August 2016

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70th Independence Day Celebration

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India’s 70th Independence Day was celebrated in the Wildlife Institute of India campus on 15th August, 2016. Hoisting the national flag, Dr. V.B. Mathur, Director recalled the sacrifices of the countrymen during the freedom struggle that finally led to India’s Independence.

He said that Government of India had assigned several new responsibilities to the Institute for planning and implementing species recovery programmes in respect of 4 critically endangered wild animal species viz. Great Indian Bustard, Gangetic Dolphin, Dugong and Manipur Deer and the Institute had taken up the challenge of ‘field conservation’ in 14 States of the country, where these species occur. Similarly, under the National Mission for Clean Ganga the Institute has recently established a ‘Ganga Aqualife Conservation and Monitoring Centre’   in the campus and ‘Ganga Biodiversity Knowledge Centres’ have also been established at Narora and Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh; Sahibganj in Bihar and Bhagalpur in Jharkhand. He urged the Institute’s scientists, researchers, students and staff for their continued support in successfully meeting the various challenges and new responsibilities assigned to the Institute.

The WII Staff Welfare Committee gave awards to the meritorious children for their outstanding performance in class X and XII Board Examination:

S.  No.

Name of the child

Standard

Percentage obtained (%)

1.

Mr. Rishabh Kumar

S/o Shri Ramu Kumar

10

95.00

2.

Mr. Yash Raj Singh Adhikari

S/o Shri Bhupendra Singh Adhikari

10

93.33

3.

Km.  Snigdha Singhal

D/o Smt. Sunita Agarwal

10

92.50

4.

Mr. Divyansh Kapruwan

S/o Shri C. P. Sharma

10

91.50

5.

Mr.  Diwash Bhandari

S/o Shri Niranjan Bhandari

10

85.50

6.

Km. Shivani Kukreti

D/o Shri  Sudhir Kumar

10

85.50

7.

Mr. Abhishek Aswal

S/o Shri Narendra Singh Aswal

10

81.70

8.

Mr. Shikhar Jolly

S/o Smt. Baljeet Kaur

10

78.83

9.

Mr.  Ritesh Kumar

S/o Shri Dharam Singh

10

78.66

10.

Mr. Ritvik Gupta

S/o Shri  Mata Deen Gupta

12

95.60

11.

Mr. Manvendra Singh Thakur

S/o Shri Praveen  Kumar Thakur

12

88.66

12.

Km.  Muskan Aggarwal

D/o Smt. Alka Aggarwal

12

84.83

13.

Km.  Ananya Bist

D/o Shri Narinder Singh Bist

12

83.20

14.

Mr.  Abhishek Kathayat

S/o Shri Jagat Singh Kathayat

12

78.40

15.

Mr. Aman Singh Dhamanda

S/o Shri Padam Singh Dhamanda

12

78.00

The flag hoisting ceremony was followed by a tree plantation programme in the campus by faculty, staff, researchers, students and children in which various fruit and flower bearing trees were planted:

Flag Hoisting Ceremony  
Awards to the Meritorious Children for their Outstanding Performance in class X and XII Board Examination:

Tree Plantation Programme in the Campus

Last Updated: August 17, 2016

Celebrating World Heritage Inscriptions 2016

jpgThe 40th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee which was held in Istanbul, Turkey from 10th – 17th July, 2016, inscribed 21 new sites on the World Heritage List. It was especially memorable for India as 3 of its most remarkable Sites were declared as World Heritage Sites. These included the Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara (Nalanda University) at Nalanda, Bihar, as a Cultural Site; The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement (Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh) as a transnational Cultural Site; and Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim, as India’s first Mixed Cultural and Natural Site.

To celebrate the new Indian World Heritage Site Inscriptions, an event was organised by the UNESCO Category 2 Centre on World Natural Heritage Management and Training for Asia and the Pacific Region, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 4th August, 2016. Nearly 40 eminent Personalities from Government of India’s Ministry of Human Resources, Culture, Environment and Forest, and representatives from UNESCO, ICOMOS and IUCN and other organisations participated in the event.

The programme was initiated by Dr. VB Mathur, Director UNESCO C2C, WII who welcomed the gathering and informed that it was for the first time that in a single WHC Session India got three of her sites inscribed on the World Heritage List.  He acknowledged the significance of the ‘upstreaming’ process by UNESCO in the successful nominations.   On this occasion, Shri Janhwij Sharma, Joint Director General (Conservation/ World Heritage), ASI, New Delhi underlined India’s long current and potential association with World Heritage and the apt recognition of Nalanda’s tradition. Dr. S.S. Negi, Director General of Forest & Special Secretary, MoEFCC emphasised the importance of nature and culture working together for conservation. The Chief Guest at the event, Shri Vinay Sheel Oberoi, Secretary, MoHRD, and former Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO, Paris shared information about the origin and evolution of World Heritage Sites and their growing diversity. He observed how India has played a constructive role in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. He also spoke about the importance of strengthening museums and establishing digital heritage.

jpgThe highlight of the evening was the ceremonial handing over of the Inscription Certificates of the new World Heritage Sites by the distinguished Guest of Honour, Dr. Mechtild Rössler, Director of UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris to the Indian representatives. The event was marked by an interesting talk on “Linking Nature and Culture: Cultural Landscapes and Mixed Sites in the framework of the World Heritage Convention” delivered by Dr. Mechtild Rössler. The programme was brought to a close by a Vote of Thanks offered by Dr. Sonali Ghosh, IFS and Scientist ‘F’, UNESCO C2C at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun.

 

Last Updated: August 8, 2016

Last Updated: August 8, 2016