Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 20: In order to share academic, research and cultural exchange between institutions, a batch of M Sc (Plant Sciences) students along with teaching staff of Khandelwal PG College of Management Science and Technology (KCMT), Bareilly (UP), affiliated to the Rohilkhand University, Uttar Pradesh, today visited University of Jammu.
Accompanied by faculty members, including Dr Sourabh Kumar, Dr Manoj Joshi, Dr Nazia Qamar and Dr Himani Patel, these students had a brief interactive meeting with JU VC Prof R D Sharma and apprised him about the objective of their visit to the University. During interaction, Prof Sharma advised them to have an effective interaction with the faculty, research scholars and students of various Departments of the University. He further said that besides academics and research, they should also utilize this opportunity to have socio-cultural and heritage exchange for building strong relations, mutual understanding and national integration.
Later, students visited the academic and research infrastructural facilities in the Department of Botany and the School of Biotechnology and also interacted with their faculty members, research scholars and students. In the evening, the demonstration lectures by O P Sharma Vidyarthi, APCCF and Dr Harish Chander and on-field taxonomic exercises were organized for them in the Botanical Garden. Students were made to understand the species diversity and efforts being undertaken for ex situ conservation and management of the biodiversity of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. They also had a round of the Herbarium and museum and plant research and conservation sites in the garden.
Welcoming these students to the University, Prof Yash Pal Sharma, Head, Department of Botany, JU hoped that such academic and inter-personal interactions between the students of Bareilly and Jammu would bolster mutual understanding and further strengthen their resolve to do effective scholarship and socio-cultural linkages in future.
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