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A national level seminar on Growth with Justice was
organised on April 10, 2016, at Unity
Degree College jointly by the Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD
Trust) and Unity Degree College. Hon’ble Mr.
Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza was the Chief Guest.
Besides him, reputed academicians
like Prof. R. S. Yadav (Former Pro VC,
University of Lucknow, Lucknow), Prof. M.
Varma (Dean faculty of Education,
University of Lucknow, Lucknow), Prof. Somesh Kumar Shukla (Head of the
Department of Commerce, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Prof. B. N. Singh
(Former Professor and Head, Department of Plant Breeding, Rajendra Agricultural
University, Pusa, Former Director Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack and
Former Director Research, Birsa Agricultural University Ranchi), Prof. A.B.
Siddiqui (Principal, Unity Degree College) and Prof Pushpendra Mishra (Associate
Professor Commerce, Dr. Shakuntala Mishra Rehabilitation University, Lucknow)
etc were present.
Mrs Sameena Imtiyaz, Prof Somesh K Shukla, Prof R. S. Yadav and Prof M Varma
Veteran practitioners of development schemes of the governments
like Mr. H. K. Mazhari IAS (Former
Commissioner and Secretary, Urban Development Government of Meghalaya) and Mr.
S. M. A. Rizvi IAS (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) attended the seminar and deliberated
in details on Urban Development.
Mr Humayun Rasheed ADJ
The judiciary was represented by Mr. Humayun Rasheed
(Additional District Judge, District Kaushambi) and Mr. Murtaza Hasnain Khan
Advocate (Max Law Firm).
From the medical profession, Dr. M.M. Sarfaraz Ali Khan and
from the pharmaceutical industry Mr. Syed Hussain Taj Rizvi (Regional Sales
Manager, M/S Biorex Health Care Pvt. Ltd.) were present.
The state department for school level education was
represented by Mr. Asghar Mehdi (Finance and Audit Officer, Department of Basic
Education, Barabanki).
Senior bankers like Mr. S. Alim Rizvi, former Assistant General Manager, (Union Bank of India), Mr.
Ajmal Husain (Chief Manager, Bank of India), Mr.
M.V. Rangacharyulu (Senior Faculty Punjab National Bank Staff College,
Panchkula, Haryana) and Mr. S. K. Singh
(Director, PNB RSETI, Ramgarh, Jharkhand) participated.
Prof M Varma and Prof Somesh Kumar Shukla
The point of view of social organisations
claiming to represent the oppressed classes and women was echoed by Mrs. Tahira Hasan (President, All India
Progressive Women Association, Lucknow) Mrs. Rafat Fatima from Tahrik-e-Niswan
(A feminist organisation) was also present and the issue of higher education to Minority
Communities was taken up by Mr. Mohammad
Allam (PG Teacher Minto Circle, Aligarh Muslim University). Mr. Zamanat Ali,
Local Secretary, Anjuman-e-Wazifa-e-Sadat-wa-Momineen, Aligarh (A very
old philanthropic organisation busy in providing interest free education loan
to needy students) was also present.
Mr M. V. Rangacharyulu and Mr. S. M. A. Rizvi IAS
(Mrs. K. M. Rizvi and Dr Dinar in the Background)
The progressive farming community was represented by Mr. Anil Mishra (Farmer, Village Sidhnath, Asiwan, Mianganj, Lucknow), who had volunteered to try along with some of his friends the biofortified wheat seeds under the HarvestPlus programme, provided by LEAD Trust and Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur.
Many other people presented their papers. The papers submitted by the participants were
published by the Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust) in the
form of a compendium entitled Growth with Justice (ISBN: 1519227078 ISBN-13:
978-1519227072) at Create Space Independent Publishing Platform USA and is available at Amazon globally.
The purpose of the seminar was not purely academic, and it
was desired to yield some direction for
the future programs of the LEAD Trust
to start playing its humble role as a facilitator of both growth and just
distribution.
