PLAN BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR 2017-2018
Revised on 8th September 2016
Social Sciences Division
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SUMMARY CONTENTS
Plan New Projects
Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page New, Noth East Project 1 ERU 1.1 Training on Advanced Econometric Methods and Their Applications, (Northeast, New) … Amita Majumder, … 7 (2017-2020) Samarjit Das New, General Projects 2 ERU 1.2 Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application of an Easily Implementable … Amita Majumder … 10 Sampling Strategy (General, New) (2016-2019) 3 ERU 1.3 Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic theory and applications: 2017- … Indraneel Dasgupta, … 16 18 to 2019-2020 (General, New) (2017-2020) Soumyanetra Munshi, Souvik Roy
4 PRU 4.1 Orientation training on Non-social cognition (General, New) (2017-2018) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 22
5 EAU 8.1 Workshop on Village Level Databases (General, New) (2017-2018) … Madhura … 26 Swaminathan Plan 0n-Going Projects
Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page New, Noth East Project 1 SOSU 6.1 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 30 2 SOSU 6.2 Workshop on Official Statistics in the North-East India (Northeast, On-Going) (2016- … Prasanta Pathak … 32 2019)
On-Going, General Project 3 ERU 1.4 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with … Priyodorshi Banerjee … 33 Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal and Indraneel Dasgupta (General, On-Going) (2015-2019) 4 ERU 1.5 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, On-Going) (2016-2018) … Souvik Roy … 35 5 PRU 4.2 Safe school survey (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 37 6 SRU 5.1 Small-marginal Landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in Jharkhand … Hari Charan Behera … 41 (General, On-Going) (2016-2018) 7 EPU 7.1 Annual Conference (General, On-going) … EPU faculty … 44 8 EAU 8.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka (General, On-Going) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 45 (2015-2018)
New Plan Projects start from page no. … 7 On-Going Plan Projects start from page no. … 30
Plan Non-Projects (2017-18) start from page no. … 48
Publications (2011-16) starts from page no. … 60 Interim Reports (2015-16) start from page no. … 118
Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2017-18) [summary Sheet] … 143 Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Non-Projects (2017-18) [summary Sheet] … 144
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Contents (By unit)
Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page
Members of the Technical Advisory Committee, Social Sciences Division for the year 2014-2016 … … 6
1 Economic Research Unit 1.1 Training On Advanced Econometric Methods And Their Applications, (Northeast, New) (2017-2020) … Amita Majumder, Samarjit … 7 Das 1.2 Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application of an Easily Implementable Sampling … Amita Majumder … 10 Strategy (General, New) (2016-2019) 1.3 Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic theory and applications: 2017-18 to 2020-2021 … Indraneel Dasgupta, … 16 (General, New) (2017-2021) Soumyanetra Munshi, Souvik Roy.
1.4 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi … Priyodorshi Banerjee and … 33 Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal (General, On-Going) (2015-2019) Indraneel Dasgupta 1.5 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, On-Going) (2016-2018) … Souvik Roy … 35 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 48 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, ERU … … 60
2 Linguistic Research Unit Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 49 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, LRU … … 78 Interim Report LRU (2015-16) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 118 Interim Report LRU (2013-16) … Probal Dasgupta … 124 Interim Report LRU (2014-17) … Probal Dasgupta … 126
3 Population Studies Unit Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 50 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, PSU … … 82 Interim Report PSU (2014-16) … Partha De … 127
4 Psychology Research Unit 4.1 Orientation training on Non-social cognition (General, New) (2017-2018) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 22 4.2 Safe school survey (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 37 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 51 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, PRU … … 84
5 Sociological Research Unit 5.1 Small-marginal Landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in Jharkhand (General, On-Going) … Hari Charan Behera … 41 (2016-2018) Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 52 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, SRU … … 87 Interim Report SRU (2015-16) … Hari Charan Behera … 134 Interim Report SRU (2016-17) … Sonali Chakraborty … 138
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6 Sampliing & Official Statistics Unit 6.1 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 30 6.2 North East Official Statistics Workshop (Northeast, On-Going) … Prasanta Pathak … 32 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 54 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, SOSU … … 96
7 Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre 7.1 Annual Conference (General, On-going) … EPU faculty … 44 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 55 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, EPU, Delhi Centre … … 101
8 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre 8.1 Workshop on Village Level Databases (General, New) (2017-2018) … Madhura Swaminathan … 26 8.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka (General, On-Going) (2015-2018) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 45
Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 58 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2011 – 2016, EAU, Bangalore Centre … … 113 Interim Report EAU (2015-17) … Madhura Swaminathan … 141
9 Social Sciences Division Office Non-project plan proposals for the year 2017-18 … … 59 Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2017-18) … … 143 Divisional Plan Budget for Non-Projects (2017-18) … … 144
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Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the year 2014-2016
1. Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Director (Chairman) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
2. Professor Manoj Kumar Panda Director, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, North Campus, Delhi-110007. India.
3. Professor Aravind Pandey Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029
4. Professor Sarmila Banerjee Calcutta University Rajiv Gandhi Chair professor Eco-systems and Sustainable Development 56A, B. T. Road, Kolkata 700050
5. Professor T.J. Kamalanabhan Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai 600036
6. Professor Tista Bagchi Department of Linguistics University of Delhi Arts faculty Extension Building Delhi 110007
7. Professor Partha Nath Mukherji Residence: Flat 803, Jasmanium 2 Vatika City, Sohna Road, Sector 49, Gurgaon - 122002, HARYANA
8. Professor Manoranjan Pal Professor-in-Charge (Convener), Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
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ERU (North-East, New) Project No. 1.1
1. Title of the Project: Training ON ADVANCED ECONOMETRIC METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.
2. Brief Objective and Justification (2 or 3 Sentences): The School is meant for research fellows, young teachers/researchers working in colleges, universities, institutions, and analysts working in different organizations, who are actively engaged in empirical research in economics and finance.
3. Date of Commencement: April 2017.
4. Name of the Proposing Scientists: Amita Majumder, Samarjit Das.
5. Name of the other associate Scientists: NA
6. Scope and Justification of the Project: Econometrics - both time series and cross- section- have experienced phenomenal growth in the last 35 years. This began with what G.S.Maddala called the ' three revolutions ' in time series econometrics, namely, Unit Roots, Cointegration and Volatility Models, in the late seventies of the last century. This has been followed by significant developments in the methodologies dealing with the analysis of cross section data. A lot of the very recent growth in econometrics reflects the rapid advances in computing technology. Increased availability of data at micro level is a major advance which has, of late, facilitated growth of panel data models and microeconometrics. Under such an advanced state of this subject, practitioners and researcher are confronted with an overwhelmingly large literature most of which are quite difficult to comprehend from consideration of econometric theory. The application of the methodologies involved also requires formidable computational skills. Thus, appropriate analysis of economic data now requires not only a certain level of knowledge on econometric methods concerning these advanced topics but also competence with standard software packages like EViews, STATA, and R. With the purpose to cater to this specific requirement for knowledge in advanced topics in Econometrics that the Economic Research Unit proposes to organize an Two weeks (12 days) training program on Advanced Econometric Methods and Their Applications in, 2017-18.
We will make use of local resource persons as well. Recently, we organized similar workshop at Mizoram University, Mizoram, for one week successfully. Participants wanted us to organize similar workshop for a longer version throughout the whole north-east. Keeping in mind the serious travelling issue, we plan to organize workshop at various corners of north-east, viz., Nagaland, Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh etc.
The objective of the school is to familiarize its participants with the theory and methods of advanced econometrics as well as to applications of latest econometric techniques with hands-on exercises.
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The topics to be covered are the following. Basic regression Analysis with diagnostics; Qualitative and limited dependent variable models; non-parametric and semi-parametric regressions; frontier production function and stochastic frontier production function; panel data models; ARIMA modelling, forecasting, Unit root Test, Co-integration Analysis ; volatility models like the GARCH, EGARCH and multivariate GARCH; tests for multiple structural breaks; Policy evaluation and treatment effects; and the software package R and STATA.
The School is meant for research fellows, young teachers/researchers working in colleges, universities, institutions, and analysts working in different organizations, who are actively engaged in empirical research in economics and finance. The whole concept of such workshop is to familiarize its participants with the theory and methods of advanced econometrics as well as to applications of latest econometric techniques with hands-on exercises. Applicants must have consistently good academic records with at least a Master’s degree in Economics/Applied Economics/ Econometrics from a recognized university/institution. They must have had a sound training in Statistics and/or Econometrics, and also be familiar with the basics of econometrics and time series analysis.
7. Item wise break-up of the Budget Proposed (capital & Revenue) and Justification for the same (not more than ¼ page)
Amount Serial no. Item Heads (Rs.) 1 Capital Nil 2 Travel for the resource persons including faculties and office staffs (8@14000) 1,12,000 3 Airport drop at both ends and Local transport 40, 000 4 Board (breakfast & dinner) charges of 40 persons for 14 days @Rs. 500/day (approx.) per participant 2,40,000 5 Lunch for 50 persons for 14 days @Rs. 300/day per participant 2,00,000 6 Tea/coffee and snacks (twice daily) for 12 days 30,000 7 Lodging of participants and resource persons 2,25,000 8 Workshop kit (bag, pen, pad, name tag etc.), 50,000 numbering 50 @ Rs. 1000 per kit 9 Honorarium to 3 resource persons from outside for a total of 15 lecture hours @Rs. 3000 per lecture-hour 45,000
10 Miscellaneous expenses (Postal Expenses, Banner, Flex, Photocopying, Pen 50,000 Drives and other incidental expenses) Total Expenditure 9,92,000
Earning from Registration 30 participants @Rs. 1000/- 30,000 Balance Amount 9,62,000 Total (in words): Rupees Nine lakhs and sixty Two thousand only.
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8. Brief Particulars of the assets to be procured: Not applicable 9. List of on-going projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years: Not applicable. 10. Expected date of Completion: March 2020. 11. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure during 2017-2018: 100% at 4th Quarter.
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ERU (General, New) Project No. 1.2
1. Title of the Project: Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application of an Easily Implementable Sampling Strategy 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Amita Majumder 3. Major aims of the Project: • As unorganized manufacturing and trade contribute a big share to India’s national Income, it is necessary to have reliable and comprehensive data pertaining to the informal sector for planning and policy formulations. • It has been observed that the traditional two-stage sampling adopted by NSS is ineffective for some of the enterprises because of failures to capture their sparse and scattered locations (Maiti et al., 2015). • Two alternative sampling strategies have been proposed in Maiti et al. (2015), which is expected to fare better than the existing two-stage design adopted by NSS office. • The proposed sampling procedure for the survey of enterprises in the informal sector will be the same as in the existing scheme, except that here it is proposed to take a Gram Panchayat (a cluster of villages) as the unit of analysis in the Rural Sector as opposed to Village as FSUs as per NSS scheme. • A list of all economic activities under the Panchayat and the Municipality is readily available, as construction of such a list by the office of the Panchayat and the Municipality is mandatory to generate revenue (enlistment fee) at the local level. All the establishments in the selected panchayats will be visited by investigators. Since none is expected to be missed, a major source of underestimation is expected to be removed.
• This project proposes to conduct a pilot study to examine if the proposed designs would be better than the existing one, in the sense of providing an improved estimate.
4. Date of Commencement: April, 2017 5. Expected date of completion: March, 2019 6. Justification of the project and a brief description of the each of the major aims: In the official statistical system in India there has been a large divergence between survey- based estimate and estimate based on national accounts, of household consumption expenditure. The Central Statistical Office (CSO) publishes National Accounts Statistics (NAS) for the country and releases estimates of expenditure on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by item break-up of which Private Final Consumption Expenditure (PFCE) is an important component. CSO’s estimate of PFCE is derived following the ‘commodity flow’ approach. The inputs for PFCE of NAS consist of expenditure by households (including Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (NPISH)) on non-durable consumer goods and services and all durable goods except land and buildings. Thus household consumption expenditure plays an important role in the calculation of GDP. On the other hand, the National Sample Survey (NSS) Office conducts household consumption expenditure surveys directly by canvassing a well-structured schedule of enquiry covering broadly every item of consumption. Besides the PFCE of NAS mentioned
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above, these Consumer Expenditure surveys by the NSS Office also provide estimates of household consumption expenditure, with the exception of NPISH. Studies have shown that NSS estimate seems to be a substantial under estimate, while NAS estimate a substantial over estimate of PFCE and consequently of the GDP.1 The ‘informal sector’ or ‘unorganized sector’ is suspected to be one of the most important factors causing this underestimation. Divergence between PFCE and HCE is ingrained in the system of economic accounting and its alarming accentuation indeed needs deeper probing and understanding. More recently, a committee set up by MoSPI under the Chairmanship of Prof. A. K. Adhikari had delved into this issue with more recent data and details (web link http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/Adhikari_Committee_PFCE_22may15.pdf ).
It is interesting to note from dis-aggregated data in the Report that: a. Absolute PFCE - HCE divergence during 2011-12 was Rs.23.4 trillion (Food: Non-food = 22:78) b. Three non-food items: Transport Services; Transport Equipment and Miscellaneous goods and services, mainly FISIMS, Banking and insurance services etc. accounted for 55% of total and 71 % of Non-food absolute divergence between PFCE and HCE. These items are either not covered in HCE and / or have estimation in NAS using rates and ratios and / or cover non household consumptions. c. Relating non household consumption to household consumption is the subject of further academic debate. Further, these items contributing bulk of divergence are not expected to be dispersed evenly over the income/consumption classes of the population, albeit expected to be skewed to better income groups. In Indian Economy, unincorporated/informal sector is important because of the large number of enterprises in this sector and magnitude of employment it provides to unskilled and semi- skilled workers, besides its contribution to Gross Domestic Product. According to the National Statistical Commission, more than 90% of work force and about 50% of the national product are accounted for by the informal sector. In 2004, the Government constituted National Commission for enterprises in the unorganized sector (NCEUS), one of the terms of reference of which was to review the states of unorganized/informal sector in India including the nature of enterprises, their sizes, spread and magnitude, and scope of employment. These are small scale units operating at a low level of organization with little or no division between labour and capital as factors of production. The labour is mostly casual and drawn from personal and social contacts without any contracts or guarantees. By its very nature, the informal sector is characterized by fragmentation and random clusters that are difficult to identify. In fact, the units are lumpy and sparse.
Subject Coverage, Definitions and Concepts: The survey of 73rd round (July 2015 – June 2016) of NSS of economic and operation characteristics of unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises in manufacturing, trade and
1The then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh had expressed concern over the Quality of Official Statistics data (vide his speech at the inauguration of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute in 2006). Supporting Dr. Manmohan Singh concern, Professor Pranab Bardhan, during the Eight International Calcutta Triennial Symposium held in 2012 referred to the diminishing Quality of Current Indian Official Statistics, especially data relating to GDP.
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other services sectors (excluding construction) is in progress. Subject coverage, definitions and concepts in our study would be the same as those considered in the 73rd round survey of NSS.2 Existing Sampling Design: The existing sampling design is a multistage design with census Villages (panchayat wards in case of Kerala) and Urban Frame Survey (UFS) Blocks/ census Enumeration Blocks (EBs) in the urban sector as the First Stage Unit (FSU). The ultimate stage units will be enterprises in both the sectors. Each District is treated as a Stratum and within each district of state/UT, two basic strata are formed: The Rural stratum comprises of rural areas of the district and the Urban stratum comprises of all urban areas of the district. Selection of the Units: First stage units are drawn by Probability Proportional to Size without replacement (PPSWR), size being the population of non-agricultural workers under coverage and Simple Random Sampling without replacement (SRSWOR) is adopted at the second stage. Proposed Sampling Design: In this project we focus on the estimation problem and the related sampling design in the Rural sector only. The proposed sampling procedure for the survey of enterprises in the informal sector will be the same as in the existing scheme, except that here it is proposed to take a Gram Panchayat (a cluster of villages) as the unit of analysis in the Rural Sector, as opposed to Villages as FSUs as per NSS scheme. That is, we will use the PPSWR framework at the Panchayat level, size being the number of villages within the Panchayat. A list of all economic activities under the Panchayat is readily available, as construction of such a list by the office of the Panchayat is mandatory to generate revenue (enlistment fee) at the local level. All the establishments in the selected panchayats will be visited by investigators. Since none is expected to be missed, a major source of underestimation is expected to be removed.
There could be two alternatives: (1) Cluster sampling of Panchayats/Municipalities and using the list of establishment under these; (2) Using the available list of informal establishments in the Panchayats/Municipalities containing a chosen village under the NSS scheme. The advantages of this scheme are: (i) It is easy to operate in a large scale survey. (ii) Taking panchayat/municipality as a unit means reduction of possibility of non-coverage due to sparse and scattered locations of the enterprises of the informal sector in a localized village or urban block; (iii)Information on all types of economic activity (including rickshaw pulling, hand cart pulling, small grocery shops, small jewellery shops etc) will help strengthen the decentralized statistical system, which in turn will be useful for decentralized planning.
Definition of informal sector and informal establishments (or enterprises) that is intended to be covered: Economists and policy makers do not distinguish between the terms ‘unorganized sector’ and ‘informal sector’ and often use them interchangeably. As per the concepts of the 15th
2Ref.: Document prepared for instruction to field staff; National Sample Survey Office, National Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India; May 2015.
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International Conference (ILO, 1993) of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), informal sector is defined as consisting of those units that are engaged in production of goods or services with the primary objective of generating employment and incomes to the persons concerned. These are small scale units operating at a low level of organization with ‘little or no division between labour and capital as factors of production’. The labour is mostly casual and drawn from personal and social contacts without any contracts or guarantees.
Area Coverage: On a pilot basis, the District of Howrah, having 159 Gram Panchayats would be our area coverage. We propose to select three Gram Panchayats, as suggested by the members of TAC, and compare the aggregate estimates based on the proposed sampling strategy and that based on the NSS scheme. There is no standardized frame of informal enterprises. The proposed design attempts to develop such frame at cluster level, with definition of informal sector so adopted. The sample size would need to be taken to cover economic activities in diverse NIC classification that can be feasibly up-scaled to State and National level.
7. Possible outcomes of the project (max 200 words): Clearly mention if the project is completely theoretical in nature or it has real life applications. Indicate the potential user group(s), if any and correspondence with such groups. The project has real life application. The modified sampling procedure is expected to yield better estimates of the income of the informal/unorganised sector, because of the comprehensive coverage of the sparsely located units. Also, it is easily implementable without incurring much additional cost. Organisations like the NSSO could be a possible beneficiary.
8. Names of other associated Scientists with their affiliation (mention the proposed contribution of each scientist in the project, max 200 words): (1) Professor Pulakesh Maiti, Member, Working Group, 73rd round of NSS. (2) Professor J.K. Ghosh, Professor Emeritus, ISI and Professor, Purdue University.
9. Literature cited: (1) The Indian Official Statistical System Revisited, P. Maiti, T.J. Rao and J.K. Ghosh (2015),Sankhya , Series B.
(2) Instructions to Field Staff: Socio-economic Survey, NSS 73rd round, NSS office, National Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, May 2015.
10. Does the project require clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans? If yes, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiver form forwarded by the P-in-C. NO.
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11. Budget proposed for each year: Total expected budget for Proposed Budget for Year 1 Proposed Budget for Year 2 Two years Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.) 8,00000 0 8,00000 5,50,000 0 5,50,000 2,50,000 0 2,50,000
12. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed for Year 1 (Capital & Revenue): Item Total (Rs.) Revenue Field work 4,00,000 Revenue Stores and Stationeries 40,000 Revenue Local Transport 50,000 Revenue Miscellaneous (including on 60,000 the spot field check etc.) Capital 0 Total 5,50,000
13. Quarterly projection of Expenditure (Rs.) during Year 1: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
50,000 0 50,000 4,00,000 0 3,00,000 1,50,000 0 1,50,000 50,000 0 50,000
14. Brief particulars of assets proposed to be acquired from capital budget of Year 1: None 15. Projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 3 years (max 5): None 16. Publications of the proposing scientist in peer reviewed journals/conferences in the last five years (max 10).
1. ‘A Framework for the Simultaneous Measurement of Spatial Variation and Temporal Movement in Prices in a Heterogeneous Country: The Dynamic Household Regional Product Dummy Model’, Review of Income and Wealth, (forthcoming) [Jointly with Manisha Chakrabarty and Ranjan Ray]
2. ‘Gender Bias in Education in West Bengal’, Journal of Quantitative Economics, (forthcoming). [Jointly with Chayanika Mitra]
3. ‘Occupational Segregation and Wage Differentials between Males and Females in India’, Sarvekshana, 100th Issue, (forthcoming). [Jointly with Nilanjana Chakraborty]
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4. ‘A Unified Framework for the Estimation of Intra and Inter Country Food Purchasing Power Parities with Application to Cross Country Comparisons of Food Expenditure: India, Indonesia and Vietnam’, Indian Growth and Development Review, (forthcoming). [Jointly with Ranjan Ray and Kompal Sinha]
4. ‘Estimates of Spatial Prices in India and their Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Items’, Social Indicators Research, DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-1124-1, October 2015. [Jointly with Ranjan Ray]
5. 'Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality’, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 51, No. 11, 1488–1501, August 2015. [Jointly with Manisha Chakrabarty and Ranjan Ray]
6. 'Household Budget Share Distribution and Welfare Implication: An Application of Multivariate Distributional Statistics', Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 42, Issue 12, December 2015, 2754-2768. [Jointly with Manisha Chakrabarty and Jeffrey Racine]
7. ‘Spatial Comparison of Prices and Expenditure in a Heterogeneous Country: Methodology with Application to India’, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 19, 931-989, 2015. [Jointly with Ranjan Ray and Kompal Sinha]
9. ‘Estimating Purchasing Power Parities from Household Expenditure Data Using Complete Demand Systems with Application to Living Standards Comparison: India and Vietnam’, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 61, Issue 2, 302–328, June 2015. [Jointly with Ranjan Ray and Kompal Sinha]
10. ‘Decomposition of Inter Regional Poverty Gap in India: A Spatial Approach’, Empirical Economics, Vol. 46, Issue 1, 65-99, February, 2014. [Jointly with Somnath Chattopadhyay and Hasanur Jaman]
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ERU (General, New) Project No. 1.3
1. Title of the Project: Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic theory and applications: 2017-18 to 2019-2020
2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Indraneel Dasgupta, Soumyanetra Munshi, Souvik Roy.
3. Major aims of the Project (use a bulleted list, max 200 words):
• The primary goal of this project is to organize several academic seminars. workshops and interactive sessions for researchers, faculty members, and students, to be addressed by invited experts from all over South and South- east Asia.
• It is expected that such interactive academic activities will not only enrich participating scholars but will also open up further collaborative research possibilities. We propose to organize seminars and workshops over the three- year period 2017-2018 to 2019-20 on topics that include but are not restricted to recent advances in certain domains in which the Unit specializes, namely, microeconomic theory and its applications, development economics, political economy and econometrics.
4. Date of Commencement: April 2017.
5. Expected date of completion: March 2020
6. Justification of the project and a brief description of the each of the major aims (max 1000 words)
• In this project we aim to acquaint the faculty members, researchers, academicians, and postgraduate students of the Indian Statistical Institute with various advanced areas of economic research which are related to the core research areas of the Unit. The proposed seminar series will provide an opportunity to the participants to familiarize themselves with several key areas of research and development of economic studies through collective interaction with experts invited from all over India and other countries for the purpose. We propose to invite about 10 outstanding scholars per year, both from within and outside India, who will not only give seminars on their domain of expertise but also academically interact with the participants during their entire duration of stay. Through these interactive sessions/seminars/workshops we shall advocate exchange of ideas and facilitate formation of peer networks, thereby enhancing the research environment and productivity at the Unit. We would, therefore, like to view this programme as one of the platforms through which we may enhance the academic importance of our Unit in the spectrum of high quality economic research activities of the country and beyond.
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• We intend to invite speakers both from within India and abroad, focusing particularly on the neighboring regions of South and South-east Asia, and, as mentioned, will request them to not only deliver talks on their chosen topics but also interact with students and faculty. Hence we will request invited speakers to stay over for 3 to 4 days each so that there is ample time for further interaction with the speaker, either in the form of some intensive lectures for students/scholars or collaborative engagements with them. We would like to invite speakers doing frontier research in microeconomic theory, applications, econometric theory and applications, development economics, and political economy, all of which are pursued by faculty in ERU.
• Currently, the budget allocated for seminars at ERU neither permits extended stays over multiple days, nor, most importantly, the reimbursement of airfare and related travel expenses such as visa fees. Consequently, ERU is restricted to inviting speakers within the city, which hampers our ability to generate globally competitive research. It is standard practice at comparable institutions both within India and abroad to cover the full travel expenses of seminar speakers, at least within a reasonable distance threshold. The proposed seminar-cum-workshop series is intended to rectify these weaknesses in our current practice.
• Details regarding specific themes, number of experts, etc. will be finalized keeping in mind the budget approved by the Institute, and will vary from year to year.
• As obvious from the above, the takers for the proposed project are the entire research community in Economics at ISI Kolkata, as well as in other institutions in the city, whereas the resource persons will be the speakers invited.
7. Possible outcomes of the project (max 200 words): Clearly mention if the project is completely theoretical nature or it has real life applications. Indicate the potential user group(s), if any and correspondence with such groups.
• Creating interactive academic activities and enrich participating scholars.
• Opening up further collaborative research possibilities.
8. Follow up mechanisms about making optimal use of the project/programme.
We expect to get to know new research areas and ideas from the speakers. Furthermore, we are looking forward to exploring the possibilities of collaborative research with the invited speakers. We will produce working papers from collaborative research from time to time.
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9. The organisers should prepare a concept note on how the programme benefits the students/participants in their areas of interest.
The purpose of this project is to have seminar series. Such a seminar series is very common in all leading institutes and universities, and we think, the benefits of such a project is well established.
For example, opening up the possibilities for collaborative research. Note that, we intend to invite speakers who are leading researchers on areas that are related to that of the department, and thus participants are expected to find new research problems and collaborators. We sincerely hope that significant research output in terms of papers will come out of these type interactions.
10. Names of other associated Scientists with their affiliation (mention the proposed contribution of each scientist in the project, max 200 words):
11. Literature cited: NA
12. Does the project require clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans? If yes, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiver form forwarded by the P- in-C. No
13. Budget proposed for each year: No Capital items are proposed. Please see attached Excel spreadsheet for Revenue budget. Revenue budget is calculated under the assumption of a 10% rise in costs every year.
Revenue Budget (No capital items are proposed) No Item Heads 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 Total Accommodation of speakers in 1 ISI Guesthouse 50,000 55,000 60,500 1,65,500 or nearby hotel (10 speakers x 4 days each) Food (breakfast, lunch and 2 dinner for 10 speakers 1,00,000 1,10,000 1,21,000 3,31,000 x 4 days each, including one formal dinner per speaker with 2/3 faculty members) Economy class airfare for 3 speakers (10 x 25,000) 2,30,000 2,53,000 2,78,300 7,61,300 Other travel expenses for 4 speakers including taxi fare and Indian visa fees (10 x 5,000) 40,000 44,000 48,400 1,32,400 Miscellaneous (tea, snacks, 5 publicity material etc.) 50,000 55,000 60,500 1,65,500 and honorarium for speakers Total 4,70,000 5,17,000 5,68,700 15,55,700
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10% annual rise in costs Note: factored into estimates
14. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed for Year 1 (Capital & Revenue): Please see attached Excel spreadsheet for Revenue budget. Revenue budget is calculated under the assumption of a 10% rise in costs every year.
15. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during Year 1:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 100% 100%
16. Brief particulars of assets proposed to be acquired from capital budget of Year 1: Not Applicable.
17. Projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 3 years (max 5):
Soumyanetra Munshi: Not Applicable
Indraneel Dasgupta: Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): 2015- 16 to 2018-19. (i) Status: The Workshop for 2015-16 is to be hosted by IGIDR during 21- 22 March, 2016.
(ii) Money budgeted: 90,000 for 2015-16
(iii) Money spent: approx.. 90,000 expected for 2015-16.
(iv) Publications: Not applicable/
Souvik Roy: No. of on-going Projects: 1 (one)
(a) Title: "Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design": (i) Starting date: 2016-17, first quarter
(ii) Expected Date of Completion: 2018-19, fourth quarter
(iii)Status: Not yet started
(iv) Money Budgeted: Rs. 27,30,000 /-
(v) Money Spent: 0 /-
(vi) Publication: Not yet
No. of completed Projects: 1 (one) (b) Title: "Mechanism Design in Internet Economics":
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(i) Starting date: November, 2014
(ii) Status: completed in March, 2016
(iii)Money Budgeted: Rs. 4,15,000 /-
(iv) Money Spent: approx.. 3,65,000 /-
(v) Publication: Work in progress
18. Publications of the proposing scientist in peer reviewed journals/conferences in the last five years (max 10).
Name of Title of the paper Name of the Journal Year, Vol., Issue, scientist Pages
INDRANEEL A Model of Defence and Peace forthcoming DASGUPTA Dynamic Conflict in (with Dripto Ethnocracies Bakshi)
INDRANEEL A Model of Economic Development and 2015, vol. 64, 1, Pg: DASGUPTA Nongovernmental Cultural Change 71-111 (with R. Burger Organization and T. Owens) Regulation with an Application to Uganda
INDRANEEL Contraction Social Choice and Welfare 2011, Vol. 37, 4, Pg: DASGUPTA Consistent 643-658 Stochastic Choice Correspondence
INDRANEEL Does Philanthropy Journal of Economic 2011, Vol. 9, 1, Pg: 1- DASGUPTA Reduce Inequality? 21 (with R. Kanbur)
Soumyanetra Analyzing Conflict Defence and Peace 2013, Vol. 24, no. 3, Within Contested Munshi Land: The Case of Economics Pg. 261-292. Kashmir
Soumyanetra A Generalization of Theoretical Economics 2013, Vol. 3, Pg. 12- Berry’s Probability Munshi Function (Joint Letters 16. work with André de Palma)
Soumyanetra On Existence of Social Choice and Welfare 2011, Vol. 37, No. 1, Pure Strategy Munshi Equilibrium with Pg. 1- 37. Endogenous Income
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Soumyanetra Enfranchisement Constitutional Political 2011, Vol. 22, Pg. 21 from a Political – 57. Munshi Perspective Economy
Souvik Roy (with Multidimensional Journal of Economic Theory 2014, Vol. 153, Anup Pramanik Mechanism Design September, Pages and Debasis in Single Peaked 103-116. Mishra) Type Spaces
Souvik Roy (with Implementation in Theoretical Economics 2013, Vol. 8, 2, May. Debasis Misra) multidimensional Pages 431–466 dichotomous domains
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PRU (General, New) Project No. 4.1
1. Title of the Project: Orientation training on Non-social cognition
Brief title: OTS
2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The training will impart knowledge about recent advances of non-social cognitive variables and their modes of applications; Trainees will learn scope, importance, uses, basic and advanced statistical tools in construction of non-social cognitive variables.
3. Date of Commencement and end: April, 2017- March, 2018
4. Name of the Proposing Scientist or Principal Investigator: Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata.
5. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page):
Background:
There is rapid development in the non-social cognition test battery for their uses in different branches of psychology – developmental, child, educational, organizational, clinical, health, geriatric, forensic and neuro-psychology. Some new developments are in assessment of intelligence, aptitude, executive function, working memory and reasoning. Some of the tests are based on self-rating and some are on performance. Some widely used tests are Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence – Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition, India, Wechsler Memory Scale – 3rd Edition, India, Wechsler non-verbal scale, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, stroop test, The Brixton test, Hayling test, The Digit Vigilance Test. Psychology research unit also constructed some tests like computer aided assessment of digit span and spatial reasoning, paper pencil test of verbal reasoning test battery, and reading- writing motivation test. These tests are regularly used for assessment of general abilities and intervention. Many psychology researchers cannot do good research due to limited knowledge about characteristics of those tests. They are not aware of the basic principles of construction of those tests. The test development procedure requires knowledge about some basic and multivariate statistics. The training will be imparted during summer and winter schools. It will be three days program. Trainees will get hands-on-experience. The course will be designed for faculty and professionals, research fellows and for people engaged in psychological assessment of different industries. For the industry people, survey will be made to find out their requirements. Knowledge about need based 3 or 4 tests will be imparted.
