World Environment Day 2013: TOI green seminar today

BHUBANESWAR: The Times of India will organize a World Environment Day forum on Wednesday, where experts from different fields will discuss environment issues in context of Odisha. The event also aims at spreading awareness on Think.Eat.Save, an anti-food waste campaign, of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for this year.
Odisha forest and environment minister Bijayshree Routray will be chief guest at the inaugural function while Nalco CMD Ansuman Das and JSPL MD and state head Subrat Ratho will be the guests of honour.
There would be two sessions. Prominent personalities such as principal of Swosti School of Social Science Hemant Suar, state head of UNDP Ambika Prasad Nanda, vice-president of Mayfair Group Pooja Ray and Sanghmitra Nayak from SOA University will analyse the UNEP sustainable consumption theme, in the first session. In the second, former forest and environment secretary Arabind Behera, Nalco's Jiban Mohapatra and former Odisha State Pollution Control Board chairman C R Dash will analyse environment in Odisha context.