Events

Organiser: Department of Geology, Anna University

Venue:  Anna University
                 Chennai

Description
As an activity under the Research Project Saph Pani , co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th framework programme Two-day course on Managed Aquifer Recharge: Methods, Hydrogeological Requirements, Post and Pre-treatment systems will be conducted at Anna University, Chennai.

Women in India are treated as untouchables or even worse during their menstrual cycle. Have we ever stopped to think why we let this happen? Why are we constantly victimizing women when this is a routine procedure that women go through to complete their womanhood?

Priyanka, 13 and a chirpy adolescent girl studying in a government school in a village called ‘Rohini Gaun’ 25 kms from Wardha in Maharashtra blushes and says, "We don’t talk about it at all!".

Organizer: North East Centre for Research and Development (NECRD)

Venue:  NEDFi House
               Guwahati   

Organizer: NECEER

Venue: New Delhi

North East Centre for Environmental Education and Research (NECEER) is a non profit public interest research and educational organisation based in Imphal, Manipur. NECEER was established on 9th December, 2007 with an aim to educate and create awareness about the changing environment and conservation of biodiversity in North-eastern states of India through non formal education by organising training programme, workshops, campaigns, seminars, etc.

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra, also called the The Great WASH Yatra is a multichannel, mega-campaign that harnesses the positive power of Cricket and Bollywood to promote awareness and enact behavioural change around sanitation and hygie

Organiser: Toxics Link and India International Centre

Venue: India International Centre
       #40, Max Mueller Marg
       New Delhi

Toxics Link is an information outreach and environmental advocacy organization set up in 1996. It has special emphasis on reaching out to grassroots groups and community based organizations. The areas of its engagements include research, outreach and policy advocacy on issues of communities and urban waste, toxics free healthcare, hazardous wastes, and pesticides. Toxics Link communicates with all stakeholders, from a civil society perspective. Its networks and partners are national, regional as well as international.

India International Centre is a non-government institution widely regarded as a place where statesmen, diplomats, policy makers, intellectuals, scientists, jurists, writers, artists and members of civil society meet to initiate the exchange of new ideas and knowledge in the spirit of international cooperation. Its purpose, stated in its charter, was ‘to promote understanding and amity between the different communities of the world’. In short, the Centre stands for a vision that looks at India as a place where it is possible to initiate dialogues in an atmosphere of amity and understanding.

Organiser: Ganga Samagra

Venue:  Siri Fort Auditorium
                  New Delhi

Organiser: Kerala Paristhithi Aikya Vedi

Venue: Fourth Estate Hall,
               Press Club
              Trivandrum

This draft report by the Kerala Paristhithi Aikya Vedi is an outcome of the Kerala State Environmental Convention, a two day convention that was organised in Trivandrum, Kerala by calling upon various environmental and social organisations, concerned citizens, experts,  political leaders in the state to discuss the environmental crisis that the state has been facing in recent years.