Social Justice and Ethical Issues through the Lens of Qualitative Research The second day of the seven days National workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences with focus theme Equity and Social Justice from May 20 -29, 2019, organised by Centre for Academic Leadership & Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) scheme of MHRD witnessed sessions by Dr. Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary from Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
He dwelled on the relevance of qualitative studies with varied examples. In first session he apprised the participants with the concept and limitations of randomised controlled trials which is an important tool to build evidence for policy research. The focus of second sessions was on measuring equity and social justice in education. He deliberated on how and why there is this inequality and social injustice in context of neoliberalism. He emphasised with evidences that neo liberal policies effected the education sector and created inequities in society.
The third session was focused on ethical issues in research and questions of equity and social justice by Prof. Sucha Singh Gill, Member of Revenue Commission, Government of Punjab, Former Director General Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh, Former Professor & Head Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala. He focused on inequity and how we are concealing instead of revealing through data.
Earlier, Prof. Satvinderpal Kaur, Program Coordinator introduced the resource persons. The sessions were interactive and evoked pertinent questions by the participants which were explicated vividly by the experts.
The sessions of day two concluded with vote of thanks to all resource persons by Dr. Kuldeep Kaur, Program and CALEM Co-coordinator.
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PU Professor Conferred with QbD Excellence Award in Pharmaceutical Industry Internationalization Strategy Summit held in ChinaDr Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, Professor at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), and Coordinator, UGC Centre for Excellence in Nano Biomedical Applications, at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, has recently been awarded with “Pharmaceutical Quality by design (QbD) Excellence Award” by M/s Shengjie Business Management & Consulting Co. Ltd., Shanghai, during a two-day Pharmaceutical Industry Internationalization Strategy Summit held on 16th-17th May 2019 in Shanghai, China. Professor Bhoop has been bestowed upon with the coveted award for his exemplary and seminal contribution towards steering pharmaceutical industry across the globe on various QbD paradigms.
Over 500 participants and resource persons from USA, Canada, India China, Singapore and beyond participated in the Summit. On this occasion, Professor Bhoop also delivered a one-hour expert talk on the topic, “Omnipresence of QbD during Product Lifecycle: Quality Excellence Precedes Federal Compliance”.
It is quite pertinent to add that Professor Bhoop has delivered over 300 invited talks in India and overseas, including USA, Canada, UK, Germany, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Dubai and Bangladesh primarily on QbD. He holds the unique distinction of having duly trained several hundreds of industrial scientists under his direct guidance, esp. on QbD. He has earned to his credit over 360 original publications (nearly with 150 exclusively on QbD), 15 books, five patents and tech-transfers of two nanostructured drug delivery technologies to pharma industry. He has handled 16 research projects fetching research grants of 6.10 crores from Government and corporate sectors, and guided/guiding nearly 100 research scholars including 31 doctoral, and 6 post-doctoral researchers primarily on QbD-based scientific research in developing novel nanomedicines.
His work on QbD-oriented pharmaceutical research has already fetched Prof Bhoop with numerous awards & accolades like, QbD & Product Performance Award 2012 & 2013 (AAPS, USA), QbD Excellence Award 2013 (CPhI Asia), Outstanding Scientist Award 2014 (SelectBio, UK), QbD Product Performance Award 2015 (Stat-Ease, USA), Scientist Par Excellence Award 2016 (Minitab Inc, UK), and many more.
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Swachhta is Everyone’s Business – Parameswaran Iyer
“The Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) (SBM-G) launched in 2014 has revolutionized sanitation in India, specially the rural sanitization coverage which increased to nearly 99% from 38.7% in 2014”, said Sh Parameswaran Iyer, Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India and leading flagship of SBM while delivering the lecture on ‘Implementation of Large Scale Social Transformation Programmes: Lessons from the Swachh Bharat Mission during the 56th Panjab University Colloquium 4th Shenmar Memorial Oration, held here today.
While sharing the detailed information about various challenges in implementing Swachh Bharat Mission, Sh. Iyer said that this had direct bearing in the largest transformation ever witnessed in the behavioural changes in India and abroad. He informed that over 5.6 lakh villages, 617 districts and 30 States/UTs have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF). More than 9.22 crore toilets have been constructed in the rural areas in this period. The recently concluded National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) conducted by an Independent Verification Agency surveying over 90,000 households across India has pegged the usage of these toilets at over 96.5%.
He further added that developing a large scale programme for a nation like India, with complexity of 22 languages, 700 dialects, 6000 villages was a challenging task as one size does not fit all. The challenge of implementing at scale was met with leveraging the power of 1.3 billion people to create a Jan Andolan. Extensive Information, Education and Communication (IEC) interventions were used to target beliefs held for generations (Stigma). Finally, more important than achieving was sustainability in the long term to ensure that people don’t slip back into old habits.
Sh. Iyer further informed that to bring behaviour changes at large scale, over 6 lakh grassroot sanitation champions or ‘swachhagrahis’ have been trained to deliver sanitation messages in their villages. They work at the cutting edge and motivate and inspire communities to build and use toilets through community approaches to sanitation and behaviour change triggering, he informed. He vociferously highlighted the main tagline of the mission is “Swachhta is Everyone’s Business”
He further informed that large scale people’s participation campaigns like the Swachh Sunder Shauchalaya (1st January, 2019 to 31st January, 2019) during which 1.34 crore toilets in rural India were painted by householders, and Swachchata Hi Seva (15th September 2018 to 2nd October 2018) where over 20 crore people participated by offering shramdaan or taking pledges for swachhata, show the scale that the program has managed to achieve. Even celebrities have taken to the movement and participated in mass media campaigns such as Darwaza Band (1 & 2) with Amitabh Bachchan and Anushka Sharma, and showcased the Mission in popular culture such as ‘Toilet – ek prem katha’ with Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar.
Talking about the Policy lessons, he stressed upon the 4Ps of the mission for large scale transformation which includes Political Leadership, Public Funding, Partnerships and Peoples participation. About Administrative lessons, he said that it was important to set a target for any programme like this and time period of 5 years i.e. October 2, 2019 has been set as a deadline for the Swachh Bharat Mission. It started with the belief that it can be achieved and hence the SBM-G team was created. Younger people like students were appointed Brand Ambassador of the mission, women workers were also roped in as motivators at the grass root level. They triggered behavioural change at ground level. Then there were Collectors which was the most critical force being helped by many young professionals from IIT’s and IIM’s to work in fields. All ministries were also pitched in for sensitizing people about the mission. Arguably the biggest game-changer for the SBM (G) was that the Hon’ble Prime Minister lent his personal political capital to the Mission. Inspired by the leadership and commitment of the PM, various Chief Ministers (CM) and District Magistrates (DM) emerged as sanitation champions –the PM-CM-DM model in this Village Mukhiya’s (VM) was added to bring transformation at the grass root level.
He added that continuous engagement with implementers keeps them motivated. Regular feedback was taken and the SBM-G team visited each state multiple times and engaged directly with district collectors through learning workshops and informal gatherings. Healthy competitions at all levels- State, District and Village were conducted. It was also informed that association of Bollywood stars, sportspersons and other influencers with SBM-G helped break the taboo around sanitation. Apart from this, SBM-G organized mass events and campaigns which helped it stay on top of public recall.
Prof. Shankarji Jha, Acting Vice Chancellor and Dean of University Instruction, PU in his address said that it was a matter of great pride and honour to successfully complete 55 PU Colloquiums and Shenmar Memorial Oration which has proved to be a platform for various eminent personalities to share their experiences here. He said it was an honour and a very alluring opportunity for Panjab University and the exuberant audience gathered here today, to have Sh. Paramewaran Iyer, Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India, us as the Invited Speaker.
Prof. T.R. Sharma. Executive Director, NABI, Mohali in his address while appreciating the success of the SBM-G, compared it with the Green Revolution which started with political will at the top. He said that the awareness for such campaign continues and need to persistently make people aware of these. He added that SBM-G of Government of India has brought a revolutionary change and for upgrading the hygiene and cleanliness stature of the Nation by stimulating the thought process of both the rural and urban areas.
Earlier, Prof. Promila Pathak, Coordinator, Colloquium Committee introduced Sh. Parameswaran Iyer to the audience. She expressed her gratitude to Dr Shashi Paul & Dr. Vinod K Paul, Chairman, Board of Governers, Medical Council of India for their solicit presence and their pillar like support and generosity towards the Shenmar Memorial Orations that are held annually.
Earlier, Prof. Promila Pathak, Coordinator, Colloquium Committee introduced Sh. Parameswaran Iyer to the audience. She expressed her gratitude to Dr Shashi Paul & Dr. Vinod K Paul, Chairman, Board of Governers, Medical Council of India for their solicit presence and their pillar like support and generosity towards the Shenmar Memorial Orations that are held annually.
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Every year Panjab University, Chandigarh awards two Medals to the toppers of the Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. During the last convocation held in the month of April 28, 2019 Ms. Nandani was awarded with a Professor (Dr.) S.R.K. Chopra Memorial Gold Medal for standing First in (B.Sc. Hons.) Anthropology for the year 2018 and Ms. Harpreet Kaur Saini was felicitated with Dewan Bahadur Wali Ram Taneja Gold Medal for standing First in (M.Sc. Hons.) Anthropology for the year 2018.
The students brought laurels to the Department of Anthropology and the Chairperson Dr. Kewal Krishan wishes the students all the best for their future endeavours and further studies.
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The inaugural of the seven days National workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences with focus on the theme Equity and Social Justice from May 20 -29, 2019, organised by Centre for Academic Leadership & Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh under PMMMNMTT scheme of MHRD began today at ICSSR, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Prof. Padma S. Sarangapani from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in her keynote address, dwelled upon the three ideas relevant to the way of doing qualitative research i.e. engaging patiently with subjects, getting them to talk and evoking the idea of self as research instrument. She also emphasised the relationship between researcher and researched and its importance in qualitative research.
Prof. Krishna Kumar, Former Director NCERT, New Delhi chaired the inaugural session where he made all the participants ponder about the word quality in qualitative research where quality reminds us about the nature of life and continual of the relationship of researcher and researched is very essence of qualitative research.
Prof. Devinder Singh, Secretary to Vice Chancellor, Panjab University highlighted the prejudices prevailing in the society and dire need to deliberate upon these issues.
Dr. Jatinder Grover, CALEM coordinator from Department of Education, Panjab University extended welcome to all the dignitaries and expressed that the workshop provides an opportunity to deliberate at length on various issues related to qualitative research.
The background paper on the theme of the workshop was presented by Prof. Satvinderpal Kaur, Program Coordinator, emphasising the need to go beyond the dynamics of the numbers and unravel the hidden realities through the tradition of the qualitative research.
Prof. Latika Sharma, Chairperson of the Department extended vote of thanks to all luminaries present during the inaugural.
A session on Two Ideas on Social Science by Prof. Emeritus Bhupinder Singh, Department of Political Science, followed the inaugural. He emphasised that the method of research, quantitative or qualitative, comes from two different conceptions of social sciences where methodically collected evidences are crucial and he also explained the epistemological issues of generating and disseminating knowledge. The session concluded with the questions by participants which were explicated by the resource person.
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The Linnaean Society of London has awarded Dr. Ranjana Jaiswara, DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh a prestigious research grant of £ 1000 (British pound) for the year 2019. The current research grant from the Linnaean Society of London is to explore and document diversity of Indian cricket species based exclusively on their acoustic signals. Crickets sound producing structure is now being extensively studied by bioengineers and nanotechnologists to design highly efficient and smaller speakers for portable devices like mobile phones and hearing aids for humans. The Linnaean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society founded in 1788 and named in the honor of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, “Father of Modern Taxonomy”. It is an international society of many prominent scientists dedicated to the study of, and the dissemination of information concerning, natural history, evolution, and taxonomy of biological specimens.
Dr. Ranjana recently joined PU with India’s most distinguished faculty award by the Department of Science and Technology. She pursued her PhD degree from the top most institute, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in collaboration with Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Over a decade, Dr. Ranjana’s research work has been focused on demonstrating the use of acoustic signals as an efficient tool in addressing the serious problem of species identification in biology. Scientific publications in the international journals of Zoological Journal of Linnaean Society, London and PLoS ONE are a few to evidence.
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56th Panjab University Colloquium cum 4th Shenmar Memorial Oration is being organized by Panjab University(PU), Chandigarh on May 21, 2019 at 9.30 am at Golden Jubilee Hall, PU.
