Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Feb 29: Three- day International Conference on Water Conservation began today at Govt Degree College Udhampur, in which hundreds of delegates from across the country and abroad are participating to deliberate, discuss and evolve the methodologies for conservation of water.
The conference was inaugurated this morning by Talat Parvez Rohella, Secretary Higher Education Department, who said that the need of the hour is to derive strategies to maintain balance between our needs vis-à-vis the nature. He accentuated upon developing the techniques to mitigate the challenges with viable solutions for the conservation and preservation of water to sustain life in present and for future too.
DDC Udhampur, Dr Piyush Singla; SSP Udhampur Rajiv Pandey; Padam Shree C Norphel, the Glacier Man of India; Pardeep Dutta, Bureau Chief Times Now and Sohail Kazmi were amongst the other dignitaries who shared the dais with chief guest in the inaugural event.
Delivering the keynote address Dr Piyush Singla talked about the theme of the conference and put on record the problems and the solutions thereto for the preservation of environment to conserve water. He was of the view that though no rocket-science could ever mitigate the problems of the scarcity and pollution of water, yet small efforts at individual level can achieve goals which are only visualized today. He apprised all present about the success of “Jeevika Model” for water conservation and sustainable farming initiated by District Administration Udhampur.
The keynote was followed by the deliberation of Pardeep Dutta, who talked in length about the water crisis scenario vis-à-vis water politics with special reference to Indus water treaty.
On this occasion, books written by Dr Ved Kumar of Chemistry and the one authored by Dr Rupali Sharma, Department of English, were also released.
Earlier, Principal of the college, Dr Nutan Kumar Resutra informed the audience that it’s the only Govt Degree College Udhampur which is organizing an academic event of this magnitude where hundreds of delegates and experts from across the country and abroad have assembled to present their research findings.
Rahul and Khushi, students of the college, conducted proceeding of the conference. Prof Suresh Kumar Dogra, Organizing Secretary, presented vote of thanks.
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