Learning objectives of the training programs are: a) To understand history and basic principles of test construction; b) To understand scope, importance, advantages, limitations and uses of different non-social cognition tests; c) To apply the tests for assessment, intervention and limitations; d) To understand some basic and advanced statistical models used in test construction and adaptation;
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6. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital &Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page) :
Capital
1. Costs of Psychological tests 500000
Revenue
2 Air fare for 4 resource persons 80000
3 Boarding and lodging for 10 outstation participants for 4 days 32000 @Rs.800 4 Lunch for 40 participants @Rs. 400 for 4 days 64000 5 Tea & Snacks for 80 persons for 3 days @ Rs. 60 9600 6 Honorarium for 10 invited persons @2000 per hour 20000 7 Reading materials for 40 persons @Rs. 500 20000 8 Training kits (bag, writing pad, pen etc.) for 40 persons & 600 48000
9 Local transport for 5 days 40000 10 Advertisement and communication 5000 11 Food and accommodation charges 25000 12 Miscellaneous expenditure (Generator, photography, postal 25000 expenses, banner, flower, secretarial assistance, contingencies etc.) 13 Train (AC 3-tier) for 10 outstation participants 50000 Total revenue 4,18,600 Total (both capital and revenue) 9,18,600
Registration fees will be Rs.2000 from 40 participants = 80000 So required budget will be 8,38,600 (Eight lakhs thirty eight thousand six hundred only )
7. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status; (ii) Money budgeted; (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any) :
Money Title Status Money spent Publications budgeted
Winter school on Data Mining in Completed 294000 253000 1 Psychological Research (2014- 15) Differential validity of computer Completed 549000 41692.11 4 programming abilities (2012-15) Self-efficacy of Agricultural Completed 1,71,000 75102.95 1 farmers (2009-10)
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8. Expected date of Completion : March, 2018
9. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2017-2018 :
1st 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd 4th 4th Cap Rev Cap Rev Cap Rev Cap Rev
30% 30% 20% 20%
10. Journal Publications for last five years (2012-2016): 1.Kundu,A.and Dutta Roy,Debdulal (2016). Innovative work behaviour of School teachers: role of belief for Innovation and personality patterns.Journal of Organisation and Human Behaviour,5,1,21-28(in print)
2.Datta,Sumona and Dutta Roy,Debdulal(2015). Construction of Test Measuring Mental Rotation Ability of Adolescent High School Students.The International Journal of Indian Psychology,3,2,5,91-100
3.Dutta Roy, D. (2015). Rabindrik value orientations of war returned senior rank police officers. Journal of Organization & Human Behaviour,4,4,2015.
4.Datta,Sumona and Dutta Roy,Debdulal(2015).Abstract reasoning and spatial visualization in formal operational stage. International journal of scientific and research publications, 5,10,1-6.
5.Shah,H. and D. Dutta Roy (2015). Structure of Rabindrik human values. Indian Journal of Positive Psychology. 5, 4, 368-375.
6.Dutta Roy,D. and Gupta,P. (2014).Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28,2,(in print)
7.Dutta Roy, D and Bhaduri, S (2014). Gender and Rabindrik value orientation. Psybernews, 5,1,
8.Santosh. S.,Dutta Roy. D&Kundu P.S.(2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry ;23:65-70.
9.Dutta Roy,D and Basu,D. (2013). Rabindrik work value preference. Psybernews,4,2,82-89.
10.Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh,S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012).Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120. 11. Book publications (2012-2016) Gupta,P.and Dutta Roy,D.(2015).IMPACT OF ATTITUDE ON ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY IN FIRST LANGUAGE. In Panch Ramalingam (Ed.) School Psychology: Prospects to Multiple Disabled Children. M/S Cambridge Scholars Publishers, United Kingdom (In Press).
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Dutta Roy,D.(2015). PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY IN INDIA. In Panch Ramalingam and Indranee Phookon Barooah (Eds.), School Psychology:Enhancing Psychological competencies. (in Press). Dutta Roy,D.(2014).READING MOTIVATION OF TRIBAL STUDENTS IN TRIPURA AND MANIPUR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY . In Niladri Pradhan (Ed.) Tribal Education in India: Challenges and strategies. Kolkata:FIRMA KLM Pvt.Ltd.159- 180. Dutta Roy,D. (2014). DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS: PROBLEM OF TEACHER EDUCATION. In Roy,R. (Ed.) Education for sustainable development. New Delhi:Shipra Publications. 126-137.
Dutta Roy,D. and Gupta,P. (2014).Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28,2,(in print) Santosh. S.,Dutta Roy. D&Kundu P.S.(2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry ;23:65-70. Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh,S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012).Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120. Dutta Roy,D.(2011).School Psychology.Psybernews,2,3,103-105. Dutta Roy,D. - Construct validity of writing motivation questionnaire. International Journal of Psychological Research 3,2,6-11 Dutta Roy,D. (2010).Rabindrik Psychotherapy in Stress Management. PsyInsight. 1,3,10. Dutta Roy, D. and Basu, K. (2010). Autistic behaviour analysis : Pre-post and repeated measure design. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1,4,39-46. Roy,A. and Dutta Roy,D.(2010).Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal : An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management research in Emerging economics . Vol.1.1. (in print). Dutta Roy,D.(2010).Cluster Analysis for Test-Retest Reliability. International Journal of Psychological Research ,(published from USA). 3,9,132-140. Dutta Roy,D.(2010).Construct validity of Reading motivation. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, (to be published in January 2011, vol.37,No.1). Dutta Roy,D. (2010). Roy,A. and Dutta Roy,D. (2010). Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal: An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management Research in Emerging Economies , 1,1, (paper to be published). Dutta Roy,D. and Mondal,A. (2010). Information organization errors in backward digit span task. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,3,43-49. Dutta Roy,D. (2010). Stem-Leaf Plot:Problem of Data Visualization. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,3,50-54. Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Challenges of Psychometrics. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,3,18-19. Ganguly,A. and Dutta Roy,D. (2010). Web Content analysis to study researches on entrepreneurial psychology. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,2,27-31. Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Data entry error.PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,2,36-39. Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Psychoinformatics: Innovation in mining randomized data. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,1,23-31. Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Pre-Requisites of Psychological testing PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,1,13-14.
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EAU (General, New) Project No. 8.1
1. Project Title: Workshop on Village Level Databases
2. Brief Objective: Drawing on the experience of the last 7-8 years in terms of research projects, workshops, seminars and publications, we now propose to conduct a training workshop on village study methodology and building village level databases for representatives of Panchayats from different parts of the country and also for doctoral students, young researchers and teachers.
3. Date of Commencement: APRIL 1, 2017
4. Proposing Scientist: Madhura Swaminathan
5. Other Associated Scientists: V K RAMACHANDRAN, BIPLAB SARKAR, APARAJITA BAKSHI (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), NILADRI SEKHAR DHAR (TISS, Tulzapur), JOHN HARRISS (Simon Fraser University and the London School of Economics and Politics).
6. Scope and Objectives:
Introduction and background: The study of India’s villages is an important component part of the study of the Indian economy and society. As is well known, more than 70 per cent of India’s population lives in its villages. It is not, however, merely as a unit of residence or neighbourhood that the village occupies a special place in the social formation. The village is a basic unit of the organization of social relations, and of the relations of production in agriculture and agriculture-related activity in India. This has been a feature of India’s villages in history; it is also true of the contemporary period, despite the village economy and society having been drawn more closely into larger socio-economic processes, domestic and international, than ever before.
Village studies constitute the core activity of our research at the Economic Analysis Unit. In the newly started JRF in Development Studies, one paper is devoted to agrarian studies and village studies. Indeed this paper was commended by one of the external experts who reviewed the JRF teaching plan.
In 2008, we held a colloquium of Japanese and Indian scholars at Chalsa, where we discussed problems of method in gathering, managing, processing, and presenting information, particularly statistical information, on various topics using village survey data. The colloquium was co- sponsored by the Planning Commission and ICSSR.
In particular, we took up two issues (a) Land ownership and control, land and water use, social structure and hierarchy, and aspects of the social formation in rural India; (b) the levels of development of technology and the production forces in rural India, and the relations of production in agriculture and related activity.
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The papers presented at the colloquium dealt with different aspects of methodology including
1. creating primary and secondary data bases for the study of issues mentioned above; 2. developing survey methods (including the design of questionnaires) to study these themes at the village level; 3. documenting existing data bases on these themes; 4. using village-level records-based information for studies on social change; and 5. using data management and GIS software for the study of the themes over historical time and in the contemporary period.
In 2014, as part of the International Year of Statistics, we organized a workshop on Statistical Databases for Village-Level Enquiry. This work undertaken by our research collaborators has now resulted in a book titled A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry Into Village Panchayat Databases (Junichi Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016).
In the following two years, we undertook a Plan project on “Evaluating Official Statistics,” particularly on land holdings. This too involved an intensive workshop titled “The Underestimation of Large Landholdings in NSS Data.”
In earlier years, we organised two workshops on village-level data on Dalit households, which resulted in the book Dalit Households in Village Economies (V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan (eds.), Tulika Books 2014).
Rationale for the Workshop
Based on our learning over the last 7-8 years, we now propose to conduct a training workshop on village study methodology for doctoral and post doctoral students, young researchers and teachers, as well as representatives of Panchayats from different parts of the country.
The resource persons/external experts shall include the faculty of EAU, research scholars affiliated to ISI in the past, and selected external experts. We propose to invite at least one international expert as a resource person.
The topics of the 2 day workshop will include
Defining the village. India: the panchayat village, revenue village. The village as defined in the Census of India. The village as a social and economic unit; labour markets and village boundaries. Villages in different historical tenurial regimes: ryotwari, zamindari, the canal colonies, etc. The village: methodological issues of definition in Africa and Asia (particularly China and Japan).
Method. Defining the fieldwork. Questionnaire-based surveys, partipant observation, open- ended questionnaires. Census and sample surveys. Choosing a village for study. Questionnaires: village-level, household and individual. Pre-study visits to the village, and drafting village-level crop, occupation, caste, land, and other codes. Testing the questionnaires. Conducting village surveys: the collection of quantitative and qualitative data.
Statistical databases. Gram-panchayat-level statistics as a new statistical domain.
Plan of work
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In the first part of the year, we will identify the participants and prepare the teaching material. The workshop will be held in the second or third quarter. A summary of the workshop in terms of future research agenda will be prepared in the fourth quarter.
References Agrarian Studies 3: Dalit Households in Village Economies edited by V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, Tulika Books, 2014. Agrarian Studies 4: A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry Into Village Panchayat Databases by Junichi Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi (Series Editor: V. K. Ramachandran), Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.
7. Budget: REVENUE ITEMS 2017-18 1. Preparation of material for workshop including travel 60,000 for library research and consultation, PI and research collaborators
2. Workshop/seminar for 30-40 participants Travel (including 1 or 2 international airfares) 400,000 Board and lodging 100,000 Stationery, banner, computer consumables, teaching 50,000 material, etc. 3. Miscellaneous 20,000 Grand Total 630,000
Total budget: Six lakh thirty thousand rupees
8. Assets: NONE
9. Projects in Last FiveYears:
1. Year 2012-13 to 2014-15 Evaluation of Official Statistics on Landholding Status: Completed Money Budgeted (13-14): 940,000 Money Spent (13-14): 700,000 Money Budgeted (12-13): 449,000 Money Spent (12-13): 346,000 Interim Report submitted Publications A New Statistical Domain in India: An Enquiry in to Village Panchayat Databases by Junichi Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi (Series Editor V. K. Ramachandran), New Delhi: Tulika Press, 2016. Deepak Kumar, Paper on Discrepancy, Review of Agrarian Studies (2016, forthcoming).
2. Year 2015-16 tp 2016-17 Livelihoods in Tripura Status: Ongoing Money Budgeted (15-16): 300,000 Money Spent (15-16): 200,000
3. Year 105-16
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Workshop on Rural Energy Status: Completed Money Budgeted (14-15): 4,29,000 Money Spent (14-15): 400,000
10. Expected Date of Completion: MARCH 31, 2018
11. Quaterly Projection of Expendituture During 2017-18: Revenue Expenditure Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Total 30,000 70,000 500,000 30,000 630,000
12. N.A 13. N.A 14. N.A
15. Projections Total Proposed Action plan ( per cent) Financial target ( per expected budget for cent) budget 2017-18 2017-18 2018-19 2017- 18 630,000 630,000 90 10 100
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SOSU (North-East, On-going) Project No. 6.1
1. Title of the Project: North-East Training Programme
2. Brief objective and justification: Development of manpower in the North East is an important agenda of the GoI. In this respect SOSU can play an important role with its unique position as a close collaborator with several Ministries that generates and uses official statistics. It would be valuable exposure for the participants to learn recent statistical techniques from SOSU. 3. Date of Commencement: 1.4.2016
4. Name of the proposing scientist: Head, SOSU
5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation:
6. A brief write-up on the scope & justification of the project and proposed work (not more than half a page):
Trainees (MPhil students, Research Scholars and young faculty from several disciplines like Biosciences, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences who needs to analyse data in their line of work as well as Officers from various statistical services of the government) from North Eastern States of India who attended the training programmes conducted by SOSU in the North Eastern States appreciated and found the programmes useful in their official/administrative/academic work. Encouraged by their feedback it is felt that there is need for similar programmes in improving the skills of the officers/teachers from government and public sector departments, schools, colleges and universities in the north eastern parts of India. The resources available in ISI for training in statistics, data analysis and computers, may be used for this purpose (we plan to use the faculty from SOSU as well as from the Applied Statistics and Computer and Communication Science Divisions). The programme will be formulated keeping in view the requirements of the potential participants and use of computers in their data processing works. Effort will also be made to identify faculty from the host institutions who may supplement the delivery.
We plan to hold one such programme every year.
7. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page):
(a) Revenue Expenditure, 2017 – 18
1. Travel for resource persons (6 individuals) a) Air, Taxi, hired car Fare (Kolkata – Guwahati & back) Rs. 69,000.00 b) Local Transport at Guwahati Rs. 34,500.00 1. Boarding & Lodging T.A./D.A. For External Candidates (15 persons) Rs. 86,000.00 For 3 resource persons (Rs. 3000/head/day for 6 days) Rs. 62,100.00 For 3 resource persons (Rs. 4000/head/day for 3 days) Rs. 41,400.00 3. Working Lunch & Tea for 5 days Rs. 92,000.00
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4. Stationary, Workshop Kit & training materials Rs. 69,000.00 5. Remuneration for supporting staff Rs. 23,000.00 6. Workshop special dinner Rs. 46,000.00 7. Miscellaneous Rs. 22,000.00
Total Rs. 5,45,000.00
(b) Capital Expenditure:
Nil Nil
8. Brief particulars of Assets proposed to be acquired: NA
9. List all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist:
10. Expected date of Completion: 31.03.2019
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2017-18
1st 2nd 3rd
Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 5.45 Nil 5.45
4th Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Nil Nil Nil 5.45 Nil 5.45
12. For North-East Projects (new):
Proposed budget for 2018 – 19 Proposed budget for 2019 -20 (B) (A) Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 6.3 0.0 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Escalation assumed at 15% (approx.)
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SOSU (North-East, On-going) Project No. 6.2
1. Title of the Project: Workshop on Official Statistics in the North-East India 2. Brief Objective and Justification: (2-3 sentences): The objective of the project is to provide a meaningful platform for interaction between the generators and the users of official statistics, including the researchers, so that official statistics get analysed much more extensively and the gaps or the deficiencies in official statistics get reduced through improvement in the system of collection of official statistics. The extent to which official statistics is used for analysis and decision making is much less than the effort put in collection of it. Wide varieties of official statistics remain unused to a great extent due to various gaps and/or deficiencies in it. Many even have quite less knowledge about the varieties of heads under which official statistics are available. The workshops, planned in the North-East, will attempt at bringing into light the reasons behind inadequate use of official statistics, bridging the gap between the generators and the users and finding out means of improving use of official statistics in in-depth analysis and decision making. The generators will also benefit from the workshops as the users’ feedback will help in improving the system of generation of official statistics. It is planned to have an annual workshop in almost every state in the NorthEast India. The specific themes of the workshop would depend on the demand of each state and the host organisation. 3. Date of commencement: After April, 2013 4. Name of the proposing Scientist or principal investigator: Prasanta Pathak 5. Name(s) of other associated scientist(s): Sandip Mitra, ISI and D.C Nath, Gauhati University 6. Scope and justification of the project and the proposed work: The research on official statistics has not been adequately undertaken in the North-East States of India. There is an increasing need to provide a platform for a meaningful dialogue between the researchers and the data collecting agencies (like CSO, NSSO, Statistical Bureaus of the respective state Governments). The demand for such workshops has been regularly received by us from different departments of North- Eastern universities. An Official Statistics net work for the N.E states may be a good idea under the aegis of Sampling and Official Statistics Unit of ISI. Annual workshops are proposed for the next five years, which are to be conducted in almost every state in the North East in collaboration with a local university/organisation and data collecting central and/or state agencies. It is expected that such workshops would inspire researchers to do more extensive empirical and policy oriented studies in the areas of Economics, Statistics and related disciplines. Users’ feedback will also help data collecting agencies/organisations to play more meaningful role in improving the system of official statistics so as to match the users’ needs and expectations. The first workshop will be in Guwahati in collaboration with the Department of Statistics in Gauhati University. The proposing scientists have adequate experience in holding such workshops in the North-East and elsewhere. 7. Item wise breakup of the proposed budget (Capital and Revenue): No capital item is proposed. Revenue budget proposed for the year 2017-18 is: Rs. 6,00,000/=
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ERU (General, On-Going) Project No. 1.4
1. Title of the Project: Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal. 2. Brief Objective and Justification (2 or 3 sentences): Doctoral students in economics do not get adequate exposure to the work of young researchers in comparable institutions. Additionally, a platform where they can present their own research to young researchers from other institutions is mostly absent. This initiative would encourage exchange of ideas, and facilitate the formation of peer networks, thereby enhancing the research environment and productivity at ERU. The project has already been sanctioned by the DCSW-TAC in 2014 for the period 2015-16 to 2018- 19. The supplementary proposal for the previous year (2016-17), as well as the present one, involve plans for its further expansion in 2016-17 and 2018-19. Takers for the workshop are thus PHD scholars of ISI and other institutions. Faculty members of participating institutions will be the primary resource persons with the possibility of additional external resource persons. 3. Date of Commencement: Fourth Quarter, 2015-16. 4. Names of Proposing Scientists: Priyodorshi Banerjee and Indraneel Dasgupta 5. Names of other Associated Scientists: None 6. Scope and Justification of the Project: We are therefore currently organizing an annual doctoral students’ workshop series in collaboration with IGIDR. The first workshop was held in March, 2014. It was hosted by IGIDR. The second, hosted by ISI, was held in March, 2015. In the proposal presented to, and accepted by, the DCSW-TAC of SSD in 2014, we proposed to extend this series for the next four years (2015-16 through 2018-19), with workshops in 2015-16 and 2017-18 to be held at IGIDR, and in 2016-17 and 2018-19 to be held at ISI. To this end, the third workshop in the series is to be hosted by IGIDR and is scheduled to take place on the 21st and the 22nd of March, 2016. As mentioned in the original proposal, and as suggested by the DCSW-TAC, we also hope to encourage students from other institutions to participate, making the workshop more productive and enhancing quality of idea-exchange. Towards this end, and with the experience of one year of hosting the workshop behind us, we wish to expand the number of external participants significantly in the coming years. We therefore request an increase in budgetary outlay for the years 2016-17 and 2018-19, when ISI is slated to host the workshop. 7. Itemwise Breakup of the Proposed Budget (capital and revenue): No capital item is proposed. Revenue budget proposed for 2017-18 is as follows (IGIDR will be the host)
BUDGET Return II-tier AC fare to Mumbai, together with local transportation (taxi etc between station and ISI in Kolkata, and between station Rs. 11,000 Sub-total: 11000*8 = and IGIDR in Mumbai) per person 88,000
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expenses, and per diem as per rules for about 8 ERU Senior Research Fellows
Return air-fare to Mumbai, together with local transportation and on-road subsistence expenses, for one Rs. 22,000 Sub-total: 22000*1 = ERU faculty member per faculty 22,000 Total Rs. 1,10,000
8. Brief Particulars of Assets Proposed to be Acquired: Not applicable. 9. List of All Ongoing Projects Undertaken by the Proposing Scientists in the Last 5 Years: Not applicable. 10. Expected Date of Completion: Fourth Quarter, 2018-19. 11. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure During 2017-18 First Quarter: Revenue - 0, Capital - 0, Total - 0 Second Quarter: Revenue - 0, Capital - 0, Total - 0 Third Quarter: Revenue - 0, Capital - 0, Total - 0 Fourth Quarter: Revenue – 1.1 lakhs, Capital - 0, Total – 1.1 lakhs Total: Revenue – 1.1 lakhs, Capital - 0, Total – 1.1 lakhs Workshops in every year are projected to take place in the fourth quarter 12. For General Projects Only (New): Total Expected Budget (A) in lakhs: Revenue – 6.42 (revised) 5.1 (original), Capital - 0, Total – 6.42 (revised) 5.1 (original) Proposed Budget for 2017-18 (B) in lakhs: Revenue -1.1, Capital - 0, Total – 1.1 Action Plan/Target in terms of percentage (%)*: 2015-16 -14.0, 2016-17 – 31.2, 2017-18 – 17.1, 2018-19 – 37.7 Financial Target in lakhs*: 2015-16 – 0.9 (revised) 1.1 (original), 2016-17 – 2.00 (revised) 1.21 (original), 2017-18 – 1.1 (revised) 1.33 (original), 2018-19 – 2.42 (revised) 1.46 (original) * Based on the assumption that prices will escalate 10% every year
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ERU (General, On-Going) Project No. 1.5
1. Title of the Project: Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Souvik Roy 3. Major aims of the Project (use a bulleted list, max 200 words): • The purpose of this project is to study issues in collective decision making problem under incomplete information. The study is a part of a much larger study in the theory of mechanism design. In general terms, mechanism design theory is concerned with resource allocation in multi- agent environments. The key feature of the problem is that the determination of the “optimal” allocation depends on information which agents possess privately. In order to achieve an optimal allocation this private information must be elicited from the agents. But agents are sophisticated and they recognize that they may be served better by lying, rather than by telling the truth. • In this project we want to understand the role of prior belief formation in determining the outcome of an economic or social phenomenon. In the existing literature it is almost always assumed that the people in a society are completely aware of the behaviour of the other people. However, this is far from truth in reality! A voter can have some idea about who the other voter is going to vote, but can never be hundred percent sure about that. So, a more practical and natural assumption would be to assume people in a society form belief about their fellow members, and they behave according to their belief. 4. Date of Commencement: First quarter, 2016-17 5. Expected date of completion: 2018-19, fourth 6. If the project requires clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans, has the clearance been obtained? If not, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. (Not applicable) 7. Interim report including publications based on work from the project (only for proposals of Year 3) [max 500 words] 8. Outlay and Expenditure during Year 1 of project (only for proposals of Year 3): Total budget requested Budget requested Expenditure during for three years for Year 1 Year 1
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
9. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed for next year:
Item Heads 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 Total Capital
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Revenue
Travel and subsistence for principal 1,50,000 1,50,000 1,50,000 4,50,000 investigator and collaborators Software, web developer for 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 designing experiments, computer consumables Cost of running Experiments 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 Purchase of books etc. 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 2 Project linked personnel @ 25,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 18,00,000 per month for 12*3=36 months Miscellaneous expenses 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total 9,10,000 9,10,000 9,10,000 27,30,000
Justifications: Since this is a research project involving field work, two project linked persons (preferably M. Stat or M.Sc completed students who are motivated to do research) are required for carrying out the project work successfully. 10. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during next year: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25%
11. Brief particulars of assets proposed to be acquired from capital budget of next year: NIL
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PRU (General, On-Going) Project No. 4.2
1. Title of the Project : Safe school survey Brief title: SSS 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Proposed project proposal includes two objectives. First objective is to develop a questionnaire for assessment of safe school climate perception. Second objective is to examine differences in safe school climate perception of students of relatively more and less violence-prone schools.
3. Date of Commencement and end: April, 2016- March, 2019 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist or Principal Investigator: Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata.
5. A brief write-up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): Repeated violence in school has generated great public concern and fostered wide spread impression that schools are unsafe. This causes school phobia, drop out, negative affectivity, parental mistrust to school authorities, and decline in school image. In order to stop school violence and to design healthy school, it is important to develop a questionnaire for assessing safe school climate perception. First objective of the study is to develop a questionnaire for assessment of safe school climate perception. Safe school climate will be measured with perceived dignity, freedom, connection climate, incivility and disruption, personal safety, delinquency/major safety, cleanliness, ramp, barrier free environment. Earlier studies paid attention to only four variables as connection climate, incivility and disruption, personal safety, delinquency/major safety (Skiba, Simmons, Peterson and Forde, 2006). Questionnaire results will provide knowledge about principal components of safe school perception from the perspective of respondents.
Second objective of the study is to examine differences in safe school climate perception in students of the more and less violence-prone schools. A checklist will be prepared to identify violence prone school. The constructed questionnaire will be administered to both more and less or least violence prone schools.
Findings will be used for psychological counseling and guidance to students suffering from school phobia or negativity to school. Besides, results will be useful to design safe school climate and theory development.
Method
In this session approximately 800 data will be collected from students (50 students X 2 school types (violence prone and less violence prone) X 2 genders (boys and girls) X 2 regions (semi urban and rural) X 2 castes (SC/ST and Non SC/ST).
Project outcome:
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1. Reliable and valid questionnaire can be used for counseling and guidance to students suffering from negative affectivity to school. 2. School psychologist or School quality management officers can use the questionnaire to guide school authorities for school reform. 3. Results will provide knowledge about extent of differences in school safety climate among teachers, students and staffs. 4. Results will provide knowledge about how the students of different demographic conditions perceive the school safety. 5. Results will provide knowledge about how perception of school safety affects school violence.
Project beneficiaries: • Department of Education, Govt. of West Bengal; • Researchers concerned with School psychology; • School safety management.
References &Additional Readings
Dutta Roy, D. (2015). Psychotherapy and violence prevention in school. Proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Psychology for safe schools and healthy students.P. 62.
Saha, T. and Dutta Roy (2015). Characteristics of safe school: Rabindrik approach, Proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Psychology for safe schools and healthy students.P. 63
Skiba, R., Simmons, A.B., Peterson, R., and Forde, S. (2006). The SRS safe school survey: A broader perspective on school violence prevention. In Jimmerson, S.R. and Furlong, M.J., (Eds.). N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. 157-169.
About Barrier free environment: http://www.undp.org.af/Publications/KeyDocuments/2005_cdap_guidelines.pdf (retrieved 25.3. 2015)
6. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Item Rs. Justification 1. Remuneration to 360000 Assisting in Project linked personnel overall activities; @ Rs. 30000 X 12 months 2. Car hiring charges and 50000 School visit other local transport cost 3.Accommodation 30000 for field charges investigations 4. Costs for food for local 20000 Basic investigators and requirement for collaborating scientists stay in locality and field visit
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5. Data scrutiny and entry 10000 It will be entered through computer. 6. Computer consumables, 40000 To print Stationary, Xerox, questionnaire and printing, postal charge, communication telephone charge etc. 7. Project report typing, 20000 binding 8. Miscellaneous 10000 Emergency condition in field work Total 540000 Total: Five lakhs forty thousand only
7. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any).:
Title Status Money budgeted Money spent Publications
Winter school on Data Completed 294000 253000 Mining in Psychological Research
Differential validity of computer programming Completed 549000 41692.11 4 abilities (2012-15)
Self-efficacy of Agricultural farmers Completed 171000 75102.95 1 (2009-10)
8. Expected date of Completion : March, 2019 9. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2017-2018:
Total 4th 3rd 2nd 1st Total Cap. Rev. Total Cap. Rev. Total Cap. Rev. Total Cap. Rev. Total Cap. Rev. 100% 100% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25%
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Journal Publications for last five years (2012-2016):
Kundu, A. and Dutta Roy, Debdulal (2016). Innovative work behaviour of School teachers: role of belief for Innovation and personality patterns. Journal of Organisation and Human Behaviour, 5, 1, 21-28(in print) Datta, Sumona and Dutta Roy, Debdulal (2015). Construction of Test Measuring Mental Rotation Ability of Adolescent High School Students.The International Journal of Indian Psychology, 3, 2, 5, 91-100 Dutta Roy, D. (2015). Rabindrik value orientations of war returned senior rank police officers. Journal of Organization & Human Behaviour, 4, 4, 2015. Datta, Sumona and Dutta Roy, Debdulal (2015). Abstract reasoning and spatial visualization in formal operational stage. International journal of scientific and research publications, 5, 10, 1-6. Shah, H. and D. Dutta Roy (2015). Structure of Rabindrik human values. Indian Journal of Positive Psychology. 5, 4, 368-375. Dutta Roy, D. and Gupta, P. (2014). Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28,2, (in print) Dutta Roy, D and Bhaduri, S (2014). Gender and Rabindrik value orientation. Psybernews, 5, 1, 8. Santosh. S., Dutta Roy. D&Kundu P.S. (2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry; 23:65-70. Dutta Roy, D and Basu, D. (2013). Rabindrik work value preference. Psybernews, 4, 2, 82-89. Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh, S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012). Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120.
Book chapter publications (2012-2016)
Gupta, P.and Dutta Roy, D. (2015). IMPACT OF ATTITUDE ON ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY IN FIRST LANGUAGE. In Panch Ramalingam (Ed.) School Psychology: Prospects to Multiple Disabled Children. M/S Cambridge Scholars Publishers, United Kingdom (In Press). Dutta Roy, D. (2015). PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY IN INDIA. In Panch Ramalingam and Indranee Phookon Barooah (Eds.), School Psychology: Enhancing Psychological competencies. (in Press). Dutta Roy, D. (2014). READING MOTIVATION OF TRIBAL STUDENTS IN TRIPURA AND MANIPUR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY. In Niladri Pradhan (Ed.) Tribal Education in India: Challenges and strategies. Kolkata: FIRMA KLM Pvt.Ltd.159-180. Dutta Roy, D. (2014). DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS: PROBLEM OF TEACHER EDUCATION. In Roy, R. (Ed.) Education for sustainable development. New Delhi: Shipra Publications. 126-137.
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SRU (General, On-Going) Project No. 5.1
1. Topic: Small-marginal Landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in Jharkhand (Status: On going) 2. Date of Commencement: April 2016 3. Name of the proposing scientist: Hari Charan Behera (Principal Investigator) 4. Other Associated Scientist with affiliation: External: Dr. Indrajit Pal (Co- Principal Investigator), School of Environment, Resources and Development & School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
Objectives & Methodology of the Study: • To understand the nature of landholding distribution and mode of production in both backward and non-backward areas of the state. • To examine livelihood issues in the context of agrarian political economy with reference to Jharkhand • To illuminate the emergence of class differentiation and resistance to development of capitalism in agriculture. • To examine the role of modern state in agrarian development particularly with reference to the small and marginal farmers
Hypothesis: H1. The non-agrarian groups or individuals have greater control over the property and mode of production than their agrarian counter parts in both backward and non-backward areas H2: Upward mobility of poor peasant households is restricted by already empowered members of the same community H3: Development of peasant households is positively influenced under better land-market relations
Two agriculturally developed and two agriculturally backward districts from Jharkhand will be selected for the study. From each district two gram panchayats, one backward and other non-backward, will be considered for the study. Selection of gram panchayats will also be based on population of tribal, scheduled caste, other caste members and other backward classes’ communities. Two villages, one backward and the other non-backward, from each panchayat will be taken into account for the study. Due attention will be given to select a few most backward villages, and also socially disturbed villages. Selection of households from each hamlet will be based on SRS while selection of hamlet will be done through proportionate random sampling. ‘Questionnaire’ is not the only tool but an important tool for data collection for household data collection. Village schedule will be employed for village level data collection. Collection of secondary data from the department of agriculture, or department of land reforms and revenue, and from the district level offices for collection of land related information about each selected district. Village level data will be collected from the selected blocks of each district.
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Just to supplement further, key livelihood indicators, but not limited to focus on food availability/nutrition through periodic calculation, housing pattern, access to fuel, income, saving, and other consumption practices will be taken into account. However, these livelihood issues in the agrarian context need to be discussed in relation to property rights, distribution and production relations along with freedom of choice over production and distribution. Additionally, basic socioeconomic indicators such as education, health condition, household access to basic services such as electricity, drinking water facility in village/household, sanitary mechanism, etc need to be studied.
