St. Aloysius College inaugurates 2-day seminar on sustainable development

St. Aloysius College inaugurates 2-day seminar on sustainable development

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Oct 18, 2011: Delivering the inaugural address at the inauguration ceremony of Samprapthi 2011, a 2-day national seminar on sustainable development organized by Department of MSW of St. Aloysius College in its Eric Mathaias Hall on Oct 18 Tuesday, Dr. H. Sudarshan, the director of Karuna Trust and VGKK Bangalore said that the country requires good governance, not governments that loot its natural resources. 

Lamenting that corruption exists right from the GPs to the Legislative Assembly, he said that political leaders are today involved in looting the people. 

Principal Fr. Swebert D’Silva SJ said that social development is stunted when people become greedy and focus only on their benefits.

Dr. G. V. Joshi, the professor of economics at JKSHIM Nitte, presented a paper titled “Economic Development: Enduring or Inclining?” during the first session. He said that there is no universally applicable model or theory of development owing to which economic growth and development still remain a bit of a mystery.

Suggesting that one has to learn from different theories without accepting any of them in toto, he said that there is no clear way to eradicate poverty. Speaking on the need to rethink development economics, he said that development and growth are subjective phenomenon.

Citing an empirical study dated 2009, he said that it indicates that countries such as India, Cambodia, Philippines, and Mongolia form a category in which economic growth has failed to assist the poor. He said that economic growth and development should be pro-poor, fair, just, environment friendly, and employment oriented and not rootless, ruthless, futureless, and voiceless. Policy measures to make economic development sustaining and enduring is the need of the hour, he pointed out.