ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17

TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HYDERABAD CAMPUS CONTENTS

Director’s Message...... 2 Deputy Director’s Report...... 3 Overview of the Existing Academic Programmes...... 4 New Research Projects...... 4 Collaborations with Other Agencies / Organisations...... 6 Faculty Contributions...... 7 Collaborations with State Governments...... 7 Students and their Achievements...... 7 Student Support Services: To ensure Equality in Higher Education...... 8 Counselling Support Services...... 9 Committee Against Sexual Harassment and Anti-Ragging Cell...... 9 Library: Physical & E-Resources...... 9 English Language Cell...... 10 Job Placements...... 10 Concluding Remarks...... 10 Teaching Methodology and Pedagogy...... 11 Faculty Accomplishments...... 12 Profile of the Schools...... 13 Azim Premji School of Education...... 13 School of Gender Studies...... 17 School of Human Resource Management...... 20 School of Livelihoods and Development...... 22 School of Public Policy and Governance...... 29 School of Vocational Education...... 34 Deputy Director’s Academic Activities...... 36 Mentoring PMRDF Programme...... 37 Public Lectures...... 41 Student Accomplishments...... 42 Literary and Cultural Activities on the Campus...... 43 TISS Student Reflections...... 45 TISS Alumni Voice...... 46 TISS Hyderabad Campus Team...... 47 Research Dissertations Undertaken by Students...... 48 List of Students Taking Degress : Third Convocation - May 4, 2017...... 59 Students Receiving Prizes and Certificates...... 60 DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

T ata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), having a glorious existence of nearly eight decades, has grown into a multi-campus centrally funded public university and Hyderabad is one of its off-campuses. Tata Institute of Social Sciences’ Convocation continues a tradition of learning and achievement and reminds us that we are part of an unbroken human history of commitment to enquiry and scholarship. The Hyderabad campus of TISS commenced its academic programmes in 2012 with a vision to achieve a global standing through its commitment to fostering high quality education, research and outreach that will contribute to building a just, peaceful and secure society. In the intervening years, we have grown not just in size and numbers but also in collective spirit and purpose. In the Academic year 2016-17, the Institute initiated several new research projects. Prominent among these are One Stop Centres of Government of Telangana, Assessment of School Library Programme, Statelessness and Vulnerability in India, Andhra Pradesh University Student’s Employable Skill Development Program (APUSESD), Study on Beneficiaries of Aasara scheme of Government of Telangana, and Early Literacy Initiative. TISS Hyderabad campus provides super numerary quota of 10% seats in B.A. admission for Ashram School students of Government of Telangana. We are actively associated with the administration of various districts of the state in carrying out social impact assessment studies and conducting studies on various developmental issues. These new initiatives are an indicator of the strides that the Institute is making in furthering its academic goals. Our faculty and students continued to make us proud by winning laurels in academic and curricular fields. Today is the moment to celebrate and honour the effort and accomplishments of our students and those who have taught and nourished them. But the ceremony of Convocation is not an end point. Instead, Convocation is a way stationed on your journey of lifelong learning and your path of passionate engagement. TISS has always had a strong commitment to contribute to society, to embrace new initiatives, and to engage deeply with communities near and far, as this Institution is built on the premise that the greatest innovations in history have come from people bold enough to explore new frontiers and to take novel approaches. I encourage you to continue this tradition, to blaze your own trail and to make a positive impact on society. To the graduates we are celebrating today, this is a day of joy, fulfilment, and achievement and as you leave our campus, with honours in hand, know that you are still part of our community, connected to us. I am happy to state that today, at the Third Convocation, 1 Ph.D. Scholar, 11 M.Phil. Scholars, 161 Post Graduates and 55 Graduate students are receiving their respective Degrees. The first batch of Integrated BA-MA students are graduating for their respective Masters Degree in this Convocation. I congratulate you once again on everything you have achieved and, on behalf of this great Institution, wish you every happiness and success in the journey of life.

Prof. S Parasuraman Director May 4, 2017 Tata Institute of Social Sciences

2 DEPUTY DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a public funded Deemed University, was established in 1936. The main campus is located at Mumbai, and the off-campuses are at Tuljapur, Guwahati and Hyderabad. In 2012, TISS off- campus at Hyderabad was inaugurated by H.E. Governor of Telangana, Shri. E.L. Narasimhan. While planning for the establishment of a full-fledged campus in its 100 acres of land at Mamidapalli village of Kothur mandal, Mahabubnagar District of the Telangana State, the Institute is operating its academic programmes from two interim campuses; one located in the Telangana State Institute of Panchayati Raj and Rural Development (TSIPARD), Rajendranagar and another at the Roda Mistry School of Social Work, Gachibowli. Since the establishment of TISS Hyderabad Campus it has continued to strive for fulfilling its vision of fostering high quality education, research and outreach to achieve global standing thereby contributing to build a just, peaceful and secure society. The gamut of courses and the relevant curriculum followed here has helped us achieve our vision, and our students to prove the idea of converging excellence with relevance.

TISS Hyderabad currently has six Schools at its campus. These schools are : Azim Premji School of Education, School of Gender Studies, School of Livelihoods and Development, School of Public Policy and Governance, School of Human Resources Management, and School of Vocational Education. At present, the programmes offered at TISS Hyderabad Campus include B.A in Social Sciences, seven Master’s Degrees, Integrated MPhil-Ph.D, and Direct Ph.D. The Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees encompass a systematic study of key domains of Social Sciences namely; social, economic, political and cultural aspects. Considering the integration across curriculum approach to education, these courses equip our students with the distinctive factual knowledge, theoretical orientations and methodological skills to be applied in the contemporary society. Similarly, the M.Phil and Ph.D programmes facilitate our scholars not only with the necessary analytical skills and critical understanding, but also enable them to significantly contribute in their chosen areas.

In this report, we have included details of initiatives taken by the Institute, achievements of various Schools, overview of the existing academic programmes, the accomplishments of our students - their literary and cultural activities, and their reflections on the experiences during their stay at TISS Hyderabad. It also comprises faculty contribution in undertaking research projects, organizing and participating in conferences, seminars, workshops, and publishing research articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals. We also present our collaborations with various Institutions/ Organisations, Governmental and Non-governmental agencies in carrying out projects focusing on different social issues during the academic year 2016-17.

