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Report on
National Seminar on Indian Villages and their Transformation
Based on 12th plan project
Bio‐Cultural, Environment and Sustainable Development
From 4th ‐6th November
Sub‐Regional Centre, Jagdalpur Anthropological Survey of India
Ministry of Culture Government of India
Anthropological Survey of India, Sub Regional centre, Jagdalpur successfully organized a three days National Seminar on “Indian Villages: Passage of Change” from 4th to 6th November 2015 at Jagdalpur, under the 12th plan project on “Bio‐ Cultural, Environment and Sustainable Development”.
The seminar was inaugurated on 4th Nov. 2015 at 10.30.a.m. The inaugural
session was chaired by Dr. C.R. Sathyanarayanan, Deputy Director, Anthropological Survey of India and Head of office, Southern Regional Centre, Mysore, on the behalf of the Director Anthropological Survey of India. The Dr. K. M Sinha Roy, H.O. Sub regional centre, Jagdalpur gave heartfelt thanks to the participants who had arrived from various regions of the country and also said that this seminar was so significant in the sense that the present studies which are being conducted by Anthropological Survey of India in different village from different regions of our country are trying to understand our country’s village socio‐economic, religious and political life to assess the present scenario of the our village population in a systematic Anthropological scientific manner. Dr. K. Mukhopadhyay, Co‐ordinator of the programme introduced the purpose of this seminar to the house and pointed out how the seminar is going to identify issues that are crucial for rural people of the country and why publication of the findings can be useful for the academics, policy makers and the people themselves. Chief Guest of this seminar Mr. Amit Kataria, IAS, Collector and District Magistrate, Bastar district inaugurated the seminar and highlighted the necessity of such studies that anthropological survey has undertaken from the viewpoint of administrator, while speaking to the participants and delegates from different regional centres of An.SI.
Special Guest Prof. Rajat k. Das, Emeritus Prof. Vidyasagar University
explained how the study of villages can enrich our knowledge base further. Professor N.D.R. Chandra, Vice –Chancellor, Bastar University during his key note address mentioned the tradition of such studies and noted the issues that can be considered while conducting village studies. Dr. Satyanarayanan in his address
pointed out some more issues that are important for studying rural India and spoke of the future direction of the project.
Besides this, some of Respected Tribal leaders namely, Shri Lingo Poyam, Ganga Ram Kashyap, Dr. Kiran Niruti, Smt. Santi Salam, Sh. Dev Nath Usendi, and faculty members and students and research scholar from the Department of Anthropology, Bastar University and Danteshwari collage participated in the Seminar.
Altogether 30 research papers from different Regional and Sub – Regional
Centre of the Country were deliberated during the 3 day seminar, among them 24 research papers on village studies, one on ethnography of the Shompen and 5 were on Border studies and followed by two Special lectures on the main theme of the seminar by Prof. Rajat. K. Das on 05th Nov., 2015 and Prof. R. K. Mutatkar on 06th Nov., 2015 respectively. The experts and other participants offered critical comments and suggestions for further improvement of the presentations so that those could be published.
At the end of the seminar discussion was held on future shape and course of the project with concluding remarks and recommendations from the resources persons given to the participant. The seminar coordinators recommended that the qualitative information to be collected would include division of villagers on the basis of caste, class, gender relations in home and outside, access to public places for all sections of villagers, participation in development activities by villagers specifying in what capacity they can do so, perception of different sections of villagers on development initiatives, on micro‐ area development, sustainable development and people’s participation. It has also recommended that each principal Investigator will write a paper on a specific theme which also will be accommodated in the same volume.
MEDIA COVERAGE IN DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS
Patrika News paper,05th Nov.,2015, Page No. 15
Patrika News paper,06th Nov.,2015, Page No. 13
Deshbandhu News paper,06th Nov.,2015, Page No. 16
Navabharat,06th nov.,2015
Navabharat News paper, 06th Nov.,2015
Dainik Bhaskar News paper, 06th Nov.,2015, Page No. 17
Dainik Bhaskar News paper, 07th Nov.,2015,
SOME SPECIAL PHOTOS OF THE NATIONAL SEMINAR
Lighting the lamp by Chief Guest Sh. Amit Kataria, IAS, District Magistrate, Bastar
Lighting the lamp by the Guest Prof. N.D.R. Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Bastar University
Welcome address by Dr. K M Sinha Roy , Head of Office, Sub‐Regional Centre, Jagdalpur
Address by Chief Guest Sh. Amit Kataria, IAS, District Magistrate, Bastar
Inauguration of Painting Gallery by Prof. N.D.R. Chandra & Prof. R.K.Das
Visiting of Painting Gallery by Prof. N.D.R. Chandra & Prof. R.K.Das visiting
A view of Seminar Hall and Participants
A Special Lecture delivered by Prof. R.K.Das
A Special Lecture delivered by Prof. R.K.Mutatkar
Group photo of National Seminar (2015) at Jagdalpur, C.G.
The delegates showing interest on ZAM open air display
K.M.Sinha Roy
Head of Office