Assam University establishes links with Harvad

The Assam University in Silchar has lined up an exchange programme on human development with Harvard University
of the United States.
Sources in the academic faculty of the University informed that keeping in view the changing international scenario, the University is getting ready for consciousness on human development. Vice-chancellor S C Das has taken extra initiative to formalis the exchange programme.
  The academic faculty further said the Assam University would soon introduce human development as a subject in the social sciences department. This would be done because human development would help eradicate imbalance in the society, a senior member of the faculty said.
  Head of Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP, in New Delhi K Seeta Prabhu also supported the move of Assam University.During a recent interaction, Mr Seeta Prabhu said the economy of human development was the brainchild of top economists' like Dr Amartya Sen.
According to the Department of Social Sciences of the University, the economy of human development has already drawn the attention of the governments and policy makers of developed and underdeveloped countries where human development has been introduced as a subject.Even countries like Kazakistan and those in Latin America have gone miles ahead on the subject, sources added.
  The Assam government is also keen to see the proposed exchange programme between the state government and Harvard University materialise. The state government recently published the human development report of Assam for 2004.

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