Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: Aryans Group of Colleges, Chandigarh hosted a renowned faculty, Dr Shakil A Romshoo, Department of Earth Sciences from Kashmir University to interact and deliver a lecture on principle causes of J&K floods with Aryans Students at its Campus i.e. Village Nepra, Chandigarh-Patiala highway, near Chandigarh. Chairman, Aryans Group of Colleges, Dr Anshu Kataria presided over the event.
While addressing the students he highlighted the background of Jhelum which originates from a natural spring in South Kashmir’s Verinag town, its flood history and from where these floods were originated, magnitude of the floods, Meteorology, Wetland Losses etc.
He also stated that the floods in Kashmir is possibly a climate-change induced fallout aided by large-scale environmental degradation and unplanned development on the river banks of Jhelum.
Dr Romshoo also explained that the shrinkage of the wetlands in the Valley is somehow also responsible for the floods, as wetlands act as a sponge that retains excess water.
The seminar ended with the discussion, question answer round and how to prevent such disasters of this scale in the future, like feasibility study for construction of parallel flood channel, dredging on regular intervals, monitoring of sediments, land use, land cover, maintaining sanctity of wetlands and water bodies, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been suggested in the report.
The main objective of the seminar was to touch every part of the J&K floods including its origin, cause, post effects, control and preventive measures. Dr Romshoo also presented his research papers on J&K Floods.
The seminar was also graced by senior faculty members Prof B S Sidhu, Registrar; Tejinder Kaur, Administrator; Gurdeep Singh, HoD Civil Deptt and Engineering students of the college.
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