Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) organised one day National Seminar on ‘The Preamble of the Constitution of India’

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) organised one day National Seminar on ‘The Preamble of the Constitution of India’

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Judge Supreme court of India, Prof. Nageshwar Rao VC IGNOU, PVC, & Dirctor SOL present - One day National Seminar -organised by SOL, IGNOU on 26-11-2015 

Delhi, 26th November

The School of Law, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) organised; one day National Seminar on ‘The Preamble of the Constitution of India’ to mark the celebration of 125^th Birth anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Judge, Supreme Court of India was the Chief Guest along with Prof.' Nageshwar Rao, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU and Prof. Sushma Yadav, Pro-Vice Chancellor also presided over the seminar.

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Judge, Supreme Court of India delivered the inaugural address on the theme “Constitutional debate on the Preamble of the Constitution of India”with special reference to deliverance of Justice. He discussed the Importance of Preamble in a constitution, He said "preamble is a part of constitution , it's duty of citizen to understand it."

This seminar had four Technical Sessions covering the entire gamut of the Preambular goals of the Constitution of India such as (i) Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republic w.r.t. constitution 42^nd amendment Act, 1976 on the Preamble, (ii) Justice: Social, Economic and Political, (iii) Liberty of thought, Expression, Belief, Faith and Worship and (iv) Equality of Status and Opportunity & Fraternity.

The Seminar focused on various Preambular goals visualized at the time of framing of the Constitution of India on the one hand and also make a fair assessment of the realization of the such ideals and goals enshrined in the Preamble of the Constitution of India in addition to finding out the reasons/obstacles, etc. encountered by the successive legislative, executive and judicial organs of the state since independence. This seminar  also focused on working out a future road map, if any, in furtherance of realization of the Preambular goals/ideals yet to be achieved/realized.