CAG celebrates 30 years 2015 October

Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG), a non-profit and non-political organisation, works to empower citizens, promote transparency and accountability, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. 

CAG was founded in October 1985 and celebrates 30 years this October. To mark its commitment to governance reform and to recognise the support of our friends and colleagues through this journey, CAG will host events throughout the year in Chennai. We invite you to a celebratory launch where we will be joined by people whose work embodies a deep commitment to “Transparency, Accountability and Citizen participation”.

Venue: Anna Institute of Management, Greenways Road, Chennai

Date: October 10, 2015 TIME		AGENDA (tentative)
09:00 - 9:30		Registration
09:30 - 10:30		Inaugural session
10:30 - 11:00		TEA
11:00 - 13:00	Technical session I		Technical session II
13:00 - 14:00		LUNCH
14:00 - 16:00	Technical session III		Technical session IV
16:00 - 17:00		TEA
17:00 - 19:00		Founders' Day Lecture

Inauguration Introduction	Mr. Sriram Panchu, Senior Advocate
Keynote Speaker	Justice Dr. S Muralidhar, Delhi High Court
Inaugural address	Mr. G Gurucharan, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, GoI

 Session I: Corporate Consumer Responsibility

Key Note Address	Mr. Kumar Jayant, IAS, Secretary, Labour and Employment Department and Commissioner of food safety, GoTN
Chair	Mr. S Gopalakrishnan, IAS, Commissioner, Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, GoTN
Panellists
After Sales Service	Mr. Keshav Desiraju, IAS (Retired), former Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, GoI
Financial Services	Mr. N.L. Rajah, Advocate
Health	Dr. George Thomas, Orthopaedic surgeon
Food Safety	Mr. Santhanarajan, Consumers Association of India

Session II: Smart Citizenship - challenges of a digital world Key-note address
Chair
Panellists
Data driven decision making	Dr. Vijay Pingale, IAS, Joint Secretary, Industries Department, GoTN
Dangers of data digitisation	Ms. Nisha Thompson, Data Meet
Data security risks	Mr. Sumit Dhar, Hewlett-Packard
Civic engagement in governance	Ms. Tara Murali, Architect and Urban Planner

Session III: Mitigating Climate change - can business lead the way? Key-note address		Mr. K. Skandan, IAS, Chairman, TNPCB
Government’s perspective		Mr. Malleshappa, Director, Department of MoEF and Climate Change
Chair		Dr. K Palanivelu, Director, Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University
Panellists
Energy		Ms. Bhargavi. S. Rao, Environment Support Group
Automobile Industry		Mr. Om Prakash Singh, CAG
Green Buildings		Mr. M Anand, Indian Green Building Council, CII
Session IV: Is the Sabarmati riverfront development model suitable for Chennai? Key-note address
Chair	Mr. PT Krishnan, Architect
Panellists	Mr. K Phanindra Reddy, IAS, Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply, GoTN
Mr. KT Ravindran, former head of Urban Planning, SAP, Delhi
Ms. R Geetha, Unorganised Workers Federation, Chennai
Ms. Renu Desai, Centre for Urban Equity, CEPT, Ahmedabad

Founder’s day lecture Founder’s day lecture

Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Senior Advocate

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