19 May 2007 : First in the Fortnightly Series of Meeting

A small capsule of the discussion today

Attendees : Sandeep, Mohan, Rakesh, Yenne, Roopa.

The meeting started with moving from the venue to Megh Sagar on CMH Road for the hungry souls to have a stomach load of food. After which we came back to the Indira Nagar Park.

Some notes before I list down the actions and decisions that were taken in the meeting :

During the meeting we had a call with the DFO Mr Kumar Pushkar and the ACF Mr Shiv Kumar to discuss the following :

¨ To get the wording for the sign boards – one volunteer needs to call Mr ShivKumar on Monday 5/21 to get the material from him

¨ Seek permission to place the sign boards to which Mr Kumar Pushkar suggested that we approach the PCCF (WL) in Aranya Bhavan

After the initial discussions here are the list of Action Items that were identified :

1. List of phone numbers of all the known volunteers to be prepared by Vijay and the same forwarded to Roopa
2. Roopa to send the list of phone numbers to Madhu (volunteer who is willing to spend some time each week during working days). Roopa to speak with Madhu and explain what is required for discussions with each volunteer
3. Roopa to speak with ACF (with the help of another Kannada speaking volunteer and get wordings of the sign boards from the Forest Dept
4. Roopa to also get the costing and a sample sign board and details of fabrication required before the 2 Jun meeting
5. Rakesh to identify good, durable, eco-friendly bins and buy a sample before the 2 Jun meeting
6. A suggestion that we work with a corporate to employ additional security or on weekends when security needs are lesser – deploy four security folks at Mutthathi to screen people from carrying plastic and provide alternative cloth bags at the road heads. Roopa to speak with Mr Anil Rai – another volunteer who is willing to implement small projects end-to-end.
7. During this week – Sandeep and Mohan are planning to make visits to Aranya Bhavan to meet the PCCF (WL) in case the PCCF (WL) is not away on travel.
8. Roopa to prepare a brief proposal by Clean and Green to state our intention towards a Private Public Partnership for placing signboards and bins and also provide security service to monitor plastic traffic in Mutthathi
9. Vijay to send all the trip reports to Mohan who will create a dossier for the meetings with the PCCF (WL) this week
10. Sandeep volunteered to coordinate a trip for Mohan’s contacts – many of whom are wanting to do a trip – the trip is planned for 17 Jun. Separate mails on this follows.
11. Vijay is to follow up with Mrs SenGupta – HOD Dept of Sociology in Christ College (w/o Principal Secretary Environment, Conservation and Ecology) for building awareness and also explore possibilities of doing a trip with the students.
12. Sandeep will get in touch with some of the other members of the team to setup a visioning exercise.