Tuesday, February 3, 2009





Seminar on Rain water harvesting

We organised another seminar on 14th Dec 2008 at DAV Sr Sec College Hoshiarpur India. Mr Tikshan Sood Cabinet Minister for Forests and  Medical Education was the chief guest. Dr Rajan Aggarwal was the chief speaker About 300 prominent people attended the seminar 
Bhoomi organised a seminar on Rain Water Harvesting on 10-6-2007 at Hotel Presidency . About 250 prominent people and opinion makers of the city participated in the seminar . Mr BM Batra , President MC Hoshiarpur was the Chief Guest and Sh Ravinder Aggarwal XEN Water and Sewerage Board presided over the function . Mr. Sandeep Tiwari , Ex. Officer MCH was the Guest of Honour . Dr Rajender Sharma ,President of Bhoomi , made the presentation on the project and described in detail the working of the rain water harvesting model for recharging the ground water . he informed that a real model is working at the premises of Sh Naval Jain, at Bharwain Road Hoshiarpur,Punjab. This project was taken up in technical collaboration with Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, Punjab,India. Dr Adarsh Pal Vig , Reader, Botany and Eviornment Sciences , Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar , Punjab . in his key note address explained the need to salvage the ground water and avoid its misuse. Because only ground water is fit for drinking purposes without any treatment . Water from all other sources is to be treated before it becomes fit for human consumption.He discussed in detail about the threats to underground water reserves and its subsequent ill effects . In easy to understand way he presented certain stark truths about the water misuse , wastage and urgent need to safeguard our lifeline -THE WATER. Audience was amazed to know from him that only less than 1% of the total water available on this earth is available for human consumption-and that too we are polluting and converting into unfit for drinking. Sh Sandeep Tiwari , EO of MCH and Er, Ravinder Aggarwal , Ex . Engineer of Water and Sewerage Board also stressed the need for water saving and promised all help for implementation of Rain water Harvesting Project in Hoshiarpur. President of MCH SH BM Batra also ensured all help and volunteered for installing the RWH at his residence.After hearing to all these presentation the audience was so impressed that , Jain Sabha Hsp. announced to implement RWH in a schools run by it and in the upcoming Jain Colony at Bharwain Road. Similarly Asha Kiran Society decided to implement in its school for mentally challenged children . Many individuals came forward for installing RWH in their homes. Encouraged by the response BHOOMI got from the people , its Executive has decided to hold similar presentations in schools , colonies , mohallas and community buildings. I, congratulate my team members for the untiring efforts they put in to make this show a success . Everyone worked very hard and deserve the credit. 
Dr Rajender Sharma , President "Bhoomi "