Dozens of experts, scientists, scholars participated in the two-day all India seminar and exhibition — India Prefab-2014, which was organised by the Institution of Engineers, Uttarakhand State Centre (IEI, UKSC) at its campus here on Saturday. Couple of experts discussed on reconstruction and rehabilitation and also stressed on the use of better construction materials for the construction of pre-fabricated huts in the disaster-hit areas of the State during the seminar.
Experts stressed that pre-fabricated huts would be proved extremely beneficial if the disaster strikes again and stressed that the Government should take steps for rehabilitating those villagers affected by natural calamities that struck Uttarakhand in June last year. Speaking as chief guest Forest Minister Dinesh Agarwal said the Government was committed for redressing the grievances of displaced villagers.
It is to be noted that pre-fabricated huts is cheap and could be constructed in the lesser duration in comparison to erecting concrete structure in the disaster-affected areas of the State and was also tested at the magnitude of nine Richter scale by the engineers at IIT Kanpur and CBRI, Roorkee. Dr Achal Mittal, Dr SK Singh, AP Puna, Prof Gopal Rai, Prof Subodh Shanker and Prof AK Jain tabled their research papers. NS Bindra, chairman, Minority Commission, IEI Civil engineering division board chairman HCS Beri, Narendra Singh, Piyoosh Rautela, Upendra Nath, JP Tomar, president, IEI, DC Gupta and many more were present.