Digital India Movement and Corona effects on the Paper Industry and Environment
From decades many Environment activists and NGOs are working on awareness programs about how the environment is getting affected badly due to increasing paper production. These activists have been focusing on the concept of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" to minimise the cutting of trees for producing paper.If we observe current two major issues, namely Corona Pandemic and Digital India Movement, the paper usage has been dramatically affected. Such sudden dip in the paper usage may have affected paper production industries adversely. But it is a very positive change for benefit of forests and eventually for overall environment.
When the lockdown was started in March 2020, even the newspapers were banned for circulation to avoid the infection through the distribution chain. In this period a majority of population shifted to Newspaper apps or online news paper websites or e-news. There is certainly a lot of people who still prefer the physical newspaper with their morning tea. But the new generatio who got habitual to the news apps and e-papers will surely count in the lesser use of paper and thus pleasing and protecting the environment.
In the Digital India Movement also, many important office work / government and banks forms were made available online. For example, in earlier days for any Government documentation, Aadhar Card application or Passport Application, one had to get a lot of paperwork. But now Government accepts the online submission of forms with scanned copy of essential supporting documents. It is quite a reliefe for our forests as the reduced use of paper will result in lesser cutting of trees.
Have you observed any such points recently? Please share your experience and opinion.
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August 2020 Topic-based TOW - Paper
