Way to Transform - Shridhar University Rajasthan Celebrates World Health Day

April 7, 2010 - PRLog -- World Health Day marks the founding of the WHO and is an occasion to raise awareness of key global health issues. The theme for this year is "Urbanization: A Challenge for Public Health."

It is well known that virtually all population growth over the next 30 years will be in urban areas, signaling that urbanization is here to stay. However, it is associated with many health challenges related to water, environment, violence and injury, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors like tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol as well as the risks associated with disease outbreaks and many more.

The Shridhar University an initiative of the Meerut based Sarvhit Trust is located in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan (India) near Pilani enroute to Chirawa along the State Highway to Jaipur. Pilani is well known for the host of educational institutions as well as CSIR Laboratory CEERI. The name Shridhar is synonymous with Lord Krishna the most globally well known avatar of Hindu God Vishnu.

The Shridhar University campus is fast coming up with the state of the art infrastructure to provide the best environment for the pursuit of higher education by offering Diplomas, Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral programmes in various diverse disciplines including emerging areas to prepare the enrolled students for taking up leadership in the larger task of nation building. The campus plan includes modern gymnasiums, green house, sports stadium, yoga centre, walking track, etc to promote healthy habits among the students and faculty.

On the occasion of World Health Day, Maj. Gen (Retd) SS Dhaka SM Vice Chancellor and Prof BR Natarajan Pro Vice Chancellor addressed the students and faculty in the conference hall of Shridhar University and highlighted the challenges and possible solutions associated with urbanization and health.

For more details click http://www.shridharuniversity.ac.in

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Shridhar University is a full-fledged Rajasthan State approved Private University and and does not fall under the category of deemed universities.