Essential Qualities of a ResearcherSpeaker: Prof. Janak Singh Meena, Head, Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gujarat

‘Essential Qualities of a Researcher’ by Indian Research Scholars Association on Sunday, 25th February at 5 pm; A lecture was organized on the topic ‘Need and Importance’. The main speaker of this topic was Prof. Janak Singh Meena, Head of the Department, Gandhian Center for Peace Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gujarat. At the beginning of the program, our guest greeted and congratulated the entire team of this institution and said that it is important to have such forums where students and researchers together organize programs. While sharing his experiences at the beginning of his lecture, he said that I am also associated with many such organizations, hence I understand their functions and importance. In his lecture, he expressed his views on the importance of research and told which subjects a researcher should pay attention to. The researcher should be very conscious about his subject. At the beginning of his lecture, he clarified the main points of research, its quality and writing. , While sharing his field experiences, he said that unless you convince the respondent that this research is in your interest, your respondent will not talk to you openly. Even in the context of research ethics, Prof. Janak Meena said that whenever any idea is taken from any research paper, it is necessary to give its reference. It should also not be done that if a research paper has not been read and its reference is given, then all these aspects come under plagiarism. For this, while sharing the social scientists of Indian, American, Australia and Iraq and the research techniques being adopted by them, he said that the circumstances in social sciences keep changing according to the region and time. , Literature related to the subject in which research is being done should be studied and then the problem should be selected. He also said that the quality of research proposals in social science subjects in India is low. Original ideas are rarely seen in research papers. If the problems in social science subjects are identified, then sufficient facts can be referred to, due to which the originality of the research becomes clear. Therefore, it is necessary that research be done with adequate facts and arguments. Research work should be started only after studying the literature related to the subject. While sharing his editing experience, he said that if quantitative research is done in the research and the hypothesis is not tested, then the title of the research paper remains different and the subject matter of the research is different, then in such a situation the research paper’s The quality becomes very low. For this, it is necessary that the literature related to the title selected should be studied and compiled in the research. In his lecture, he expressed his views on the importance of research and he told that one should choose the research topic as per one’s interest so that the quality of originality will be seen in the research. One should never ask anyone or take other people’s topics, rather One should choose the subject after understanding it himself. At the beginning of the program, welcome address was given by Vikas Kumar, Research Scholar, Department of Political Science and Human Rights, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak. He welcomed and congratulated our guest and explained the nature of the program. This lecture was conducted by Ganeshi Lal, Research Scholar, JNU and the co-moderator of the program was Sakshi, Research Scholar, BHU and the other co-moderator was Devendra Yadav, Research Scholar, Uttarakhand. The secretary of the program was Ankita Shukla, research scholar, Kerala University. At the end of the program, many curiosities of the research scholars and students were resolved through a question-and-answer session. All the listeners benefited from the thoughts of our chief guest. Many researchers, students and audience were present in this lecture. Ashwini Kumar, Researcher, Papi Haldar, Researcher, Neha Prasad, Researcher, Kolkata etc. were associated. This lecture was organized through Google Meet.