Nanded varsity launches natural resource management guidance centre

Aurangabad: The vice-chancellor of Nanded-based Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University , Uddhav Bhosale, has launched a natural resource management guidance centre that will guide people on different aspects like conservation of land, water, forest, wind and energy.

Speaking to reporters, senior university official Ashok Kadam said the vice-chancellor has asserted a scientific approach to all these problems and decided to take the work at village-level.

“University has made use land on its campus to introduce efforts like percolation tanks so that the rain water is arrested, other water resources are being repaired, nullahs have been straightened to ensure their flow toward the smaller dams,” he said.

The university has also created two farm ponds and pressed the machinery to desilt the waterbodies on its premises. This would help arrest over 2 crore liter of water during the current monsoon and help increase the water table on the university campus.

Kadam said that earlier on May 15 various water conservation works were inaugurated by noted playback singer Anuradha Paudwal and district collector Arun Dongre. “The university has also launched a drive that each of its staff would plant and conserve at least 5 trees to ensure greenery and biodiversity on the campus,” he said.

The social forestry department too has extended its cooperation to plant different species of trees in the 10 hectare area to maintain biodiversity and accordingly has planted 2,500 saplings.

“The vice chancellor was making efforts to make it a tourist spot where visitors, including students, could visit and learn lessons in maintaining bio-diversity. The vice chancellor has resolved to make the university a role model in Marathwada,” Kadam said.