VARANASI: A two-day conference on ‘ Ved Vijnana Vimarsh (VVV-2024)’ concluded at IIT (BHU) Varanasi on Sunday. On the concluding day, two plenary talks were delivered. Prof.
V.R. Desai , Director, IIT Dharwad, delivered the first plenary talk on “Plants (Vraksha), stars (Nakshatra) for ensuring climate resilience through voluntary afforestation”.
He discussed water management and said that water is life. He mentioned that for ensuring sustainable water resources management, integrated watershed management (IWM) and resource conservation are essential. He also discussed the various components of IWM, which include mainly soil conservation, water conservation, and vegetation conservation.
He emphasised the role of vegetation/forests in ensuring IWM and in maintaining ecological balance. A continuous decrease in vegetation cover (due to deforestation etc.) results in the loss of animal habitat over the past several decades.
The second plenary talk was delivered by Anoop Kumar , who discussed Bhartiya Jurisprudence , detailed concepts of Dharma, and emphasised the difference between dharma and other similar concepts like beauty and ethics. He also pointed out the views of dharma to see things in totality, encompassing many gradients of life in an integrated way. A session on Science, Engineering and Technology was addressed by Prof.
Sonu Ram Shankar from Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Dr. Lakshmanan Kailasam, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, I.