Hazaribagh, June 26: About 300 delegates, including four foreign scientists, have reached Hazaribagh to participate in the three-day international seminar of Vinoba Bhave University (VBU) starting tomorrow.

VBU vice-chancellor Arvind Kumar confirmed scientists from Australia, Malaysia, Boston and Taiwan had reached the town.

The objective of the seminar is to provide a platform where scientists can exchange knowledge and learn from their counterparts coming from foreign countries, he said.

According to him, the three-day seminar will focus on global warming and discuss the ways to save the environment from this imminent danger. Of late Governor Syed Sibtey Razi coined the term “lab to land” to take the benefit of researches to common man.

“The VBU will help realise his (Razi’s) dream by taking all its findings to the masses. Our object is to bring scientists and scholars on a single platform so that they can exchange knowledge and share their views on various issues.”

Topics to be discussed at the seminar include animal, plant and environmental sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology in life sciences, natural resource management, sustainable development and diseases and human welfare.

Razi will inaugurate this event at 11.35am tomorrow. Organising an international seminar is a matter of pride for Hazaribagh. Kumar said: “We have become the first university in the state to organise such a programme. Not only that, we are the first to introduce courses in MED and engineering. We are trying to make VBU an important address on the education map of the country.”

The university also plans to form a super-20 group of twenty selected students who will be provided special coaching for Jharkhand Public Service Commission, he added.