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  • Public hearing on Paryavaran Mitra

    • Believing that Public Hearing as an accountability mechanism is not only applicable to industries but just as equally or even more to NGOs, Paryavaran Mitra decided to subject itself to a Public Hearing. The objective of the Public Hearing were decided to be twofold-

    • A public disclosure of its expenditure and work done over the last 10 years to be evaluated by its stakeholders and in the process
    • Draw feedback for its future direction.

    Paryavaran Mitra followed the same procedure as given in the guidelines for organizing EPH, complying with the mandated norms of this mechanism, which pertained to-

    • Informing the stakeholders about the hearing
    • Providing information to stakeholders which is to be presented in the hearing
    • Making presentation of the information in the hearing
    • Providing forum to participants to raise their questions and opinions.
    • Making provision for participant’s comments to be sent after the hearing also

    Around 250 participants from a cross section of the stakeholders of Paryavaran Mitra- students, NGOs, industries, media, academicians, legal fraternity and government officials attended this programme.

    Center for Governance Studies (CGS), a joint program of Janvikas and Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) supported Paryavaran Mitra in preparing for and organize this public hearing.

    Sr
    No.
    Stakeholder Category
    Feedback forms submitted
    Total Attendance 

    1

    NGOs

    26

    60

    2

    Individual

    16

    46

    3

    Academic

    10

    20

    4

    Industry

    8

    17

    5

    Media

    3

    15

    6

    Lawyer

    1

    14

    7

    Consultants

    7

    13

    8

    Government

    2

    11

    9

    Students

    6

    33

    10

    Paralegals

    12

    15

     

    Total

    91

    244

    Feedback on current activities and suggestions for future activities – A synopsis

    Stakeholder Category

    Feedback on Current Activities and suggestions for future activities

    NGOs

    1. Continue work on Global warming and CDM
    2. Arrange awareness programmes in urban areas, schools, villages on environmental issues using electronic media
    3. Publish books for children on environmental issues in local language
    4. Involvement of local people participation
    5. More PILs for effective implementation of Environment Protection Act
    6. Work on carrying capacity of Gulf of Kutch

    Consultants / Lawyers

    1. Continue advocacy for Environment Protection with government to take action  and work at District level
    2. Arrange programmes for local public on Global Warming
    3. Engage more NGOs in each environment aspect

    Media

    1. Arrange programmes for local public especially on RTI

    Industry

    1. Plantation activity – one person- one tree
    2. Arrange awareness programmes at School and University level and in Industries (Environment day, Safety Day, etc).
    3. We are ready to support – Time, technical and financial – through industries association

    Government

    1. Teach Environmental Law in L.L.B curriculum
    2. Arrange programmes in different cities and in schools and colleges

    Academic / Students

     

    1. Encourage and facilitate college students to reach out to local people
    2. Arrange programmes at school level, Rural areas and in Industry
    3. Publish in English / Hindi
    4. Increase partnerships with educational institutions

    Individuals

    1. Focus on Environmental  Issues in villages created by industries
    2. Create Peoples organization for mass movement
    3. Environmental awareness for people through electronic media and News paper

     

  • Celebration of world Environment day- Drawing and elocution competition for children

    • On 5th June, Paryavaran Mitra had organized a drawing and elocution competition for children. This programme was an effort by Paryavaran Mitra with the collaboration of Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). The venue of the competition was Vasant Nature Hospital near Thaltej Cross Roads. 

    The objective of this programme was to minimize the distance among slum children with another children group and create awareness about environment in them.

    Participants of both drawing and elocution competition were given 3 topics out of which they had to choose one topic. The topics were as follow,

    • Clean Environment for better future
    • Climate change : Effects and solutions
    • Environmental Problems

     

    Drawing competition: participants were given 2 hours to draw on one topic mentioned above. Manav Garima children were provided crayons (color) and other drawing material i.e. pencil, eraser and sharpeners while other children were informed to bring all these material themselves.
    Elocution competition: 15 participants took part in this competition. Topics of drawing and elocution competition were same. Students were supposed to speak for 3-5 minutes on any one topic.
    Jury for the competition: Members from various organizations and institutions were invited as the jury member for the drawing and elocution competition.
    The chief guest of the occasion was Dr. N. S. Varandani, who is the HOD of Environment Engineering Department of L. D. Engineering College.
    12 prizes were awarded for drawing competition and 3 for Elocution competition.


     
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