Today on 4th March, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) marks the day as ‘World Engineer Day for Sustainable Development’. Our Planet is under threat, created by the mindless progress of mankind. The world has progressed and thereby had forgotten nature’s laws, ecological disorders and encroachment into other species world. The pollution in the oceans, rivers, air; deforestation, human expanding population etc., had pushed the planet to its extreme.

The solution to a balanced world lies equally on the shoulders of Engineers. Engineering innovation can help build a better and sustainable world. There is a shortage of Engineers who can bring an innovative system to work for a better world. There is a need for orientation among the engineering community to focus on Sustainable Development Goals.

The biggest question an Engineer can ask, am I creating a healthy planet or am I polluting the world? We need to justify our work, actions and thoughts towards a better world, which can sustain the impact of human activities.

Mindless industrialisation that pollutes the world is not acceptable and a shift from a consumption mindset to an environmental mindset has to evolve. We need engineering innovation in agriculture, health, pollution control, waste management, construction and research. Businesses in the next decades will undergo a paradigm shift where Engineers will play a crucial role in defining how we can create a pollution-free industrial environment.

Time has come for reorienting ourselves and achieve goals not for our own self but for broader goals of our only planet…