Sunday, October 30, 2011

"Ministerial Workshop on Integrated Coastal Management and Ciy Development"

I am now in Delhi airport, waiting to board Air China Flight number CA 948 for Beijing. It will leave at 0315 hrs (it is now 12.40 am, 30th Oct). Flight time to Beijing is 5 hr 40 min. Flight will reach Beijing at 11.45 am (China Time).
 This is a 7-day workshop and includes a visit to the coastal town of Xiamen. I am going at the nomination of Govt of India and invitation of Govt of China, Ministry of Commerce (all expenses by Govt of China). I will present a paper on the ICZM project being undertaken in Digha. I will also mention of the Digha Beach Festival 13-16 Jan 2012 !
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6 comments:

  1. pratimkumarhomeOctober 31, 2011 at 10:23 PM

    Hello Sir.........Happy Deewali first.......any news about lottery of Kalyani plots?.......any development?............plz let us know.....

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  2. AvickNovember 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM

    Missing your posts! I guess either the workshop/case studies were very tiring or people's republic did not allow Google to function for people on their IPads-:)....BTW, while you were away few news items caught eyes:
    রোপওয়ে চড়ে গঙ্গা পারাপার!
    http://starananda.newsbullet.in/video/kolkata/12072-2011-11-01-16-59-11
    http://starananda.newsbullet.in/kolkata/59-more/12053-2011-11-01-12-43-11

    গঙ্গার সৌন্দর্যায়নে গুচ্ছ পরিকল্পনা - দিল্লির ধাঁচে কলকাতা হাট, কলকাতা আই (may move to Howrah-side due to MOD objection? – I think I have seen a Pratidin/Sakarbela article reg same - how long good projects be spiked!)
    http://starananda.newsbullet.in/kolkata/59-more/11898-2011-10-29-17-46-05

    Can we think of the ropeway somehow connecting Botanical Garden at Howrah and Kolkata? This will encourage tourism at Botanical Garden that has international interests. May be a dream run on toy train from Kolkata eye spot along the Ganga river bank to reach opposite to B Garden at Kolkata and then tour BGarden and return on the evening on same route….
    WikiMapia (http://wikimapia.org/#lat=22.56&lon=88.31&z=14&l=0&m=b) shows Ganga is narrowest where BGarden is located making it more feasible for ropeways. Also Ganga takes a nice turn opposite to Shalimar (refer same WikiMapia link) – so a toy train ride (at Kolkata side) could give a spectacular view of the river bank (at Howrah side) and make a necklace like look at night with lights.

    Disclaimer: I do not stay or have any commercial interest or property at Howrah (!), however had spent golden 4 years of my student life near BGarden around 24 years back – hence might be these suggestions are biased by little nostalgia.

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  3. UnknownNovember 10, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Blogging and facebooking are PROHIBITED in China. So I couldn't make any posts while I was in China

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  4. AvickNovember 11, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    I suspected that. Really, things those we take for granted become so important when we do not get them. BTW, may be later, I will appreciate your attention on the wikimapia location and suggestion on the post above.

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  5. UnknownNovember 11, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    @Avick> Just saw the Wikimapia link. Land on Howrah side river bank is a problem. We've engaged a consultant to see what can be done to beautify Howrah river front. But renovation of several ghats on Howrah side is already taking place.

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  6. UnknownNovember 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM

    @pritamkumar: Further applications for Kalyani plots will be invited in Dec 2011. After this, the lottery will be held for the combined applications

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