3 Overview of the Existing and presentations related to (viii) Self-employed Urban Academic Programmes the course curriculum. Women’s experiences of Integrated BA - MA in Social Post Graduate Programmes conducting business through Sciences The ongoing M.A. Programmes contemporary social media, (ix) Working conditions of Women Tata Institute of Social at TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus Agricultural Laboureres, (x) Sciences takes pride in the namely, Rural Development Women’s contribution in unique pedagogical approach and Governance, Education, weaving industry, and (xi) to engage with social sciences Public Policy and Governance, Agency of Women in paid by emphasizing on field- Women’s Studies, Development formal employment. based learning practices. In Studies, Natural Resources this backdrop, the Integrated and Governance and Human Direct Ph.D Programme : Bachelor’s Degree Programme Resource Management have A key outcome of the in Social Sciences incorporates been closely working with collaboration with the Council regular field-based learning many government and non for Social Development (CSD) in the form of Experiential governmental organisations was the introduction of a direct Learning (EL), Internships and which are over 90 in number, Ph.D programme. This year we Guided Experiential Work in the spread across the country. This note with great satisfaction the three years of the Programme. kind of collaborative education production of the following The Experiential Leaning is has contributed to enhance two doctoral theses of in the first year wherein the perspective of the students students, both recipients of students are exposed to rural and also contributed for the ICSSR fellowships, and both settings in and around various visibility and footprint of the supervised by Prof. Kalpana districts of the state. The Institute. The postgraduate Kannabiran, Director of CSD. aim of EL is to acquaint the Programmes which are The theses were in the areas students to the life beyond the embedded with theoretical of : i) Writing Local History classroom teachings and the knowledge clubbed with of Apatanis : Contesting for students get an opportunity experiential learning links the the Native’s Voices (Ph.D to observe the theories students with the practicality in Social Sciences); and ii) learned in the classrooms, of the outside world. Metaphors of Gender in the occurring at the grassroot Integrated M.Phil – Ph.D Social Organisation of the levels. The Internship in the Programme Khonds in Andhra Pradesh second year is geared more The eleven scholars of (Ph.D in Women’s Studies) towards preparing the students Integrated M.Phil-Ph.D. New Research Projects to study the intersection Programme have submitted I. One Stop Centres of Govern- between the ground realities their disertations in the ment of Telangana - School of and the workings/settings of areas of: (i) the educational Gender Studies the organizations/industry, trajectories of students with and help them prepare for a intellectual and developmental In coordination with the path onto social sciences. in a disabilities, (ii) reading Government of Telangana, and professional manner. The third comprehension struggles civic bodies, a research project year, wherein the students of middle school students, has been initiated in 2017 to carry out a guided experiential (iii) higher education of first constitute One Stop Centres for work, takes the shape of a generation tribal girls, (iv) social providing integrated support research project. The students justice principles in primary to women and children affected get basic training in conducting level Social Science curriculum, by gender-based violence. A key field-based research work in (v) gender based exclusion of feature of these Centres is that social sciences. transwomen from schools, (vi) they function on the basis of an The most preferred secondary school students’ inter-sectoral model involving methodology for the sessions conception about earth’s the police, legal system, is to use various forms of skill internal structure and related hospitals and the women and focussed activities with the phenomena, (vii) salience of child welfare departments. help of worksheets/handouts, visuospatial modelling for One Stop Centres hope to discussions of journal articles students’ understanding of contribute to the setting up human digestive system. and effective functioning of a

4 convergence mechanism that library in schools and the has extended necessary sup- will ensure multiple forms of government Programmes to port in providing the Curricu- relief and support delivered support the same. The report lum including Trainers’ Man- with sensitivity needed by the has been shared with WATIS uals, Student workbooks for survivors of violence in justice, and BREAD and will further be Foundation Courses (FC), and security, health and social shared with concerned officials Training of Trainers. The Pro- sectors. of the Education department as gramme was introduced in 100 well. colleges across 13 districts of II. Early Literacy Initiative – Azim Andhra Pradesh. About 12000 Premji School of Education IV: Statelessness and Vulnerability students have attended the FCs in India – School of Public Poli- The Azim Premji School of Ed- in these colleges. A workshop cy and Governance ucation (APSoE) has launched was organized on the strate- an initiative that seeks to sig- Within the broader area of gies for raising CSR funds and nificantly impact the under- ‘Borderland Studies’, the So- a stall was arranged in FICCI standing and practice of early cial Conflict and Public Policy conference in New Delhi to literacy with support received concentration examined the campaign for this initiative. from the Navjbhai Ratan Tata vulnerabilities of stateless VI. Study on Mobile Medical Units Trust. The overall objective of communities in Hyderabad. – Deputy Director’s Office the Initiative and the associ- The Rohingyas as a community ated activities are to build the have historically been dis- “Impact Assessment Study capabilities of individuals and criminated against and denied of Mobile Medical Units of institutions to work for early their rights in many registers. HelpAge India”, sponsored literacy in the country given In collaboration with the NGO by HelpAge India, Delhi the widely acknowledged and Save the Children - Balraksha was conducted in Andhra urgent need for an interven- Bharat, students from the re- Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan and tion in the area. Specifically, search team interviewed over Gujarat. The study focused on the Early Literacy Initiative 130 respondents each and demographic, social, economic aims in building capacities produced authoritative status and health aspects, views of in early literacy at multiple reports on various aspects of beneficiaries about Mobile levels, i.e. of teachers, teacher statelessness such as gender Medical Unit (MMU) and views educators, and researchers, based sexual violence, child of stakeholders about MMU. engaging in knowledge build- protection, education, health VII. Study on Beneficiaries of Aas- ing by undertaking research, and nutrition, and livelihoods ara scheme of Government of developing materials for use of the Rohingya community in Telangana – Deputy Director’s by practitioners, and in engag- their settlements in Hyderabad. Office ing in national level dialogues A public document is expected and advocacy on early literacy to be published by May 2017. The study of Aasara pension issues. scheme for ageing population V. Andhra Pradesh University is carried out in Telangana III. Assessment of School Library Student’s Employable Skill De- state, as part of the collab- Programme – Azim Premji velopment Programme – School orative study, sponsored by School of Education of Vocational Education. the United Nations Population APSoE took up a study to assess On similar lines of NUSSD, the Fund (UNFPA). The Aasara the library Programme of the Andhra Pradesh University pension scheme is meant to organization, Basic Research Student’s Employable Skill De- protect the most vulnerable Education and Development velopment Programme (APUS- sections of the society who (BREAD) Society in terms of ESD) a framework has been have lost their means of liveli- its functioning and its effect designed at the invitation of hood with growing age, in or- on the children as well as the the Govt of Andhra Pradesh. der to support their day to day schools that participate in the The Commissioner, Collegiate minimum needs to lead a life of Programme. The study com- Education within the Depart- dignity and social security. The menced in July 2016 and was ment of Higher Education with study focused on the old and completed in April 2017. The the support of the Secretary, infirm; people with HIV-AIDS, findings revealed the critical Higher Education, anchors the widows, incapacitated weavers significance of having a vibrant project. NUSSD, TISS-Mumbai and toddy tappers.

