Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) Director and scientist Y.V.N. Krishna Murthy has said that many of the disasters, including the recent floods in Jammu and Kashmir, have occurred due to man-made mistakes.
Speaking after inaugurating the two-day national seminar on ‘Applications, Advances and Challenges in Space Research’ here on Friday, Dr. Murthy said that deforestation, encroachment of lakes, streams and river bunds, unauthorised structures were the reasons for the natural disasters in which many people were killed in the last few years.
The national-level seminar is being sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Department of Physics of P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts and Science, on the college campus.
“In Jammu and Kashmir, floods occurred due to illegal occupations on Dal Lake, which is the second largest water body in Srinagar. We are going against the nature. Similar mistake was happened in Uttarakhand, which caused major floods killing some thousands of people,” said the scientist.
“As many as 125 students and 24 faculty members of three universities conducted a three-day survey in Uttarakhand, under the guidance of the IIRS. They submitted a report on the landslides, major water bodies, streams, unauthorised constructions, washed away houses and other buildings, failure of bridges, projects proposed, deforestation and the human and property loss,” said the IIRS director.
Climate ChangeNational Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) Deputy Director NICES Programme Director, C.B.S. Dutt, who delivered a lecture on `Space Technology Applications to Climate Change – Causes and Effects’, said the Department of Space, Government of India, has made tremendous strides in ‘Climate Change – Global Warming’.
Nearly 100 PhDs were awarded on atmospheric sciences and more than 10,000 international publications were made in the last 15 years. India got global recognition over research conducted on climate changes, said Dr. Dutt.
Siddhartha college principal M.V.N. Padma Rao, director Vemuri Babu Rao, Controller of Examinations Anne Vittal Rao, Physics head of the department K. Bhargavi, Organising Committee member D. Bhanu Prakash and others participated.
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Going against nature
IIRS Director Krishna Murthy says similar mistakes occurred in Uttarakhand.
As many as 125 students and 24 faculty members of three universities conducted a three-day survey in Uttarakhand, under the guidance of the IIRS
NRSC Deputy Director Dutt says the Department of Space made rapid strides in ‘Climate Change – Global Warming’.
India got global recognition over research conducted on climate change