Sh Parameswaran Iyer, Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India will deliver the lecture on mplementation of Large Scale Social Transformation Programmes: Lessons from the Swachh Bharat Mission. He is leading the flagship Swachh Bharat Mission and the National Rural Drinking Water Programme of Govt. of India. A 1981 batch IAS officer joined the World Bank in 2009. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Iyer was serving as Manager for Water in the World Bank based in Washington DC and he has been working on water supply and sanitation issues since June 2012. He has over 20 years of experience in the water supply and sanitation sector.
Sh. Iyar will deliberate on Swachh Bharat Mission. The Swachh Bharat Mission has revolutionized sanitation in India; India has brought over 50 crore people out of open defecation and halved the global open defecation burden, in just five years. The story of India going from a sanitation coverage of 39% to 99% in five years is unparalleled. India has harnessed the power of its people to bring about a fundamental shift in their collective conscience and change a centuries-old habit, in half a decade. The talk will highlight key points of how Swachh Bharat Mission transcended from a government programme to mass movement, a Jan Andolan.
The Swachh Bharat journey has laid down a blueprint for future government supported and people led transformations.
Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, PU will be the chief guest, whereas, Prof. T.R. Sharma, Executive Director, NABI, Mohali is guest of honour. Prof. Girish Sahani, Former Secretary, DSIR and DG-CSIR will be presiding over the function.
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हमने तो वोट डाल दिया, अब आपकी बारी, वोट डालने अवश्य जाए।
मतदान करते हुए पल
चंडीगढ़: लोकसभा की एक सीट के लिए रविवार को चंडीगढ़ में वोट सुबह सात बजे शुरू हुआ।
चंडीगढ़ के जागरूक मतदाता जिन्होंने अपने मत का इस्तेमाल करके लोकतन्त्र के महापर्व में अपनी अाहुति डाली है।
चंडीगढ़: Lok Sabha Election 2019 में पंजाब में सातवें और अंतिम चरण के मतदान में शांतिपूर्ण हो रहा है।
सेक्टर-36, सेक्टर-18 और सेक्टर-9 में होंगे वुमन पोलिंग बूथ : चंडीगढ़ में इस बार कुल तीन एेसे पोलिंग बूथ बनाए गए हैं, जहां पर सारा काम सिर्फ महिला स्टाफ ही संभालेंगी।
एक पोलिंग बूथ एमसीएम काॅलेज सेक्टर-36, न्यू पब्लिक स्कूल सेक्टर-18 और कार्मल काॅन्वेंट स्कूल सेक्टर-9 को शामिल किया गया है।
चंडीगढ़,पंजाब के सभी मतदाताओं से अपील हैं कि 19 मई को अपने मतदान का प्रयोग करने के लिए अवश्य जाए जो भी उम्मीदवार आपको सही लगे उसको वोट अवश्य दे !
वहीं चंडीगढ़ में कुल 36 उम्मीदवार चुनाव लड़ रहे हैं, जिनमें 9 महिलाएं हैं। इस निर्वाचन क्षेत्र में कुल 597 मतदान केंद्र बनाए गए हैं। चंडीगढ़ निर्वाचन क्षेत्र में कुल 6,46,084 मतदाता हैं, जिनमें 3,41,640 पुरुष मतदाता हैं; 3,04,423 महिला मतदाता और 21 मतदाता थर्ड जेंडर के हैं।
चंडीगढ़ में अब तक 22.30 फीसद वोटिंग हुई है। कई जगह मतदान केंद्रों पर लंबी कतारें लगी हैं तो कुछ जगहों पर अभी कम संख्या में वोटर आए हैं।
मतदान के लिए कडी़ सुरक्षा की गई है। मतदान सुबह सात बजे शुरू हुआ।
चंडीगढ़ के मतदाता काफी जागरूक है।
अपने मत का प्रयोग करना जानते हैं।
फिर भी हमारी अपील है कि 19 मई को अपने मतदान का प्रयोग करने के लिए अवश्य जाए जो भी उम्मीदवार आपको सही लगे उसको वोट अवश्य दे !
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19 मई को होने वाले लोकसभा आम चुनाव के मतदान में बढचढकर भाग लेकर देश की लोकतांत्रिक प्रणाली को मजबूत करने में अपना सहयोग करें।
चंडीगढ़,पंजाब के सभी मतदाताओं से अपील हैं कि 19 मई को अपने मतदान का प्रयोग करने के लिए अवश्य जाए जो भी उम्मीदवार आपको सही लगे उसको वोट अवश्य दे !
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