Leh, November 12, (Scoop News)- The two days seminar organised by BRO Project Himank on the ‘Technical Challenges to include Geological and Geophysical Problems due to Glaciers, Glaciated Lakes Outburst and Cloudbursts on Infrastructure development in Ladakh Region concluded today at Headquarters Project Himank, Choglamsar.
Terming the seminar interesting and a ground for sharing new ideas and thoughts, Chief Engineer Project Himank Brig Balwinder Singh Sandhu said that the involvement and presentation of papers by each research scholar and head of some reputed institutions has brought new ideas, organisations working in this area and brought together the organisations that can be contacted to address problems. He further said that the ideas, suggestions and recommendations made during the five technical sessions made during the period of two days that are going affect the infrastructure development should be taken forward to a logical conclusion.
Making a first step towards it Brig Sandhu said that a summary of the recommendations made during the two days seminar will be prepared for actions needed to be taken at various levels, with various agencies and institutions to carry forward and also to arrive at a pragmatic way forward and this summary will be shared with all the stakeholders too. A localised and a customised group needs to be formed where the research scholars and the stakeholders sit together face to face and work out on possible solutions for the problems, suggested Brig Sandhu.
Dr. Joseph Tsetan Gergan (Retd) Scientist Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology chaired today’s session wherein S K Tripathi Director (J&K) Geological Survey of India presented his paper on ‘Extreme Meteorological Events and Mass Wasting Process in North-Western Himalayan Region’ and Dr. C P Dorjay presented his paper on ‘Road Networking in Ladakh- A Geological Constraint’ and Superintendent of Police Stanzin Losal presented his paper on ‘Disaster Management-Plans by SDRF, Civil Administration.
The Seminar-cum-Workshop covered aspects of climate variability with environmental implications, its impact on designing sustainable and cost effective infrastructure in terms of roads and bridges, sharing of domain knowledge to evolve an integrated, institutionalised early warning and response mechanism to mitigate damages to the existing infrastructure in eventuality of any disasters on account of heavy melting of glaciers, glaciated lakes outburst floods and cloudburst, either independently or cumulatively.
It is pertinent to mention here that the seminar was attended by serving and retired scholars and scientists from the country’s premier research institutes viz Ashwagosha Ganju Director Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment Chandigarh; Dr BP Yadav Chief Forecaster Indian Meteorological Department New Delhi; Dr Parikshit Verma Sr Schientiest National Environment Engineering Research Institute Nagpur; Dr Renoj J Thayyen from National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee; PV Raju Scientist from National Remote Sensing Centre Hydrabad; Dr JT Gergan(Retd) Scientist Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and SK Tripathi Director (K&K) Geological Survey of India.
Senior officers of headquarters 14 Corps, J&K Police and ITBP also attended the seminar.
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