Amritsar, March 22 : A two- day UGC-SAP sponsored National Seminar on “Environmental Management” was inaugurated here today in the Guru Nanak Bhawan Auditorium of the University. This Seminar is being organized by the Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences of the Guru Nanak Dev University
Prof. V.K. Jain, Vice Chancellor, Doon University, Dehradoon was the chief guest while Prof. R.K. Kohli, Dean and Professor, Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Dr. Rajiv Manhas, Deputy Librarian & Head, Library Faculty, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot were also present. Dr. Adarsh Pal Vig, Head of the Department welcomed the chief guests and others while Dr. Ashwani Kumar Thukral, Director of Reasearch presented vote of thanks on this occasion.
The first scientific session included a presentation by Prof. V.K. Jain on global environmental issues such as ozone depletion and drastic climate changes that are causing serious imbalance in the world today. He enlightened the audience about the hazards of ozone depleting compounds and the role of international and national convention to counter and control the ongoing environmental damage. Prof. Avinash Nagpal of the department chaired this session and introduced the speaker.
The second scientific session included a talk by Prof. R.K. Kohli who drew attention to the role of public and government sectors for the management and conservation of forests for sustainable livelihood. He made the audience aware about the raging environmental concerns of the common man and the much needed execution of laws to save forest resources. This session was chaired by Prof. Renu Bharadwaj.
The third session focused on a talk by Dr. Rajiv Manhas on the use of Statistical package on Social Science (SPSS) Predictive Analysis Software (PNSW) Statistics for data analysis. This session was chaired by Dr. Saroj Arora.
The guests were also honoured by Prof. Vig and Prof. Thukral. Professors, Dr. A.S. Soodan, Dr. Satwinderjit Kaur, Dr. Jatinder Kaur, Er. M.S. Bhatti, Er. Bhupinder Singh, Dr. Harpreet Walia (faculty advisor) and Dr. Rajbir Kaur and all research fellows and students were also present on this occasion.