Great Okay, dear colleagues we can now resume our plenary meeting and We will go to our next item Which is item 38 Solidarity with refugees from Moria humanitarian contribution from local and regional authorities Dear colleagues the Humanitarian tragedy of the destruction of Moria in Greece Which was Greece's largest camp in Lesbos has definitely shocked Europe and all the world I Showed how the migration crisis is and will remain high on the agenda of all European Political leaders at all levels of governance either Being directly or indirectly Involved in one of the major challenges of our communities it has Dramatically shown as commissioner schinas said the coast of no Europe in this important matter The tragedy proved the need for European solidarity and responsibility Our union starts at our external borders It's our common responsibility As I stressed out yesterday During the debate with chance or Merkel Solidarity is equally at the center of our debate not just when emergency rise and We need to realize That the migration crisis is not an issue of one two or three states It is a European issue And it needs to be dealt as a European issue We cannot leave alone the countries the regions and the areas That are in the front line the countries of entrance Cannot and should not be left alone to deal with the migration crisis It's a matter of solidarity for the European Union To share the responsibility of the migration crisis In all EU members all EU member states This is What Europe is supposed to stand for Solidarity Helping one another Supporting one another And this is what exactly The new migration pack needs to cover so I pay tribute to those citizens local and regional authorities And the civil society Who have expressed all these years and In many ways and for a very long time Their solidarity with refugees and migrants at our borders of the European borders Last Friday the committee of the region's bureau adopted a declaration on the situation of migrants in Moria And I thank the members who proposed to debate the topic today By showing the responsibility and the solidarity of their respective local and regional authorities Dealing the emergency of Moria. I Would like to thank the mayors and the regional leaders who have already Signaled their intention of decision to host Non accompanied minors another vulnerable person from Moria in their respective cities and regions This is a strong sign of solidarity However our efforts should not and Do not end here As so many members of our cities and regions for integration initiative has shown It's important that migrants and refugees are integrated into their host societies Our members know that diversity is another value to building inclusive cities and ensuring social cohesion and This need to be done In a proper way we all can learn from each other And our cities and regions for integration initiative allows us to share these good practices discuss specific projects and Most importantly promote Solidarity I Welcome the fact that the new pact of migration and asylum adopted by the European Commission At the end of September highlights the importance of strengthening the cooperation between local and regional authorities in the field of integration and it specifically Expresses support for this initiative We will come back to the Commission's document during the December plenary session When Commission Johansson Will present us the Commission's proposals So I would like to give the floor now for introductory remarks To the people who introduced This matter to our plenary Joseph Frey from the greens for five minutes and Elizabeth nebreda villa Who is representing Bernat Soleil Baril? For five minutes as well Joseph Frey you have the floor Yeah, thank you president. Sir. Gerde Colleague in Colleague the Brenda in Flüchtlings Lager Moria on the Christian Insel Lesbos legged Over a month zurück und es ist mir wichtig in der heutigen Plenarsitzung unsere Solidarität mit den Flüchtlingen und den Bewohnerin auf Moria und die große Hilfsbereitschaft lokaler und regionaler Gebietskörperschaften anzusprechen den Moria ist kein griechisches Problem Moria steht für eine gemeinsame europäische Herausforderung Den Anstoß dieses Themas anzumelden hat frau Landrat Landtagspräsidentin Muster im Aras aus Baden-Württemberg gegeben ich vertrete sie heute auf dieser plenart Hahrung darf ihnen ihre herzlichsten grüße ausrichten sie leitet in diesen minuten die Plenarsitzung unseres Landesparlaments in Stuttgart auf der britpräsidium sitzung des adr am 11 september also nur zwei tage nach den brennen in moria forderte president in aras alle teilnehmenden auf sich der gemeinsamen europäischen werte die auf den universellen menschenrechten fusen bewusst zu werden und die menschenunwürdigen zustände aus auf lesbos zu beenden frau aras appellierte an ein gemeinsames bekenntnis zur aufnahme von flüchtlingen die präsidentsi zikostas bereits einführte hat darauf in das präsidium am letzten freitag eine erklärung zu moria verabschiedet es handelt sich dabei um eine gemeinsame erklärung aller politischer gruppen herzlichen dank an das präsidium für die gemeinsame resolution und einen besonderen dank an präsidentsi zikostas dass eine so breite unterstützung herbeigeführt werden konnte das zeigt mir dass der adr die globale verpflichtung der eu in sachen humanität und solidarität sehr ernst nimmt die lokalen und regionalen gebietskörperschaften lassen nicht zu dass die gemeinsamen werte der eu konterkariert werden die präsidium erklärung des adr zu moria verstehe ich aber auch als ein wichtiges signal der solidarität mit allen ländern an den außengrenzen der eu bemerkenswert ist für mich außerdem dass die vertreterinnen und vertreter der lokalen und regionalen gebietskörperschaften der lag in moria eine weit aus größerer humanitäre bedeutung beigemessen haben als es viele mitgliedsstaaten in der eu getan haben obwohl letztere auf nationaler ebene für die entscheidung über die aufnahme von migranten migrantinnen zuständig sind zahlreiche regionen und kommunen haben ihre bereitschaft signalisiert geflüchtete aufzunehmen allein in deutschland sind es fast 200 städte einen ausdrücklichen dank an all die städte und regionen in europa die hier ganz konkret unsere europäischen werte leben und damit auch verteidigen sie zeigen jenen mitgliedsstaaten die sich von unseren gemeinsamen werten weg bewegen den weg wie einem mit den europäischen werten vereinbahende flüchtlingspolitik aussieht zwischenzeitlich hat die europäische kommission am 23 september ihr paket zu migrationen asyl vorgelegt dieses wird jetzt zu diskutieren sein auch das verständnis von grenzmanagement auf euebene unabdingbar ist aus meiner sicht dass alle mitgliedsstaaten der europäischen union endlich zu einer flüchtlingspolitik zurückkehren die im einklang mit dem völkerrecht und dem eu recht ist menschenrechte sind nicht teilbar sondern müssen als ganzes gelben sonst steht am ende anarchie lassen sie mich das noch mit einem bild verdeutlichen die europäische union ist eine große familie wenn in jeder wie in jeder familie gibt es auch bei uns regeln wir als union haben uns mit den kuppenhagener kriterien und einigen weiteren verträgen sogar sehr detaillierte regeln schriftlich gegeben das ist in dieser form in zwar in familien zwar nicht so üblich aber dieses gemeinsame diese gemeinsamen vereinbarungen helfen damit das zusammenleben unserer großen familie eu leichter wird wenn eine schwester oder ein bruder dieser familie in schwierigkeiten kommt dann ist es klar dass alle zusammenhelfen damit diese