It is so nice to see the efforts of so many persons in a positive direction. Thanks, everybody for their painstaking efforts.
On 26 March 2013 11:21, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > Dr Gurcharan Sir forget to told you all that He was our Guest of Honour in > the Wildlife and Nature photography Exhibition held on 16-17 March > recently. Due to our very busy schedule we could not interact with him > much on that day. May be in next tour some of us will be together for few > days and will plan for something new. From Last two months I > am totally inactive due to that exhibition and secondly we have to > re-register our both organisations before 31-3-13 viz Association for > Promotion of Plant Sciences and Manav Sanklap Society as Govt has enforced > a new act called as Haryana Societies Regulation act 2012. So we have to > submit new byelaws, MOU all audited statements etc for all previous years. > And also Center Govt is also going to have one more such act. Now 80% work > has been done and hopefully we will be having happy time in april onwards > and will be able to carry out our postponed tour to Chakrata. two days back > i got the report from Chakrata that Rhododendron is in bloom and many other > flowers also.... Hope to have our next tour soon. > Thanks to all for nice words and wish you a happy and colourful Holi to All > Thanks > > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA >> ------------------------------ >> *From: * "Madhuri Pejaver" <[email protected]> >> *Date: *Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:45:55 +0000 >> *To: *Dr Pankaj Kumar<[email protected]>; Efloraindia< >> [email protected]> >> *ReplyTo: * [email protected] >> *Cc: *J.M. Garg<[email protected]>; Dinesh Valke<[email protected]>; >> Tabish Qureshi<[email protected]> >> *Subject: *Re: [efloraofindia:149834] Re: Popularizing efloraofindia and >> Flowers of India >> >> Really a good term. Can be used for more than 50% on eflora. They >> contribute to a great extent by providing the photographs from all over >> India, either taken the photos deliberately by scanning the areas or taken >> at places where they visit or both. >> In last 5 years I could see the plants all over the world without going >> anywhere and our expert scientists could identify atleast 75% of them. >> So long live citizen scientists and expert scientists. >> Madhuri >> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA >> ------------------------------ >> *From: * Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> >> *Sender: * [email protected] >> *Date: *Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:23:33 -0700 (PDT) >> *To: *<[email protected]> >> *Cc: *J.M. Garg<[email protected]>; Dinesh Valke<[email protected]>; >> Tabish Qureshi<[email protected]> >> *Subject: *[efloraofindia:149834] Re: Popularizing efloraofindia and >> Flowers of India >> >> Respected Sir >> I am indeed loving it. >> This is really a good effort and hopefully we will soon >> be recognized more for our efforts. Thanks a lot Gurcharan sir and also >> Balkar sir for popularising the efloraofindia and ofcourse to Garg sir for >> initiating all this. >> Recently I came across a term during my meeting with the Chinese Nature >> Herbarium guy. >> "CITIZEN SCIENTISTS" : They use this term for people who are not trained >> taxonomists but just have interest in taking pictures of plants and >> animals, and they selflessly contribute their pics to the chinese nature >> herbarium. >> Long live eflora. >> Pankaj >> >> >> On Saturday, 23 March 2013 21:55:53 UTC+8, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >>> >>> Dear friends >>> It is heartening to note that our forum and the websites of Flowers of >>> India and efloraofindia are becoming more popular day by day due to new >>> experts joining it and increasing its value and our dedicated team making >>> every effort to reach out to teachers and students of botany and public in >>> general. In my chapter "eFlora: the future of floristic documentation" in >>> an edited book "Plant Taxonomy Past, Present and Future", 2012, I had >>> devoted 4 full pages (included here as attachment) to efloraofindia, >>> Flowers of India as well personal contributions by Garg ji, Dinesh ji and >>> myself. Balkar ji is playing a great role in making it popular by >>> representing the group at a recent conference, and again along with Nidhan >>> ji holding a photographic exhibition at Panipat on 16th March, where >>> efloraofindia was a big focus. >>> Thankfully after coming back to India I had a chance to deliver >>> lectures at a few colleges on the "Role of Digital photography, computers >>> and internet" where I have made special efforts to attract students and >>> teachers to join and contribute. I am happy to note that students have been >>> very receptive of this new approach. Through online power-point >>> presentation I showed them the websites and personal pages to make them >>> more popular. >>> I request other members also to devise methods to increase >>> awareness about our groups to different communities of people. >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://www.gurcharanfamily.**com/ <http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/> >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/> >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & > Horticulture Incharge > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2065 members & 1,47,500 messages on 28/2/13) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 8000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
