Political

Udumalpet taluk comes under Tiruppur district, a recently formed district of Tamilnadu previously under Coimbatore district. Udumalpet is the headquarters of Udumalpet taluk and popularly known as” Poor man’s Ooty” due to its cool climatic conditions. 

 Short term consultant
 Water and Sanitation Program, The World Bank
 Location: New Delhi, India
 Last Date: December 7, 2009
 Email: wspsa@worldbank.org

UN Solution Exchange is hiring Research Associate – ICTD Community to be based at UNESCO, New Delhi.

The closing date is 08 December 2009.

EcoVentures is looking for staff for a project at Tanjore District, Tamil Nadu with the following qualifications:

·         Post-Graduate in Agriculture/Social Sciences with 5 -7 years experience in community development

·         Post-Graduate in Sociology/Social Work and Rural Development with 5 years experience

International Workshop on “Tackling Water and Food Crisis in South Asia: Insights from the Indus Gangetic Basin”
CPWF Basin Focal Project for the IG Basin
International Water Management Institute
2-3 December 2009, The Silver Oak Room, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India

The special track on Sanitation today was the best part of the whole series of sessions. Insightful and sometimes funny, like this one. Here is a story about the "WC" as meant by a british woman intending to travel to india, and as understood by her probable indian host.

Organiser: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Topic: Training on customized free and open source 'Gram Panchayat QGIS' software

Duration: Feb 8th-12th, 2010 (Mon-Fri)

Technical Coordination for Development of an Online Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking System for Rural Sanitation

OBJECTIVE
WSP wishes to engage the services of a technical consultant for facilitating the development of an online performance benchmarking system The overarching role of the consultant will be to act as a technical liaison between the WSP Rural Sanitation team and the firm that will be engaged by WSP for the development of this online benchmarking system. The consultant is expected to work in the capacity of the key technical resource person from the WSP’s team for: leading discussions during the evaluation of proposals received from various competing firms, facilitating the selection process, collaborating with the WSP team for establishing technical requirements for software development and post-procurement, managing the outputs and activities of the firm for development of a robust benchmarking system and ensuring that O&M support is provided by the firm in a timely and appropriate fashion.

Ashok Jaitly, Water Resources Department, TERI
Policy issues in water conservation

Habil Attarwala, Furaat Earth Ltd., Gujarat