Tuesday, January 22, 2019

My City My Responsibility - Citizens of Sustainable Pune




Dear All,

This is a formal invitation to all for attending our event on Citizens Charter and Action Agenda for  Sustainable Pune to be held on the 30th January, 2019. See the poster for details. Though the event starts from 6.00 pm onwards, registrations and snacks starts from 5.00 pm.  


I am glad to announce that a few active citizens will be our guest speakers at the event. Below is brief information about the dynamic personalities who are gracefully working at the ground as well as at the top level for making our city livable.  



Shailaja Deshpande - Founding member and Director of Jeevitnadi and a river warrior. She has been working relentlessly for revival of rivers and has been the driving force in sensitizing the society through initiatives like Adopt a Stretch, River walk and toxin free lifestyle products along with Aditi Deodhar and Manish Ghorpade to name a few. 



Ravindra Sinha - Dedicated towards working for community groundwater through his initiative Mission Groundwater and also a founding member of Resident Welfare Association of Baner Pashan link road where he is actively involved in resolving civic issues of the society.   



Sanskriti Menon - Programme Director at Centre for Environment Education (CEE) working on several aspects of the city like education, creating awareness, carbon neutrality and mobility etc.. She has been involved in developing the Pune Bicycle Plan in coordination with PMC. She rides a bicycle for her daily commute to promote sustainable transport that is low carbon, healthy and environment friendly.  



Sathya Natarajan - An enthusiast, committed towards city's environment, greenery, clean rivers and air quality. He has been volunteering tirelessly for several issues in the city, be it chain fasting for our rivers, saving bird sanctuary, wall painting for a cause, SWACH survekshan, cycling and for red dot campaign etc etc and the list continues. 


I an super eager to hear from this package of inspiration about their work, the challenges they face and yet strive to continue playing their roles in a superb way.  

If you are also eager to know them and interact with them, see you at the event!

Please RSVP me for participation in order to make food arrangements.

Pournima Agarkar. 

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