5 VIII. Baseline study of villages in and circumstances; February 2017, at Hyderabad. Telangana State – Deputy Di- b) Build complementary It was organized by Heritage rector’s Office knowledge to create new Foundation, Hyderabad in Tata Power company com- insights on theoretical association with National missioned to TISS-Hyderabad approaches and Institute of Social Defence, Delhi a baseline study of selected methodologies and to wherein TISS Hyderabad was a villages in Telangana State with inform social policies knowledge partner. There were a view to initiate the Corporate and interventions; more than 130 participants Social Responsibility activities. c) Promote capacity building including government officials, Necessary secondary data and and mentoring of early academicians, researchers, related information have been career researchers; practitioners, senior citizens, collected and the primary sur- d) Build strong partnerships caregivers, caregivers of vey will be carried out soon. with academics, NGOs persons with dementia, medical Collaborations with and policy makers doctors, social scientists and Other Agencies / around the world; and therapists, along with media Organisations and volunteers. The conference e) Identify and co-produce included 63 presentations of United Nations Population new and innovative papers and 6 posters along Fund, (UNFPA) New Delhi research agendas to four main themes of Geriatric UNFPAs initiative of a long inform future policy Health Care, Care-giving, Age term collaborative research design and practice. friendly environments, and project with Tata Institute As partner of this Global Dementia Care. In addition, of Social Sciences (TISS) and network, TISS Hyderabad keynote speakers addressed the Institute for Social and campus will be hosting an conference participants on Economic Change, Bangalore, international network group relevant concerns on ageing in is underway. The collaborative meeting in 2017 by inviting the the global context. Suggested project aims to build other international agencies. ways forward that emerged knowledge base on issues of Collaboration with Heritage mainly include: the need for ageing in India through a series Foundation, Hyderabad and systematic documentation of policy and Programmatic National Institute of Social and dissemination of existing studies. The main objective Defence, Delhi models, networking of various is to create a knowledge base The International Conference stakeholders, lobbying for the on different aspects of Ageing on Services to the Elderly – rights of elderly, promoting by facilitating/undertaking a Current Challenges & Emerging active ageing, the creation of series of thematic studies and Trends was held on 23-24 age-friendly environments, disseminating the findings to various stakeholders. ESRC for the Global Ageing and Long- term Care Network (GALNet) The overarching aim of the network is to establish a dynamic and internationally leading network on ageing and long-term care around the world, which fulfils the following objectives: a) Exchange of information and expertise on population ageing and long-term care in a globalised context, where migration patterns increasingly shape individuals’ resources

6 social connectedness, social Despite the busy teaching and and children affected by capital and infrastructure collaborative schedules, most gender-based violence and the constructive use of of the faculty have come up Projects with Government of technology by the elderly. with publications of books and Andhra Pradesh Workshop on ‘Media and journals contributing to the Ageing’ study material for the students The School of Vocational Education began its education A workshop on ‘Media and across the globe. programmes with its skill Ageing’ was organized jointly The TISS Hyderabad Off- development programmes by United Nations Population Campus hosted the BA in Andhra Pradesh. On Fund (UNFPA), Tata Institute Review Committee meeting similar lines of NUSSD, the of Social Sciences (TISS), on April 10th & 11th, 2017. Andhra Pradesh University Heritage Foundation and The Committee has members Student’s Employable Skill Press Club, Hyderabad on representing all the three Off- Development Programme 9th December, 2016. In this Campuses of TISS offering (APUSESD) framework has event, senior journalists, Social the integrated BA-MA(SS) been designed at the invitation Gerontologists and NGOs Programme. The Committee of the Govt. of Andhra working on ageing issues had reviewed the Programme Pradesh. The Commissioner, participated and shared their thoroughly from the Collegiate Education within views and ideas to enable academic and administrative the Department of Higher better living conditions of the perspectives. The Committee Education with the support of elderly. focused on bringing about a the Secretary, Higher Education, Faculty Contributions parity in the academic and administrative functions of the anchors the project. NUSSD, Members of the TISS Faculty three campuses. TISS-Mumbai has extended have been the strength of the necessary support in providing During this academic year, Institution over the years and the Curriculum including Hyderabad campus faculty this remains as a fact and Trainers Manuals, Student work published six books and forty became a legacy now. There books for Foundation courses, four papers in various journals is a continuous effort and and Training of Trainers improvement in education and as chapters in books. Seven research projects were Students and their delivery in terms of pedagogy. Achievements The research projects and completed and eight new projects are underway. collaborative activities they Apart from participating in have taken up during the last Collaborations with their academic programmes, year have helped the Institution State Governments students of TISS Hyderabad expand the horizons and reach Projects with various Off-Campus actively out to the newer corners of the Departments of Government participated in various Country and the globe. of Telangana academic and cultural activities The assessment of the students’ in other institutions located in One key objective of the work are at the behest of the Hyderabad. Every week, both School of Gender Studies is to faculty maintaining the high the campuses organise several interface with the government, standards of the Institution. student led activities like talks, industry, and civil society in The Hyderabad faculty has film viewing, plays and so on. promoting gender equality and successfully collaborated with sensitivity. A major highlight Students from the BA and MA NGOs and have come up with this year in this regard was the programmes have participated productive solutions which are signing of a Memorandum of in several events across the in the process of execution. Understanding with the Govt. country and have brought The joint projects with various of Telangana, Department accolades to the Institute. government bodies have of Women Development Jayasurya : Paper presentation: reached the corners of the and Child Welfare to offer Climate change in India: rural and tribal communities to knowledge support for the Challenges and Solutions at understand the developmental implementation of One UNITES Virtual Conference gaps and possible Programmes Stop Centres for providing 2016, Centre for United to better the society. integrated support to women Nations.

