IIN-India Forum

Background || IIN-India Forum Meeting 17 July 2004
 

IIN-India Forum Meeting 17 July 2004

As a prelude to the first IIN-India Forum Meeting scheduled in September 2004, a meeting was held in the Business Development Room of NBRI on 17th July 2004. The following were present:

  1. Pushpangadan, Director, NBRI, Lucknow

  2. Dr. R. K. Rai, Addtl. Director, MOEF, Govt. of India, New Delhi

  3. Shri R. B. S. Rawat, CEO, NMPB, MOHFW, Govt. of India, New Delhi

  4. Dr. T. Madhan Mohan, Director, DBT, Govt. of India, New Delhi

  5. Dr. B. K. Ramaprasad, Joint Advisor, ISTAD, CSIR, New Delhi

  6. Dr. Sudershan Kumar, Scientist and Nodal Officer, GBIF-India Node, NBRI, Lucknow

  7. Dr. Y. S. Bedi, Scientist, RRL, Jammu
  8. Shri. Amit Kumar, Scientist, IHBT, Palampur
  9. Mrs. Pallavi Bhattacharjee, Computer Engineer, NEHU, Shillong
  10. Dr. A. K. Sharma, GBPUAT, Pantnagar
  11. Dr. Rajeev Srivastava, FRI (ICFRE), Dehradun
  12. Dr. A. K. Pathak, Scientist, BSI, Dehradun
  13. Shri B. M. Shukla, Senior Software Engineer, IIT, Kanpur
  14. Dr. R. K. Sharma, Dy. Director, CDRI, Lucknow
  15. Dr. Ashok Sharma, Head Bioinformatics, CIMAP, Lucknow
  16. Dr. Janardan Singh, CIMAP, Lucknow
  17. Dr. R.R. Hirwani, NCL, Pune
  18. Dr. R. C. Agrawal, Sr. Scientist, NBPGR, New Delhi
  19. Dr. S. Sreekumar, Bioinformatics, TBGRI, Thiruvananthapuram
  20. Dr. Nutan Kaushik, Scientist, TERI, New Delhi
  21. Dr. A. K. S. Rawat, Scientist, NBRI, Lucknow
  22. Dr. (Mrs.) Kamla Kulshreshtha, Scientist, NBRI, Lucknow
  23. Dr. P. K. Trivedi, Scientist, NBRI, Lucknow
  24. Mrs. Vidhi Gupta, PA V, IIN-India, Bioinformatics, NBRI, Lucknow
Drs. R. C. Agrawal and R. R. Hirwani could not attend the meeting due to prior engagements at their end.
 
Dr. P. Pushpangadan, Director, NBRI gratefully acknowledged and thanked the support of MOEF, BSI, ICFRE, AYUSH, MOHFW, DBT, ICAR, CSIR, CIMAP, CDRI, IHBT, RRL Jammu, TBGRI and Universities for sending their representatives to this meeting. He welcomed all the distinguished participants to the meeting and briefly explained NBRI’s profile as a multi disciplinary plant science research institute. He informed the participants about NBRI’s involvement in developing the databases, networks and establishing links with international networks and about NBRI’s role as the Nodal Centre of many national and international programmes. He then invited Dr. S. Kumar to give a presentation on the IIN-India activities at NBRI.


 

 




Director NBRI addressing the Forum meeting
 



Dr. S. Kumar made a detailed presentation on the aims and objectives of IIN-India programmes. Information about Investing in Nature Programme (IIN-India), which in collaboration with BGCI, UK, aims to develop a network/ website/ database of 140 Botanic Gardens of India, was presented. A prototype of National database of threatened plants was also demonstrated.


 

 




Demonstration at Forum meeting

 

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