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Programme Programme Programme Programme
A Social Mapping of Infrastructure Logistics, and India’s Look East Policy A Social Mapping of Infrastructure Logistics, and India’s Look East Policy A Social Mapping of Infrastructure Logistics, and India’s Look East Policy A Social Mapping of Infrastructure Logistics, and India’s Look East Policy
February 29, 2016 Venue: Sabhaghar 1, Swabhumi 89 C, Maulana AbulKalam Azad Sarani
Kolkata, West Bengal 700054
9.00 AM-9.30 AM: Registration and tea 9.30 AM-11.00 AM: Session 1
Chair: Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
Resources and Infrastructure in the Northeast &India’s Look East and Act East Policy: Ranabir Samaddar & SnehasishMitra
Discussant: Sanjoy Barbora. Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati.
Bangladesh: The Key to India’s Look East– Subir Bhaumik
Discussant: Atig Ghosh Assistant Professor, ViswaBharatiUniversity, Santiniketan
Interrogating Migration in India’s Northeast– Samir K. Purkayastha and Sucharita Sengupta Discussant: MeghnaGuhaThakurtaExecutive Director, Research Initiatives,Bangladesh
11.00 AM-11.30AM: Tea 11.30AM- 1.00 PM: Session 2 Chair: Shyamalendu Majumdar
Kolkata as a Logistic Hub with special reference to the port– Iman Mitra and Mithilesh Kumar Discussant: RitajyotiBandyopadhyay Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
Being Connected: Logistic Visions to the East and West of India- Anita Sengupta Discussants – Binoda Mishra, Director CSIRD, Kolkata
SuchandanaChatterjee, Honorary Associate, China Centre, Calcutta University, Kolkata.
1.00PM- 2.00 PM: Lunch
2.00 PM – 2.50PM: General discussion on the theme moderated by Ranabir Samaddar 2.50-3.00- Summing up and vote of thanks
3.00- Tea
