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National Webinar- 2020

Jointly organised by Department of Political Science, Malda College Malda and Department of Political Science, Chandidas Mahavidyalaya, Khujutipara, Birbhum

21st May, 2020

The Present Corona Crisis and its Probable Impact on the Ecopolitical Scenario of India

Webinar Report

During the Covid-19 pandemic situation when the country spent her lockdown and all the educational institutions were fully closed, the academicians, teachers and students stayed at home and felt bored. Our life became uncertain, no one knows how long we will remain under this situation. The spread of CoronaVirus Disease has affected almost all the spheres of our life, physically, mentally, religiously, culturally, socially, politically, economically and psychologically or in the emotional fields. Education particularly classroom teaching has been hampered and ramped. In such a situation the Department of Political Science, Malda College, Malda and the Department of Political Science, Chandidas Mahavidyalaya Kujutipara, Birbhum, jointly organised a National Level Webinar on 'The Present Corona Crisis and its Probable Impact on the Ecopolitical Scenario of India' on 21st May, 2020. It may be mentioned here that, now-a-days a good number of institutions conduct webinar, but when we think of organising webinar many of our academicians hear this term for the first time. Although it was familiar to corporate sectors, for academicians it is a new concept as well as a new platform of exchanging and sharing our views and ideas. Through this webinar the keynote speaker, resource persons and the paper presenters have shared their ideas on the Corona Crisis, Ecopolitical Scenario, and impact of Coronavirus disease on various aspects of our life and society.

Honourable Vice Chancellor, University of Gour Banga, Professor Chanchal Chaudhuri and honourable District Magistrate, Malda & Administrator of Malda College, Mr. Rajarshi Mitra IAS have given their kind consent to present and deliver their valuable speech, but due to super cyclone, Amphan that severely hit on 20th May, just the day before our webinar. So they could not join us. Almost 150 participants and paper presenters from 14 states including Jammu Kashmir, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha participated in the webinar through the Google meet virtual meeting link.

The webinar started with the short introduction of the guests and resource persons by Sri Chandan Roy, Joint Convener of the webinar organising committee, followed by an inaugural Rabindra Sangeet played by Assistant Professor, Sri Debkumar Singha on his self made flute. At the very beginning Dr. Manas Kumar Baidya, Principal, Malda College gave his welcome address and Dr. Sk. Ataur Rahman, Principal, Chandidas Mahavidyalaya delivered the inaugural speech. In this session Professor Daipayan Bhattacharya, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, New Delhi delivered his keynote address and he has given a lot of information about the webinar. Followed by his presentation there was an interactive session. This session ended with the vote of thanks by Dr. Subhas Singha Roy, Joint Convener of the webinar organising committee. Immediately after the inaugural session Webinar has one plenary session and two technical sessions.The Plenary Session was chaired by Professor Daipayan Bhattacharya and the resource person was Dr. Badal Sarkar HOD, Dept. of Pol. Sc. UGB. He has pointed out and discussed a lot of things in his lecture. In the technical session-I & II 20 nos. of paper presenters from different corners of the country have presented their papers successfully. The programme was successfully anchored by Deb Kumar Singha, Assistant Professor, Malda College.

Finally the webinar ended with the valuable speech of Sri Prabhas Chaudhuri, Coordinator, IQAC, Malda College and with the vote of thanks by Smt. Gandhari Saha, HOD, Dept of Political Science, Malda College. She extended her heartfelt thanks to the Chief Guest, Inaugurator, Keynote Speaker, Resource Persons, Paper Presenters, Participants, Technical Support Staff and Students and congratulated the Organising Committee for organising such a webinar on an appropriate, relevant and burning topic.

For further details about the webinar click the sites link: https://sites.google.com/view/nationalwebinarpolsc/home

To view video recording of the webinar please click the following YouTube links:

https://youtu.be/M0RSA9kB77g

https://youtu.be/JKkaZJ-6kRc

Prof. Dwaipayan Bhattacharya, JNU

Dr. Sk Ataur Rahaman, Principal

Dr Subhas Singha Roy, HoD

One of Paper presenters

Department Webinar/ Special Lecture-1

Gandhi's Concept of Sarvodaya

Speaker: Dr. Arindam Sinha, Rampurhat College

30th May, 2020

Report:

Mahatma Gandhi started attracting scholars' attention since his successful movement in South Africa. His thoughts and behaviour are regarded as Oriental response to the western modernity. Keeping his influence -both in academic world and political world- our department resolved to organize a special lecture on Gandhi's Sarvodaya and it is also a topic in Under-graduate syllabus.

Special lecture started with an inaugural song -Gandhi's favourite bhajan- Vaisnov Janoto) by our 2nd SEM student Anuradha Dhara and Rima Ghosh.

Dr. Sk. Ataur Rahaman provided welcome address. Students of our department and professors of different colleges were present in the webinar.

Dr. Arindom Sinha, a serious scholar in this field, was invited to deliver lecture. Dr. Sinha deftly handled the issue. He corelated Gandhi's idea of Sarvodaya with freedom struggle and contemporary democracy in India. According to him, Gandhi's Sarvodaya is possible way-out of socio-political diseases of India.

Prof. Mojaffar Hossain Mondal, Rampuhat College and Dr. Rintu Kumar Biswas, Hetampur K.C College raised very pertinent questions. Dr. Sinha satisfied them.

Aziz Hasan extended vote of thanks.

Dr. Sinha expressed gratitude to the department for inviting him to deliver lecture.