My compliments to Garg ji, Dr Gurcharan, Dinesh ji and everybody involved in the founding and development of indiantreepix / efloraofindia. This is indeed a most unique and fertile group.
Regards, Sonia Chauhan On 23 March 2013 19:25, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> 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://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. > > -- Regards, Sonia Chauhan -- --- 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.

