{"id":217585,"date":"2023-06-03T01:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=217585"},"modified":"2023-06-03T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:59:14","slug":"seminar-on-sustainable-environment-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/seminar-on-sustainable-environment-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on sustainable environment held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NIRJULI, 2 Jun:<\/strong> The North Eastern Regional Institute of Science &amp; Technology (NERIST), in collaboration with the rural works department (RWD), organised a seminar on &#8216;sustainable environment&#8217; as part of Mission LiFE, here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The objective of the seminar was to generate awareness on environmental sustainability, reuse of waste materials, and adoption of bio-diesel fuel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A plantation drive was also organised in the institute complex in the run-up to the World Environment Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RWD SE (SQC) N Nyodu, speaking on the occasion, said that &#8220;we should not be a pollution creating machine; rather, we should be a pollution reducing machine. But we humans are the sole contributor to pollution on this earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Ajanta Kalita presented techniques and practices to reduce environmental pollution, and RWD EE Onyang Tatak delivered a lecture on reusing waste materials for road construction, and on other &#8220;green methods&#8221; adopted by the department in road construction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NERIST Student Affairs Dean Prof Pradip Lingfa demonstrated how bio-diesel fuel can be obtained from &#8220;household waste oil and naturally available nuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Yamem Tamut of the NERIST presented a brief on &#8220;stabilising weak soil by using locally available waste materials such as wood ash and chir pine needles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RWD CE N Rigia and NERIST Director Prof M Muralidhar also attended the seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIRJULI, 2 Jun: The North Eastern Regional Institute of Science &amp; Technology (NERIST), in collaboration with the rural works department (RWD), organised a seminar on &#8216;sustainable environment&#8217; as part of Mission LiFE, here on Friday. The objective of the seminar was to generate awareness on environmental sustainability, reuse of waste materials, and adoption of bio-diesel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}