FATEHGARH SAHIB: The three-day national seminar on “sustainable development” concluded at RIMT-IMCT, Mandi Gobindgarh campus.

In the valedictory session, Dr. R.C. Sobti, the vice-chancellor, Punjab University, Chandigarh was the chief guest. Hukam Chand Bansal, Chairman of the RIMT group honoured the V-C.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Sobti lambasted the indiscriminate and overexploitation of natural resources.

He called upon the society to take the recourse of India’s traditional value system to provide safeguard to the ongoing environmental degradation. He also stressed the need for increasing awareness particularly among the people who are away from the nature about the perilous effects of environmental degradation.

Earlier Dr. I.J.S. Bansal, the president of the Punjab Science Congress and the former professor of Punjabi University chaired the last technical session on ‘education and sustainable environment’. He called for the development and diffusion of eco-friendly
technologies.  Dr. B.S. Mann, the professor and head, National Integration Chair, Punjabi University said that the education system should include all the requisites which can develop a person eco-friendly.

Dr. A.S. Bamrah, the vice-principal, Baba Bhag Institute of Engineering and Technology said that the present education needs revamping. The crisis on the environment front can be tackled mainly with a society which more sensitive and conscious about the appropriate exploitation of natural resources.

Apart from these eminent scholar, N.K. Mishra, the retired A.I.G., Dr. Sandhya Arora and Chetna Bharti also presented their research paper to highlight the various facets of environment and its sustainability.

Dr. B.S. Bhatia, the director general of the institute expressed his satisfaction over the organisation of the seminar in which about 100 eminent experts and upcoming research scholars attended the seminar.

He said this seminar would be highly useful in increasing awareness about the present state of ecology and in what direction and manner the development work should be carried out in future.

He also opined that that the outcome of this seminar would be sent to the policy makers of the country so that they may take appropriate steps on the basis of the conclusions of research carried by the delegates.