[Assam] Indian Engineering Congress begins (The Assam Tribune, 22.12.2006)

[Buljit Buragohain]

Guwahati, Friday, December 22, 2006  
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  Indian Engineering Congress begins
By A Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI, Dec 21 – Over 1,500 delegates from the country and abroad are converging in the city to take part in the 21st Indian Engineering Congress, which got underway today with a four-day programme. Among the delegates, about 80 are from foreign countries like Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Korea and Bangladesh. The formal inauguration of the Congress is scheduled for 10 am tomorrow at the Machkhowa Pragjyoti ITA Centre for Performing Arts.

Union Minister of State for Commerce will inaugurate the Congress seminar on challenges of engineering for sustainable 10 per cent growth and beyond at 1 pm at the same venue. He will also deliver the key not address on the theme of the seminar.

Addressing a press conference here this afternoon on behalf of the organizers – the state wing of the Institution of Engineers (India) – present president of the Institution of Engineers (India) Prof S C Nayar, its ex-president Dr Samiran Choudhury, its secretary and director general Commodore A K Poothia, chairman of its State wing P K Goswami, working president of the organizing committee of the Congress A K Mitra, co-chairman of the press and media sub committee S C Goswami and secretary of the State wing of the Institution G N Khaund told media persons that the theme for the seminar was decided to emphasize more on the need to accelerate of the process of country’s growth.

The sessions of the seminar will spread over all the coming three days of the Congress and the thematic lectures will be initiated by the lead speakers, who include Dr Damodar Acharya, Chairman of the AICTE, Ajit Hazarika, Director (Onshore) of the ONGC and Dr R Rangachari, Research Professor of the Centre for Policy Research.

The five technical sessions of the congress are devoted to eight sub-themes engineering in agriculture for economic progress, education for engineering in the present context, application of R&D for competitiveness and exploration and exploitation of natural energy.

The organizers said that the discussions on the sub-themes would help focus on the problems of the NE region in the respective fields.

As part of the Congress, six memorial lectures have also been planned and these will be delivered by the renowned technocrats and scholars engaged in different areas of knowledge. A colourful exhibition on science and technology has also been organised as part of the congress at the Sonaram H S School playground. The exhibition will remain open for visitors between 11 am and 7-30 pm. 

An interactive session among the school students and eminent engineers has also been planned at the exhibition ground at 5-30 pm tomorrow. Such a session will also be organised on December 23. On December 24, there will be an interactive session among the child scientists of the region who have been selected for the forthcoming National Children’s Science Congress and the eminent engineers, said the organisers.



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