schwierigkeiten überwunden werden auch auf der kommunalen Ebene funktioniert dieses prinzipia ganz gut denn wenn ein haus in ihrer stadt gebrannt hat und die menschen dort vor dem nicht stehen dann helfen sie als bürgermeisterin oder bürgermeister ihren bürgerinnen und bürgern wie wenn sie schwester und brüder wären wenn auf einer griechischen insel ein bonort über 13.000 menschen abbrennt dann heißt das für die europäische union nichts anderes wir haben die pflicht diesen menschen und auch jenen zu helfen die unter der dadurch ausgelösten notlage direkt und indirekt leiden weil sie eben schwester und brüder dieser europäischen union sind auf lesbos muss deshalb unsere solidarität unseren griechischen schwester und brüder gelten so wie unseren schwester und brüder die aus syrien und anderen ländern dort hingeflüchtet sind also selbst wenn wir nicht alle dem christlichen grundsatz der goldenen regel aus der bergbredigt verbunden werden die sagt alles was ihr also von anderen erwartet das tut auch ihnen dann haben wir uns doch darüber hinaus mit den kopenhagener kriterien und vielen verträgen gebunden gemeinsam die menschenrechte zu wahren diese werden und müssen wir achten und verteidigen dafür steht für den adr der namen moria vielen dank thank you very much the floor now to elisabeth nebreda villa for five minutes moda gracias president we asked for these debates so that we regional local governments could have the opportunity to call the revue institutions to take action for the refugees in moria in katalonia the images from the camp still brings back the memories of those escaping from the spanish civil war and the conditions they endured in the refugee camp built to shelter built to shelter them for instance the one on the beach of argeles in france that was a provisional camp built for 15 days but it lasted for two years 300 huts were built but 100 000 people arrived there after less than a week including my grandfather does it sound familiar few years later the second world war engulfed europe and forced eight million people to leave their homes it was over the ashes of that war that the european union was built the europe of the civil protection mechanism of the product you program and the european solidarity course and this is all good sure but for europeans but shouldn't this solidarity be also extended to those who suffer and are in need should we turn a blind eye to the women and children wandering around in lesbos with nothing to eat while police forces find those trying to help how can we lose our memory that fast how can we allow today the existence of a camp with conditions similar to those the republican exiles had to endure in the late 30th of the previous century we are doing as much as we can but concerted action is needed this is why we're eager to join forces with those european regions and share our belief that it's time to put an end to the biggest shame of nowadays europe and that is our moral obligation to pressure our national governments into taking action now after the fire destroyed most of moria's camp the catalan government informed the ravine commission and the spanish government of its readiness to help relocate up to a hundred people as well as 20 and accompanied miners our letters have been unanswered we know that other spanish regional governments and cities have also offered to help but the arrival of refugees the authorizations the visas and the permits are a state prerogative and we need the state's green light in order to help these people our commitment to tackling the issues precedes the fire in moria with some 3 000 people in catalonia who are either refugees or have requested international protection the catalan government has traditionally followed a multi-dimensional approach when addressing refugee crisis at home we offer the ports managed by the catalan government to have a safe ports to those in danger and see a measure that the sun is constitutional court by the way running constitutional last week we have involved civil societies through initiatives such as the mentoring program which mobilized two two thousand volunteers to accompany and assist refugees and their families in their adaptation to the new situation in catalonia we are preparing in collaboration with ngos new mechanisms to welcome more people and have launched an awareness campaign to inform our citizens of this challenge and with catalan universities we launched the catalan scholarship for refugees which gives those who had already started higher education but could not finish it in their countries the opportunity to do so in catalan universities simultaneously at international level we work with UNDP in Lebanon to offer support to Lebanese host communities whose public services are under strain as a result of the influence of Syrian refugees and traditionally we have also worked with UNCHR and are now finalizing a new project to improve the situation of asylum seekers in lesbos i refuse to accept that we cannot do more today than what was done 80 years ago when the u.s. nothing but a dream regional and local governments must work together hand by hand among us with national and international institutions and if necessary remove those obstacles that prevent us from doing more europe can't forget its origins we've known this kind of suffering and in a not so distant past all grandparents did and they're suffering brought as a project not to build a common market but a better future for all and i wonder what future can there be if there will be a project surrenders its values and loses it so thank you for your attention thank you very much before giving the floor for the debate to our members i would like to address a second issue before we discuss the issue that concerns cyprus the varosia i have received a letter from simo sio anu the mayor in exile of the city of fam augusta in cyprus sharing his concerns over the recent provocations by turkey on varosia by fam augusta which is an area of the city fenced off since 1974 and the same concern has been shared to me uh by our member the member of the co-armist lucaid the alias high representative borrell has expressed his grave concern over the decision to proceed with the unilateral opening of part of the fans terry in varosia following an announcement made in ankara on october 6 2020 the status of varosia is set out in a number of un security council resolutions 550 and 789 and the u calls for respecting the international commitment and relevant u n security council resolutions and the immediate reversal of recent actions that were taken by turkey these latest provocations from turkey are unacceptable and yesterday i had the opportunity during our plenary and our debate with chancellor merkel to say that we cannot as a european union continue to tolerate these kind of moves on behalf of turkey so it is time now for the european union to secure its borders to make sure that everyone respects international commitments and international law which obviously it's not the case with turkey and as president of the committee of the regions i am totally sharing the concerns of the cyprus delegation on that issue i want you to be reassured that i will convey this message and all of our concerns to the highest level of the u asking for the respect of the international agreements and uh for an active role of the mayor in building fresh channels of communication between the local representatives of the two communities in cyprus it is necessary to act now so dear colleagues after having said that i would like to open the floor for discussion