The 10th edition of Odisha Environment Congress is going to be held from December 20 to 22 at RMNH, Bhubaneswar on the theme ‘Environment and Mining’, informed congress chairman Dhiren Kumar Roy at a Press meet here on Wednesday.
He said that the key activities of OEC are publication of proceedings, Young Scientists Award, Green Ambassador Award and SB Mishra Green Corporate Award.
The HDF-cDAR, Bhubaneswar, Centre for Environment and Development (CED), Thiruvananthapuram, Regional Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Bhubaneswar, Orissa Environmental Society (OES), Bhubaneswar, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) University, Bhubaneswar and Xavier University, Bhubaneswar (XUB) are jointly organising the event.
The sub-themes of the event are minerals and mining in Odisha, mining and environmental degradation, social and economic cost-benefit of mining; mining, human health and wellbeing, sustainable and responsible mining, Mining and Forest Rights Act and CSR, DMF and peripheral development.
Among others, congress working secretary Sudarshan Das, Dr Bindu Bhusan Samant, Jay Krushna Panigrahi, Nirad Khuntia, Bijay Pradhan, Subrat Rout, Dilip Sabat and Sarita Samal were present.