CSE's Regional Media Briefing Workshop on Coasts, Coastal Populations and their Concerns
Panaji, Goa, August 13-14, 2010
This workshop was supported by Jamsetji Tata Trust
The Media Resource Centre of Centre for Science and Environment, organised a two day Media Regional Workshop on Coasts, Coastal Populations and their Concerns in Goa on the 13th and 14th August 2010. The Workshop was organised to bring in to focus the various threats facing the Indian coasts. Not only are the coastal communities reeling under the pressure of developmental projects such as ports, harbours, SEZ etc, but nature also lashes out its fury on the unprotected and vulnerable. To encourage awareness, the ongoing activities, and struggle against violations of various kinds, CSE organised the workshop for media personnel. Journalists mainly from the seven coastal states along with journalists from Delhi attended the workshop along with a few activist who are actively involved in various issues along the coasts. The Workshop also brought forth various debates and demands between the ministry and various coastal communities.
The Workshop held at the Goa University was attended by 55 journalists both from the print and the electronic media. We also had an abundant group of 30 resource persons addressing and discussing various issues including Dr. MS Swaminathan, under whom the CMZ and the CRZ report Flinal Frontier was drafted, Aleixo Sequira, Minister of Environment and Power, Goa, Digambar Kamat, The Chief Minister of Goa. The debate on the special status for Goa continued with valid arguments posed by the activists. There was also a technical session to understand the phenomenon of climate change and sea level rise, presented by Tapal Paul, World Bank and scientists and researchers from NIO and the head of INCOIS. A session was dedicated to Mumbai and the various controversies the city is groping with.
Additionally there was a field trip organised by the Media Resource Centre, CSE to highlight the problems particular to Goa. This included a visit to four beaches across Panjim pointing at the the wide scale violations of the CRZ, which are taking place in the name of development and tourism. The host was Mr. Roland Martins a veteran on the prevailing issues in Goa.
The Workshop got extensive media coverage in Goan newspapers along with a few other regional newspapers in the coastal states. The participants found it extremely interesting to be in touch with experts and took the opportunity to update themselves about the ongoing struggles and niche areas and question the existing situation. The workshop shaped a platform for the resource persons as they could indulge into brain storming about prospective solutions to the underlying issues. Faculty members and students were also active participants, benefiting from the assemblage of disparate spokesperson.
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Amitava Gupta Amisha Jhadav Anil Kumar Singh, Anuradha Alahakoon Ashis Senapati Chinmay Pati C V L N Prasad Devika Sequiera Dorbala B Sharma Ermelinda Maria Dias Ganesh Puranik Geetashree G Pattabi Raman Gerard D’Souza G T Satish Imran Hossain Ansary Jaideep Hardikar Jasim Uddin Sarkar Juhi Chaudhary K P M Basheer K Rajendran K Valliappan Malaka Roderigo Mausami Singh Moitreyee Baruah Nandkumar Apte Nilesh Naik Pamela D’Mello Paul Fernandes Pooja N Naik Prakash Kamat Prashant Shetye Rajanish Ramakant Joshi Rashme Sehgal Reshma Natu Rupesh Samant Sandeep Sahu Shailesh Malode Shailesh Tivrekar Shalini Singh Shamindra Kulamannage Shiv Kumar Shweta Kamat |
Snehal Rebello Soma Basu Soumen Datta Sudeep Guru Sudesh Arlekar Suhasini Prabhugaonkar Sunil Naik Sushant Kunkolienkar Varghese C Thomas Vasudev Peryi Viju V V Yogesh Joshi
SPEAKERS AND RESOURCE PERSONS
Antonio Mascarenhas Arvind Bhatikar A Senthil Vel Ashwin Tombat A S Unnikrishnan Baban Ingole Bharat Patel Chandrika Sharma Dean D’Cruz Debi Goenka Digambar Kamat Dileep Deobagkar J M Mauskar Kirit Maganlal Matanhy Saldanha M S Swaminathan Nandkumar Kamat Patricia Pinto Probir Banerjee Raju Nayak Roland Martins Satheesh C Shenoi Satish Shetye Srikant Fondekar Sudarshan Rodriguez Sunita Narain Tapas Paul Vaishali Patil V Vivekanandan
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| Photo Gallery |
| Videobites |
| Speech by Goa Chief minister Digambar Kamat Part 1 | Part 2 |
| Concluding remarks by Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |
| Reports and Documents |
>>Final frontier: agenda to protect the ecosystem and habitat of India’s coast for conservation and livelihood security >>Report on the Public Consultation on Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) Notification, 2008 >>Coastal Management Zone, Notification, 2008 >>Pre-draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010 |
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