Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 25: A workshop on “Virtual Labs” was organized by Virtual Lab Nodal Centre (VLNC), Government Degree College Kathua in association with IIT Bombay.
65 students and 70 faculty members including Deputy Secretary, Higher Education Department, Vikas Dhar, registered for the event through virtual mode.
The workshop was inaugurated by Prof Asha Ram Sharma, Principal, Government Degree College Kathua. He said that establishment of Nodal Centre for Virtual Labs at GDC Kathua in association with IIT Bombay is very much required at this challenging time of COVID-19 when students are required to stay at home and remotely access all the theory/experiments.
Prof Rakesh Singh, Head Department of Chemistry GDC Kathua, in his address to participants said that physical distances and lack of resources often make it difficult to perform experiments, especially when they involve sophisticated instruments. He encouraged the students to use the virtual labs at this challenging time.
Dr Pankaj Gupta, Nodal Coordinator, VLNC in his introductory talk gave a detail of various features, objectives and advantages of Virtual Lab which is a mission project developed under the aegis of National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD. He said that with the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT), virtual laboratories are becoming an integral part of science and technical curriculum.
All science teachers as well as students are encouraged to use the virtual labs as add on to the physical labs.
The technical sessions which included demonstrations and hands on session of simulation based experiments were conducted by Dr Pankaj Gupta, Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Dr Surya Partap Singh, Assistant Professor in Zoology. An impressive vote of thanks was presented by Prof Anoop Sharma, Nodal Technical Coordinator, VLNC, GDC Kathua.
Others who supported the event were Prof Jasvinder Singh, Dr Anupama Arora, Prof Neha Mahajan, Prof Pawan Kumar, Dr Kehar Singh, Dr Virender Singh, Dr Balbinder, Prof Deepak, Dr Amreek Singh and Prof Sachin Jeet Singh.
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