RUSA Sponsored

One-Day Capacity Building Workshop on ‘Ethics in Public Life’

19th March 2018

19.3.2018: PG Department of Public Administration and the Department of

Philosophy of P.G. Govt. College for Girls, Sector-11, Chandigarh organised a
One-day Capacity Building Workshop on „Ethics in Public Life‟, under the
aegis of RUSA today.
The Workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Anita Kaushal, Principal of the
college. More than 70 faculty members, research scholars and students from
various institutions of Punjab, Haryana, New Delhi and Chandigarh participated
in the Workshop.
In the Inaugural Address, Dr. Lallan S. Bhagel, Chairperson, Department of
Philosophy, Panjab University Chandigarh made a presentation on the theme
“Ethics in Public Life: Some Philosophical and Normative Reflections”.
Talking about the significance of ethics and values in the historical perspective,
and its relevance in the contemporary context, Dr. Bhagel traced the

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contributions of thinkers ranging from Socrates and Marx to Gandhi and
Ambedkar. He highlighted that all of them have given primacy to the
components of ethics, truth and morality.
In the Second Session, Dr. Sudhir Baweja from USOL, Panjab University,
Chandigarh elaborated on the theme “Ethical Values in Indian Context”. He
underlined the significance and practical utility of age-old Indian values and
their gradual erosion due to growing materialism and western impact.
Both the sessions were highly participative and the interaction between the
delegates and speakers yielded a fruitful discussion.
Prof. Anita Kaushal congratulated the departments for organising a Workshop
on such a pertinent theme. She felt assured that the faculty and the students have
been enriched from the deliberations and motivated the faculty to carry on with
the conduction such academic endeavours.

Dr Desh Raj Sirswal