Livelihood and Social Enterprises

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School of Liberal Arts, Uttaranchal University organized a guest lecture which was delivered by Dr Razdan Sarin Rahman, Head of Centre for Livelihood and Social Entrepreneurship, School of Social Work, TISS, Guwahati. The topic of the event was ‘Livelihood and Social enterprise.’ Dr Razdan enlightened the audience present in the seminar hall by his insights that he had gained from years of experience in social field working with people for their development. He also shared his past experiences in his field with the students and faculties alike . Through his interactive approach, he motivated students and opened up their minds towards the importance of aptitude required to work in the social development field. The event was followed by a discussion and questionnaire session by students.

The event was duly coordinated by Ms Paridhi Joshi, Assistant Professor, SLA.


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  • Start time: 15 Feb 2024 10:00 PM
  • End time: 16 Feb 2024 01:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
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  • Uttaranchal university preamnagar Dehradun
  • Dehradun, Uttaranchal
  • India 248007
  • Building: seminar hall ,school of liberal arts
  • Room Number: seminar hall
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DR Razdan

Topic:

Livelihood and Social enterprise

India’s economy is growing rapidly and heading toward accelerated growth in the years to
come. The new government has initiated several interventions such as: Make in India
campaign, Digital India, ease of doing business, skill mission, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,
Clean Ganga Mission etc. These initiates would improve investment climate and further
growth. A large section of population are benefitting from this rapid growth. However there
are over 300 and more million poor people who are not adequately benefitted from this
growth. Unfortunately, Growth and development need not be directly correlated and this is
evident from rising inequality in India.
The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) became a dominant paradigm for development
interventions in the 1990s following the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED, more popularly the Brundtland Commission), meeting in 1986 and the
subsequent 

Biography:

 

since 2013, Dr. Rahman has been working as assistant professor at the Guwahati off campus of TISS. He earned his M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2012) from Jamia Millia Islamia's department of social work. He is former Senior Research Fellow of the Indian Council of Medical Research and UGC-NET qualified. He began his professional career with PRADAN and subsequently worked with Sambodhi Research & Communications as a researcher. He has been empaneled as research and training consultant for development organizations such as NIPCCD, UNFPA, NEDFi, and others.