Book Release

 

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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