The Centre for Environmental Sciences of Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) recently celebrated the 26th World Ozone Day on the theme, 'A healthy atmosphere, the future we want'.
The celebration was aimed at sensitising and creating awareness among students, faculty and people living in the vicinity of the university campus at Brambe.
In the inaugural session, Vice-Chancellor Professor Darlando T Khathing spoke on the growing dimensions of the university and stressed for formulating guidelines in order to minimise ozone depleting substances.
Jharkhand Tribal Develop-ment Society state project director HS Gupta gave an overview of climate change and its impact with respect to Jharkhand state. Another speaker Abhijeet Group senior general manager R Kumar delivered a lecture on impact of ozone depletion and pointed out the gap between the academic knowledge and corporate requirement.
The second session was chaired by Mani Shanker, chairman of the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board. He addressed the audience on increasing rate of pollutants in the environment and its impacts. More than 120 students from different schools participated.