PRESENT HERE ARE MY PERSONAL VIEWS AND IT DOESNT REPRESENT ANY ORGANISATION
Respected Seniors, I will request scientists and researchers to please go through different volumes of Flora of India by BSI and tell me how many of you really get help in identifying plants? Just for example I have in my hand Flora of Bihar by BSI and I cant get any help from it as there is no description and no keys at all. They have enlisted each and every plant that was ever reported from Bihar and Jharkhand since british period, without actually revisiting the field and gathering the actual knowledge. Respected Dr. Karthikeyan says that the plant is common throughout India, that means it is there in Bihar too, according to that book. I imagine if Dr. Karthikeyan visited each and every states of India ever??? I had been to CNH, better known as CENTRAL NATIONAL HERBARIUM, HOWRAH, thats a part of BSI. Out of eight references I was looking for, 5 were missing. I took three books out of the antique almirah and found that the book was half eaten by termite. The first hand information which is available in India today, is still ironically, one and only, FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA by J. D. Hooker which every one should follow and it is also available online. For recent nomenclature offcourse there are other options. Yes offcourse, there are some regional floras which were done by regional university researchers which were later published by BSI....everyone knows how. This is a irony for Indian government and Indian researchers that most of the best books on floristics in India are not written by any one from BSI but from some of the University professors and researchers, one of them being respected Dr. Gurcharan himself. SECONDLY, BSI has been unscrupulously misusing their journal, Bulletin of Botanical Survey of India, for published any articles they wish especially new species, though they never gets accepted. Is it just for the name sake??? or for the sake of having greater publications?? After 60 years of Independence what do we have today is just a compilation by BSI. What we need today are more responsible persons, who just dont think about promotions and about sitting and chewing pan and ghutka in their office but to come up with better work which a common botanist can feel proud about. I never felt anything good to boost about BSI and I find mysef so unfortunate about it. SHRIKANT INGLAHALIKAR is not from BSI DR. SARAT MISRA (an engineer by profession) is not from BSI - Orchds of Orissa DEVA and NAITHANI (Orchids of Northwest Himalaya): are not from BSI PRADEEP KISHAN not from BSI MR. GARG - not from BSI DR. TABISH - not even a botanist!! There are many such examples!! Regards Pankaj (not from BSI either). PS: No hard feelings please!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
