Harmony 2016, the national conference, organised by Vinoba Bhave University in collaboration with national environmentalist association concluded on Monday with a promise to meet again in harmony 2017 likely to be held in any university of Telangana or Maharastra.
In this three-day conference, 304 scientists from almost every part of India took part and out of them 217 presented their research papers in 23 brainstorming sessions, which took more than 45 hours.
Forty-eight participants presented their idea through posters. The jury of national environmentalist association selected the poster of Gautam Ghosh of West Bengal as the best while felecitated Dr JP Pandey of Tashar Research Institute Ranchi as best senior scientist and M Veena Pani of Telangana as best budding scientist.
Chief guest of the closing ceremony MlA Manish Jaiswal thanked everyone for coming Hazaribagh and taking part in the brainstorming sessions of this seminar. He advised the organisers to share the inferences of this seminar with the law maker so that general people can get benefited with the innovations and ideas of the scientists of entire India to make harmony with the nature.
Guest of honour DC Ravishankar Shukla said that harmony is the essence of life and it is necessary everywhere. Talking about the rights and duties of a common citizen, he said, “Harmony can be established only when we all will exercise our rights as well as completing our duties in balanced way.”
In his presidential address, VC Prof Gurdeep Singh said that India is fastly moving up and up in human quality index at world level. Though our country is less responsible for the disbalance of harmony with nature but out Government is keen enough to take steps to get rid of the effects of it, the world is facing nowadays.
Dr MC Das, president of NEA, thanked the organisers for the hospitality provided to the delegates and hoped that the Government of Jharkhand will take care of the recommendations of the seminar so that the people of this State can get benefited. From the delegates’ side, Prof ER Nagar of Maharastra and M Veena Pani of Telangana also lauded the organisers for their hospitality.
PVC Dr MP Sinha welcomed everyone present in the closing ceremony saying that they will meet again in harmony 2017 and it will go on till the goal is achieved. Appolising for the inconvenience, he said, “Though we have little resources but you will be in our hearts always.”
Conference coordinator Dr PK Mishra presented the preliminary recommendations of the conference in which making cleanliness mandetory is an important one.
In the closing ceremony certificates and mementous were presented to the guests and all those who worked hard in making the conference successful. Registrar Dr SK Sinha presented vote of thanks while Prof HB Chadhary anchored the programme.