for the both matters or whichever matter you would like to discuss about and i will start with mr schalzberger you have the floor it is clear that a business discussion about it is hardly possible in one but even then, thank god, all of you have to help each other solidary and sustainably about the ways but you have to have different opinions without getting the advance that you get away from the european values some of the EU states want to take on youth, not the majority, they want to help on the spot because they have to ensure that the pull effects are solved what the problem would be. The situation is catastrophic and dire there. There are thousands of children, youth adults, parents and so on. Sustainable and efficient help for improving the situation for everyone also for children and youth there to provide is urgently necessary. I must say that the austrian state of the states and the community have been actively providing great benefits to the aid of refugees and I would like to conclude by saying that the new proposal for an asylum and migration pact of the commission is in the right direction. Ultimately, it must be our goal to improve the living conditions in the here comes the end and the end, super-best. Thank you very much, Mr. Dimitris Birbas, Mayor, you have the floor. Thank you very much, Mr. Dimitris Birbas, Mayor, you have the floor. Thank you very much, Mayor, you have the floor. Thank you very much, Mayor, you have the floor. Thank you very much, Mayor, you have the floor. Thank you very much, Mayor, you have the floor. Thank you very much, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President. The city of Moria does not become only one of the many cases that could be verified in the next months and next years. I am the governor of the region Sicily, the most exposed region in the Mediterranean, and unfortunately I must say that the Moria case is not the only one. Lampedusa, which is an island of my region, just 6,000 inhabitants, has been in this year destined for more than 20,000 migrants, not from countries in war, but essentially from Tunisia, so called economic migrants. They have been massaged in the center of the state, without any respect for the anti-COVID criteria, so in places absolutely in idonis, despite the denunciation and recommendations advanced by the underwriting. I want to say that solidarity is needed specifically between European countries, not only in the immediate relocation of migrants, of these unfortunate people, who very often seek Europe to lead a better life, and instead are forced to a distant life of exploitation and sacrifice. But cooperation is also needed in the coming countries. Europe must intervene to prevent economic migrants from leaving their countries, making them more and more poor. That is why I am convinced that on this topic we need to proceed with the revision of the treaty and Dublin, and that every member must take responsibility so that solidarity is not just a word. Thank you, Emilio. Start to happen, please. You have the floor. Good morning from Finland. Thank you for having a chance to discuss the Moria issue. It is a very, very important issue that we need to find a solution. We cannot live like this, that there are almost 8,000 persons living with no appropriate shelter, no sanitation, washing themselves in the sea. This is not the Europe which I want to see or where I want to live, and I am sure none of us accepts this situation. And it is not only Moria. I have learned that 27,000 persons living in other islands of Greece and all over 120,000 people increase refugees or asylum seekers We cannot live Greece or Cyprus or any Mediterranean country alone with this issue. I have a first-hand experience myself in 2015 when the refugees came to my city and my country. There were 35,000 refugees coming to Finland, 3,500 in my city, and I was helping them by founding an organisation to help the refugees and asylum seekers together with 200 people from my city. And I think there is a willingness in the European cities and villages to receive refugees and asylum seekers. We need to evacuate these people from these islands and share the responsibility and welcome them into our cities and regions. And we should map these cities and villages that are willing to receive the refugees. We cannot accept the situation as it is at the moment. There are no criminals, there are normal ordinary people with families, alone or with families who need a shelter and their colleagues all over the Europe. I appeal to you, I ask you to help these people. Thank you, Mr President. About Cyprus, I have my own view on that. I think Cyprus must be, a problem must be solved. I have been living there myself for two years and I think we need to find a solution to that. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Hapanen. Piero, Mauro, Zanin, please. Thank you very much for the events that happened in Moria and for the Greek people and the people who are suffering from this situation. Even from us, as President Musumeci raised, for the southern part of Italy, there is a problem coming from a non-controlled income of refugees which means more economic migrants from the Balkan route. An income that, at this time of crisis due to the pandemic, puts in place the residents' alarm in terms of the spread of the contagion of the pandemic and how they are income and non-controlled. As we are involved in a sensitive phenomenon of non-accompanied minorities, many times minorities who are at the limit of their older age, between the age of 16 and 17, they all declare themselves to be of that age, which creates a very important burden in terms of the communities' interlocalities, which are, by law, deputies to face this problem. I believe that if it is true, as I have been told, that Europe is fundamentally based, it could not be high on the right side, but it is also important to defend the state of affairs. And with respect to this, Europe must go from words to deeds to clarify, once and for all, what are the techniques of engagement with regard to economic migrants. There are migrants who do not escape from war, migrants who do not escape from dictatorship, but who seek, as I have said, to arrive in Europe to solve an economic problem. I believe that if it is true, that we must respond to the principles of Christianity, of acceptance, we must also defend the security of our communities and make sure that this input, which many times is also necessary, be controlled, be regulated, be really useful to Europe, but also to those who enter other countries in Europe. Thank you, President. Thank you, the floor now to Jerry Wupp, please. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak in this debate. I believe that we should be able to hold the value of Europe in terms of humanity and solidarity. We agree on that. That means something to the outside world, but also to the inside world, to work together for us. I believe that we have to overcome and be able to overcome together. Moria has shown, however, that this has not yet been as well evaluated as it should be and how we wish for it. Rather, a compromise of the national states that does not yet depend on the situation and on the challenges faced by the migration processes in the world. Here, the responsibility of Europe is asked differently in the world than we have shown so far. I also understood yesterday the cancer patients who wish for more solidarity here. The distribution issues must be solved differently even after the experiences with Dublin, which has not yet worked this way. Berlin belongs to many other cities in Germany and other EU member states, to those cities that make very specific offers even before the burning of Moria to take people from overfilled camps in Greece. These are specific conditions and offers that must be supported. It should also be possible for cities and municipalities to get support from the army, for example, for the necessary integration of refugees. That would be an important contribution that we can achieve here through the European level. The cities that support them on the communal level live the solidarity and the humanity of the European Union and make specific offers. We lead the exchange, Berlin uses the platforms of partnerships within the city agenda and brings here the conversations with cities that are also connected in this network. