The ASD is an organization dedicated to the furtherance of India’s journey towards achieving a developmental model which is sustainable for the generations to come by taking up various activities in the form of awareness, advocacy and research especially by using the burgeoning forces of youth in the country. We are a focused institution working on bringing both top-down and grassroot level change on the road to a sustainable India through a range of initiatives impacting the policy decisions taken at the highest level to improving the quality of sustainable life at the most rural areas. With the help of the future leaders i.e., the students, the plan on reaching the furthermost corners of society and putting them on a sustainable path looks more and more reachable.

The simple understanding of sustainability is to regulate the use of resources that are available to us in order to make an inclusive and comfortable ecosystem for the future generations. The idea of sustainable development tells us that all growth that happens should be sustainable in nature and shouldn’t come at the cost of someone else. The concept is not as foreign as it sounds. The ASD believes that and inclusive change covering the majority of the population of the country that is living in the rural areas and promoting sustainability from the bottom most rung would make the highest contribution into building a sustainable future.

Sustainability is not just related to the environment. Though climate concerns are of deep importance, we cover a lot more than that. From the most basic of things like clean water and no hunger to much more developed goals in the form of building a non-discriminatory and equal opportunities and equitable economic growth. ASD is interested in the creation of a just world where all these goals have been achieved and is committed to working towards it in the best way possible.

Through deep advocacy and awareness programme, ASD aims to remove one of the biggest obstacle India faces in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) i.e., Knowledge. By using the most powerful weapon, the students, we wish to impart the value and impact of the SDGs to everyone, especially the rural population and spearhead the change towards a sustainable ecosystem.

Our Mission

• Making sustainability a core-value
• To see a world where all growth is sustainable
• Inducing elemental change in the perceptions of sustainability
• Showing significant impact towards all SDGs

Our Vision

• Promotion of inclusive development
• Substantial improvement around the information available regarding sustainability at rural areas.
• Taking the first step towards advocating for a world with sustainability at its foundation.
• Building a demand-structure for sustainability.

Short-Term Objectives

• Promoting advocacy about the importance and salience of sustainable development.
• Engaging the community and especially the students in the discussion and developments of sustainability and the benefits of it.
• Become the informer of latest developments of immediate concern.
• Promoting advocacy for sustainable policy decisions at every level of governance.
• Taking up research for raising the subjective and objective knowledge of sustainability.
• To organize lectures, seminars, symposia and various awareness programs etc on socio-economic and SDGs- 2030.

Long-Term Objectives

• Improving grass-root knowledge and impact of the SDG’s
• Be on the ground level of policy making
• Become a constant and regular source of reliable sustainability-related happenings.
• Take part in substantive qualitative and quantitative research on achieving sustainability and its methods.
• Helping put the society in a committed and long-term curve towards sustainable development.