Affiliations and Achievements:
Conference presentations:
1. Great Rivers Forum 2018 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China co-hosted by UNESCO-IHP and Wuhan Municipal People’s Government, China
Title: Redesigning a river : The Sabarmati in Ahmedabad (Travel and stay funded by UNESCO Beijing)
2. 2nd Edition of International Conference on Heritage Management Education and Practice: Developing Integrated Approaches & Expo of Best Practices in Integrated Heritage Management, 2018
Title: Travelling Heritage : A case of Kutchi Bhunga
Awareness programmes:
1. Conducted 50+ Human-Elephant coexistence awareness and human safety programmes in different villages across Northern West Bengal.?
2. Capacity building programmes for government officials: West Bengal Forest Department, Department of School and Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC), Tea Estate Authorities and community members?
3. Environment education workshops in Government High Schools for senior secondary students (tribal students majority).
Livelihood and human safety interventions:
1. Installation of community-managed low-cost wildlife-friendly fences around crop fields.
2. Setting up trail cameras in tea estates (outside Protected areas) to document the elephant movement pattern.?
3. Early alert system for tracking elephant movement and ensuring human safety: Creating WhatsApp groups with tea estate authorities, including watchmen, sardars, tea estate managers, panchayat officials and local communities to report elephant movement in their area and ensure human safety.
4. Distribution of flashlights and human safety equipments to local communities in different villages across Northern West Bengal.