5. I tem wise break-up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (revised): Items 2017-18 Travel, local and field visits 100000 including taxi hiring charges (TA & DA) Engagement of one Project 120000 Associate @ Rs. 20000/month for six months (2017-18) Supporting field investigators (2 30000 nos.) @ Rs.500/Day for 30 days Workshop/Seminar --- Computer consumables and other 15000 stationery items Miscellaneous expenses 9000 Total 274,000
6. Expected Date of Completion: April, 2018 7. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to acquire from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. I n case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned(e.g., Year of purchase, cost): Nil
References: Omvel t, G. and C. Gal a (1988) Peasant Questi on i s a Cl ass Questi on, EPW, July 2, 1988 Byres, T.J. (1981) The New technology, Class Formation and Class Action in the Country Side, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 8, No.4, 1981 Beteille, A. (1974): Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, New Delhi: Oxford University Press Ghosh, A. (1979) Caste Idiom for Class Conflict: Case of Khanjawala, Economic and Political Weekly, February 3, 1979 Desai, A.R. (1984) India’s Path of Development: Marxist Approach, Delhi: Sangam Books Limited Shah, Alpha (2013) The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Gaurrilla Zone: Land, Labour and Capital in the Forests and Hills of Jharkhand, India, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 13 No. 3, July 2013, pp. 424–450. Patnaik, Utsa (1972) Development of Capitalism in Agriculture-II, Social Scientist, October, 1 (3): 3-19 Patnaik, Utsa (1986) The Agrarian Question and Development of Capitalism in India, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 (18), pp. 781-93
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Thorner, Daniel (1956) Agrarian Prospects in India, Delhi: University Press
8. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years:
Pilot Study on Dynamics of Land Use Pattern in North Chotanagpur Plateau: A Micro-level study Budget sanctioned: 130000 Amount spent: 110740 (1,15,290) Complete Contract farming participation and emerging trend in agrarian rel ation: The case of potato growers in West Bengal”
i. The field study has been completed in two villages of Memari Block in Bardhaman District and two blocks in Kotulpur block of Bankura district ii. Report preparation under progress
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EPU (General, On-going) Project No. 7.1
1. Title of the Project: “Annual Conference” 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The conference will provide a forum for dissemination of modern research in economic growth and development economics using both theoretical and empirical approaches. It will also seek to examine the development implications of emerging fields in economics and to re-examine old questions in the light of new problems and new evidence. 3. Date of Commencement: 2017-18 4. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Members of the Planning Unit. 5. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital &Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page): Rs. 5.466 Lakhs
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EAU (General, On-going) Project No. 8.2
1. Title of the Project: Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: MOLLY CHATTOPADHYAY 3. Major aims of the Project (use a bulleted list, max 200 words): The project will study gender relations in the coffee industry of Chikmagalur, Kodagu and Hassan Districts in the State of Karnataka a) To find out dynamics of gender relations in different strata of coffee plantation b) To assess various forms of production that exist in the coffee manufacturing industry and their interrelationship c) To analyze division of labour between men and women in different forms of production, and the wage differences thereby d) To study degree of job mobility of female labour force in the different production sectors of plantation industry e) To study skill development opportunities of female workers in the different sectors of coffee industry. f) To analyze the role of trade-unions in coffee-industry and the role of women workers in the union. 4. Date of Commencement: April, 2015 5. Expected date of completion: March, 2018 6. If the project requires clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans, has the clearance been obtained? If not, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. Attached 7. Interim report including publications based on work from the project (only for proposals of Year 3) [max 500 words] Work done: a) Official statistics on sex-wise distribution of coffee curing workers is collected b) Official statistics on sex-wise distribution of coffee plantation workers is collected c) Official statistics on sex-wise distribution of ownership pattern by size of landholding of coffee plantation workers is collected d) Listing of coffee-curing industries is completed e) Focus group discussion on male-female division of labour in coffee curing industry is held f) Mapping of coffee plantation units is prepared g) Preparation of questionnaire schedule is undertaken h) Based on NSSO unit level data for the year 2011-12 for coffee curing industries based on 5-digit NIC-2008, analysis of gender equality issues related to employment conditions and wages is completed. Summary of the work is given below.
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Summary
The present study looks at gender statistics in the coffee curing sector and the way in which these determine gender discrimination in the labour market. Issues of gender equality are: a) size, structure and characteristics of the labour force, b) gender pay gap and b) unorganised employment. This study is based on official statistics collected by National Sample Survey Organization Employment-unemployment Survey (2011-12). Unit level data was collected using National Industrial Classification (NIC) five digit industry codes (NIC 2008) on coffee curing and manufacturing sector (code no. 10792). Gender disaggregated data on size of employment, enterprise type, daily wage, social security benefits and size of informal sector was tabulated using usual principal status employment. Daily wage data was calculated as total earnings from wage employment in the preceding week divided by the number of days associated with wage employment by using current weekly status. In the coffee curing sector males constitute 66% of workforce against 34% of females. Number of male worker is higher than female workers in urban area (48%) whereas a miniscule of female workers (nearly 1%) is present in urban area. Regarding status of workers, it is observed that 51% of male workers are regular salaried workers while only one percent of female workers are so. Similar to regular salaried worker, 51% of males and 1% of females are working in those enterprises where number of workers is more than 20 that is one of the criteria of organized sector. Expectedly, all the female workers (34%) are in those enterprises where number of workers is less than 6. In terms of written job contract, no female workers have written job contract while 8% of male workers do possess written job contract for more than 3 years. By method of payment, 48% of males receive regular monthly salary as against 1% of female workers. Consistently with status of women workers, 34% of female workers receive regular weekly payment while only 18% of males receive so. For rural male workers daily wage is Rs. 65.86; for urban male and female workers it is Rs. 380.28 and Rs. 142.46 respectively whereas combining rural and urban daily male wage is Rs. 333.16 and for female it is Rs.142.86. Both male and female regular salaried workers are getting lesser wage that national average. For regular salaried workers, the wage gap is 0.43 which is quite high; higher than the national average wage of 0.58. In terms of social security benefits, non-receipt of any benefit is same for both male and female workers (each 35%). In contrast, only 30% of male workers are only entitled to benefits. Organised sector covers: a) government/public sector, b) public/private limited company, c) cooperative societies/trust/other non-profit institutions. Rest belongs to unorganized sector. In view of the aforementioned definition, including Govt/public sector, public/private Ltd/cooperative as organized sector in the coffee curing sector, nearly 50% of the workers are in unorganized. Of the total workers, by enterprise definition, 51% of males and no female workers are in the organized sector. The findings confirm that though large numbers of male workers are in unorganized sector employment, deprived of minimum wage and social security benefits, female workers are largely based on a low-wage, unskilled female labour force. Wage inequality still remains norm in the coffee curing sector.
Publication: Chattopadhyay, Molly. “Women Workers in Coffee Industry of India”, Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Vol. 2, 2015, pp. 5-14 (held on 11-13 August, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka), The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) Colombo, Sri Lanka. 8. Outlay and Expenditure during Year 1 of project (only for proposals of Year 3):
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Total budget requested Budget requested Expenditure during for three years for Year 1 Year 1
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 9.90 0.0 9.90 3.0 0.0 3.0 2.47 0.0 2.47
9. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed for next year:
REVENUE
Item heads 2017-18 Travel and subsistence for principal investigator 1,00,000 2 Field investigators @ Rs. 500 per day for 180 days 1,80,000 (2*500*180) Local Travel & subsistence 40,000 Stationery, printing, communication 10,000 Purchase of Data, books, consumer consumables 20,000 Data scrutiny and entry 20,000 1 project-linked personnel @ 20000 per month for 8 months 1,60,000 (8*20000) Capital 0.0 Total 5,30,000
10. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during next year: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 1.16 0.0 1.16 1.16 0.0 1.16 1.23 0.0 1.23 1.75 0.0 1.75
11. Brief particulars of assets proposed to be acquired from capital budget of next year: N.A.
Format of Self Declaration
This is to certify that the project titled, “Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka” submitted by MOLLY CHATTOPADHYAY does not involve human subjects and hence protection of research risks to humans is not relevant.
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Economic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
Sl. No. Items Amount (in lakh) 1. Visiting Scientists: 9.000 2. Seminar: 1.000 3. Internal travel: 0.500 4. Submission fee for publication in Journals: 0.500 5. Computer Consumables: 2.000 6. Repair and Maintenance: 2.000 7. Office Expenditures: 2.000 8. Capital Expenditure: 4.000 TOTAL 21.000
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Linguistic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
Amount for Item Heads 2017-2018 Capital (Computer, Photocopier, Software, Scanner, Printer, Cupboard, Internet Hub, Furniture, Water Filter, UPS, Air- conditioning, Camera, Data Recorder, Wi-Fi, etc.) 5,00,000 Visiting Scientists 50,000 Seminars (departmental, on regular basis) 50,000 Internal Travel 1,00,000 Computer Consumables 1,00,000 Maintenance 1,00,000 Office Expenditures (Stores and Stationeries) 1,00,000 Fellowship for 1 (one) New JRF/SRF (2016-2017) 3,50,000 Total 13,50,000
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Population Studies Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
1 Visiting Scientists 1.000 1.000 2 Research Fellows/Statistical Trainees etc. 0.000 0.000 3 Seminars by invited experts 0.500 0.500 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300 5 Internal Travel 0.300 0.300 6 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000 7 Office Expenditure 0.500 0.500 8 Repair, Maintenance, etc. 1.000 1.000 AC machines for Computer & seminar rooms, Computer Software , 9 Purchase of Desktop compters and Printers 3.600 3.600 Sub-total: 4.600 3.600 8.200
Justifications: 1. External scientists will be invited to work at the unit for the year. So for local hospitality and honorarium to the visiting scientists the unit requires the amount of money. 2. It will be used to invite well-known scientists and academicians from different parts of the country to deliver lectures in the unit. 3. At present most of the National/International journal needs submission fee for referring and processing. The amount will be used for that purpose. 4. The researchers of the unit often present papers in different conferences / seminars organized by Universities and Institutions within India. To meet TA, DA and Registration fees for attending and presenting papers, the unit proposes that amount. 5. To meet regular requirements of computer consumables various items will be purchased. 6. It will be utilized for purchasing stationeries, meeting expenses on conveyance and refreshments etc. 7. It will be required for solving the chronic problem of water leakage from the roof and outside wall, and for internal repair and patch work with painting of inside walls of the unit. 8. Three (3) very old (more than 12 yrs) and badly functioning AC machines in the computer room (1) and Seminar room (2) need replacement by power saving new models of AC machines. 9. The unit has to purchase virus software in each year. The unit also requires Population Studies related software and other scientific software for scientific work and for demonstration purpose in various workshops. 10. At least two (2) computers, one printer (1) and one Scanner (1) are required for the unit, majority of the existing computers are very old and running under back dated operating system and not supporting most of the updated scientific and office software.
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Psychology Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
Sl No. Item Revenue Capital Total 1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 1.000 1.000 2 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000 3 Research Fellow 3.000 3.000 4 Maintenance for computer & equipment 1.000 1.000 5 Seminar/Workshop/Training programme 0.900 0.900 6 Office Expenditure 0.500 0.500 7 Internal travel 0.300 0.300 8 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300 9 Software, Capital Expenditure (Psychological 4.000 4.000 Instrument,PC,Laptop,chair,Xerox Machine, Book, Self, Sofa etc) , Re-organisation of Psychological testing Lab Sub-total: 8.000 4.000 12.000
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Sociological Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
1 Visiting Scientists 1.000 12 VisitingSeminar Scientists 0.500 0.500 32 InternalSeminar travel 0.500 0.500 4 Research Fellow (Giridih) 3.000 3.000 5 Processing fees for publication 0.300 0.300 6 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000 7 Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.500 0.500 8 Software, Capital Equipment: Upgrading 6.000 6.000 computers/AC/furniture and other related equipment plus New Seminar Room, New Library Room Total: 6.800 6.000 12.800
The details of the Non- Project Budget Proposals for the year 2017-2018 .
1. Visiting Scientist: Unit is involved in different collaborative researches with Indian and Foreign Universities and Research Organizations. In this connection, an estimate of honorarium, hospitality (food and accommodation), train/air fares and local transport will be required. This requires a total amount of Rs.6.00 lakhs.
2. Seminar: The unit is organizing different academic seminars, workshops and training programmes to disseminate research output from time to time. Several outside speakers are also invited to disseminate the ideas related to specific theme. This enables unit to make several academic exchange with the speakers as well as the participants. The research scholars of the unit are benefited through this programme. This requires a total amount of Rs. 4.00 lakh.
3. Internal travel: The scientific workers of the Unit attend seminar/conference/workshop at different reputed universities/ institutions in India and abroad. To meet TA an DA (according to the rules of I.S.I.) for attending the said academic events in India, an estimate of Rs. 4.00 lakh will be required.
4. Research Fellow: Rs.6.00 lakh. (Self-explanatory)
5. Software: The unit should have own purchased different software and different OS. Such as for OS: latest version of Windows, Linux etc., For data handling/ report writing etc, the Unit requires latest version of MS-Office, SPSS, other packages related to data entry, data analysis etc. Besides this, the Unit needs Virus software every year. In considering the regular up-date of software, it needs to purchase most up-date software. So, the Unit requires a total amount of Rs.7.00 lakh.
6. Processing fees for publication: Many Indian and foreign journals require processing fees for publication of research manuscripts, papers etc. from the authors. So, an estimate of Rs.1.00 lakh will be required for this purpose.
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7. Computer Consumables: In general, the price of any item has increased tremendously. As a result, the prices of computer consumables like Cartridge, Toner, Floppy, CD-R & W, DVD, Papers, Transparency Sheets and other related items etc., are increasing day by day, but the Unit requires all of these. So, it requires at least an amount of Rs. 4.00 lakh.
8. Maintenance/ Office Expenditure: Stationary items are not available in time from the Central Stores, even sometimes they are unable to supply the items. These include writing pads, note sheets, pencils, pens, ribbon, gem clips, envelops, staplers, gum, etc. and some other related equipments. So, we propose an estimate of Rs.3.00 lakh.
9. Capital equipment: Upgrading computers/ AC/ furniture/ other related equipments: At least nine (9) Desktop Computers are urgently required for Scientific Workers, for Office Staff and for Computer Lab. who are at present working with very old computers somehow running under back dated operating system and back dated software. Naturally theses said computers are not supporting most of the latest/ updated scientific and office software. Besides this, unit requires one (1) or two (2) latest network printer and other related scientific equipments. It is estimated that Rs. 10.00 lakhs will be spent for the same.
10. Maintenance of New Unit Seminar Room: S.R.U. has a new seminar room. Last year, S.R.U. organized a series of seminars by different eminent scholars from different reputed universities in India but S.R.U. has to depend on the availability of required instruments for smoothly running of the seminar to the other units (like PSU, BIRU etc.). At present, in addition to the seminar programmes of S.R.U., regular class-teaching programmes are also undertaken there. Naturally, sometimes it is difficult to organize the seminar in time. So, S.R.U. should maintain it systematically and it is urgently required for the research/ academic development. We propose an estimate of Rs.4.00 lakh.
11. Up gradation of New Unit Library Room: S.R.U. completed different research projects at different time periods and submitted the said different project/ research reports. Besides this, in present situation, the scientific workers of S.R.U. are conducting different DCSW approved research projects. So, S.R.U. should keep the different research reports systematically for the ready references and for future research/ academic plan. Not only that the scientific workers of S.R.U. purchase social science related different types of books and journals by their own cost and they are ready to keep it in a systematic manner in the Unit. So, it should be up graded time-to-time, otherwise it could be defunct. This requires at least an amount of Rs. 5.00 lakh.
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Sampling & Official Statistics Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
Sl. Revenue Capital Total Particulars of Project Head No. (in lakh) (in lakh) (in lakh)
1 Honorary Visiting Professor/Visiting 3.500 3.500 Scientist/Research Collaborators
2 Computer Consumables 1.220 1.220
3 External Hard Disk for Storage of Office 0.600 0.600 Material and project data
4 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, 5.900 5.900 fittings, equipment etc.
5 Purchase new Desktop Computer, Laptop, 1.400 1.400 Laser Printer, Photocopier, Air-condition machine, Projector machine 6 Research Fellow/Statistical trainee 5.750 5.750
7 Office Expenses 3.560 3.560
8 Repair & Maintenane for Computer, Printer, 0.200 0.200 Scanner, Xerox and otherequipent's in the the unit including AMC etc. 9 Conference/Seminar/Workshop Training 2.700 2.700 Programme etc.
10 Internal Travel of Scientists and Researchers 0.950 0.950
Total: 18.480 7.300 25.780
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Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
Sl No. Items Revenue Capital Total 1 Visiting Scientists 30.000 30.000 2 Post-doctoral fellows-cum-Lecturers 20.000 20.000 3 Travel of Scientists 1.000 1.000 4 Seminar Series 1.000 1.000 5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables 1.500 1.500 6 Misc. Including Communications & fax 1.000 1.000 7 Journal Submission & professional 0.250 0.250 memberships 8 Maintenance 0.250 0.250 9 Students Interns 0.000 0.000 10 Students Research Funds 0.817 0.817 11 Upgrading of Computers manuals 5.643 5.643 software, furniture, fittings, equipment etc. Total: 55.817 5.643 61.460
The details of the Budget Proposals 2017-18
Visiting Scientists: We have approximately twenty visitors from home and foreign uni versi ties/i nstitu tes every year visiti ng our department. Out of them 5-6 are usually long ter m visitors, who not only contribu the through collaborati ve research with our faculty, but also take part in teaching in the MSQE program. T his year 's budget also reflects our desire to have three one year appointments at the visiting scientist level and 2 visiti ng faculty for a peri od of 4 months. Assumi ng a monthly emolument of approximately Rs. 40,000 per month, this works out to Rs. Seventeen Lacs and Sixty Thousand only (17.60 Lacs).
Lecturer-cum-Post- doctoral fellows: As we proposed in the budget for 2016-17, we would like to have 5 Lecturers cum Post Doctoral fellow in the unit. Given that these positions are funded under a regular payband with grade-pay, dearness, travel, and HRA allowances, the total monthly emolument works out approximatel y to 70,000 INR (8,40,000 annually). Five positions would mean 42 Lacs. Allowing for future increases in the CPI one year ahead, we are requesting an additional 1 Lacs. Total is Rs. Forty Three Lacs Only (43 Lacs).
Travel of scientists: Scientists of the unit often present papers in conferences I seminars organized by reputed u niversi ties, and institute withi n India. Scientists also travel wit hi n India for discussions with
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colleagues i nterested in m utual research in terests. If travel, and conference registration fee is provided for the said activity, i t would encourage scientific activity of the unit. We propose an estimate of Rs. One Lac Only (1 Lacs).
Seminar and Honorariums: The Econom ics and Planni ng Unit (EPU) organizes academic seminars on a weekly basis. Approximately 35 academics present research seminars i n a year at EPU. We propose to spend an amount of Rs. 2000/- on each seminar, on an honorarium to the speaker as well as refreshments. Moreover, we sometimes invite well-known scientists from different pa1is of the country to deliver special lectures, as well as organize one-day workshops on important topics. We also pay an honorarium to external experts duri ng the viva. For all these items we propose an estimate of Rs. One Lac Only (1 Lacs) .
PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers/photocopiers has increased by a lot. This has resulted in an increase in the use of computer consumables like Cartridges, Toners, Pen Drives, CDs, papers, transparency sheets etc. This is i n addition to usual stationery items likes pens, pads, white-board pens and dusters, staplers, gum, clips, envelopes, chalks, etc. This requires at least an amount of Rs. One Lac Fifty Thousand Only (1.5 Lacs).
Miscellaneous including communications and fax: In this globalized world quick communication is of the essence. Even with e-mails, we often need to fax documents, or send original docu ments through reliable couriers. STD/ISD phone-calls are also required. The amount marked for these items are: Rs One Lac Twenty Thousand Only (1.20 lacs).
Submission fee for publication in journal and professional memberships: In a number of top-ranked i nternational journals authors have to pay high subm ission fees. If a fee of maxi mum $100 per paper is provided to the author(s) (subject to peer review of the paper before subm issio n), good quality papers may have a chance to get published in top-ranked jou rnals. Some journals wai ve the admission fee for mem bers from developing cou ntries but this is increasingly becoming an except ion. We propose an estimate of Rs. Fifty Thousand Only for this purpose. (0.50 lacs)
Jvfaintenance: This amom1t is meant for repair work on older cup-boards, as well and repairing of chairs etc: Rs. Fifty Thousand Only (.50 Lacs).
Students Interns: Bright students at the undergraduate or masters level in institutes and universities throughout India would like to come to the unit to work as RAs for 1-2 months. For this we budget Rs. One Lac Only (1 Lac).
Students Research Funds: These ftmds are to be allocated towards advanced Ph. D students journal submission fees and annual subscription fees for professional organizations. For this we budget Rs. One Lac Only (1 Lac).
Annual Conference (project): The annual conference of the Economics and Planning Unit on Growth and Development has become one of the
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best international conferences in the field of economic growth and development and attracts a num ber of distinguished researchers from all over the world. The most recent 1 1111 annual conference held in December 2015 had 128 accepted papers and 5 plenary speakers with a total of 250 participants from 14 countries. The amount to be budgeted is Rs. Five Lac Only (5 Lacs).
Economics & Planning Unit finds that the following items (capital goods) are necessary to carry out its academic programs.
Computers and Laptops: We need to replace a number of computers because they have become very old and slow. The proposed budget on this head is: Rs. Three Lac Only (3 Lacs).
Chairs, Tables, Almirah & Whiteboards: Many of the existing ch airs, ta bles (including computer tables) and almirahs have become old and some of them are damaged, repairing of which are not economical and sometimes are not possi ble. These period ically need to be replaced. The estimated budget for these is Rs. One Lac Only (1 Lacs).
Electronic Software, pen-drives, printers, etc.: For research work we u rgently need the use of newl y developed multi-use electronic statistical software, word processing, and reference software. We also budget for a possible replacement of a PU printer, if required. The estimated budget for these is Rs. Two Lac Only (2 Lacs).
Therefore, total estimated cost on Project 2.1 is Rs. Six Lac Only (6 lacs).
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Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre Revised Budget 2017-18
Sl Items Revenue Capital Total No. 1 Visiting Scientists 3.200 3.200 2 PCs & Printers 1.000 1.000 3 Furniture 1.000 1.000 4 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900 5 Seminar/Workshop 0.500 0.500 6 Software/Data purchase 0.500 0.500 7 Stationery 0.500 0.500 8 Repair & Maintenance 0.500 0.500 9 Miscellaneous 0.500 0.500 Total: 6.600 2.000 8.600
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Social Sciences Division Office Non-project Plan proposal for the year 2017-18
Social Sciences Division Office Item Revenew Capital Total Visiting Scientists 20,000 20,000 Computer Consumables 2,000 2,000 Office Expenditure 3,000 3,000 Travel for Academic Purpose 6,000 6,000 Maintenance 2,000 2,000 Capital Expenditure 6,000 6,000 Total: 33,000 6,000 39,000
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Economic Research Unit Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years
Name of the Title of the Name of the Year, Vol., Issue No., Page Scientist(s) Scientific Paper Journal Nos. of Publication Priyadarshi An Analysis of India Growth 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2 Banerjee Price and Interventions in Development an Era of Reform Review Reversals
Satya R. A Journal of 2011, Vol.9, Chakravarty Reconsideration Economic Pp.471-474. of the Tradeoffs Inequality in the New Human Development Index Satya R. On Tradeoffs in Indian Journal 2011, Vol.5, Chakravarty the Human of Human Pp.517-525. Development Development Indices Satya R. Measuring Ethnic Social Choice 2011,V ol.37, Chakravarty Polarization and Welfare Pp.431-452. and Bhargav Maharaj Satya R. Subgroup Chakravarty Decomposable Keio Economic 2011, Vol. 47, and Bhargav Inequality Indices Studies Pp.57-83. Maharaj and Reduced- Form Indices of Polarization Satya R. Stochastic Journal of 2012, Vol.147, Chakravarty Dominance Economic Pp.1331-1341. and C. Zoli Relations for Theory Integer Variable R. Barua Measuring P- Journal of 2012, Vol.1, Satya R. Power of Voting Economic Pp.81-91. Chakravarty Theory and and P.Sarkar Social Development
Satya R. Poverty and Time Journal of 2012, Vol. 10, Chakravarty, Economic Pp.145-162. W. Bossert and Inequality C. D’Ambrosio Satya R. Ethnic Journal of 2012, Vol.7, Chakravarty Polarization Economic Pp. 99-123. and Bhargav Orderings and Interaction and
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Maharaj Indices Coordination
Satya R. Multidimensional Review of 2013, Vol.59, Chakravarty, Poverty and Income and Pp.29-43. W. Bossert and Material Wealth C. D’Ambrosio Deprivation with Discrete Data Satya R. An Axiomatic Economic 2013, Vol. 35, Chakravarty Approach to the Modeling Pp. 874-880. and Measurement of Conchita Poverty D’Amrrosio Reduction Failure Satya R. Financial Journal of 2013, Vol. 35, Chakravarty Inclusion in Policy Modeling Pp. 813-837. and Rupayan India: An Pal Axiomatic Approach Satya R. Social Welfare Artha 2014, Vol. 22, Pp. 24-37. Chakravarty Equivalences of Beekshabn Stochastic (Journal of the Dominance Bengal Relations Economic Association) Arup Bose Richness Journal of 2014, Vol. 12, Pp. 5 – 22. Satya R. Orderings Economic Chakravarty Inequality and Conchita D’Amrrosio Satya R. Vulnerability Japanese 2015, Vol. 66, Pp. 300-310. Chakravarty Orderings for Economic Nachiketa Expected Poverty Review Chattopadhyay Indices and Liu Qingbin Satya R. Generalized Gini International 2015, Vol. 11, Chakravarty Polarization Journal of Pp.231-246. and Indices for an Economic Bhargav Ordinal Theory Maharaj Dimension of Human Well- Being,
Indraneel Does Journal of 2011, Vol. 9, No. 1, Dasgupta and Philanthropy Economic Pp. 1-21. R. Kanbur Reduce Inequality Inequality? Indraneel Repayment vs. Journal of 2011, Vol. 167, No. 2, Pp. 247- Dasgupta, Investment Institutional and 265. S. Bougheas Conditions and Theoretical and Exclusivity Economics O. Morrissey in Lending
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Contracts
Mother or Child? Journal of 2011, Vol. 2, No. 1, Article 2. Indraneel Intra-household Globalization Dasgupta redistribution and under gender Development asymmetric altruism Contraction Social Choice 2011, Vol.37, No.4, Indraneel Consistent and Pp. 643-658. Dasgupta Stochastic Welfare Choice Correspondence Globalization and History 2013, Vol. 76(1), Indraneel Economic Workshop Pp. 327-334. Dasgupta Injustice in Journal Modern India Ronelle Burger Why Pay NGOs Annals of Public 2015, Vol. 86 (1), Indraneel to Involve the and Cooperative Pp 7 – 31. Dasgupta Community? Economics and Trudy Owens Ronelle Burger A Model of Economic 2015, Vol. 64 (1), Indraneel Non Development Pp 71-111. Dasgupta governme and Cultural and Trudy ntal Change Owens Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
S. Das G. Economic Journal of 2014, Vol. 12, Sinha and Growth and Quantitative Pp. 86 – 95. T.K. Mitra Income Economics, New Inequality: Series Examining the Links in Indian Economy S. Das C. Remoteness, 2015, Vol. 66, Ghate and Urbanization, and World Pp. 572 – 587. P. Robertson India’s Development Unbalanced Growth S. Das,. R. Time Series of Journal of 2015, Vol. 34, Maiti, and Zero-inflated Forecasting Pp. 694–707. A. Biswas Counts and its Coherent Forecasting
Saswati Das & Measuring Child Indicators 2011, Vol. 4, No. 3, Pp. 453- Diganta Deprivation due Research 466. Mukherjee to Child Work
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and Child Labour: A study for Indian Children Saswati Das Child Labour and Indian Journal 2012, Vol.55, No. 2, Child work: of Labour Pp. 307-333. Pattern, Economics Deprivation and Determinants Saswati Das Inequality in Child Indicators 2016, Vol. 9(1), Educational Research Pp. 51-71. Opportunity in India: Evidence and Consequence of Social Exclusion Saswati Das Variations in Sarvekshana 2016, Pp. 103-124. Income Elasticity: An Analysis of Indian Household Budget Data.
Buddhadeb District Level European 2013, Vol. 1, No.1 Ghosh and Transition in Journal of Swagata Gupta India: A Test of Applied Social Divergence Science Research Buddhadeb The Key to One India One 2014, Vol. 17, No. 4 Ghosh Infrastructure People Development
Chandana Das Pitfalls in Rabindra 2013, Vol. 8, and Monetary Bharati Pp. 1 – 11. Ambar Ghosh Policy University Journal of Economics Globalisation, Artha Beekshan 2014, Vol. 22, No. 4, Crisis and Pp. 98-107. Chandana Das Automatic and Destabilisers, Ambar Ghosh Keynote paper in the Session on Global Economic Crisis in the 34th Annual Conference of Bengal Economic Association Chandana Das Interaction Social Sciences 2016, Vol. 6, Pp. 1 – 14, and between the Real ISSN: 1817-4604.
