ACTIVITIES

Date: February 14, 2009
Jointly Organized by: IIT Delhi and CARI, Port Blair
Venue: IIT Delhi
Supported by: Ministry of Water Resources, GOI

Preamble to the workshop  

Every Drop Counts
Water is a very precious commodity but huge quantity of water is lost through seepage in canals, ponds, tanks and reservoirs. This becomes critical for pond used in aquaculture. To overcome these problems, impermeable sheet materials such as HDPE are used internationally, but due to their large thicknesses these tend to be very expensive and are not used in the country.

IIT Delhi has developed novel sheet materials*, with thickness of around 0.6mm and are comparable in puncture resistance to HDPE sheets of 1.5mm. These sheets have been successfully tested for water  seepage control for several years at IARI Delhi, IIT Delhi, WTCER Bhubaneshwar, CARI Port Blair and by an NGO at Karjat, Maharashtra. Thus, these sheets may thus prove very effective in water conservation. These may also be very useful for creating barriers for water storage. These sheets are effective for housing and construction, specially for roof and basement, as a water barrier element and can make their designs much less expensive.
These are the issues to be dealt with in the upcoming  workshop. A visit to the pond at IITD is proposed, where this sheet material is under test for last several years.      
*A part of this work was supported by MORW,GOI.

Objective of The Workshop This workshop intends to provide information on current trends developments and applications of impermeable sheet materials for water seepage control. The target participants of the workshop are Ministry Officials of Central/State governments, Senior Engineers of public works division involved in water management works of canals, dams & ponds as well as NGO’s related with water management. Members of the of related institutes are invited to participate. The broad topics to be covered in the workshop are sheet materials for seepage control.

Organizing committee members

• Dr. B. L. Deopura, IIT Delhi
  
• Dr. B. R. Chahar, IIT Delhi
  
• Dr. Bhuvanesh Gupta, IIT Delhi
• Dr. S. K. Ambast, CARI, Port Blair
  
• Dr A K Ghosh, IIT Delhi
  
• Dr U K Niyogi, SRI Delhi
  
• Mr. Ulhas Paranjpe, NGO, Maharashtra

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Timing: 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

• Registration of Delegates
• Inaugural Function
• Tea
• Technical Session 1
• Lunch
• Technical Session 2

SPONSORS
Sponsorships from different organizations will be accepted as per following rates. Conference sponsor will be a joint organizer for this event. The sponsors will have three free delegates for participation in the conference. Co-sponsorships will also be available for hoisting tea and lunches in the Workshop.

Registration Fees:Rs 1000
Payment may be deposited at A/C No. 00322000003811, HDFC Bank, or through D.D. in favour of Fiber Forum India, Delhi.

PAST FFI EVENTS

• Conference on 'Polypropylene Filaments in the New Millennium' January, 2000.
• Seminar on 'Innovations in Man Made Fibre Production', December 2001.
• Conference on 'Polymers & Textiles in the New Millennium' February 2002
• Conference on 'Environmental Management in Textile Industry', April 2003.
• Seminar on 'Emerging Nanotechnologies for Polymers & Textiles', March 2007.

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