UDHAMPUR, DECEMBER 01: Department of
English, Government Degree College, Udhampur organized two days National
Conference on the topic “ Routing the Rootless Exploring the Literatures of the
Indigenous Cultures”
Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Dr. Asgar
Hassan Samoon was the chief guest, while Dr. B.L Gupta, Controller Examination,
BOPEE was the guest of honour on the occasion.
While addressing the conference Dr. Asgar
Hassan Samoon appreciated the efforts of College
administration for organizing this event and said that the
conference shall come up with insightful suggestions that will go a long
way in shaping the future strategies to be adopted for strengthening the
Social, Economic, and Educational powers of the Marginalized. He underscored the
importance of organizing such events and exhorted upon other
departments also to come up with such initiatives. He said that Indian culture
is a beautiful amalgamation of several cultures and we should preserve our
culture and literatures, for new generations. He asked the College authority to
organize National level Conference in Urdu department in near future also.
Later, the chief guest released a book “Routing
the Rootless Exploring the Literatures of the Indigenous Cultures”.
Earlier, Principal of the College, Dr. S.K
Magotra presented the welcome address and informed that about 100
participants from within and outside of the state are participating in the
conference. About 168 papers will be presented in the two-day National Conference
in parallel sessions at three venues of GDC, Udhampur. He further said that the
main aim is to organizing this event is to create awareness among the students
to preserve our culture.
Among others, Prof.
Kamal Kishore, Prof. B.D. Sehgal, Prof. Anil Khajuria, Dr. Ankush Bharti Prof.
Attri, Prof. Dogra, Prof. Vaid Kumar, Prof. Rakesh Kotwal, Prof. Tania Akhtar,
Coordinator; Prof. Kamaldeep Kaur, Organising Secretary; Prof. Shubhra Jamwal,
Organising Secretary, Dr. Ankush Bharti, Prof. Sanjay Kumar; Prof Ambika; Prof.
Vijay; Prof. Showkat, Prof. Muziffar, students and teaching staff were
present on the occasion.
