Eco-Watch

          Eco-Watch was established in 1998 by Suresh Heblikar, a wellknown filmmaker and environmentalist with its key objective of spreading a message of environmental conservation through relevant, focused yet diverse programmes and activities. These outreach activities are aimed at building awareness about various environmental issues and concerns among student communities, organisations, corporate entities and the masses, in a simple yet effective manner. This will hopefully create an eco-conscious culture which will help protect and improve existing ecological and environmental conditions in both urban and rural areas. The activities include ongoing research based projects and programmes, thematic campaigns, field studies, surveys and documentation in collaboration with our technical associates-inspired and dedicated people who offer us the wealth of their experience and expertise.

          Our local and regional outreach programmes involve communities across the state and help them address key environmental issues in their areas. This is done with the help of strategies that are sustainable and self-empowering.

          More importantly, Eco-Watch campaigns for a simpler lifestyle through the development of small towns as growth centres rather than megacities, mass transport as mode of travel, development of peri-urban centres as buffer zones between cities and villages, decentralization of industrial and economic activities and promotion of cleaner technologies.

          our recent development is the ‘Corporate Partnership Programme’ in association with socially aware corporate bodies. Together, we hope to address and find solutions in areas of mutual concern such as water conservation, urban reforestation, energy conservation, waste management and the like.