CALL FOR PAPERS  

 Papers within Bangladesh should be submitted to:

 Prof. M. Feroze Ahmed Department of Civil Engineering, BUET
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

Telephones:  (880 2) 9663693; Fax: (880 2) 9663695

E-mail:  itn@agni.com

Papers outside Bangladesh should be submitted to:

Professor Saleh A. Tanveer

Department of Mathematics Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio 43210
USA

Telephone: 614-292-5710   Fax: 614-292-1479

E-mail: tanveer@math.ohio-state.edu

VENUE

 The conference will be held in a suitable venue at Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The specific venue will be confirmed soon.

REGISTRATION 

Registration is not a prerequisite to attend the conference. The participants willing to join in lunches and have their names published in the post-conference documents would require their names to be registered. The registration fee per person will be BDT.200 (Taka Two hundred) only.

Prospective participants may also choose to send their name and addresses (including e-mail) to the ‘Contact Address’ to get updated about the progress of the Conference organization and also participate in it suitably.

ORGANIZERS AND COMMITTEES

BAPA, BEN and BEA are proposed to be the main organizers of this conference so far. However, some other organizations agreeing with the objectives of the conference may also join as organizers of this conference.

International Conference 
on

  Regional Cooperation in Water Use:

  The Impact of the Indian

River-Linking Scheme

    December 17-19, 2004

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ANNOUNCEMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS

AND

REGISTRATION

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  Conference Organizers  

¨     Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA)

¨     Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN)

¨     Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA)

     ( Others to be named later on  confirmation )

Contact Address:

Member Secretary,  
Conference Organizing Committee   Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA)  
9/12 Block-D 
Lalmatia, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh

Phone : (800 - 2)  8128024, 8113469, or  018-218035  
e-mail: bapa@sdnbd.org

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this conference is to bring together experts and activists from the countries of the South Asian region as well as from the rest of the world in order to examine the impact of the Indian government’s river-linking scheme from the point of view of regional cooperation necessary to harness the water resources of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin.

The conference is expected to achieve the following concrete objectives:

§     Scientifically analyze all aspects of the river-linking project and explore alternative ways for regional cooperation in water use.

§     Help persuade the Indian government to reconsider the river-linking project in the light of the views of a large body of experts and activists from both India and Bangladesh, as well as from other parts of the world, gathered in the conference.

§     Establish unity among experts and activists of the region through free  exchange of ideas and opinions and dissemination of information relevant to the river-linking project.

§     Sensitize the general public of the region and the international community about the river-linking project and its potential impacts.

FORMAT 

The conference will have a dual format. On the one hand, it will have Expert Sessions, for presentation of papers and discussion by regional and international experts. On the other hand, the conference will have General Sessions for presentation and discussion by activists and other members of the public. Various exhibitions and cultural programs will also be organized during the conference.