National Bamboo Mission

National Consultation on Opportunities and Challenges for Bamboo in India

25- 26thFebruary 2021
DAY 1

1130 - 1230 INAUGURAL Welcome Address: Shri Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers
Welfare
Address: Shri Indevar Pandey, Special Secretary, DONER
Address: Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman NITI Aayog
Special Address: Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Minister for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Inaugural Address: Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare
1245 - 1400 Bamboo for Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Chairperson: Shri Shailendra Singh, Additional Secretary, Department for Promotion of
Session 1 Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT)

Panelists:
- Shri William Bissel, Chairman FabIndia
- Shri Sanjeev Jain, Head R&D, Orient Paper Mills
- Shri Neeraj Mutha, Director, Mutha Industries Pvt. Ltd. (Epitome)
- Shri PK Gupta, Chairman & Managing Director, NBCC (India) Limited
- Dr Rajeev Kandpal, CFO, Govt e-market place (GeM)
- Shri Rahul Saxena, Sustainable Options, Bhopal
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1430 - 1530 Promoting exports and global Chairperson: Shri Deepak Bagla, CEO Invest India
Session 2 branding
Panelists:
- Shri Sanjeev Karpe, Managing Director, Native KONBAC Bamboo Products Pvt. Ltd.
- Shri Rudra Chatterjee, Chairman Obeetee and Chairman Manor & Mews
- Shri Rakesh Kumar, DG Export Promotion Council of India
- Shri Vaibhav Anant, Bambrew, Bengaluru
- Ms. Manisha Pawar, New Business Development Manager, South Asia, IKEA India

1545 - 1645 Success Stories Chairperson: Shri Parshottam Rupala, Hon’ble Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers
Session 3 Welfare

Panelists:
- Shri Ram Kumar, APCCF, Mission Director, Gujarat
- Shri Arup Lalung, Progressive farmer from Assam
- Dr. Vipin Kumar Chawla, HoD,Centre for Bamboo Development, Indian Plywood
Industries Research & Training Institute
- Shri Sandeep Sangaru, Sangaru Design Studios

1700- 1800 Availability of Feedstock – Chairperson: Dr Jayaraj, Director Rain Forest Research Institute, Jorhat
Session 4 Management of Nurseries and
Plantations
Panelists:
- Dr. N. Barathi, Bamboo Scientist, Founder Director, Growmore Biotech Ltd
- Shri Gurpreet Singh, Guroofarms, Uddham Singh Nagar
- Dr Arunachalam, Director, Central Agroforestry Research Institute – ICAR Jhansi
- Shri Deepakk Goyal, MD, Green Earth Group
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1000 - 1100 Innovations, Research & Chairperson: Dr Anil Gupta, Founder HoneyBee Network, SRISTI, GIAN, National Innovation
Session 5 Development Foundation, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow

Panelists:
- Shri Amitabha Bandopdhyay, KENT Chair for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, IIT Kanpur
- Dr. Vijay Y. Karadbhajne, Head Department of Oil Technology, Laxminarayan Institute of
Technology, Nagpur
- Shri Anubav Mittal, CEO, Biomize
- Dr Ajay Thakur, Head of Genetics & Tree Improvement Division, Forest Research
Institute
- Shri Ved Prakash Soni, CEO, Prashant Bamboo Machines, Nagpur

1115 - 1230 Skill development Chairperson: Shri Praveen Kumar, Secretary M/o Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Session 6
Panelists:
- Dr Arunachalam, Director, Central Agroforestry Research Institute – ICAR Jhansi
- Shri Rajeev VK, Wind Craft, Kerala
- Shri Susanth CS, National Institute of Design Bengaluru
- Dr N. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Central Building Research Institute- Roorkee
- Dr. S K Negi, Central Building Research Institute- Roorkee
- Ms Monica Bahl, CEO, Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council

Signing of MoU between NBM and Handicraft and Carpet Sector Skill Council
1245 - 1345 Access to institutional credit Chairperson: Shri Vivek Sinha, CGM, NABARD
Session 7
Panelists:
- Shri Ajit Pai, Senior Advisor, NITI Aayog
- Shri B. Paulmuktieh Chairman, NEDFI
- Shri C S R Murthy, CGM Farm Sector Development, NABARD
- Shri M Krishna Rao, DGM, Agribusiness Operations, State Bank of India
- Shri Vivek Aggarwal, CEO, Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
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1415 - 1515 International Cooperation Chairperson: Shri P. Harish Additional Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs
Session 8
Panelists:
- Mr. Ikko Watanabe First Secretary ( Food & Agriculture), Japan Embassy
- Mr. Mr. Nilaya Mitash, Principal Operations Coordination Specialist, India Resident
Mission, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Mr Van Berkel Cornelius, Representative, UN Industrial Development Organisation
(UNIDO) (TBC)

1530 – 1700 VALEDICTORY i. Summing up of Sessions – Dr Alka Bhargava, Additional Secretary, DACFW
ii. High level panel discussion on way ahead for Indian Bamboo
- Shri Parshottam Rupala, Hon’ble MOS Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Shri Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble MOS (i/c) DONER
- Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO NITI Aayog
- Shri Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers Welfare
- Dr Sanjay Kumar, Director General of Forests & SS, MoEFCC
- Shri Pasha Patel, Maharashtra
iii. Vote of thanks: Ms Chhavi Jha, Joint Secretary & Mission Director NBM