Thursday, February 3, 2011

Take ISRO help in forest, mining, infra & telemedicine: Guv


Raipur, February 02, 2011

Chhattisgarh requires Indian Space and Research Organisation’s (ISRO) help in science and technology sector for its organised development and benefit of the common man. This can be achieved only when the state would have consistent link with the ISRO and it would implement the organisation’s people-oriented programmes. Governor and Chancellor Shekhar Dutt’s suggestions for Chhattisgarh’s development through ISRO route came while he was delivering lecture during Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) 17th convocation ceremony that held on Wednesday.
Dutt said the state government should take help of ISRO on forest, mining, infrastructure and telemedicine. “We need consistent management of forests through satellite for which we would have to take long-term help from ISRO,” he said. 
On mining sector he said, “The state is also rich in natural resources and its exploration, exploitation and preservation can be done through ISRO.”
Regarding infrastructure he said, “We need all-round development for which we would require manpower that can be generated through distance learning via satellite,” he said.
He further felt that the state also would require telemedicine facility in future. “The developed society always needs hi-tech medical facility. The telemedicine would provide great helping in treatment of patients who could not reach to medical centres at time,” he said.
Earlier, the School Education Minister Brijmohan Agrawal said read the address of Chief Minister Raman Singh who could not attend the function due to his Delhi visit. In his message the CM said the state had achieved success in different sectors in the past one decade from education to industrial and still has possibilities to grow a lot for which manpower as well as better resources and infrastructure would be required. The CM appealed to the youths to come forward in developing the state as well as the nation.
The Higher Education Minister Hemchand Yadav said that the state aimed to turnaround its universities and colleges into net-enabled quality education centres where students from urban as well as rural pockets, especially from remote areas could acquire knowledge.
The vice chancellor Professor SK Pandey said the varsity had expanded its domain in the past ten years and fifty percent of the state colleges, i.e. 261 out of 500 colleges are affiliated with the RSU. He said still the varsity need advance infrastructure to become nationally acclaimed centre of education.

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