Muzaffar Assadi elected President of Indian Social Science Academy
(Press Release) - Muzaffar Assadi, former acting vice chancellor and currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and senior most Professor at the University of Mysore, was elected unopposed as the president-elect of the Indian Social Science Academy for the year 2024–2025.
He was formerly its Vice President. Indian Social Science Academy (ISSA) was founded in 1974 with the goal of evaluating, integrating, and disseminating scientific knowledge about man, society, and nature in relation to India's specific circumstances and fostering harmony between social sciences, natural sciences, and technology. The Indian Social Science Academy is the only institution in the world that defines science as social and encompasses all fields of natural, social, and behavioural sciences.
The Indian Social Science Academy (ISSA) organises the Indian Social Science Congress (ISSC) every year with the goal of discovering, developing, and disseminating science of Nature- The UGC, DST, ICSSR, ICHR, ICPR, INSA, ISRO, CSIR, and ICMR are supporting ISSA.
Prof. V.K.R.V. Rao, one of the greatest economists in India and founder of the Delhi School of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, and Institute of Social and Economic Change in Bengaluru, is among its former presidents. Other past Presidents include include renowned sociologist M.S. Gore, anthropologist Roy Burman, historian Ravinder Kumar, professor of legal studies Upedra Baxi, former UGC chairman Prof. Mungekar and others
Prof. Assadi is a native of Shirva, Udupi Taluk, and a former student of St. Mary's Institutions and Hindu Higher Elementary School in Shirva. He graduated from Mangalore University, JNU Mew Delhi and , University of Chicago.
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Stalin accuses Centre of trying to use women's quota as 'weapon,' slams EPS over delimitation
Chennai (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has strongly criticised the Centre over the women's reservation and accused it of trying to use it as a "weapon" to tackle the opposition before taking up the delimitation exercise based on population.
"The Union government is not concerned about implementing reservations for women. If their concerns were genuine, they could have done it right away. Rather than doing that, the BJP-led Centre is thinking of using it as a weapon to tackle opposition and take up the delimitation exercise based on population," he told PTI in an interview.
"Hence, the women's reservation must be implemented immediately without showing delimitation as a reason," the DMK president added.
Expressing apprehensions on the proposed delimitation exercise, the CM said it was the DMK that raised the first voice asserting the rights of the state after realising that Tamil Nadu would be affected by the proposed exercise. He also attacked his rival and AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami over the delimitation issue.
Recalling efforts made by the DMK to raise the issue of population-based delimitation, he said an all-party meeting and a meeting of CMs under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee seeking fair delimitation were convened. It sought to freeze delimitation for 25 years and stick to it based on the 1971 Census population.
"We urged the union government that states which successfully implemented population control programmes must not be punished," he added.
The party came up with "Tamil Nadu poradum, Tamil Nadu vellum" (Tamil Nadu will struggle, Tamil Nadu will win) and this is DMK's stand, he said.
"However, Palaniswami, who is seeking votes for the entry of the BJP through the backdoor, has till date been mute over delimitation, and this is a betrayal of the people of Tamil Nadu."