The papers presented by Mr.
H. K. Mazhari entitled “Urbanisation a Key Facilitator to Economic Growth”, by
Prof. B. N. Singh “India Versus Bharat: The Urban-Rural
Divide” and of Mr. S.K. Singh “Guaranteed
Success with RSETI” were especially
helpful in throwing up some areas where a beginning can be made.
On the basis of above, in the review meeting, the following morning chaired by Prof B. N. Singh at the State Guest House Lucknow and attended by Mr Mazhari, Mr Masood, Ms Samina and Ms Sumana the following roadmap of activities
was suggested for the trust for the year 2016:
Clean India, a beginning to be made in and around the Unity Degree College/ Shahr Bano Begum Girls School, Sidhnath, Miagunj, Unnao
It is huge work but very important and relevant in view of the insanitation prevailing in rural and urban areas. We can initiate an awareness programme on the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of the liquid and solid waste;
As a first step, we should urge people to completely shun the practice of open-air defecation in the villages choosing two to three villages on a pilot basis.
Need of the day. Will be restricted to the laws which may be relevant to poor and depressed class who many times, are exploited by the law makers, the law enforcers and the defenders of the law
Next Seminar/Workshop to be held on the role of bankers in the development of small business and artisans in the changing economic scenario.
This seminar will be much better organised with participants coming from bankers DIC and RSETI but also those who are seeking assistance and their experience they have in getting the necessary institutional support.
This topic came up during the meeting of Trustees the next morning, as a first step towards amelioration of the condition of the local urban poor. The idea was to bring out the problems that the zari / chikan workers are facing in getting adequate means of livelihood to keep their chullah’s burning.
The work will be valuable if it suggests a road map for the rejuvenation of the original artisan’s (the workers') economic returns apart from describing their status and associated problems of the industry.
Let us prepare a blueprint for welfare of the workers in the form of the proposed book.
Let’s first try to understand what is NOT wisdom. Wisdom is neither a measure of the amount of information and data stored into our brain cells, nor of the dexterity with which we can perform tasks which were originally invented and perfected by others.
Wisdom is rather the ability to absorb and input information and data from the outside as well as from within our own selves; sift, arrange classify, doubt, question, reject, accept and connect each and every item of such data with each other to find, invent and create holistic solutions hitherto unknown to the humanity; learning, unlearning and re learning in the way. Wisdom gives us out of the tunnel vision.
Our mother land India, since times immemorial, has been the most fertile ground for supporting and nurturing wisdom. Great thinkers and wise people, from the architects of the Harappan civilisation to the saints, thinkers, philosophers, astronomers, physicians, mathematicians, physicists and what not of the ancient ages to the planners, engineers, bards, poets and sufis of the medieval era to thinkers, lawmakers, and scientists to the modern age right upto the brilliant son of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, India has gifted to humanity its brightest jewels. In fact while standing here before you at the Unity Degree College, I remember one of such persons I had a chance to work with and he was the Honourable Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain the founder secretary of Unity Technical Institute Society and Unity Degree College. All of them were wise people and original thinkers, and not just educated people – as is generally understood from the word ‘educated’ by many.
We felt the need of an organisation – under the patronage of Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza, the illustrious son of Honourable Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain – separately and exclusively concentrating on providing platform to people where scholars and learned thinkers from different walks of life interact with young men and women so as to quicken the seeds of wisdom into their minds, while the original organisation the Unity Technical Institute Society concentrates on its noble goal of providing technical and job oriented education to people from the weaker sections of the society. Thus, Lucknow Educational And Development Trust (LEAD Trust) came into being in October 2015.
Under the visionary guidance of Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza as also of Dr. B. N. Singh within a short span of six months of its existence the Trust has the following achievements to its credit:
Organised Kisan Goshthi (Farmers’ Meet) at Unity Girls School at Village: Sidhnath, Asiwan, Mianganj Unnao, in which Prof. B. N. Singh guided farmers about cultivation of wheat and rice and answered their queries.
