Srinagar: As a part of the G-20 celebrations, a special lecture was delivered by Khurshid Ahmad Ganie, IAS, Former Advisor to LG, U.T of J&K at Islamia College, Srinagar.
At the onset, the Principal of the College Professor (Dr.) Khursheed A. Khan welcomed the Chief Guest Janab Khurshid Ahmad Ganie, IAS to the College Campus.
The principal expressed how we can maintain a clean, green, and healthy environment & creates better places for ourselves. Professor Khan briefed that as a part of G-20 celebrations many events, workshops & seminars were carried out within and outside the college campus to promote appropriate strategies and policies for the sustainable management of natural resources.
Dr. Showkat Yousf Beigh, HOD, Botany expressed his gratitude to the College administration for inviting JanabKhurshid Ahmad Ganie, an eminent personality of the UT of J&K to the College campus.
Prof. Abdul Majidwhile expressing his views stressed how to improve and protect our natural resources, environment & ecology through effective consultation. Chief Coordinator of G-20 programmes in the College, Dr. Zahoor Ahmad Jhat, thanked the college administration for consistent support for conducting events under G-20 on campus.
The Chief Guest & Keynote speaker Khurshid Ahmad Ganie, IAS, Former Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, UT of J&K in his crisp presentation gave the broader vision about global warming, average temperature rise, greenhouse effect, natural resources, its distribution and formulation of appropriate strategies and policies for sustainable management for a clean, green, and healthy environment.
He seeks to improve the policy framework through effective consultation with all stakeholders, including the academia, think tanks, and UT administration of J&K. He expressed his concern that, if anthropogenic activities continue in the same trajectory, there will be no natural resources left for future generations.
A large number of students from PG Botany, Zoology, IPG & Hon’s besides students from other Departments actively participated.
The students expressed how natural resources can be protected for future generations during their interactions with the keynote speaker.
Er. Abdul Rashid Bhat, EMMRC, University of Kashmir was also part of the event.
