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Over 100 students and professors at the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT) University attended Phase I of the six-week workshop on the Sabarmati River Basin,on Monday.
The two-phase workshop will be a brainstorming session. Issues that have been identified will be looked at from various angles. The findings will culminate in a book,and at least one workshop most likely on the area along Ahmedabads Sunday Market will be presented to the public through a poster exhibition.
The session had introductions by the lead faculty for three sub-workshops in Phase I that will look at different stretches of the river.
Prof Parthasarathy of the faculty of Planning and Public Policy will head the workshop,which will look at a 10km stretch near the confluence of the Vartak and Sabarmati. The Integrated Water Resources Management policy mainly looks at rivers as a water resource, he said. Prof Bernard Kohn,a French architect and visiting faculty at CEPT,will lead a session that will study the area around the Sunday Market and the issues of accessibility to the river. The workshop by Prof Seema Khanwalkar of semiotics will look at how communities on the river banks react to water in terms of architecture,infrastructure and customs.
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