Events

Programme Schedule:

• Welcome Session (9:30AM-10:00AM)
  Shreemat Pandey, IAS, Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Government of Rajasthan
  Rajesh Kumar Yadav, IAS, Secretary and Commissioner, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Government of Rajasthan
  Archana Patkar, Programme Manager, Networking and Knowledge Management, WSSCC
• Introductory Panel: The Right to Sanitation in India (10:00AM-10:30AM)
  Objective: To introduce the law, policy and institutional frameworks for the realization of the right to sanitation in India.
  Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar and Sujith Koonan
• Tea/coffee (10:30AM-11:00AM)
• Right to Sanitation in Rajasthan – Findings from Field Visits (11:00AM-12:00AM)
  Objective: (i) To disseminate the findings of field visits conducted in various districts of the state concerning the implementation of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA); (ii) To highlight successes and challenges in the implementation of NBA at the local level.
  Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar and Sujith Koonan
• Implementing NBA in Rajasthan (12:00AM-1:00PM)
  Objective: (i) To discuss the realisation of the right to sanitation based on the work done at the state level; (ii) To discuss issues arising in implementation of NBA and realisation of the right to sanitation in Rajasthan.
  Mathews Mullackal, State Coordinator, Rajasthan, Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP)
  Pankaj Mathur, WES Officer, UNICEF
  Rajesh Kumar Bansal, Director, CCDU, Government of Rajasthan
• Lunch (1:00PM-2:00PM)
• Implementing NBA at the District Level (2:00PM-3:30PM)
  Objective: (i) To share successes and challenges faced by local government in implementing NBA; (ii) To discuss suggestions for better implementation or scaling up of the implementation of NBA in the light of lessons learnt.
  Arti Dogra, District Collector, Bikaner
  Rohit Gupta, District Collector, Pali
  Anandhi, District Collector, Bundi
  Tina Kumar, District Collector, Tonk
• Tea/coffee (3:30PM-4:00PM)
• Ground-level Perspectives on Sanitation (4:00PM-5:00PM)
  Objective: To discuss perspectives and inputs from non-governmental actors, academic and NGOs working on sanitation on the team’s findings and other presentations.
  MS Rathore, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Jaipur
  Wilson Bezwada, Safai Karamchari Andolan, New Delhi
  Kamal, RTI Manch, Jaipur
• Closing Remarks: Sanitation Beyond NBA? (5:00PM-5:30PM)
  Objective: To compile suggestions and findings arising from the day’s discussion to build up a state-level perspective to discuss at the national level learning event in 2015
  Vinod Mishra, National Coordinator, WSSCC
  Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar and Sujith Koonan