Tribal in general and those who are living in the Central belt as well as Eastern and Western regions of the country in particular, are the most marginalised and isolated / excluded social groups in the development process.
Issues related to improvement in the standard of living of the tribal communities have been drawing the attention of scholars and policy planners for a long time. It has been emphasized that, the development strategies as followed in tribal areas over decades, have not impacted their livelihood conditions significantly. There is concern over as to how to protect the current sources of livelihood and promote economic and human development among these communities.
To understand status, challenges and possibilities of livelihood in tribal region for tribal people various scholars from different parts of the country assembled at the department of sociology, Barkatullah University Bhopal from on Dec 6 and 7. It was a two-day event that concluded on Wednesday. On the second day of the national seminar three technical sessions were organised, where Prof YS Sisodia (Ujjain), Prof KG Iyer (Chandigarh), Prof SK Chaudhuri (Director, IGRMS, Bhopal), Prof RN Sharma (Patna), Prof Uday Jain (Sagar), Prof DK Verma (MHOW) and Prof MN Karna, Patna presented research papers.the concluding lecture was delivered by SB Chakravarty. The sessions were chaired by MN Karna and SN Chaudhary, Director, Rajiv Gandhi chair in contemporary studies, Barkatullah University, Bhopal gave the vote of thanks.
Sangrahalaya is organising the next chapter of its popular series, Museum Popular lecture on Thursday at Rock Art conference hall from 4 pm. In this lecture Zoja Karanovic (retired Professor, Temerin, Serbia) will speak on ‘Sacred Tree in Traditional Serbian Culture’.