National conference on biodiversity research
Correspondent
SILCHAR, March 22 – A three-day national conference on recent trends of biodiversity research was organised by Department of Life Sciences, Assam University, Silchar at Bipin Chandra Paul auditorium recently.
In the welcome address, Dr Manabendra Dutta Choudhury, Associate Professor said that many researches have taken place in the entire north east to boost diversity. For this reason University Grants Commission has sanctioned Special Assistance programme to this department. This has provided ample opportunity to conduct researches in the relevant subject.
In his presidential address, Prof Bhattacharjee said that this university is proud to have such talents for the workshop. He further said that this conference would have meaningful contribution from various learned experts from the field of biodiversity studies and allied subjects as well as development agencies. Thereby the conference would prove to be beneficial for the teachers and students of the department to a great extent. This conference is indeed timely because it aims at enriching us with meaningful inputs on the development issues in which academicians have legitimate share as well as participation, he said.
Prof GD Sharma, Pro VC and chairman of Organising Committee said that since north east is one of the hot spots of biodiversity of the world and so it is very pertinent that various issues related to biodiversity be discussed in this workshop This national conference has also provided the platform to Assam University for creating the interactive forum of academic collaboration for further researches in the field of Biodiversity.
Prof Gautam Biswas, Pro VC, Humanities and Allied Discipline, said that this type of conference which brings the researches of north east India to the mainstream national research scenario will be of immense importance. Dr PK Hazra, ex-chairman of Botanical Survey of India as guest of honour said that the biodiversity of our country has suffered a huge loss due to global climate change and over-exploitation of natural resources. This workshop will definitely add input in the relevant field. In the programme a souvenir cum abstract was also released. ASSAM TRIBUNE
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