Announcement

Environment Support Group cordially invites you to the release of Green Tapism : A Review of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification – 2006


Dr. B. K. Chandrashekar, Speaker, Karnataka Legislative Council has kindly consented to release the book and speak at the event.

The release of Green Tapism will be followed by a Panel discussion.

Date: Monday, 4th June 2007

Time: 2.30 pm - 6.15 pm

Venue: Institute for Agricultural Technologists Auditorium, Queens Road, Bangalore.

Programme : 2.30 p.m.

Tea and Registration 3.00 p.m.

Welcome address : Ms. Bhargavi S. Rao, Environment Support Group 3.10 p.m

Presentation on Green Tapism: Mr. Leo F. Saldanha and Ms. Arpita Joshi, Environment Support Group 3.40 p.m.

Release of Green Tapism by Dr. B. K. Chandrashekar, Speaker, Karnataka Legislative Council followed by his presiding remarks 4.00 p.m.

Panel Discussion

Chair : Dr. Vinod Vyasulu, Economist & Director, Centre for Budget & Policy Studies, Bangalore

Panel

Dr. H. C. Sharatchandra, Chairman, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board

Dr. Ravi Chellam, Director, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (ATREE)

Ms. Madhu Bhushan, Social Activist, CIEDS Collective/Vimochana

Dr. Subbarayan Prasanna, Urban & Regional Planner and Retd. Professor from Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore.

Mr. R. C. Purohit, President, Federation Karnataka Chamber Commerce & Industry

Mr. Nagesh Hegde, Senior Journalist & Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore

Mr. A. B. Harapanahalli, Director, Regional Office, Ministry of Environment and Forest (Southern Cell) 5.30 p.m.

Comments and questions from the floor 6.15 p.m.

Vote of Thanks Ms. Harminder Kaur, Environment Support Group

About Green Tapism : Green Tapism, a publication of Environment Support Group, comprehensively analyses the legal, historical and political basis of the formulation of the controversial Environment Impact Assessment Notification – 2006, a critical legislation supporting consideration of environmental and social justice in developmental decision making.

Read the Introduction Chapter to Green Tapism at www.esgindia.org

You can get in touch with the Environment Support Group at:
105, East End B Main Road, Jayanagar 9th
Block East Bangalore 560069 INDIA Tel. : 91-80-22441977/26531339 Fax: 91-80-26534364

Email: esg@esgindia.org or esg@bgl.vsnl.net.in Web: www.esgindia.org

Source: email communication from Dr Robert John Chandran, ATREE Fellow