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Ganga Maiyya ki Jai': Uma Bharti at the Ganga Mahasabha
Listen to (and read the text of) Uma Bharti, the Minister of Water Resources, talk about her Ministry's plans for the Ganga including riverfront development. Posted on 15 Jan, 2015 05:57 PM

Banaras has always been identified with Baba Vishwanath but Modiji said that he had been called here by the Ganga. Ganga was thus present in the election atmosphere. When he extended the cabinet, he established a ministry for the Ganga. Some unprecedented things have happened in these elections.

Boats on the ganga
Invitation to the training programme on 'Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)', TARA Livelihood Academy, New Delhi
The training is designed to enrich the participant's knowledge on key elements for success of WASH interventions in India and best practices in WASH.
Posted on 09 Jan, 2015 12:48 PM

Course contents

  • Challenges to access WASH in India: Areas for intervention
  • Innovative approaches for WASH service delivery
  • WASH: Indian Perspective & Policy
  • CSR Projects & Programs in WASH: Systems for scale
  • Collaboration opportunities in WASH

Who should attend?

Training programme on 'Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Invitation to the '4th River Festival 2015', Narmada Samagra, Bandrabhan, Madhya Pradesh
The theme of 4th International River Festival is "River, its Catchment Area, Chemicals & Crisis".
Posted on 01 Jan, 2015 01:34 PM

Narmada Samagra is a unique effort to keep a river, a water source and a faith, serene, clean, healthy,beautiful and pure. It is organizing its 4th River Festival 2015 (RF’15),  during February 13 to 15, 2015 at Bandrabhan (District Hoshangabad), Madhya Pradesh, India.

Invitation to the 7th IDSAsr National Seminar on 'Recycling Waste Water and Reuse System', Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies, Amritsar, Punjab
All are invited to contribute their well thought research paper on the theme Recycling of Waste Water and Reuse System in the 7th IDSAsr National Seminar.
Posted on 24 Dec, 2014 11:25 AM

Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies has planned to organize its 7th IDSAsr National seminar on the theme Recycling of Waste Water and Reuse System in the mid of March 2015.  All are invited to contribute their well thought research paper on any of the sub theme within the main theme of the seminar.

Invitation to the National Consultation on Renewed Sanitation Agenda, Institution of Public Health Engineers and Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
The Institution of Public Health Engineers and Sulabh International Social Service Organisation have organised the National Consultation on Renewed Sanitation Agenda.
Posted on 17 Dec, 2014 06:56 PM

With an aim to discuss and brainstorm on 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' to come out with social, scientific and technical aspects that require understanding for effective impelmentation of the programme, the Institution of Public Health Engineers and Sulabh International Social Service Organisation have orga

National Consultation on Renewed Sanitation Agenda
Doing', rather than 'talking' water
Students at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library were engaged in an interactive session on different aspects of water including learning how much (or little!) water there is for our consumption. Posted on 16 Dec, 2014 10:35 PM

Every school going child knows that the earth is called the Blue Planet, because nearly 70% of its surface is covered with water. All pictures of the earth show a blue green earth, dotted by land masses. So how would we explain the idea of water scarcity to them?

Water poster competition at the NMML session
The Chalakudy river system wins
Latha Anantha was awarded the Bhagirath Prayas Samman for spearheading the campaign to save the Chalakudy river in Kerala, at the recently concluded India Rivers Week. Posted on 15 Dec, 2014 06:32 PM

Latha Anantha of the Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshana Samiti (Chalakudy River Protection Forum) was awarded the Bhagirath Prayas Samman at the recently concluded India Rivers Week for her commendable work on safeguarding the integrity of the Chalakudy river in Kerala.

Latha Anantha (Source: Latha)
To link or not to link: A debate
An open debate on interlinking of rivers moderated by Ramaswamy Iyer with Himanshu Thakkar and Brij Gopal as panelists was held as a part of the India Rivers Week at New Delhi. Posted on 15 Dec, 2014 02:48 PM

The essence of a river is its ebb and flow but won't taming of the fresh free-flowing rivers by building massive dams pose a threat to our rivers and the communities that live by them? 

Simen - a 'surplus' river in Brahmaputra basin
What is a river?
Is it the water that flows in it or is it the fauna it sustains? What about the people on its banks? As the discussions at the India Rivers Week found out, it isn't that simple to define a river. Posted on 15 Dec, 2014 01:56 PM

The magic that is a river, brings out a huge canvas of emotions even amongst the most hardened of us.

Oshiwara river in Mumbai
A smiling river crusader
Akhil Gogoi was awarded the ' Bhagirath Prayas Samman' for his dedicated, valiant, untiring efforts to safeguard the integrity of Subansiri river, Assam at the India Rivers Week 2014. Posted on 15 Dec, 2014 01:55 PM

If you saw Akhil Gogoi anywhere on the road, chances are that you may not spare him another look. A quiet young man, with a sparkle in his eyes, and a shy smile on his face, he seems ordinary. But take a minute to talk to him, and you will likely be rooted to your spot. Words tumble out of his mouth, his eyes light up and his belief in what he does is evident.

Bhagirath Prayas Samman award for Akhil Gogoi
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