32nd Indian Geography Congress of National Association of Geographers (NAGI)

The Department of Geography, Panjab University, Chandigarh shall be hosting the 32nd Indian Geography Congress of National Association of Geographers (NAGI) on November 19-21, 2010. The theme of the congress is Globalization, Population and Regional Development. Prof R. C. Sobti, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh is the Patron of the congress. Dr. Krishna Mohan, Chairman of the Department is the Convener and Prof Smita Bhutani, Coordinator, CAS (UGC) is the Organizing Secretary of the event.

The NAGI, formed in 1978, is the largest registered association of geographers in the country with over 1800 life members. It has been annually organizing Indian Geography Congress since 1980 and rotates the venue through out the country. It also publishes its Research Journal ANNALS.
The NAGI congress is going to be a mega event where more than 600 delegates from the filed of geography, remote sensing, GIS, GPS, Disaster Management, geo sciences, surveyors, census experts, town planners, administrators etc are expected to participate across the nation and a few from abroad including Prof Ronald Abler,President, International Geographical Union, Prof David Dickason, Director, Centre for the Study of Geographical Change, Michigan University, USA, Prof M. S. Gill, Malyasia, Dr. Harmit Singh Bedi, Director, Planning and Development, Kannesaw State University, USA .
Among the prominent delegates from India, Prof M. H. Qureshi, President NAGI from CSRD, JNU, Prof R. K. Rai, President elect, NAGI, Prof K. R. Dixit, Past President NAGI, Prof R. P. Mishra, Former Vice Chancellor, Allahabad University, Prof Baleshwar Thakur, former Vice Chancellor, Mithila University, Darbhanaga, Prof Kashi Nath Singh from BHU, Maj. Gen. C. S. Bewli, Additional Surveyor General, Survey of India, Chandigarh, Prof L. S. Bhat, New Delhi Dr K. V. Sundaram New Delhi, Prof J. R. Sharma, Jodhpur, Prof H. S. Sharma, Jaipur, Dr. Prithvis Nag, former Surveyor General of India and currently Director NATMO, Prof S. M. Rashid, Pro vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia and Dr. R. B. Singh, Secretary General NAGI shall be gracing the occasion.
In all, there will be twenty session including two memorial lectures, fifteen technical sessions, one panel discussion on the theme population migration. There will be a separate session of Young Geographers Award that is given to the best research paper presented by geographers below the age of 35. One of the most attractive events will be the Children Geography Congress that will be exclusively devoted for children.
It is proposed to conduct quiz, map reading contest and popular lecture for the students of tri-city to make them aware about the latest developments in the field of
GIS, Remote Sensing, GPS and disaster management. In addition, there will be exhibitions by NATMO, Survey of India, Census of India, ESRI, India, ERDAS, and Rolta.
The First Indian Geography Congress was held at the Department of Geography, Panjab University Chandigarh in 1980. After 30 years, it is once again hosting it on the
occasion of Department's Golden Jubilee on completion of 50 years at Chandigarh after shifting from Ludhiana on July 1, 1960.
The Department of Geography is one of the Centers of Advanced Study in Geography of UGC in the country. It runs three Post Graduate Courses in: (i) Geography, (ii) Disaster Management, and (iii) Remote Sensing and GIS. It also runs M. Phil and Ph. D courses, There are two online course run in collaboration with University of Salzburg,Austria in the field of remote sensing and GIS. The Association of Population Geographers (APGI) is one of the oldest Associations of Population Geographers in the world that started its Population Geography Journal and is headquartered at the Department.
All the alumni of the department are invited to attend this mega event. The details of the programme can be seen in the conference section on the web site www.pu.ac.in or
http://www.org.in/ or http://puchd.ac.in/conference/Nagi_First_Circular.pdf of Panjab University according to Dr. Krishna Mohan, Chairperson, Dept. of Geography.