One Day Civil Society Consultation on Social Justice and Equity- Madurai
A one-day Civil Society Consultation was organized by Centre for Social Justice and Equity, (MSSW) on 22nd Feb. 2024 at North Gate Hotel, Tamukkam Main Road, opposite to American College, Goripalayam, Madurai. The consultations were attended by 29 members from NGOs, Local Government members, academicians from south zone (including Madurai, Theni, Dindigul, and Ramanathapuram).
He was speaking at a civil society consultation workshop on social justice and equity organised by Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) along with the Tamil Nadu government organised for various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in the district and surrounding districts. “Though the State which is well-known for its social justice movements has many policies towards achieving the goal, the effective implementation of the schemes and the programmes remain a question mark,” he said. Pointing to the inefficiency in implementing programmes to achieve social justice, he pressed the need having an ‘Inclusion,’ department in all the universities in the State alongside a separate social justice department in the State. “Equality is an aspiration and equity the working method to achieve that. We speak a lot about equality, but providing opportunities to achieve the dream of equal society is not being cared much,” Mr. Kathir added. It is popularly said that when society gets wealthier, poverty would be eradicated, but, in reality, wealth would only further poverty by accumulating wealth in certain few hands, noted Mr. Kathir.
