Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 14: Four-day training programme on “Natural Resources Law, Sustainable Development and Public Interest Advocacy” began at Nowgam campus of the Central University of Kashmir (CUK), here today.
In his welcome address, officiating Vice-Chancellor CUK, Prof Mehraj ud-Din said: “Environment is a very sensitive issue and we need to aware law professionals more and more about it. We will soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding with NLSIU to facilitate further research on environmental law.”
Speaking on the occasion, eminent jurist and Vice-Chancellor of NLSIU, Prof Venkata Rao said: “Have we forgotten the fact that we have borrowed the nature from our ancestors…we are not the last…we have to pass it to posterity.” Prof Rao quoted Mahatma Gandhi and said, “We have not created nature, let’s not destroy it.”
In the post-lunch session, eminent jurist, Prof Madhav Menon stressed on changing the name and style of course curriculum of environment law. “We should look at environment law not with conventional style. What is being taught by such rigid environmental law syllabus…this is not the approach where we teach environmental laws and court decisions,” he said.
Registrar Prof M Afzal Zargar and faculty members of Law Department were also present on the occasion.
According to Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain, Head, Department of Law, CUK, various themes proposed to be deliberated during the development programme include Environment as a Human Right, Inter-Generational Equity and Corporate Social Responsibility, Forest Laws, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, and Management of Ecological Upheavals in Third World, Water Resources Law and Management, and Environmental Dispute Settlement. A session will also be dedicated to Environmental Law Teaching and Research.
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