Chief Minister Kamal Nath will be the Chief Guest of the National Water Right Convention to be held on February 11 at Minto hall. Jal-Purush Rajendra Singh will preside over the event. During the convention, water and environment subject experts from various States will hold detailed discussions in context to implementation of ‘Right to Water Act’ in Madhya Pradesh.
The Minister for Public Health Engineering Sukhdev Panse will inaugurate the National Water Right Convention at 10.30 a.m. on February 11.
The Former Minister of Jharkhand Saryu Rai, Former Minister of Karnataka BR Patil, Chairman of Telugu Jal Board Prakash Rao, representatives of voluntary organisations and several senior administrative officers will attend the Water Conference.
Chief Minister Kamal Nath will address the second session of the conference on the subject ‘Madhya Pradesh Pioneering the Right to Water’ at 1 pm. The conference will have four sessions.
In the first session, Legal Expert Anoop Saraf will speak on the subject ‘Importance of Traditional Water Bodies Structures, its Rejuvenation in Implementation of Water Right Act’.
In the second session, Anil Sinha of the World Bank will deliver a lecture on the subject ‘Right to Water- Role of Multi-Stakeholders- Approach’. In the same session, Dr. Krishna Khernar of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute will give presentation on ‘Study on Global Water Balance and Puducherry Model Development: Inferences for Madhya Pradesh’.
The 3rd session of the conference will be focused on the subject like Madhya Pradesh River Rejuvenation Campaign, replicable best practices and solutions for Madhya Pradesh, Role of Community and Autonomous Bodies in implementation of Right to Water Act.
The fourth and final session of the Conference will have an open discussion on the views presented at the Conference. The conference will be concluded by the Minister of Panchayat and Rural Development Kameshwar Patel.