Organizers

Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics

Location

Kandbari, Palampur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Palampur 176061

Background

In the decade of the second wave of economic reforms in India, the conflicts over natural resources continue to get exacerbated with increasing privatisation and corporatisation of these resources on one hand and exclusion and marginalisation of the larger public and their access to them. While the 'land' question has remained central to the debate over the scramble over resources for growth centric development, much of the media debates over the past year fail to include 'water' as an intrinsically linked resource facing serious crises of diverse kinds.

The  Institute of Public Policy and Politics is organising a 3 day capacity building programme with grassroots activists and researchers working on issues of water to aim to understand the key emerging issues and the current debates and discourses on the issue of 'Water' in India

Agenda

The probable agenda for the programme is as follows:

• Reforms in the water sector: Privatisation, commodification in water
• A history of water reforms in India: the key policy changes over the years
• Overview on the impacts of water reforms
• Water as a fundamental right: Issues of exploitation and access
• A case study of the Yamuna
• Film screening
• Environmental fFlows and ecological issues: Riparian issues
• A case of the Himalayan dams
• The way forward: Policy interventions and other initiatives
• Alternatives in water governence

The sessions at the workshop will be led by Shripad Dharmadhikary (Manthan Adhyayan Kendra), Ravi Chopra (People's Science Institute) and Himanshu Thakkar (South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People) along with others.

Registration fee

The registration fees (to cover the lodging and boarding expenses) for the workshop will be a total of Rs 1000/- for participants from organisations. Participants who are unable to pay the fees may speak to Sandhya Gupta about the same.

Contact details

Sandhya Gupta
Phone - (0) 9816314756
Email - sutradhaar@sambhaavnaa.org