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Mr. Ortil, please. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, Moria, before the explosion, of course, had a non-human environmental situation. The problem of the large format could be said to have been. And now we have a mega problem. Before thinking about these things earlier, so that we no longer meet with problems. Today we are talking about a gigantic fire and about the gigantic tragedy of people, but we could also talk about a mega problem of the pandemic. Or we will protect ourselves from this or not. I think that all of us are shocked by these relationships and what has happened. Indeed, it concerns the politics of the central government. It is very good that the President of the Committee of the Regions accepted the declaration that he will also accept it of course on his plenary visit in December. And the document shows that all forms of assistance are needed and required. I think I should also say about such a social movement. I was a witness of the collection of needed, engaged people. It all happened practically in our churches. It is also an important thing so that the society reacted to it. It is important that they do not take any action. I will remind you of the Wyszehrad group that declared the necessary infrastructure. The Polish government has already prepared 156 modular houses that can of course help build these infrastructures. But it cannot be so clear that this relocation will be the only solution to the problem that it will not work. We have to remember this. And this could cause further influence of immigrants. Such information, such a signal. I appeal to systematically increase assistance for the country in the south. It cannot be just a problem of the country in the south. I repeat, we would not like to have problems of Greece, Moria, Sicily, Lampeduz, and other characters. We are fighting to make a systematic decision. It did not lead us to increase the situation. Thank you very much for your time. Mr. Kaiser, please. Yes, from my side also a very clear statement. The situation requires rapid measures. The European Union needs in the asylum and migration policy of the nuclear principle in the new asylum and migration pact that Ursula von der Leyen presented a really new beginning. The right to react is based there. The right to react to the present point means to discuss these legal measures quickly with the legal regimes in the respective member states and thus bring together European asylum policy. We need at the same time a Marshall Plan for Africa. There are the most future refugee streams to be expected. But what we need with all the politicians is the help of the children from Moria. My region, we are ready to help the children and to take on which ones. At the same time, I am eager to set up an EU solidarity front for the children and regions who are ready to take on their children. This is also a form of inner-European solidarity. The Austrian countries have in addition a solidarity financial support for doctors and doctors without limits. But ultimately, I believe, it is between politics and immediate humanitarian necessary actions which otherwise have no future in this future at least, also in the human symbolic sense. Thank you very much. Eleni Lukaidu, please. You have the floor. Dear President, what you have mentioned about Cyprus is not an issue of local concern but with major consequences not only for Cyprus but for the whole of the European Union since it concerns European territory. Very briefly, I would like to bring to your attention further negative developments on the issue of Turkish-led plans in the fenced area of Varosha. Since the 1974 Turkish invasion, the area to the south of the city of Hamagusta, Varosha has been sealed off and closed by the Turkish army in order to prevent the return of its inhabitants in violation of UN resolutions protecting the city and defining the framework for the return of Varosha to its lawful inhabitants under UN administration. Last Thursday Turkey illegally reopened a part of the beach area in the enclosed part of the city and threatened to settle the city with people other than its lawful inhabitants. On Friday the UN Security Council called for a reversal of the decision to open the fenced off area of Varosha and to adhere to UN resolutions. These actions apart from the fact that they are contrary to UN resolutions also damaged the efforts for the resumption of talks for a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the Cyprus problem. I will come back to this topic at the first CVEC's meeting but in the meantime I would like to ask you Mr. President to bring the concerns of all Cypriot local authorities to the highest level of the EU namely the President of the European Council Thank you for your attention. I will do that as I did it yesterday with our debate with Angela Merkel. It is time for Europe to act. We cannot allow actions like these ones on behalf of Turkey to be left without response and I want to reassure you that just as I said yesterday that the European Union needs to react and needs to envisage ways and measures against this tendency of Turkey that is not only unfortunately on the island of Cyprus but also on the Mediterranean and we need to foresee action that needs to be taken immediately from the European Union at the European Union level so I assure you that just like yesterday we discussed that with Chancellor Merkel I will convey these messages to the President of the Council Charles Michel as well Mr. Vicenzo Bianco, please Thank you We hope that they escape from a dramatic state of war but also that of hunger is not an easy situation At this moment we are very far from the emergencies a few years ago certainly this summer in Sicily as last summer we had many lands especially small boats coming from Tunisia not big boats this situation is a great solidarity and I want to applaud the Sicilians to the Sicilian region like the other regions that are in an analogue condition like Greece for the seriousness they have faced I want to thank the Italian Government that is very close to an easy condition because there was obviously also Covid but I want to ask with force that Europe is the only subject of this serious issue I appreciated the speech of our President on the line yesterday but I ask you to have more courage to impose on those countries that today block an agreement to drastically reform Dublin it is not possible to discharge the issue of immigrants only on the countries of the front it is a problem that concerns all Europe and all together we have to face it thank you for your attention and for the words he said as always useful and effective I also agree on Cyprus and Turkey it is a real danger for peace in the Mediterranean thank you President thank you very much thank you good morning for everybody dear President, dear colleagues I will be very very short I really think we have to show solidarity with those who suffer in camps in Moria and everywhere but I again I stress that we should bring the help to the original places where the people suffer and also we have to show solidarity with our citizens, with the Greeks with the Italians and where the camps are thank you so much thank you very much for each the end of our debate I will remind you that we will definitely come back to the commission's document on migration in our December plenary session when Commissioner Johansson will present it and will present the commission's proposal in the meantime I would like to ask you to take a break now until 2.30pm when we will reconvene to have our debate on social affairs with Nicola Schmidt, Commissioner Schmidt on jobs and social rights so we will see you in one hour and a half from now we will reconvene at 2.30pm Brussels time, thank you