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Ambar Ghosh Sector and the and Financial Sector: S. Jha An Alternative to the IS-LM Model, Contemporary Issues and Ideas
Skilled-unskilled Manash Ranjan wage inequality Economic 2011, Vol. 28, Gupta and P.B. and Modelling Pp. 1977 – 1983. Dutta unemployment: a general equilibrium analysis Skilled-unskilled wage inequality, Manash Ranjan product variety, Economic 2012, Vol. 29, Gupta and P.B. public input and Modelling Pp. 502 – 513. Dutta increasing returns: a static general equilibrium analysis Manash Ranjan Endogenous 2013, Vol. 49, Gupta and Growth with Keio Economic Pp. 93-103 Trishita Ray Environmental Studies Barman Pollution and Depreciation of Public Capital: A Theoretical Note Manash Ranjan Skilled Unskilled Journal of 2014, Vol. 5, (1), Gupta and P.B. Wage Inequality, Globalisation Pp. 103 – 128. Dutta Growth of Skilled and Labour and Development Development Policies Manash Ranjan International Keio Economic 2014, Vol. 50, Gupta and P.B. Trade and Wage Studies Pp. 29 – 49. Dutta Inequality in a Dynamic Model Manash Ranjan Environmental Hitotsubashi 2015, Vol. 56 (1), Gupta and Pollution, Journal of Pp. 73 – 91. Trishita Ray Informal Economics Barman Sector, Public Expenditure and Economic Growth, C. Unionised Metroeconomica 2015, Vol. 66(3), Bhattacharyya Labour Market, Pp. 397 – 425. and Manash Unemployment
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Ranjan Gupta Allowances, Productive Public Expenditure and Endogenous Growth
Tarun Kabiraj Optimal Patent Singapore 2011, Vol. 56, No. 1, and Length in a Economic Pp. 51-59 S. Banerjee north-south Review framework: A comment Tarun Kabiraj Technology Trade and 2011, Vol. 4, No. 1, and C.C. Lee transfer in a Development Pp. 19 – 40. duopoly with Review horizontal and vertical product differentiation Tarun Kabiraj Licensing Theoretical 2011, Vol. 1, No. 3, and Ching contracts in Economics Pp. 57 – 62. Chyi Lee Hotelling Letters Structure Tarun Kabiraj Outsourcing Indo. Myanmar 2013, Vol. 1, No. 4 &5, Some Border Trade Pp. 6 – 17. Strategic Aspects Bulletin Tarun Kabiraj Strategic Economics 2014, Vol.34, (2), Pp.1133- and Outsourcing with Bulletin 1140. Uday Bhanu Technology Sinha Transfer under Cournot Competition Srobonti Incomplete Economics 2015, Vol. 35, (1), Chattopadhyay Information and Bulletin Pp. 14-20. and Tarun R&D Kabiraj Organization Tarun Kabiraj Foreign Entry, The Manchester 2015,Vol. 83, No. 6, and Acquisition School Pp 725-748. Uday Bhanu Target, and Host Sinha Country Welfare Tarun Kabiraj Cooperative Economics of 2015, Vol. 24, No. 6, and versus Non- Innovation and Pp. 624-632. Srobonti cooperative R&D New Technology Chattopadhyay Incentives under Incomplete Information Tarun Kabiraj India in a Global Eco Echos 2015, Vol. 15, Perspectives Pp. 33-35. Aditya Bhan Incentives for Indian 2016, Vol. 49, No. 2, and Product and Economic Pp 193-204. Tarun Kabiraj Process Review Innovations: A Case for Drug Industry
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Amita Estimating Review of 2011, Vo. 57, No. 1, Majumder Spatial Consumer Income and Pp. 138 – 155. Somnath Price Indices Wealth Chattopadhyay Through Engel and Dipankor Curve Analysis Coondoo Amita District-Level Journal of 2011, Vol. 38, No. 10, Majumder Poverty Applied Pp. 2327 – 2343. Somnath Estimation: A Statistics Chattopadhyay Proposed Method and Dipankor Coondoo The Calculation American 2012, Vol. 94, No. 5, Amita of Rural Urban Journal of Pp. 1218 – 1235. Majumder Food Price Agricultural Ranjan Ray Differentials Economics and from Unit Values Kompal Sinha in Household Expenditure Surveys: a new procedure and comparison with existing Methods Amita Temporal Indian Growth 2013, Vol. 6. No, 2 Majumder Comparisons of and Pp. 195 – 211. Ranjan Ray Prices, Development and Expenditure and Review Kompal Sinha Growth in India: A State-wise Analysis Amita Decomposition of 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1, Majumder, Inter regional Empirical Pp. 65 – 99. Somnath Poverty Gap in Economics Chattopadhyay India: A Spatial and Hasanur Approach Jaman
Amita Spatial Macroeconomic 2015, Vol. 19, Majumder Comparison of Dynamics Pp. 931 – 989. Ranjan Ray Prices and and Expenditure in a Kompal Sinha Heterogeneous Country: Methodology with Application to India Amita Estimating Review of 2015, Vol. 61, Issue 2, Majumder Purchasing Income and Pp. 302–328. Ranjan Ray Power Parities Wealth and from Household Kompal Sinha Expenditure Data
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Using Complete Demand Systems with Application to Living Standards Comparison: India and Vietnam Amita Estimates of Social DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-1124- Majumder and Spatial Prices in Indicators 1, 2015. Ranjan Ray India and their Research Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Items M. Household Journal of 2015, Vol. 42, Issue 12, Pp. Chakrabarty, Budget Share Applied 2754-2768. Amita Distribution and Statistics Majumder and Welfare J. Racine Implication: An Application of Multivariate Distributional Statistics M. Preferences, Journal of 2015, Vol. 51, No. 11, Chakrabarty, Spatial Prices and Development Pp. 1488–1501. Amita Inequality Studies Majumder and R. Ray
Manipushpak Group Games and 2011, Vol. 72, Mitra and Strategyproofness Economic Pp.242-254. Suresh in Queueing Behavior Mutuswami Models. Manipushpak An Alternative Mitra and Proof of Economics 2014, Vol. 124 (2), Debapriya Sen Fishburn’s Letter Pp. 168 – 170. Axiomatization of Lexicographic Preference Manipushpak Strategy- 2014, Vol. 9(2), Mitra proofness and Theoretical Pp. 361 – 381. Mridu Prabal Pareto-efficiency Economics Goswami and in Quasi-linear Arunava Sen Exchange Economies Manipushpak Egalitarian Economic 2014, Vol. 56(2), Mitra Equivalence and Theory Pp. 425 – 442. Youngsub Strategyproofness Chun and in the Queueing Suresh Problem
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Mutuswami Manipushpak Characterizations Mathematical 2014, Vol. 72, Mitra of Pivotal Social Sciences Pp. 62 – 66. Youngsub Mechanisms in Chun and the Queueing Suresh Problem Mutuswami Manipushpak Reversal of Journal of 2014, Vol. 170 (3), Mitra and Bertrand-Cournot Institutional and Pp. 496 – 519. Arghya Ghosh Rankings in the Theoretical Presence of Economics Welfare Concerns Manipushpak Subgroup European 2014, Vol. 238 (1), Mitra and Additivity in the Journal of Pp. 281 – 289. Youngsub Queueing Operational Chun Problem Research Manipushpak Privatization, Journal of 2015, Vol. 17(3), Mitra Underpricing and Public Pp. 433-460. Arghya Ghosh Welfare in the Economic and Presence of Theory Bibhas Saha Foreign Competition, Manipushpak A Games and DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2015.04.001, Mitra characterization Economic 2015 Youngsub of the Behavior Chun and symmetrically Suresh balanced VCG Mutuswami rule in the queueing problem Manipushpak Bidding rings-A Games and DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2016.03.007, Mitra bargaining Economic 2016. Kalyan Approach Behavior Chatterjee and Conan Mukherjee
Utpal Kumar Dimensions of Asian Economic 2011, Vol.1, No.1, De and Globalization and and Financial Pp. 1-13 Manoranjan their Effects on Review Pal Economic Growth and Human Development Trends in Socio- S. Bharati, M. Economic and Asia Pacific 2011, Vol. 23, No. 3, Pal, Nutritional Status Journal of Pp. 324 – 340. S. Chakrabarty of Under Six Public Health and Children in India P. Bharati
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Jadab Kumar Risk Factors Journal of Life 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pal, Associated with Science Pp. 147-156. Manoranjan Morbidity Pattern Pal of Working Hare Ram Children Tiwari and Premananda Bharati Manoranjan What Makes International 2011, Vol. 150, No. 3–4, Pp. Pal Child Labour Go Labour 375-386. Jadab Kumar to School? Review Pal Hare Ram Tiwari and Premananda Bharati Susmita Is Son Preference Journal of 2011, Vol. 20(3), Bharati, Pervasive in Gender Studies Pp. 291-298. Suparna India? Shome, Manoranjan Pal Prabir Chaudhury and Premananda Bharati Pronab Sen, Growth and Food and 2011, Vol. 32(2), Susmita Nutritional Status Nutrition Pp. 84-93. Bharati, of Pre-school Bulletin Suparna Som Children in India: Manoranjan A Comparison of Pal and Two Recent Time Premananda Periods Bharati Utpal Kumar Willingness to Asian-African 2011, Vol. 11, No. 2, De and Pay for Domestic Journal of Pp. 333-350. Manoranjan Water Use: A Economics and Pal Study of Hilly Econometrics Urban Area in North-East India Dipak Kumar Anthropological The 2012, Vol. 2, No. 2, Adak, Demography and Anthropology Pp. 40-55. Manoranjan its Historical Pal and Development in Premananda India Bharati Premananda Can Mother’s Human Biology 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2, Bharati, Education and Review Pp 207-221. Manoranjan Family Welfare Pal and Reduce Under- Susmita nutrition of Pre- Bharati school Children in India?
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Premananda Temporal Trend Asia-Pacific 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2, Bharati of Anemia among Journal of Pp. 1193 – 1207. Manoranjan Reproductive- Public Health Pal Aged Women in Susmita India Bharati and Suparna Som Premananda Variation in Journal of 2014, Vol. 46, No. 1, Bharati Height and BMI Biosocial Pp. 47 – 65. Manoranjan of Adult Indians Science Pal Susmita Bharati Suparna Som and Stanley Ulijaszek Susmita Autonomy of Asian Journal of 2013, Vol. 3, No. 8, Bharati Tribal Women in Research in Pp. 32-45 Manoranjan India Social Sciences Pal and & Humanities Premananda Bharati Premananda Morphometric Human Biology 2013, Vol. 2, No. 2, Bharati Variation among Review Pp. 153 – 175. Manoranjan the Central Indian Pal Populations Dipak Kumar Adak and Gautam Kumar Rajesh Susmita The Status of Health 2013, Vol. 5, No. 8D Bharati Infant Health in Pp. 14 – 22 Manoranjan India Pal and Premananda Bharati Premananda Bharati Variation in ence 2014, Vol. 47, No. 1 Manoranjan Height and BMI Pp. 47 – 65 Pal of Adult Indians Susmita Bharati Suparna Som and Stanley Ulijaszek S. Som, P. Variation of Human Biology 2014, Vol. 3, No. 3, Roy, Adult Heights Review Pp 242-257. M. Pal and P. and Weights in Bharati India: State & Zonewise
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Analysis J. Saha and A Modified Asian-African 2014, Vol. 14, No. 1, M. Pal Chow Test Journal of Pp. 57 – 67. Approach Economics and towards Testing Econometrics Differences in the Engel Elasticities Md. Golam Factors Hossain Associated with Advances in Life 2014, Vol. 4(2), Mst. Selina Age at Menarche Sciences Pp. 88 – 93. Khatun of Secondary Md. Rafiqul School Girls in Islam Rajshahi City, Md. Nazrul Bangladesh Islam Mondal Premananda Bharati and Manoranjan Pal Susmita Women Anthropology 2014, Vol. 2, No. 2, Bharati, Autonomy, Pp. 118. Manoranjan Nutritional and Pal and Immunization Premananda Status of their Bharati Children Susmita Socioeconomic Asia-Pacific 2015, Vol. 27(2), Bharati Determinants of Journal of Pp.1193– 1207. Manoranjan Iron-Deficiency Public Health Pal Anemia Among Suparna Som Children Aged 6 and to 59 Temporal Premananda Trend of Anemia Bharati among Reproductive- Aged Women in India Susmita Socioeconomic Asia-Pacific 2015, Vol. 27(2) Bharati Determinants of Journal of Pp. 1432 – 1443. Manoranjan Iron-Deficiency Public Health Pal Anemia Among Suman Children Aged 6 Chakrabarty to 59 Months in and India Premananda Bharati Utpal Kumar Global Warming International 2015, Vol. 36, No. 3, De and the Pattern of Journal of Pp. 88-105. Manoranjan Overall Climate Ecological Pal and Changes in Sub- Economics and Kamal Badosa Himalayan Statistics Assam Region of
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North-East India Suparna Shome Is Women The Asian Man 2015, Vol. 9, No. 1, Manoranjan Autonomy an Pp.1-12. Pal and Issue in Health Premananda Care? Evidences Bharati from Central and Eastern India
Abhirup Sarkar Understanding Economic and 2013, Vol. 18, No. 1 FDI in Retail: Political Weekly What can Economic Principles Teach Us Abhirup Sarkar Private Economic and 2014, Vol. XLIX, No. 13, and Investment in Political Weekly Pp. 44 – 52 Kausik Education: Gangopadhyay Evidence Across Castes and Religion from West Bengal Abhirup Sarkar Muslims in Economic and Gujarat and West Political Weekly 2014, Vol. XLIX, No. 38, Bengal: Comparing Prosperity and Vulnerability
Nityananda Long-Run Finance India 2011, Vol. 25, No. 3 Sarkar and Predictability in Pp. 817 – 834 Debabrata the Indian Stock Mukhopadhyay Market Nityananda Stock Returns International 2013, Vol. 5, No. 1, Sarkar and under Econometric Pp. 1 – 19. Debabrata Alternative Review Mukhopadhyay Volatility and Distributions Assumptions: The Case for India Mahua Barari Forecasting International 2014, Vol. 6(1), Nityananda House Prices in Econometric Pp. 1 – 23. Sarkar the United States Review Srikanta Kundu with Multiple and Structural Breaks Kushal Banik Chowdhury Shalini Comparison of International 2015, Vol. 7, No.1, Chandra and the Econometric Pp.1-12. Nityananda r − (k,d) Class Review Sarkar Estimator with
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Some Estimators under the Mahalanobis Loss Function Debabrata Convergence of Keio Economic 2015, LI, Pp.19-38. Mukhopadhyay Foodgrains Studies and Production across Nityananda Indian States: A Sarkar Study with Panel Data Kushal Banik The Effect of International 2015, Vol. 7, No. 1, Chowdhury Inflation on Econometric Pp. 34 – 50. and Inflation Review Nityananda Uncertainty in the Sarkar G7 Countries: A Double Threshold GARCH Model Mahamitra Das Asymmetry in the International 2015, Vol. 10, No. 2, and Nityananda Extracted Journal on Pp. 2014 – 211. Sarkar Housing Wealth Economics and Effects on Business Consumption Research
Snigdha An Exploratory Journal of 2012, Vol. 48.No.1, Chakrabarti Analysis of Development Pp.164-180. and Chaiti Women’s Studies Sharma Biswas Empowerment in India: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach Chaiti Sharma Status of Women Indian Journal 2016, Vol. 16, No. 2. Biswas in East India: Its of Social Measurement and Development Determinants
Souvik Roy On the Adjacency Linear and 2014, Vol. 62, No. 9, and Matrix of a Block Multilinear Pp. 406 – 418. R. B. Bapat Graph Algebra Souvik Roy, Multidimensional Journal of 2014, Vol. 153, Debasis Mishra Mechanism Economic Pp. 103 – 116. and Design in Single Theory Anup Pramanik Peaked Type Spaces Souvik Roy, Probabilistic Journal of 2014, Vol. 52 (C), Ton Storcken Strategy-proof Mathematical Pp. 1203 – 127. Hans Peters Rules over Economics and Single- Arunava Sen peakeddomains
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Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 1st January, 2011 to 30th June, 2011. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 1st February, 2011 to 30th July, 2011. Mahua Barari Mitra, Department of Economics, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA, 1st March, 2011 to 30th April, 2011. Rajlakshmi Mallik, NSHM Business School, Kolkata, 20th June, 2011 to 16th July, 2011. Bikas K., Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2011. Kalyan Chatterjee, Economics and Management Science, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 08th July, 2011 to 08th August, 2011. Debopam Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Wellington Square, OX1 2JD, United Kingdom, 18th August, 2011 to 18th September, 2011. Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 01st July, 2011 to 31st December, 2011 & 01st January, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 01st February, 2011 to 30th July, 2011 & 1st November 2011 to 31st March, 2012. Debasri Mukherjee, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, USA, 01st September 2011 to 31st January, 2012. Arghya Ghosh, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, 28th December, 2011 to 13th January, 2012. Nora Lustig, Department of Economics, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, 204 Tilton Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA, 29th December, 2011 to 07th January, 2012. Sarbajit Sengupta, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 1st January, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 20th May, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. Bikas K. Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2012. Atsuko Kamiike, 1522-3, Shimotakaoka, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, KAGAWA, 761-0704, Japan, 1st June, 2012 to 7th October, 2012. Girijasankar Mallick, School of Economics & Finance, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW, 1797, Australia, 1st November, 2012 to 31st December, 2012. Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA,12th July, 2012 to 6th August, 2012 & 11th March, 2013 to 15th March, 2013. Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 01st July, 2012 to 31st December, 2012 & 01st January, 2013 to 30th June, 2013. Conan Mukherjee, Flat No. 10, Biva Apartment Kajipara, Nagerbazar, Kolkata - 700 028, 1st June, 2012 to 28th February, 2013.
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Suresh Mutuswami, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 3rd January, 2011 to 10th January, 2011. Arghya Ghosh, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, 13th January, 2011 to 27th January, 2011. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 7th February, 2011 to 21st February, 2011. Suresh Mutuswami, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 23rd April, 2012 to 27th April, 2012. Suresh Mutuswami, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 2nd January, 2014 to 7th January, 2014. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 10th March, 2014 to 18th March, 2014. Indrajit Ray, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 18th August to 31st August, 2014.
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Linguistic Research Unit List of Important Scientific Papers over last 5 years (April 2011-March 2016)
Probal Dasgupta
2011: Dasgupta, Probal. Some milestones in language and cognition studies. Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Narayanan Srinivasan (eds.) Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. 272-290. 2011: Dasgupta, Probal. Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla. Indian Linguistics 72:103-112. 2011: Dasgupta, Probal. Agreement and non-finite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh, Ghanshyam Sharma (eds) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2011. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 35-48. 2012: Dasgupta, Probal. Co-representation of linguistic structures. Indian Linguistics 73:1-4.47- 59. 2012: Dasgupta, Probal. La politique linguistique et les langues indiennes moins répandues. Droit et Cultures 63:143-160. 2012: Dasgupta, Probal. Rephrasing the question of complex predicates in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh, Shishir Bhattacharja (eds.) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2012. Berlin/ New York: Mouton De Gruyter. 3-44. 2012: Dasgupta, Probal. Deriving the dialectic. Shivarama Padikkal; Tariq Khan (eds.) Vaagartha: A Festschrift for Prof. Padmakar R. Dadegaonkar. Hyderabad: Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad. 3-21. 2012: Dasgupta, Probal. Look across: The paradigmatic axis and Bangla causatives. Eric Reuland; Tanmoy Bhattacharya; Giorgos Spathas (eds.) Argument Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 213-237. 2013: Dasgupta, Probal. La rugho kaj la verdo: fi-trajto-inertaj sanskritidaj substantivoj en kunreprezenta analizo / Shamaantor protikriti-bisleshoner cokhe Bhaarotiyo Aarjo bhaashaar phaai-nishkriyo bisheshsho. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank (ed.) Littera Scripta Manent: Serta in Honorem Helmar Frank. Paderborn/ Prague: Akademia Libroservo. 182- 192. 2013: Dasgupta, Probal. The titular problem and the title mystery. Global Media Journal (Indian Edition) 3:2.1-14. [De jure 2012.] 2013. 2014: Dasgupta, Probal. Deriving the dialectic. Our Heritage 41.80-93. 2014. 2015: Dasgupta, Probal. Dialects, literature and thin description. Humanities Circle 3:1.117-128. 2015. 2015: Dasgupta, Probal. Bayaaner phalok [বয়ােনর ফলক]. Alochonachakra 39:9-16. 2015. 2015: Dasgupta, Probal. Shaangshkritik shaahosh aar Rabindranather Naibedya [সাং�ৃিতক সাহস আর রবী�নােথর ৈনেবদ뷍]. Arek Rakam 3:9.41-3. 2015. 2015: Dasgupta, Probal. Shaangshkritik ganotantrer baanaaner shandhaane [সাং�ৃিতক গণতে�র বানােনর স�ােন]. Arek Rakam 3:13.45-47. 2015. 2015: Dasgupta, Probal. Shankettattwer paadaanite [সংেকততে�র পাদািনেত]. Bwakalam 5:2.45-59. 2015. 2015: Dasgupta, Probal. Dek demandoj. Esperanto 108:10.198-199. 2015. 2016: Dasgupta, Probal. Jabaan-jominer aabaad [জবান-জিমেনর আবাদ]. Ebong Mushayera 22:3- 4.33-50. 2015-16. 2016: Dasgupta, Probal. The theater and classical India: some availability issues. Philosophy East and West 66:1.60-72. 2016. 2016: Dasgupta, Probal. Bishshobiddaalayer shaasti debar adhikaar aar Rohith Vemula [িব�িবদ뷍ালেয়র শাি� েদবার অিধকার আর েরািহত েভমুলা]. Arek Rakam 4:7.14-19. 2016.
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Niladri Sekhar Dash
2011: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) “Bengali Linguistics at the threshold of the twenty-first century”. In: Omkar Nath Koul (ed.) Indo-Aryan Linguistics. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. Pp. 235-264. 2011: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. 2011. Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102. 2011: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “The Bengali Script and the Unicode”. Print Out. 2011. Vol. 2. No. 8. Pp. 1-16. 2011: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Use of English corpora as a primary resource to teach English to the Bengali learners”. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2011. Vol. 37. No. 1. Pp. 7- 18. 2012: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “A Semasiological Investigation into the Nature of Figurative Usage of Animal Names in Bengali”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. 2012, Vol. 5. No. 1-2. Pp. 301- 312. 2012: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya”. Alochana Chakra. 2012. Vol. 32. Pp. 166-178. 2012: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Developing Scientific and Technical Terminology Database from Electronic Language Corpora”. Language Forum. 2012. Vol. 38. No. 1. Pp. 5-21. 2012: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “From KCIE to LDC-IL: Some Milestones in NLP Journey in Indian Multilingual Panorama”. Indian Linguistics. 2012. Vol. 73. No. 1-4. Pp. 129-146. 2012: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Language Specific Synsets in Bengali: Some Empirical Explorations”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. 2012. Vol. 1. No. 1-2. Pp. 189- 207. 2012: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Lexical Generativity of Bengali Prefixes: A Corpus Based Investigation”. Sino-US English Teaching. 2012. Vol. 9. No. 5. Pp. 1171-1180. 2013: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “Development of ELT Resources from English language corpora: some new methods”. In: Arvind M. Nawale and Prashant Mothe (ed.) (2013) Emerging Issues in English Language Teaching. New Delhi: GNOSIS. Pp. 176-198. 2013: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Development of ELT Resources from English Language Corpora: Some New Methods”. In, Arvind M. Nawale and Prashant Mothe (Ed.) Emerging Issues in English Language Teaching (ELT). New Delhi: GNOSIS. 2013. Pp. 176-198. 2013: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “English Language Corpora as a Secondary ELT Resource for Indian Learners”. Sino-US English Teaching. 2013. Vol. 10. No. 1. Pp. 10-22. 2013: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Linguistic Divergences in English to Bengali Translation”. International Journal of English Linguistics. 2013. Vol. 3. No. 1. Pp. 31-40. 2013: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bengali Written Text Corpus”. Journal of Linguistics and Technology. 2013. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 53-96. 2013: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) "Bangla Bhasay Pranibachak Shabda Byabaharer Samaj Manstattvik Ruparekha". Alochana Chakra. 2013. Vol. 34. No. 1. Pp. 169-199. 2014: Bishwa Ranjan Das, Srikanta Patnaik, Sarada Baboo, Niladri Sekhar Dash (2014) “A System for Recognition of Named Entities in Odia Text Corpus using Machine Learning Algorithm”. In: L.C. Jain, H.S. Behera, J.K. Mandal, and D.P. Mohapatra (eds.) Computational Intelligence in Data Mining. Verlag: Springer. Vol. 1. Pp. 315-324. 2014: Das, Bishwa Ranjan; Srikanta Patnaik and Niladri Sekhar Dash (2014) “Development of Odia language corpus from modern newspaper texts: some problems and issues”. In: Lakhmi C. Jain, S. Patnaik and N. Ichalkaranje (eds.) Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices: Advances of Intelligent and Systems and Computing, New Delhi: Springer India, Volume 309, 2015, pp., 515-522.
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2014: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “A Semasiological Investigation into the Nature of Figurative Usage of Animal Names in Bengali”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 32. No. 2. Pp. 37-50. 2014: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Baidyutin Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan”. Alochana Chakra. Suniti Kumar Chatterji 125 Special Issue. Vol. 37: 155 - 187. August, 2014. 2014: Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Investigating into the Patterns of Usage and Nature of Pronunciation of Some Consonant Grapheme Clusters in Bengali”. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies. 2014. Vol. 2. No. 2. Pp. 330-340. 2014: Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Arpita Ray (2014) “Investigating the Nature of Use of Animal Names in Bengali Written Texts”. Language Forum: Special Issue on Sociolinguistics. Vol. 40. No. 1-2. Jan-Dec 2014, Pp. 87-120. 2014: Dash, Niladri Shekhar (2014) “Consonant Graphic Variants in Bengali: Their Patterns of Usage and Their Nature of Pronunciation within Words”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 3. No. 1-2. Jan-Dec 2014, Pp. 168-186. 2014: Pal, Umapada and Niladri Sekhar Dash (2014) “Language, script and font recognition”. In: D. Dobermann and K. Tombre (eds.) Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition, Springer-Verlag, London (2014). Pp. 290-327. 2015: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) "Indian languages in School Education: the Case of West Bengal". In: Narayana, K.V. (2015) Indian languages in School Education System. Bengaluru: Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi Pradhikara, Pp. 132-148. 2015: Pal, Alok Ranjan, Diganta Saha and Niladri Sekhar Dash (2015) “Automatic Classification of Bengali Sentences based on Sense Definitions Present in Bengali WordNet”. International Journal of Control Theory and Computer Modelling. Vol. 5. No. 1. Pp. 1-13. 2015: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) “The history and methodologies of corpus development research in India”. In: Hock, Hans Henrich and Elena Bashir (eds.) (2015) The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia. Vol. 7. Pp. 736-744. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2015: Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Atul Aman (2015) “Generation of a Dialect Corpus in Khortha used in Jharkhand, India: Some Empirical Observations and Theoretical Postulations" Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 4. No. 1-2. Jan-Dec 2015. Pp. 151-161. 2015: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) "Marking Words with Part-of-Speech (POS) Tags within Text Boundary of a Corpus: the Problems, the Process and the Outcomes". Translation Today. Vol. 9. No. 1. Pp. 5-24. 2015: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) “Syntactic, lexical, and semantic-cum-cultural barriers in English to Bengali translation”. International Journal of Translation. Vol. 27. No. 1&2. Jan-Dec 2015. Pp. 49-73.
VISITING SCIENTISTS TO LRU
2011-2012 [1] Sahay, Poonam Dept. of English, Ranchi University, Jharkhand, July, 2011.
[2] Jha, Girish Nath, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, May, 2011.
2012-2013 [1] Ghosh, Rajat, Director of Studies, English Language, Majan University College, Ruwi, The Sulatanate of Oman, visited LRU 16th - 20th July 2012.
[2] Selvraj, Arulmozi, Dravidian University, Kuppam, India visited LRU from 3rd – 6th May 2012.
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2013-2014 (a) Bayer, Josef, University of Konstanz, Germany, 19-28 February 2014
(b) Das, Debopam, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 28-30 August 2013.
(c) Ghosh, Rajat, Majan University College, Oman, 12 August 2013.
(d) Majumder, Tapas, Cognizant Technology Solutions India, 20 September 2013.
(e) Saha, Jay, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 9-10 September 2013.
(f) Sahay, Poonam, Ranchi University, India, 30th September – 1st October 2013.
2014 – 2015 (a) Ray, Arpita, IIIT, Hyderabad, visited LRU on 6 -7 May 2014.
(b) Chandra, Pritha, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, 2-13 November 2014.
(c) Kar, Somdev, IIT-Ropar Visiting LRU 23 December 2014.
(d) Rajendran, S., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, 8-15 February 2015.
(e) Nandy, Paromita, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India 5-6 February 2015
(f) Schenkel, Elmar, Dept. of English, Leipzig University, Germany, 24 February 2015.
2015-2016
[1] Arpita Ray, IIIT, Hyderabad, 6-7 May 2015.
[2] Parteek Bhatia, Thapar University, Patiala, 19-21 August 2015.
[3] Pratibha Bhattacharya, Dept. of Linguistics, Delhi University, 28th August 2015
[4] Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik/ Department of Databases and Information Systems/ Saarbruken/ Germany, 30th December 2015.
[5] Arpita Bose, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Reading University, UK, 11-12 February 2016.
[6] Claudia Lange, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, 15-19 February 2016.
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Population Studies Unit Research Publications in the Population Studies Unit (2011 – 2016)
Barman, Subhash (2013). Socio-economic and demographic differentials of contraceptive usage in Indian states: A study based on NFHS data, Journal of Human Ecology, 42(1), 53-68. Barman, Subhash (2013). Socio-economic and demographic determinants of unmet need for family planning in India and its consequences, Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(3), 62-75. Barman, Subhash (2011). Socio-economic and demographic impact on child labour in India, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 3(2), 376-403. De, Partha, Dhar, Arpita (2013) Inequality in Child Mortality across different States of India: A Comparative Study; Journal of Child Health Care, 17(4): 397–409, December 2013, Sage Publications, London, United Kingdom. DOI: 10.1177/1367493512468359. De, Partha, Dhar, Arpita, Bhattacharya, B.N. (2012) Efficiency of Health Care System in India: An Inter-State Analysis using DEA Approach; Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 482-506, Taylor & Francis, Routledge. Pandey, Arvind, Bhattacharya, B.N, Sahu, D., De, Partha, Gulati, B.K., Shukla, A.K. , Mitra, R.G., Mohan, Pavitra. (2012) Infant and Child Mortality in India: Levels, Trends and Determinants, National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and UNICEF India Country Office, New Delhi, India (UNICEF Publication: unicef.in/Uploads/Publications/Resources/pub_doc35.pdf). Datta Pranati (2011). Female Trafficking and Illegal Migration from Bangladesh to India, Pakistan Journal of Women Studies, 18(1), 47-62. Datta Pranati (2011). Trafficking and Illegal Female Nepali Migration in India, International Journal of Afro Asian Studies, 2(1), 34-44. Datta, Pranati. (2011). Immigration from Bangladesh to India: Causes, Consequences and Policy, International Journal of Mainstream Social Sciences, 1(2), 11-22. Datta, Pranati. (2011) Clustering of Nepali Female Migrants in West Bengal, Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, U.K. De and B.N. Ghosh (eds) LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, Pp 267-276. Sadhu Swati, Bhattacharya Bishwanath, Pal Monoranjan and Bharati Premananda (2012) Child Immunization Coverage in Rural India and Its Determinants. Gender Issues and Empowerment of Women. NOVA Science Publications, Inc.New York. Pp 149-164 Ghosh Buddhadeb and Gupta Swagata (2013) District Level Divergence in India in Post - reform Period: Relationship between Infrastructure, Vulnerable Class and Purchasing Power. European Journal of Applied Social Sciences Research, 1 (1), 1-22, June. Pasupuleti, S.S.R., Pathak, P. & Santosh Jatrana (2016). Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: a cohort approach. Accepted for publication in Journal of Biosocial Science. EISSN: 1469-7599.
Pasupuleti, S.S.R., Jatrana, S., & Richardson, K. (2015). Effect of nativity and duration of residence on chronic health conditions among Asian immigrants in Australia: a longitudinal investigation. Journal of Biosocial Science, 48(3): 322-341. EISSN: 1469- 7599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021932015000206 Jatrana, S. & Pasupuleti, S.S.R. (2015). Women’s autonomy, education and birth intervals in India: visiting the less familiar. Asian Population Studies, 11(2):134-148. ISSN: 1744-1730 (Print), 1744-1749 (Online).
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441730.2015.1050083?journalCode=rap s20 Pasupuleti, S.S.R. & Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2013). Probability distributions of number of children and maternal age at various order births using age-specific fertility rates by birth order, Sankhya Series B 75(2):374-408.
VISITING SCIENTISTS (Last 5 Years)
YEAR (2012-13)
M. Nazrul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. M. Taj Uddin, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
YEAR (2014-15)
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia.
YEAR (2015-16)
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia.
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Psychology Research Unit
Journal Publications for last five years (2012-2016):
Kundu, A. and Dutta Roy, Debdulal (2016). Innovative work behaviour of School teachers: role of belief for Innovation and personality patterns. Journal of Organisation and Human Behaviour, 5, 1, 21-28 (in print) Datta, Sumona and Dutta Roy, Debdulal (2015). Construction of Test Measuring Mental Rotation Ability of Adolescent High School Students.The International Journal of Indian Psychology, 3, 2, 5, 91-100 Dutta Roy, D. (2015). Rabindrik value orientations of war returned senior rank police officers. Journal of Organization & Human Behaviour, 4, 4, 2015. Datta, Sumona and Dutta Roy, Debdulal (2015). Abstract reasoning and spatial visualization in formal operational stage. International journal of scientific and research publications, 5, 10, 1-6. Shah, H. and D. Dutta Roy (2015). Structure of Rabindrik human values. Indian Journal of Positive Psychology. 5, 4, 368-375. Dutta Roy, D. and Gupta, P. (2014). Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28,2, (in print) Dutta Roy, D and Bhaduri, S (2014). Gender and Rabindrik value orientation. Psybernews, 5,1, Santosh. S., Dutta Roy. D&Kundu P.S. (2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry; 23:65-70. Dutta Roy, D and Basu, D. (2013). Rabindrik work value preference. Psybernews, 4, 2, 82-89. Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh, S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012). Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120.
Book chapter publications (2012-2016)
1. Gupta, P. and Dutta Roy, D. (2015). IMPACT OF ATTITUDE ON ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY IN FIRST LANGUAGE. In Panch Ramalingam (Ed.) School Psychology: Prospects to Multiple Disabled Children. M/S Cambridge Scholars Publishers, United Kingdom (In Press).
2. Dutta Roy, D. (2015). PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY IN INDIA. In Panch Ramalingam and Indranee Phookon Barooah (Eds.), School Psychology: Enhancing Psychological competencies. (in Press).
3. Dutta Roy, D. (2014). READING MOTIVATION OF TRIBAL STUDENTS IN TRIPURA AND MANIPUR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY. In Niladri Pradhan (Ed.) Tribal Education in India: Challenges and strategies. Kolkata: FIRMA KLM Pvt.Ltd.159-180.
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4. Dutta Roy, D. (2014). DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS: PROBLEM OF TEACHER EDUCATION. In Roy, R. (Ed.) Education for sustainable development. New Delhi: Shipra Publications. 126-137.
LIST OF VISITING SCIENTISTS OF THE PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT (2011-16)
2011-12
Visiting Scientist.
Basu, Jayanti, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, March 07, 2012. Banerjee, Pallavi, Department of Psychology, Bethune College, Kolkata, March 07, 2012. Chakrabartty, S.N., Galgotias Business School, Noida, January 03, 2012. Chatterjee, Susmita, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, March 26, 2012. Gonzalvo, Roman, Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain, November 01, 2011–January 31, 2012. Sengupta, Atri, Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, February 29, 2012. Subhadarshini, Soumya, Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune, December 07, 2011.
2012-13
Chatterjee, Susmita, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, December 07, 21, 28, 2012; January 07, 11, 18, 2013 and March 15, 25, 26, 2013. Chakrabarty, S.N., Galgotias Business School, Noida, March 25, 2013. Thakur, G.P., Indian School Psychology Association, Chennai, January 07, 2013.
2013-14 Coulacoglou, Carina, Greece, January 15, 2014. Chatterjee, Susmita, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, September 07, October 25, and November 01, 2013.
2014-15
Basak, Rituparna, Department of Psychology, Salesian College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, April 01 -July, 2014. Chatterjee, Susmita, Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata, April 29, May 06 and 08, 2014. Chatterjee, Madhabi, Teachers College, Columbia Unoiversity, New York, USA, February 20, 2015.
2015-16
Adhikari, Mitali, Senior Lecturer of Nursing Training College, Calcutta Medical College, February-26, 2016.
