The 15th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies run by Gayatri Vidya Parishad was recently celebrated in the conference hall of Public Library, Vishakapatnam. The president of the GVP and the chairman of the centre, D.V. Subba Rao, presided over the function.
It started with the benedictory address rendered by K. Sivananda Murty, the chief guest for the evening. He was all praise for the founder-director of the centre, Prof. A. Prasannakumar, who with foresight and resolve, made the Centre, modestly started on Gandhi Jayanti in 1995, grow tall in stature. As a forum for the study of the nature of the ever widening gap between not only the developing and developed features but also the process of evolving policies and their evolved implementation, he made it stand as an intellectual phenomenon.
So said the Vice-Admiral Anup Singh (Eastern Naval Command), international president of World Teacher Trust, K. Parvathikumar, chairman of VPT, Ajeya Kallam, IAS, and former chairman , AP State Council of Higher Education, Prof. K.C. Reddy, who released one recently-published book each and unveiled the portrait of the founder-president of GVP, Prof. B. Sarveswara Rao, who attained liberation recently. The books were Dialogue and Democracy edited by Prasannakumar, India's Heritage authored by Challa Sivasankaram, and the second edition of Footprints of Divinity by a devotee of Gandhi, and the 85th issue of the bi-monthly bulletin of the centre.
Anup Singh, who released Dialogue and Democracy , and the president of the GVP D.V. Subbarao who chaired the session, later said that it was the 15th anniversary volume of the Centre for Policy Studies which organised about 200 seminars, lectures and discussions since it started functioning. Edited and published by the director of the Centre, Prasannakumar, it is made up of 85 articles classified into four sections: Mahatma Gandhi, India and the World, Indian Democracy — A puzzling paradox, and Challenge of good governance.
Secretary of the committee of board of directors of the centre, Prof. P. Somaraju, proposed the vote of thanks.