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to all of you. I am Mr. Shashikant B. Gosavi, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Valkchand Institute of Technology, Sulapur. Today I am presenting the uses of control maps, another online educational resource from my course. The learning outcomes desired for this course are listed as the students will be able to use control maps to draw control profile for selected alignment, to set control gradient of root alignment and to calculate the capacity of reservoir. To begin with, we will see what is a control profile. A control profile is normally a profile of the land surface corresponding to a selected alignment which is taken up on a control map. Here for example, I have taken a control map in which you can see there is a mention of control interval of 5 meter. There is a mention of scale graphically as well as numerically and the map is showing the values of the contour rls at every 25 meter interval. Between every two successive contours, vertical distance is 5 meter. So, it begins from the bottom, slowly rises up up to that particular circle which is drawn over there and then in the inner portion once again it falls down reaches to the bottom. So, it is indirectly creating a crater over here or a reservoir over here at the center. To draw a control profile, an alignment has to be chosen. Here we have chosen alignment connecting A to B and across this particular alignment wherever there is intersection of the control lines, all those points are of utmost significance to us. See here, there is an intersection at this point for a control of 7725 rls. There is an intersection at this point corresponding to the highest point available along this alignment. Then there is an intersection at this dark control of 7725 once again. Then there is an intersection of 7700 and successively at every 25 meter interval whatever are the intersections those have been marked. At each of these points what we have done is we have drawn vertical ordinates passing through these particular points. All these in all 13 number of lines are there which are passing through the points of our interest and those have been vertically projected down. In the next control profile you can see that I have drawn a graph of vertical ordinate of respective rls. We have shown 7550, 7600, 7700, 7750 and 7800 contours. Sorry, reduce the levels of contours. And if vertically projected lines are taken up along this particular horizontal lines you can find that the intersection of these two lines is happening at these points. So this is corresponding to 7725. This is corresponding to 7744. This is 7725 again. This is corresponding to 7700. This is corresponding to 7675, 7650. 7628 is the lowest point and again on the right hand side there is a rise 7650, 7675, 7700, 7725, 7750 and so on and so forth. So this is a classical profile which we can draw from a given control map which helps us in identifying how the ground surface varies along a given alignment. Another important application of the control map is that of drawing a contour gradient. See this is very much important when we are passing a road through a hilly terrain or we are passing a canal of desired gradient or railway line of desired gradient across land surface with varying terrain. See this particular contour map which we have referred earlier is having a contour interval of 5 meter throughout and contours have been labelled at every 25 meter interval. Here the scale has been given as 1 as to 10,000 that means 1 centimeter is equal to 100 meter. Graphically also scale has been shown here. You know that the maximum permissible ruling gradient can be 1 as to 40 that means in every 25 meter maximum rise permitted is 5 meter and if a road is to be passed through this particular terrain we will have to be cautious about that. Let us say that we are starting from here. There is a contour line which has been drawn at this location having a RL mentioned over here as 7725. So from here to here this particular subsequent successive 2 contours are having a difference of 5 meter. For getting a difference of 5 meter one has to travel a distance of 200 centimeter such that the gradient will be 1 as to 40 and therefore what I have done is by taking this as the center I have drawn a circle with 2 centimeter as the radius. Therefore automatically this particular distance comes out to be 200 and with the same respective radius with the subsequent point I have drawn another circle. You can see that this particular circle is intersecting to the successive contour at this location as well as at this location. We can choose the one which is most suitable for us. The another next distance to be traveled will have to be 200 meter for every 5 meter and therefore I have taken this much radius and intersection point has been chosen over here. I was having option of going for 200 meter in this direction also but in that particular case probably I might have gone in a wrong direction than what is desired by me. I want to reach to this end as early as possible and therefore I have chosen this one. Subsequent rise is again taken up along this particular direction horizontal distance 200 meter traveled for a rise of 5 meter. This is continued again along this distance, along this distance, along this distance everywhere for the successive 2 contours having the rise of 5 meter we have to travel 200 meter distance and thus the contours are moving along these particular alignments. From here I was supposed to take a exit from here so I have ended up my respective gradient or alignment at this particular location. This is utmost essential for us to draw the contour gradient particularly in the hilly area when hilly roads are being planned. Another classical application of the contour map is determination of capacity of reservoirs. All of us are familiar that a contour map is a drawing indicating the nature of the ground. When number of loops are around each other as has been shown in this particular case the contours are forming loops around each other it may either represent a hill or it may represent a pond, pond like land profile. What does it mean is towards inner part the reduced level will be lowest and on the outer part reduced level will be higher. So here from 7678 up to this 7748 continuously the reduced level is rising and from here on again it is falling on this side as well as on this side. Same thing true on this side as well as on this side. What we can see clearly is up to this 7740 continuous