Guwahati, Friday, December 22, 2006
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Indian Engineering Congress begins
By A Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Dec 21 Over 1,500 delegates from the country and abroad are
converging in the city to take part in the 21st Indian Engineering Congress,
which got underway today with a four-day programme. Among the delegates, about
80 are from foreign countries like Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Korea and
Bangladesh. The formal inauguration of the Congress is scheduled for 10 am
tomorrow at the Machkhowa Pragjyoti ITA Centre for Performing Arts.
Union Minister of State for Commerce will inaugurate the Congress seminar on
challenges of engineering for sustainable 10 per cent growth and beyond at 1 pm
at the same venue. He will also deliver the key not address on the theme of the
seminar.
Addressing a press conference here this afternoon on behalf of the organizers
the state wing of the Institution of Engineers (India) present president of
the Institution of Engineers (India) Prof S C Nayar, its ex-president Dr
Samiran Choudhury, its secretary and director general Commodore A K Poothia,
chairman of its State wing P K Goswami, working president of the organizing
committee of the Congress A K Mitra, co-chairman of the press and media sub
committee S C Goswami and secretary of the State wing of the Institution G N
Khaund told media persons that the theme for the seminar was decided to
emphasize more on the need to accelerate of the process of countrys growth.
The sessions of the seminar will spread over all the coming three days of the
Congress and the thematic lectures will be initiated by the lead speakers, who
include Dr Damodar Acharya, Chairman of the AICTE, Ajit Hazarika, Director
(Onshore) of the ONGC and Dr R Rangachari, Research Professor of the Centre for
Policy Research.
The five technical sessions of the congress are devoted to eight sub-themes
engineering in agriculture for economic progress, education for engineering in
the present context, application of R&D for competitiveness and exploration and
exploitation of natural energy.
The organizers said that the discussions on the sub-themes would help focus on
the problems of the NE region in the respective fields.
As part of the Congress, six memorial lectures have also been planned and these
will be delivered by the renowned technocrats and scholars engaged in different
areas of knowledge. A colourful exhibition on science and technology has also
been organised as part of the congress at the Sonaram H S School playground.
The exhibition will remain open for visitors between 11 am and 7-30 pm.
An interactive session among the school students and eminent engineers has also
been planned at the exhibition ground at 5-30 pm tomorrow. Such a session will
also be organised on December 23. On December 24, there will be an interactive
session among the child scientists of the region who have been selected for the
forthcoming National Childrens Science Congress and the eminent engineers,
said the organisers.
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