Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 5
ALONG WITH the rest of the world, Salt Christian College, Dimapur, also observed the World Environment Day at the chapel hall of the college with K C Panda, Deputy General Manager of NABARD, as the chief guest.
Delivering his keynote address, Panda encouraged the students to take up concrete measures to enrich the environment and also undo the crimes committed upon the environment by humans. Terming the crimes upon environment as very serious business, Panda said that humans over years had mercilessly degraded the environment. And some serious issues confronting us include global warming, depletion of ozone layer and biodiversity, he maintained.
The DGM continued that due to such human activities, people face change in rainfall patterns, shortage of food, rise in river water levels, etc. “Forests are getting reduced due to human greed,” he pointed out. Suggesting some remedies to redress such crisis, Panda advised planting of more trees, crop land management, and reduction in the excessive use of fertilisers in farming. He also encouraged the people to lessen the use of energy sector like fossil fuel, but rather stressed on the use of solar energy (renewable energy).
Advising the students, Panda encouraged them to preserve and protect the environment in whatever way they could since, he pointed out, the future belongs to them (the students). Others who spoke on the occasion included Dr. M Panger Longchar, Director of Salt Christian College, and lecturers Talukdar and Sen.
Sungjemmenla of BA I, Shingnya of BA I, and Depak and Atsung of BA II stood 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the painting competition. Meanwhile, the SCC Dimapur also expressed gratitude to Kuhoi Zhimo, DMC member of ward 5, for donating saplings to the college for plantation.
