-- With regards, J. M. Garg ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: D.S Rawat <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 2 May, 2022, 11:04 am Subject: Re: [itpmods:16651] Fwd: D S Rawat: 15 Glorious years of Efloraofindia To: <[email protected]>
Thank you Garg Ji, Dinesh Ji, G.Singh Sir, Pankaj Ji and Anil ji for going through these lines. DSRawat Pantnagar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr D.S. Rawat Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA *eflorapantnagar <https://sites.google.com/view/eflorapantnagar/home>* displaying flora of Pantnagar On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 12:25 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 at 12:19 > Subject: Re: D S Rawat: 15 Glorious years of Efloraofindia > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Cc: D.S Rawat <[email protected]> > > > Published at > > https://efloraofindia.com/2022/05/01/d-s-rawat-story-of-efloraofindia-to-celebrate-15-years-of-its-completion-on-17-6-22/ > Posted it at the efloraofindia Facebook page > <https://www.facebook.com/efloraofindia/posts/1748071292196938?__cft__[0]=AZW--cnWqSXfqHqiTCFZm9EusKDhNDXIRp41IsNa5nih5OpQl1totfAxYDP_Jzh560fNmMS64z5OnomGmHR_UN7urUrRrBXN6QfOeODEBHfVr3khX1K0unphktBv1uL1wnxC16LSD0Wv0RlMg2e4RA8rNHONQEjzmjGvM1VY5aAsag&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R> > . > > Pl. give it wide publicity in Social media, by posting it in your profile/ > groups/ Instagram etc. > > On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 08:34, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *A Decade with efloraofindia* >> >> I am an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences in the G.B. Pant >> University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar where the main stream is >> Agriculture. We are fortunate here to have a college of Basic Science & >> Humanities wherein the independent departments of basic sciences like >> Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Maths etc exist. We have a program >> of M.Sc. Botany and Ph.D. Botany in the department of Biological Sciences. >> Being a teacher, I have ample opportunities to teach and share whatever I >> know with good listening students. In fact I chose to be a teacher after >> serving as a state govt officer for about a decade. >> >> My journey with ‘efloraofindia’ started suddenly when I received an email >> from Garg Ji inviting me to join the group in late 2012. I didn’t know what >> prompted him to invite me and how he located me? I was unaware of such >> groups on the net and had little knowledge of computers. Just following the >> inherent spirit of adventure, joined the group considering ‘see what >> happens’. Similar to my many trekking ventures in Uttarakhand this also >> proved worthy and memorable. I sent my first request for identification of >> a species of an uncommon *Vicia* species and got it identified. It >> encouraged me that I am at the right forum to discuss my identifications. >> Since then I have been posting my pics (though nowadays little active) with >> self determined identities, sometimes these are corrected by knowledgeable >> members/ experts. Despite practicing floristics since my M.Sc. days in >> 1987-89 I found many plants difficult to identify but these get identified >> easily in eFI. Association with the efloraofindia group has grown to about >> one decade long for me. This journey with eFI has been happy and >> satisfying- taking the help of others and sometimes helping others too. I >> was in fact surprised when I was asked to become moderator first and later >> as pillar. These are not simple responsibilities and I often shy away from >> such responsibilities considering the fact that the dedication required for >> such work is difficult to generate and the essential duties of a job allow >> limited time to invest in such volunteer work. This long association of >> learning with efloraofindia has made me its fan as well as its student. >> Now, when I go to any botanical tour it always lurks in the mind that what >> new I will find and share in the efloraofindia group. Collecting, >> photographing and sharing something rare or new has a pleasure of its own >> kind to me and probably all of us here. >> >> I am now also a member of a few other plant related groups (mainly added >> by moderators) and understand that our group (efloraofindia group) is >> incomparable to these. Here we have members always seriously trying to >> reach the correct identity of a species as compared to other groups where >> people casually suggest the identities which many times are completely >> unrelated. Once in a group I tried to correct one id and received unwanted >> comments, consequently, I stopped commenting. Here in efloraofindia we >> suggest the ids and if these are wrong no one uses such comments and it >> gives a chance to learn. After all, no one is a perfect expert. The modesty >> seen here is amazing together with the apt interventions by the moderator. >> >> I feel proud being a member, an ardent fan and student of efloraofindia >> group which is a ‘good teacher’ teaching Indian flora on the net. And who >> will not feel proud being a member of the largest pictorial database on >> Indian flora? I wish to see eFI as the complete database of flowering >> plants of India with all 21000 species (approximate number of flowering >> plants); a database of its own kind in the world where one can contribute, >> help others or ask for help, all free and amicably. To me eFI is the most >> successful Citizen Science endeavour in India. >> >> I feel happy whenever a hard core taxonomist joins the group and enriches >> the pool of experts available in eFI. We need many more experts here to >> make it a high class referable repository by correcting all dubious >> identities. >> >> To me eFI is such an indispensable resource that when I explain a >> flowering plant family in PG classes and share brief notes with students I >> never forget to share the link of the same family in eFI. This allows them >> to see a large number of species known in India. >> >> The biggest benefit from efloraofindia group and eFI for me was the >> stimulus to start my own Google site eflorapantnagar >> <https://sites.google.com/view/eflorapantnagar/home> where I have put a >> large number (though not all) of plants of Pantnagar for the benefit of my >> students and others interested in plants. It was not possible to start it >> without the support I got from Garg Ji and Dinesh Ji. >> >> When eFI was a Google site I was trying to add information or do minor >> editing as was being done by many other members at that time but after its >> transfer to another server everything had to be managed by Garg Ji. I >> admire his zeal for this cause but somewhere in the corner of my heart I >> feel pain for not being able to share his work even for a minute task. >> >> At the completion of 15 years of efloraofindia I congratulate the team >> eFI (esteemed outstanding contributors >> <https://efloraofindia.com/2020/08/02/outstanding-contributors/>, the >> pillars <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/11/12/pillars-of-efloraofindia/> >> , experts <https://efloraofindia.com/2014/09/16/subject-experts/>, >> moderators <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/01/12/moderators/>, major >> contributors <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/01/12/major-contributors/> and >> all the members) and bow my head to express awe to the ‘triveni’ of Garg >> Ji >> <https://efloraofindia.com/wp-content/uploads/attachments/10001527_412106022258010_1588519322_n.jpg-attredirects-0>, >> ‘Saarthi ‘सारथि’ of eFloraofIndia >> <https://efloraofindia.com/2022/02/21/saarthi-%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a5%e0%a4%bf-of-efloraofindia/>’ >> and ‘Pitamah of eFloraofIndia >> <https://efloraofindia.com/2014/11/14/pitamah-of-efloraofindia/>’. >> >> It is also the right time to reiterate my earlier words- *hope we all, >> combined together by a thread of selfless service in eFI, reach to the >> remotest and last species of India and showcase it here!* >> >> Dharmendra Singh Rawat, Pantnagar >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFCtUz3a%2BzTwJBPCR%2B7NAwc0%2BdqR95AVHqOmAy703EaVxw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/itpmods/CA%2BiuSFCtUz3a%2BzTwJBPCR%2B7NAwc0%2BdqR95AVHqOmAy703EaVxw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ITPmods" group. 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