Jharkhand CM to ship lecture on tribal rights at Harvard

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will ship a keynote lecture on “tribal rights, sustainable development and welfare policies in Jharkhand” just about throughout the 18th annual “India Conference” at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to be held from February 19 to 21, 2021.According to the official Twitter deal with of the workplace of the chief minister, Soren has accepted the invitation despatched to him on Friday.“The Chief Minister has accepted the invitation and thanked the organisers. He will be speaking on tribal rights, sustainable development and welfare policies in Jharkhand,” the tweet learn. The tweet additionally hooked up an image of the invitation, despatched to the chief minister on Friday, in search of his consent to be part of the “India Conference” as a speaker on a keynote panel.“India Conference” is the biggest student-run assembly in North America specializing in India and one of many world’s main boards for dialogue, debate, and networking round points pertaining to modern India.Suraj Yengde, a PhD scholar and senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, despatched the invitation letter, saying his work, specifically, has been of eager curiosity “to most of us as you merged a proud tribal indigenous politics with a development agenda…for strengthening of democracy that is locked in caste and feudalistic nepotism”.“We are looking to have Hemant in the chief ministers’ panel virtually to discuss on the issues of governance, state-centre relations, handling of Covid-19 and the intersections of caste and tribal identities in the current politics,” the letter learn.