Andhra University to Host International Symposium on Concepts of Social Business in January 2017
The symposium would focus on sensitising rural communities, lecturers, teachers and students on various concepts of social business.
An international symposium on Social Business for Sustainable Development will be organised by Andhra University or AU from January 5 to 7, 2017. The announcement came from G. Nageswara Rao, Vice-Chancellor of the varsity. He explained that the symposium would focus on sensitising rural communities, lecturers, teachers and students on various concepts of social business.
He further added that the international symposium is being organised in collaboration with Yunus Centre, Dhaka as a part of AU's 90th Foundation Day celebrations. It is expected that around 1,000 delegates from India and other foreign countries will take part in the conference and a total number of 200 delegates will present their paper on the theme.
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Apart from the concepts of social business, the symposium will also focus on various other aspects which include ethics of energy, clean environment, green economy, curriculum and pedagogy in the 21st century. Delegates will present their papers on any of these themes.
The primary objective of holding the symposium on Social Business for Sustainable Development is to observe various problems in the society and figure out solutions.
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Today, sustainable development is not being witnessed in various aspects. For instance, with respect to deforestation, afforestation activities are not being carried out that results in the depletion of the environment. Therefore, citizens must play an active role in saving the environment from the clutches of pollution.
Therefore, the symposium will focus on topics of such kind and give new ideas on how to maintain sustainable development.