The Council for Green Revolution (CGR) in collaboration with the Zoology Department of the Utkal University will organise a two-day national conference on “Conservation of Eastern Ghats” at the university here from April 16 (Saturday).
This conference to be held as part of activities of the Greens’ Alliance for Conservation of Eastern Ghats (GrACE), an initiative launched by the CGR is aimed at sensitising the concerned to protect the Eastern Ghat hill ranges.
CGR CEO G Narayan Rao, addressing a Press meet here, briefed about the conference. Among others, organising convener Prof Pratibha K Mahapatra, and Zoology Department HOD Dr Gunanidhi Sahoo, Reader Dr K Purushotham Reddy and renowned environmentalist Manoj Jena, social activist Rajeev Patnaik and environmentalist Uma Maheswar Reddy were present.
Governor Dr SC Jamir will inaugurate the conference as chief guest at the MKCG Auditorium in the Utkal University premises at 10 am on Saturday.
The conference will have 12 invited lectures in the technical sessions by eminent academicians, activists and policy experts. The research paper presentations will follow the lead lectures in every session. More than 100 research papers from premier national research institutions, top universities and senior forest administrators and social activists will be presented.
The valedictory function will be organised at 3 pm on Sunday. North Odisha Vice Chancellor Prof Profulla Kumar Mishra and former Sambalpur University VC Prof Naik will grace as guests.
The Eastern Ghats in Odisha occupy a centre stage in ecological, economic and socio-cultural development.