Congratulation to Garg ji for your dedicated work for reaching greater heights. All the best. In this connection , I wish to state that I have been a member of the group since 2018 !
On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 8:30:59 AM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > Thanks a lot, Rawat ji. > You have always given us appropriate words and courage to define our work > through your deep involvement and passion. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: D.S Rawat <drdsrawat...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > Date: Tue 19 Jun, 2018, 10:15 PM > Subject: Re: [itpmods:11948] Fwd: Efloraofindia completes 10 years on > 17.6.18 > To: <itp...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > > > My salutation to the original idea of developing such a huge resource of > information... all freely available. Great team work and untiring efforts > by Garg Ji have led to this stage. > A lot have been achieved in this 11 year journey but "miles to go". > My best wishes for future journey. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr D.S. Rawat > Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & > Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA > *eflorapantnagar* <https://sites.google.com/site/eflorapantnagar/home> > displaying wild flora of Pantnagar > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Lalithamba Avadhanam <alali...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Congrats to J.M.Garg ji and all other members for their dedicated spirit >> and work in making this useful compilations. >> A.Lalithamba >> >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:17 PM J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >>> Date: 19 June 2018 at 17:17 >>> Subject: Efloraofindia completes 10 years on 17.6.18 >>> To: efloraofindia <indian...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> >>> >>> >>> Dear members, >>> We have completed 11 years on 17.6.18 with more enthusiasm and hard work >>> by inserting more than 50,000 images in last one year. We have not only >>> added images on species pages, but also used them for comparative purposes >>> at >>> genera & family pages of around 55 families, along with corrections >>> of wrongly identified posts and identifications of unidentified posts in >>> these families, in last one year. >>> New species continue to be added unabatedly including a lot from >>> ornamental plants. We seek more and more participation and postings of new >>> plants from all concerned. >>> >>> I repeat what we said on completion of 10 years: >>> "Dear members, >>> It is really difficult to describe the long journey of 10 years of >>> Efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home> in a >>> few paragraphs. It had all emotions of a pot boiler like joy, pain, >>> satisfaction etc. It started with a commitment to do something for the >>> society in as little a way as possible. As the movement grew, so did the >>> ideas to do something more. Lot of them got concretised during this long >>> journey. As everybody put their heads together, we did lot of things >>> unheard of before. Ours was a unique journey with no precedents. Naturally, >>> it carried all the thrills with it, as are associated with any first time >>> adventure. It showed what can be achieved even without a single penny being >>> spent or any one even meeting physically. It was a movement of thousands of >>> people coming together from diverse backgrounds and places, just like small >>> streams ultimately forming the sea. Result has been documentation of 12,000 >>> species with more than 2,50,000 images due to the efforts of our 2800 >>> members & others experts from outside. >>> And our commitment has not diminished, but only growing. Future is more >>> challenging than the past was. Let us all re-dedicate ourselves on this >>> occasion for building of the efloraofindia." >>> >>> Our sincere thanks to The Pillars >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/pillars-of-efloraofindia>, >>> >>> Subject/ Area Experts >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/subject-experts>, >>> Moderators >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/moderators>, Major >>> contributors >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/about-us/major-contributors> & >>> other members who are rendering selfless service on the group & made this >>> endeavour possible for the benefit of everyone. >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >>> >>> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >>> >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >>> world- around 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images). >>> >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource >>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >>> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >>> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >>> >>> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >>> India'. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> With regards, >>> J.M.Garg >>> >>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >>> >>> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >>> >>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >>> world- around 2975 members & 2,90,000 messages on 31.3.18) or Efloraofindia >>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >>> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images). >>> >>> The whole world uses my Image Resource >>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >>> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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