Solan
Celebration of National Science Day for the year 2023 started at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, Solan with a multifarious activities. This year the NSD activities were planned in an offline mode where a poster/model presentation competition was organized along with a one day workshop in JUIT. Participants from various parts of India which includes Jaipur, Ambala, Solan, Shimla, Bilaspur etc. actively participated and presented their scientific ideas. Some JUIT students also showcased their talent through this competiton. Posters and models were evaluated by a team of learned judges from various departments of JUIT. Prof. Vineet Sharma, Dr. Anil Kant, Dr. Poonam Sharma, Dr. Hemant Sood, Dr. Surojeet Hazra and Dr. Ashok Nadda were among the judges of this important competition. Honorable Vice chancellor of JUIT Prof. R.K. Sharma also visited the poster competiton and interacted with the students in great detial. Heads of the involved departments Prof. P.B. Barman and Prof. Sudhir Kumar also encouraged the students for their presentations. This event was cordinated by Dr. Tiratha raj Singh along with Dr. Ragini Raj Singh and Dr. Shikha Mittal.
In addition to that, another important event was organized and it was a One Day Workshop in collaboration with Rajkiya Kanya Mahavidyalaya (RKMV) Longwood, Shimla, (H.P.) on ‘Molecular Biology and Biotechnological Techniques’. The workshop was arranged by Prof. Sudhir Kumar HoD, BT & BI, JUIT and Dr. Anil Kumar Thakur Dean (Sciences), HoD-Botany, RKMV. Dr. Jata Shankar & Dr. Rahul Shrivastava from JUIT, coordinated the entire workshop.
Inthis workshop, 60 students of B.Sc. (Microbiology, Biotechnology, Zoology and Botany streams) participated. Faculty members Dr. Rajender Prakash, Ms. Kartik S. M. Chanchan, Mr. Amit Sharma, Mr Rajesh Azad, from RKMV, Shimla accompanied the students and actively participated in the workshop. The main objective of the workshop was to educate and motivate students for exploration of different arenas in science, and provide them live demonstration and training on novel areas and topics related to Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.
The workshop was conducted by the resource persons from the Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, JUIT, Waknaghat. Dr. Rahul Shrivastava provided a practical demonstration of Drug Screening methods, and Biofilm Inhibition Assay used for Drug Discovery, Dr. Jata Shankar provided a live practical session on PCR and Real-Time PCR. The sessions were followed by pratical seesion on Industrial Applications of Plant Tissue Culture by Dr. Hemant Sood, and interaction on Enzyme Technology by Dr. Ashok Nadda and Dr.Uday M.
RKMV College, Shimla administration thanked the, JUIT for his motivation and support. JUIT administration, staff, research scholars and M.Sc. volunteeres provided their support for making the workshop a great success. JUIT Vice Chancellor Prof. Rajendra Kumar Sharma and Dr. Ruchi Ramesh, Principal, RKMV, Shimla expressed their delight over successful conduct of the First workshop under the MoU signed between JUIT and RKMV, Shimla.
Next part of NSD celebration will be organized on 28th February, 2023 where an online event named National Science Day Symposium (NSDS), 2023 will be organized. All the poster/model and quiz competiton winners will be announced on the same day in NSDS-2023. JUIT is one the pioneer University in Himachal Pradesh and in all Northern part of India in organizing and celebrating science at differenct levels through various activities.