rise is there so we are having so many contours drawn which will help us in finding the area between any 2 successive contour lines. So a0 is the innermost area then between 2 successive contours it will be a1, a2, a3 and so on and so forth we can keep on calculating the areas between every 2 successive contours. These areas can be put up into this particular formula. The vertical distance between every 2 successive contour can be put up as h and then by using this particular trapezoidal rule we can find out the value. There is prismidal rule also which can also help us in finding the area. One out of these 2 rules we can definitely adopt and we can find the capacity of reservoir. This is a review of what we have learned by now. Answer the following multiple choice questions. For this you need to pause your video and answer them then correct answers will be elaborated by them. The first question is contour profile is to be drawn for selected first option is contour, alignment, gradient and all of these. The second question is contour gradient is useful to first option is find alignment for desired gradient, find gradient of desired alignment both of the above and above. Dear learners the answers are very very clear for the first question the answer is contour profile is to be drawn for selected alignment and for the second question the answer is contour gradient is useful to find alignment for desired gradient. I have used these references thank you very much.


Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. Today we are joined by Professor Abha Dev Habib from Delhi University who is here to discuss with us the situation of education, the situation of higher education during this COVID crisis as these COVID crisis continues. There are lockdowns which have been implemented all over the world and in most countries education is as a result shifting online and in her university as well that is Delhi University in India. A similar trend is being followed and now the university is set to begin online exams, open book exams from July 1st and this is happening despite massive opposition amongst the student and teachers community. So Professor Abha teaches physics and she's also the treasurer of the Delhi University Teachers Association and she will be talking to us about this opposition and about the issues that are in this policy of online education. So thank you for joining us today and can you first tell us about what exactly this system is of this open book online exam, how is this being planned and how will this be conducted? Yeah so to understand this first I'll like to share that how the structure of Delhi University for example in Delhi University courses are offered in two or three different modes one is regular mode students have to take classes in colleges or in departments and then you have school of open learning so a distance education mode and then similarly on parallel to distance education mode is for the women board for women education but based on that distance learning mode and and undergraduate level teaching happens in roughly 55 or 56 colleges for humanities social science and sciences while for internal assessments teachers work take tests quizzes and give assignments and assign internal marks internal assessment marks to students but all students have to then take a central semester and examination and a combination of this 25 percent is internal assessment and 75 is your semester and exam that total becomes your grades these are used towards grades for the students. Now this announcement of OBE happened only in around 13th May and for the first time we came to know that the university is thinking of having conducting an open book examination before that UGC was studying the possibilities for universities across and university had come with a very flexible formula and we were looking forward to a similar kind of formula I want to tell you Delhi University is a central university there are other 42 central universities also Delhi University is a central university and this means that the student population is very very heterogeneous we get students from across the country and in this there is a very high percentage of there are 50 seats are reserved for SC, ST, OBC and then we also have reservation for EWS students so this is the composition student composition for our of our university now if the university suddenly brings the formula of open book examination our students are not used to it also the teachers were never instructed to teach in a particular manner so that is a problem for us and the open book examination the university is saying that for each student there will be a folder created on the website in which the question paper will be posted for the day and the student will have to download work on the paper and upload it within three hours as per the university understanding the question paper is something which the student should complete in two hours an additional hour is being given only to take care of connectivity issues for downloading and uploading so this is a basic format and colleges have been instructed to help a student if they are not able to upload so maybe then a question or if they are not able to download for some reason because suddenly when a large number of students will be taking exam the university is not also sure whether the website will work or not so colleges have been then given the charge of following up the things case to case first I mean for a given personalized attention to students to email them the question paper to also take their answer script so this is a broadly what OBE is for Delhi University so here of course you're mentioning issues of connectivity and now I mean what are the other issues that could come up in this system because like you were saying a lot of the students are from outside Delhi so they would have left for their homes and I think they have been issues discussed about how they might not have access to materials and internet so a lot of issues have been talked about in this in in relation to this to these exams can you tell us more about this and why it's being opposed see one thing is that why do you want to examine student the fundamental question is that you want to examine whether they have understood what you were trying to aim at whether you had those learning outcomes whether the student have critically understood analyzed the reading material learnt new things new techniques or whatever now when the teaching has been very uneven you see that you we were trying to connect for this interview for last 20 minutes and we did not have connection now when I say that students from across the country come then there are many students coming from suburban and rural backgrounds they come from suburban and rural backgrounds and if in Delhi the connectivity issues are like this you can only imagine what is happening in Rajasthan in some of UP or somewhere else also students 50 percent students I mean you know we conducted from Delhi University teachers association we conducted a survey among students and 51,500 students responded to our survey and in this 50 percent students said that they are from outside Delhi now we need to understand that in Delhi University we were having a mid-semester break which also included a festival holy was there is one of the major festivals of the country and students had gone back only for three days or four days thinking that they will be back so they did not even carry the study material from before the mid-semester break I mean for the classes which were done