9^th NORTHEAST GREEN SUMMIT 2024

About the Summit

         We are thrilled to welcome you to the Northeast Green Summit 2024. The Northeast Green Summit is an annual event dedicated to advancing environmental sustainability in Northeast India. Northeast Green Summit aims to celebrate the rich and diverse natural and cultural heritage of Northeast India, showcase their inter-linkages and focus on the need for an integrated approach for sustaining this heritage. The Summit is striving towards preserving, maximizing and developing the potential of the unique biodiversity zone of Northeast India through various awareness programmes highlighting, amongst other things, various sustainable livelihood options and associated skills. The discussions will link and draw lessons from science, culture and market mechanisms. Through seminars, workshops, and collaborative projects, we endeavor to address the region’s most pressing environmental challenges. Join us in our mission to create a sustainable and resilient future for our communities.

       This year, we focus on the critical theme of "Pollution Control and Waste Management for Sustainable Development". Our goal is to bring together experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts to discuss and develop strategies for a greener & cleaner future. 

Mission

• To provide a platform for academicians, research scholars, industry leaders, policymakers, student organizations, civil society representatives, media persons, NGOs, etc. to deliberate and design effective solutions for key environmental challenges being faced in Northeast India.
• Robust and scientific planning can result in converting these challenges into potential opportunities for supporting sustainable development and ecological conservation in the region.
• This year, our emphasis would be pollution control & waste management for sustainable development.

Instructions to Authors

    Authors are invited to submit abstracts (about 250 words) in Ms- word by November 28, 2024 either by clicking the link given under Registration or by scanning the QR code given in the flyer. Title, name of author(s), and affiliations along with email addresses are must. Abstract should contain an introductory statement outlining the background and significance of the study, a succinct description of the basic methodologies used, a clear indication of the major findings of the study and a concluding statement. For final acceptance of the paper, the registration of at least one author is mandatory.

Registration

Registration is open for both participants with and without paper. Registration fee for paper presenter is Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only). Participation in the summit is free of charge for those not presenting a paper.

1. FOR PAPER PRESENTERS:   Click Here 
2. FOR PARTICIPANTS (WITHOUT PAPER):  Click Here 

Participants are responsible for their own travel and daily expenses. Accommodation will be provided on paid basis only. All attendees will enjoy local hospitality, featuring a seminar kit, breakfast, lunch, and high tea.

About Cotton University

Cotton University, erstwhile Cotton College, is a Public State University located in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam. In its glorious journey of more than a hundred years, this institution has, always been witnessing to and an active participant in most of the socio-cultural and political debates, discourses and movements.of contemporary times. It had also been the centre of the national freedom movement as well as numerous literary and cultural engagements of the state that cemented Assam's status as an integral part of India. In 2011, Cotton College State University was established: vide an Act of the Government of Assam, with Cotton College as its constituent unit. Cotton University came into existence in 2017 via The Cotton University Act, 2017 that enabled the unification of Cotton College State University and Cotton College. Cotton University makes history as Assam's first public university to secure 'A' grade in NAAC's first evaluation.

About VIBGYOR NE Foundation

Vibgyor N.E. Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, specialises in green issues of Northeast India & works closely with other groups in this sector in the region. Vibgyor has completed 8 successful years of Northeast Green Summit, the only such annual conclave of the region. The 9^th edition of Northeast Green Summit focuses on POLLUTION CONTROL & WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 

Organizing Committee

ADVISORY BOARD

• Shri Jishnu Dev Varma, Hon'ble Governor, Telangana
• Shri Mama Natung, Minister, Home & Inter State Border Affairs, Public Health Engineering (PHE) & Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA), Arunachal Pradesh
• Shri C. P. Marak, IFS (Retd.), Chairman, Meghalaya Board of School Education
• Dr Rajdeep Roy, Former Member of Parliament, Silchar
• Shri Naveen Verma, IAS (Retd.), Former Secretary, Ministry of DoNER

ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

• Prof. S. K. Kakoty, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
• Prof. Sudip Mitra, Head, School of Agro & Rural Technology (SART) & Founding Head, Centre for Disaster Management & Research (CDMR), IIT Guwahati
• Dr Siddhartha Singha, School of Agro & Rural Technology (SART), IIT Guwahati
• Shri Madhab Chandra Talukdar, Head of the Dept. of Botany (Retd.), Handique Girls' College
• Ninth Northeast Green Summit Organising Team: Cotton University & Pollution Control Board, Assam

PATRON

• Prof. Ramesh Chandra Deka, Vice Chancellor, Cotton University, Guwahati
• Dr Arup Misra, Chairman, Pollution Control Board, Assam
• Shri Jatindra Sarma, IFS (Retd.) Chairman, State Environment Assessment Committee, Assam 

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• Chairperson: Prof. Ramesh Chandra Deka
• JointConvenor: Dr Rahul Mahanta & Dr Hiren Deka 

COORDINATORS OF VARIOUS COMMITTEES

ACADEMIC CORE COMMITTEE

• Prof. Rakhee Kalita Moral
• Prof. Arup Kumar Hazarika 
• Prof. Sudipta Nandy
• Dr Rahul Mahanta
• Dr Merry Baruah Bora
• Prof. Eeshan Kalita
• Dr Manash Pratim Dutta

LOGISTICS COMMITTEE

• Dr Tazuddin Ahmed
• Dr Devajit Basumatary
• Dr Abu Mohd Pharhad Hussain 

REGISTRATION COMMITTEE

• Dr Sayanika Dutta
• Dr Manash Pratim Dutta

FINANCE COMMITTEE

• Dr Bandana Sharma
• Mr. Prasenjit Chakraborty

PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE

• Dr Sayanika Dutta
• Dr Muktikam Hazarika

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

• Dr Manash Pratim Dutta
• Mr. Mridul R Hazarika

VOLUNTEER COORDINATION COMMITTEE

• Dr Jinu Devi Rajkumari
• Dr Prasanta Sarma

HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE

• Dr Devajit Basumatary
• Dr Ambeswar Gogoi
• Dr Purabi Deka Bose

INAUGURATION AND VALEDICTORY PROGRAM, GREEN MUSIC: RHYTHM OF THE HILLS, GREEN AWARDS

• Prof. Rakhee Kalita Moral
• Dr Merry Baruah Bora
• Dr Akunthita Borthakur

NORTHEAST FOREST MINISTERS CONCLAVE

• Prof. Sudipta Nandy
• Dr Rahul Mahanta
• Dr Hiren Deka

ARANYANI: THE DOCUFEST

• Dr Rahul Mahanta
• Dr Anup Kumar Nath

STALLS SHOWCASING GREEN PRODUCTS

• Dr Dulumoni Das
• Dr Tazuddin Ahmed
• Dr Abu Mohd Pharhad Hussain

INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING, AND INDIGENOUS TATTOO

• Prof. Rakhee Kalita Moral
• Dr Chandana Sarma
• Dr Ritika Sahu

HOW GREEN IS MY SCHOOL

• Dr Mayuri Chabukdhara
• Dr Pratisha Padmasri Deka

BIODIVERSITY TOUR

• Dr Narayan Sharma
• Dr Ajanita Mazumdar

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE OF WASTE: CREATION SHELTER FOR BIRDS OUT OF WASTE

• Prof. Sudipta Nandy
• Dr Reetuparna Patowary
• Dr Narayan Sharma