Seminar on Tagore, rural development from Feb 20

Raipur, January 28, 2013

To mark 150^th birth anniversary of Ravindranath Tagore, Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) and State Resource Centre (adult and continuing education) will organise three-day national seminar on Tagore and rural development at RSU campus from February 20-22, 2013.

The coordinator of the organising committee for the seminar Professor Mitashree Mitra informed that the seminar would be of inter-disciplinary nature and include broad topics like - Tagore in shaping rural reconstruction and rural development, relevance of Tagore’s idea on environment, social discrimination and rural development, gender equality and women empowerment, education – means to transform rural life and cooperative way of life for transforming rural society. 

Besides, the other subject on which the experts would talk would be – nationalism and internationalism, Tagore and national integrity, Tagore and Humanity, folklore and rural development and globalisation and its implication on rural development. 

In addition, a cultural programme and exhibition comprising of Tagore’s life sketch, photographs, paintings, letters/scripts, books and songs (CDs, DVDs) will be organised with an aim to reflect various dimensions of his philosophy. 

Mitra informed that registration is compulsory for all delegates. The organising committee will arrange local transportation facility for delegates from railway station to place of accommodation at varsity’s guest house and hostels. 

The patron of the organising committee will be RSU’s vice chancellor Professor SK Pandey while the advisors will be Lalit Surjan, Prof DK Marothia and Prof OP Verma. The members of the committee will be Prof Abha R Pal, Prof VN Dube, Tuhin Deb, Prof M Chakravarty, Prof R Venugopal, Prof Adity Poddar, Prof P Shrivastava, Dr Kavita Thakur, Dr AK Pradhan, JK Premi, Dr P Sonekar and Dikendra Khute.