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Bandyopadhyay, Souvik, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, August- 17, 2015. Bhattacharya, Swaha, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, February- 26, 2016. Bhattacharya, Swaha, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, January-21, 2016. Basu, Jayanti, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, March -22, 2016. Das Gupta, Sadhan, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, February-17, 2016. Das, Koel, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IISER. August-19, 2015. Jana, Amlan, Assistant Professor, K.P.C. Medical College, Kolkata, February-16, 2016. Mukherjee, Divyagopal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R. G. Kar Medical College, August-17, 2015. Mondal, Shankar, Uday, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R. G. Kar Medical College, February-16, 2016. Mukherjee, Divyagopal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R. G. Kar Medical College, February-16, 2016. Mukhopadhyay, Susmita, Assistant Professor, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT, Kharagpur. February-17, 2016. Pyne, Saumyadipta, Professor, University of Hyderabad, August-17, 2015. Pandey, G.K. Director- Professor, Departmant of Epidemiology, August-19, 2015. Pal Nilanjana, Assistant Professor, Haldia Medical College, February-16, 2016. Pandey, Arvind, Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi, February-17, 2016. Poddar, Ashok, Ex- Secretary (Actuarial), Central office, LIC, Mumbai, February-16, 2016. Pahwa, Khuswant, Actuary, New Delhi, February-16, 2016. Ray, Anjali, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, March – 4, 2016. Sharma, K.. Narendra, Retried Professor, IIT Kanpur, February-17, 2016.
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Sociological Research Unit (SRU) PUBLICATION OF DCSW MEMBERS (2011 – 2016)
Dr. Bhola Nath Ghosh
Papers Published in Journals
2016: “Involvement of Women in Natural Resource Collection in Rural Jharkhand, India”, Utpal Kumar De & (B. N. Ghosh), in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 23 (2) 1-18, @2016 CWDS, SAGE Publications, sagepub.in/home.nav, DOI: 10.1177/0971521516635326, http://ijg.sagepub.com, SAGE
2015: “Empowerment as an Indicator of Development of Tribal Women in rural Jharkhand”, (B.N. Ghosh), in Indian Sociological Society, E-Journal, July- December, 2015, Volume 1, Number 1, P-102-120, New Delhi.
2015: “Outsourcing Babies: A Discourse of Surrogacy and the Attitude of Today’s Youth in India”, Sreyashi Ghosh & (B.N. Ghosh), Journal of Rural and Community Affairs, Vol. I, No. I, May-Nov., 2015, P-158-178, Published by: Tufangung Mahavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, West Bengal.
2014: “Causes of HIV/AIDS in underdeveloped Countries: A critical Review”, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, (B.N. Ghosh), Volume 5, Issue 6, pp 308- 312, ISSN: 0976-3376, www.journalajst.com, June 2014.
2014: “Contextualizing Intergenerational Mobility of Women ‘Techies’ of Kolkata”, Asmita Bhattacharya & (B.N. Ghosh), Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, the Official Journal of Bangladesh Sociological Society, (committed to the Advancement of Sociological Research & Publication), Volume 11, Number 1 January 2014, pp. 38-53, ISSN1819-8465, www.bangladeshsociology.org,
2014: “Development of Tribal Women in Rural Jharkhand”, (B.N. Ghosh), The Grassroots Governance Journal, Volume XI, No.2, July- December, 2013, pp. 243- 257 ISSN 0973-0257, Published by Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India.
2014: “Existing status of co-operatives specially milk co operatives in India: The case study of west Bengal”, (B.N. Ghosh), Ranjit Karmakar and Kamalakhya Das, The Grassroots Governance Journal, Volume XI, No.1, January-June 2013, pp. 6-20, ISSN 0973-0257, Published by Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India.
2013: “Gender Inclusivity in Information Communication Technology: Some Policy Indications”, (B.N. Ghosh) & Asmita Bhattacharya, International Journal of Humanities and Social Invention, ISSN (Online): 2319-7722, ISSN (Print) 2319-7714, www.ijhssi.org, Vol. 2, No. 6, June, PP. 61-65.
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2013: “Ethnicity: A Continuum on Education”, (B.N. Ghosh) & Sujata Chakraborty, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 02, p. 128 - 147, ISSN: 2161- 6248, Website: www.journalajst.com.
2012: “Concept and Implications of Empowerment of Women in North-East India: A Case Study”, (B.N.Ghosh), Society Today: An Interdisciplinary of Social Sciences, Vol.2, PP. 1-19, December, ISSN 2319-3328, available online at http//www.society today.
2012: “Co-operatives: A few words”, (B.N. Ghosh), Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol.4, No. 11. PP. 050-053, ISSN: 0976- 3376, Website: www.Journalajst.com.
2012: “Gender differences specially in health: A Case study in Meghalaya and Tripura”, (B.N. Ghosh), Journal of Humanities and Social Science (JHSS), Vol.4, No. 6 (November. - December, pp. 18-25, ISSN: 2279-0837, ISBN: 2279-0845, 0461825, can be checked at www.doi.org
2012: “Women in Indian Information Technology (IT) Sector: A Sociological Analysis” (B.N. Ghosh) & Asmita Bhattacharya, Journal of Humanities and Social Science (JHSS), Vol. 3, No. 6 (Nov.- Dec.), PP 45-52, ISSN:2279-0837, ISBN: 2279- 0845, www.Oosrjournals.org, DOI: 10.9790/0837-0364552, can be checked at www.doi.org
2011: “Singur: A Case Study for Industrialization”, (B.N. Ghosh), South Asian Anthropologist, 2: 115-120, ISSN: 0257-7348.
2011: “Helpless Women: in the Context of the Present Fundamentalism & Globalization”, (B.N.Ghosh), Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Vol. 4, No. 4, June, ISSN 0976- 5212, Pp., 86-97.
2011: “Problems of Education of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes: A case study in Kolkata and Surroundings and Medinipur and Surrounding Areas”, (B.N. Ghosh), US- China Education Review, David Publishing, USA, June, Vol. 8, No.6, ISSN 1548-6613.
2011: “Women in Information Communication Technology” (B.N. Ghosh) & Asmita Bhattacharyya, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 2, No. 3, Pp. 006- 014, March, ISSN: 0976- 3376, Website: www.Journalajst.com.
Papers Published in books
2015: “Empowerment: Status of Muslim women in West Bengal”, with Sarmistha Das & (B.N. Ghosh), in Women Empowerment in India: Challenge Ahead edited by Debasis Mazumdar and at el. Published by Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya, 2015, ISBN 978- 81-923645-7-5, pp.220-227, Kolkata.
2014 : “Poverty eradication programmes in India: Actions Taken & Impacts Made”, M .Pal, (B.N.Ghosh) & P. Bharati Social Work and Social Development, Volume III, edited by Sven Hessle, Stockholm, Sweden, Ashgate Publishing Company, USA.
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2013 : “Process of Development of Women in Rural Jharkhand”, in P. DASH SHARMA and D. Chatterjee (eds.), Livelihood and Health: Issues and Process in Rural Development, (B.N.Ghosh), Serial Publications, New Delhi, pp. 92-105. ISBN: 978- 81-8387-629-2
2012 : “Gender Budgeting, Resource Control & Empowerment of Women: A Study in Meghalaya” in Abdul Motin (ed.) Gender Budgeting: State Towards Justice: (B.N.Ghosh), (Conceptual and Empirical No), Dasgupta & Company Publication House, Kolkata, Pp. 27-37, ISBN: 978-81- 8211-088-5, ISBN: 978-81-8211-0885
2011: “Empowerment of Rural Women in Backward Region of India: A comparative Study of Jharkhand, Tripura and Meghalaya” U. K. De & (B. N. Ghosh) (eds) Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, Pp. 111- 146, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-8433- 9497-0,(www.lap-publishing.com), Germany.
2011: “Women in Information Communications Technology (ICT): Opportunity and Constraint” Asmita Bhattacharya & (B.N.Ghosh), in U. K. De & B. N. Ghosh (eds) Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, Pp. 277- 289, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-8433- 9497-0,(www.lap- publishing.com), Germany.
Papers Published in Conference Proceedings
2015: “Women in Natural Resource Collection: Experience from Rural Jharkhand in Rural India”, (B.N.Ghosh) & Utpal Kumar De, in AIP Proceedings, The Second ISM International Statistical Conference 2014(ISM-II), (B.N.Ghosh), AIP Conference Proc.1643,476-486 (2015); doi:10.1063/1.4907483@2015 AIP Publishing LLC 978-0-7354-1281-1.
Book (s) Published
2015: Bengali Translated by Himanshu Ghosh, Gramin Netritya O Unnayan, (B.N. Ghosh), Pragatisil Prakasak, 37A, College Street, Kolkata-700 073, Total Page 222, ISBN: 978-81-89846-62-6
2015: Empowerment of Women in North East in India, (B.N.Ghosh) Concept Publishing Company (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Total Page 183+xxiii, ISBN- 13:978-93- 5125-104-0,
2012: Gender Issues & Empowerment of Women, edited by Manoranjan Pal, Prasanta Pathak, Premananda Bharati, (B.N. Ghosh) & Amita Majumdar, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, Total pp. xxii + 323, Price USD 69, (www.novapublishers.com) ISBN 978-1-62100-407-3 (hbk).
2011: Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, edited by U. K. De & (B. N. Ghosh), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Dudweiler Landstr, 99, 66123, Saarbrucken, ISBN: 978-3-8433-9497-0, Total pp. 310, Price 79 EURO, ( www.lap-publishing.com), Germany. ISBN: 978-3-8433-9497-0.
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DR. SUPARNA SHOME
Paper published in Journals
1. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan; Shome, Suparna and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Temporal Trend of Anemia Among Reproductive-Aged Women in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 27 : 1193-1207.
2. Shome S. Women’s intra-household decision making power in Jharkhand state, India, International Journal of Current Research. 7 (1), 11742-11747, 2015.
3. Shome S, Pal M and Bharati P : Is women autonomy an issue in health care: Evidences from Central and Eastern India, The Asian Man, 9(1), 1-12, 2015.
4. Shome S, Srimani P, De (Bose) A and Bharati P. Height, weight and BMI of the teenagers: A Comparative Study of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa, Human Biology Review, 3(2) 116-139, 2014.
5. Som, Suparna; Ulijaszek, Stanley; Pal, Manoranjan; Bharati, Susmita and Bharati, Premananda. 2014. Variation in height and BMI of adult Indians. Journal of Biosocial Science. 46 (1) : 47-65.
6. Shome S, Roy P, Pal M and Bharati P. Variation of Adult Heights and Weights in India: State and Zonewise Analysis. Human Biology Review, 3(3) 242-257, 2014.
7. Bharati, S., Shome, S., Pal, M., Chaudhury, P and Bharati, P. 2011. Is Son Preference Pervasive in India? Journal of Gender Studies , 20 (3) : 291-298.
8. Sen Pronab, Bharati Susmita, Som Suparna, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. 2011. Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in india: a study of two recent time periods. Food and nutrition bulletin, 32 (2) : 84 – 93.
Paper Published in Book 1. Shome S, Pal M and Bharati P: Levels of undernutrition among the tribes of central India, Recent researches on the tribes of Central India, B Tripathy and B Mohanta (eds), AAYU publication, New Delhi. pp 337-344. 2016.
2. Suparna Shome, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. Relation among socio-economic status, body mass index and diabetes in India: An overview from National data, Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK (eds) Mittal Publication, NewDelhi, pp.67-78. 2015.
3. Papiya Roy, Suparna Som, Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati. Intra and Inter-State Variation of Height and Weight in North-Eastern States of India, Explorations in anthropology of North East India Sarthak Sengupta (ed), Gyan Publishing House 23, Main Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002, India, pp179- 188. 2015.
4. Bharati, S., Pal.M., Som, S and Bharati, P. Empowerment of Women Through Household Decision Making Power in India: A State Wise Analysis. Edited M. Pal, P. Pathak, P. Bharati, B. Ghosh and A. Majumder (eds.), Gender Issues and
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Empowerment of women, NOVA Science Publishers. Inc. New York, 109-127, 2012.
5. Suparna Shome, Manoranjan Pal, Dipak Adak and Premananda Bharati. Adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in the North East States of India. People of contemporary North East India. Tiluttoma Baruah (ed) Pratishruti publication, Guwahati. 9-25, 2011. Books Shome Suparna and Bharati Premananda.: Women Autonomy and Its Influence On Safe Motherhood. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, pages 148, 2014.
DR. TIRTHANKAR GHOSH
Ghosh Tirthankar & Kamalaksha Das, ‘Rural Development and the Dalits: With Special Reference to Jharkhand’, in a Conference Proceedings, National Conference on Interdisciplinary Researches in Social Sciences in Eastern India with Special Reference to Jharkhand’, organized by Indian Statistical Institute, at Giridih, during 27-28 February 2014.
Ghosh, Tirthankar, H. Bhattacharya, R. Jana A. Ghosh: ‘Studding performance of old adults under special adult literacy programme of Tripura’, Proceedings of 17th Biennial Conference of Association of Gerontology, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, September 15-16, 2014 India
Ghosh Tirthankar, ‘Globalisation, Social Justice and Development: With Special Reference to Dalits of Jharkhand”, in the Proceedings of twoday international seminar on ‘Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice: Perspectives, Issues and Concerns’, at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow held on February 25-26 2016.
DR. SUSMITA BHARATI
Paper published in Journals
1. Bharati S, Pal M and Bharati P. 2015. Declining patterns of average height of adult Indians between 20 and 49 years: State wise trends and influence of socioeconomic factors. In R Dasgupta Edited Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modelling, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
2. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan; Shome, Suparna Shome and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Temporal Trend of Anemia Among Reproductive-Aged Women in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 27: 1193-1207.
3. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan, Chakrabarty Suman and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Socioeconomic determinants of iron-deficiency anemia among children aged 6 to 59 months in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 27: 1432-1443.
4. Bharati, Susmita. 2015. Domestic violence against women in Jharkhand. International Journal of Current Research. 7 (I), 11748-11752.
5. Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P.2014. Women Autonomy, Nutritional and
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Immunization Status of their Children. Anthropology,, 2 (2), 118.
6. Bharati, S; Pal, M and Bharati, P. 2013. The status of Infant health in India. Health. 5: 14-22.
7. Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P. 2013. Autonomy of Tribal Women in India. Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities. 3: 32-45.
8. Bharati, S,. Pal, M., Bandyopadhyay, M., Bhakta, A., Chakrabarty, S and Bharati, P. 2011. Prevalence and causes of low birth weight in India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301- 313, 2011. 9. Bharati, S., Shome, S., Pal, M., Chaudhury, P and Bharati, P. 2011. Is Son Preference Pervasive in India? Journal of Gender Studies, 20 (3): 291-298.
10.Sen Pronab, Bharati Susmita, Som Suparna, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. 2011. Growth and Nutritional Status of pre-school children in India: A study of two recent time periods. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 32 (2): 84 – 93.
11. Bharati, S., Pal, M., Chakrabarty, S and Bharati, P. 2011. Trends in Socio-Economic and Nutritional Status of Children younger than 6 years in India, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 23. (3): 324-340.
Paper Published in Book 1. Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Dipak Adak and Premananda Bharati. Idelogy of son preference in north east India. People of contemporary North East India. Tiluttoma Baruah (ed) Pratishruti publication, Guwahati. 84-97, 2011. 2. Bharati, S., Pal. M., Som, S and Bharati, P. Empowerment of Women Through Household Decision Making Power in India: A State Wise Analysis. Edited M. Pal, P. Pathak, P. Bharati, B. Ghosh and A. Majumder (eds.), Gender Issues and Empowerment of women, NOVA Science Publishers. Inc. New York, 109-127, 2012.
3. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Premananda. 2013. Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children: A comparative study of Jharkhand, Bihar and WB in Dasgupta R edited Advances in Growth Curve Models, Springer, New York. Pp. 257-270.
4. Susmita Bharati. Dual burden of malnutrition among Indian women: A comparative analysis between NFHS-3 and NFHS-2. In: Kaushik Bose, Edited, Human Malnutrition: Twin Burdens of Undernutrition and Overnutrition, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge, New. York., pp. 165-176, 2013.
5. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Premananda.2015. Social dimensions related to under nutrition among adult men. In: Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK edited Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, pp. 21-31.
6. Bharati, Premananda Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Susmita.2015. Determinants of nutrition-deficient anaemia among adult Indian men. In: Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK edited Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, pp. 33-42.
Books Bharati, S., Golam Hossain, M and Bharati, P.: Variability of Human Head Form in India.
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, pages 168, 2012.
DR. RABINDRANATH JANA
Published paper (2011-16) of Rabindranath Jana
Jana, Rabindranath: Means and variances of some statistics in simple social network with given out-degrees, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol.63 (Special 7-th Triennial Proceedings Volume), Nos. 249-252, pp. 359-369, 2011.
Jana, Rabindranath: Importance of weighted social networks in diffusion of agricultural innovations: An empirical study. Sociology in the 21st century: The first decade. A book on Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Level Conference held on December 2010. Published by Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College and Sociological Association of West Bengal, Barrackpore 2011, pp. 93-101, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6.
Jana, Rabindranath: On Social Networks: formation, data and few analytic techniques. As invited speaker in the ‘Workshop on Social Networks’, jointly organized by Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, during 20-24 February, 2012. website DOI: http://www.imsc.res.in/~sitabhra/meetings/ socialnetwork0212/talks/Rabindranath_Jana.pdf
Jana, Rabindranath, Bandyopadhyay, Suraj and Choudhuri, Anil: Reciprocity among farmers in farming system research: Application of social network analysis, Journal of Human Ecology, 41(1): 45-51, 2013 .
Jana, Rabindranath and Choudhuri, Anil: Studying various aspects of social networks with socio- economic changes in a rural area: A case study from West Bengal, Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, Nos. 1&2, pp.1-29, 2013.
Misra, Sanchayeeta, Goswami Rupak, Basu, Debabrata and Jana, Rabindranath: Application of Social Network Analysis in Livelihood System Study, Space and Culture, India, Vol.2, Number 3, pp. 24-46, 2014.
Choudhuri, Anil. K. and Jana, Rabindranath. (2014): Social Network Analysis Approach for Studying Caste, Class and Social Support in Rural Jharkhand and West Bengal: An Empirical Attempt, in Mrutyunjaya Panda, Satchidananda Dehuri and Gi-Nam Wang(eds.), Social Networking ‐ Mining, Visualization, and Security, Vol.65, pp. 147-200, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer.
Jana, Rabindranath and Bagchi, S. B.: Distributional Aspects of Some Statistics in Weighted Social Networks, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 39: 1-28, 2015.
DR. SONALI CHAKRABORTY
Published in journal: 1) Chakraborty Sonali and Chattopadhyay Molly: A Comparative Study on Gender Segmentation in Organized and Unorganized Manufacturing Sector of India, Indian Labour Journal 56(6), 585-596, 2015.
2) Chakraborty Sonali: Employment Situation in Jharkhand, Journal of Economic & Social Development, 11(01), 1-10, 2015. 3) Sonali Chakraborty and Molly Chattopadhyay: Occupational Segregation and Wage, Demography India. 42(1), 47-63, 2015.
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4) Sonali Chakraborty (December, 2013) Occupational Gender Segregation in India: Research journali’s Journal of Economics Vol.1/ No.2. pp. 1-31 ISSN 2347-8233(web journal)
5) Molly Chattopadhyay, Sonali Chakraborty and Prof. Richard Anker ‘Sex segregation in India’s formal manufacturing sector’ International Labour Review, Vol. 152 (2013), No. 1, pp. 43-58
6)Sonali Chakraborty ‘EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION’ The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2012 p.p 485- 500
7)Chattopadhyay Molly and Chakraborty Sonali,2009, Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the Pattern of Segregation in the factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01’ Critical Issues’ Vol-2 p.p 91-98
8)Prasanta Pathak and Sonali Chakraborty,2009 ‘Statistical Models for finding out determinants of potentiality to get absorbed in jobs for different of labours in three north Indian states’ Indian Journal of Regional Science, vol xxxxi, p.p 91-102.
Visitors/ Lectures/ Seminars (2011 – 2016)
Dixit, Anita, Centre for Economics Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University (26.01.2011): Regional Inequality - A Review of Literature. Sen, Sudarshana, Alia University (4.03.2011): Anglo-Indian Women, Some Reflections on Their Experiences. Swaminathan, Hema, and Lahoti, Rahul Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (22.03.2011): In her Name: Gender Asset Gap in Karnataka. Dixit, Anita, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK, December 01, 2010-March 31, 2011. Mallick, Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata (27.06.2012): Measuring Quality of Life in the Sundarbans Region. Mohanti, B.B., Department of Sociology, Pondicherry University (27.07.2012): Farmer Suicides: Durkheim in India. Mallick, Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata, May 01, 2012–June 30, 2012. Mohanti, B.B., Department of Sociology, Pondichery University, September 30-October 17, 2012. Rahman, Taimur, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, November 01- 30, 2012. Das, Rajat Kanti, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal (28.03.2014): Kinship, Society and Politics: when do they converge. Ganguly, Ramanuj, Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal (11.02.2014): Gendered understanding for gender in Indian Society: A critical look ahead. Ghosh, Biswajit, Department of Sociology, University of Burdwan, West Bengal (14.02.2014): Legal Strategies to curb violence against women and girl child at home: a critical review of some laws in India. Ghosh, Himanshu, West Bengal College Service Commission (20.02.2014): Right to equality: Indian women. Maruthakutti, Rangasamy, Department of Sociology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu (27.01.2014): Methodology for family social network research.
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Rana, Kumar, Pratichi Institute, Pratichi Trust, West Bengal (10.03.2014): The Muslim question and practice of emocracy. Ray, Antara, Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata (13.03.2014): Gender and caste: (re) locating Dalit women. Banerjee, Anirban, Department of Sociology, University of Burdwan, West Bengal (06.05.2014): Student Radicalism in Contemporary Bengal. Bhattacharyya, Gayatri, Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal (25.04.2014): Use of Census as a source Economic and Cultural Data. Das, Arnab, Department of Anthropology, Calcutta University (27.06.2014): Gender Within and Beyond the Development Discourse. De, Utpal Kumar, Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya (15.01.2015): Does Agricultural Diversity Always Contribute to the Progress of Farmers? An Example from North East India? Ghosh Dostidar, Prabir, Director, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi (10.03.2015): Role of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in deciphering internal structure of Knowledge Systems and Innovation Studies. Maruthakutti, Rangasamy, Professor of Sociology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu (09.03.2015): Family Organization and Housing among the Kani Tribes. Saha, Sumita, Presidency University, Kolkata (23.05.2014): Ageing as a social problem. Sen Chaudhuri, Ritu, West Bengal State University, Barasat (12.09.2014): Conceptualizing the caste gender system: Revisiting “Annihilation of Caste”. Dr. Rimu Chaudhuri, Heritage Business School, Anandapur, Kolkata 25 May, 2015 Occidental values & Modernity- at their Crossroad: A study on Sikkimese Women Surendra Pratap Centre for Workers Education Sarita Vihar, New Delhi 30th June 2015 The Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms in India Ranjana Ray Retired Professor and Emeritus Fellow Department of Anthropology Kolkata University, 14th July, 2015, Children and Child hood: A study among the Meendharas of Sundarbans, West Bengal, India Dr. Jyotiprasad Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, West Bengal, 27th July, 2015, Adivasi Worldview and the Forest Rights Act: The ‘Development’ Dilemma. Prabir Chaudhury, Ex- Deputy Director General, NSSO, 31st July, 2015, Shortening the NSS Consumer Expenditure Schedule: The Possibilities.
Dr. Amitesh Mukherjee Head, Sociology Department, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, 16th September, 2015, The making of a heritage site: The Sundarbans. Dr. Indrani Chakravarty Chief Functionary, Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (CMIG), Kolkata, 28th September, 2015, Dynamics of ageing in India—role of NGOs. Dr. Kanchan Sarker Dept. of Sociology University of British Columbia-Okanagan Kelowna, BC, Canada, 17th November, 2015, Food Security in India: Comparison among Different Systems. Dr. Girija Shankar Mallick, Sr. Lecturer, School of Business, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW1797, Australia, 15 December, 2015, Extra Marital Affairs in Sikim. Dr. Rupak Goswami, Assistant Professor, RKMVU, Narendrapur, 15 January, 2016, Social Network in Agriculture. Prof. Swapan Bhattacharya, Ex-Professor of Sociology, Dept. Of Sociology, CU. 05 February, 2016, Sociology in Religion. Professor S. B. Bagchi, Visiting Professor, Dept. Of Statistics, Alia University, W.B. 12 February, 2016 Evolution of Statistics.
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Sampling & Official Statistics Unit
Scientific Papers and Publications of SOSU (2012-2016)
Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (2012-13)
Kumar, Sunil and Bhougal, S.: Sequential estimation of the mean survival time of the two parameter exponential distribution, Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, 19(4), 2013.
Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa, Dewanji, A. and Roy, B.K.: A methodology for evaluation of a human resource development program, Indian Journal of Training and Development, 43(4), 14-29, 2012.
Kumar, Sunil: Estimation in finite population surveys: theory and applications, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 12(1), 2013.
Mukherjee, Diganta, Husain, Zakir and Dutta, Mausumi: Are women self help group members economically more empowered in Left-run municipalities? Development in Practice, Online Version: DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2013.750644, 2012.
Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (2013-14)
Mitra, S, Bardhan, P., Mookherjee, D. and Nath, A.: Changing Voting Patterns in Rural West Bengal: Role of Clientelism and Local Public Goods, Economic Political Weekly, 49(11), 54-62, 2014.
Dihidar, K. and Chowdhury, J.: Enhancing a randomized response model to estimate population means to sensitive questions, Mathematical Population Studies, 20, 123-136, 2013.
Mitra, S., Ghatak, M., Mookherjee, D. and Nath, A.: Land Acquisition and Compensation- What really happened in Singur? Economic Political Weekly, 68, 32- 44, 2013.
Mitra, S., Maitra, P., Mookherjee, D., Visaria, S. and Mota, A.: Agent Intermediate Loans – A new approach to Microfinance, ISB Insight, 1(2), 33-37, 2014.
Mitra, S., Mukherjee, D., Dihidar, K., Mukherjee, A., Talukdar, P. and Poddar, M.: Community vs. individual targeting in CSR projects: A case study in West Bengal, Productivity, 54(3), 275-290, 2013.
Sampling and Official Statistics Unit, Kolkata (2014-15)
Chattopadhyay, N., Ghosh, A. and Chakrabarti, B.K.: Inequalities in Societies, academic Institutions and Science Journals: Gini and k-indices, Physica A, 410, 30- 34, 2014.
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Dihidar, K.: Estimating population mean with missing data in unequal probability sampling, Statistics in Transition, New Series, 15(3), 369-388, Summer 2014.
Dihidar, K. and Chaudhuri, A.: Generating randomized response by inverse mechanism, Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, 9, 343-351, 2014.
Dihidar, K.: Simultaneous estimation of several survey population parameters in complex surveys by Bayesian and classical methods, Model assisted Statistics and Applications, 10, 163-173, 2015.
Mitra, S. and Poddar, M.: Regional Inequalities of Land associated to Health Facilities in Rural India, Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 5(2), 2014.
Mukherjee, D. and Ghosh Dastidar, K.: Corruption in Delegated Public Procurement Auction, European Journal of Political Economy, 35, 122–127, 2014.
Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (2015-16)
Mukherjee, D., (with Sudip R Chandra and Indranil Sengupta) “PIDE and Solution Related to Pricing of Levy Driven Arithmetic Type Floating Asian Options”, Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 33 (4), pp. 630 – 52, 2015.
Mukherjee, D., (with S. Subramanian), “Direct income transfers and public good provisioning: choosing between two anti-poverty schemes” Economics Bulletin, July 2015.
Mukherjee, D., (with Koushiki Sarkar and Abhishek Ray), “Impact of Social Network on Financial Decisions” forthcoming in Studies in Microeconomics, 2015.
Mukherjee, D., (with Koushiki Sarkar and Abhishek Ray), “Interlinkage Between Psychological and Network Characteristic” forthcoming in Studies in Microeconomics, 2015.
Mukherjee, D., (with Gopal K. Basak and Mrinal Ghosh), “A Mean-Reverting Stochastic Model for the Political Business Cycle” forthcoming in Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 2016.
Dihidar, K. (2015) (with Pal, S., Mandal, G.), Determination of robust optimum plot size and shape – a model based approach. Biometrical Letters. 52(1), 13-22.
Dihidar, K. (2015). On the comparison of some randomized response techniques under unequal
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probability sampling and super-population modelling. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 10, 299 – 307.
Dihidar, K. (2016). Estimating Sensitive Population Proportion by Generating Randomized Response Following Direct and Inverse Hypergeometric Distribution. Chapter 26 in Handbook of Statistics, vol 34: Data Gathering, Analysis and Protection of Privacy Through Randomized Response Techniques: Qualitative and Quantitative Human Traits, edited by Arijit Chaudhuri, Tasos C. Christofides and C.R. Rao. Elsevier, North Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mitra, S., with Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics), Chinmaya Kumar (IGC) Cash versus Kind: Understanding the Preferences of the Bicycle Programme Beneficiaries in Bihar Economic Political Weekly, March 12, 2016, Volume L1, No 11 pages 51 to 60)
Mitra, S., with Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Dilip Mookherjee, Boston university, Abhirup Sarkar, ISI, Political Participation, Clientelism and Targeting of Local Government Programs. Book edited by: Jean-Paul Faguet and Caroline PoschL, London School of Economics, OUP, UK (pages: 299-328).
Chattopadhyay, N., (with Chakravarty, S. R. and L. Qingbin), Vulnerability Orderings for Expected Poverty Orderings” in Japanese Economic Review, Vol.66, 2015.
Chattopadhyay, N., (with Chakravarty S. R. and C. D' Ambrosio), On a Family of Achievement and Shortfall Inequality Indices” Forthcoming in Health Economics.
Chattopadhyay, N., (with Chakravarty S. R. and J. Deutsch, Z. Nissanov and J. Silber),"Reference Groups and the Poverty Line: An Axiomatic Approach with an Empirical Illustration" Forthcoming in Research in Economic Inequality.
Chattopadhyay, N., (with Chakravarty S. R., J. Silber and G. Wan),"Measuring the Impact of Vulnerability on the Number of Poor: A New Methodology with Empirical Illustrations” Forthcoming in The Asian "Poverty Miracle": Impressive Accomplishments or Incomplete Achievements? J. Silber and G Wan (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA.
Chattopadhyay, N., (with Chakravarty S. R. and J. Silber),"A poverty Line contingent on Reference Groups: Implications for the Extent of Poverty in some Asian countries” Forthcoming in The Asian "Poverty Miracle": Impressive Accomplishments or Incomplete Achievements? J. Silber and G Wan (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA.
Chattopadhyay, N., (with Chakravarty S. R.) Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation: A Theoretical Analysis” Forthcoming in Handbook of Research on
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Economic and Social Well-Being, C. D' Ambrosio (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing: Northampton, MA.
Kar, A., (with Mrinal Bhaumik) Measuring Outsourced Manufacturing Process in India – its Relevance in National Accounts Compilation, in The Journal Of Industrial Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 2, Sept. 2015.
Chaudhury, P., (with Gopa Chattapadhyay) "On the Nature of Expenditure on Durable Goods" Sarvekshana, 99th issue.
Amitava Sarkar (Visiting Scientist) West Bengal University Kolkata Since July, 16 2012- September 30, 2013 Zakir Husain (Visiting Scientist) Population Research Centre, University of Delhi, New Delhi Since October 26, 2012- April 24, 2013 Sunil kumar (Visiting Scientist) University of Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir Since September 01,2012 – May 28,2013 Sugata Marjit (Visiting Scientist) Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata Since November 01, 2012 – October 31, 2014 Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics (oneday seminar) August 19, 2013 Sajal Lahiri Department of Economic, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (oneday seminar) November 12, 2013 Dr. Bivas Chaudhuri Director, CSO, Kolkata (oneday seminar) November 19, 2016 Dr. Lakshmi K. Raut, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge (oneday seminar) December 6, 2013 Dr. Sahana Roy Chowdhury Fellow in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (one ay seminar) January 28, 2014 Aloke Kar (Visiting Scientist) Statistical Institute for Asia & Pacific (SIAP), Chiba Japan Since March 01, 2014 – till date. Dr. Bidisha Mukhopadhyay Business School of Calcutta (one day seminar) March 12, 2014 Dr. G.C Manna, Additional Director General Economic Statistics Division, Central Statistics Office, March 14, 2014 Satyabrata pal (Visiting Scientist) Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Since April 1, 2014- March31, 2015 Radheshyam Bairagi Freelance Consultant in Health (oneday seminar) April 4, 2014 Pushkar Maitra Monash University Australia (oneday seminar) June17, 2014 Mrinal Bhaumik (Visiting Scientist) Deputy Director General, National Accounts Division CSO, Govt of India (visiting Scientist) June 1,2014- till date Prof. Dilip Mookherjee Boston University, USA (oneday seminar) July 23, 2014 Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay Institute for Financial Management & Research (oneday seminar) October 21, 2014 Malabika Biswas Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences (oneday seminar) December, 2014 Prabir Chaudhury (Visiting Scientist) Deputy Director General NSSO (SDRD) January 1, 2015 Dr. Sudarshan Iyenger (Visitor) Indian Institute of Technology (oneday seminar) January 17-22, 2015 Pritha Dev Administration, Institute Technologic Autonomy De Mexico, Mexico City. (oneday seminar) January 30,2015 Loyimee Gogoi (Visitor) Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University February-March, 2015
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Prof S. Subramanian (Visitor)ICSSR National Fellow Madras Institute of Development Studies, Tamil Nadu April 2015 DR. Murari Mitra (Visitor) Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Howrah (oneday seminar) April 1,2015 – March 31,2016 Asit Baran Chakaraborty Visiting Scientist) Consultant Reserve Bank of India June 12,2015 – till date Sarmistha Pal Department of Finance, University of Surrey Guildford GU27XH, UK (oneday seminar) July 27, 2015 Kishore Kumar Das (Visitor) Guwahati University May 5,2015 – June 6,2015 Dr. Ashmita Gupta ISI Chennai (oneday seminar) October 15, 2015 Dr. Surajit Borkotokey Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh September 18-25, 2015 Arnab Bhattacharjee Heriot- Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK. (oneday seminar) January 14, 2016 Prof Moneer Alam Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. (oneday seminar) April 5, 2016 Kaushik Bhattacharjee (Visitor) Associate professor TAPMI Manipal April18, - June 2016 Prof. Carlos Gradin, Full Professsor Universidade de vigo spain June 4-19 2016
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Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre
Published journal by DCSW members for last 5 years in the Economics and Planning Unit (EPU) between 2010-2011 to 2014-15
2010-2011
Papers publised in journals
1. Mitra, M. and Sen, Arunava: Efficient Allocation of heterogenous Commodities with Balanced Transfers, in Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 35, June 2010, pp 29-48.
