Scientists, spiritualists and philosophers will attend the meet on 'Science and Jain Philosophy', being organised by Bhagwan Mahavira International Research Centre of Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, Rajasthan, at IIT-Bombay from January 8, a statement by the institute said here today.
It is being organised in collaboration with IIT-Bombay and University of Mumbai.
Former Supreme Court Judge and a member of International Court of Justice, Dalveer Bhandari, would inaugurate the conference while Union Minister Harsh Vardhan is a special invitee at the event, it said.
"The challenge is to seek truth by convergence of a spectrum of methods and diverse disciplines," it added.
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K P Mishra, a former scientist of BARC and Director of the conference said, scientists and philosophers from the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, the Netherlands, South Korea and Sri Lanka besides those from India have been invited to deliver lectures and take part in panel discussions.
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The release quoted former director of TISS, Guwahati, Prof Virginius Xaxa as saying, "how we take tribal lives and livelihoods and then do patchwork by offering them benefits like reservations. He said that governance is skewed against them because once their lands are taken away they have nowhere to go and nothing to start their lives with."
Maitreyi Bordia Das, World Bank's 'Global Lead for Social Inclusion', said that Himachal has done extremely well in social indicators largely due to land reforms which ensure equitable ownership of land among all classes.
Ajit Jha of India Today group presented the findings of a district level analysis done by India today.
According to the district level data analysis done for Jharkhand, education and health appeared to be the most important parameters for a state's development.
Alakh Sharma, director, IHD New Delhi said that building good governance institutions is the most important task so that development programmes survive changes in government.
Harivansh, Member Rajya Sabha, invoked the importance of ethics and morality in governance - "which has been declining over time", the release said.