Report on Lectures by Guest Speakers
Wednesday, 24th May 2006
Shri. Randeep Singh Surjewala
Topic- “Role of Youth Wing in A Political party – Congress”.
Shri. Randeep Singh Surjewala, well-known Youth Congress leader and Minister for Transport and Parliamentary Affairs, Govt. of Haryana delivered lecture on “Role of Youth Wing in A Political party – Congress”. He explained to the participants about history of Indian National Congress with emphasis on Youth Congress wing. He told that Youth Congress wing is different from youth wings of other political parties as has its won setup, own flag, own symbol, and has functional autonomy. He mentioned the list of today’s eminent political leaders of different parties, who had closely associated and close nexus with youth congress viz, Mr.Dijvijay Singh, Mr.Ashok Gehlot, Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu etc. He reveled the vision of the Youth Congress is that “ Buildings Tomorrows Leaders Today only” He also mentioned about different activities like Blood Campaign, Collection of food material, set up of rehabilitation camps etc. He also posed some questions to the participants regarding future challenges in social, political, and in economic arena viz., why people are loosing their confidence in political parties as well as politicians? Why communalism and castism are in increasing trend? Why regional disparities, criminalization of politics and gap between rural and urban India are increasing? He also emphasised on the are like housing, pollution, agriculture, energy sector, education, unemployment, pollution etc.He also emphasised on the issue of “Politics for Development”. In end, she answered the different queries of participants.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006
Topic- Leadership Qualities and Image Building in the Political Arena .
Smt. Satvasheela Prithviraj Chavan, well known social worker and educationalist, delivered lecture on “Leadership Qualities and Image Building in the Political Arena”. She began her lecture by asking participants to write about 3 essential qualities which a leader must possess. The students were later asked to perform a group activity in which they were divided into four groups with situations given like fire accident, terrorist activity, mob fringing etc. They had to react to this emergency situation using their intelligence and leadership skills. It was a pleasure to see groups working hard to come up with smart and intelligent ideas. She talked about qualification of good leadership , separating skills, beliefs and facts, attitudes, preconceived notions, research, research, good listeners, commonsense, communication skills, gift of the gab, IT and its relevance and a good PRO. She further emphasised on having dreams, mission with vision and good group around a leader to execute his/her dreams and plans. Finally, she concluded her lecture by telling “Do not make promises which you can not keep”. In end, she answered the different queries of participants.
Tuesday,18th April 2006.
Topic- Cinema and Politics.
Shree Prakash Jha (Director Bollywood) started his speech by saying that he was very much keen to interact with the students of MIT School of government who are undergoing studying the governance. He starts his lecture with his own experience in the film industry. He told the participants that his films are based on social issues and he did a lot off research to understand the society and its present problems at large. He quoted the examples from the old feudal system, which still has its roots in the Bihar social system. Land reforms in Bihar are still a dream for the Bihar state. He said that his first film Damul was based on the low caste labor class struggle in the feudal system.
He told the participant about his new film Apharan which was based on the kidnapping industry in Bihar. The story of the film revolves around how much the politicians are involved in the kidnapping industry and its impact on the society. The young population highly qualified but did not get the small jobs in the state and turned themselves into anti-social activities. Later he discussed the impact of market economy on the film industry. It affected the industry in the initial period. The industry now is totally independent and competing the market.
Monday, 17th April, 2006
Topic– “Role of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in Indian Political System and the relevance to future governance.”
Dr. Kancha Ilahi started his speech with the introduction of caste hierarchy in India which from the centuries influenced the Indian system. He explained the Gandhian Model of Ram Rajya and Ambedkar model of civil society. He gave the overall view of the role of civil society. In caste and religion he analyzed the views of Ambedkar and Gandhi. Their religious practices of Buddhism and Hinduism. He wanted a revolution in India which can change the present system with civil war in the state. He also spoke about the Kautlya’s ArthaShastra and the caste hierarchy in the Indian society.
