Bihar scientist suffers neglect in own state27 September 2014, The Times of India Patna: Even as the Indian scientists are getting accolades from all over the world for their successful Mars Mission, a Bihar scientist is facing utter neglect in his own state. Motihari schoolteacher Umesh Prasad Verma, who has been successfully predicting earthquakes based on his new-found scientific calculations and observations for the last one decade and has also interacted with the leading seismologists from all over the world, was denied any financial assistance from the state government for attending an international conference in California. Incidentally, he happens to be a member of Bihar State Innovative Council. The denial of financial assistance to meet his expenses, however, did not dampen Verma's spirit as the people of Motihari raised funds for his travel. The Indian Red Cross Society, the Rotary Club, some other NGOs, schoolteachers and Motihari residents collected about Rs two lakh and met his travel expenses. Verma not only attended the international conference on 'Scanning microscopies' held at Monterey, California (USA), from September 16 to 18 but also presented three papers - 'Do electron flux and solar x-ray variation in juxtaposition prior a seismic event make signature?', 'Can seismic energy be stored as electrical energy?' and 'Piezoelectricity and its effect on monitoring earthquakes'. All these papers were highly appreciated by the scientists attending the conference and were published in the latest issue of 'SPIE' journal. Verma, who was nominated a member of Bihar State Innovative Council last year by the then chief minister Nitish Kumar on the basis of his earthquake prediction studies and was assured of all government help in his seismological research, regrets that nothing of the sort has happened till date. Giving details of his seismological studies, Verma points out that several tools like radon emission, rise in groundwater, electrical resistivity decrease, piezometric effect on sediments and geomagnetic changes are being utilized by the geoscientists in earthquake prediction, getting only partial success. But the technique developed by him, known as TEC (total electron count)-MMC (multiple magnetic component)-OLR (outgoing long wave radiation) triangulation method, is being considered to be the most advanced method of prediction. This technique was published recently in the International Journal of Science and Engineering, France. His work has also been published by the Journal of Basha Research Corporation, Malaysia, International Journal of Earth Science and Engineering, Hyderabad, and the Journal of the Society for Photonics Institution of Engineers, US. |
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