National Drinking Water Conference by ICC

Bhubaneswar :National Drinking Water Summit by Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has been inaugurated at Bhubaneswar.This
Two day conclave is presided by ICC Expert Committee on Water whose Chairman Ankur Patni, in his welcome address mentioned about the good progress made for enhancing drinking Water availability across the country and the state of Odisha through positive policy interventions by various govt stake holders and implementation with active contribution by the private sector. He added that we need to learn from our experiences and further improve future implementations with increased collaboration between government and private sector. Soumendra Priyadarshi, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, joined as guest of honor in this program .He spoke about the important role which administrator like him can play in improving water security of our cities states and country.The program had BMC commissioner Vijay Amruta Kulange, IAS, as chief guest who thanked ICC and Emphasized the need to ensure that optimum quality of water reaches every doorstep. He also said that we should ensure that there is equitable availability of high quality water.
Er Pradipta Kumar Swain, CEO, WATCO, Govt of Odisha spoke about The challenge of getting the 24 by 7 water implementation needs to be addressed and it will be successful only by the combined efforts of political will , right technology and public participation. How these three come together, will ensure the same. The execution team also has a key role to play. He also emphasized on the fact that a third world war could be around cornering the dearth of water and we need to join hands together, to ensure that it doesn’t happen.

Ms D Thara, IAS, additional secretary, MoU, DHA, GoI quite elaborately spoke on how the entire country as a whole is working to have a 24 by 7 system implementation. Digitisation was a plausible suggestion put forth by her. Manufacturers need to integrate digitisation in their products, rather than focusing on a post production phase. She also shed light on the misconception of non revenue water – the term should rather mean those means and systems which have not been regularised. We need to increase availability of water to address this.
Govt sector is keen to work with pvt sector including startups to combat the current scenario.
ICC State Council Chairman J B Pany delivered the vote of thanks

In this program Dr. Malaya Pradhan, Deputy Director of Factories and Boilers (Safety), Ashok Kumar Mishra, CGM (Environment)graced the occasion. Dr. Sunil Kumar Ambast, Chairman, CGWB, Ministry of jal shakti Dept of water Resources Government of India,expressed his opinion on the importance of water in today’s times and 24-hour water supply. . In first technical session discussion takes place on the corporate overview. Ajay Popat, Chairman, Ion Exchange, Dr. IAS, Ashish Agarwal, Managing Director, Oriplast, Sourav Das Patnaik, Managing Director, Swach, Ravindra Ulangwar, Head, Willow Mather & Platt Pumps Pvt Ltd and Umesh Kulkarni (GM Water Management, wilo mather & platt pumps pvt ltd… Mr Deepak Baliga,MD,AVK Valves India Pvt Ltd, Mr Kaushik Palicha, Managing Director, Ram Charan Co. EFW LLP were the keynote speakers.In the second session, about 24/7 water supply in Odisha and development of water supply in India were discussed. Pradeep Kumar Swain, CEO of Watco, Sumoueendra Ghosh, Global Practice Head, KPMG,Shaurya Bhaglal, Data Specialist, Invest India were present. In the third session discussion takes place about the government’s approach to drinking water. Vinayak Bhatt, Director, GW,, Department of Jal Shakti dept of water Resources, Government of India, along with Dr. Ramakant, CPHEEO, MoHUA,, expressed his views. Sourav Das Patnaik, Managing Director of Swachh, proposed the vote of thanks. ICC Regional Head JP Pal and other members were present in the event.