The Regional Museum of Natural History organised a programme on the occasion the 18th anniversary of museum. Ram Gopal Soni, Advisor, National Water Development Agency, Bhopal was the chief guest and Ravi Shrivaas, Curator Display (Retd) IGRMS, Bhopal was the guest of honour at the programme.
Winners, participants and other general public attended the programme.
Scientist-in-Charge and Scientist-B of the museum Praveen Kumar Verma welcomed the chief guest, guest of honour and general public. He told that Biodiversity term first coined in 1985 and less popular than environment. Cultural diversity and biodiversity both are interconnected with each other and should not be over exploited.
Chief guest Ram Gopal Soni inaugurated the photo exhibition on ‘Biodiversity of Central India’. Soni told that Scientist has discovered 10 lakh species of animality. The Biodiversity Act was enacted in 2002 and Biodiversity rule was made in 2004, he said, adding that plants, animals and micro organism and their genetic material all are called biodiversity.
During the speech, Soni informed about use of plants in disease like Chikungunya, dengue, typhoid, malaria etc. he also told about
agricultural biodiversity. Soni appealed, “We should conserve the biodiversity.”
Guest of honour Ravi Shrivaas focused on technical information about photography for better photography of biodiversity. He told
photography is the vital and interesting subject which needs patience, composition and lighting.
Chief Guest and Guest of honour distributed the prize to winners of photo contest. Preetak K Ghai received first prize. RK Jharia and Akshay Mudgal received second and third prize respectively. Krishn leant. Praveen Bharat and Vipin Verma bagged consolation prize and all participants received their certificates.
The Programme was concluded with the vote of thank proposed by Educational Assistant of the museum Maniklal Gupta.