The First National Students’ Conference on River Basin Planning was held at IIT-Kanpur in which selected students from all of the IITs as well as other universities across India attended. H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Founder of Ganga Action, delivered an unforgettable and inspiring speech to all of the students about the need to restore and maintain Ganga and the important role youth play in being the change. Eminent experts and scientists, such as Dr. Vinod Tare, Dr. Rajiv Sinha, Dr. TV Prabhakar, Shri Rajinder Singh and many others, all of whom are members of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) or are a key part of the Ganga River Basin Ecological Management Plan (GRBEMP), shared their knowledge and motivated students to act now.
Some two hundred students were carefully selected from hundreds of applicants based on their interest and desire to serve the important cause of restoring, protecting and maintaining Ganga. Sessions were held to learn about and discuss the various aspects of river basin planning, with an emphasis on the Ganga River basin, such as geological, socio-cultural, legal, and ecological and many other thematic areas of management.