in January February March they do not even have reading material for that so when we were instructed and the lockdown started around 19th March just as us University was reopening the lockdown started I want to say here that no institutional help was provided to students or to teachers we are you know you can understand that there is no scholarship for teachers to buy laptops to have basic infrastructure ready for all times to be using it all the times so it depends on whether I as a teacher has you know created that facility for myself at home or not so and the institutions just as an order the vice chancellor or the mhd says that teachers will have to engage students now teachers did whatever they were able to do similarly our students are not equipped with laptops or netbooks or anything there are no scholarships to ensure that there is minimum infrastructure available at the students end say some connectivity broadband or to say the net book so when we started teaching the students say that they have not carried material and they are not even able to you know connect so quickly because things have happened so drastically for them the things have changed that they were taking little time to settle down with the new things completely uncertain world and we can only imagine that if teachers are or you know we are feeling jittery how our students were taking looking at the whole thing so one they do not have material the other is that they are looking at they have a very unequal playing field we have students from marginalized section we have a large number of students coming from a differently abled section so with these things and no institutional help to ensure a minimum level playing field we can only imagine how uneven our teaching has been so foreign and uneven teaching even when I was taking classes I was uploading material I was also trying to hold classes on zoom I saw that only one fourth student was able to come on zoom and they said that connectivity is one issue conditions at home is another condition um situation that they do not get an environment where they can concentrate on their studies the environments are very different for all our students so a large number also said that environment at home is not conducive for us to join our zoom sessions regularly only one fourth students were coming so when I when I'm making efforts even then I can't reach my students equally and if we looked at the Delhi university structure which I told that physics honors for example is being taught in roughly 25 colleges now if our teaching has been so unequal can we test students through a centralized examination which is going to be common for all the students and teachers did not protest so much towards internal assessment because when I took internal assessment though I found it very difficult to track each and every student to extend my deadlines but I was still able to reach to my students there are students I will say that I was able to reach but many teachers have reported that even for internal assessment they're finding it difficult to reach to the student because the student does not have any internet connection so I'm saying that even for internal assessment suppose I made efforts I tested them on what I was able to teach them how evenly I was able to approach them I tested them on that now for a centralized examination this situation does not is not there for the student the student could negotiate much more with me than with the centralized examination therefore we think that any examination right now will be unjust because the teaching has been uneven because the institution you know I am from Miranda house and in Miranda house I will appreciate that academic committee meetings were held regularly departmental meetings were held regularly so we were able to do a coordinated effort all teachers tried to do similar things and we also we are teachers in regular stream and we did not have this idea of online teaching various applications all this we had to learn on our own and it did help us to have you know meetings but there were no orders from the university no systematic approach to see that uniformly this was done across colleges or across departments so there are departments and colleges where there has been no coordinated effort now you want to suddenly test the student I think it is very unfair any kind of examination will be unfair because of the unequal level playing field unequal playing field for the student right now an examination will be map of how well they were how well equipped they were in terms of infrastructure internet connection environment at home if a student had best of all of this they may perform little better and others will be damaged so we think that any form of examination will be back the other thing is because we are a central university and most of our students in my class in fact in some departments in some colleges the number of our station student is as large as like 95 percent students from outside now they're coming back to Delhi will mean quarantine it will also mean that most of the students do not stay on campus I mean that we only have limited number of hospital seats they stay on rented accommodation whether now they will get rented accommodation or not is also a thing so I don't think so pen and paper is possible a routine exam is possible in the near future and online examination will be completely discriminatory and when the letter of the dean examination came on 14th May the first announcement of OBE for the students and teachers I will like to say here that we were very hurt in the sense that it also filled us with some anger that it did not respond to needs of and entitlements of different sections it did not say that what will happen if in three hours a student is not able to upload it did not say what will happen to blind students who need a scribe and who will not get scribe right now because of the norms of physical distancing so I think OBE has to be rethought the other thing is that OBE in the OBE there is no way of maintaining it is not a fear that the private players and group of students can completely rig this examination so in some sense it is not really an examination which will be a credible system so was there any sort of consultation process that was done before the system was announced because of course you mentioned the survey that Duta conducted DUTA conducted but on from the on the behalf of the university was there any sort of similar process that was carried out before rolling out the system? This is extremely important question Surya and I want to say that whereas Hyderabad University conducted a survey of and they only have a small number of students as opposed to us for us the terminal semester students if we include UG and PG and open learning and regular it will go up to four lakhs so we are talking about lot of students in Delhi University before taking this call the university or the colleges did not conduct any survey now in that itself is very irresponsible it was duty of the university to in between conduct service every one month or something to see whether institution has been able to penetrate has been able to reach to the students or not and how equipped the students are and no survey was conducted by Delhi University I also want to say that there was a 15 member committee which was announced around 6th May and it did not have representatives of teachers there are elected members of the teachers in the academic council and the executive council which are an apex body for decision making so no