7 Paper presentation: sector”, Conducted by Gender Presented a paper Interdisciplinary Bottom-up Studies Department of Pune titled “Social Exclusion of Approach in Higher Education University. Gender in Labour Market” at for Disaster Management Afrin Shairaj : Selected for the National Conference on at International Emergency Ambassador Scholarship “Gender Inequality and Skill Management Society – India Semester exchange Development at Work” held Chapter, National Institute of Programmeme at Macquarie at the Tata Institute of Social Disaster Management. University, Australia. Sciences in Mumbai (4 Mar, 2017). Selected as the second Selected for Ambassador Ahalya Ganesh : Conference- best paper in the conference Scholarship Semester exchange 3rd international conference Programme at Macquarie on social sciences, Bali. Vandana Menon, Aparajita University, Australia. International Institute of Verma, and Sampriti Paper presentation: Knowledge Management, Mukherjee were selected to Deforestation led climate Colombo, Sri Lanka. Theme- participate in Study of United change and its effects on Violence on Women, Paper title- States Institute (SUSI) for women of indigenous forest “When Violence Manufactures Student Leaders on Women’s dependent communities at More Violence”. Leadership, organised by the U.S Department of State in XIX Commonwealth Forestry Devi V M : Presented a paper June-July 2016 for a period of Conference 2017, Dehradun. titled “An Analysis of the 5 weeks. Theme of the conference: United Nations 2030 Agenda Forests for prosperity and for Sustainable Development Rakshit Mohan was selected to posterity. with Special Focus on India” at participate in an international Swayamsiddha Sahoo : the 19th International exchange Programme titled, 2nd Runner’s Up in a paper Conference on “Sustainable Global Citizenship Camp, presentation organized by the Growth, Innovation and hosted by Mahasarakham centre for globalization and Revolution in the New University, Bangkok, Thailand labour studies (Vaishvik) of TISS Millennium” organized by in November, 2016 Mumbai on “Gender Inequality Research and Development Prakriti Dasgupta and Skill Enhancement at Association at Kochi Secured Second prize in IIM Work”.Title of the paper: (7 – 8 Nov, 2016) and Received Shillong Case Study- HRahasya Gender and Migration. special recognition for being (2016). the youngest researcher at the Anjana Hemanth : Paper on Secured Second prize in Poster conference. “Social Exclusion of LGBT, Competition organized community in corporate by CII (Reboot to Reinvent: HR in Evolving Paradigms) (2016). Mr. Raghavan V : Scored South Zone 3rd rank in the State Level of Campus2Corporate Programme 2016, a National Contest on, Employability Skills for Engineering Institutions & B-Schools Student Support Services: To ensure Equality in Higher Education The Social Protection Cell (SPC) is a unit of the Social Protection Office (SPO), TISS Mumbai. The Chairperson, Social Protection Cell, works in tandem with the SPO in matters related to SC, ST, OBC, Minority and PWD

8 students. The Chairperson is for education related expenses.­ Sexual Harassment (CASH) in-charge for students who Discussions and Talks deals with issues relating to require guidance and support sexual harassment at TISS A fortnightly discussion for scholarships, mentoring, Hyderabad Off-Campus. It is group called Maata Manthi additional academic support applicable to all students, staff has been initiated to encourage and other assistance such as and faculty. The objectives of interactions outside of laptop allocations and financial the CASH are to : regular classroom. The topics aid for students belonging discussed were selected from Prevent discrimination and to low-income families. The various genres of expression sexual harassment against Social Protection Cell sensitizes such as short films, poems, women, by promoting gender students regarding the zero and songs. Special lectures and amity amongst students and tolerance policy of TISS Talks with renowned scholars employees. towards discrimination and and academicians like V. Geeta, Providing recommendations to violation of dignity of fellow Prof. Haragopal, Dr. Venkatesh the Director against changes/ students or other members Vaditya were also conducted. modification of rules for of the TISS community on the students in prospectus and Bye- basis of caste, religion, region, Social Protection Cell also laws to make them gender-just. disability, gender, sexual supports the Campus orientation and race. Placement Cell by being a Ensuring proper support to part of its core group to the victim and dealing with the Supernumerary Quota in deliberate and arrive at suitable cases in time bound manner. admission for Telangana resolutions from time to time. Ashram School Students Recommend appropriate Social Protection and Students’ punitive action against the TISS Hyderabad Campus Affairs together formulated a guilty. provide a supernumerary quota set of new guidelines for multi- of 10% seats in BA admissions Library: Physical & stakeholders in the conduct of E-Resources for Ashram school students of campus placement process and Telangana State. proceedings. The Library at TISS Hyderabad Scholarships Guidance Off-Campus has a collection Counselling Support of 4823 volumes as on 20th Conducted one-day pre- Services April 2017 in the field of Social admission orientation Ms Spandana Kommuri and Sciences and allied subjects. Programme for 2017-18 MA Ms Megha Pharande manage applicants providing guidance There is access to e-resources the Counseling support and support to the SC, ST, to the students from both the services. In addition to the OBC and Minority students to campuses. It provides facilities basic psychometric testing to apply for the GoI Post-Matric like reading, photocopying, assess the mental health of Scholarship (GoI-PMS) and other cyber library, e- resources, the newly admitted students relevant scholarships offered catalogues, and issue & done at the beginning of by the Government of India. return of books. The Library the academic year, events is completely automated Laptop Bank like stress buster evening, using KOHA Open-Source Continuing to provide laptops movie screenings, awareness Integrated Library System. to the needy students, 27 campaigns are conducted to Renewal, Reservation, & laptops were provided to the help all the students cope with Recommendation of books SC, ST, OBC and low-income stress. Given the variety of the are done with the help of family students from our student backgrounds, this has KOHA. Books available in the laptop bank. been very good support. The libraries of all TISS campuses Financial Aid Couseling support is available are made available on Online Keeping in view the financial for teaching as well as non- Public Access Catalogue (Web constraints that students face, teaching staff and is handy in OPAC), and issuing and return the Institute supported 30 terms of the service. of books is done through the students from low-income Committee Against Barcode system. family backgrounds to the tune Sexual Harassment There are about 40 LAN points of Rs.9,50,000 in the form of and Anti-Ragging Cell provided for Internet access fee adjustment, and supported The TISS Committee Against to users, apart from enabling

