Divisional-level Dissemination Workshops in Bihar

WRI India, in partnership with the Department of Environment Forest and Climate Change (DoEFCC), Government of Bihar, and the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB), is organizing Divisional-level Dissemination Workshops as part of the capacity-building strategy for the effective implementation of the ‘Climate Resilient and Low Carbon Development Pathway for Bihar’.

This long-term state-level strategy document is the result of an exhaustive two-and-a-half-year collaboration between BSPCB, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and a technical consortium including WRI India. The process involved meticulous data collection from over 20-line departments, site visits to all 38 districts, 350 meetings, and 30 stakeholder consultations.

These divisional-level workshops will sensitize stakeholders across all nine administrative divisions covering all 38 districts of Bihar, over the next one month. The purpose is to build the capacities of stakeholders including government officials, para-statal agencies, academia, research institutions, civil society organizations, local NGOs, eminent subject experts, and citizen groups on implications of climate change for Bihar, and district-specific recommendations for climate resilient and low-carbon development.

In the first phase, four (04) divisional-level workshops are being organized in Gaya, Darbhanga, Purnea and Saharsa during 15-19 July’24, while the remaining five (05) divisional-level workshops will be organized in August’24.

SPEAKERS

• Dr Thiyagarajan S.M., I.A.S., District Magistrate, Gaya
• Mr Paritosh Kumar B.A.S., Additional Collector, Gaya
• Ms Ashna B.A.S., Senior Deputy Collector, Gaya
• Director, J-WIRES
• Mr Rajiv Raushan I.A.S., District Magistrate, Darbhanga
• Mr Chitragupta Kumar B.A.S., District Development Commissioner, Darbhanga
• Mr Salim Akhtar B.A.S, Additional District Magistrate, Disaster, Darbhanga
• Prof. Vidyanath Jha, Retired Principal, MLSM College, Darbhanga
• Vaibhav Chaudhary I.A.S., District Magistrate, Saharsa
• Prateek Anand I.Fo.S., DFO Supaul / Saharsa
• Anish Kumar B.Fo.S., Assistant Conservator of Forest, Saharsa
• Dr. Shashidhar Kumar Jha, Program Manager, Climate, WRI India
• Manibhushan Kumar Jha, Program Manager, Climate, WRI India

DATES

Gaya- 15th July, 24 (Monday)
Darbhanga- 16th July, 24 (Tuesday)
Purnea- 18th July,24 (Thursday)
Saharsa- 19th July, 24 (Friday)
Munger- 5th Aug (Monday)
Bhagalpur- 6th Aug (Tuesday)
Muzaffarpur- 21 Aug (Thursday)
Chapra- 22th Aug (Wednesday)
Patna- 23th Aug (Friday)

Organized by – WRI India

In Association with – The Department of Environment, Forest & Climate Change Government of Bihar (DoEFCC), Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB)