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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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