9 entire Library with Wi-Fi constantly work with students Samuday (HCL Foundation), facility. The IT infrastructure to meet the desired goals. Vision Team of Andhra of the Library installed in Cyber The objective of ELC is to Pradesh Planning Department, Library in both the campuses equip students to successfully Dr Reddy’s Foundation, India enables for continuous navigate academic and/or School Leadership Institute, navigation to access the Online professional career. CfBT Education, to name a few. Databases, E-resources and The key areas of language Concluding Remarks 210 E-books and 10,298 e- assistance that ELC provides to journals including e-Shodh students are; Academic Writing The five year old Institution has Sindhu Consortia, Prominent and Academic Reading. These are significantly made its mark in among them are: JSTOR, Project aimed at strengthening students’ the higher education system Muse, Cambridge University language form and content. and this is well reflected in the Press, Oxford University In addition, ELC caters to its growing number of academic Press, Emerald Management, undergraduate, postgraduate, programmes, increase in the EBSCO Business Source Elite, and research students cover: student and faculty strength, PsychArticles, Indiastat.com, review of assignments and and the number of on-going GALE Virtual Reference Library term papers based on the research projects undertaken (e-books), NetLibrary eBooks rubrics provided by the faculty, by the faculty. All this was Collection and India Business assistance on preparing reports possible with the unstinted Insight Database. By virtue for internships guidance on support and trust of the of being off campus, TISS the stylistics of research, Governing Board Members and Hyderabad has access to all interpretation and analysis of Chairman Shri. S. Ramadorai, the the resources and databases research data, sessions on writing Director,Prof. S.Parasuraman subscribed by TISS Mumbai relevant and coherent review of and the Registrar, Dr. C.P. Library. The eResources are literature for the dissertation. Mohan Kumar. Thanks are available to users beyond library Helping students on preparing also due to all the Deputy premises through single sign on curriculum vitae, presentations, Directors of the Institute. We Remote Login facility (Ezproxy). communications skills and are grateful to TSIPARD and ICSW for accommodating us in The Non-Book Material conducting mock interviews. their respective campuses. collection viz. 57 DVDs of English Language Cell functions Foundation Course Lectures, as a drop-in centre for students, During this year, we could 66 Documentaries/Short films, at any point in time on all collaborate with Government 12 CD-ROMs with the books, working days, for language of Telangana, and Government and 12 Encyclopedias are made improvement. The assistance of Andhra Pradesh, and various available to the students and is provided in two ways: District Collectorates, UNFPA, the faculties. The Library addressing the students’ as a Global Ageing Network, UGC, subscribes to 12 News Papers group and having one-on-one ICSSR, Tata Trusts, HelpAge & 11 Magazines. sessions. The most preferred India, Wipro Applying Thought in Schools, NTPC, Library arranges to borrow methodology for the sessions JSW Foundation, Tata Power, books that are not available in is to use various forms of skill Save The Children, Impact its collection, on Inter Library focused activities with the India Foundation,and Heritage Loan (ILL)from other libraries. help of worksheets/handouts, Foundation for research This is done on an Institution- discussion of journal articles, projects and in organizing to-Institution basis. and presentations related to course curriculum. conferences, workshops and Library subscribes to Urkund seminars. - originality checking and Job Placements We sincerely acknowledge the plagiarism detection software. contributions of our Visiting Management has made a The authenticity and originality and Guest faculty members. conscious decision to support of students/researchers For experiential learning, the student driven placement work such as assignments, internships, field works, and activity and recruited a dissertations & thesis are placements, our students dedicated resource person to verified. All written work by have been successfully placed liaison with the government students and faculty members in various organisations, for and non Government agencies must comply to the plagiarism which we are thankful to them. to support student careers. related rules of the Institute. Our sincere thanks to the TISS This year has seen over 80 Hyderabad Off-Campus alumni English Language Cell percent placements so far, for for their continual support. Considering the varied social the current passing out batch Thanks to the faculty, students, and educational backgrounds with a decent salary package. staff, field action teams, of students enrolled for various For the rest of the students, and project teams for their programmes, and the positive the placement arrangements commitment and hardwork. approach towards research, with agencies are in progress. holistic learning and individual Students were hired into Prof. S. Siva Raju growth at TISS, English Language prestigious projects like Deputy Director Cell (ELC) has been evolved to May 4, 2017 10 TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY

TISS aims to impart socially relevant development and increase sensitivity learning, field visits, experiential education in the highly competitive towards community needs. Further, learning, and project based higher education sector in an the guest lectures from India and learning. Thus, both the BA and MA increasingly globalized world. The abroad from areas spanning a programmes have strong interface growing number of student strength wide range beyond the curriculum with the field thereby strengthening in this academic year is evidence helps them in connecting with the the learning of students. The to its credibility. In the academic contemporary society. partnering NGOs and Government year 2016-17, there has been an bodies have been in constant Faculty across the programmes expansion of student strength for interaction since inception of the encourage students to set proper all the progammes, Off-campus showcasing the inputs research objectives to develop their from the faculty and students of the Pedagogy intellectual, empathetic, critical Institution. As students come from a wide and analytical skills. The time range of academic and geographical bound research projects helps them Fieldwork is done under the background, faculty facilitates improve their time and resource supervision of faculty and fieldwork learning by arranging additional management skills as well. supervisors enriching the learning. This also ensures student staying academic support through Internships and field work individual attention, as required. The grounded and understand the field workshops and seminars conducted At TISS Hyderabad, the teaching level realities. during the year help the students strategies are designed to combine to excel in overall personality lectures with research based

11 FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Members of the TISS Faculty have India.” at 61th International Dr Jayasree attended 13th been the strength of the Institution Conference of the Comparative International Congress of over the years International Education Mathematics Education (ICME The research projects and Society, during 5 – 9 March, 13) and submitted paper collaborative activities they have 2017, Atlanta, USA. on Gender of the School Mathematics Curriculum from taken up during the last year have Dr Johny Stephen presented a July 24 to 31, 2016 at Hamburg, helped the Institution expand the paper on small scale fisheries Germany. horizons and reach out to the newer at the Too Big To Ignore (TBTI), corners of the Country and the globe. August 2016, Thailand. Dr Jayasree attended 9th Despite the busy teaching and International Mathematics Prof. Aseem Prakash has collaborative schedules, most of Education and Society attended the International the faculty have come up with Conference and submitted Symposium on Sustainable publications of books and journals paper on “Beyond poverty and Prosperity Well-being and contributing to the study material for development: Caste Dynamics Innovation at EU – India the students across the globe. and Access to Mathematics Platform for the Social Sciences, Education in India” from April During this academic year, Hyderabad during 9 – 10 June, 2016, 7th – 12th 2017 at Volos, campus faculty published six books Helisinki, Finland. and forty four papers in various Greece. Dr Murali Krishna presented journals and as chapters in books. a paper on “Configurations of Seven research projects were Dalit Subjectivity and Caste in completed and eight new projects India” at the ECSAS-2016 on are underway. 28th July 2016, University of The Institute’s faculty members Warsaw, Poland. also participated in national and international level seminars, conferences and workshops as paper presenters, resource persons, session chairs, special invitees, discussants, observers or experts. International Travels by Faculty

Prof S Siva Raju participated at the 13th International Ministerial Conference on Population and Development and delivered a keynote address on “Promoting Healthy Ageing in Developing countries: Issues and Responses”, November 26- 29 2016, Dakar, Senegal.

