Khurshid Ahmad Tariq

Antibiotic pollution: The critical issues of enrichment of our environment by antibiotics, antibiotic resistant population of microbes and their genes are one of the greatest emerging threats to our environment. The solid waste or liquid waste accumulation of diversity of antibiotics due to their release from the industries or expired or unused products from the hospitals or households is making the environmental waste management processes quite challenging. Further the partially metabolised antibiotic components are released or excreted unaltered via human and animal excretory products into the surrounding environment (pits, ground water, lakes, rivers, etc.). Even the world’s topmost waste treatment plants are not capable to remove these antibiotics, so they continuously build up their concentration in our environment because most of their non-biodegradable nature. Therefore, ecological effects of antibiotic presence in soil and aquatic ecosystems alone has serious risks to human,...

Most of our population lives in rural areas but majority of the quality degree colleges are located in the city alone. This means there is a huge divide as far as establishment of quality colleges and quality education is considered for youth without getting displaced from the original residential areas. Pertinently, the shifting pattern from rural to urban or city colleges for gaining degrees is deeply rooted in our society and creates additional family and social problems with the displacement of student community. Because students are a part of the family and society and sharing that responsibility is equally important as is acquiring academic degrees, because working for the cause, welfare and betterment of the society is the true purpose of gaining education. This problem can only be redressed when equal facilities in terms of quality colleges are made available irrespective of region and/or rural city divide. Recently, government announced the establishment of forty more deg...