BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30cd7dcda6ef7122867d2e18e3bfd9d3 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20240327T163533 SUMMARY:A Talk on "Demography in Development Planning: Valuable Number and Invaluable Quality" by Prof A K M Anwaruzzaman, Department of Geography, Aliah University LOCATION:VKS001\, FLAME University DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nDevelopment planning initiatives and related policy formulation o ften treats population in a very rudimentary form. For ages the place of de mographic ingredients in planning is not only weaker than economics but als o sociology. Development policy formulation, on paper, though taken out by a body of ‘professionals’ but in reality it’s more political than professio nal. It’s true that the allocation of funds to the states is often based on population but a meeting of organizations such as Development Council and Niti Ayog etc., the voting power of Sikkim with less than 1 million and Miz oram with little over 1 million population are equal to Bihar with 130 mill ion and Uttar Pradesh (UP) with over 240 million population running. But wh en it comes to the number of MPs in the parliament that takes nearly all th e development related decisions in principle UP has much more strength than Mizoram or Sikkim. Unfortunately, the demographic characteristics are not considered as strongly as the number is counted. With the present kind of a rrangement when there will be recasting of the number of MPs after a census is conducted in the post-2026 period, the Hindi speaking states will be ha ving 2.4 times more MPs than the entire South India. In fact, UP alone will have nearly as many MPs as the entire South India will have. Under such a situation making demographic inputs more conspicuous is the need of the hou r. Inclusion of demographics inputs in development planning is also require d to harvest the benefit of much desired ‘Demographic Dividend’. Else it wi ll be too late as the window of demographic will close in another 30 years. Thus, building human capital needs greater emphasis on demography in devel opment planning. Else there is apprehension that ‘India will turn old befor e she gets rich’. \n \nShort Bio of the speaker\nDr. A K M Anwaruzzaman is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Aliah University,  Kolkata. He received his Ph.D. degree from North Bengal University, Darjeeling. He comp leted his undergraduate and graduate studies from Aligarh Muslim University , JNU and CEPT. He is an experienced researcher in the field of Population Geography, Political Geography and Political Economy with a number of proje cts under his credit, sponsored by the UGC and Ahmedabad Management Associa tion etc. His research interest includes fertility differentials, environme ntal refugee, Political Demography, development, and displacement as well a s protection of rights of marginalised and subaltern population and advocac y. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract

< span>Development planning initiatives and related policy formulation often treats population in a very rudimentary form. For ages the place of demogra phic ingredients in planning is not only weaker than economics but also soc iology. Development policy formulation, on paper, though taken out by a bod y of ‘professionals’ but in reality it’s more political than professional. It’s true that the allocation of funds to the states is often based on popu lation but a meeting of organizations such as Development Council and Niti Ayog etc., the voting power of Sikkim with less than 1 million and Mizoram with little over 1 million population are equal to Bihar with 130 million a nd Uttar Pradesh (UP) with over 240 million population running. But when it comes to the number of MPs in the parliament that takes nearly all the dev elopment related decisions in principle UP has much more strength than Mizo ram or Sikkim. Unfortunately, the demographic characteristics are not consi dered as strongly as the number is counted. With the present kind of arrang ement when there will be recasting of the number of MPs after a census is c onducted in the post-2026 period, the Hindi speaking states will be having 2.4 times more MPs than the entire South India. In fact, UP alone will have nearly as many MPs as the entire South India will have. Under such a situa tion making demographic inputs more conspicuous is the need of the hour. In clusion of demographics inputs in development planning is also required to harvest the benefit of much desired ‘Demographic Dividend’. Else it will be too late as the window of demographic will close in another 30 years. Thus , building human capital needs greater emphasis on demography in developmen t planning. Else there is apprehension that ‘India will turn old before she gets rich’. 

 

Short Bio of the speaker

Dr. A K M Anwaruzzaman is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Aliah University,  Kolkata. He received his Ph.D. degree from No rth Bengal University, Darjeeling. He completed his undergraduate and gradu ate studies from Aligarh Muslim University, JNU and CEPT. He is an experien ced researcher in the field of Population Geography, Political Geography an d Political Economy with a number of projects under his credit, sponsored b y the UGC and Ahmedabad Management Association etc. His research interest i ncludes fertility differentials, environmental refugee, Political Demograph y, development, and displacement as well as protection of rights of margina lised and subaltern population and advocacy. 

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