Seminar @ Berhampore Girls? College

With pleasure I would like to inform you that Berhampore Girls' College, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal, are organizing a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on " Women Empowerment & Rural Development: Role of Microfinance" on 23rd & 24th November, 2013 (Saturday & Sunday) organized by department of Economics and Political Science. Speakers from various disciplines will enrich us by their valuable lectures.

In this context, I request you to contribute a paper in the seminar and make it successful. Selected papers will be published  in our edited volume with  ISBN.

*Details regarding perspective of the seminar, submission of paper , registration, accomodation are  given below.*

For any other information please call me .

With best wishes,

*Subhasree Chakraborty*

*Convenor, *

*Seminar Organizing Committee*

*Berhampore Girls' College*

*9432938340*

[email protected]

[email protected]

College at a Glance
Berhampore Girls' college was established in 1946. It is the first government sponsored girls' college in the state of West Bengal. The
institution was founded by Smt. Amiya Rao, an eminent scholar and wife of the then District Collector, Sri B.G. Rao, as a seat for the advancement of women's education and upliftment. Today the college strives to uphold its proud heritage and continues to pursue its objective to spread higher education among the girl students and inculcate in them the spirit of freedom, both economic and social. It is hoped that the students of this college will be able to live up to the motto of the institution*-' Sa Vidyaya Bimuktaye'*, which means ' That is proper education which gives freedom'.
Berhampore Girls' College is affiliated to the University of Kalyani and it is located in the heart of Berhampore town. The college is a grant-in-aid government funded institute. It offers Honours and General courses in science and humanities with a total number of seventeen departments. The college also offers several support services, such as a central library, several seminar( departmental) libraries, a computer centre, a health centre, sport facilities, Common-room, canteen, Hostels, Housing for the staff, a grievance redressal cell, NCC,NSS unit etc. The students of the college have proven their mettle over the years and have made the college
proud by their activities.

*Perspective*

Since 1990's women have been identified as key agent of sustainable development. Women's equality & empowerment are seen as central for holistic approach towards establishing new patterns, processes & policies for the sustainable development. The most popular version of empowerment provides ample room for participation in decision making and implementation of development programmes by women. Women's participation at grassroots level is increasingly recognised as crucial to the betterment of women. Hence, the major thrust as well as focus of development theory and practice during the last couple of decades has been on Women's participation and empowerment. Also, the World Bank has suggested that empowerment of women should be a key aspect of all social development programmes (World Bank
2001). Millennium Development Goal (2008) also considered gender equality and women empowerment as one of the major development goal.

Microfinance is globally recognised as an effective instrument to address poverty and women empowerment which are key to rural development. Microfinance is not a mere financial instrument but a powerful tool for development to address multiple dimensions of poverty by addressing the issue of health, education, gender and environment. The experience across India and other countries has shown a robust potential of Microfinance to integrate with the development issues thereby significantly impacting the lives of poor.

In this perspective,objective of the proposed seminar is to provide a common platform for academicians, group members, practioner and policy makers to discuss the issues and challenges of microfinance in fosteringwomen empowerment ad rural development.

*Major Sub-Themes*

Ø  Women empowerment , rural development and self- help groups.

Ø  Microfinance, women empowement, rural development and the Panchayati Raj
Institutions.

Ø  Role of SHPIs in empowering women.

Ø  Rural development and innovations in microfinance programmes.

Ø  Role of MFIs in rural development and women empowerment.

Ø  Microfinance, women entrprenuership and rural development.

Ø  Microfinance and sustainable agriculture.

Ø  Sustainibility issues of SHGs.

Ø  Globalization, microfinance and rural development.

Ø  Microfinance, poverty eradiaction and natural resource management.



*Submission of paper*

Abstract  (within 300 words) and full paper (within 5000words) should besend to any of the following id

[email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]

Important Dates (Revised)

Last  date of submission of Abstract:  12th November, 2013

Last date of submission of Full paper : 20th  November,2013

Hard copy of the full paper should be submitted at the time of presentation.

Paper size-A4, Font size-12, Font- Times New Roman, Line spacing-Double, Margin- Nomal with gutter size-0.3

*Registration*

Teachers and scholars who are willing to participate in the seminar are requested to conform their participation by sending properly filled up
*Registration
Form *alongwith Registration Fee by Account payee cheque or demand draft drawn in favour of  'Principal, Berhampore Girls' College' payable at Berhampore, Murshidabad, on or before  November 17, 2013. In special circumstances, registration fees in cash will also be accepted. For this participants should contact the convenors on or before 16th November, 2013. Registration forms can be downloaded from the college website. *No TA/DA & other allowances will be provided for participating in the seminar.*

Registration Fees:
For Participants Rs.500/-
For Research Scholars Rs.300/-
For Students Rs. 150/-

*Registration Form*

UGC Sponsored National Seminar on *Women Empowerment and Rural development:*

* Role of Microfinance* 23rd &24th November, 2013
Venue: Berhampore Girls' College



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NB: Xerox copy of this form is allowed

*Accommodation:*

The accommodation to the outstation participants will be arranged only on request and for this the participants must inform to the Organizing Committee before 10 days of the seminar. The expenses of accommodation will be met up by the participants.



*Location of the College:*

The college is located at a distance of 200 km from Kolkata, West Bengal. The college is reachable both by bus and train. Sealdah  -Lalgola
passenger, Bhagirathi Express, Hazarduari Express, BPC-KOAA Express and other local trains run at regular intervals through *Berhampore Court Station*. Few trains can be availed from Howrah and/or Siliguri station which run through *Khagraghat Road Station*, nearly 3km away from the college. Bus services can be availed from Kolkata and Siliguri to reach the college.

*Details of the seminar will be available in the college website: *
*www.berhamporegirlscollege.org* <http://www.berhamporegirlscollege.org/>