Dr Abdul Kalam, President of India in his meeting with Dr Ola Ullsten, former Prime Minister of Sweden and Dr Madhav Mehra, while appreciating the efforts of the World Environment Foundation, advised that its efforts should be focused on involving school children in saving the environment as Dr Kalam stated that " students are our main hope in improving the state of India's environment".

Dr Mehra advised the President about the essay writing competition that the World Environment Foundation had organised for the school children in Himachal Pradesh on subject of "What is wrong with India's environment? What can I do?"

Dr Madhav Mehra, Dr Ola Ullsten and H E Dr A P J Abdul Kalam

This helped in creating awareness about environment and created a sense of competitiveness among students to take proactive measures to improve environment.

Dr Ola Ullsten apprised the President that his experience of interacting with the participants of 7th World Congress on Environmental Management showed that India's businesses are acutely aware of their social and environmental responsibility. He advised the president that in May of this year five indian companies received the Golden Peacock Awards at the 6th International Conference on Corporate Governance in London. Dr Ullsten said he was very impressed by the presentations of India's corporation at the Palampur environment congress especially from the winners of "Golden Peacock Award for Environment Management". He found that the Award had made a huge difference in changing business attitudes in their relationship with the environment. He said Indian industry was adopting innovative measures to recycle waste, plant more trees and minimize the impact of business processes through eco innovation. He also advised the President of the work being done by the World Environment Foundation in empowering tribal women on the Dhauladhar hills by imparting vocational training and developing the tribal women into a village challenge group to stop deforestation.

Dr Mehra presented to the President a volume containing proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Corporate Governance held in London on 12-13 May 2005 captioned "Making Corporate Governance Work Better".