Organize a Guest Lecture

Shortly, we shall be listing some of the water sector experts in your city. Please contact them if you would like to invite them to talk to the students and teachers.

Some pointers

The people mentioned in this list have kindly consented to share their wealth of knowledge with school communities. They would be able to do so only when they do not have other pressing engagements at work.

To ensure that both the school and the subject expert benefit from the experience, here are some pointers for the groundwork required -

  1. Contact the guest lecturer well in advance and finalize programme details.
  2. Discuss the preferred audience size.
  3. A week before the talk check if any audio-visual equipment is required (computer, projector, microphones, display screen, flip chart stand, chart paper, markers etc.).
  4. Get a brief bio-data of the lecturer at least a day before the talk, so that you have some time to work on the introduction. A short note on the topics that will be covered would also be useful to have in hand.
  5. Request for a soft copy of the presentation (if any) a day in advance. This way you can check whether the presentation runs smoothly and there are no technical glitches.
  6. Organize for transport for the lecturer – it will be greatly appreciated.

During the talk

  1. Punctuality and a well-behaved audience may help in future requests being willingly met.
  2. We all love interactive discussion. It would be encouraging, if students came up with interesting questions. Find out what’s preferred – questions to be asked as and when it comes to a student’s mind or questions only after the talk is over.
  3. Sometimes a couple of starter questions from teachers can help get the students going.


There are so many schools, but only very few subject experts. So please do not feel disheartened if the person is unable to meet your request.

Subject expert

Phone number

e-mail id

Preferred topic of talk

Bangalore

Mr Thippeswamy

mntswamy@hotmail.com

Water in our city

Mr Manohar

manohar@arghyam.org

The relevance of rainwater harvesting

Mr C S Sharada Prasad

csp@arghyam.org

Kanyakumari to Kashmir – spreading the message of water conservation

Mr Avinash Krishnamurthy

avinash@biome-solutions.com

Water in our city

Mr Amitangshu Acharya

amitangshu@arghyam.org

Lake Biodiversity

Bhubaneshwar

Mr Shambhu Prasad

shambu@ximb.ac.in

Water resources and agriculture

Mr Ranjan Panda

ranjanpanda@gmail.com

Climate change and water resources

Delhi

Mr Prakash Kumar

prakumar@unicef.org

Sanitation

Mr Ajit Seshadri

seshadri.ajit@gmail.com

Water in our city

Mr Siraj and Ms Meenaksh

water.community@gmail.com

Water resources (talk in Hindi)

Hyderabad

Ms Kalyani

kalyani.s@cii.in

Water and Industry

Mr Ravindra

raviwn@gmail.com

Rural water supply, water and agriculture

Mr David Foster

dafoster@aol.com

Water in our city

Mr Satyam

satyam@naandi.org

Water quality

Kolkata

Mr Arunabha Majumdar

arunabhamajumder@hotmail.com

Sanitation and Public Health

Pune

Mr Himanshu Kulkarni

acwadam@vsnl.net

Ground water resources

Mr K J Joy

soppecom@vsnl.com

River ecosystems

Ms Mrinalini Varanase

ioraespune@gmail.com

Ecological restoration of streams

Dr Madhav Gadgil

madhav.gadgil@gmail.com

Biodiversity in rivers

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