Salesian seminar focusses on N Bengal

SNS, Siliguri, 21 November 2014: The department of Political Science, Salesian College, Siliguri campus, today kicked off a two-day national seminar on ‘Re-imagining the Human-Nature Relationship,’ focusing north Bengal. The Indian Council of Social Science Research is sponsoring the programme. 

Prof Somnath Ghosh, Vice Chancellor of North Bengal University, Prof TB Subba, Vice Chancellor of Sikkim University, Prof V Xaxa, Deputy director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, Fr Shaji Joseph, Rector, Salesian College, Sonada, Fr Mathew Pulingathil, Rector Siliguri Campus, Prof George Thadathil, Principal Salesian College, Fr James Chako, Vice Principal Siliguri Campus, seminar secretary Biju Matthew and other personalities in the educational field jointly inaugurated the seminar by lighting a lamp. 

Salesian College has invited several personalities, including Milindo Chakraborty of the Sharada University in Delhi, and experts from different universities, including Calcutta University and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and colleges of north Bengal and the northeast, for the seminar. 

The college has decided to focus on migration in north Bengal, a study of the squatter settlements in Siliguri, the present housing scenario, potentiality of future growth, catfish of the Teesta river in Darjeeling Himalayas--their prospects and threats, study of cottage industries in Kalimpong, sustainable tourism in West Bengal and lower Assam, disaster and management planning in north Bengal, a saga of Darjeeling under colonial dispensation, and prosperous Jalpaiguri: Can forests contribute?