Tribals in the country are struggling for their cultural, traditional, medicinal and linguistic rights. Even though they have been struggling for two decades, various Governments have given very less importance to their cause, Professor SN Choudhary from Barkatullah University, Bhopal said on Monday.
He was speaking at a three-day national conference titled ‘Social Challenges in 21st Century’ organised by Pt Ravishankar Shukla University. Over 200 speakers and sociologists from all around the country took part in the three-day conference held in the university premises here. Chief guest of the programme, former President of Indian Sociological Society Ishwar Prasad Modi said that equal status in society for everyone and social justice is still marring the society even after more than six decades of independence, said.
Talking about old and new problems, Modi said that though social evils like child marriage, sati system, protests against widow remarriage are now negligible in the country, new problems like dowry harassment, domestic violence, sexual abuse have taken their place.
“Trafficking of childern and women in our country is also one among the grave problems,” he said. Besides discussion and paper presentation, eight lectures were also organised for the participants during the conference. Talking about senior citizens, Professor AK Joshi from Benaras Hindu University said India has over 10 crore of elderly population. It is important that medical facilities are provided to them at cheap, affordable rates. “The government must have security and housing facilities for the senior citizens of each State,” he said.