
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 25: Dr Ravi Jyee Environment, Disaster Management, Sustainable Development and Peace Building Expert has brought yet another laurel to J&K by bagging the prestigious World Peace-building and Promotion Award for excelling in the specialized areas of peace education, sustainable development, peace science and peace engineering.
The Award was presented to Prof (Dr) Ravi Jayee by Uttarakhand Governor Lieutenant General (Retd) Gurmit Singh at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
The nomination of Dr Ravi Jayee, son of the soil from Jammu, had been finalized out of an inventory (panel) of the distinguished nominees by the intellectuals and experts of the international repute.
Dr Jayee’s role during the Srinagar flash floods in 2014 has been widely hailed and appreciated by the people in general and the Disaster Management Agencies in particular.
At the altar of personal tragedies, Prof Jayee has remained deeply involved with ecology and tackling disasters.