Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 22: The two-day collaborative international conference on “Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Post-COVID-19 World: Regional Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options”, organized by Department of Economics in collaboration with the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, and the Indian Council of Social Science Research, North Western Regional Centre, Punjab University, Chandigarh concludes today at University of Jammu.
In the valedictory function, Prof Rahul Gupta, Registrar, JU, was the chief guest, while Prof Dalip Kumar from Department of Economics, Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi was the guest of honour. The key note speech on the topic ‘Synergy of Skill Development in India: The Imperative for Abating Poverty and Income Inequalities in Consonance with the Spirit of Sustainable Development Goals’ was delivered by Prof Vikram Chadha, former Professor and Head, Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab.
Prof Sunita Devi Sharma, HoD Economics, presented the welcome remarks while the conference convener Prof Falendra Kumar presented the conference’s report, Prof Jasbir Singh, the Conference Coordinator, discussed about the significance of this collaborative conference, Dr Manoj Bhatt, presented the vote of thanks and Dr Shallu Sehgal conducted the proceedings.
Earlier, on the second day of the conference, the four parallel sessions were conducted in which more than sixty well researched papers related to SDGs were presented on various topics
The main speakers include Prof Asmi Raza, Prof Virender Koundal, Dr Jamil Ahmad, Dr Vishal, Dr Sunita Bishnoi, Dr Ramesh Kumar, Dr Aman Kumari, Ritika Sharma, Dr Juhi Kohli, Dr Bhawna Sharma, Prof Jasbir Singh, Dr Balwant Mehta, Dr Dastgir Alam, Dr Vidyarthi Vikas, Dr Tsering Yangzom, Dr Randeep Kaur, Skattar Singh, Dr Priyanka Gaur, Dr Amandeep, Dr Rinnie Mahajan, Dr Pragati Jain, Dr Anjali Ahuja, Dr Subah Singh Yadav, Dr Rashi Tuggar, Dr Meenakshi Gupta, Dr Shaveta Kohli, Dr Roshan Ara, Reetika Gupta, Dr Priti Bali, Dr Mamta Rani, Dr Reenu Sharma, Dr Sushma Sharma, Prof Prakash Chand Antahal, Dr Manoj Bhatt, Dr Shallu Sehgal, Dr Neelam Choudhary, Ojasva Vyas, Adhinayak Kaparwan, Nidhi Dwivedi, Anjali Sharma, Vibhuti Sharma, Mohseen Hussain, Sofia Aslam, and Wasim Akram.
More than 100 participants across the States and Union Territories of India attended the brain storming sessions on the various conference themes.
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