Mahatma Gandhi and Sustainable Development in Tribal India

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Speakers: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Ms Nancy Sahay, IAS, Additional Secretary, Rural Development, Government of Jharkhand; Prof. Krishna Raj, Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Bangalore, specialist in Sustainable Development Environmental Economics, Ecological and Resource Economics; and Dr. Shiwani, journalist and Secretary, Society for Empowerment

Moderator: Dr. Sachindra Narayan, well-known anthropologist and Gandhian

Development is a process to bring change in the physical quality of life. Mahatma Gandhi’s vision and his programmes for rural development i.e. cleanliness, social equality, cottage industry and in particular empowering the habitat of rural and tribal India envisages a sustainable growth and development

(Collaboration: Society for Empowerment, Patna)