2. Chatterjee, S., and Sen, Arunava: Top only Domains, Economic Theory, Vol 46, February 2011, pp 255-282.
3. Chandrasekhar, S., and Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop. Poverty and Well being in Indian cities during the Reforms Era?, Berkley Electronic Press: Poverty and Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue2, April 2010. 4. Afridi, Farzana. Women’s Empowerment and the goal of parity between the sexes in schooling in India, Population Studies, 64 (2): 131-145, July 2010. 5. Afridi, Farzana. Child Welfare Programs and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Mandated School Meal Program, Journal of Development Economics, 92(2): 152-165. 2010
6. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal. Firm Size and Pricing Policy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 62, 181-195, 2010.
7. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal. Porter Hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting, Economic Bulletin, Vol. 31, 167-176, 2011.
8. Mishra, Debasis andTalman, Dolf. A Characterization of the Average Tree Solution for Tree Games, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 39, pp 105-111, 2010.
9. Somanathan, E. Effects of Information on Environmental Quality in Developing Countries, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 4(2): 275-292, Summer 2010. 10. Bansal, Sangeeta and Ramaswami, Bharat. Labels for GM Foods: What Can They Do? Economic and Political Weekly: Review of Agriculture, Vol. XLV (26/27), 167-173, 2010.
Papers published in books 1. Sen, Arunava, "Fair and Loverly: Some Theoretical Consideration in the Equitable Allocations of Goods” in “Markets and Morals: Ethical Issues in Economics” (ed) Ashok S. Guha. 2. Sen, Arunava. Series: PHISPC Centre for Studies in Civilizations (ed) D.P. Chattopadhyay.
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1. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal. Entry Liberalization, Export Subsidy and R&D, in A. Dhar (Eds.) Some Contemporary Issues in Development and Growth Economics, 444-463, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2010.
2. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal.Edgeworth Market Games: Price-taking and Efficiency, Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, (Eds.) Marc Kilgour, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011.
3. Ghate, Chetan, Wright, Stephen and Fic, Tatiana. India’s Growth Turnaround, in The Concise Oxford Companion to Economics in India, (Eds.) KaushikBasuand Annemie Maertens. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
4. Mishra, Debasis, Efficient Iterative Combinatorial Auctions. Wiley Encyclopedia of OperationsResearch and Management Science, Wiley, 2011.
2011-2012 Book published Ghate, Chetan. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press: New York (March 2012)
Papers published in journals 1. Afridi, Farzana, The Impact of School Meals on School Participation in Rural India.” Journal of Development Studies (Special Section on Impact Evaluation), 47(11): 1636- 1656, November 2011. 2. Chowdhury, PrabalRoy.Transparency, complementarity and holdout (with KunalSengupta), Games and Economic Behaviour.75, 598-612, 2012. 3. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy.Porter hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting, Economic Bulletin, 31, 167-176, 2011. 4. Das, SatyaP. International Trade and Polarization in the Labor Market, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 6, 2012-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-6 5 Mishra, Debasis, SenArunava. Roberts’ Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering Approach. Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, 2012, pp 283-298. 6. Mishra, Debasis. Dutta, Bhaskar. Minimum Cost Arborescences. Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 74, pp. 120-143, 2012. 7. Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop. Rural Housing Quality as an Indicator of Consumption Sustainability” (with Indira Rajaraman), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 47(13), March 31st, 2012, pp. 112-117 8. Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop. The Economic Burden of Cancer” (with B. K. Mohanti, S. Das, K. Sharma & S. Dash): Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43(46), October 22, 2011, pp. 112-117 9. Rajaraman, Indira. “Fiscal Impact of Trade Tariff Reform: Long-Series Historical Evidence for the US and Canada” Global Policy3:3 (October), 2012 10. Rajaraman, Indira, (2011) “Response to Rakshit on the Finance Commission” Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI: 13 (26 March); 137-139.
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11. Ramaswami, Bharat, Carl E. Pray and N. Lalitha, The Spread of Illegal Transgenic Cotton Varieties in India: Biosafety Regulation, Monopoly and Enforcement, World Development, 40: 1, 177-188. Year ? 12. Ramaswami, Bharat, Ashok Kotwal, and Wadhwa, Wilima. Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What's the Evidence? Journal of Economic Literature, 49: 4, 1152-1199, 2011 13. Ramaswami, Bharat, AshokKotwal, Milind, Murugkar.PDS Forever? Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI (21), 72-76, 2011. 14. Ray, Tridip, Gurnani, Haresh, Gumus, Mehmet, &Ray, Saibal. Optimal Procurement Strategy Under Supply Risk, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 29(1), 1240006-1 - 1240006-31, February 2012. 15. Sen, Arunava, “The Gibbard random dictatorship theorem: a generalization and a new proof”, SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association,Vol. 2, No 4, December 2011, 515-527.
16. Dutta, Bhaskar, Sen, Arunava. Nash Implementation with Partially Honest Players. Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol. 74, No 1, January 2012, 154-169.
17. Mishra, Debasis, Sen, Arunava., “Robertsʼ Theorem withneutrality: A social welfare ordering approach. Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol. 75, No 1, May 2012, 283-298.
18. Somanathan, E., Chaudhuri, Arka Ray.Impact of Biometric Identification-based transfers. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(21): 77-80, May 21, 2011.
Papers published in books
1. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy., Edgeworth Market Games: Price-taking and Efficiency."Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science'' Ed. Marc Kilgour, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 2011.
2. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy., Micro-Finance: The SHG-Linkage Program. The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy (Ed.) ChetanGhate, Oxford University Press: New York, 2012.149-168.
3. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy., Sequential Lending: Dynamic Institutions and Micro-finance, In Emerging Issues in Economic Development: A Contemporary Theoretical Perspective (Essays in Honour of Amitava Bose and DipankarDasgupta), (Eds.) S. Marjit and M. Rajeev, forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
5. Ramaswami, Bharat., The Public Distribution System, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu and A. Maertens (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 567-571, 2012.
6. Ramaswami, Bharat., &Wadhwa, Wilima., Unemployment, Measure of, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu and A. Maertens (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi,718-721, 2012
7. Ramaswami, Bharat., C. Pray, L. Nagarajan, Huang, J. & R. Hu, Impact of Bt Cotton: The Potential Future Benefits from Biotechnology in China and India. Frontiers of
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Globalization: Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare. G. Moschini, C. Carter and I. Sheldon (Eds.,), Emerald Books, 83-114. 2011
8. Goyal, Ranjan, Rajaraman Indira. Tax Effort of Indian States 2002-07. Essays in Memory of Raja Chelliah.D. K. Srivastava and U. Sankar (Eds.). Chapter 6: 110-124. 2012
9. Rajaraman, Indira. India’s Experience of the Crisis and Key Lessons.Reducing Vulnerability to Financial Meltdown: Assessing Alternatives. (Eds.) Roy Culpeper, et. al. (Ottawa: North-South Institute), Forthcoming.
10. Rajaraman, Indira. Core Issues in a Statistical Syste.Papers for the International Statistics Education Centre, AmitaMajumdar and AyanendranathBasu (Eds.), Forthcoming.
2012-13 Papers published in journals
1. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy. Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Fragmentation and Voice, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol.85, 63-78.2013. 2. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Mukherjee, Arijit.Innovation and social desirability of Merger. Economic Bulletin, 33, 248-260. 2013. 3. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy and Sengupta, Kunal. Transparency, Complementarity and Holdout, Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol.75, 598-612, 2012. 4. Ghate, Chetan, Wright, Stephen. The V-Factor: Distribution, Timing, and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. With (Birkbeck College), Journal of Development Economics, September 2012, Volume 99 (1), pages 58-67. 5. Ghate, Chetan, Pandey, Radhika and Patnaik, Ila. Has India Emerged? Business Cycle Stylized Facts from a Transitioning Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2013, pages 157-172. 6. Ghate, Chetan, Wright, Stephen, (Birkbeck College) Why were some Indian states so slow to participate in the Turnaround? Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013, Vol. XLVIIINo. 13 (Special Article) 7. Mishra, Debasis and Roy, Souvik., Strategy-proof Partitioning, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 76, pp 285-300.2012 8. Mishra, Debasis and Sen, Arunava., Roberts’ Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering Approach, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, pp 283-298.2012 9. Mishra, Debasis, Dimitrov, Dinko., and Marchant Thierry., Separability and Aggregation of Equivalence Relations, Economic Theory, Volume 51, 2012.
10. Ramaswami, Bharat, Eswaran, M., and Wadhwa, W., Status, Caste and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 61(2): 313-333, 2013, 11. Ramaswami, Bharat, andJha, S., The Percolation of Public Expenditure: Food Subsidies and the Poor in India and the Philippines, India Policy Forum, 2011/12, 8: 95-138. 12. Sen, Arunava, Gravel, Nicolas, Marchant, Thierry. “Uniform Expected Utility Criteria for Decision Making under Ignorance or Objective Ambiguity,” Journal of Mathematical Psychology 56, 297–315. (October 2012)
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13. Sen, Arunava, Chatterji, Shurojit& Roy, Souvik., The structure of strategy-proof random social choice functions over product domains and lexicographically separable preferences, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 353-366, December 2012, 14. Sen, Arunava&Mishra, Debasis, Robertsʼ Theorem with neutrality: A social welfare ordering approach Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, Issue 1, pp.283-298.May 2012, 15. Sen, Arunava. &Jérémy Picot, An extreme point characterization of random strategy- proof social choice functions: The two alternative cases. Economics Letters, Volume 115, Issue 1, Pages 49-52, April 2012,
2013-2014
Book published
Callaghan, Michael, Ghate, Chetan, Stephen Pickford (Chatham House), and Francis Rathinam (DFID) (Eds.) Global Cooperation Among G20 Countries: Responding to the Crisis and Restoring Growth. SpringerVerlag: India. January 2014.
Papers publihsed in Journals:
1. Afridi, Farzana., Iversen, Vegard., *eds. BarryBosworth, ArvindPanagariya and Shekhar Shah, Brookings - NCAER.Social audits and MGNREGA delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh, India Policy Forum, July 2013.
2. Chaudhary, Prabal Ray., Guha, Brishti.Micro-finance competition: motivated micro- lenders, double-dipping and default, Journal of Development Economics, December, 2013.
2. ChaudharyPrabal Ray, Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Fragmentation and Voice, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 85, 63-78, 2013.
4. ChaudharyPrabal Ray, Mukherjee, Arijit, Innovation and social desirability of merger, Economics Bulletin,33, 248-260, 2013. 5. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy and Das, Satya P, Deterrence, Pre-emption and Panic: A Common-Enemy Problem of Terrorism.Economic Inquiry. Vol. 52(1), pages 219-238, 01. 6. Mishra Debasis andQuadir Abdul, Non-bossy Single Object Auctions, Economic Theory Bulletin, Volume 2, pp 93-110. 2014. 7. Mishra, Debasis, Roy, Souvik.Implementation in Multidimensional, Dichotomous Domains.Theoretical Economics, Volume 8, 2013, pp 431-466. 8. Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, AmparoCostellóCliment, Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Growth: the Case of India. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 106, Nov 2013. 9. Ramaswami, Bharat, Bansal, S., Chakravarty, S., The informational and signalling impacts of labels: experimental evidence from India on GM foods, Environment and Development Economics 18: 701–722, 2013. 10. Somanathan E. Are embankments a good flood-control strategy? A case study on the Kosiriver.Water Policy. Vol. 15: 75-88. (2013),
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12. Somanathan E., Chakravarty, Sujoy., CarineSebi, and Theophilus, E., The Demographics of Cooperation: Evidence from a field experiment in the Himalayas.Journal of Economics and Management, 9(2):231-269. 2013. 13.Sen, Arunava, Shurojit, Chatterji and Sanver Remzi, On Domains that Admit Well- Behaved Strategy-Proof Social Choice Functions, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 148, pp. 1050-1073, 2013,
Papers published in Books :. Mike Callaghan, Ghate Chetan, Stephen Pickford, and Francis Rathinam.Introduction (Chapter 1). Global Cooperation Among G20 Countries: Responding to the Crisis and Restoring Growth. Springer Verlag: India.Pages 1 – 21, January 2014.
2014-2015
Papers publised in Journals:
1.Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Chowdhury, Shyamal and Sengupta, Kunal., Gradual repayment with sequential financing in micro-finance, Journal of Development Economics, 2014.
2.Chowdhury, Prabal Roy,. Das, Satya P., Panic, pre-emption and deterrence: A common enemy problem of terrorism, Economic Enquiry, 2014.
3.Mishra, Debasis., Marchant, Thierry., Mechanism Design with Two Alternatives in Quasi- linear Environments.Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 44, pp 433-455, 2015.
4. Mishra Debasi, Deb, Rahul., Implementation with Contingent Contracts, Econometrica, Volume 82, pp. 2371-2393. 2014.
5. Mishra, Debasis., PramanikAnupand., RoySouvik., Multidimensional Mechanism Design in Single Peaked Type Spacs, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 153, pp.103-116. 2014
6.Mishra, Debasis., Duives, Jelle., Birgit Heydenreich., Rudolf Muller., and Marc Uetz., Optimal Mechanism Design for a Sequencing Problem, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 18, pp. 45-59. 2015
7.Das, Samarjit, Ghate, Chetan, Robertson, Peter. Remoteness, Urbanization and India's Unbalanced Growth.World Development, Vol. 66, pages 572-587, February 2015.
8. SenArunava., Chatterji, Shurojit., and Zeng, Huaxia., Random Dictatorship Domains, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 86, pp. 212-236. 2014. 9. SenArunava, Hans Peters., Roy Souvik., and Storcken Ton, Probabilistic Strategy-Proof Rules over Single-Peaked Domains, Journal of Mathematical, Economics, Vol 52, 123-127. 2014. 10. SenArunava, Kar, Anirban.The Shapley Value as the Maximizer of Expected Nash Welfare", International Journal of Game Theory, Vol 43, 619-627, 2014. 11. Sen, Arunava, Goswami, MriduPrabal, and Mitra, Manipushpak. Strategy-Proofness and Pareto-Efficiency in Quasi-Linear Exchange Economies", Theoretical Economics, Vol. 9, 361-381. 2014. 12. Sen, Arunava, On cost sharing in the provision of a binary and excludable public good, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 155, January 2015, Pages 30–49.
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Papers published in Books:. 1. Somanathan, Eswaran., National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions, Chapter 15, IPCC Report 3, Cambridge University Press, 2014
2. Kotwal, Ashok. and Ramaswami, Bharat., Delivering Food Subsidy: The Stateand the Market in R. Herring (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Food,Politics and Society, 301- 326, Oxford University Press, 2015.
List of VISITORS for the year 2010-2011
SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months)
• Yves Sprumont, University de Montreal, Canada August 2010 - June 2011 • Amaresh Tiwari, Maastircht University, The Netherlands February – April 2010 • Reetika Khera, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi April 01 - July 31, 2010. • Debraj Ray, New York University, USA April 01 - April 30, 2010 • Farzana Afridi, Syracuse University, USA, April 01, 2010 - June 30, 2010 • Gurbachan Singh, School of International Studies, JNU, India January 13 – May 13, 2010. • Shurojit Chatterjee, Singapore Management University, Singapore September 30 - October 9, 2010 • Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia University, Montreal August 16 – 30, 2010 • Manipushpak Mitra, ERU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, November 15- 24, 2009 • Raj Mathur, New Delhi July - November 2010 • Dr. Wilima Wadhwa, SERFA January 01 – March 31, 2011 • Prof. Shalabh, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT, Kanpur November 11-12, 2010 • Marcin Dziubinski, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Poland December 16-31, 2010 • Chiranjan Chatterjee, Carneci-Mellon University December 28-29, 2010 • Irasema Alonso, Yale University, USA December 21 - 28, 2010 • Kanishka Dam, ITAM, Mexico January 6th – 9th 2011 • Dinko Dmitrov, Saarland University, Germany March 01 - 19, 2011 • Eve Ramaekers, CORE, University of Louvain, Belgium March 01 - 13, 2011 • Stefan Ambec, Toulouse, France March 7 – 19, 2011
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months)
• Bhaskar Dutta, Warwick University, U.K. July 01, 2010 - June 30, 2011 • Kensuke Kubo, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California. USA October 01, 2010 - March 31, 2011
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• Monisankar Bishnu, Deparment of Economics, Iowa State University, USA August 2010 - March 31, 2011, • Indira Rajaraman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India February 01, 2011 - January 31, 2012. • Suchismita Tarafdar, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA., July 20, 2010 – March 31, 2011 • Vegard Iversen, University of East Anglia, U.K. September 01, 2010 - August 31, 2011
List of visitors for the year 2011-2012
SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) • Bakshi Soham, University of Winnipeg, Canada, November 01 - November 30, 2011 • Chakraborty Shoibal, Princeton University January 04- January 16, 2012 • Chattopadhyay Siddhartha, IIT Kharagpur January 19- January 21, 2012 • Chetry K. Moon, DRDO, Delhi November 21 – December10, 2011 • Deb Rahul, University of Toronto, Canada July 25 - August 11, 2011 • Demange Gabrielle, Paris School of Economics, Paris October 18 – October 19, 2011 • Dinko Dmitrov, University of Saarbrucken, Germany July 27 – August 06, 2011 • Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia university, Montreal August 16 - August 29, 2011 • Dutta Bhaskar, Warwick University December 12, 2011 - January 23, 2012 • Gunay Hikmet, University of Monitoba, Canada February 08 - February 19, 2012 • Mathur Raj, New Delhi July 25 – November 30, 2011 • Pachenko Valaentyn, University of NSW. Sydney (Australia) April 20 - 29 2011 • Postl Peter, University of Birmingham, UK August 12 - September 20,2011 • Roy Jaideep, University of Birmingham, UK, August 20 – September 15, 2011 • Roy Souvik, University of CAEN, France July 22 – September 30,2011 • Shankar Sriram, University of Western Sydney, Syndey December 19, 2011 – January 31, 2012 • Singh Gurbachan, ISI, Delhi January 01 – May 15, 2012 • Ulku Levent, ITAM, Mexico January 01 – April 30, 2012 • Wadhwa Wilima, SERFA July 25 – November 30, 2011
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) • Bishnu Monishankar, Deparment of Economics, Iowa State University, USA July 25, 2011 – July 24, 2012 • Rajaraman Indira, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, Delhi, July 25 – November 30, 2011 • Rajaraman Indira, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, Delhi February 2012 – December 31, 2012 • Roy Souvik, University of CAEN, France October 01, 2011 to June 30, 2012 • Sharma Tridib, ITAM, Mexico July 01 2011 – June 30, 2012 • Tarafdar Suchismita ISI, Delhi July 19, 2011 – July 18,2012
List of visi-rs for the year 2012-2013
SHORT TERM VISI-RS (Less then 6 months)
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• Auriel Gilardone, University of Gaen August 11-16, 2012. • Bhattacharya Anindya, University of York, United Kingdom August 06-10, 2012. • Bose Amitava, IIM Kolkata May 17-18, 2012. • Chakrabarti Rajesh July 23 - November 30, 2012. • Chakraborty Indranil, National University of Singapore May 6-9, 2012. • Chakraborty Shankha, University of Oregon December 20-25, 2012. • Chakravarty Shoibal, Prince-n University Oc-ber 4-10, 2012. • Chakravorty Ujjayant, TUFTS University July 9-13, 2012. • Chetry Moon, DRDO, Bangalore July 15- August 31, 2012. • Deb Rahul, University of -ron- July 23 - August 24, 2012. • Dmitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany August 01- 16, 2012 and February 19 - March 08, 2013. • Farmer Amy, University of Arkansas Oc-ber 27 - November 2, 2012. • Kjelsrud Anders, University of Oslo August 23 - September 11, 2012. • Kjelsrud Anders, University of Oslo September 22 - Oc-ber 18, 2012. • Leoni Peter, Euromed Management November 25-28, 2012. • Lychogin, Central European University, Budapest April 19-21, 2012. • Mallik Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School December 20, 2012 - January 20, 2013 and February 20 - March 31, 2013. • Maniquet, Core, Universite Catholique de Louvain August 25, 2012. • Mathur Raj July 23 - November 30, 2012. • Mukherjee Diganta, ISI Kolkata December 20, 2012 - January 20, 2013. • Murty Sushama, University of Exeter July 9-29, 2012. • Mu- Nozomu, Universidad Au-noma De Barcelona, Spain August 09-16, 2012. • Nitzen Shmuel, Bar Ilan University February 24-28, 2013. • Pattnayak, National University of Singapore May 19-21, 2012. • Postl Peter, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom August 30 - September 10, 2012. • Roy Debdatta Sinha, IISER, Mohali May 15 - July 20, 2012. • Roy Sanchari, University of Warwick, United Kingdom July 17 – August 24, 2012. • Sarkar Nityanand, Kolkata July 05-11, 2012. • Singh Gurbachan January 01 - April 30, 2013. • Sivadasan M. Jagadeesh, Trivandrom June 4-5, 2012. • Tarafdar Suchismita July 20 - November 30, 2012. • Wadhwa Willima July 23- November 30, 2012. • Wright Stephen, Bileck College, University of London December 8-15, 2012.
LONG TERM VISI-RS (More then 6 months) • Majumdar Dipjyoti, Condordia University September 24 - Oc-ber 7, 2012, November 01 2012 - August 31, 2013.
List of visitors for the year 2013-2014
SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) • Balakrishnan Pulapre, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala January - May 2014. • Barua Rashmi, Singapore Management University, Singapore March 1 – April 30, 2014.
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• Bhattacharya Sourav, University of Pittsburg, USA August 1 – 3, 2013. • Chakrabarti Rajesh, ISB July 22 - November 30, 2013. • Dasgupta Aparajita, Population Council 29th November, 2013. • De Sankar, Shiv Nadar University 11th October, 2013 • Deb Rahul, University of Toronto August 8 – September 4, 2013. • Dhasmana Anubha, IIM, Bangalore 13th September, 2013 • Dhillon Amrita, Kings College London Aug 8 - 31, 2013. • Dimitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany 21st February 2014 • Dubey Pradeep, Stony Brook University 25th October, 2013 • Ghatak Maitreesh, London School of Economics, London, UK December 18 - 20, 2013. • Ghosh Parikshit, Delhi School of Economics 28th March, 2014 • Guha Brishti, Singapore Management University 16th December, 2013 • Hammer Jeffrey, Princeton University 17th January, 2014 • Kapoor Mudit, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad 18th October, 2013 • Khemani Stuti, World Bank 20th August, 2013 • Kletzer Kenneth, University of California, Santa Cruz February 9 – 21, 2014. • Lahkar Ratul IFMR Chennai 6th June, 2013 • Libois Francois, University of Namur November 13-20, 2013. • Mace Antonin, Ecoe Polytechnique, Paria, France November 25 – December 22, 2013. • Majumdar Dipjyoti, Concordia University 5th April, 2013 • Moffatt Peter G, University of East Anglia April 15-18, 2014. • Paul Anand, Oxford University November 1 – December 23, 2013. • Prakash Nishith, University of Connecticut 02 August, 2013 • Prakash Nishith, Fairfield Way University of Conn July 29 - August 11, 2013. • Ranjan Abhishek, Institut for Transport Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 27th September, 2013 • Raut Lakshmi K. , Social Security Administration 13th December, 2013 • Saran Rene, Yale University, Singapore March 31- April 5, 2014. • Sen Ananya, University of Toulouse 27th August, 2013 • Singh Gurbachan January 1 - April 30, 2014. • Somanathan Rohini, DSE 30th August, 2012 • Sudarshan Anant, Harvard University 24th January, 2014 • Vohra Rajeev, Brown University July 3 – Aug 9, 2013 • Wadhwa Wilima, ASER July 22 – November 30, 2013. • Yamazaki Koji, Kobe University, Japan September 12, 2013 – February 10, 2014.
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) • Chand Srustidhar, University of Venice September 1-30,2013, October 1-31,2013, November 01, 2013 – March 31, 2014. • Nath Swaprava, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore September 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014. • Sane Renuka, IGIDR, Mumbai July 01, 2013 – June 30, 2014.
List of visi-rs for the year 2014-2015
SHORT TERM VISI-RS (Less then 6 months) • Bhargava Alok, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, 14th July, 2014. • Anand Rahul and Volodymyr Tulin, International Monetary Fund, 25th April, 2014
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• Asturias Jose, Georgetown University, August 6-8, 2014. • Bag Parimal, National University of Singapore, Oc-ber 24- November 6, 2014. • Banerjee Abhijit, MIT, 24th Oc-ber, 2014. • Banerjee Prasenjit, University of Manchester, September 1 - November 30, 2014. • Barua Rashmi, Singapore Management University March 1 – April 30, 2015. • Bhattacharya Prasad, Deakin University, December 11- 22, 2014. • Bhattacharya Saurav, University of Pittsburgh, August 11-30, 2014. • Bloch Francis, Paris School of Economics, February 7-16, 2015. • Chakrabarti Anindya S., Boston University, 16th January 2015. • Chakraborty Rajesh, ISB August 1 - November 30, 2014. • Chakravarty Abhishek, University of Essex, 5th September, 2014. • Chakravarty Shoibal, Princeton Environmental Institute March 16-23, 2015. • Chowdhury Roy Sahana, January 1 – April 30, 2015. • Cremades Roger, Internationl max planck Research School, Oc-ber 20 - December 18, 2014. • Dean Spears, CDE, 4th April, 2014. • Deshmukh Jayeeta, Presidency University, Oc-ber 18- November 5, 2014. • Dhillon Amrita, King’s college London, August 11-30, 2014. • Dhingra Swati, LSE, 31st Oc-ber, 2014. • Dimitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany, 23 -28 February 2015. • Dreze Jacques, Université Catholique de Louvain, March 15-17, 2015. • Duflo Esther, MIT, 19 September, 2014. • Dutta Prajit, Columbia University. 12th August, 2014. • Gupta Ashmita, University of Hous-n, 22 December 2014. • Heraklis Polemarchakis, University of Warwick, 15 July, 2014. • Köhlin Gunnar, University of Gothenburg, 24th November, 2014. • Kumar Rajnish, Queen’s University, Belfast, 1st December, 2014. • Lavy Vic-r, University of Warwick, December 15-20. • Mallick Debdulal, Deakin University, December 22, 2014 - January 15, 2015. • Namrata Kala, Yale University, 20th March 2015. • Nandeibam Shasikanta, University of Bath, 5th August, 2014. • Patil Sumeet. R, University of California, Berkeley, January 29-30, 2015. • Pattanayak Subhrendu K, Duke University, 11th September, 2014. • Prasenjit Banerjee, University of Manchester, 9th January 2015. • Ray Debraj, New York University, December 18-20, 2015 • Ray Indrajit, University of Birmingham, August 21-22, 2014. • Rene Saran, Yale Univ- Singapore, 2 April, 2014. • Roy Jaideep, University of Surrey, July 1-8, 2014. • Roy Souvik, ISI Kolkata, March 9-17, 2015. • Saggi Kamal, Vanderbilt University, 20th Oc-ber, 2014. • Sahu Sohini, IIT Kanpur, Oc-ber 31 – November 1, 2014. • Sarin Rajiv, University of Exeter, 27th October, 2014. • Singh Gurbachan, January 1 – April 30, 2015. • Singh Ram, Delhi School of Economics, 21st November, 2014. • Tarroux Benoit, University of Rennes I, February 15 - March 5, 2015. • Thakurata Indrajit, IIM, Ahmedabad) 23rd July, 2014. • Vandewalle Lore, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 13th February 2015. • Wadhwa Wilima, ASER August 1 – November 30, 2014.
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• Zeng Huaxia, Singapore Management University, October 10 – November 10, 2014.
LONG TERM VISI-RS (More then 6 months) • Chand Srustidhar, University of Venice April 1 - August 31 2015. • Nath Swaprava, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore September1, 2014 - August 31, 2015. • Sane Renuka, IGIDR, Mumbai July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015.
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Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS UNIT Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years PUBLICATIONS 2011-2016
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
V. K. Ramachandran, Foreword in A New Statistical Domain in India New Delhi: Tulika Books (2016).
V. K. Ramachandran, General Editor, Agrarian Studies Series 4, A New Statistical Domain in India by Jun-ichi Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.
V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan (Ed.), Dalit Households in Village Economies (Agrarian Studies 3) New Delhi: Tulika Press, 2014.
V. K. Ramachandran, Introduction in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books (2014).
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal (Ed.), Socio-Economic Surveys of Two Villages in Rajasthan New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2015.
Madhura Swaminathan and Venkatesh Athreya, Economic Status and Child Deprivation: Findings from Village Surveys in A. K. Shiva Kumar, Preet Rustagi and Ramya Subrahmanian (eds.), India’s Children: Essays on Social Policy, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2015), pp 68-97.
Madhura Swaminathan and Shamsher Singh “Exclusion in Access to Basic Civic Amenities” in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2014.
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal “Persistent Disadvantage: Incomes of Dalit Households in Eight Villages” in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books (2014).
Madhura Swaminathan “Population and Food Security” in A. K. Shiva Kumar, Pradeep Panda and Rajani R. Ved (eds.) Handbook of Population and Development, Oxford University Press (2010), pp 50-56. Reprinted in paperback (2012).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
V. K. Ramachandran, Ägrarian Issues: Local and National” Review of Agrarian Studies, 4, 2, 2014.
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Biplab Sarkar, V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, “Aspects of the Political Economy of Crop Incomes in India,” World Review of Political Economy, 5, 3, Fall, 2014, pp 392-413.
Shamsher Singh, Madhura Swaminathan and V. K. Ramachandran, "Housing Shortages in Rural India," Review of Agrarian Studies, 3, 2, 2013.
V. K. Ramachandran, “Introduction” to "P. Sundarayya, 1913–1985 A Centenary Tribute," Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2013.
V. K. Ramachandran “Classes and Class Differentiation in India’s Countryside,” World Review of Political Economy, vol. 2, no. 4, 2012.
V. K. Ramachandran “P. Sundarayya on the Agrarian Question,” The Marxist, November 2012.
V. K. Ramachandran “Agrarian Relations and Village Studies,” Ramkrishna Mukherji Memorial Lecture, Indian Society of Labour Economics, December 2010, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012.
V. K. Ramachandran “The State of Agrarian Relations in India Today,” The Marxist, XXVII 1– 2, January–June 2011
V. K. Ramachandran "The Impact of Liberalization and Globalization on India’s Agrarian Economy," Global Labour Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, p. 56-91, January 2010 Available at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol1/iss1/5 (with Vikas Rawal).
A. Bheemeshwar Reddy and Madhura Swaminathan, “Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Rural India: Evidence from Ten Villages” Review of Agrarian Studies, 4, 1, 2014.
Madhura Swaminathan, “Dalit Workers in Rural India: Evidence from Village Studies,” Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 57, 1, 2014, pp 53-65.
Madhura Swaminathan, 2013, “Implementing the Food Security Act,” Yojana, vol 57, December, pp 22-24.
Madhura Swaminathan, 2012, “Who Has Access to Formal Credit in Rural India? Evidence from Four Villages,” Review of Agrarian Studies, 2, 1.
