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Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 1 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Governing Body Chairman (w.e.f. 20.12.2006 to 19.12.2009) (w.e.f. 20.06.2003 to 19.06.2006) Dr. T. Ramasami Professor J.S. Singh Secretary Professor Emeritus Department of Science and Technology Department of Botany Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road Banaras Hindu University New Delhi-110 016 Varanasi-221 005 Members Shri K.P. Pandiyan Shri K.P. Pandiyan Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser or his Nominee, DST or his Nominee, DST Technology Bhavan, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road New Mehrauli Road New Delhi-110 016 New Delhi-110 016 Dr. H.K. Gupta Former Secretary, DOD, GoI Sri V.K. Sibal N – 1/A, ‘Manjusha’ Director General Kakatiya Nagar, Habsiguda Directorate General of Hydrocarbons Hyderabad-500 007 4th Floor, Hindustan Times House 18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg Professor G.K. Srivastava New Delhi-110 001 Department of Botany University of Allahabad Dr. B.R. Arora Allahabad-211 002 Director Professor S.B. Bhatia Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Former Professor of Geology 33, General Mahadeo Singh Road Chandigarh University, 441, Sector 6 Dehradun-248 001 Panchkula-134 109, Haryana Professor Manju Banerjee Members (Ex-officio) Flat No. 205 & 206 Professor M.P. Singh Arpan Complex Head, Department of Geology 58A, N.C. Choudhary Road Lucknow University Kolkata-700 042 Lucknow-226 007 Director General Professor G .V.R. Prasad Head, Department of Geology Geological Survey of India University of Jammu 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road Jammu -180 006 Kolkata-700 016 Director Dr. V. Purnachandra Rao Botanical Survey of India Scientist-F 5th Floor, MS Building National Institute of Oceanography ‘F’ Block, CGO Complex Dona Paula DF Block, Sector-1 Goa-403 004 Kolkata-700 064 Member-Secretary (Ex-officio) Dr. N.C. Mehrotra, Director Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow Non-Member Assistant Secretary (Ex-officio) Registrar Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow 2 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Research Advisory Council (w.e.f. 01.10.2003 to 30.09.2006) Chairman Professor G.K. Srivastava Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211 002 Member-Convener (Ex-officio) Director Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow Members Dr. K.R. Gupta Professor B.D. Sharma Former Adviser (ESS), DST Kathmandi H – 44B, Saket Narnaul – 123 001 New Delhi –110 017 Haryana Professor A.K. Singhvi Dr. N.D. Mitra Planetary and Geosciences Division 49 D, Townshend Road Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura Bhawanipur Ahmedabad – 380 009 Kolkata – 700 025 Professor C.G.K. Ramanujam Professor P.K. Khare Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Botany Department of Botany P.G. College of Science Allahabad University Osmania University, Saifabad Allahabad – 211 002 Hyderabad – 500 004 Dr. R.R. Rao Dr. Debabrata Ray (up to 27.6.2005) Director Grade Scientist Dr. D.M. Kale CIMAP Research Station Group General Manager - Head Allalasandra, GKVK Post Office KDM Institute of Petroleum Exploration Bangalore – 560 065 9, Kaulagarh Road Dehradun -248 195 Professor D.M. Banerji Department of Geology Delhi University Delhi – 110 007 Member (Ex-officio) Deputy Director General Geological Survey of India Northern Region, Sector- E Aliganj, Lucknow- 226 020 3 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Finance and Building Committee (w.e.f. 20.12.2006 to 19.12.2009) Chairman (Ex-officio) Dr. T. Ramasami Secretary, DST & Chairman, Governing Body Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Members Shri K.P. Pandiyan Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser or his Nominee, DST, New Delhi Dr. B.R. Arora Director, WIHG & Member, Governing Body Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Shri Ajai K. Srivastava Chief Engineer, Museum Project ONGC Ltd., Tel Bhawan P.O.- Tel Bhawan Dehradun Member (Ex-officio) Director Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Non-Member Secretary (Ex-officio) Registrar Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany 4 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Foundation Day On September 10, 2006 the Institute celebrated its 60th Training Institute, Northern Region, Lucknow delivered a series Foundation Day. This year being the Diamond Jubilee Year, of lectures on “Vigilance Awareness” on 9th September. following lectures were organized to mark the occasion: Dr. Rakesh Tuli, Director, National Botanical Research Professor V.S. Ramamurthy, Former Secretary, DST, Govt. Institute, Lucknow delivered a Special Lecture on the theme of India delivered (on 8th September) ‘10th Jubilee DNA in Botanical Diversity and Crop Improvement. On the th Commemoration Lecture’ on the topic “Management of same evening of 10 September, Guest of Honour Dr. Jauhari Lal, Secretary General & CEO, Petrotech Society, New Delhi Intellectual Property Assets in a Basic Research delivered a popular lecture in Hindi on Future of Science in the Environment”. Age of Information Technology to mark the beginning of Hindi Dr. Deepak Mehrotra, Director, Geological Survey of India Pakhwara. 