Secularism in India has been a terrain of intense contestation in the last few years and is perhaps an idea in need for further and newer conceptualisations. Critiquing earlier formulations of democracy and secularism, Prof. Ajay Gudavarathy spoke about his new edited volume Sectarian Secularism: Limits of Subaltern Politics. The book argues that secular politics in India has not been able to challenge sectarianism in India because it lacks a political imagination that resonates on the ground. His talk therefore, provoked the audience to think about challenging the rise of the Right, not through current articulations of secularism, minority-ism and Left politics but instead to reinvent the language and practice of an alternate politics of fraternity.
Prof. Ajay Gudavarthy, is Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before joining JNU, he held teaching positions in NLSIU, NUJS and ISEC. He writes extensively on Indian politics, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Movements, Postcolonial Theory, and Civil Society. His books include Politics of Post Civil-Society (2013), Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation (2014) and his latest and much acclaimed book, India and Modi: Populism and the Right (2018).
The Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, National Law School of India University, Bangalore is organising a National Webinar Series on the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 Rules and Regulations.
THE WEBINAR
The Consumer Protection Act, 2019, came into force on 20th & 24th July, 2020 (two different dates for different sets of provisions of the Act) replacing the 33 year old Consumer Protection Act. 1986. The new Act strengthened the legal and policy framework towards achieving the avowed object of better protection of Consumer in India.
This webinar series will address analysis of CPA, 2019, Rules and Regulations specifically concentrating on New Chapters like Central Consumer Protection Authority, Mediation, Product Liability & provision relating to E-commerce and Misleading Advertisements. The webinar series will also analyse comparison between CPA 2019 and CPA 1986 Act.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
The webinar series is open to Consumer Activists, NGOs, Academicians, Practitioners, Researchers, Government officials, Members of Regulatory Authorities, Students and all those who are interested in consumer welfare.
E-Certificate will be awarded to the registered participants who attend all the sessions of the 6 Days National Webinar through zoom platform and submit feedback form provided on the concluding day of the programme.
Platform: ZOOM (Register to receive meeting Details)
Last date of Registration: 20th August, 2020 before 5 p.m.
Registration Fee: Free
Note: The non-registered participants may also view through Facebook Page & Youtube. Registration Link: https://forms.gle/X4ax5pbTsAdufjk8A
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ABOUT THE CHAIR ON CONSUMER LAW AND PRACTICE (CLAP):
In the Indian history for the first time the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice (CLAP) has been established in August 2008, by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi at National Law School of India University, Bangalore to promote research, teaching and training in Consumer Law and Practice. The Chair on Consumer Law and Practice is acting as a “Think Thank” for the Research and Policy related issues on Consumer Law and Practice. The Chair has also developed curriculum on Consumer Welfare Laws as a distinct subject of study both at Under Graduate & Post Graduate levels and is imparting to the students in law at NLSIU. The Chair has organised various seminars, workshops and training programs to Advocates, NGO’s, Government officers, Academicians etc., to bring awareness on consumer protection laws. This webinar series is a step towards accomplishing the aim of this initiative.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Prof. Dr. Ashok R Patil
Chair Professor
Chair on Consumer Law and Practice,
National law School of India University, Bangalore
Mr. Akshay Baburao Yadav
Teaching Associate
National Law School of India University, Bangalore
CONTACT DETAILS:
Contact Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, National Law School of India University Bangalore via email: or mob: +918722522886
The MPP Student Council is organising a webinar on ‘Effectively using Public Data to strengthen governance – Experience of Factly and the growing fact-checking phenomena.’
Speaker – Rakesh Dubbudu
Rakesh Dubbudu is an experienced RTI campaigner and founder of Factly a platform that strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using high-value government records at the center, state, and local body levels.
Themes to be discussed in webinar:
The speaker’s insights on the utility of data as a public good, and the ways in which better public engagement can be achieved with the government data.
Skills required to see through data and decide fact from fiction
Career opportunities in the fact-checking space
The speaker’s experiences regarding Factly and the fact-checking phenomenon.
Vlogging series: Felipe Castro Quiles vlogs on AI Policy Exchange
‘How to put AI ethics into practice?’ – If this question interests you, then make sure to check out the ‘Expert Vlogging Series’ by the AI Policy Exchange. This topic is the first of many to be discussed as part of the series that will feature experts addressing some of the hardest questions confronting governance of artificially intelligent technologies.
