MALDA, Nov. 7: The Vice-Chancellor of University of Gour Banga (UGB), Prof. Surabhi Banerjee, today inaugurated a UGC sponsored two day seminar on ‘Social inequality and Dalits in India: The changing scenario’ organised by the department of political science of Malda women's college.
Principal of the Malda women's college, Dr Chaitali Chattaraj, said that since 62 years of independence the Dalits have remained an ‘excluded’ group in the caste dominated Indian society. “We must nurture with care the growing aspirations among the educated Dalits as an effective means to assimilate them in the national mainstream,” she said.
The V-C of the UGB, Prof. Surabhi Banerjee elucidated how the Dalits were still being denied access to higher education. “We should develop an inclusive education policy in 11th five year plan keeping in mind the objective of Dalit empowerment,” she said. She disclosed that the running of the new university was far from being a smooth sailing.
“Yet in time to come the university would gain eminence,” she hoped.
Several research scholars, academicians, experts in political science from the universities of Jadavpur, Calcutta, Burdwan and North Bengal are expected to present their papers in course of the seminar. n SNS
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