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S.A.S.Nagar, 23 october
A National level seminar on Civil
Engineering on the topic “Changing Paradigm in Civil
Engineering: Challenges & Opportunities” was held today at Aryans Group of
Colleges, Chandigarh. Governor Tripura, Sh. Tathagata
Roy was the Chief Guest on the occasion; Director,
NITTTR, Dr. M.P. Poonia and Vice Chancellor, MRS-PTU, Bathinda, Prof. (Dr.) MPS
Ishar was the Guest of Honour while Dr. Anshu Kataria,
Chairman, Aryans Group presided over the function. The function
was attended by Professionals, academicians and people from
different walks of life.
To attend the function, Governor
Tripura has travelled from Agartala to Delhi but due to ill health he further
couldn’t travel from Delhi to Chandigarh. He interacted with Aryans students
through video conferencing and extended his good wishes to the students and
enlightened the students on the role of Civil Engineering in the development of
the Nation and said that it’s the art of harnessing the great forces of nature
for the mankind.
Dr. M.P. Poonia while sharing
his views said that Civil engineering being the oldest branch plays a
significant role in developing the infrastructure of villages and cities of
India. The dream of building a modern India can be actualized with a team of
Civil Engineers who really know their job and utilize their skill to bring
modernity to a country on the whole. And these dreams of a country can be
fulfilled by the academics only who prepare skilled civil Engineers.
Prof. (Dr.) MPS Ishar appreciated
the fact that the trend of Civil engineering has gone up among the students of
India in last 2-3 years as and is expected to go up even further as India is
one of the fastest growing economies in the world and the Government has plans
to spend billions of dollars on infrastructural development, be it highways,
airports, ports and power plants.
Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman,
Aryans Group while speaking on the occasion said that Civil engineering
requires a lot of infrastructure in the form of laboratories equipments and
experienced faculty. He added that the interest and further innovations of
Aryans JK students in Civil engineering has done wonders in last 8-9 years.
S.Har Amrit Singh Sandhu,
Faculty, Civil Engineering, PEC University, Chandigarh while sharing his views
said that the civil engineering profession recognizes the reality of limited
natural resources, the desire for sustainable practices & the
need for social equity in the consumption of resources. Engineers with their
skills make the things simpler by implementing cost-effective, eco-friendly,
energy intensive and innovative technology.
Dr. Sachin, Ms. Rajdeep Kaur ,
Mr. Gurmeet Singh, Mr. Saurav, Ms Sulekha, Mr. Rayees Ahmad etc also
presented their papers on various aspects including the critical roles
of civil engineering in addressing the
large-scale challenges faced by the society including access to
affordable health care; tackling the coupled
issues of energy, transportation and climate
change; providing more equitable access to
information for our populations; clean drinking water;
natural and man-made disaster mitigation, environmental
protection and natural resource management etc.
Dr. Parveen Kataria, Director
General; Dr. Manjula Kataria, Principal, Aryans Group; Prof. B.S Sidhu,
Registrar; Prof. A.P. Jain, Director; Ms Sukhaman Bath, Coordinator etc were
also present on the occasion.
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