Dr. Sonia Sawhney and Dr. Rekha Pappu presented a paper on “Equalizing educational and developmental opportunities through a library program in

12 PROFILE OF THE SCHOOLS Azim Premji School of Education The vision of the Azim Premji internal structure and related perceptions about extra curricular School of Education (APSoE) is to phenomena activities, and special education. nurture the development of the (vii) Salience of visuospatial mod- New Teaching Programmes discipline and practice of education elling for understanding of through teaching, research, policy The Azim Premji School of Education, human digestive system. and advocacy interventions. In along with the Centre for Educational accordance with this larger vision, Four of these scholars are receiving Innovation and Research (CEIAR) at the focus of APSoE’s work in 2016 the Junior Research Fellowship TISS Mumbai, have been working – 17 was to strengthen the existing (JRF) from the University Grants towards developing the content for teaching programmes and also Commission (UGC). three pre-service teacher education to introduce three new teacher programmes, which are to be The third batch of MA Education education programmes. As in introduced in the different campuses students, comprising 19 students, the previous years, APSoE also of TISS. The three new proposed will be graduating in 2017. Through programmes are: organized workshops/seminars the different courses that they have that provided an opportunity for (i) a 2-year B.Ed., engaged with, all the students of faculty and students to deliberate the MA programme have developed (ii) a 3-year integrated B.Ed.-M.Ed. on issues of contemporary relevance various capacities to self-reflexively and for education. Another highlight of work in the field of education. Most (iii) 4-year integrated BA-B.Ed. the year 2016 – 17 was the range of of the students who went through activities initiated by the students of The academic aspects of all the three the placement process facilitated by Education. programmes were presented to the TISS secured positions in different Academic Council (AC) of TISS for Existing Teaching Programmes institutions and organisations seeking approval of the programmes. Students enrolled in the integrated such as Agragamee, Eklavya, CfBT After the necessary approvals were M.Phil. and Ph.D. programme in 2015 Education Services, India School secured from the AC for the three successfully defended their M.Phil. Leadership Institute, Karadi Path and programmes, a proposal to introduce theses in 2017 thereby becoming Vignan Schools. Rest of the students these programmes at APSoE was qualified to transition to the doctoral chose to pursue higher education. submitted to the National Council programme. In all, seven students In 2016, one student from the MA for Teacher Education (NCTE) for will be conferred with the M.Phil. programme successfully cleared the the necessary permissions. The Education degree at the convocation JRF and National Eligibility Test (NET) programmes will be introduced as in 2017. The M.Phil. scholars worked conducted by UGC. soon as the NCTE permissions are on the following topics for their As in the previous years, in addition obtained. dissertations: to the integrated M.Phil-Ph.D. and (i) The educational trajectories of the MA Education programmes, Research Projects students with intellectual and APSoE offered an “elective basket” Two major research projects were developmental disabilities on education for the final year initiated in 2016 – 17: (i) Early students of the Bachelor of Arts (ii) Reading comprehension Literacy Initiative and (ii) Assessment (Social Sciences) programme. Among struggles of middle school of School Library Programme. While the BA students eight students opted students the Early Literacy Initiative is a for the Education elective titled project spread over three years, the (iii) Higher education of first “Understanding Education.” Apart project to assess the school library generation tribal girls from competently completing the programme began in 2016 and was (iv) Social justice principles in coursework, the BA students also completed within the academic year. primary level Social Science carried out research and submitted curriculum dissertations on topics such as i) Early Literacy Initiative student perceptions of grading (v) Gender based exclusion of practices at TISS, counselling The Azim Premji School transwomen from schools practices in select schools, socio- of Education has launched (vi) Secondary school students’ political awareness among students, an initiative that seeks conception about earth’s pedagogic practices in two different to significantly impact the schools, Montessori education, understanding and practice

13 of early literacy with support instill better reading habits the field of education received from the Navjbhai among children in the 9 – 14 b) get an understanding of Ratan Tata Trust. The overall age group. the educational planning objective of the Initiative and The study commenced in July and transaction the associated activities is 2016 and was completed in to build the capabilities of April 2017. The study sought to c) get an exposition to the individuals and institutions understand and assess how the organizational structure to work for early literacy in library programme is perceived and functioning of atleast the country given the widely by (a) the school children, (b) one or two organizations acknowledged and urgent need the teachers and (c) members of d) know about some of the for an intervention in the area. the community and also assess innovative approaches Specifically, the Early Literacy the nature of change at the and strategies to support Initiative has the following level of students and teachers the teaching-learning objectives: as a result of the introduction activities in schools of the library programme in a) Building capacities in the schools. The findings from The resource persons for the early literacy at multiple the study, which revealed the workshop included Dr. Jani Reddy levels, i.e. of teachers, critical significance of having (DIET, Vikarabad), Ms.Subhashini teacher educators and a vibrant library programme (SSA, Telangana), Dr. Gurveen Kaur researchers, in schools, is expected to (Centre for Learning, Hyderabad), Ms. b) Engaging in knowledge inform the library programme Immaculate Mary (IGNIS, Hyderabad), building by undertaking of BREAD Society as well as Mr. Dhananjay (M.V.Foundation, research and developing the government programmes Hyderabad), Ms.Prachi Grover (AP materials for use by supporting school libraries. Planning Department) and Mr.Piyush The report from the study practitioners, Wankhede (AP State Council for has been shared with WATIS Higher Education). c) Engaging in national level and BREAD and will further dialogues and advocacy be shared with the respective The workshop was conceptualized on early literacy issues. officials of the Education and anchored by Dr. M. Murali Krishna department as well. and Dr.Jayasree Subramanian. Prof. Shailaja Menon (Project Lead), Dr. Maxine Berntsen and Ms. Nisha The project team included ii) Workshop on Disability and Rajakumar form the core team of Dr. Rekha Pappu (Principal Inclusion in Educational the project. Work on the project Investigator), Dr. Sonia Settings has begun with this team joining in Sawhney (Co-Investigator), Ms. The Azim Premji School of January 2017. Nagamma Bejjam, Mr. Stefen Dany, Mr. Pramod Kumar and Education organized a 3-day ii) Assessment of School Library Ms. Meenu Talasila. workshop titled “Disability Programme and Inclusion in Educational Workshops organized Settings” between 23rd and 25th At the invitation of Wipro i) Workshop on “Understanding April 2017 for the final year Applying Thought in Schools the Field” students of MA in Education. (WATIS), APSoE took up a The workshop aimed at study to assess the library The workshop titled making students aware of programme of the organization “Understanding the Field of issues relating to education Basic Research Education and Education” was organized on for the differently abled Development (BREAD) Society 6th October 2016 as part of the which are often ignored or in terms of its functioning MA Education course with the understood without a critical and its effect on the children same name in order to provide and political perspective. Using as well as the schools that students with an opportunity an interactive participatory participate in the programme. to interact with educational organisations other than those format, the workshop sought The BREAD Society has over that they had already visited to help students engage with the last six years set up 750 as part of the course. The larger theoretical frameworks libraries in government high objective of the workshop was developed by critical disability schools spread across the 23 to ensure that students studies. It examined the districts of Andhra Pradesh working of the dual system and Telangana in order to a) get a holistic picture of of education of general and

