The Department also got an opportunity to listen and interact with Prof. Zofia Rączkowska of Head of Department of Geo-environmental Research, Head of the Homerka Laboratory of Fluvial Processes, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She delivered a lecture on 25 September,2014 on PINDARI VALLEY RELIEF AND ITS RECENT TRANSFORMATION which gave an insight into the shrinking and expanding glaciers in Himalayan region.