Stress on reviving, following ancient Indian values, ethics

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, February 21

A one-day workshop on “Ancient Indian Values for Society and Polity” was organised by the International Resource Centre for Universal Human Values and Ethics at IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Kapurthala today.

Around 50 research scholars from affiliated colleges of the IKG-PTU and various universities of Punjab attended the workshop.

Eminent professor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Banaras, Dr Rajneesh Shukla was the key speaker on the occasion. Dr Amanpreet Singh, registrar, IKG PTU, welcomed the guests. He also welcomed Dr Shakti Kumar, VC, Baddi University of Emerging Sciences and Technology, Baddi, and other participants. The event started with the lamp lighting.

Dr Rajneesh Shukla deliberated in a very effective way on the values being practised by our elders in the ancient India. He also shared the concept of ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam’. He focused on the need for the revitalisation of such values.

Dr Shukla is the architect of the programme called “Rashtra Gaurav”, which is mandatory in all undergraduate programmes of all Uttar Pradesh state universities. A celebrated speaker of Indian philosophy and values and a nominated member of Banaras Hindu University, he is a member of the Haryana State Advisory Board on Education and a member of the advisory council of Indira Gandhi National Center, New Delhi. Prof Shukla has to his credit of hundreds of books and more than 100 research papers in national and international journals.

Dr SS Ahluwalia, director, International Resource Centre of Universal Human Values And Ethics at IKG-PTU, focused on the need for the values in the current era. He talked some initiatives took by the university to work on values. He regretted that today due to the lack of values, there is chaos at many levels. “If we see, at individual level, there is frustration and lack of confidence. At the level of family, joint families are breaking into nuclear families and at the level of society, there is war and terrorism,” he pointed out.

Dr Shakti Kumar, VC, BUEST, Baddi, said unethical work being done by human beings was due to the absence of human values. He talked about the examples of unethical deeds around the world. Further he shared the problem of air pollution, water pollution, cancer and corruption. He also said that there was a major problem of food distribution in India and around the world. While we are growing food 2.5 times more than our need, people are still dying due to hunger.”