The LIBA fraternity wishes to address the perplexing challenge of Inclusive Growth with LIBA BEACON’08, a National level Business Ethics Conference.
With its unprecedented GDP growth rates, India grapples with rapidly rising relative and absolute inequalities, thereby leading to two grossly different faces of India. One is the “Shining India” which is prospering and the other is the “Suffering India” which battles with stark poverty and is excluded from the growth process. The two faces of India are both a ray of hope and a symbol of despair. Reconciling these two faces is the biggest challenge faced by India today.
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Venue Le Royal Meridien
Date 14th & 15th March 2008
Speakers
Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Right Livelihood Award Recipient Chairman, Centre for study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai
Mr. Murari Advisor FICCI Former Secretary to President of India
Ms. Aruna Roy (IAS) Magsaysay Awardee
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan MD TVS Electronics President, TN- CII
Mr. P Sainath Editor for Rural Affairs- The HIndu Magsaysay Awardee
Mr. D Raja MP & National Secretary, CPI
Dr. Ruth Manorama Right Livelihood Award Recipient President, National Alliance of Women (NAWO)
Dr. Ashish Kothari Founder-Member Kalpavrish Environment Action Group, Pune & New Delhi
Mr. K Venkataraman (IAS) Former Managing Director UNIDO
Mr. Era Sezhiyan Former MP
Mr. Christodas Gandhi (IAS) Secretary, Youth Welfare and Sports Development Government of Tamil Nadu
Prof. C P Chandrasekhar Economist JNU, New Delhi
Mr. E Sarathbabu Founder and CEO Food King
