 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 8: Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Jammu Chapter in collaboration with Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Jammu organised an interactive meet on Rural Heritage at University of Jammu.
On the occasion, Sheetal Nanda, Secretary, Rural Development Department was the Chief Guest and Rehana Batool, Director General, presided over the function. The programme started with welcome address by Prof. R.K Rampal, Head, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Jammu. S.M Sahni, Convener INTACH, Jammu Chapter introduced the theme of the meet and discussed in detail about the significance of natural heritage sites.
Sheetal Nanda while speaking on the occasion emphasised that her thrust has all along been to seek priority on such conservation schemes and measures that are need based and beneficial to the rural community. She extended full support of her department in taking up conservation and revival initiatives for the natural heritage sites based on traditional methods and techniques.
Dr Deepika Slathia from Department of Environmental Sciences made a presentation entitled 'Listing of Ponds, Bowlis, Stepwells, Chapparis from District Jammu' which was a joint initiative by Department of Environmental Sciences and INTACH Jammu Chapter. Rehana Batool, in her concluding remarks, directed her department to prepare a pilot project proposal based on traditional conservation measures which can be later on replicated in different environments. Others present on the occasion were Aijaz Qaiser (ACD-Jammu), Prof A.K Raina, Dr Sanjay Sharma, Dr Piyush Malaviya, Dr Meenakshi Khajuria, Vernika Gupta, S.S. Rissam (Events Coordinator INTACH) and officers of Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RD PR), Government of J&K from various blocks of Jammu. |