Madhura Swaminathan “Is India a Country of Low Income Inequality” with Vikas Rawal, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 1, 2011
Madhura Swaminathan “Are there Benefits from the Cultivation of Bt Cotton? A Comment Based on Data from a Vidarbha Village” with Vikas Rawal, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 1, 2011
Madhura Swaminathan, “Income Inequality and Caste in Village India” with Vikas Rawal, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 2, 2011, pp 108-133
Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. “A Comparative Study on Gender Segmentation in Organized and Unorganized Manufacturing Sector of India”. Indian Labour Journal, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 585-596.June 2015.
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Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. “Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Gap”. Demography India, Vol 42, No. 1&2 (2013), pp. 105-130.
Chattopadhyay, Molly, Sonali Chakraborty and Richard Anker. “Sex Segregation in India’s Formal Manufacturing Sector”, International Labour Review. Vol. 152/1, March 2013, Pp: 43- 58.
Chattopadhyay, Molly: “Women workers in the mica industry: A case study”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 2011, 18:311-340 (Sage publications).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
V. K. Ramachandran and Aditi Dixit, 2014, “Proletarianisation of the Peasantry in India: A Note”, Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23 to 25, 2014.
Madhura Swaminathan and Arindam Das, 2014, “Differentiation of the Peasantry and Economies of Scale in Indian Agriculture: Evidence from Village Studies” Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23 to 25, 2014.
Madhura Swaminathan, 2013, Gender Statistics in India: A Short Note with a Focus on the Rural Economy, paper prepared for the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, available at http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/Them_paper_Gender.pdf
Madhura Swaminathan, “Income Inequality in an Era of High Growth: The Indian Experience,” The Uno Newsletter: Rejuvenating Marxian Economics through Uno Theory, Vol. II, No. 13, Working Paper Series 2-13-3, 25 December 2013.
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal, “Income Inequality in Village India: The Role of Caste”, with Vikas Rawal, ECINEQ Working Paper Series, 207, August 2011 (available at http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2011-207.pdf)
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women in the Indian Mining Sector”. Paper presented at 57th Annual conference by Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Srinagar, 10-12 October, 2015, (summary of paper at page 230).
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women workers in Coffee industry of India”. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Colombo, 11-13 August 2015 organised by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka, Pp. 5-14.
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2013. “Invisible workers of mining and quarrying sector: Data gap in official statistics”. Paper presented at the conference on “The Unorganised Sector in India: Extending the Debate to Mining and Quarrying” hold at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 27-28th July, 2013. Available at http://www.mlpc.in/doc/Seminar%20report.pdf
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Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2012. “Women Miners of India: Gender Intervention and Analysis". Book of abstracts, Second ISA Forum of Sociology, organized by International Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012, Pp.114. Available at http://www.isa- sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/isa-forum2012-book-of-abstracts.pdf
Rajasekhara, H.M., Ashok Vardhan Sanda, B S Daya Sagar. Computations of Bi-variable spatial relationships between the political divisions of Karnataka, India via Mahalanobis Distance, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2015 (IGARSS 2015), IEEE, Milan, Italy, 4518 – 4521 (DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326832), 2015
List of Visitors at EAU (April 2011 to March 2016)
Long-term visitor
1. Dr. Puja Guha joined as a Visiting Scientist from 30th August 2011. She was a Lecturer-cum-Post Doctoral Fellow from September 2012 to August 30, 2013.
2. Dr. Shalina Susan Mathew is a visiting scientist for the period October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014.
Short-term visitor
2011-12 1. Prof. Manoranjan Pal, ERU, ISI, Kolkata, June/July 2011.
2012-13 2. Dr. Saumen Majumdar, IIM, Trichy, May 2 – 10, 2012.
2013-14 3. Okabe, Jun-ichi, Yokohama National University, Japan, November 1 – 9, 2013. 4. R. Ramakumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Nov. 6-7, 2013 5. Dr. Aparajita Bakshi. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai November 6- 7, 2013 6. Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljhapuri Nov.6-8, 2013 7. Prof. Venkatesh Athreya, MSSRF, Nov. 7-8, 2013 8. Dr. Thomas Isaac, Trivandrum, November 6-7, 2013. 9. Dr. Pronab Sen, National Statistical Commission, November 6-7, 2013. 10. Dr. Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission, November 6-7, 2013. 11. Prof. K.N. Harilal, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, November 7, 2013 12. Guo, Yanqing, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, January 12 – February 27, 2014. 13. Shindo, Junko, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, China, March 21 – 29, 2014. 14. Mori, Yuko, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, March 1 – 6, 2014. 15. Motiram, Sripad, IGIDR, Mumbai, March 9 to 18, 2014. 16. Dr. Kamal Murari, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai March 22-29, 2014. 17. Prof. T. Jayaraman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai March 22-29, 2014.
2014-15 18. Prof. Kazuyasu, Miyata, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan, 19-25 August 2014 19. Dr. Govinda Choudhury, North Bengal University, 2 weeks in March 2015 20. Athreya Venkatesh, MSSRF, Chennai, March 6, 2015
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21. Bakshi, Aparajita, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, March 6, 2015 22. Chand, Ramesh, Director, NCAP, New Delhi, March 6, 2015 23. Chandran, K.P., CPCRI, Kasargod, Kerala, March 6, 2015 24. Choudhury, Govinda North Bengal University, Kolkata, March 5 – 19, 2015 25. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tulzhapur, March 6, 2015 26. Mukherjee Sanchari, North Bengal University, Kolkata, March 5- 13, 2015 27. Ramkumar, R, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, March 6, 2015 28. Rao, T.J., Vishakhapatnam, March 6, 2015 29. V. Surjit, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, March 6, 2015 30. Vijay, R, University of Hyderabad, March 6, 2015 2015-16 31. Shindo, Junko, University of Yamanashi, Japan, April 7-14, 2015 32. Murari Kamal, TISS, April 10, 2015 33. Jayaraman, T., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, April 7-14, 2015 34. Murai Kamal, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, April 7-14, 2015 35. Jayaraman T., TISS, Mumbai, April 10, 2015 36. Shindo, Junko, Japan, April 10, 2015 37. Banerjee Debosree, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, May 21, 2015 38. Asha Kuzhiparambil, NIAS Bangalore, September 18, 2015 39. Rao, Samba Siva, ISI, Kolkata, September 22-24, 2015 40. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, October 13-15, 2015 41. C. Periasamy, Bharathiyar University, November 2, 2015 42. Thomas Jayan Jose, IIT, Delhi, November 3, 2015 43. Sadashivappa Prakash, November 20, 2015 44. DR. Jesim Pais, ISID, Delhi, Feb 29-March 5, 2015 45. Anjan Chakrabarti, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling, 2 weeks in March 2016 46. Sandip Sarkar, CSSS, Kolkata, 2 weeks in March 2016. 47. A. Shiva Kumar, UNICEF, 1 week in March 2016.
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Interim Report Bangla Pronunciation Dictionary : April 2015 - March 2016 Investigator: Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash (Principal Investigator)
Project Scholars Ms. Mouparna Sen (Project Linked Person) Ms. Amrita De (Project Linked Person)
Linguistic Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203, B. T. Road, Baranagar Kolkata- 700108
1. Introduction
The objective of this project is to develop a Bangla pronunciation dictionary in electronic and printed form with lexical databases obtained from the corpus of modern Bangla texts as well as from other printed and digital sources. The proposed dictionary is being developed in such a manner that it becomes an indispensable linguistic resource for various researches and applications in applied linguistics (e.g., language teaching, e-governance, pronunciation teaching, etc.) speech technology, language technology, and language processing in Bangla. The inspiration behind designing this digital pronunciation dictionary is the absence of the same in machine readable form in the language. However, there are few pronunciation dictionaries in printed form. The pronunciation dictionary in Bangla that we can refer to is the Samsad Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan (1993) by Subhash Bhattacharya. It is published nearly two decades ago and has lost much of its referential relevance due to its inability to reflect the changes in pronunciation of Bangla words over the years as observed in Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB). The other printed dictionary which is published just a few years ago is the Sabda Sanket (2009) by Jamil Choudhury. This dictionary has several limitations in presentation of actual pronunciation of words both in IPA and in Bangla orthography, as well as in presentation of other relevant information of the words. The present digital dictionary proposes – with a user-friendly interface consisting of entries like POS, representation in Indic Roman, Pronunciation in IPA, Pronunciation in Bangla Orthography, Meaning in English, Meaning in Bangla, Usage in Bangla, translation of Bangla sentence into English, etc. – to serve the Bangla speech community as well as the Bangla language learners as a highly useful digital linguistic resource with actual empirical language data and information.
2. Purpose, Scope and Justification
The purpose of the dictionary is to develop a pronunciation dictionary both in printed and electronic form in Bangla. A total of twenty thousand (20,000) entry words will be selected from a large lexical database of frequently used lexical items collected from the modern Bangla printed text corpus, modern Bangla printed newspaper corpus, and some freely available digital lexical databases. The entry words (including Tatsama, Tadbhava, native, local and foreign words of different part-of- speech) are used in the dictionary in their lemmatized and alphabetically sorted form. The spelling of entry words is fixed following the proposal of Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata to avoid all kinds of spelling disputes. In the next stage, each entry word is transliterated into Indic Roman script marked with diacritics for easy understanding by the dictionary users. The accepted pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB) is adopted for the entry words, and this is presented in standard Bangla orthography (for those people who know Bangla orthography but do not know IPA). The pronunciation of words is also presented in IPA for those people who know IPA but do not know Bangla orthography. This is meant particularly for the learners of Bangla language in various universities and institutes in Europe, USA, and other countries.
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The meaning for each entry word is provided with an English equivalent for sense disambiguation of words, which is particularly useful for homographic and homophonous homonyms (words having similar orthographic forms or pronunciation but different meanings). The speech output of pronunciation of entry words is available both in sentence-free and sentence-bound contexts. The output of the dictionary is summarized below:
No Item Example (1) Entry word in Bangla �িত (2) Part-of-Speech of the Word Noun (3) Display of the word in Indic Roman script kṣati (4) Pronunciation of word in Bangla orthography েখািত (5) Pronunciation of the word in IPA [khoti] (6) Meaning of the word in Bangla হািন, অিন�, েলাকসান (7) Meaning of the word in English Loss, harm (8) Digital audio output of the word [khoti] (9) Usage in a Bangla sentence েলাক�ট েতামার অেনক �িত করেত পাের (10) Translation of Bangla Sentence in English The person can cause much harm to you
3. Applicational Relevance
This dictionary is the first of its kind in the Bangla language. It is corpus-based and computer-assisted with a multimedia interface facility for regular scope for data interface gradation, data and information augmentation, and device modification. It will be useful for first and second language learning, pronunciation teaching, text-to-speech conversion, on-line language teaching, language recognition, word-form recognition, machine learning, machine translation, E-Governance, Bangla-English parallel sentence generation, computational lexicography, and word-sense disambiguation. It can also be useful for linguistically impaired people to train them in Bangla speech production. The beneficiaries of this resource are native Bangla learners, foreign Bangla learners, language teachers, machine translation system developers, text-to-speech system developers, lexicographers, language planners, speech pathologists, and cognitive linguists.
4. Progress Status (April 2015 – March 2016)
Till the end of March 2016, we have successfully completed normalization and correction of spelling of the target lexical database (i.e. + 54000 consonant-initiated words). Thus, the entire database is uploaded and is available at the LRU homepage: http://www.isical.ac.in/~lru/bengdict/index.php In this phase we have completed providing semantic annotation i.e. providing the meanings of 7258 vowel-initiated words. Nearly 6,549 vowel-initiated words are still left. Therefore, initially our target is to provide the meaning and usage of 6549 vowel-initiated words in Bangla after we successfully completed the semantic annotation and the word count raised up to 7992 of the vowel <অ> (a). Later, it is decided to start furnishing consonant-initiated words with the major information in the dictionary. We have completed providing the transliteration and pronunciation in IPA and Bangla Orthography consonants <ক> (k), <খ> (kh), <গ> (g), <ঘ> (gh) and <চ>(c) (8310 words). Semantic and POS annotation of theses vowels are in progress. According to the decided model of the dictionary, we have so far furnished the target words with the following information:
a. Word (the entry word) b. Part-of-Speech (POS) c. Transliteration: word in Roman script with diacritics d. Representation of pronunciation of the word with the help of Bangla Orthography e. Transcription i.e. Representation of the pronunciation of the word in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) f. Meaning of the words in Bangla.
4.1 Word (the entry word)
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The entry words (including Tatsama, Tadbhava, native, local and foreign words of different part-of- speech) are used in the dictionary in their lemmatized and alphabetically sorted form. The spelling of entry words is fixed following the proposal of Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata to avoid all kinds of spelling disputes. The words are then tagged with their part-of-speech i.e. their word categories which include noun, verb, adjectives, adverbs, indeclinable etc. POS tagging of the entry words in our pronunciation dictionary plays an important role because they capture the following information: Our dictionary will be able to provide all the possible POS categories a Lexical unit may belong to in one click along with their other lexical information:
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কই indeclinable kai েকাই /koi/ কই indeclinable kai েকাই /koi/ কই noun kai েকাই /koi/ কই verb kai েকাই /koi/
This would be very useful in distinguishing words with same orthographic structure but differing in their pronunciation depending on their part of speech and meaning in Bangla.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কমল noun kamala কেমাল্ /kɔmol/ কমল adjective kamala েকাম্েলা /komlo/
4.2 Transliteration:
Words are represented in Roman script with diacritics. In the next stage, each entry word is transliterated into Indic Roman script marked with diacritics for easy understanding by the dictionary users. Transliteration of the entry words as they showcase how the words would have pronounced if there was 1:1 mapping relationship between a phoneme and a grapheme in Bangla. Thus transliteration when compared to the pronunciation of the entry would be able to reveal the extent of grapheme-to-phoneme disparities and similarities evident in Bangla language.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কষ� adjective karṣī েকার্িশ /korʃi/ কল� noun kalatra কেলাত্ে�া /kɔlotro/
4.3 Representation of pronunciation of the word with the help of Bangla Orthography
The accepted pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB) is adopted for the entry words, and this is presented in standard Bangla orthography (for those people who know Bangla orthography but do not know IPA). The representation of the entry words itself will reflect how the pronunciation of a word deviates from its actual orthography of the words.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কলকাকিল noun kalakākali কেলাকােকািল /kɔlokakoli/ কালে�প noun kālakṣep কােলাক্ েখপ্ /kalokkhep/
Representation of sonants which are realised mostly in borrowed words is one of the major issues and have been indicated that particular syllable in bold.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান বাংলা িলিপেত আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ
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িলিপ উ�ারণ েকিমকাল্ /kemikal/ /kemikel/ Adjective / েকিমেকল্ kemikyāl /kemikæl/ েকিমক�াল noun েকিমক�াল্ /kemik(ə)l/ েকিমকল্ কােলক্ শান্ /kalekʃan/ কােলকশন noun kālekśan কােলক্ শন্ /kalekʃ(ə)n/
4.4 Transcription
Representation of the pronunciation of the word in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of oral language. The use of IPA in our pronunciation dictionary plays the most vital role because it is able to represent the accurate pronunciation of the Bangla words. This would help those people who are acquainted with IPA but do not know Bangla orthography. Therefore, this dictionary could be used by the learners of Bangla language in various universities and institutes in Europe, USA, and other countries. Not only the pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB), but also the minute variations with all the regularities and irregularities in the pronunciation of these entry words are captured in our dictionary.
4.5 Variations in Pronunciation:
শ� পদ েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত আই-িপ-এ পিরচয় উ�ারণ উ�ারণ কােতােরাতা /katorota/ কাতরতা noun kātaratā কােতারতা /katorɔta/ কাতরতা noun kātaratā কজজল্ /kɔʤʤɔl/ ক�ল kajjal akampan কজেজাল্্ /kɔʤʤol/ ক�ল kajjal akampan kaṭmaṭa কট্মেটা /kɔʈmɔʈo/ কটমট noun kaṭmaṭ কট্মট্ /kɔʈmɔʈ/ কটমট noun কর্েমািবেরাত্েতা / /kɔrmobirotto/ কম �বীর� noun karmabīratna কর্েমািবরত্েতা /kɔrmobirɔtto/
The Standard Regional varieties of the pronunciations of the English entry words have also been captured in this dictionary.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ
কে�াজ verb kampoj কম্েপাজ ্ /kəmpoz/ /kɔmpoz/
কে�াট� noun kamphorṭ কম্েফারট্ /kɔmfɔrʈ/ /kəmfə(r)ʈ/ কিরডর noun kariḍar কিরেডার / কিরডর /kɔriɖor/ /kɔriɖɔr/
5. Meaning of words in Bangla:
Meaning is another important feature for word-sense disambiguation as the pronunciation of a word in the SCB may vary depending on its parts-of speech and meaning and even a word having same parts of speech and pronunciation may be encountered with variations in meaning. We have completed the semantic annotation of the vowel অ i.e. of 7992 words in this session which thereby completes the semantic annotation of the vowel-initiated words. Variations may be of following types:
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A word may have just one part-of speech, one pronunciation and one meaning A word may have different parts-of speech, same pronunciation and same or similar meaning A word may have different parts-of speech, same pronunciation and different meaning A word may have different parts-of speech, different pronunciation and different meaning A word may have same part-of speech, same pronunciation and different meaning A word may have same part-of speech, different pronunciation and same meaning
In the coming session we plan to provide the following information of the vowel- initiated entry words:
[1] Usage of the word in Bangla sentence: The speech output of pronunciation of entry words is available in sentence-free and sentence-bound contexts. As Bangla characters and letters – when used in formation of words – i. deviate from the standard norm of their sound representation in speech, ii. Words change their pronunciation based on differences in parts-of-speech and meanings and iii. Various lexico-semantic factors are responsible for differences in pronunciation of words in the language.
[2] Meaning of the words in English: to provide the meanings of the words in English would be useful for the language learners as it would provide them a better understanding of the words and can be useful in translation studies. Providing the meaning for each entry word is provided with an English equivalent for sense disambiguation of words, which is particularly useful for homographic and homophonous homonyms.
6. Digital Audio output of the word:
This feature will provide aid to the second language learners as to how Bangla words are pronounced and this will be useful to differentiate the homographic words. It may be used for text-to-speech conversion as well. All these information for some Bangla words is available in a demo version of the tool at the LRU homepage: http://www.isical.ac.in/~lru/bengdict/index.php
শ� : অি� পদ পিরচয় : Noun েরামান িলিপ :akṣi বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ :ও ক্ .িখ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ :[okkhi] অথ � : েচাখ) Eye) ব�াবহার : তার অি�কমল অিত সু�র ইংের�জ অনুবাদ :Her eyes are very Beautiful
References
Bhattacharya, Subhas (1993) Samsad Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan (Samsad Bangla Pronunciation Dictionary). Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad. Biswas, Naren (2006) Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan. Dhaka: Bangla Academy. Biswas, Shailendra (2012) Samsad Bangla Abhidhan (Samsad Bangla Dictionary). 5th Edition. Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad. Choudhury, Jamil (2009) Sabda Sanket (A Bangla Dictionary with Pronunciation in IPA). Kolkata: Dey’s Publishing. Mitra, Subal Chandra (2009) Saral Bangala Abhidhan (Easy Bangla Dictionary). 9th Edition. Kolkata: New Bengal Press. Sarkar, Pabitra, Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, and Prashanta Kumar Dasgupta (2005) Akademi Banan Abhidhan (Akademi Spelling Dictionary). Kolkata: Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi.
Publications
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Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) “Digital dictionary: a physical realization of virtual reality”. Proceedings of the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI 2010), 23-24 December 2010, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, pp. 91-95. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) “Utilization of language corpora in compilation of digital dictionaries for Indic languages”. Presented in the International Seminar on Tamil Computing, 24th-26th February, 2010, Linguistic Studies Unit, Dept. of Tamil Language, Madras University, Chennai, India. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Bangla Script. Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing [ISBN: 978-3-8383-4448-5]. Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Payel Dutta Chowdhury and Abhisek Sarkar (2011) “Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for Bangla: A Tool of the Time”. In, Sharma, Dipti Misra, Rajeev Sangal and Sobha L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON- 2011), Pp. 117-124, Anna University, Chennai, India, 16th – 19th December 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya”. Alochana Chakra. Vol. 32. Pp. 166-178, Baimela Sankhya, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Pronomita Basu (2012) “Developing Scientific and Technical Terminology Database from Electronic Language Corpora”. Language Forum. Vol. 38. No. 1. Pp. 5-21. January-June 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “Developing a Digital Pronunciation Dictionary in Bangla for Computer- Assisted Language Teaching, E-Learning, and Language Technology”. Proceedings of Abstract of the 35th Annual and 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-1), Pp. 78-81. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India, 27-29 November, 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Baidyutin bangla uccharan abhidhan”. Alochana Chakra [ISSN: 2231 3990]. Suniti Kumar Chatterji 125 Special Issue. Vol. 37: 155 - 187. August, 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Consonant graphic variants in Bangla: their patterns of usage and their nature of pronunciation within words”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 3. No. 1-2. Jan-Dec 2014, Pp. 168-186. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Investigating into the patterns of usage and nature of pronunciation of some consonant grapheme clusters in Bangla”. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (AJHSS). Vol. 2. No. 2. Pp. 330-340, April 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Non-allographed Consonants and Diacritics in Bangla Words: Defining their Patterns of Usage and Nature of Pronunciation”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 7. No. 1-2. Pp. 31-50.
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Final Report Linguistic Research Unit Final report on completed General project Title: The biaxial study of Bangla lexico-syntax P.I.: Probal Dasgupta Duration: 2013-16
This investigation – carried out on the basis of the guideline that ISI projects should as far as possible pursue methodologically important leads instead of focusing excessively on case studies of purely empirical interest – has served to advance our understanding of the relations between the methodology of the micro-linguistic study of morphology and syntax and that of the macro-linguistic study of the social context in which languages and their dialects are configured.
What has emerged as a conceptually important tool for analyses in this and adjacent domains is the method of co-representation, which deploys two or more simultaneously applicable structures over the same material in order to ensure compliance with overlapping but non-competitive constraints. The use of co-representation makes it possible to phase out the emphasis on unmarked or default variants in micro-linguistics. As a consequence, it becomes clear that the notion of default actually reflects macro-linguistic forces. It follows that the practice of building one’s grammatical description around defaults reflects an inappropriate conflation of categories drawn from the micro and macro subdomains of linguistics.
This project has confirmed the validity of the biaxial re-alignment of the notion of economy. Unlike mono-axial, purely syntagmatic theories that build morphological accounts around the most opaque elements and syntactic descriptions around the most transparent constructions, the biaxial approach deploys paradigmatic devices in order to ease the burden on the architecture. This strategy has proved especially successful in unravelling certain mysteries at the gender/classifier interface – in work that is now in press.
The following publications report results from this project:
1. Dasgupta, Probal. La ruĝo kaj la verdo: fi-trajto-inertaj sanskritidaj substantivoj en kunreprezenta analizo/ Shamaantor protikriti-bisleshoner cokhe Bhaarotiyo Aarjo bhaashaar phaai-nishkriyo bisheshsho. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank (ed.) Littera Scripta Manent: Serta in Honorem Helmar Frank. Paderborn/ Prague: Akademia Libroservo. 182-192. 2014.
2. Dasgupta, Probal. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominals in a co-representation analysis. Shu-Fen Chen, Benjamin Slade (eds.) Grammatica et Verba / Grammar and Verve/ Studies in South Asian, historical, and Indo-European linguistics in honour of Hans Henrich Hock. Ann Arbor/ New York: Beech Stave. 46-52. 2014.
3. Dasgupta, Probal. Wide wh-scope from a postverbal adjunct in Bangla. Ellen Brandner, Anna Czypionka, Constantin Freitag, Andreas Trotzke (eds.) Charting the Landscape of Linguistics: On the Scope of Josef Bayer's Work. Konstanz: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/Webschrift Bayer retrieved on 4 December 2015. 28-30.
4. Dasgupta, Probal. Dialects, literature and thin description. Humanities Circle 3:1.117-128. 2015.
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10. Dasgupta, Probal. The methodological location of linguistic descriptions. Bijoy Mukherjee, Rajkumar Raychoudhury (eds.) Sciences and Methods. Kolkata: Asiatic Society. 95-120. 2015.
6. Dasgupta, Probal. Eschewing defaults in linguistics: three methodological notes. Katarzina Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Jaroslaw Weckwerth (eds.) Rajendra Singh: In memoriam: Papers from a special commemorative session at the 44th Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM. 7-23. 2015.
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Interim Report Interim Report on On-going Northeastern Project Linguistic Research Unit Title: The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla P.I.: Probal Dasgupta Duration: 2014-17 This project is still running at the moment of writing this brief interim report. It is appropriate at this stage to highlight the role of the morphology and syntax of agreement elements in the syntactic subdomain of this study, and the interaction between these phenomena and diglossia in the socio-linguistic subdomain of the project. Assamese becomes crucial in the psycholinguistic paper ‘Getting the identical infinitives filter in Bangla under control’ that was due out in 2015 but is now expected to appear in the second half of 2016. We have received input from Guwahati based colleagues on the Assamese equivalents to the constructions under investigation in this paper and have been able to specify the inflectional contrasts between Assamese and Bangla that underlie the fact that the identical infinitives filter phenomenon occurs only in Bangla and not in Assamese – despite the considerable commonalities between the morphological systems in these contiguous and typologically isomorphic languages. Some results obtained from this project were reported in the following publications: 1. Dasgupta, Probal. La ruĝo kaj la verdo: fi-trajto-inertaj sanskritidaj substantivoj en kunreprezenta analizo/ Shamaantor protikriti-bisleshoner cokhe Bhaarotiyo Aarjo bhaashaar phaai-nishkriyo bisheshsho. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank (ed.) Littera Scripta Manent: Serta in Honorem Helmar Frank. Paderborn/ Prague: Akademia Libroservo. 182-192. 2014. 2. Dasgupta, Probal. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominals in a co-representation analysis. Shu-Fen Chen, Benjamin Slade (eds.) Grammatica et Verba / Grammar and Verve/ Studies in South Asian, historical, and Indo-European linguistics in honour of Hans Henrich Hock. Ann Arbor/ New York: Beech Stave. 46-52. 2014. 3. Dasgupta, Probal. Judges and grammarians in Britain’s liberal pedagogic performance: a diglossic approach to colonial Bengal. Droit et Cultures 67.151-186. 2014. 4. Bayer, Josef; Dasgupta, Probal. Emphatic topicalization and the structure of the left periphery: evidence from German and Bangla. Syntax 19. 2016. [In press; final proofs corrected.]
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Interim Report PROJECT REPORT
Title of the Project: Developmental Challenges in Children and Associated Socioeconomic Factors: A Study in the Purulia District of West Bengal
Name of the Scientist / Principal Investigator: Dr. Partha De, Population Studies Unit. External Associated Scientist with affiliation: Professor Nandita Chatterjee, HOD Pediatrics, IQ City Medical College &NarayanaHrudayalaya Hospital, Durgapur W.B. and Ex- Professor, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan. Kolkata.
Date of Completion : 31st March, 2016.
Completion Report :
Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the term “disability” to refer to a loss of health, where health means having full functional capacity in such domains as mobility, cognition, hearing and vision (UN, 2010). It emphasizes that, Persons with disabilities include those who have long term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. According to UN Enable (UN Website particularly developed for disability) around 10% of the world's populations, 650 million people, live with disabilities. Women and children with disabilities are particularly at a greater risk of abuse. About 90% of children with disabilities worldwide do not attend school. Children with disabilities are at a 1.7 times greater risk of being subjected to some form of violence (UN enable, 2015). According to Child Rights International Network (CRIN) over 150 million children worldwide have a disability and 90% of the children with disabilities will not survive pass twenty years of age (CRIN, 2015). The British Department for International Development (DFID) has recognized that, ‘disability is a major cause of social exclusion and it is both the cause and consequence of poverty’ (DFID, 2000).In India, 1.67% of the 0-19 population has a disability and 35.29% of all people living with disabilities are children (Census of India, 2001). Other estimates say that India has 12 million children living with disabilities (CIF, 2008). Only 1% of children with disabilities have access to school and one third of most disabilities are preventable (CIF, 2008). With a large birth cohort of almost 26 million per year, India would account for the largest share of birth defects in the world (MOHFW, 2013). Under-nutrition is a severe problem with children who suffer from cerebral palsy (Hung et. al., 2003). In India 80% of children with disabilities will not survive past age forty (Kataria, 2002).
Disability in India is still functioning in the sphere of social welfare instead of a rights perspective. As there is no direct mortality associated with the various types of disabilities, they remain at the bottom of the government’s priority list. There is no mention of disability either in the Constitution or the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), thus the treatment and prevention of disability does not demand much attention. Teachers are not trained and schools don't have sufficient infrastructure to deal with children with disabilities. Neither are paediatric wards of hospitals equipped to deal with them. Unfortunately, there is not enough data in the grass root level on the number of children living with disabilities in India to allow the government to provide the necessary services. Disability data is essential for monitoring the
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quality and outcomes of policies for persons with disabilities. In India, the major sources of official statistics on disability are the decadal Population Censuses and the regular large scale sample surveys on disability conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). It provides the disability prevalence rates in different states of India within different age groups, gender and place of residence. Similarly, NSSO data provides important insights into the causes of disability and age specific prevalence rates for different types of disabilities (NSSO, 2002). But the two (Census and NSSO) differ substantially especially in respect of overall estimates of persons with various types of disability and their age distribution, mainly due to differences in the concepts and definitions as also the data collection methodologies (CSO, 2012). Since the data are collected by the non-medical personnel, it is imperative to define disability in a very careful and guarded way to minimize the bias of the investigators and respondents. The concepts and definitions spelt out in the act were found to be difficult to canvass in the absence of expert people specifically trained for the purpose.
Purpose, Scope and Justification Childhood disability is mostly a consequence of developmental delay & challenge, in various domains like, motor, cognitive, visual, auditory and social development. As a child grows and develops, he/she learns different skills, such as taking a first step, smiling for the first time, or waving goodbye. These skills are known as developmental milestones. Developmental Delay is when child does not reach their developmental milestones at the expected times. Usually, there is an age range of several months where a child is expected to learn these new skills, e.g., if the normal age range for walking is 9 to 15 months, and a child still isn’t walking by 20 months, this would be considered a developmental delay. The main underlying causes of developmental delays in India are malnutrition, diseases, congenital factors, accidents and violence, inadequate hygiene, lack of access to a health care system, poverty etc.Developmental delay leads to specific problems turning to disabilities among the children like, Motor disabilities, cognitivedelays, Visual Impairment, Hearing impairment, Behavioural problems, Learning disabilities.But, much of the disability burden can be reduced if the developmental delays are detected early and ‘Early Intervention’ is initiated, thereby averting a permanent disability. Regrettably, till lately, little emphasis had been laid on the medico-social aspects of underlying aetiology of these conditions, of which very scanty data is available in our country. If we could identify the major contributing factors to developmental delays and curb them, the burden of developmental challenges and ultimate child disability could be largely reduced in India.Thus, it is important to identify developmental delays early so that treatment can minimize the effects of the problem. Now if it is not identified early and taken care of, in most cases it leads to permanent disability. Particularly in rural areas of India, where access to health care resources is limited and illiteracy is high, developmental challenges in children are there in plenty, go largely unattended. This is absolutely essential to detect and prevent developmental challenges in the vulnerable children in India.However, the main problem is to identify the developmental delay among children in the rural households. In this respect health and social workers may be given in service orientation and training to detect and manage various types developmental delays and challenges in children. Special Newborn Care Units (SNCU) Technical Reports have reported that approximate 20 percent of babies discharged from health facilities are found to suffer from developmental delays or disabilities at a later age (MOHFW, 2013). Thus, the potential source may be to follow up high risk babies discharged from the SNCU of different districts and state hospitals of India and identify early markers of developmental delay to determine the imminent burden of developmental challenges and also study the various aetiological factors and associations in the rural population. Although perinatal and newborn care is improving in rural areas, a major part of the rural population is still deprived of all the available medical facilities, due to socio-economic, cultural and topographical reasons. Purulia is a backward district in the state of West Bengal. About 43.65% families in the rural areas of the district belong to BPL category. A high proportion of the populations (88.93%) in
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the district are in the rural areas. Overall literacy level in the district during 2011 Census is 65.38% and for female it is alarmingly low (37.15%) (Census of India, 2011). Thus with high impoverishment and low female literacy it is likely that more children will be available those who have problems with developmental delays. That is why the district has considered finding out the gravity of the existence of children’s developmental delays and their correlates via household survey.There is very scanty data available in this regionregarding neuro- developmental outcome of high risk newborns and the magnitude of the problem of evolving developmental challenges; hence we remain unaware of the magnitude of the situation.Against the above said backdrop, there is a need of systematic and organized community based survey to identify medico-social aspects of underlying aetiology of these conditions among developmentally challenged young children in Purulia district. It becomes important to develop the guidelines to provide services for the effective diagnosis, care, understanding the cause, management, treatment and prevention of various types of developmental challenges among vulnerable children in the district. At the same time awareness about the developmental delays among the poor parents has to be improved to reduce the future burden of child disability in the area.
