ISCS hosted a lecture session on Tagore and Sustainable Development: Some Relevant Interfaces by Prof. Dr.AtiurRahman, 10th Governor of Bangladesh Central Bank and Professor of Development Studies, University of Dhaka on 16th August, 2019, Friday at the Conference Hall of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.

The session was chaired by Dr.Sharmila Banerjee, Rajib Gandhi Chair Professor (Retd), University of Calcutta. The Distinguished Speaker of the event Dr.AtiurRahman said ,` the world lays a lot emphasis on planning and fullfiling the goals of Sustainable Development which projects on attaining the primary needs of health,shelter,education, empowerment, eradication of poverty, community harmony,climate actions and some others. The need of the attainment of these basic goals was recognized and manifested while building the layout of Shantiniketan by Rabindranath Tagore decades back .
Not only did he promote free and creative education but also through activities and initiatives promoted provisions for women empowerment through micro industries,planned the township keeping ecological factors in mind’.Dr.Rahman added that Tagore’s vision and ideas were not restricted to India and remained a rich source of inspiration for neighbouring Bangladesh. The country over last decade through grameen policies and pedagogies considerably tried to uplift the socio-economic conditions of financially compressed society by providing them a sustainable living.The event also indulged a discussion and a question answer session amongst the Speaker and the participants and concluded with a vote of Thanks by the Programme Coordinator, Sri.Krishnendu Baksi.