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This season in the region is commonly referred to as – Barh (flood). For centuries local people have treated it as ‘a way of life’, and found ways to deal with it. Post independence, this ‘way of life’ gradually transformed into an assured annual devastation. The once self-sufficient communities in the flood plains have been relegated to being highly dependent on sources external to the village for their survival during floods.

Organizer: The Society of Earth Scientists

Venue: Lucknow

Topics:

• Science of earth’s climate system and related process
• Human impacts and natural resource management
• Sustainable agricultural productivity, energy management

The pocket book provides an overview of the oceans,their formation, characteristics, and the dynamics that determine their evolution. It also contains information on how the interested reader can pursue these topics further through books and websites.

The pocket book is divided into the following chapters:

The Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) is a sectoral management institute, which constantly endeavours to evolve knowledge useful for the managers in the area of Forest, Environment and Natural Resources Management and allied sectors.

Rainforest Rendezvous is a great opportunity to photograph the less photographed creatures. Under the guidance of renowned herpetologist, researcher and conservationist Gowri Shankar, learn a great deal about the elusive wildlife in the depths of the Western Ghats. He would share his extensive knowledge about the rainforests and their conservation and lead us on the trail to discover the myriad forms of life. If there’s a rescue call from a nearby village, we’ll even accompany him on the mission to relocate the snake to its natural habitat.

Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA) is an NGO, established in 1993 by a group of nature enthusiasts in Pune, is involved in diversified activities related to environment protection, conservation, education and research. Applications are invited for the post of temporary position of `Project Assistant’ under the project entitled, ‘Western Ghats Portal’.

ACCESS is a not-for-profit company whose overall aim is to incubate new institutions to enable their self-sufficiency and self-sustainability. To this end, it offers specialised technical assistance under two verticals: microfinance and livelihoods.

The 2011 theme of the competition is centered on the "Collectives in the Agri-allied Sector". For purposes of the competition, agri allied sector comprises the dairy, poultry, goatary, sheep rearing, piggery, fisheries, sericulture and bee keeping etc sectors.

The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is one of the pioneer institutes under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India which has been mandated to promote capacity building interventions in Disaster Risk Management (DRM).

Organizer: Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS)

Venue: White House, The Hotel Capitol, Raj bhavan Road, Bangalore

Topics:

• Health
• Education
• Drinking water
• Decentralisation

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As part of the 150 years’ celebrations of the Institution of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), a national level online essay competition for the graduate and post graduate students in all the disciplines has been organized. The subject is “Role of CAG in meeting challenges of good governance”. The competition is open only for Indian citizens who are not more than 25 years of age.