Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 29: A three-day workshop on “Scholarly Writing and Plagiarism: Key Concerns”, by Department of Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour (HRM&OB), began today at Central University Jammu.
Prof Devanand, Vice Chancellor of CUJ, formally inaugurated the workshop and highlighted the issues that need to be deliberated upon during the workshop and for envisioning an Anti-Plagiarism Cell that would help in curbing the menace of Plagiarism. He further stated that CUJ aims to become center of excellence in research for its societal and applicative relevance.
Prof K L Chopra (Padma Shri), former Director IIT-Kharagpur, Honorary Professor IIT Delhi and Bhubaneshwar and an expert on anti-plagiarism, addressed the gathering regarding Ethical Responsibility in research and highlighted academic corruption prevailing in the institutions of higher learning and its disastrous fall out on lowering the academic standards. He suggested different ways how willful indulgence in plagiarism could be avoided so that human competencies could be leveraged for genuine research outcome for the lasting welfare of the societies living in a globalized era.
Earlier, Prof Aima, Head of the Department of HRM & OB, informed that the workshop would address to the problem of data manipulation and plagiarism.
Resource persons for the workshop included Prof Hardeep Chahal, HoD, Dept of Commerce, JU and Dr Kakali Majumdar from SMVDU. They conducted the sessions during the day 1 of the workshop. Scholars and faculty from Panjab University, Aligarh Muslim University, BGBSU Rajouri, University of Jammu, University of Kashmir, LPU Jalandhar, and Central University of Jammu are the participants of the workshop.
Dr Jaya Bhasin, Associate Professor, formally welcomed all the guests and the participants and also informed that Thomson Reuters provided the research material for the workshop.
The inaugural function was conducted by Anjali Pathania and Asif Ali proposed the formal vote of thanks.
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