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Anil Agarwal: New Delhi
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NEW DELHI, Jan. 2, 2002: Anil Agarwal, 54, Chairperson of the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment, passed away in Dehradun today after a prolonged illness. He was undergoing treatment for cancer and asthma, and is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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The man was Anil Agarwal, a metals trader-turned-entrepreneur from Bihar who was preparing to list a new holding company, Vedanta Resources (named after his mother), on the London Stock Exchange. An LSE-listed company would give the bucolic businessman respectability and international acclaim. Agarwal knew that the globally well-known Gilberton — who was not convinced about the capabilities of Vedanta — could make the difference between success and failure of the issue.
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Agarwal was both of his times and beyond them. A difficult, demanding, irascible personality without doubt, but ... a generous teacher-communicator. He believed in taking on the opposition with passion, even anger, but he tried to do this honestly and by marshalling relevant facts in accessible language. The campaign against vehicular pollution, that pushed Delhi into adopting CNG for its buses, saw him take on powerful political interests, the automobile industry and those who genuinely believed he was on the wrong track. But when convinced about the efficacy of a particular model, Agarwal would demonstrate an almost childlike faith in it. The work of soil conservationist PR Mishra, who changed through micro-watershed development the arid face of a village called Sukhomajri, near Chandigarh, was an example. Mishra became Agarwal’s pole-star, as indeed other giants-on-the-margins like Anna Hazare of Ralegan Siddhi, and Akhtar Hameed Khan of Karachi’s Orangi Pilot Project.
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If Delhi today is less of a hellhole than before, pollutionwise, it is largely due to Anil Agarwal. He campaigned against vehicle pollution for close to two decades, trying to move the two great immovables – government and judiciary – succeeding at long last in inducing the needed shift from petrol and diesel to compressed natural gas for public transport. Realising dreams means braving the odds.
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If Delhi today is less of a hellhole than before pollution-wise, it is largely due to Anil Agarwal. He campaigned against vehicle pollution for close to two decades, trying to move the two great immovable objects—government and judiciary—and succeeding at long last in getting the needed shift from petrol and diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) for taxis, autorickshaws and buses besides old cars. Realizing dreams means braving the odds.
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