Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: The two- day UGC-SAP sponsored national seminar on “Plant and Microbial Sciences: Achievements and Way forward” culminated today in the Department of Botany, University of Jammu.
In the valedictory function, Prof Manoj Kumar Dhar, former Vice Chancellor of University of Jammu, was the chief guest while Prof R N Gohil, a renowned Cyto-genetist and former Head of the department was the guest of honour.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Manoj Dhar expressed his views on the value education and its relevance in today’s world. He also appreciated the quality of research papers presented during the seminar and lauded the role of young researchers in taking the responsibility of future research endeavours.
He said there are many other new schemes with national funding agencies which can be grabbed for continuing research by the Research Centers and Institutes of the country.
Prof R N Gohil outlined the importance of collaborative research and said that the Department of Botany was capable of getting more grants in future to carry out applied research.
Prof Namrata Sharma, Deputy coordinator SAP DRS II, said that with the generous funding by UGC under SAP (DRS II) Department was able to organize this seminar in the Department of Botany.
Prof Susheel Verma, Organizing Secretary of the seminar, informed that more than 50 abstracts of the research papers, memorial lecture, invited lectures, oral and poster presentations were received for the seminar out of which five invited talks, one Prof Irshad Ahmed Hamal Memorial Lecture, 15 oral presentations and 30 poster presentations were made during these two days proceedings.
Earlier, Prof Veenu Kaul, Head, Department of Botany, presented a formal welcome address while Dr Harish Chander Dutt proposed a formal vote of thanks. Proceedings of the seminar were conducted by Dr Madhu Raina, Assistant professor of the Department of Botany.
Later, the awards and certificates of merit were distributed amongst the winners in the oral and poster presentation categories. Dr Sikander Pal, Dr Geeta, Dr Skarma, Prof Anima Langer, Prof Geeta Sumbali, Prof Faisel, Dr Mahroof Ahmad and Dr Tajinder were also present on the occasion.
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