By Tricity News
Chandigarh 21st
April:- Chandigarh
is all set to host a first of a kind Regional Conference on
Environment, in Panjab University, on April 22, 2018. The Conference is being organised by ‘Global Platform for Environment (GPE)'
-an NGO made up of a dynamic team of Advocates and Environmentalists. To
share details of the conference a press meet was held by Hon'ble Justice
Swatanter Kumar, Former Chairman National Green Tribunal(NGT) & Judge of
Supreme Court of India as well as National Convenor, (GPE) along
with Reeta Kohli Senior Advocate- SIOLI( Serving in
Organisations for Legal Initiatives ), Neelima Kamrah, Registrar- KIIT
Group of Colleges & Sunita Sibal, a social activist.
Justice Swatanter Kumar said that with an objective to
mull over & find a solution to critical issues related to conservation of
water, combating air pollution and managing solid waste, various NGOs along
with Pollution control boards, State Governments and Stakeholders will come
together at a first time in tricity. International representatives of UNEP
& IUCN will also take part.
Reeta Kohli Senior Advocate from SIOLI said that the time has come when we ought to
realize the hard reality. All these advancements in field of science of
technology would be of no use if we cannot save the very place where we are
living- Earth. This conference is efforts which will surely be go a long way
for awakening the ignorant human being.
It is noteworthy that SIOLI will be working effectively
for environmental awareness in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, J &
K and UT Chandigarh.
The conference will start with an inaugural session, followed
by 3 technical sessions & a valedictory session. Kaptan Singh Solanki, honorable
Governor of Haryana will be the chief guest for inaugural session.
Justice Swatanter Kumar will deliver the welcome address followed by
motivational address by Dr. S.V. Subba Rao. Justice Hemant Gupta, Chief Justice
Madhya Pradesh High Court as well as Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar, Chief Justice
Punjab Haryana Court will also be present. Kaptan Singh Solanki will give the
inaugural address followed by vote of thanks by Dr. Arun Kumar Grover, Vice
Chancellor Panjab University. Valedictory session will have Justice Sanjay
Karol- Acting Chief Justice, Himachal Pradesh High Court as the chief
guest. The session will start with a welcome address by Justice Swatanter Kumar
followed by an address by Dr. T.P. Singh, Deputy Regional Director, And
International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangkok which will include the
details of environment conservation at a global level. After this, the guest of
honour- Justice Jawad Rahim, Acting Chairperson NGT and Justice A.B. Chaudhary,
Judge Punjab and Haryana High court will also interact with audience. Followed
by a presidential address by Justice Surya Kant, there would be a final address
by the chief guest. Mr. Umendra Dutt will present the vote of thanks.
The lineup of speakers is enviable. Laxman Singh Laporiya -
Convener Gram Vikas Navyuvak Mandal; Umendra Dutt - Convener, Kheti Virasat
Mission and an environmentalist- Sudhendra Sharma will be talking about Air
Pollution in Technical session-I which will be organised under chairmanship
of Justice TPS Mann, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court and
co-chairpersonship of -Guruprasad Mohapatra, Chairman , Airport Authority of
India. Similarly, Technical Session-II, which will be a discussion on water
pollution will have Justice Mahesh Grover, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High
Court as chairperson and Dr Justice Jawad Rahim, Acting Chairperson, NGT as
co-chairperson. The speakers for this session are famous water man from Alwar
Rajendra Singh, Sumant Pandey - Yashwant Rao Chavan Academy of
Development Administration (YADA) ; Wing Commander Rommel Luke - Smart
Education and Welfare Association (SEWA) to name a few. Finally, the third
session which is a discussion regarding management of solid waste will be held.
For this session, Justice Ajay Mittal, Judge, Punjab and Haryana
High Court will be the chairman and SPS Parihar, Chairman, Central
Pollution Control Board will be the co-chairman. The speakers who will be
the part of this discussion have Dr. Krishna Rao, Director Niper and Sridhar
Pabbisetty, CEO, Namma Bengaluru Foundation among others.
Reeta Kohli, Senior Advocate and member of the organizing
committee ends up her view by saying that with Plastic has become the
biggest bane of India & the conference will discuss ways to banish this
from our lives. With the example of water rationing in South Africa's Cape Town
fresh in our minds, India is no better as far as water conservation is
concerned. So we have people like the famous waterman Rajendra Singh who
will share thoughts on this.
