Delhi

Organizer: North East Centre for Environmental Education and Research (NECEER)

Venue: New Delhi

Topics:

• Floristic and faunal studies
• Human-Wildlife Conflict

Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI) is a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates social action across rural and urban India towards a more equitable and democratic society that envisions dignity and justice for all.

This short-term fellowship, awarded to 7 applicants, aims to document key issues and struggles for justice addressed by the SRUTI Fellows through their individual efforts and people’s movements in different parts of the country.

The broad areas of work are:

• Right to Natural Resource Livelihood (Jal, Jangal, Zameen)
• Effective Governance
• Education
• Caste Discrimination
• Rights to the City and Education.

The SRUTI Fellows area of work spreads across 12 states: Uttarakhand, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradhesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

The Advocacy Fellows and films will be mentored and directed by Rita Banerji who has aligned with the SRUTI team to facilitate and monitor the project.

The Fellowship will begin in the first week of March with an orientation workshop to sensitize the selected Advocacy Fellows to the issues on the ground and introduce them to the SRUTI Fellows. The workshop will also mentor and train them to research, script, document and put together the series of films.

Ministry of Culture operates the Scheme for the Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships for undertaking research oriented projects in the fields of performing, literary and plastic arts as also new areas related to culture. The scheme has recently been revised and, starting from the year 2010-11, a total of 400 Fellowships will be awarded for a maximum period of two years, out of which 200 are Senior fellowships having a value of Rs.20,000/- per month for artistes in the age group of above 40 years and 200 are Junior Fellowships having a value of Rs.10,000/- per month for the artistes in the age group of 25-40 years.

Organizer: Aqua Foundation

Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Topics:

• Adaptive water management
• Managing Change & Measuring performance of Water Management

The Centre for Atmospheric Sciences(CAS), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is organising this programme which is sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Forty candidates will be selected from all over the country. The programme will be held at CAS, IIT, Delhi.

Eligibility:

M.Sc./M.Tech. degree in Physics/ Meteorology/ Atmospheric Sciences/ Geophysics/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Oceanography / Computer Science with overall good academic record with at least one year working experience/ exposure relevant to the field of Atmospheric Science. Those who have Ph.D. Degree and working on monsoon related problems will be given preference.

Programme period: 27th June–20th July 2011

Age limit: Less than 35 years as on 31st March 2011.

To improve tropical cyclone warning systems in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea through effective operational plan

Organizers: India Meteorological Department(IMD), World Meteorological Organisation(WMO), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Venue: Scope Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Organizer: Centre for Science and Environment(CSE)

Venue: Anil Agarwal Green College, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi

Topics:    

• State of India’s environment: An overview
• The environmental movement in India   
• Poverty and the biomass economy
• Ecological rights & natural resource management 
• Land and its use: Agriculture, food security  
• Conservation & conflict: wildlife management debate 

Organizer: Centre for Science and Environment(CSE)

Venue: Anil Agarwal Green College, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi

Topics:

• Overview – Water – yesterday, today and tomorrow
• Science of rainwater harvesting 
• Technology of rainwater harvesting 
• Harvesting the city’s water endowment

Organizer: International Quality and Productivity Center(IQPC)

Venue: The Grand New Delhi, India

Topics:

• Understanding guidelines and discovering new investment opportunities in the wastewater sector in India
• Re-engineering existing wastewater management systems

Integrated water resource development & management for national growth