Delhi

Venue

The solid wastes of Delhi, the largest municipal solid waste generator in the country with a production of about 7000 metric tonnes a day is dumped at three landfill sites, namely Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla.

Plastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP

This document by Ministry of Home Affairs provides provisional statistical data on population totals of National Capital Territory of Delhi- districts and sub-districts.

Organizer: NECEER

Venue: New Delhi

North East Centre for Environmental Education and Research (NECEER) is a non profit public interest research and educational organisation based in Imphal, Manipur. NECEER was established on 9th December, 2007 with an aim to educate and create awareness about the changing environment and conservation of biodiversity in North-eastern states of India through non formal education by organising training programme, workshops, campaigns, seminars, etc.

Organiser: Toxics Link and India International Centre

Venue: India International Centre
       #40, Max Mueller Marg
       New Delhi

Toxics Link is an information outreach and environmental advocacy organization set up in 1996. It has special emphasis on reaching out to grassroots groups and community based organizations. The areas of its engagements include research, outreach and policy advocacy on issues of communities and urban waste, toxics free healthcare, hazardous wastes, and pesticides. Toxics Link communicates with all stakeholders, from a civil society perspective. Its networks and partners are national, regional as well as international.

India International Centre is a non-government institution widely regarded as a place where statesmen, diplomats, policy makers, intellectuals, scientists, jurists, writers, artists and members of civil society meet to initiate the exchange of new ideas and knowledge in the spirit of international cooperation. Its purpose, stated in its charter, was ‘to promote understanding and amity between the different communities of the world’. In short, the Centre stands for a vision that looks at India as a place where it is possible to initiate dialogues in an atmosphere of amity and understanding.

Organiser: Ganga Samagra

Venue:  Siri Fort Auditorium
                  New Delhi

Venue: New Delhi

Organiser: ACCESS

Delhi gets its first solar water purification plant

The panelists included Himanshu Thakkar (South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People), Manu Bhatnagar (Head, Natural Heritage Division, INTACH) and A K Bajaj (Former Chairman, Central Water Commission) while Satish, Toxics Link moderated the discussion. A short film by TERI - “Water ignites life and hope” was also shown.