Seminar Series

Padmasree G Sankar inaugarating the seminar. Kollam Unit Chairman  Er. S Rajendran, ormer Member (Generation) and convener of the seminar Er.K Radhakrishnan, Former Chief Engineer and former General Secretary  Er.  K G somasundaram pillai, General Secretary N T Job on the dias

Seminar Series Starts at Kollam

The seminar series started today when the famous architect Padmasree G Shankar inaugurated the district seminar at Kollam

G Shankar has called for more focus on non conventional energy resources for meeting growing needs of the state.  What we call waste is rich source of energy and therefore it is non justifiable to dump the waste of the urban to the poor rural people of Vilappilsala or Kureeppuzha as the case may be.

New technological innovation to facilitate co existence of development and ecology is the need of the hour, Mr Shankar, a recipient of the padmasree award last year, said. He narrated the stories from Amethi, UP to show examples of poor rural people uniting to tap solar energy and other simple source and limiting their needs to match the resources. In those calm villages even stars are bright enough to enable vision because the earth is not contaminated by very bright electrical lights. They use small chargeable LEDs for their house hold lighting needs, which can be recharged from community solar booths for One rupee for use of a whole month.

Former, member (Generation) of KSEB K Radhakrishnan, in his key note address said that in the absence of a comprehensive vision for matters relating to energy and environment Kerala will soon plunge into darkness. What we think environmental friendly initiatives may not be so in actual terms.  Because of the environmental activism in the state all the major hydroelectric projects planned for the last twenty years had to be either abandoned or had to be kept waiting. Thus we are losing 1400 million units of electricity every year. But we have not reduced the usage and we are making good the shortage from thermal power.

Each unit of thermal power generated causes a carbon emission of one kg thus totaling to 140 crores of kilogram carbon sent into the atmosphere from this small state, adding much to the global warming. For hydel power the emission per unit including that due to loss of trees, construction etc is as low as 5gram totaling to a mere 8 crores of annual carbon emission. Thus if hydel projects construction was allowed we could have avoided an annual emission of 132 cores of kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere, Mr. Radhakrishnan said.

Chairman Er.S Rajendran

Secretary B Rajendran

The chairman of the association S Rajendran presided over 
the function which marked the state level inauguration of the series of district seminars in the subject. Nineteen teams of students from engineering colleges presented papers in the seminar. Former Chief Engineer K G Somasundaram Pillai was the moderator. 

General Secretary Er A T Job

State general secretary N T Job welcomed the gathering and district secretary B Rajendran proposed the vote of thanks.

The vice chairman, V K Mony  State organizing secretary, Edwin Calistus, former general secretary S K Yesodharan, former chief engineers, K N Chandrasekhara Kurupu, Cheriyan Varghese, Former deputy chief engineer, K Prabhkaran Nair, executive engineers R Remani, Manoj, Rajan, Beena Pious, Renjith etc participated