Srinagar :One Day National Conference on “Better Data Better Lives” on national statistics day was held at Vishwa Bharti Womens College Rainwari in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar on Wednesday.The day long conference was held to celebrate 129th birth anniversalary of Professor P.C.Mahalanobis, popularly known as father of statistics in India.On the occasion, organisers of the conference, named: Dr. Syed Javed Iqbal Kamili, Principal Vishwa Bharti Women’s college & Dr. Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Head, Division of Social Science, FoFy, SKUAST-K briefed about the objective of the Programme by highlighting the importance of providing a platform to the researchers, to learn about the modern tools of Statistics and emerging techniques used nowadays along with the advancement in computing facilities.
While sharing the details of the program, organizers said that, “such conference educate the students, researchers, faculty members to correctly use the tools of Statistics in validating their research findings and sensitize the public as to how Statistics helps in shaping and framing policies.”
Prof. Ronika Yousuf, Organizing secretary of the conference anchored whole program, while more than 80 researchers across the country had registered for participation in the conference, out to which 20 scholars presented their papers via oral, poster mode.
The researchers shared their findings in the form of paper and poster presentations in various technical sessions organized during the day.
Earlier, Professor Javid Iqbal Kamili, Principal, Vishwa Bharti Womens College inaugurated the Conference and delivered the welcome address.
Professor Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Patron of conference discussed in brief about the life of great Scientist P.C.Mahalanobis, while Mr. Hemant Kumar Lohia, senior IPS officer, the Commandant General, HG/CD and SDRF, was the Chief Guest for the day.
In his address he discussed in detail about P.C.Mahalanobis contribution, Big Data and importance of Statistics in different fields in the modern era.
He impressed upon the participants to be ready to learn about latest techniques available for handling the diverse and large data.
Besides that, Prof Aquil Ahmed, Head, Dept. of Statistics & O.R. was the Guest of honour. In his speech he explained in brief the role of statistics in research and day today lives, and presented some practical examples where statistics is useful.
During the programme, Er. Abdul Rashid showed the documentary on climate change and explained causes and ways to adapt to climate change.
At the end while summing up event, Dr. Bilal Ahmad Bhat, patron of the conference thanked all staff of VB College, worthy guests especially chief guest and Division of Social Sciences for their support.
He thanked chief guest, scientists, scholars, students fellow organizers from various higher educational institutions of country for their support.
The session was formally closed by Professor Ronika Yousuf, organizing secretary of conference by presenting Vote of thanks.
