The LEAD Trust and Growth with Justice – an introduction

by Masood Rezvi

•Chairman and Managing Trustee, LEAD Trust•Member GB, Unity Technical Institute Society

Welcome to Inaugural Session

Release of Compendium of Papers

The book is available internationally in paperback as well as kindle (E-Book) format and can be had in India from the following link:

http://www.amazon.in/dp/1519227078

We salute the memory of …

Hon’ble Late Mr. Justice Murtaza Husain– The sage whose dreams, and selfless efforts gave us the gift of this college, and the courage to dream further, for Unity Girls’ School at Village Sidhnath, for Justice Murtaza Husain Educational Charitable Trust and for the. LEAD TrustIt is rightly said that true leaders do not produce followers. They produce LEADers!

Acknowledgements

We, the trustees of LEAD Trust, thankfully acknowledge the patronage provided to us by Honourable Mr. Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Prof. B. N. Singh.

We are extremely thankful to our guests of honour especially Dr. Anis Ansari, Prof R. S. Yadav, Prof. M. Varma, Prof. S. K. Shukla , Mr. H. K. Mazhari and Mr. S M A Rizvi, as also to all the learned scholars who have taken the trouble of writing these papers and to the delegates and audience participating in the seminar.

We want to put on records our very special thanks to Prof. Anjum Abrarfor his help and guidance in organising the event.

Acknowledgements

We are also highly obliged to the Management, the Principal Prof. A. B. Siddiqui, the faculty, the students and the staff members of Unity Degree College for providing us all the infrastructural support for the seminar.

We are also thankful to M/S Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, USA and M/S Amazon for providing us such a convenient platform for publishing the book and a smooth and frictionless vehicle for its global distribution.

Last, but not the least we are extremely thankful to those who supported us financially by giving an advertisement in this compendium. Even a small financial support was a big moral boost for us.

The LEADers•Patrons:I. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Imtiyaz MurtazaII. Prof. B. N. Singh

•Trustees:I. Mr. Masood Rezvi (Chairman and Managing Trustee)II. Ms. Samina Javed (Secretary)III. Ms. Sumana Zafar (Treasurer)IV. Mr. Murtaza Hasnain Khan (Trustee)V. Ms. Asma Jawed (Trustee)

Email: laedtrust.lko@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LEAD-TRUST-Lucknow-India-1096794350332142

Website: www.leadtrust.net

We organised kisan goshthi at Unity Girls’ School, Sidhnath, Miangunj,

Unnao

We organised kisan goshthi at Unity Girls’ School, Sidhnath, Miangunj,

Unnao

We helped in distribution of biofortified seeds under HarvestPlus

The HarvestPlus mission is to improve nutrition and public health by developing and promoting biofortified food crops that are rich in vitamins and minerals, and providing global leadership on biofortification evidence and technology.

HarvestPlus and its partners develop new, more nutritious varieties of staple food crops that provide higher amounts of vitamin A, iron, or zinc, the three micronutrients identified by the World Health Organization as most lacking in diets globally.

This process is known as biofortification.

We published our debut book …

ISBN-13: 978-1517533069ISBN-10: 1517533066

And then on public demand its abridged edition…

ISBN-13: 978-1530079186ISBN-10: 1530079187

Now we have organised this seminar, and have published the compendium of your

papers …

And we have on the anvil, another book …

ISBN-13: 978-1530833078 ISBN-10: 1530833078

And we have on the anvil, another book …

And this is NOTThe End…

The royalty earned on our publications will be used exclusively for charity …

We invite you to please join hands with us by…

• purchasing our publications

• subscribing to our events

• writing for us

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• inviting others to join and

• donating to us generously for building our own financial base.

A question from the last decade

“…while rapid GDP growth rate is a necessary condition for the nation's

well-being in the 21st century, it is by no means a sufficient condition.

Economists have long accepted that the market may be a very efficient

allocator of resources to maximise output but not an adequate dispenser of

social justice. Altogether expectations of a GDP growth rate of 8-9 per cent

as has been suggested recently depend very materially on the commodity

producing sectors of agriculture and manufacturing industry performing

much better than now and in a more consistent fashion. This is, of course,

possible; but the chances of achieving such a growth rate require the

stepping up of domestic investment rather steeply and an all round increase

in factor productivities, together with more employment of labour. What

really are the prospects in this regard?”

(K S Krishnaswamy in Economic & Political Weekly March 13, 2004)

Welcome to the 1st Technical Session

Over the years, we did grow:

•In GDP

•In technology

•In life style

•And the impressive list of billionaires.

Welcome to the 1st Technical Session

With this happy note, with the permission of

the chair let’s formally begin the first technical

session, but before we begin let’s sees a few

scenes from Lucknow!

All photographs were taken by me.

A refugee camp? No!

Whose daughters? Not yours! Eh??

Empowered?

Growing…GDP?Human life?

A summer noon in front of the Residency …

And a January morning at Chowk…