Wednesday 25 September 2013

Book Release
 
Good News Bad News
Clearing the air in Indian cities
 
 
Join us for an assessment of the cities – including the four metros -- of India and how they fare on parameters such as air pollution, public transport, walkability and parking policies, among other things.
 
 
Day and Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 5.00 PM
Venue: Jacaranda Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
 
 
  • Book release by Harish Salve, senior advocate, Supreme Court of India and amicus curiae on environmental cases
  • Presentations by Sunita Narain, director general, CSE and Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director (research and advocacy), CSE
 
 
The release will be preceded by a day long South Asian media and stakeholders conclave on clean air and sustainable mobility 
 
The programme schedule is attached for your reference. For details contact Souparno Banerjee at souparno@cseindia.org/09910864339
 
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
 
Day 1 : September 26, 2013
 
8:45 am – 9:30 am                                Registration
 
 
9:30 am – 10:00 am: SETTING THE AGENDA: CLEAN AIR AND SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
 
  • Sunita Narain, director general, Centre for Science and Environment(CSE), New Delhi
  • Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director, (Research and Policy Advocacy), CSE
     
10:00 am to 11:15 am: MANAGING URBAN AIR QUALITY TO ACHIEVE CLEAN AIR
  • Arun Baroka, secretary, Department of Environment, Government of NCT of Delhi, New Delhi
  • B. Nagappa, scientific officer, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Bangalore
  • Randeep Guleria, professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi*
  • Manas Ranjan Ray, senior scientific officer, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata
 
 
TEA BREAK: 11:15 am - 11:30 am
 
 
11:30 am to 1:00 pm: INCLUSIVE TRANSPORT-WALKING AND CYCLING
  • Ashok Bhattacharjee, director (Planning) and member secretary, Unified Traffic and transportation infrastructure (planning & engineering)centre (UTTIPEC)- Delhi Development Authority, New Delhi
  • Vikram Kapur, principal secretary and commissioner, Corporation of Chennai, Chennai*                                                                                                                                                                          nbsp;                                                                                                                                                                                                            &n sp;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     &n sp;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     &n sp;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     &n sp;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     &n sp;                                                                                                                                
  • Arvind Kumar, principal resident commissioner, Government of Sikkim, Gangtok
  • Tulasi Prasad Sitaula, secretary, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
 
LUNCH BREAK: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
 
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm : PROMOTING PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO REDUCE AUTOMOBILITY
 
  • Puneet Kumar Goel, principal secretary and commissioner, Transport Department, Government of NCT of Delhi, New Delhi*
  • Rajeev Verma, chairperson and managing director, Delhi Transport Corporation, NCT of Delhi, New Delhi*
  • C. G. Anand, chief mechanical engineer, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Bangalore
  • N. Manjunatha Prasad, managing director, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, Bangalore
  • Shrikar Keshav Pardeshi, commissioner, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pimpri-Chinchwad*
  • S.S. Bajaj, vice chairperson, Naya Raipur Development Authority, Raipur*
 
 
 
TEA BREAK: 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm to 4.30 pm: CAR RESTRAINT MEASURES 
 
  • Debasis Kumar, member-mayor in Council, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Kolkata
  • Jalaj Shrivastava, chairperson, New Delhi Municipal Council, New Delhi *
  • Arvind Kumar, principal resident commissioner, Government of Sikkim
  • Don S. Jayaweera, director general, Department of Development Finance, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Colombo, Sri Lanka
 
 

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