NATIONAL SEMINAR ON “POLITICS OF PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH: ROLE OF THE MARGINALISED SECTIONS IN INDIA”

“POLITICS OF PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH: ROLE OF THE MARGINALISED SECTIONS IN INDIA”

Participatory Development   promotes participation of the local populations is an important part of the "basic needs approach" to development. Participatory development intended to the empowerment of the marginalized sections of our society. Poverty, in terms of deprivation and marginalization, is intrinsically related to power relations, and the restricted access to different domains within a community. Inclusive growth basically means, “Broad based growth, shared growth, and pro-poor growth. The seminar aims to bring various stakeholders like academicians, policy planners, officials, programme administrators, representatives of civil society, NGOs, media, social and development activists and practioners to debate and discuss about marginalized sections and inclusive development: issues, challenges and social work perspective.

Themes of the Seminar:

• Empowerment of the marginalized sections particularly women ,children and dalits
• Decentralization and development
• Human rights of the marginalized
• The politics of inclusion and exclusion and constitutional rights
• Contemporary vision of social progress and social development
• Marginalized sections and development in context of globalization, liberalization and privatization
• Interface between civil society and state for inclusive development

Submission Guidelines:

• Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 250 words. It should include title of the abstract the author's name, designation, institutional affiliation, mailing address, contact number, E-mail ID.
• Authors are requested to kindly send the abstract through E-mail ID pkrgopal@rediffmail.com  on latest by 15thseptember, 2014.
• The length of full paper including tables , illustrations, references, etc. should be between 5000 to 6000 words. The full paper should be in English and typed in MS-Word in Times New Roman with font size 12. Bibliographical references should be arranged alphabetically and given at the end of the text in the APA format.
• The full version of paper should be submitted in both hard and soft copy latest by October 1st, 2014.