The city hosted 6th Environment Partnership Summit on 21-22 February at the Hayaat Regency, which focused on Green Economy as a road map for sustainable industrial development. The summit was organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce where a host of issues were discussed, such as importance of alternative energy, technology transfer, indigenous development of technology, policy development just to name a few. Minister -In-Charge of Dept. of Environment, West Bengal, Dr. Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, while addressing the gathering said, "Green economy is only way to go ahead with sustainable economy." He said that West Bengal has abundant renewable energy sources, especially solar energy and asked the corporate houses to step forward with green projects assuring them full support from his department. Chairman of WPCB, Prof. Binay K Datta said "not much of electronic wastes are dismantled and processed in our state, infact there are not enough units throughout the country which can dismantle and extract valuables from e-wastes." Now attention is being paid on the issue and two units are coming up in the state, he added. He also mentioned about the inefficient recycling process being carried out by the unorganised sector. ICC President, Dr. Rajeev Singh suggested, "we need to do environmental risk profiling of West Bengal and look at various kind of risks which Bengal has, whether in terms of sea level rising, pollution of water in Ganges, change in climate, what impact it can have on crops, whether there is a need to change its cropping pattern" He further said that ICC will be happy to be involved in such a study, which will be benefiting the sate in long run.
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