Bhubaneswar : Shri B. K. Sinha, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India delivered the 5th Foundation Day Lecture of KIIT School of Rural Management. His talk focused on the extreme disparities within India and how various rural development schemes are striving to combat these disparities. He advised the budding rural managers from KSRM to strive to bridge the governance and management deficit by their work in the development sector and the government. His talk also dwelt on the revolutionary potential of Information Technology in the arena of rural development.
In his welcome address, Dr. A Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS explained how KSRM was founded with the guidance and inspiration from Dr. Varghese Kurien, the father of India’s White Revolution.
Prof. L. K. Vaswani, Director, KSRM said that the school is unique in terms of promoting students research to build its knowledge base and feed the same into its curriculum. The Student’s Research Compendium-Kaleidoscope 3, containing details of field projects undertaken by students with support of more than 200 partner organization, was released on the occasion. KSRM also released its Working Paper Series.
Prof. A. S. Kolaskar, Vice-Chancellor, KIIT University said KSRM acts as a link between the KIIT University and the social service oriented KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences). Prof. Prasun Das proposed vote of thanks. Foundation stone of KSRM was laid on 20th November, 2006 by Dr. Kurien. Foundation Day Lecture Series was instituted to honour entrepreneurs, practitioners and policy makers in the field of rural development and governance.
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