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th25. My tenure as Director in charge, JNTBGRI ( 9 June 2011 - till date)thOn 9 June 2011, I was appointed as Director (full charge) of JNTBGRI and am stillcontinuing. During this period, the Institute could make significant headway into severalresearch and administrative programmes. All the pending assessments up to March 2011of the administrative, technical and scientific staff have been completed. The existingSSAs and Scientists have been posted as Scientist B with effect from the dates ofobtaining of their Ph. D degrees.A 'Statistics for Biologists' course for post graduate students was conducted athPuthenthope campus on 18 July 2011. The medicinal plant garden set up by JNTBGRI atthe premises of Government L P School, Kallar was handed over to the Panchayatformally on August 3, 2011. Medicinal plant seedlings were distributed to the schoolstudents as part of this programme. JNTBGRI formally launched the 'Haritha Veethi' -thGreening of Highway between Chipanchira and Elavupalam on 5 August 2011 and 400tree species were planted by the students of Jawahar Colony LP School on either sides ofthe road and shielded by bamboo fencing. These plants are being looked after by thestudents and we are monitoring them on monthly basis. JNTBGRI signed MOU withNBRI for exchange of plants, exchange / training of personnel etc during August 2011.A training programme on medicinal plants used in Traditional and Folk practices wasth th thconducted for two batches of 50 AYUSH doctors o 24 and 2 August 2011. The 12Plan Proposal (2012 – 2017) of JNTBGRI was prepared and sent to the MoEF and to theKerala Government. I attended the pre-meeting of the Directors of KSCSTE ResearchthInstitutes at KSCSTE on 14 September,2011 and the KSCSTE Annual General Bodythmeeting with Hon'ble Chief Minister on 15 September 2011 . I delivered the InauguralAddress at the Conference on Biodiversity Conservation through Plant BiotechnologicalInterventions and released the proceedings of National Conference on Biodiversity heldon 28 - 29 September, 2011 at All Saints College, Thiruvananthapuram sponsored byUGC, New Delhi.An Outreach programme for High school to Plus two students from various schools ofthe state was conducted at JNTBGRI from 26 - 30 September 2011. The students wereexposed to the exciting world of carnivorous plants at JNTBGRI, given lectures andshown films of Charles Darwin's voyage on board the Beagle.I attended the National Research Advisory Committee (Agriculture, Veterinary and Herbal)thmeeting of National Innovative Foundation at IIM, Ahmedabad on 9 October, 2011 .ndWe conducted the Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Law and IIDr. M. Thangavelu Memorial Lecture at Saraswathy Thangavelu Extension Centre ofthJNTBGRI, Puthenthope, Thiruvananthapuram on 31 October 2011 .32
I attended the Meeting of Directors of R & D Centres of KSCSTE at Kerala StateththPlanning Board on 27 October 2011 and presented 12 Five Year Plan activities ofJNTBGRI.I conducted Ph. D Preliminary Qualifying Examination and viva-voce of my Ph. Dthstudent at Kannur University on 18 November 2011.I attended the Valedictory Session, Panel Discussion and Concluding Session ofNational Symposium on Sustainable Management of Biodiversity using Science &Technology and served as panellist, and showcased JNTBGRI to the gathering. Thisthmeeting was organised by National Academy of Sciences, on November 25 , 2011 atUniversity of Kerala in Session VII Biodiversity.I attended the Scientific Advisory Committee meeting of Mitra Niketan, K V KthVellanad on 28 November 2011 and gave relevant inputs for the projects reviewed.From 6 - 10 December, 2011 JNTBGRI conducted the TBGRI Open House programmefor which the Logo was released by the Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala,thSri Oommen Chandy on 29 November 2011.The original name of TBGRI (JawaharlalNehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute) was restored during the OpenHouse 2011 celebrations. The Open House showcased the developmental and researchactivities of JNTBGRI to approximately 35,000 visitors who thronged the campusduring those five days. During the Open House program we organised a mushroomcultivation training program for rural women on all five days, sponsored by NABARD.The Institute earned revenue of ` 3 lakhs from sale of plants and Institute publicationsduring the Open House .JNTBGRI helped to organize the Consultative Workshop on Agastiamala BiosphereReserve in collaboration with Anthropological Society of India on 19/01/2012. I chairedththe Short Lecture Session of the 12 International Congress of Ethnopharmacologythorganised by School of Natural Products, Calcutta on 19 February, 2012.An MOU was signed with Oushadhi, Thrissur regarding the Clinical trials of athHepatoprotective Herbal Drug on 11 January 2012. I chaired the Life Sciences sessionthof the 24 Kerala Science Congress held at Kottayam on 29-31 January 2012, organisedby KSCSTE.Two Research Council meetings were held in June 2011 and February 2012.JNTBGRI has been sanctioned a project worth `10 lakhs by NABARD Regional Office,thThiruvananthapuram for setting up of a compost manufacturing facility on 29 February2012. This project was launched by Sri K. P. Mohanan, Hon'ble Minister forAgriculture, Government of Kerala, in presence of CGM, NABARD. The construction33
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