A Regional Conference is being organized by Punjab Government’s Department of Science, Technology and Environment on December 14, which would be presided over by National Green tribunal chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goyal.
“The regional conference, under the theme ‘No Time Left, Act Now’, shall mainly cover various issues like healthy environment for healthy people, state action plans, the journey so far, best practices for environmental protection and management and role of research, innovation and technologies in facing environmental challenges so as to come out with a concrete but realistic way forward in consultation with various stakeholders,” said the state Principal Secretary (Science, Technology and Environment) Rakesh Verma on Monday.
Verma said that the regional national conference is being organized towards generating awareness among various stakeholders and departments to apprise them of their responsibilities to protect the environment.
Various departments, stakeholders, leading experts in the field of environment pollution and its control, strategists, national level research institutes, universities and research scholars shall be deliberating together to come out with a blue point for future course of actions.
This regional conference would be an important occasion towards control of environmental pollution in the state of Punjab, added the Principal Secretary.
