Former Vice President Hamid Ansari will inaugurate an international conference on ‘Thoughts and Ideas for a Resilient Kerala’ here on Thursday.
The inaugural function of the four-day event will be held at the Kerala Assembly hall at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday. Subsequent sessions will be held at the Institute of Management in Government (IMG) campus. The event is being organised jointly by the Kerala State Higher Education Council and the Janaavishkaara People’s Web Portal.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will chair the inaugural session. The sessions will cover topics related to environment, infrastructure, livelihood and culture.
This includes land use, hydrology, climate change and governance under ‘environment.’ Agricultural and forest-related livelihoods and e-mobility are among the issues that will be discussed under ‘livelihood.’Other topics include smart communication, smart cities, housing and transport systems under ‘infrastructure;’ and the impact of globalisation and neo-liberalisation, challenges in higher education and Kerala renaissance under ‘culture.’
Sharing ideas
The mid-August floods wreaked considerable havoc to infrastructure and economic activity in the State, but it also effectively demonstrated how coordinated social mobilisation can mitigate the effects of natural calamities. The workshop will focus concentrate on sharing ideas towards building a resilient Kerala that is capable of withstanding similar disasters, the organisers said.
The event will conclude on Sunday.