5 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Founder’s Day On November 14, 2006–the Founder’s Day, the Institute’s Kingdom delivered the ‘52nd Sir Albert Charles Seward Memorial staff and distinguished guests from other organizations Lecture’ entitled “Palaeobotany and its Role in predicting offered Pushpanjali on the Samadhi of the Founder future Climate Change” at the inaugural function of the Professor Birbal Sahni, FRS in the campus. Same day in the Diamond Jubilee International Conference on November 15, evening Sahni Memorial and Diamond Jubilee lectures were 2006. organized. Padmashri Prof. Harsh K. Gupta, Former Secretary, Prof. Cheng Sen Li, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy Department of Ocean Developments (Govt. of India) and th of Sciences, Beijing delivered the ‘36 Birbal Sahni Memorial presently Raja Ramanna Fellow at NGRI, Hyderabad presided Lecture’ on the topic “Eocene Climate Changes in China with over the function. Many guests and scientists from outside ISOGRAM Map”. the Institute and several conference delegates attended the Prof. Robert A. Spicer, The Open University, United occasion. 6 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Diamond Jubilee Lecture Dr. B.S. Venkatachala, Former Director, Birbal Sahni Applications on the Founders’ Day (November 14, 2006). Institute of Palaeobotany delivered the 2nd Diamond Jubilee Lifetime Achievement Award-2006 was also conferred on Lecture on the topic Economic Palynology– Industrial Dr. Venkatachala on this occasion. 7 Annual Report 2006 - 2007 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany Diamond Jubilee International Conference On the auspicious occasion of its Diamond Jubilee Year Institute (Lucknow), National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean the Institute organized an International Conference on Research (Goa), National Institute of Oceanography (Goa), Oil Changing Scenario in Palaeobotany and Allied Subjects India Limited, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (Dehradun, during November 15-17, 2006 in continuum of Founders’ Day Kolkata), Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmedabad), programme. The Conference covered diverse aspects of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (AP) and Wadia Institute fundamental and applied researches in Palaeobotany and Allied of Himalayan Geology (Dehradun). Representatives from DST, Earth System Sciences. The Conference dealt with various New Delhi also attended the event. aspects of Palaeobotany and related topics under the following More than 135 research papers were presented on varied ten themes– aspects of Palaeobotany dealing with biota of early life l Origin and evolution of early life (Precambrian- 3.6 billion yr. old) to Holocene including the usage of Palaeobotany in the fossil fuel exploration. The papers were l Biodiversity through time discussed during three days of the Conference in 3 concurrent l Gondwana floristics and biostratigraphy and 3 poster sessions. In addition, 6 Plenary Lectures were also delivered by eminent scientists, such as Palaeobotany in l Patterns of angiosperm origin and early evolution Hydrocarbon exploration (by Manoj Asthana), Future energy l Quaternary palaeoclimate and palaeobotanical proxies scenario in India: Coal a key player (by S.K. Srivastava), Fossil record of angiosperm evolution (by D.L. Dilcher), l Archaeobotany and anthropogenic activities Climate change from Tree rings in India (by Edward R. Cook), l Palynology and fossil fuel exploration Palaeophytographic reconstructions (by Sun Kequin) and On l Mass extinctions, time boundaries and fossil record the use of non intrusive and non-destructive techniques: CLSM and Raman imagery for the study of Precambrian l Applications of modern tools/techniques in the microorganisms and also for investigation of higher plants (by palaeobotanical research J.W. Schopf). Similarly, 12 key-note addresses were given by l Geochronometry. learned speakers, like D.S.N. Raju, Balesh Kumar, Sun Ge, M.N.V. Prasad, Jianhua Jin, Ashok Sahni, Yongdong Wang, R. Ramesh, The Conference was inaugurated by His Excellency Shri Xiaoqiang Li, and Rajiv Sinha in their respective fields. T. V. Rajeswar, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Harsh K. Gupta, then General President, Indian Science Congress The various sessions were chaired by eminent scientists, Association was the Guest of Honour of the inaugural function. viz. Kuldeep Chandra (Dehradun), D.L. Dilcher (USA), Carlos On this occasion special Postal Cover and Cancellation Cachet Jaramillo (Panama), B.R. Arora (WIHG, Dehradun), M.P. Singh of the BSIP were released
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