First GIAN Course of Nagaland University to be held from March 7-11
Morung Express News
Dimapur | March 3
Interested people are invited to participate in the first GIAN Course of Nagaland University approved by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India to be held during March 7-11, 2017 in the Department of Geography, Nagaland University at Lumami. This Course contains lectures, field studies, workshops, group discussions etc. The foreign faculty will also interact with students, research scholars and faculty of Nagaland University and visit various sites in Kohima and Mokokchung districts in view of future collaborative research between Nagaland University, India and Oxford Brookes University, UK.
The interested participants are requested to contact Department of Geography for registration in advance. The final registration will be from March 6 from 11:00 am to March 7 at 11:00 am in the geography department.
Course Overview
This course is a modest attempt at addressing environmental problems that are intimately related to the framework of geography, geomorphology, geology and others.
Landslides and their attendant debris flows are the second biggest killers in mountainous domains (after earthquakes) and occur routinely, year after year, to cause severe damage to life and property. Landslides and debris flows are widespread all over Nagaland, particularly along the highways. Landslide prediction and management is tackled by many branches of the Earth Sciences as well as by the insurance companies and construction industries and those concerned with development and planning at every level of state and local government.
Exploring the less predictable ‘crowd behaviour' of landslides requires new approaches that share much with the prediction of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and that involves geostatistics, geoinformatics and geosystems thinking.
This course explores the different characteristics of the trigger events that initiate landslide and debris flow activity and the systems processes that determine their size and longevity. It considers the means for the prediction and control of landslide-prone zones, such as new mountain highways. It also considers methods of hazards mitigation and avoidance, including the management of recurrent long-run out landslides and debris flows.
The course will offer ‘Participation Certificate’ along with ‘Statement of Grade’ to those participants who will successfully complete the course.
GIAN Programme
The GIAN programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development aims at tapping talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs internationally, to encourage their engagement with institutes of higher education in India so as to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reforms and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence through gathering the best international experience into our systems of higher education, enabling interaction of students and faculty with best academic and industry experts from all over the world and sharing of their experiences and expertise to motivate people to work on India's problems.
The objectives of the GIAN, Nagaland University are to increase the footfalls of reputed international faculty in the Nagaland University, provide opportunity to our faculty to learn and share knowledge and teaching skills in cutting edge areas, provide opportunity to our students to seek knowledge and experience from reputed foreign faculty, create avenues for possible collaborative research with foreign faculty, increase participation and presence of international students in the University and develop new pedagogic methods in emerging topics of national and international interest.
Organising Committee
The organising committee is headed by Patron- Prof. NS Jamir, vice chancellor incharge, NU; chairperson- Prof. S. K. Chaturvedi, Dean, RDC, NU; foreign faculty- Prof. Martin Haigh, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom Prof. M. S. Rawat, Department of Geography, NU, Lumami Prof. G. T. Thong, Department of Geology, NU, Kohima Campus, Meriema Dr. Sarat Chandra Yenisetti, Director, IQAC, Nagaland University, Lumami. Prof. M. S. Rawat, Department of Geography, NU, Lumami is the chairperson of the local orgaisning committee.
