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The
Data Users’ Seminar was the first
seminar of its kind being held in
the city with a view to enable capacity
building of teachers by covering subjects
like disaster management, earthquakes,
adolescent health and gender, forests,
hydrology, data on
disasters, GIS training, energy conservation
and more. Inaugurating the Seminar,
Padamshri Dr B Bhattacharjee, Member,
National Disaster Management Authority,
laid stress on the importance of sensitisation
among school children towards precaution
against disasters. Dr M Sudhakar,
Adviser, Ministry of Earth Sciences,
called for reaching out with scientific
and accurate information to teachers
and students and also upheld the need
for detailed and hands-on workshops.
He said teachers held much importance
as they can turn the society by moulding
the lives of the younger generation.
Major General, Manoj Tayal, Additional
Director General of Survey of India,
and Dr Saraswati Raju, Professor,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, were
other speakers at the inaugural session
of the Seminar. Among those who prominently
participated in the sessions included
Dr AK Mahajan, scientist at Wadia
Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun,
Dr Piyoosh Rautela, Executive Director,
DMMC, Dehradun; Dr S Srinivasan, MD,
Apollo, New Delhi; Dr Saibal Dasgupta,
CEO and Principal Conservator of Forests,
Madhya Pradesh; Dr S K. Jain, Professor,
IIT, Roorkee; Dr A K Bhatia, Regional
Director, CGWB, Dehradun; Shri Anil
Kumar Sinha, Chairman, GFDR, New Delhi
and VC, Bihar State Disaster Management
Authority,Dr AKBiyani, Professor,
DBS College, Dehradun; Dr P L N Raju,
Senior Scientist, IIRS, Dehradun;
Dr Sarfaraz Alam, Assistant Professor,
BHU, Varanasi; Dr M N Joshi, Professor,
DBS College, Dehradun; Dr K D Gupta,
Director, IASRD, New Delhi; Shri A
K Tyagi, Chief Project Officer, UREDA;
Shri Arvind Kumar, GM, UJVNL; Dr
Lokesh Jain, Sr Fellow, TERI and Ms
Sulagna Chattopadhyay, President,
LIGHTS and Editor, GnY. The seminar
familiarised teachers with data and
trained them to use it effectively
as a teaching tool. The seminar was
organised by Learning in Geography,
Humanities, Technology and Science
(LIGHTS) and supported by the NRDMS,
Department of Science and Technology,
National University of Educational
Planning and Administration, National
Disaster Management Authority, Ministry
of Non-Renewable Energy, Ministry
of Earth Sciences and Oil and Natural
Gas Corporation with Geography and
You (G’nY) as its knowledge partner.
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