| Pamposh Bhat | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 Sep Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Ethnicity | Kashmiri |
| Occupation | Managing Trustee, Jwala Trust for Sustainable Development |
| Religion | Hindu |
| Spouse | S. L. Bhat |
| Children | Two |
| Parents | Dulari and J.N Sarup |
Pamposh Bhat (Kashmiri: पम्पोश भट (Devanagari), پمپوش بھٹ (Nastaleeq)) (born September 19, Bhopal, India) is a New Delhi based environmentalist and award winning writer. Mrs. Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work "Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon).
Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for Jwala, a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India. She is a former member of the governing council of the Solar Energy Society of India.
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Ms Bhat studied at St. Joseph's Convent at Bhopal and attended the University of Bhopal (now Barkatullah University) where she studied Science as an undergraduate student and was awarded an M.Sc in Chemistry by the University.
She began her career at the University of Kashmir as a research scholar engaged by the University Grants Commission on a Phytochemistry research Project. She developed a strong interest in environmental policy during her tenure as a researcher and joined the United Nations Asia and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (UN-APCTT) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. At UN-APCTT she worked to promote the use of renewable energy and environmentally sound technologies in the country. During her time at UN-APCTT she also edited VATIS Update a journal of technological developments and events in the field of Non-conventional Energy. She is married to a prominent IAS officer of J&K S.L Bhat who is currently the chief of JK Public Service Commission.
Ms. Bhat joined GTZ-India, a bilateral development agency in 2003. Her mandate at GTZ-India was to promote the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in the country and help build a sustainable carbon market in India.[1][2][3]
An expert on climate change and renewable energy policy,[4] she is currently working as the country manager of the BMU CMD/JI Initiative in India.[5] As an expert on the CDM, she has been retained as a climate policy advisor by the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal.
Mrs Bhat has penned two collections of poems, Trishna (1995) and Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein (1993). Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein was adjudged the winner of the Rajbhasha Award as the best entry by a vernacular author writing in Hindi. In 2000, her short story Bub was made into an eponymous feature film Bub (film),[6] only the third feature film in the language and the first in 38 years.[7] The Film was awarded the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration in the 2002 National Film Awards by the President of India.