Vidyant Hindu PG College

UGC Dr. Ambedkar Studies Centre, Vidyant Hindu PG College, University of Lucknow organised a National Seminar on ‘Dr. BR Ambedkar: Perspectives of Social Justice’ on March 14, 2011 at RaiUmanathbali Auditorium, Quiserbagh, Lucknow. This seminar was a culminating event of all programmes held earlier under the auspices of the Centre.
Suggested sub-themes of the seminar were:

Social Justice: Theoretical Perspectives (including traditional and modern perspectives of social justice)
Social Justice: Socio-cultural Perspectives
Social Justice: Political Perspectives and the Perspective of Nation Building
Social Justice: Economic and Developmental Perspectives
Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
Social Justice: Feminist Perspectives
Social Justice: Subaltern Perspectives
Social Justice : Environmental Perspectives
Perspective on Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies

There were four sessions in the Seminar. A detailed description of these sessions and names of paper-presenters are as follows:

Inaugural Session	Topic	On Chair	Co-Chair	Keynote Address
	Lighting of Lamp, Floral Offerings, Manglacharan	Prof B Hanumaiah,Vice Chancellor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow	Prof A Ramaiah	Chairperson, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
			Dr. Amalendu Dutta	President, Managing Committee, Vidyant Hindu PG College, Lucknow
Technical Session I	Social Justice: Economic and Feminist Perspectives	Prof A Ramaiah Chairperson, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai	Dr. DNNS Yadav, Department of Law, University of Lucknow	Dr. Shura Darapuri Department of History, Himachal University, Shimla
				Dr. ChitwanVerma Department of English, Sri JNPG College, Lucknow
				Dr. Bharti Pandey Department of Economics, Sri JNPG College, Lucknow
				Dr. Manjula Upadhyay Department of Econmics, AP Sen Girls PG College, Lucknow
Technical Session II	Social Justice: Socio-Politico-Economic Perspectives	Prof Kameshwar Choudhury, Dean, School for Ambedkar Studies, Babasaheb BhimraoAmbedkar University, Lucknow		Dr. Sanjay Singh Department of Sociology, Dr. RML National Law University, Lucknow
		Prof RK Dixit, Department of Political Science, University of Lucknow		Dr. LC Mallaiah Department of Economics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow
				Dr. Dharam Kaur Principal, Vidyant Hindu PG College, Lucknow
				Prof AP Tiwari Department of Economics, Dr. Shakuntala Mishra Rehabilitation University, Lucknow

Seminar was a great success as participation in the event was extensive but focused. Out of about 270 delegates, 70 presented their papers on various sub-themes of the seminar.