REGISTRATION DETAILS ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Interested candidates are advised to fill the The Department came into being in Sept., 2011 registraon form and email scanned copy of the under the Faculty of Science to emerge as a followings to [email protected]. Centre of Excellence in Forestry and Parcipants will receive an acknowledgement on Biodiversity Conservaon and Management. It acceptance of their applicaon over mail. strives to deal with soluon based forestry Registraon will include Registraon Kit, Cerficate, research in tune with the emerging issues in the Tea and lunch. sector. The Department also assists in the transfer of technology to the users viz, farmers/orchardists, state forest departments orkshop on and different voluntary organizaons. W WHO CAN ATTEND “Economic valuation of Bio-resource” Interested Faculty members, Research Scholars who ORGANISING COMMITTEE 30th Sept. & 1st Oct. 2019 are pursuing research or willing to research and PG Patron Students are the targeted audience of the Prof. Sangram Sinha workshop. Hon’ble Vice Chancellor University Convener Dr. Sabyasachi Dasgupta How to Reach Tripura University Dept. of Forestry and Biodiversity

Advisory commiee Tripura is well connected with Gauha, Silchar ORGANISED BY Dr. D. K. Sharma, IFS, Addl. PCCF, Govt. of Tripura and Shillong by road. , the state capital is Prof. Sukanta Banik, Dept. of Zoology, TU DEPARTMENT OF also directly connected with Gauha, Kolkata, Prof. R. K. Sinha, Dept. of Botany, TU FORESTRY AND BIODIVERSITY Delhi, Chennai by air. Railway communicaon is Prof. A. K. Saha, Dept. of Botany, TU TRIPURA UNIVERSITY also available between Kolkata, Gauha, Prof. B. K. Dua, Dept. of Botany, TU Suryamaninagar, Tripura Bangalore, New Delhi and Agartala. A daily bus Dr. Debashis Sen, College of Agril., Govt. of Tripura service from Kolkata to Agartala is also available Members of Organising Commiee for which a transit visa is needed through Dr. Bimal Debnath, Dept. of Forestry and Biodiversity Bangladesh. Tripura University is situated about Dr. Sourabh Deb, Dept. of Forestry and Biodiversity SPONSORED BY 5km away from the Agartala rail staon and 20 km Dr. Thiru Selvan, Dept. of Forestry and Biodiversity away from Agartala airport. Dr. Samrat Goswami, Dept. of Rural Studies TRIPURA BIODIVERSITY BOARD REGISTRATION FORM

Workshop on Economic Valuaon of Bio-resource (30th Sept & 1st Oct. 2019)

Ÿ Name……………………………………………..………. Designaon…………………………………………..… Ÿ Name of Affiliaon …………………………………. Ÿ Sex: (Male/Female) ...... ABOUT TRIPURA UNIVERSITY Ÿ Address for Correspondence...... BIORESOURCES Taking into consideraon the long cherished ………...... ….....……... demands of the students community, growing Biodiversity has a fundamental value to humans because we are so dependent on it for our cultural, economic and Ÿ Mobile No……………………....…………………...... aspiraons of the people at large and also environmental well-being. Biodiversity forms the acknowledging the present and future needs of Ÿ E-mail ID………………………………………..……..... backbone of viable ecosystems on which we depend on educaon in the state, the State Government for basic necessies, security and health. Biodiversity has took the iniave to pass the Tripura University Food: Veg / Non-veg proven to hold enormous value when adapted for use in Act in the Assembly in 1987 and the first health, agricultural or industrial applicaons. nd Will you deliver a talk/present a paper? University in the state came into being on 2 Biodiversity has significant economic value that is both (Yes or No) ...... October 1987. The dreams of thousands of implicit and explicit. Most of these values are oen not If yes, Title of the talk /paper………………...... … people were at last fulfilled. Later, Tripura captured by the market. Hence, the goods and services …………………………………………………...... University has been converted to a central derived from biodiversity experience market failure. The nd economic value of biodiversity also has its place in the ...... university on 2 July 2007 under the Tripura policy-making process. Accomodaon required (YES/NO)…….....…….. University Act 2006 as enacted by the parliament. A total number of 42 courses are run One of the key issues that will emerge as a crical challenge for countries intending to operaonalize the under the University, which includes cerficate Date…………… (Signature) Nagoya Protocol on ABS at naonal level would be to courses, Under Graduate, Post Graduate assess the economic and related potenal of resources Accommodaon Diploma and Post Graduate Studies. In addion before arriving at an appropriate mechanism of benefit Accommodaon can be arranged for external to this, PhD programmes are also offered in 33 sharing. In the absence of knowledge on the economic parcipants with prior informaon at Tripura subjects. The number of affiliated colleges at potenal of resources, it is possible that the negoaons University Guest House on Payment basis (Subject present is 46 among which there are 23 Degree on benefit sharing between the provider and user could to availability). Colleges, 17 Professional Colleges, 4 Paramedical be skewed and biased. In this circumstances this Separate TA/DA will not be provided to any and Nursing College and 2 Medical College. workshop will be fruiul in strategizing the appropriate parcipants. valuaon techniques of bioresources.