The Prime Objectives of the study are: (i) to prepare a data base of the children aged (0–6) years having any kind of developmental challenge in a backward district like Purulia of West Bengal; (ii) to study the problemsof developmental delay in children, the child population 0-6 years those who are screened by the specialist using scientific methodology, thereby identifying children with developmental delay; (iii) to investigate about the maternal, demographic and socioeconomic determinants of developmental challenges among the children in the district, household surveys are conducted in different blocks of the district among those children; (iv) along with one identified developmentally challenged children, information from two normal children within the same age group (one male and one female) from the same socio-economic community are also collected. Based on this feature, the two groups (one with developmental delay and the others with no such problems) may be compared to observe their differences in medical, demographic and socio-economic aspects. The idea here is to use the collected data to explore associations between existing developmental delays in children’s activities and participation in life situations, and their contextual factors. Thus, an interesting result may come out from this control group of study for the rural district of Purulia; (v) to explore the scope of improvement about the awareness level of parents having developmentally challenged children, 50 percent of the previously identified children are again surveyed. It is important for the parents for detection of early markers of developmental delay and early intervention measures. Again the purpose of this study is to conduct an assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices related to developmental delay among families with such children in Purulia district. A questionnaire with 49 items comprising of major rehabilitation components (medical, educational, economical, social and behavioral) was used for the study.This study measures knowledge, attitudes and practices of families of children with developmental delay.
Data and Methodology Literature survey has been done and relevant research articles, reports and books have gone through to understand the empirical findings about the subject in Indian context. The survey schedule / questionnaire for the present study has prepared based on the experiences and findings of the existing present literature. During the entire study period (2014-16), twenty (20)
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blocks in Purulia district are surveyed for data collection.During first year (2014-15), nine (9) blocks namely, Arsha, Jhalda-I, Jhalda-II,Barabazar, Balarampur, Manbazar-I, Manbazar-II, Purulia-I and Para are selected for the study. In the second year (2015-16), remaining eleven (11) blocks namely, Bandwan, Bagmundi, Hura, Joypur, Kashipur, Neturia, Purulia-II, Puncha, Raghunathpur-I, Raghunathpur-II and Santuriare surveyed.To get initial records of children either marked by high risk or have some problem related with development, mainly, three data sources are utilized. First, the records of high risk babies discharged from the district hospital (Deben MahatoSadar Hospital, Purulia) of SNCU are collected. Second, information about Children examined and treated under RBSK Project of NRHM in the district hospital is considered. Thirdly, records of children from PHC and BPHC are also investigated. However, the information is collected only for the children having age 0 - 6 years during our study period. A specialized team has been setup with the help and support of our external associated collaborator of scientist of this project and local social welfare organisations (NGOs) who are working in this aspect in the district. This team includes: Developmental Pediatrician, Ophthalmologist, Developmental Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Speech Therapist, and Special Educator. Their role is to identify developmental delays among babies at the grass root level and also to provide early intervention facilities by their specialized skills. They also offer training to parents and health workers for home based early intervention therapy. A group of personnel like block level health workers and local NGO workers are trained by the above said team for initially identifying children at risk of developmental delay from community, block wise according to their home address collected from the hospital records.These Block Representatives are utilizedfor motivating and mobilizing the parents of the babies to attend the screening camp (with their child) organized at different block levels time to time, where the expert team performs screening & assessments to arrive at a definite diagnosis and also simultaneously initiated early intervention therapy.This team has identified a large number of children (approximately 300) during the study period in the above said blocks, with some developmental delays or challenges of different nature like, locomotor, hearing, speech, cognitive or social. Now, among the identified children the household survey has been conducted by the investigators (block representatives) to understand contextual factors, particularly on the socioeconomic background of a child’s life and living along with parental characteristics (age, gender, ethnic, education, household wealth, health, etc.). To create a control group, along with one identified developmentally challenged child, information from two normal children within the same age group (one male and one female) from the same socio-economic community are also collected. For thestudy period a total of 900 children (approximately) are surveyed for 0 – 6 age group in 20 blocks of Purulia district. After completion of Main Survey, a small survey has been organized to understand the awareness level of parents about the problem of developmental delay and disability. The parents of 300 children (150 from developmental delay and 150 from normal children) are surveyed for the purpose.
Finding and Discussion
The data entry for the project has completed at the end of the March, 2016. Details scrutiny, restructuring and categorization are needed for generating final data set for detail analysis. However, preliminary observations show that, motor delay is highest (30.3%) followed by speech (28.5%), cognitive (12.7%), behavioural (11.4%), hearing (11.0%) and visual (6.1%) within the children having developmental delay. Tone abnormalities and motor delay are more common in the first year of life, whereas cerebral palsy became evident in the2nd year of life. Beyond 2 years of age speech delay and Global Developmental delay also increased substantially.
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Among the childrenhaving developmental problems, 53.2 percent were admitted to SNCU just after their birth for treatment compared to normal children (2.9%) after their birth. This indicates the need of constant tracking and monitoring of the children discharged from SNCU on regular basis to understand the burden of developmental delay within the community. The study shows that meningitis, convulsion, respiratory problems, jaundice and physical deformation at birth are the main causes for which new born babies are admitted in SNCU. Although home delivery shares a higher percentage (24%) among the children under study, but there is no specific bias in favour of children suffering from developmental delay. However, share of forceps and scissor baby under institutional delivery are more in case of children having such problems than normal children. So, neonatal seizure shows significant correlation with developmental challenges.For developmentally challenged children birth cry is significantly low (59%) compared to normal child (97%) indicating an important sign of developmental delay. Low birth weight and prematurity are found to be important contributory factors for developmental delay. The total percentage of very low birth weight (VLBW) and low birth weight (LBW) is 34.1 percent for the children suffering from developmental delay compared to normal children having such birth weight is 7.1 percent only. Similarly, gestational period less than 37 weeks is much higher (20.6%) for challenged children compared to normal children (5.9%). Hence improvement of gestational age at birth and birth weight will help in curbing the incidence of developmental delay. Generally twin babies are found to be more prone to developmental delay than singletons. In the present study the percentage of twins is comparatively high (19.0%) for the children of delayed development than the normal children (12.0%) under consideration.
Socio-economic, cultural status and demographic characteristics of parents and child play a significant role in the intellectual, linguistic and perceptual-motor performance of the growing children. For the present study no religious bias has been observed for the problem of developmental delay. If we like at the types of disability by age, we can observe that significant differences in prevalence rates exist among age cohorts. The percentage of children with difficulties in speaking and understanding tend to decrease with age, while difficulties in seeing and hearing increase. This may be due to the fact that, certain types of disabilities like hearing are more likely to be detected at an older age. Similarly, children below a certain age cannot do certain activities, as for instance the inability to speak (which is very normal below certain age) are likely to be over reported. In our present study, developmental delay among male child is comparatively higher (62.8%) than female child (38.9%). This probably shows the gender bias in the family where parents are more concerned about the survival and wellbeing of male child than female. This causes the under reporting of females suffering from such problems. Household head always play important role as a decision maker. So, the level of education for household head always have some impact in the family. In our present study as educational level increases for the household head, the problem of developmental delay decreases. Similar observation is also seen in case mother’s education. The percentage of illiterate mothers among the developmentally delayed children is comparatively high (32.4%) than the mothers of normal child (24.5%). Early age at marriage (less than 18 years) and lower age (less than 18 years) at first birth are higher in case of mothers having children with developmental problems. The antenatal checkup and problems during this period for mothers have some definite impact over developmental delay among children. The ANC during pregnancy is slightly lower for the mothers having child with developmental delay than their normal counterpart. Similar observation is noted in case of receiving of two doses of TT injection and iron-folic acid tablet. Smoking / drinking of alcohol / tobacco chewing during pregnancy are significantly higher among the mothers whose children are currently suffering from developmental delay. Mental stress during pregnancy also creates negative impact upon child in gestation. It has been observed that, 20 percent of mothers those who have children of developmental delay suffer from mental stress during their pregnancy. But this is only 9 percent in case of mothers having normal child. Thus, improved antenatal and perinatal care along with early detection and
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intervention at the rural level will bring down the incidence of developmental challenges among vulnerable population in our country. The awareness survey conducted during end of our study period measures knowledge, attitudes and practices of families of children with developmental delay. Now, understanding the levels of knowledge, attitudes and practices will help the planner to create appropriate intervention strategies for proper rehabilitation of those children. It is known that the triad of knowledge, attitudes and practices in combination governs all aspects of life in human societies, and all three pillars together make up the dynamic system of life itself (Kaliyaperumal, 2004). Data revealed that there is not much difference between parents of children having developmental delay and parents of normal children in few aspects. Both groups lack information and do not know the appropriate places of receiving services from available heath facilities. Both groups have misconceptions and misperceptions. There is evidence of serious negligence towards their disabled children. Few families have shown great openness toward acquiring new skills and knowledge for handling their children with developmental delay. However, parents of normal children have shown a more humanitarian approach in handling problems in children. Female children are more victimised due to gender inequity in families having children of developmental problems. However, these families involve their children of these children in their families has taken place only due to god’s decree and not because of poor nutrition, improper more and do not show much discrimination in participation of their children in day-to- day life. Largely, parents believe that birth delivery, or other birth related problems. These findings also match with study done by Persha and colleagues (Persha et al., 2007). They pay money to faith healers and on conducting worship rituals. Finally it can be said that, remoteness and poor communication facilities, coupled with poor resources pose great hindrance to proper follow-up of these children. Decentralization of Early intervention facilities through District Early Intervention Centres and home-based management have to be focussed on to cater to the needs of this vulnerable children of rural community.
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Outlay and Expenditure during preceding year of Project: Total Budget requested for two Budget requested in Expenditure during years preceding year preceding year Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 9.15 NIL 9.15 5.25 NIL 5.25 4.54 NIL 4.54
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Interim Report Title: Contract farming participation and emerging trend in agrarian relation: The case of potato growers in West Bengal Year of Commencement: April 2015 Name of PI: Hari Charan Behera, SRU, ISI Giridih Background of the study: Contract farming practice is not new in India. Both formal and informal forms of contracts or agreements in agriculture have been practiced since centuries (Eaton and Shepherd, 2001; Rao, 2008). However, this practice has gained momentum since early 2000s with new agricultural policy to have encouraged private participation in farming to boost production output and to ensure better market linkage for the products/commodities through retail supply chain by the concerned private agencies (Singh, 2005; Sharma, 2008; Gulati, Joshi and Landes, 2011). After decades of subsistence farming with predominant staple crop production in India, the trend has now to promote contract farming, a form of capitalistic farming, to boost FMCG and the other manufacturing sector. Contract farming is a more complex network under the local and global framework. Apart from a common practice of contracting between stakeholders there is also relatively deep penetration of market into farming with multiple players working in both covert and overt manner. It is not true that contract farming acts in a framework of contracting between firm and the farmers but along with the direct and indirect involvement of middlemen or intermediaries who tie up with firms to mobilise and bargain with farmers in terms of contracting for involvement, participation, decision-making for production and sale. The relation is therefore business centric. The entire farming consisting of big firms at one side and the farmers on the other side is associated with capital intensive agriculture that includes both technology and capital intensive practices under a controlled regime. But in general situation, there are multiple parties involved who extract profit from the farmers for their own capital gain. In a general situation, the firms do not sign contract with the farmers, rather it is the agreement between the firm and the intermediaries and between the intermediaries and the farmers. Therefore, it is a tripartite or multipartite system rather than a bipartite system as many recounts. According to FAO, contract farming can be defined as agricultural production carried out according to an agreement between a buyer and farmers, which establishes conditions for the production and marketing of a farm product or products. Typically, the farmer agrees to provide agreed quantities of a specific agricultural product. The product should meet the quality standards of the purchaser and it may be supplied at the time determined by the purchaser. In turn, the buyer commits to purchase the product and in some cases, to support production through, for example, the supply of farm inputs, land preparation and the provision of technical advice (FAO).
The Government of India’s National Agricultural Policy envisages that private participation will be promoted through contract farming and land leasing agreements to allow accelerated technology transfer, capital inflow and assured market for crop production. The farmers in the states like Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have increasingly adopted this neoliberal farming model in the recent time (Jain, n.a). The farmers in West Bengal also have embraced this new form of farming of late for growing potatoes under Frito Lays model (Diagram-1). While many consider this practice as a new agribusiness model or supply chain management, the sociologists’ scope is to look into the new form of agrarian relations and the mode of production in the wake of contract farming (Singh, 2005; Key and Runsten, 1999). Sociologists’ contributions to the studies on agrarian relation are abundant (Beteille, 1974; Mukherjee, 1981; Jha, 1991; Buch-Hansen and Marcussen, 1982). However, it was observed that there is a dearth of literature on the sociological perspectives of contract farming in India. Diagram-1 Frito Lays Model of Contract farming network in West Bengal
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Source: Field study by the PI
The present study is precisely narrowed down with an attempt to identify the socio-economic factors that influenced the participation in contract farming. In addition, it is important to understand how new form of agrarian relations emerged due to the contract farming practice by a study in West Bengal with special focus on Frito Lays model. The study will primarily deal with the potato growing farmers under contract farming to study the nature of relations established both at the micro (within the community) and macro level (beyond community periphery). Moreover, noncontract farmers will be part of the study to clearly identify the differential progress of the potato growers under contract and non-contract farming. The relations established between the firms and the farmers along with the layers of intermediaries are primarily ‘class relations’. But the power relations between the firms and farmers cannot be ignored under the study. The question is if the capital accumulation has challenged the Marxian proposition of PCA-primitive capital accumulation where the firms accumulate capital by disallowing the farmers and the agricultural labourers or by dispossessing the small and marginal landowners and the agricultural labourers.
Objectives and methodology of the study 1. To study the nature of landholdings under contract farming 2. To identify other socio-economic factors that determine the participation in contract farming 3. To examine the emerging trend in agrarian relations and mode of production
While the study is an attempt to describe agrarian relations that work under a bundle of rights, social norms, obligations, and social network and about the mode of production, a few important hypotheses are also formulated for the test. A few hypotheses formulated for the present study are as follows. 1. The participation in Contract farming is influenced by the size of the landholdings of the individual farmer. 2. Contract farming participation is also influenced by income and education of the HOH 3. Per unit investment of capital (both labour and other inputs) in small and marginal landholders is higher than the medium and large landholders in contract farming. 4. Small and Marginal landholders have got better agricultural output per unit of land (acre/hectare) than other landholders in contract farming. 5. Small and Marginal landholders in contract farming have got better agricultural output per unit of land (acre/hectare) than the small and marginal landholders under noncontract farming. 6. There is higher probability of reverse tenancy in contract farming. 7. There is increase in class division in the village society due to contract farming.
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Data collection Data collection was done from both primary source and the secondary source. Secondary data was collected from the contract farming agencies, government departments and research institutes in the states working on the related field. For the purpose of primary data collection, two districts namely Bardhaman and Bankura in West Bengal were undertaken to understand the new form of agrarian relations and mode of production evolved in the wake of contract farming. Since contract farming has uneven and sporadic presence in a few districts, cluster sampling was used for selection of the areas. Jayarampur and Mandaljana are the two villages under Memari-I block of Bardhaman district and Gopalpur and Jayarambati from Kotupur block of Bankura district were part of the study.
Apart from field observation and FGD, questionnaire was an important tool for data collection. Potato growers from both contract farming and non-contract farming were considered for the data collection. SRS was used for selection of sample contract and non-contract farming potato growers. FGD was another tool for data collection to understand the nature of participation in contract farming.
Spatial distribution of contract farming practice in Bardhaman and Bankura Districts
Bardhaman Bankura Block (name) Village (nos) Block (Name) Village (Nos.) Very High Concenration of Memari-I 124 Kotulpur 83 CF (HCF) Memari-II 64 Jaypur 71 Jamalpur 35 Onda 41 Bishnupur 29 Patrasayer 22 Kalna II 10 Taldangra 7 Very low concentration of CF Raina II 9 Indas 3 (LCF) Raina I 3 Borjora 1
Current status of the project: Data analysis and report writing under progress References Beteille, A. (1974): Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Oxford University press, New Delhi.
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Gras, Carla & Valeria Harnandez (2014). Agribusiness and large-scale farming: Capitalist globalisation in Argentine agriculture, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp. 339-357 (doi: 10.1080/02255189.2014.933702). Gulati, A., Joshi, P.K. and Maurice Landes (2011):Contract Farming in India: A Resource Book downloaded from http://www.ncap.res.in/contract_%20farming/
Jain, R.C.A. (n.a.) : Contract Farming and Dispute Settlement in Contract Farming in India downloaded from http://www.ncap.res.in/contract_%20farming/Resources/16.1%20RCAJain.pdf Key, N and D Runsten (1999): “Contract Farming, Smallholders, and Rural Development in Latin America: The Organisation of Agroprocessing Firms and the Scale of Outgrower Production”, WorldDevelopment, 27 (2), 381-401.
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Lloyd, Nhodo & Changa Moses (2013). Contestations surrounding contract farming in rural Zimbabwe: A case of Mukosi cotton growers in Masvingo south, International Journal of Politics and Good Governance, Vol. 4, No. 4.1 Quarter
Mukherjee, R. (1981): Realities of Agrarian Relations in India, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Jan. 24, 1981), pp. 109-116.
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Sharma, V.P. (2008): India’s agrarian crisis and corporate-led contract farming : Socio- economic implications for smallholder producers, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2008. Singh, Sukhpal (2005): Political Economy of Contract Farming, Allied Publishers Private Limited, New Delhi. http://www.kvkcrijaf.org.in/profile.html#
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Interim Report Interim report of the Pilot project: Name of the project: Contribution of the unpaid family labour in the handloom sector of textile industry in W.B. Name of the principle investigator: Dr. Sonali chakraborty Other Associated scientists: Prof. Digonto Mukherjee (SOSU), Dr. Suporna Shome (Accociate Scientist ‘C’, Sociological Research Unit)
Introduction: A large section of workers concealed within the aggregate figures of self employment, are unpaid family workers/helpers that are mostly female. They don’t receive any independent payment/income but contribute their labour to the production. A large number of unpaid female labour force participation has been subcategorized within the broad category of self-employment. Women’s participation in labour force are overwhelmingly concentrated in household-based Handloom industry The existence and role of unpaid family workers especially the active participation of female in pre-loom and post-loom activities is undoubtedly prevalent and they are the economic asset of weaver households (Reddy, 2010). The whole industry is running with the great support of the female members of their family. Though their income is included in the aggregate income of the family they are not paid individually. Hence, it is important to assess the full extent of their contribution in the productivity sector. In this context it is very much relevant to get the share of income of these unpaid female workers to the aggregate income of their respective families. The main objectives of this project are, a) To find out proportion of unpaid workers among total workers in weaving and allied works. b) To find out the share of income of the unpaid workers in the total income of the household from weaving and allied works. c) Time spent on different unpaid activities viz., handloom related works, domestic and extra- domestic works and also on other activities and leisure-time in a day. d) To find out the association, if any, between unpaid work and factors like house hold size, number of children, number of female, amount of debt and some other socio-economic factors.
Unpaid household-workers may be grouped into following groups. a) Children (of age ≤ 14 years) – Some amount of Child labour is involved in handloom industry in the form of unpaid worker. It will be worth to study whether the extent of child labour in handloom industry is nominal or significant. b) Elderly members (aged ≥ 60 years) – It is also a matter of socio-economic interest to study the extent of involvement of aged persons in economic activity, what proportion of their engagement is as unpaid household-workers, the share they contribute in family earning etc. c) Household-members mainly involved in other activities other than domestic works, doing nominal unpaid works. d) House-wives and other members doing substantial amount of unpaid works of handloom industry – It is important from sociological view point to estimate the (imputed) earning of these unpaid household-workers. If the contribution is found to be substantial then this aspect is required to be studies on a larger scale.
Sampling procedure: The population for this study are the people who are engaged in weaving and allied work in the main handloom hubs of Nadia district of West Bengal namely Shantipur and Fulia. A multistage stratified sampling procedure has been adopted. A sample of around 250 weaver households will be selected from this population. In this survey, weaver households will mean the households who are carrying out any of the activities mentioned above.
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Allocation of the sample. The sample has been allocated in each of the localities proportionately according to the number of the weaver households they have. The number of the weaver households has been obtained from unit level data of Economic Census conducted by Central Statistical organisation. Village wise weaver households in the rural sector and ward/UFS block wise weaver households in the urban sector has obtained from this source. From unit level data of Economic Census it was found that there are 8775 rural household in Shantipur panchayet who are engaged in handloom work or handloom related works. In Shantipur town ship there are 6271 number of households and 2079 numbers of households in Fulia town ship. In the 1st stage from each urban locality UFS (Urban Frame Survey) blocks has selected by the method of PPS sampling, size being the number of weaver households. There are 33 UFS blocks in Fulia town ship. From among 33 UFS blocks 5 UFS blocks has been chosen. The maps of the UFS have been purchased from FOD regional office Burdwan. In the urban section of Shantipur similar way has been adopted and 8 UFS blocks has been chosen. From each selected UFS blocks Number of households has selected by PPS. Listing of the weaver households has been made in selected UFS blocks to prepare the frame for selection of weaver households. In Fulia 25 no. of households and 75 from Shantipur Township has been selected by circular systematic sampling procedure. In the rural 5 villages has been selected by PPs from the total list of villages according to the size of the weaver households. Listing of the total no of household in each selected villages has been done. From this list of households each household has been selected by circular systematic sampling procedure. The survey has been completed in the township in the first phase of the project.
Preliminary Observation Focused: Though data entry of the first phase survey is yet to be done some observation has been noted from a part in the Fulia township. 1) In this part of township the households which are surveyed are mainly belong to the poorest section and don’t have loom of their own. A sharp distinction of job segmentation has been focused among the male and female members of the households. Males are mainly engaged in weaving while females are doing the pre-loom activities like prin-winding and Spool winding and sometimes ‘Guti pakano’ of the finished products. The females are doing these jobs which are brought to them by the male members of their family. The male members take these job contracts from local ‘Mahajan’ or co-operatives (can be defined as own account workers) and engaged the female hands of the family who do the jobs and are not paid individually. The payment are received by the own account workers (mainly the male members). Comparing with the local market price of the works done by the unpaid female workers the share of their earnings has been computed. This share ranges from ten percentage points to sometime even more than fifty percentage points. 2) Secondly a very positive trend has been marked about the diminishing nature of child labour. Not a single household surveyed until now, engaged their children in any type household chores or any economic activities.
References: Annual Report (2009-10) GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL. Directorate of Textiles, (Handlooms, Spinning Mills, Silk weaving & Handloom Based Handicrafts Division.)
Indrani Mazumdar Neetha N. GENDER DIMENSIONS: EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN INDIA, 1993-94 TO 2009-10 Occasional Paper No.56
Key Indicatorors of Employment Unemployment survey in India (NSS 55th round, 61srt round. 66th round and 68th round)
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Ashis Mitra, Prabir Choudhuri and Arup Mukherjee 2009: A diagnostic report on cluster development programme on Shantipur Handloom cluster, Nadia, West Bengal. India journal of traditional knowledge Vol8 (4), 2009, 502-509
Handloom Census of India 2009-2010, Ministry of Textile GOI
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8. Item wise break- up of the budget proposed (only Revenue): For the year 2016-17
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Interim Report NORTH-EAST PROJECT Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura Interim Report
1. In the first year of the Project, collection and analysis of all available secondary data, from departments of the Government of Tripura, as well as national data sources, has been undertaken. A report on the Agricultural Economy of Tripura is being prepared and will be submitted before the TAC meeting.
2. As there are no official or other source of data on homestead farming (on extent of land under homestead, on types of crops grown, on income generated, on nutritional outcomes), pilot surveys will be conducted on economics of homestead farming in the current year. For this, a meeting of experts was held on December 28, 2015, where experts were invited so as to help draft a questionnaire.
3. Fieldwork will be undertaken in May-June 2016.
INTERIM PROJECT REPORT (NORTH-EAST) 1. Title of the Project: Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura 2. Proposing scientist: Madhura Swaminathan 3. Date of Commencement: April 1, 2015 4. Expected date of completion: March 31, 2017 5. Interim report [max 500 words]
1. As there are no official or other source of data on homestead farming (on extent of land under homestead, on types of crops grown, on income generated, on nutritional outcomes), pilot surveys will be conducted on economics of homestead farming in the current year.
For this, a meeting of experts was held on December 28, 2015, where experts were invited so as to help draft a questionnaire. The meeting was attended by Dr. C.Thamban (Principal Scientist, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute), Dr K.P. Chandran (Senior Scientist, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute), Dr Jacob John (Associate Professor, Cropping Systems Research Centre, Kerala Agricultural University), and Dr V. Surjit (Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics). All the experts have been engaged in study of homestead farming.
The agenda of the workshop was to (a) propose relevant research questions in respect of homestead farming in Tripura, (b) discuss the sources of national as well as State-level secondary data and (c) finalize a questionnaire for the collection of village-level data.
The relevant research questions proposed in the meeting were: • To assess the impact of homestead farming on the income, employment and nutrition of households in Tripura. Specifically, by studying the extent of homestead farming, crop diversification and enterprise diversity in Tripura. • To study the contribution of homestead farming to the nutritional security and dietary diversity in Tripura.
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• To map the different institutions which are currently linked with the promotion of homestead farming and extension services at grassroots level in Tripura. A general consensus was arrived on resurveying a sample (20 percent) of households in three villages surveyed earlier for the Tripura Human Development Report 2007. The three villages are Mainama in Dhalai district, West Muhuripur in South district and Khakchang in North district. The final questionnaire includes (a) a section related to general information on all member of the households using FAS questionnaire, (b) the second section on land holdings and ownership of assets, (c) a module on homestead cultivation with details on area, economics of homestead farming, labour utilization, enterprise diversity, institutional support and resource recycling and (d) a food intake assessment module using the information from food frequency schedule and food record schedule. Since the time of the meeting, the final questionnaire has been prepared and pilot-tested. 2. From national sources as well as departments of the Government of Tripura, secondary data on various aspects of the rural economy has been collected. This includes data on land use, cropping pattern, area, production and yield of different crops, for available years in the last decade. A report on the Agricultural Economy of Tripura is being prepared and will be submitted before the TAC meeting.
FORMAT OF SELF-DECLARATION
This is to certify that the Project titled “Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura” submitted by MADHURA SWAMINATHAN does not involve risk to human subjects and hence protection of research risks to humans is not relevant.
Principal Investigator
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Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2017-18) Social Sciences Division Rupees in lakhs Units Name of the Project Revenue Capital Total
New Project
North East 1.1 Training On Advanced Econometric Methods And Their 9.620 9.620 1 ERU Applications (2017-2020) Sub-total: 9.620 0.000 9.620
General
5.500 5.500 1.2 Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application 1 ERU of an Easily Implementable Sampling Strategy (2016-2019) 1.3 Women Rulers in British India: A Socio-Economic Exploration 4.700 4.700 (2016-2019) 4.186 5.000 9.186 4 PRU 4.1 Orientation training on Non-social cognition (2015-2018) 6.300 6.300 8 EAU 8.1 Workshop on Village Level Databases (2016-2017) Sub-total: 20.686 5.000 25.686
On-Going Project
North East 5.420 5.420 6 SOSU 6.1 North-East Training Programme (2016-2019) 5.700 5.700 6.2 Workshop on Official Statistics in the North-East India (2016- 2019) Sub-total: 11.120 0.000 11.120
General 1.4 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in 1.100 1.100 Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal (2015- 1 ERU 2019) 1.5 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (2016- 9.100 9.100 2018) 5.400 5.400 4 PRU 4.2 Safe school survey (2016-2019) 5.1 Small-marginal Landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: 2.740 2.740 5 SRU A Study in Jharkhand (2016-2018) 5.466 5.466 7 EPU 7.1 Annual Conference 8.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka 5.300 5.300 8 EAU (2015-2018) Sub-total: 29.106 0.000 29.106 Grand Total : 70.532 5.000 75.532
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Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Non-Projects (2017-18) Social Sciences Division
Rupees in lakhs Sl. Revenue Capital Total No. Name of the Project Economic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 9.000 9.000 2 Seminar 1.000 1.000 3 Internal travel 0.500 0.500 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.500 0.500 5 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 6 Repair and Maintenance 2.000 2.000 7 Office Expenditures 2.000 2.000 8 Capital Expenditure 4.000 4.000 Sub-total: 17.000 4.000 21.000 Linguistic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 0.500 0.500 2 Seminars (deparmental, on regular basis) 0.500 0.500 3 Internal travel 1.000 1.000 4 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000 5 Maintenance (Stores and Stationaries) 1.000 1.000 6 Office Expenditures 1.000 1.000 7 Capital (Computer, Software, Scanner, Printer etc.) 5.000 5.000 8 Fellowship for (one) New JRF/SRF (2017-18) 3.500 3.500 Sub-total: 8.500 5.000 13.500 Population Studies Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 1.000 1.000 2 Research Fellows/Statistical Trainees etc. 0.000 0.000 3 Seminars by invited experts 0.500 0.500 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300 5 Internal Travel 0.300 0.300 6 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000 7 Office Expenditure 0.500 0.500 8 Repair, Maintenance, etc. 1.000 1.000 9 AC machines for Computer & seminar rooms, Computer 3.600 3.600 Software , Purchase of Desktop compters and Printers Sub-total: 4.600 3.600 8.200 Psychology Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 1.000 1.000 2 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000 3 Research Fellow 3.000 3.000 4 Maintenance for computer & equipment 1.000 1.000 5 Seminar/Workshop/Training programme 0.900 0.900 6 Office Expenditure 0.500 0.500 7 Internal travel 0.300 0.300 8 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300 9 Software, Capital Expenditure (Psychological 4.000 4.000 Instrument,PC,Laptop,chair,Xerox Machine, Book, Self, Sofa etc) , Re-organisation of Psychological testing Lab Sub-total: 8.000 4.000 12.000 Sociological Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 1.000 1.000 2 Seminar 0.500 0.500 3 Internal travel 0.500 0.500 4 Research Fellow (Giridih) 3.000 3.000 5 Processing fees for publication 0.300 0.300 6 Computer Consumables 1.000 1.000
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7 Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.500 0.500 8 Software, Capital Equipment: Upgrading 6.000 6.000 computers/AC/furniture and other related equipment plus New Seminar Room, New Library Room Sub-total: 6.800 6.000 12.800 Sampling & Official Statistics Unit 1 Honorary Visiting Professor/Visiting Scientist/Research 3.500 3.500 Collaborators 2 Computer Consumables 1.220 1.220 3 External Hard Disk for Storage of Office Material and 0.600 0.600 project data 4 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, fittings, 5.900 5.900 equipment etc. 5 Purchase new Desktop Computer, Laptop, Laser Printer, 1.400 1.400 Photocopier, Air-condition machine, Projector machine 6 Research Fellow/Statistical trainee 5.750 5.750 7 Office Expenses 3.560 3.560 8 Repair & Maintenane for Computer, Printer, Scanner, 0.200 0.200 Xerox and otherequipent's in the the unit including AMC etc. 9 Conference/Seminar/Workshop Training Programme etc. 2.700 2.700 10 Internal Travel of Scientists and Researchers 0.950 0.950 Sub-total: 18.480 7.300 25.780 Economics & Planning Unit (Delhi) 1 Visiting Scientists 30.000 30.000 2 Post-doctoral fellows-cum-Lecturers 20.000 20.000 3 Travel of Scientists 1.000 1.000 4 Seminar Series 1.000 1.000 5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables 1.500 1.500 6 Misc. Including Communications & fax 1.000 1.000 7 Journal Submission & professional memberships 0.250 0.250 8 Maintenance 0.250 0.250 9 Students Interns 0.000 0.000 10 Students Research Funds 0.817 0.817 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, furniture, 5.643 5.643 11 fittings, equipment etc. Sub-total: 55.817 5.643 61.460 Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore) 1 Visiting Scientists 3.200 3.200 2 PCs & Printers 1.000 1.000 3 Furniture 1.000 1.000 4 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900 5 Seminar/Workshop 0.500 0.500 6 Software/Data purchase 0.500 0.500 7 Stationery 0.500 0.500 8 Repair & Maintenance 0.500 0.500 9 Miscellaneous 0.500 0.500 Sub-total: 6.600 2.000 8.600 Social Sciences Division Office 1 Visiting Scientists 20.000 20.000 2 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 3 Office Expenditure 3.000 3.000 4 Travel for Academic Purpose 6.000 6.000 5 Maintenance 2.000 2.000 6 Capital Expenditure 6.000 6.000 Sub-total: 33.000 6.000 39.000 Grand Total (Plan Non-Projects): 158.797 43.543 202.340 Plan Projects= 75.532 Total Budget of Social Sciences Division (Plan Projects + Plan Non-Projects) = 277.872
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