14 special education, produced Pendyala, Shravan Kumar (2016). India (CESI) organized at Tirupati on by the education discourse How do we assess art? Teacher “Comparative educational destinies: and by teachers. The workshop Plus.14: 6 (p.18). Visions, dilemmas and challenges”. thus sought to deliberate on 2016: Development and education in how disability is constructed Rajan, Ashtami. (2016). Beware of nd globalized era: A critical analysis of in education at the individual, schools.Teacher Plus. 2 November. Kerala Perspective Plan, 2030. Paper institutional, state, and Papers Presented at Conferences/ presented at the national seminar national levels. Seminars/Workshops organized by the Regional Institute The core thematic areas Dr. Sonia Sawhney of Education, Bhopal on “Education covered in the workshop were for Sustainable Development.” centred round historical and 2017: “Equalizing educational and Ashtami Rajan philosophical foundations developmental opportunities through of education of People with a library program in India.” Paper 2017: Gender-based exclusion Disabilities (PWD), educational presented at the 61st International of transwomen in schools. Paper opportunities for PWD, role Conference of the Comparative presented at the Graduate Seminar of education in developing International Education Society, organized by Jawaharlal Nehru human capital of PWD and Atlanta (Paper co-authored with University on “Education, Continuity legal and policy issues related Dr.Rekha Pappu) and Change” to PWD. Resource persons Garima Singh Rohan Kapil for the workshop included 2016: A Comparative study on human Dr. Shilpaa Anand (Maulana 2016: Design and technology digestive system as conceptualized Azad National Urdu University, education as an inclusive approach in national and state board Science Hyderabad), Ms. Reema (Nayi to teaching-learning. Paper presented textbooks. Paper presented at the Disha, Hyderabad), Ms. Suchitra at a national seminar organized by 7th Annual International Conference Madan and Ms. Meenakshi the Regional Institute of Education, of the Comparative Educational (Sahasra – A Centre for Learning, Bhopal on “Education of socially Society of India (CESI) organized at Hyderabad), Prof. Anita Ghai disadvantaged groups in India.” Tirupati on “Comparative educational (Ambedkar University Delhi), (Paper co-authored with Adithi destinies: Visions, dilemmas and Prof. Vindhya Undurti (Tata Murlidhar and Dr. Sugra Chunawala) challenges”. Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad), Ms. Sobana Shravan Kumar Pendyala Sunil Sonwane Srinivasan (Sloka School, 2016: Understanding Visual Arts 2016: Barriers to education for Hyderabad), Prof. Padmini Practices of Middle School Art Kaikadi community as an impediment Swaminathan (Tata Institute Teachers in Hyderabad. Paper to social inclusion.Paper presented at of Social Sciences, Hyderabad), presented at the 7th Annual national conference organized by Ms. Meera Shenoy (Youth 4 International Conference of the Deshkal Society, Delhi on “Factors Jobs, Hyderabad) and Ms. Kriti Comparative Educational Society of of poor learning: challenges, Sharma (Council for Social opportunities and practices for Development, Hyderabad). India (CESI) organized at Tirupati on “Comparative educational destinies: learning improvement in socially diverse elementary schools of India.” The workshop was anchored by Visions, dilemmas and challenges”. Dr. Sonia Sawhney (Paper co-authored with Dr.Ritesh 2017: Challenges and opportunities Publications Khunyakari) in formal schooling of De-Notified Tribes: A case study of Kaikadi Parvathy, B.S., & Sawhney, S. Vishnu Prakash community in Aurangabad district (2016). Exploring the role of ICT in 2017: Theory in practice: A case study of Maharashtra. Paper presented enhancing academic self-concept of of critical pedagogy. Paper presented at national seminar organized by students labelled as low achievers. at the International Conference on Department of Political Sciences, In A. Ramakrishna, A. S. Reddy, “Philosophy of Education” organized School of Social Sciences at Hyderabad S. Anuganti, & P. Laxman (Eds.), by Azim Premji University, Bangalore. University on “Education and politics ICT Management and Challenges. in India: A perspective from below.” (pp.234-237). Hyderabad: Pragma 2016: Critical pedagogy in practice: Publications. ISBN: 978-93-84845- A case study from Kerala. Paper Ritika Srivastava 19-3. presented at the 7th Annual International Conference of the 2016: Education for sustainable social Comparative Educational Society of development: Reflection on Freedom,

15 Self-value and Conflict. Paper seminar organized by the Regional Indian context. Presentation in the presented at the national seminar Institute of Education, Bhopal on Round Table discussion at the 61st organized by the Regional Institute “Education of minorities in India: International Conference of the of Education, Bhopal on “Education Issues and concerns.” (Co-authored Comparative International Education for Sustainable Development.” paper) Society, Atlanta on “Problematizing (In) equality: A promise of comparative 2017: A Study on Self-efficacy of 2017: On the influences that shape and international education society.” Higher Secondary Minority Students. professional identity of nursery Paper presented at the national teachers in private schools in

Talk Series Students of APSoE have taken the responsibility for organizing a talk series under the title “Conversations.” Eminent educationists and practitioners in the field of education have been invited as part of the series to interact with students and Faculty of APSoE as well as other programmes at TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus. Details of the talks organized as part of “Conversations” are provided below:

S.No. Topic Guest Date 1. National Education Policy 2016 Ms. B.Seshu Kumari & 28.07.2016 Dr. K.Laxminarayana 2. WIPRO Seeding Program for Educational Mr Avinash Kumar 29.07.2016 Civil Society Organization 3. Tribal Education: A Perspective From Below Dr. Ramdas Rupavath 01.09.2016 4. Introducing Gender Sensitization and Ms. Charu Sinha 22.09.2016 Child Sexual Abuse Concepts in the School Curriculum 5. Privatisation of Education Prof. Sangeeta Kamat 12.01.2017 6. Education on Gender Based Violence Mr. Sanjay Mucharla 19.01.2017

