Puttur, 13 Feb 2016: ‘Every event which crops up around us need to be viewed and examined from poles apart perspectives. Opportunities to be created both to share the views and listen to them in a democratic setup like ours, only then the true democracy could be deep-rooted and strengthened,’ said Dr Chandra Poojary, Professor of Development Studies, Kannada University, Hampi.
Dr Poojary was delivering a guest lecture on the topic ‘Research in Social Sciences and Development’ at St Philomena College, here on Friday February 12.
As an alumnus of the same College, Dr Poojary was addressing the students of Social work and Economics of Post Graduate Centre of the College.
He further said, ‘The socio-economic policies and programmes of the government as opposed to helping people of lower strata, it turned them to be more deprived of their dues by increasing the disparity between haves and have-nots.’
Professor Dinakara Rao, co-ordinator of the department of Economics was present on the occasion.
Dr A P Radhakrishna, IQAC co-ordinator introduced the guest. Professor Prasanna Kumar co-ordinator of MSW department welcomed the gathering. Professor Srimani compered the programme.