19th APG Meet and National Conference
Department of Geography, Khalsa College, Patiala (Punjab) is hosting 19th APG Meet and National Conference on Nov. 2-3, 2018. The main focus of this conference is to explore the potentialities, problems and prospects of Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Environment and their significance to man on a common platform to deliberate these issues and draw some meaningful conclusions by experts from various disciplines for concrete policy making.
State Level Geographical Quiz Contest
APG congratulates all the conveners, at Zonal and State level, who had taken a first time historical initiative to spread the soul of Geography among all the students, across the State, by organizing Geography Quiz Contest-2018. This is done for a wider coverage and to make the subject more popular among students. This Geographical Quiz Contest was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, Zonal Level Quiz Contest was organized by different zones namely; Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala and Bathinda. The colleges with departments of geography in these zones competed at Zonal Level.
Dr. Saminderjit Singh Young Geographer Award
Original research papers along with bio-data of the authors, who are Masters in Geography and have not attained the age of 32 years, are invited from all over India and SAARC countries for the Young Geographer Award competition. A soft copy of the paper prepared according to the format of 'Punjab Geographer' should be submitted in English to Dr. B.R. Thakur, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, H. P. University, Shimla (E-mailbrthakur53@ gmail.com, mob-09418065518
Devinder Singh Raina Memorial Meritorious Student Award
The Association of Punjab Geographers has instituted Meritorious Student Award, in the memory of Prof. Devinder Singh Raina, Department of Geography, University of Jammu, Jammu. The student standing First in M.Sc. Final year examination, 2018 of the Department of Geography of University of Jammu, will be honoured with this award at 19th APG Meet on 2nd November, 2018 at Khalsa college, Patiala hosting the 19th APG Meet and National conference.
Punjab Geographer
Original research papers are invited for publication from the members. Members can contact Dr. H. S. Mangat, E-mail editor@apgorg.org. Please visit website of APG: www.apgorg.org to see the guidelines for the authors and format of the paper. These details are also available at the website of the Journal: www.punjabgeographer.org
New PG Department of Geography
With sincere efforts of its Principal Dr. Dharminder Singh Ubha, Khalsa College, Patiala is going to start M.Sc. in Geography from session 2018-19. Dr. Gorakh Singh, Head of Geography Dept. informed that about 400 students are enrolled at undergraduate level which started its enrolment during the session 2015-16. The start of Postgraduate Degree will be a new milestone in the history of Geography Dept. and the College.
News from Departments/Colleges
Dept. of Geography, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla:
1. Dr. Anurag Sharma has assumed the charge of Chairman, Dept. of Geography, HPU Shimla.
2. Mrs. Seema Choudhary, Assistant. Professor, has been awarded Ph. D. degree for her Doctoral thesis titled, "Quality of Life in Himachal Pradesh: A Case Study of Baijnath Block, Kangra District" in May 2018. This research work was done under the supervision of Dr. D. D. Sharma, Department of geography, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla.
3. Dr. BR Thakur attended International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference on "Practical Geography and 21st Century Challenges", held from 4th to 6th June, 2018, at Moscow, Russia. He presented a paper "Quality of Living Space in India: Issues and Challenges" on this conference.
Geographical News
North may turn into a 'dust bowl'
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment, India says there are several similarities between prevailing weather conditions over North India and the ones that led to the creation of a "dust bowl" in America in the 1930s. Rising temperatures, change in wind and weather patterns, are all adding to the man-made reasons - unsustainable water-guzzling agriculture, lowering of groundwater and deforestation - to the possibility of North India turning into a "dust bowl".