Global Sanitation Summit in Pune on 27 Nov

Pune, November 24, 2015: The second Global Sanitation Summit & Awards ‘Sanitation for All  – Toilet First’ is going to be held at Yashada, Baner Road, here in Pune on Friday, 27 November 2015.

Forum to encourage the corporates and the NGOs for their active participation to make the state “Open Defecation Free” (ODF). Senior officials Govt, Pune Municipal Corporation will join the summit and hold forthright discussions on making Maharashtra an open defecation free state and turning Pune into a model city for basic sanitation with toilet infrastructure and facilities. A day-long global forum will delve into the issue at length from 9.30 AM throughout till 6 in the evening.

The forum will recognise and honour individuals, organizations and innovators for their significant ongoing contributions in sanitation.More than 250 corporate leaders, corporate social responsibility (CSR) professionals, NGO Leaders, toilet and sanitation technology providers, researchers, policy makers, thinkers and social reformers are joining the summit for noble mission.

The forum is a joint initiative of IndiaCSR group and PM Shah Foundation-Pune, aiming for an active involvement in Swachh Maharashtra Mission to accelerate and create mega level platform to discuss various issues related to toilet and sanitation, health, education, women empowerment and behavioral change for wider social good. The forum is praised by various many likeminded organizations, business and social leaders who remain passionate to the ‘sanitation for all – toilet
first’ movement in the country.

The brain behind the conceptualization of the sanitation and toilet summit, Rusen Kumar, Managing Director – IndiaCSR and Editor- CSR & Competitiveness said, “We believe that the motivational address by Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis will encourage corporate houses to come forward with their CSR funds to help achieving the goal of mission. The CM’s vision and initiative will undoubtedly boost the given activities of the mission”.

Renowned Advocate and strategic planner of the forum Chetan Gandhi, Director, PM Shah Foundation said, “Advocacy is very important as sanitation is fundamental right of Citizen. The Summit primarily aims at promoting innovative ideas, technology in sanitation and toilet to make
India a healthy and clean nation and also becomes a forum for networking and ideation for further enhancement of the sanitation in
Maharashtra.”

IndiaCSR believes in strategic planning, effective implementation and result-oriented procedure. Dr Rana Singh CEO of IndiaCSR said, “Such approach shall assists us in realizing the Swachhata Mission as grand success in collaboration with corporate houses, NGOs, implementation partners like Sulabh International, technology providers and various other stakeholders”.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY DR. RAGHUNATH MASHELKAR

Dr R.A.Mashelkar, Eminent Scientist (Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri; Chairman, Technology Expert Committee of Prime Minister’s Swachh Bharat Mission; Former DG, CSIR-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India) shall deliver keynote address at
the forum.

GALAXY OF THINKERS AT THE FORUM

Following eminent personality will be sharing their best knowledge and
innovative ideas at the forum:

* · Dr. RA Mashelkar, Chairman, Technology Expert
Committee of Prime Minister’s Swachh Bharat Mission;

* · Smt Vandana Chavan, Member of Parliament (Rajya
Sabha), Maharashtra;

* · Dattatray Babanrao Dhankavde, Hon’ble Mayor, Pune
Municipal Corporation, Pune;

* · Amit Mittal, Managing Director, a2z Group

* · Prof. Subhash Lakkad, Former Professor at Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT, Powai)

* · Prof K Munshi, Prof. Emeritus Fellow, IIT Bombay,
Member- CII Sub-Committee on Innovation, Director- CTech Labs, IIT
Mumbai, Ctech Labs;

* · Vivek Sabnis, Director- Rural Sanitation Programme,
Arghyam;

* · Santosh Goenka, Executive Director-Business India,
Chairman-Better India Foundation;

* · Dr Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Trustee and CEO, Wockhardt
Foundation;

* · Gokul Venkataraman, Lead – New Business
Development, Owens Corning;

* · Prof. Dr. Shyama V. Ramani, Professorial Fellow,
United Nations University-MERIT, Maastricht (Netherlands);

* · Dr. R Saji Das, Green Oscar (International Ashden
Award 2007);

* · Sunil Ramdas Agrawal, Social Entrepreneur

* · Dr. Rana Singh, Co-Founder and CEO, IndiaCSR Group

* · Chetan Gandhi, Director, PM Shah Foundation;

* · Rusen Kumar, Founder and Managing Editor-IndiaCSR and CSR &
COMPETITIVENESS and eminent think tanks from the sanitation and toilet
technology fraternity from across India.

EXHIBITION ON INNOVATIVE TOILET TECHNOLOGY

Forum will witness, a major attraction of summit, an exhibition on latest and innovative toilet and sanitation products and technology developed by scientists and innovators having unique features includes sustainable, less water consuming, low cost, easy instable, easy moveable and nature friendly. These innovations address the country’s challenges on sanitation and building toilets for all.

CARTOON EXHIBITION ON SANITATION AND TOILET

There will be an open cartoon exhibition on sanitation and toilet at the forum venue. This exhibition will be the major attraction to the public and participants. Sanitation cartoon will associate with humor, happiness and fun, and serve to relax the audiences in the summit. Cartoon exhibition is being organized with the support of Cartoon Watch, the monthly cartoon magazine included in Limca Book.

FORUM FOR SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS

The summit shall provide knowledge, experience sharing and networking opportunities with politician, senior Govt. officials., Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) professionals, grass root NGOs leaders, corporate professionals, civil society and various stakeholders working in field
of toilet building, sanitation water conservation, solid waste management.

JOIN HANDS WITH SANITATION MOVEMENT

Summit invites various stakeholders and change agents for active participation and solicits inputs in terms of ideas, thoughts, innovations and strategies to help make our country a better place to live in. Thought Leaders, policy makers, philanthropists, experts in the area of sanitation, water, environment, education and women empowerment, people involved in strategic planning and operational functions, decision makers involved in planning and execution of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) projects, leaders from projects and developmental agencies, leaders from project implementation agencies in the area of sanitation and toilet, leaders from product innovations and technology providers and manufacturers, leaders from NGOs, NPOs, corporate foundations, trusts and social entrepreneurs and any person dedicated towards a positive social change for this greater cause are invited to join the summit.

SWACHH MAHARASHTRA MISSION

The summit is aligned to ‘Swachh Maharashtra Mission’ (Clean Maharashtra Initiative) of our visionary Chief Minister Shri Devedra Fadnavish, aligning with Swachh Bharat Mission to achieve Nation Sanitation Goals by 2019 announced by Prime Minister Shri Narenda Modi.The Maharashtra government has set a target to achieve a complete open defecation-free status by 2018. The construction of toilets is a major focal area for the mission’, which aims to make India “open defecation free country” by 2019. It aims at constructing 12 crore toilets in country by October 2019 at a projected cost of Rs 1.96 lakh crore. Govt. has constructed around 80 lakh countryside toilets across India under ambitious Swachh Bharat mission.

Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)