Indo – Israel Roundtable discussion on Water and Solar Power
Programme Schedule
09:45 – 10:00 am Registration / Tea, Coffee
10:00 – 10:30 am Welcome Remarks
Rajat Kathuria, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER
Special Remarks
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Niti Aayog
Opening Remarks
H.E. Daniel Carmon, Israel Ambassador to India
10:30 – 11:30 am Session -1
A. India’s Water Challenges: What India and Israel can do together to find possible solutions
(Presentation by Ashok Gulati & Team, ICRIER)
B. REWA: A Game Changer in Solar Industry
(Presentation by Manu Srivastava & Megha Singh, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh)
C. The Israeli story- policy, regulation, practice and technology
(Presentation by Uri Shani, Eran Pollak, Shabtai Cohen, Oded Distel, Anil B. Jain & Randhir Chauhan)
Open Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 am Tea/ Coffee break
11:45 – 01.00 pm Session-2
Brainstorming on
i. Indo-Israel Joint Partnership, Strategy & Implementation
ii. Toward the formulation of a joint policy paper
01:00 – 01:15 pm Concluding Remarks & Vote of Thanks
Ashok Gulati, Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture, ICRIER
01:15 pm onwards Lunch