consultation with the decision making bodies no representative teachers representative on this 15 membered committee there was no member from the differently abled section of students and teachers DUTA which is the teachers association no member was invited to this committee DUSU which is the union of the students and it is such a large body and we were not invited so there were no consultative processes and if you are today there is a news in outlook and in times of India about AMU professor a legal Muslim university professor who is being targeted by the vice chancellor because he is opposing open book examination in that central university and we fear that this pressure is coming from the MHRD to force Delhi University and some central university into open book examination to use terminal students as a as lab rats and we have been opposing this and I want to say that there are alternatives there are credible alternatives which not only many universities in India but abroad also who have adopted and which our own features have suggested and of course you talked about the environments at home which many students might have and how those might not be suitable for studying but apart from that we also have to consider the massive economic crisis that we are facing and how many students particularly from more marginalized communities you know how difficult they would find to focus on examinations during this time in this economic slowdown and many small businesses closing all around the country I think the university is being very very insensitive and pushing for an examination because right now mental well-being and physical well-being of students and citizens is paramount and you are crushing students also because you did not provide see if the university would have acted as a provider and would have provided and you know ensured that all students were equally reached I could still understand but today when this households are under crisis you want students to you know prepare for a download and upload and the scanner or to go for a good screen mobile a mobile which can screen but scan things better I think this is very very unfortunate and I want to tell you that after the lockdown the kind of situation we have today by July there may be many more deaths because of COVID and can we really think that the families will be in shape to deal with examination this is a very big question can a university universities are you know I have to be role models to create new to respond to new situation in a very innovative manner to you know create models for the society and what we see is that the university is acting in a very incentive insensitive manner and I want to tell you that in open learning a large number of students come from marginalized backgrounds in our own university of 50% students would be any way women more in fact in many more disciplines the number of women is much more you understand how it is in the country and many more men go for management courses and this and that but for humanities social science pure sciences a large number of students are women so when I took a survey in Miranda house and I asked my students why they were not able to join zoom many of women students said that environmentalism is not conducive in fact you know today I teach in a women's college and I think unless the government promises many more scholarships to women to students coming from marginalized section and doing all I mean generally a large number of scholarships have to be promised if you want students to come back to education because with this kind of slowdown economic slowdown the lockdowns which have crushed economics I mean anyway we were going to I um is economic slowdown but lockdown has just broken the back of many households this is in in fact very very unfortunate and that is also the reason but I also do not want students to come back to Delhi spend 50 50 000 or 70 000 to stay here and then give an exam that kind of money may not be available with parents certainly not for many daughters so finally you had mentioned that there are alternatives to this can you tell us what these alternatives are and also what are duta's future plans for resisting this system of online exams see I will like to say that duta has started the movement along with the students and we will take all we have taken to social media we and twitter storm and we have been writing representing um to various authorities and uh so we will carry forward this work but I want to say what are the alternatives and for example IIT Kanpur it has said that for the terminal for the graduating students students who are graduating this semester they will assign grades ABC depending on the work they have done uh in the semester and which the individual teachers have marked them already APC and satisfactory grade they are saying they will not fail anybody for this semester okay they are not going to retain any student because they are paying attention that our student need to graduate on time and the hardship the student is facing they are ready to compromise and they are saying that this is the new solution and for all the students which are not graduating this year this grades will be assigned to them also but the student will be able to improve on the those grades little later Hyderabad University also is looking at the past uh um uh past uh your performances of the student and uh in Delhi University also I would like to say um uh the for the second year and for the first year the university itself has said that we will look at the internal assessment which has been done now and look at the past performance of the student and uh with this uh two components we will assign a grade to the student uh we only want to understand this that why this cannot be applied to the terminal student terminal semester student in fact you know the terminal semester student has many more past uh performances on the basis of which an average can be taken for example for a second semester student there is only one past performance and the university is ready to give that past performance of weightage whereas for the terminal semester student and undergraduate there are five performances which the student has already acquired the the university has given it why can't that average be taken so it is beyond us and teachers are suggesting this only that you take internal assessment and combine it with the past performance but uh give an opportunity to the student to improve it through pen and paper examination conventional examination whenever it becomes possible for the university uh to hold maybe next year maybe with the next cycle of the semesters uh then an opportunity can be given if the student is not happy suppose a student does not want the fifth semester to be used or the first semester when the students just come from outside and they're struggling with their lives in a metropolitan city if they do not like that performance to be counted and they're not happy with the grade the university has given to all students on the basis of the past performance and the internal assessment let that student take the exam little later in a conventional manner so this is what we are suggesting and if the university feels that it is a credible thing for the first year and uh for the second semester and for the fourth semester student then I think it is a credible solution even for the terminal semester student so thank you for joining us today that's all the time we have keep watching people's dispatch oh


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