23 September
9:00 – 10:40 AM    Impact of the Bank on Human Rights
Impact on Food Security
  • Utsa Patnaik
Credit Delivery and the Agrarian Crisis
  • C.P. Chandrshekar
Employment
  • Praveen Jha
Electricity Reform
  • Sreekumar N. Prayas
Agrarian Reform
  • Devinder Sharma, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM    Agriculture
Presentation on the World Bank and Agriculture
  • Suman Sahai, Gene Campaign, New Delhi
  • Anil Chowdhry, PEACE, New Delhi
  • G.V. Ramanjaneyulu, Centre for Sustainaible Agriculture
  • Sanjay Vijayvergiya, Centre for Policy research, Lucknow
  • Bhaskar Goswami, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security
  • Afsar Jafri, Focus on Global South, Mumbai
Impact on Farmers
  • Sukhpal Singh, Punjab Agriculture University
  • Sukhdev Singh Khokri, Bharti Kissan Union (ETKA)
  • Jagmohan Singh Patiala, Bharti Kissan Union (Dakonda)
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM    Labour
The World Bank, Labour and the Impact on Fisheries
  • J. John, Centre for Education and Communication
National Thermal Power Corporation, Singrauli
  • Roma, National Trade Union Initiative
Industrial Finance Corporation of India and Impact on
Labour of Restructuring
  • Industrial Finance Corporation of India Employees Union
Impacts on Labour
  • Mahadevan, All India Trade Union Congress
  • C.H. Venkatachalam, All India Bank Employees' Association
Power and Labour: Deposition from Orissa
    Public Sector Disinvestment and Electricity: Deposition from Bengalore
      3:00 – 4:00 PM    Dalits and the World Bank
      Dalits and Post-Disaster
        Dalits and Education
        • Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
        3:00 – 4:00 PM    Mining
        Failure of the World Bank's Accountability Mechanism
        • Deposition from affected communities in Jharkhand
        4:30 – 5:30 PM    Food Sovereignty
        World Bank and Food Security
        • Kavita Srivastava
        Public Distribution System
        • Biraj Patnaik
        The Integrated Child Development Scheme
        • Jean Dreze
        World Bank and Marginalized Communities
        • Harsh Mander, Food First and Action Network (FIAN)
        World Bank and Food Security Abroad
        • Madhura Swaminathan
        5:30 – 6:30 PM    Jury
        Initial Findings
        • Abid Hassan Minto
        • S.P. Shukla
        • Sulak Sivaraska
        9:00 – 11:00 PM    Discussion on Alternatives
        ALternatives in Agriculture
        • G.V. Ramanjaneyulu, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Hyperabad
        • Umendra Dutt, Dheti Virasat Mission, Punjab
        • Rajiv Khedar, Academy for Development Sciences, Pune
        • Vijay Jardhari, Bee Bachao Andolan, Uttarakhand
        • Devinder Sharma, Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security
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