Desh Bhagat Institute of Management and Computer Sciences organised a one-day seminar on Global warming at a seminar hall of PHDCCI in Chandigarh on Thursday. Inaugurating the seminar,the chief guest,Tilak Raj Sarangal,Secretary,Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Welfare,Punjab,asserted that global warming was a very serious environmental problem and it would be suicidal to ignore it. The corporate sector should launch a crusade against it and the youth should actively participate in it,he said. Among those present were Dr R.K Kohli (Head,Environment Studies,PU,Chandigarh),Dr S.C Joshi (Principal,PG College,Nahan),Dr Sanjeev Atri,and Dr Mrs Shubh Kiran Sharma (senior scientist,Dept of Environment,HR,Chandigarh). All the speakers stressed the need for protection of environment and judicious use of natural recourses. Earlier,Dr Zora Singh,chairman of Desh Bhagat Group of Institutes,while welcoming the chief guest urged the students community to create mass awareness about the problem. Prof Shalini Gupta,director general of the group,thanked the participants and gave a clarion call to all those present to work for environment protection.