AI Policy Exchange is the brainchild of a group of graduate students of the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
The series will feature vlogs from a technical or policy expert at the Exchange on a common question. The first vlog features Felipe Castro Quiles, a deep tech entrepreneur and Co-founder & CEO at Emerging Rule, an edtech public benefit corporation researching and developing AI for digital education. Watch the vlog here: https://cutt.ly/XumSPqL
Why AI ethics?
The Policy Exchange said: “The question arises from findings by public policy and ethics researchers who claim that AI ethics principles & guidelines, proposed by various public bodies and private groups in their current form, likely have a negligible effect on the safe development, deployment, and use of artificially intelligent technologies.”
More about Felipe Castro Quiles:
Felipe is also Co-founder & CEO at GENIA Latinoamérica, an organization harnessing the power of machine learning to connect Latin America to a regional matrix of AI R&D. Felipe holds specializations in deep learning and virtual teaching, is Fellow at Singularity University in Silicon Valley, Member at NVIDIA AI Inception, and currently serves in Forbes Artificial Intelligence Executive Advisory Board and Virtual Educa Connect Advisory Board.
National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore
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Savitri Phule Ambedkar Caravan, NLSIU
Tuesday, April 14th 2020
1800 hrs to 2000 hrs (IST)
The Covid 19 pandemic and the responses to it, including movement restrictions and suspension of ‘non-essential’ economic activities have proved devastating for India’s vulnerable, impoverished population. The worst hit in this pandemic, are small producers, vendors, daily wage labourers and small farmers. Movement restrictions have resulted in loss of business for vendors and small producers, small and marginal farmers are unable to market their produce, leading to severe forms of food insecurity and widespread hunger. It is to be noted that big companies and aggregators involved in supply of essential commodities are allowed to operate and the absence of such formal structures have kept poor people deprived of such opportunities. Special benefits announced by central and state governments are yet to reach them and in the meanwhile the poor communities especially those in remote and rural areas are facing a humanitarian crisis. Studies have shown that most such people have been subjected to multiple deprivations owing to not only their economic but social status as well.
Caste and religion have always played a major role in determining and realising the right to food. Historical deprivations and discrimination are multiplied in the wake of crisis and shortage of food supply. For socially marginalised groups, dependence on welfare schemes increases multifold because of the lack of livelihood opportunities. However, with COVID 19 pandemic even the entitlements are not getting realised leaving these marginalized groups reeling under severe hunger. At the Central and State level, support measures and welfare packages have been announced for the impoverished population to survive the pandemic, however, immediate implementation of such provisions remains a challenge. Closure of service delivery centres such as Anganwadi centres, Schools and Fair Price Shops or the challenges in reaching those centres, have endangered not only household level food security but have also resulted in blatant violation of right to food for children, children from marginalised social groups being most affected.
It is in this context that National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is organising a Webinar on April 14th 2020, Ambedkar Jayanti, with a view to highlight the violation of right to food for marginalised social groups.
Specific objectives of the Webinar are:
To analyse the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on socially vulnerable populations with a focus on historically disadvantaged communities, women and children from low-income households, especially small farmers, vendors, casual/migrant workers in terms of their right to food and nutrition.
To understand the specific challenges on the ground and brainstorm on the immediate and strategic interventions to be made to support these communities realise their right to food.
To explore strategies to improve or supplement access to food and social security measures, through engagement with the community, civil society and the state.
Target Audience
Civil Society Organizations
Community Leaders and Workers’ representatives
Students and Academics
Details:
Webinar Speakers:
Shri Harsh Mander, Delhi
Ms Kavita Srivastav, PUCL, Rajasthan
Dr Dipa Sinha, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Sylvia Karpagam, Public Health Doctor
Dr Ujjaini Halim, IMSE, West Bengal
Shri Haldhar Mahto, Jharkhand State Food Commission
The ‘Southern Tilt’ in the Urban: Embedded Wisdom and Cultural Specificity as Pathways to Planning – A Joint Conference of the Institute of Public Policy and URBAM (EAFIT University, Medellín) funded by Urban Studies Foundation, UK.
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on “Cities of Indus Civilization: New Perspectives” by Nayanjot Lahiri.
About the talk:
Chaired by historian, archaeologist, and professor of History, Nayanjot Lahiri, this edition of the public lecture series looks to the nuances of the Indus Valley Civilization, and how the study of our past informs our understanding of contemporary sociopolitical circumstances.
Professor Nayanjot Lahiri is the winner of the 2013 Infosys Prize, in the humanities, for her work in archaeology and the 2016 awardee of the John F. Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India