Helped in free distribution of biofortified wheat seeds to some farmers on trial basis under HarvestPlus programme by Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur.
Published the book “ Tighteneing Noose of Poverty ” by Masood Rezvi, which is available in Large Font Edition and Abridged Edition both in paperback and Kindle format, internationally on Amazon.
Is holding the seminar Growth with Justice and has published this book which is again available both in paperback format and in Kindle format, internationally on Amazon.
This seminar is first in the series. We will be organizing such seminars biennially in addition to workshops, conferences and brain storming sessions on relevant contemporary sub themes and issues. We will be encouraging younger generation to think and write, almost any genre, from books of scientific and technical utility to, novels, short stories, poems and all will give them debut by publishing their work and ensuring it global distribution.
We will be working for technology transfer to farmers and artisans and encourage innovative developmental technology for Growth and Development of the economically marginalized classes, without any discrimination whatsoever.
We, definitely invite you, ladies and gentlemen to support us generously through purchasing our publications, subscribing to our events, writing for us, inviting us to hold such events in your town city or village, inviting others to join and donating to us for building our own financial base if you so desire.
With these words I thank you very much for your support without taking more time to let you get immersed in the wisdom of all the thinkers and writers who are presenting their papers in the seminar.
Growth and Justice are the two fundamental necessities of the human society. The impetus for growth is an insatiable instinct of the human race and perhaps the most fundamental drive which distinguishes it from all other known forms of life. The desire to grow has been the fuel for the engine which has brought us to this stage of developmental supremacy over all other living creatures From the primitive nomads not much different from chimpanzees, we have grown to a stage where we are capable of listening to the birth-cries of a black hole far, far away in the fathomless universe which took place million years ago.
In this journey however, we have reached to a juncture, where we all must address a few fundamental questions. And the most basic of these questions will be - whether our growth can be called a healthy growth? A very common lay-man analogy will perhaps clarify the seriousness of the question. If we see a pot- bellied young child gaining weight very fast, but not growing the limbs and other organs proportionately, and who is in a habit of messing up and soiling his own living room, destroying the furniture and breaking the window panes, will we say that the child is healthy? No, never! Without any medical examination, even the most ordinary onlooker will tell that the poor child has become unhealthy physically and mentally.
Some recent reports disturbingly tell that the gains of the human race have now becoming comparable to the plight of that sick child.
There have been reports and claims, and of course which can be observed even by a common person, that the distribution of resources is becoming very heavily lopsided. It has been reported that 50% of the world resources are being owned and controlled by only 1% of the population while the other 99% of the population is making itself content with the remaining 50% of the resources only. There are also reports that, not an ordinary doomsayer or a clergy, but a scientist of the stature of Prof. Stephen Hawking has prophesied that the planet earth is going to be destroyed within a couple of centuries! Brother Masood Rezvi has dwelt upon the subject passionately in his recent book “ Tightening Noose of Poverty ” published by the LEAD Trust.
The situation clearly calls upon for an immediate attention on distributive justice. The law-framers, the judiciary, the academia, the technocrats, the urban planners and developers, the rural experts, the media, the bureaucracy, and of all, we the people; must seriously work towards a reliable standard of Growth with Justice. Distributive justice has to be ensured on legal front, economic front, sociological front, educational front and technological front etc, for a long term survival, development and well-being of the human species.
This seminar is a joint effort by the LEAD Trust, Unity Degree College and Justice Murtaza Husain Educational Welfare Trust in this regard. I congratulate the organizers, the Trustees, the Principal and faculty members of Unity Degree College for collecting an impressive galaxy of experts, thinkers, academicians and practitioners in different relevant fields to brainstorm on the subject and wish that this effort will not end with this seminar but will continue for the times to come. I am sure this humble effort will go as a mile-stone in the annals of the history of growth with justice.
