July 19, 2011:
“Increasing human activity for economic progression should not marspoil nature,” said Sri A. Subba Rao, Joint Chief Executive Engineer, A.P. Pollution Control Board, Zonal Office, Vijayawada, and Chief Guest at the National Seminar on “Climate Change: Strategies for Sustainable Environment,” sponsored by A.P. Pollution Control Board was organized by the Department of Social Work, Vikrama Simhapuri University on 19th July 2011. He said that the ideal goal for every society is to have better and protective environment. “This will be possible only when the youth in colleges and higher institutes take initiative and enlighten the masses that climate change will be hazardous for the very human existence,” he said. He said that the increasing concentration of chloroflurocarbons, hydroflurocarbons, sulphur hexachlorides are due to various human activities like the burning of the fossil fuels, magnesium production, electrical transmissions etc.
Sri G. Gopalakrishna, Member Secretary & Executive Director, Academy of Gandhian Studies, Tirupati, and the Guest of Honour at the inauguration gave the keynote address. He, in his presentation touched upon nature’s compatible mechanism of crisis management through mangrove forests, marshy sand dunes and agricultural ecosystems. Drawing upon the recent initiatives in the international environmental mitigation, he said that India is contributing only 4.6% of the total environmental pollution when compared to the European Union and the US.
Prof. T. Sudha, Dean, CDC and the Guest of Honour said green house gasses have to be mitigated to arrest the rising temperatures. She said that the melting of polar ice is a worrying factor triggering natural calamities like tsunamis and earthquakes. She said that Nellore is rich with marine resources, throbbing ecosystems and estuaries. She said that the social work department has to take initiative in bringing awareness in the people to conserve these natural gifts.
Dr. K. Suneetha, Director of the National Seminar set out the objectives of the Seminar. The Seminar got good response with 190 participants registering to participate and present their papers on various topics related to climate change. Dr. P. Subbarama Raju, and the members of faculty of the Department of Social Work and faculty of University, participants from various universities and colleges attended the Seminar.
