Kashipur Michael Madhusudan Mahavidayalaya ,Adra,Purulia,West Bengal organized a seminar on “Challenges of Common Property Resources” during 22-24 September,2011.It was an UGC sponsored seminar. Fourteen participants presented their papers . Prof.Raj Kumar Sen-former president of Indian Economic Association and Bengal Economic Association presented his paper on “Common Property Resources in India with reference to forests:Some current issues” where he emphasized on NSS 54th round data on CPR and also showed its adverse sides.He also,noted the role of CPR for tribal in forest.
Prof.Biswajit Chatterjee of Jadavpur University and President of Bengal Economic Association presented his paper on “Climate Change and Trade-Some reflections”.
Dr.Debesh Bhowmik of International Institute for Development Studies,Kolkata wrote on “The conceptual fallacy of common property resources” where he focused on the issues on the fallacy arose in the theme since CPR created debates on origin of property rights and open access resources and contradictory aspects of its concepts and definitions. NSS 54th round data suffer from the concepts since they used forest,waste lands,ponds and tanks,rivers,canals etc as CPR.
Prof.Kausik Gupta of Rabindra Bharati University presented paper on “Issues in Common Property and watershed management”.He focused on the sustainable resource management with watershed development.
Saswati Biswas of North Bengal University emphasized on social space and declining CPR on the paper “Declining common property resources:Its implication for social space”.
Prof.Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyaya of BiswaBharati University said on “Common Property Water Resources in India:Some issues in Irrigation Management” which emphasized on the conjunctive use of ground water and surface water for sustainable development of water resources.
Rajib Pandey and Shashidhar Jha of Ministry of Environment and Forests, on the paper entitled “Common Property Resources and Climate Vulnerability Analysis of Lower Himalaya Communities” ,addresses climate change vulnerability of rural indigenous mountainous community based on the climate vulnerability index.It also discusses the associated critical issues in terms of climatic impact resilience and adaptation mechanism of these mountainous rural communities in context of CPR.
Prof. Dhirendranath Konar of Kalyani University presented paper on “Preservation of Common Property Resources” where he stressed on minimum reservation of CPR.
Somnath Hazra,Ashok Singha ,Abhik Saha ,Mohan Reddy of CTRAN,Bhubaneswar,presented paper on “Forest and Common Property Resource Management in Orissa:Is REDD + a viable option?” where they showed that collection of firewood from CPR is the most intense cause of GHG emission and REDD+ is a win-win combination of livelihood promotion and GHG mitigation strategy.
Kshirod Chandra Mahato ,Prof of Kashipur Michael Madhusudhan Mahavidyalaya, presented the paper on “Environmental Thinking in Folk culture of Manbhum” and Narugopal Dey of the same college,presented on “Role of Rivers in BankimChandra’s Novels”.
Basistha Chatterjee,Niladri De and P.Ghosh of Asian School of Business Management,EIILM, Kolkata and Adventist Development and Relief Agency,Adra , presented their paper on “ Impact of participatory vegetation monitoring on growth management of major forest trees in panchayet soil conservation division,Bishnupur:A survey based study” which suggest that PVM proved to be an efficient forest management tool for conservation as well as development.
Prof.Suvranshu Pan and Ramanuj Goswami of M.M.M,Adra and Rabindra Bharati on “Pros and cons of common property resources with special attention on land and water management along with watershed development in India” said on eight parts of the topic,namely,introduction, concept and feature,link with sustainability along with the relationship with PPR,property right regimes,gradual degradation of resources,question of equity,some suggestive measures and conclusions.
Lastly,Abhay Sankar Sahu of the same college on “Challenges of Embankments in the Sundarbans” emphasized the protection of embankment (CPR).
The seminar enthused the students of the college and other staff as well because it has a great reality in that locality.
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