His views on Ambedkar say that Buddhism is important and it should be learnt for sharing knowledge and to give equal treatment to all the human beings. His concept of Dhamma is to emphasize liberty, equality and fraternity which aim for development of democracy. If India has to be self sustainable it should adopt Buddhism. He says that democracy is based on the principle of social justice and economic justice. Finally he says that Europe and USA have sustained democracy by abolishing classes and in India social and economic justice can be achieved only through spiritual justice.
Saturday, 15th April, 2006
Topic– “Shared his own experience in the state of Chattisgarh”
His Excellency Lt. Gen. K.M. Seth started his speech with appreciating the idea to establish MIT School of government to train the future leaders of India. He told the participants that after the 1 Nov, 2000 the creation of the Chattisgarh comes into reality. He explained the natural resource richness of the state with the 44% forest cover. The Chattisgarh region was totally neglected by the central govt. and Madhya Pradesh. There was no road network, no basic amenities, no schools and power.
He shared his vies regarding how the problems comes into the way and how they removed them. The main focus was on the Good Governance and Good Infrastructure. Government started public private partnership as a new mantra for the development in the state.
He told that “Government is nothing but administrating people.” State has a number of natural resources which can be used for the development of the state. State started a number of projects to develop roads, infrastructure, E-governance at grassroots level (Panchayat), health system, power sector and human resource development etc. The state did a lot in the last five year in these entire sectors. India today quoted it as the ‘best state for investment’.
He told that the state should not to be slave of the laws because laws are for the development of the people if needed it should have to be changed immediately. State should have to lead from the front. The people’s participation in the democratic society is must to develop the state with the supervision by the govt.
Friday, 14th April, 2006
Topic– “Regional Disparities in Orissa and Natural Disaster and habilitation, the case of Orissa.”
Sh. Parshad Harichandan began his lecture congratulating the participants on their decision of joining MITSOG, which is the Modern temple of learning for the future leaders of India.
He starts his lecture with the development issues in the states of India. All the states are not equally developed. He discussed the reasons for the disparities in the development. All achieved things did not distribute equitably. His more emphasize was on economic sector. Regional disparities are a world wide phenomenon. He quoted the example of United States of America where Appalachian Regional Commission was set up to work for the development of Appalachian states.
He told the participant that regional disparities gave rise to unemployment, Naxalism, Separatism and terrorism etc. All socio-eco problems emerged due to the disparities among all the different groups in the society. Demands for smaller states are also not a viable solution in the long run because it will provide only immediate benefits. He also discussed the five year plans for the development of the Indian states.
After the general discussion on the topic he explained the participants about the Orissa. He told that the Orissa is very rich in natural resources but still it is the most backward state of India. He mentioned some reasons for that such as: Bad Governance, Inefficient delivery system, insensitive bureaucracy, visionless leadership and lack of responsibility and political will. He suggested involvement of people in the development plans; zero based budgeting should be adopted by the government to develop the state.
Thursday, 13th April, 2006
Topic– “The idea of changing Concept and role of government”
P.R.Dubhashi Started his lecture by introducing the basic concepts of the welfare society, the role of the World Bank and IMF and India’s role in Liberalization, privatization and globalization and various other fiscal disciplines, and he seriously Criticized the role of Indian government in Privatization of Airports (Delhi and Mumbai).
He spoke about the Indian Economy and its liberalization in India when the economy opened in 1990’s during the time of P.V Narshima Rao, and the the government’s role from then and the governments which followed by NDA, and he explained how Arun Shorie in the BJP government was responsible for disinvestment and also the Privatization of VSNL, BSNL, BALCO and how the UPA and the left govt’s went against and appointed committees. Later he spoke on the 3 P’s (PPP) ie...Public Private Partnership.
He also spoke about how the Western countries and the European countries regulated their markets and the role of the governments in regulating the economy.
Later he spoke on the US Elections and the lobbying in the political systems and the interference of business in election funding.
Thus he gave a over all picture of the Indian scenario and the role of govt in the welfare concepts in terms of the common good .
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