Registration Fee: TA/DA and Hospitality: There is no registration fee for paper presenters. We will provide local hospitality at guest house of University. Kindly Teacher Participants without paper presentation = Rs. 1000 inform your travel plan so that accommodation can be arranged accordingly. TA/DA is applicable as per UGC and Research Students without paper presentation = Rs.300 rules. TA/DA will not be applicable for co-author. Please book your Registration : One hour before the inaugural session of seminar return ticket in advance. We request you to travel by Rail II AC in the Department of Sociology, Shivaji University, preferably 3 Tire. In case it is not available, you can travel by 2 at 9 a.m on 09/03/2018. Tire. Please note that you will have to produce original tickets and ...... xeroxed copies of your tickets for clearance of your TA bill from the University administration. The name of Kolhapur railway Station is Advisory Committee: changed as “Chatrapati Shahu Maharaja Terminus Kolhapur”. All Prof. (Dr.) Devanand Shinde other technical programme details will be made available at the time Hon’ble Vice- Chancellor, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. of registration. Above mentioned requirements are the SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY Prof. (Dr.) D. T. Shirke administrative requirements of Shivaji University, Please co-operate Pro-Vice- Chancellor, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. with us in this regard also. Kindly confirm your participation. KOLHAPUR (MS) INDIA Prof. (Dr.) D. V. Nandavadekar Registrar, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. All Correspondence to be sent electronically to: Department of Sociology, [email protected] Prof. (Dr.) M.N. Panini, For Official Correspondence, kindly contact Mysuru (Karnataka) National Seminar UGC Nominee, SAP Advisory On Prof. (Dr.) P. G. Jogdand, Dr. Pralhad Mane Mumbai () ‘ISSUES IN POVERTY AND (Seminar Director) UGC Nominee, SAP Advisory Assistant Professor, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN INDIA’ ...... Department of Sociology, Under Seminar Organizing Committee: Shivaji University,Kolhapur-416004 UGC-SAP-DRS –Phase-III Name Designation Committee Phone-office-0231-2609367, 2609239 position Mobile: 7972762277/9860966260 th th Dr. Jagan Karade Professor and Head, President 09 -10 March, 2018 Department of Sociology and Coordinator of Important Dates UGC-SAP-DRS-Phase-III. Last Date of abstract submission: 25th, January, 2018 ...... Venue ...... Dr. R. B. Patil Retired Professor, Member Notification of selected abstract: 30th, January, 2018 PI, MRP-UGC th Humanities Auditorium Hall, Full Paper Submission: 25 , Feruary, 2018 Dr. Pratima Pawar Associate Professor Member National Seminar: 09th and 10th March, 2018 Shivaji University, Kolhapur. Dr. Pratibha Desai Assistant Professor Member Dr. Pralhad Mane Assistant Professor Seminar Director ...... The information regarding National Seminar can see on university website also: www.unishivaji.ac.in

To, About Shivaji University: Kolhapur and Pune is 250 km away from Kolhapur. Private bus 2. Causes of Poverty and Social Inequalities and their impact on Shivaji University, established in 1962, is named after the Great service is also available to reach Kolhapur from Mumbai, Pune, Indian Society Maratha Warrior and founder of the Maratha empire Chhatrapati Goa, Solapur and Bangalore. 3. Caste, Class, Gender and Religion based Poverty and Social Shivaji. It was inaugurated on 18th November, 1962 by Dr. Tourist Places/Prime Attractions in : Inequalities in India Radhakrishnan, the then President of India. One of the major Mahalaxmi Temple, Panahala Fort, , , objectives behind foundation of this University was to cater to the ,New Palace, , Town Hall, Khasbag 4. Contribution of Social reformers and various movements for regional needs of South Maharashtra. The jurisdiction of the Maidan/Akhada (Kushti Ground), Binkhambi Ganesh Temple, bringing social equality and social justice in Indian society. University is spread over three districts viz. Kolhapur, and Tryamboli Temple, , Kolhapuri Saaj (jewelry) 5. Role of Government and NGOs for eradicating Poverty and Satara with strength of about 3,00,000 students studying in 280 etc. affiliated colleges and recognised institutes. This region of About the Seminar Social Inequalities in Tribal, Rural and Urban Society in India. Maharashtra boasts of rich and varied socio-cultural heritage. The UN summit on sustainable development goals (17 SDGs) are 6. Constitutional safeguards for eradicating Poverty and Social Under the innovative and socially reformist leadership of a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN Inequalities. Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, the princely ruler of Kolhapur, the member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and 7. Poverty, Social Inequality and Unorganised Sector. city had become at the beginning of this century, a focal point of political policies over the next 15 years (upto 2030) for transform educational opportunities for all classes and communities of the world. The first and foremost important goal is that ending 8. Poverty and Environmental issues in India South-Western Maharashtra, and northern parts of neighbouring poverty in all its forms everywhere and the goal tenth is that Instructions for Submitting Abstract: Karnataka. Shivaji University has been re-accredited by National reduce inequality within and among countries. In the light of this On behalf of organizing committee, I request you to contribute Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Bangalore, with two goals about Indian context, the problem of poverty and social your paper in any one of the above themes and participate in the “A” Grade (CGPA-3.16) (2014) and bagged the 28th (2015) inequalities has long history. After, 75 years of Independence, seminar. position in the rankings announced by the NIRF of Union India has made great progress with significant social, industrial, 1. One abstract should be submitted by each participant. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). educational, agricultural and economic developments and the 2. The abstract should include Introduction, Methodology, Core About Sociology Department: country is now much closer to self-sufficient than ever before. part, Conclusion, including title, author(s) Institution(s), if The Department of Sociology was established in the Shivaji Alleviation of poverty has been the major task of all policies and any acknowledgment with maximum 500 words. University, Kolhapur during the academic year 1970-71. Right planning. Nevertheless, poverty and social inequalities are still a 3. Type the title in upper case letters, the names of the authors from the establishment of the department, it is actively engaged major phenomenon in India, largely a result of deep-rooted social and their addresses in lower case and underline the name of in teaching, research, MoUs, extention activity as well as and economic structures that perpetuate privilege and limit the the presenting author. organizing state and national seminars. This department is the opportunities for poor. 4. Paper should be in Microsoft Word, Use Times New Roman first regional department in Maharashtra State who has The problem of poverty and social inequalities are the national and font size 12 in 1.5 line spacing in window 2007 or 2010. successfully oragnised ISS Conference in 1997. Over the years the problems being tackled by welfare measures by the government 5. Send soft copy of abstract as an attachment file to the email id: th department has grown large in terms of academic and research and constitution of India. Poverty is a social phenomenon which [email protected] on or before 25 , January, 2018, th activities, infrastructural development, expansion of faculty and denotes that a section of the society is not able to fulfill even its notification of selected abstract upto 30 , January, 2018 and send th brining out M. Phil. and Ph.D. students. At present four faculty basic necessities of life. In India since long we found poverty and copy of full paper on or before 25 February, 2018. members and two non-teaching staff are working in the social inequalities based on caste, class, gender, religion etc. 6. The reference style should be followed as per Sociological department. There is close association between the poverty and social bulletin. In 1994-95 UGC has sanctioned a resource centre for Sociology of inequalities in the social life. At present near about 27 million 7. Bring the soft and hard copy of abstract and full paper at the environment. With due recognition of the earlier achievements people live below the poverty line. Why such issues are found in time of Seminar. of the Department, department has been identified by the UGC free India even after seven decades? Why the poverty and social 8. All research papers should be in English language only. under UGC- SAP-DRS-Phase-I with the thrust area of Sociology of inequalities are increasing? Why the failure of present policies 9. Papers presented in Seminar will be published in ISBN Book. Development and Environment in 2004-05. After successfully and poverty alleviation programmes? All such problems need to completionn of two phases in 2015-16, Department has entered be probed, discussed and argued in the interest of nation building in the UGC- SAP-DRS- Phase III receiving the Grant of Rs. 72 in the wake of globalizing world and to achieve UN Sustainable Lakhs. The Department of Sociology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur Development Goals. is the second department in the subject of Sociology in the In the light of above, the present proposed National Seminar Maharashtra State, who has entered in the III Phase of UGC-SAP. entitled “Issues in Poverty and Social Inequalities in India” will be focusing on following areas; About Kolhapur City: Sub-themes of the seminar Kolhapur city is situated on Mumbai-Bangalore Highway, 450 km 1. Poverty and Social Inequalities in India: Conceptual/ away from Mumbai and 600 km away from Bangalore. Kolhapur Theoretical Perspectives city is well connected with road and rail facilities. Nearest airport to Kolhapur is Belgaum and Pune. Belgaum is 150 km away from