come forward and solve this problem themselves through the simple CLTS approach

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Department of Media Science, The Heritage Academy

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Rajesh Shinde
Dr. Madhupa Bakshi

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Saimon Dutta
Manasi Agarwal
Amrita Sengupta

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Arunava Saha

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Manasi Agarwal

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Tamal Das
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Mr Shankar Subramaniam
Saimon Dutta
Suryasuta Banerjee
Manasi Agarwal

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Prasanna Mullick Dr. Kamal Kar is a renowned international development specialist in rural development and natural resources and a prolific social entrepreneur who has taken the challenge of ending open defecation head-on in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Being a specialist in livestock production, agriculture and natural resources Dr. Kar has pioneered a number of innovative approaches in natural resources management and low-cost appropriate technologies in farming. He has also been a leading figure in the field of collective management of pasture and natural resources (Nukhurluls) in the Gobi region in Mongolia. His other areas of work include urban poverty, slum improvement, and local governance in India, Mongolia, Bangladesh, and Cambodia. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at