Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: A National level seminar on the topic “Changing Paradigm in Civil Engineering: Challenges & Opportunities” was held today at Aryans Group of Colleges, Chandigarh.
Governor Tripura, Tathagata Roy was the Chief Guest on the occasion; Director, NITTTR, Dr MP Poonia and Vice Chancellor, MRS-PTU, Bathinda, Prof (Dr) MPS Ishar was the guest of honour while Dr Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group presided over the function.
Governor Tripura who travelled from Agartala to Delhi but due to ill health couldn’t travel further from Delhi to Chandigarh, interacted with Aryans students through video conferencing and extended his good wishes to the students.
Dr MP Poonia said that civil engineering being the oldest branch plays a significant role in developing the infrastructure of villages and cities of India.
Prof (Dr) MPS Ishar appreciated the fact that the trend of civil engineering has gone up among the students of India in last 2-3 years as and is expected to go up even further as India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
Dr Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group said that civil engineering requires a lot of infrastructure in the form of laboratories equipments and experienced faculty. He added that the interest and further innovations of Aryans JK students in civil engineering has done wonders in last 8-9 years.
S Har Amrit Singh Sandhu, Faculty, Civil Engineering, PEC University, Chandigarh, said that this profession recognizes the reality of limited natural resources, the desire for sustainable practices and the need for social equity in the consumption of resources.
Dr Sachin, Rajdeep Kaur, Gurmeet Singh, Saurav, Sulekha, Rayees Ahmad etc also presented their papers on various aspects including the critical roles of civil engineering in addressing the large-scale challenges faced by the society including access to affordable health care; tracking the coupled issues of energy, transportation and climate change; providing more equitable access to information for our populations; clean drinking water; natural and man-made disaster mitigation, environmental protection and natural resource management etc.
Dr Parveen Kataria, Director General; Dr Manjula Kataria, Principal, Aryans Group; Prof B S Sidhu, Registrar; Prof A P Jain, Director; Ms Sukhaman Bath, Coordinator etc were also present on the occasion.
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