Media Colleagues:

Please find attached the invite for the Doers’ Walk for Water.

The Doers’ Walk for Water is being organized by the NGO FORCE, in partnership with the UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC), and several other organizations, to felicitate those who have taken the lead in Water Conservation and Efficient Water management.

School and College students, representatives of Residents Welfare Associations, Corporate Employees, Civil Society members and Community groups that have voluntarily worked for the cause of water conservation, will be participating in the Walk. VENUE: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi

The programme schedule is as given below.

Program schedule

9.15 – 10 am           – Registration and assembly on the JN Stadium track

10.00 – 10.15 am      - 5 ‘R’s join forces on the track

10.15– 10.35 am       – Flagging off and Doers’ join the Walk for Water

10.35 – 10.40am       - Entry into the Hall of Fame and start of the Finale

10.40 – 10.45 am      - Welcome Address by Jyoti Sharma, FORCE

10.45 – 11.00am       - Address by Guest of Honour - Neeraj Jain – WaterAid India

– Vijay Kumar - CEO Delhi Jal Board

11.00 – 11.15am       - UN Address by Guest of Honour - Kiran Mehra Kerpelman - UNIC Director for India and Bhutan

11.15 - 11.40am        - Pledge and Certificate awarding ceremony by Chief Guest - Sh Kapil Mishra Dy Chairman, DJB and Guests of Honor

11.40 – 12 noon       - Speech by Chief Guest

12 noon                    - Vote of thanks followed by Media interaction, Registrations for ‘Doers Federation’ and recording of Doers’ Stories.  

For Media

1)   We will be facilitating media interaction with the Special guests

2)    We will also arrange media meetings with some ‘Doers’ – you may like to do a feature on them

3)    A ‘Hall of Fame’ will be made. Based on the information available with FORCE, we will be making a collage of ‘Doers and their contributions to Delhi’s Water.   

Thank you for all your support so far. I look forward to more of the same.

Thanks, regards

   

Jyoti Shoarma (Ashoka Fellow)                                                                              Mamta Singh                                                    Sanjiv Sharma
President, FORCE                                                                                            Blue India Program Manager – 8745017931                  Director – Projects - 8745017933

Ph: 8745017926

Member – National Groundwater Advisory Council (Ministry of Water Resources)

Member – Forum to improve Groundwater Availability in NCT Delhi and around

For more about FORCE please visit us at www.force.org.in