16 School of Gender Studies

This year saw the stabilization of Masculinity and Relationships, terminate her pregnancy. The MA in Women’s Studies programme co-organized with CASH, and drawbacks of the various laws with the successful completion of the facilitated by Harish Sadani, like Pre-Conception and Pre- third batch of students. MAVA, Mumbai, September 10, Natal Diagnostics Techniques (PCPNDT) Act of 1994, Medical One key objective of the School is 2016. Termination of Pregnancy Act to interface with the state through A series of short films (1971), the Maternity Benefits partnerships with the government, interspersed with questions, Act of 2016 (amended) and the industry, and civil society in reflections, comments and recent Surrogacy Regulation promoting gender equality and engagement with questions Bill of 2016 were brought out sensitivity. A major highlight this of masculinity and its links and measures to address these year in this regard was the signing of a with violence marked this flaws were discussed. Memorandum of Understanding with very interesting workshop. the Govt. of Telangana, Department Facilitated by Harish Sadani, 3. Workshop on ‘Reading of Women Development and Child founder of the Men against Ambedkar on Caste and Welfare to offer knowledge support Violence and Abuse, the Gender’ by V.Geetha, social for the implementation of One Stop day-long film festival-cum- historian and feminist writer, Centres for providing integrated workshop explored the Chennai, February 14, 2017. support to women and children dynamics of socialization Divided into three sessions – affected by gender-based violence. processes that promote and two sessions on “The Women’s These centres, mandated by the encourage the construction of Question: Towards Self-Respect, government following the Nirbhaya masculinity. Equality and Fraternity”, and case in 2014 are to be located in 2. Workshop on Gender, Health one on “Ambedkar’s Vision public hospitals across all the and Public Policy, facilitated of Knowledge: Its Relevance districts of Telangana. Our knowledge by Renu Khanna, Vadodara, Today”. The key idea of the support refers to drawing up of a December 19, 2016. workshop was that caste and comprehensive and programmatic gender are intertwined in the Locating health within the strategy that includes recruitment of analysis of Ambedkar, and human rights and social justice staff, training and capacity building, that the idea of a gender-just framework, the workshop and monitoring and evaluation of society is not possible without centred on the various health functioning of the Centres. A key considering annihilation of issues women face and how feature of these Centres is that caste order. To understand their social location as the they will function on the basis of therefore, Ambedkar’s views vulnerable gender impacts an inter-sectoral model involving on women’s resolution, it is their access to health coverage the police, legal system, hospitals, equally important to look at and services. Various health and the women and child welfare this philosophy of change and policies taken up by the departments. We hope to contribute his vision of a progressive, state and the effectiveness to the setting up and effective economically just society. In of their implementation were functioning of a convergence this context, the importance discussed extensively and the mechanism that will ensure multiple of self-making for women, manner in which policy making forms of relief and support delivered the right to knowledge being that aligns human rights and with sensitivity which survivors of available to women, according gender justice along with bodily violence need across the justice, to Ambedkar, were emphasised. integrity was emphasised. An security, health and social sectors. The differences between the important topic that came struggle for freedom and the Workshops Organized out during the workshop struggle for equality were 1. Film festival/workshop was how ‘Save the Girl Child stressed because the fight for Samabhav on Gender, Campaign’ could potentially equality, fought on an everyday contradict a woman’s right to basis with the state, society and 17 family, is more complex than sensitization, IGCAR, December 5, 2016. the fight for freedom. Tracing Kalpakkam, July 29-30, 2016. Resource person for Training the timeline of Ambedkar’s Keynote address Does the programme for health thought through his writings mantra of empowerment providers Health consequences and his own life experiences, serve the purpose of a feminist of violence against women, the workshop illuminated the re-visioning of the world? Department of Health Services significance of Buddhist ideals Lessons from Social Action and CEHAT, Goa, December 17, of maithri, karuna and mudita Committees in Andhra Pradesh 2017. (social fellowship, compassion and Telangana for National and joy in other person’s joy) Presentation titled Social Seminar on Re-thinking emphasized by Ambedkar as and Policy Determinants of empowerment: Gender and important to fraternise social accessing health care with development in India, Maulana relations. Participants reflected a relevance to gender and Azad Urdu National University, on the insightful challenge of equity: barriers involved and Hyderabad, September 18-20, Ambedkar that the feminist possible resolutions in case 2017. view should be of an alternate examples of NCDs in University world view that looks beyond Resource person for talk on of Hyderabad and MHRD GIAN equality to achieve fraternity. the Sexual Harassment Act, Course on Gender and Equity in Orient Blackswan, Chennai, T2DM, January 17, 2017. Invited Lectures September 27, 2016. Paper titled Teaching resistance K. Lalitha, We were making Presentation on Gender and and critique: Some reflections history: Feminist critique of Mental Health, International on Women’s Studies in the the Telangana armed struggle, Diploma in Mental Health, academy in XV National January 27, 2017. Human Rights and the Law Conference on Women’s V.Geetha, Ambedkar’s vision of sponsored by WHO and Indian Studies, Indian Association knowledge: Its relevance today, Law Society, Pune, October 14, for Women’s Studies, Chennai, Feb 14, 2017 (co-hosted with 2017. January 21-24, 2017. Social Protection Cell. Talk on Gender sensitization: Keynote address Broadening Why do we need it? Central Rukmini Rao, The autonomous paradigms for counselling University of Rajasthan at women’s movement and interventions with relationship Ajmer, February 20, 2017. engagement with violence against violence: A gender-sensitive women, February 24, 2017 perspective in International Resource person for Action Seminar on Setting the Gender Shantha Sinha, Exercising Conference on Contemporary Agenda, NIRD & PR, March 8, Agency and Children’s Right to Trends in Clinical Psychology 2017. Education with a Focus on Girls, Training, Research and March 8, 2017. Practice, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Keynote address Shifting November 17-19, 2016. intersections of gender, sexuality Bandana Purakayastha, and identity: Vulnerabilities Exploring intersectionality from Resource person for training of masculinity, in National a 21st century perspective, workshop on Gender-based Seminar on Emerging Forms March 17, 2017 Violence for Department of of Vulnerabilities: Dialogues, Women and Child Development Kameshwari Jandhyala, Discourses and Debates, Delhi staff, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, Historyof the women’s University, March 9, 2017. movement’s engagement with organized by Population Presentation at the Mini education: The story of Mahila Council and CEHAT, Mumbai, Think-Tank on Evidence Samakhya, March 22, 2017. November 21, 2016. Based Systemic Approach to Seminars/Conferences/ Lecture in Seminar on Gender- Addressing Intimate Partner Workshops/Invited Talks based Violence, University of Violence in India: Creating Hyderabad, titled What has a New Vision, International Prof. U.Vindhya been the contribution of Gender Center for Research on Women, Resource person for two- Studies to understanding New Delhi, April 19-20, 2017. day workshop on Gender- of Gender-based Violence?

18 Dr. Nilanjana Ray Dr. Sunayana Swain Ms. Sita Mamidipudi Potential Research Areas: Lecture on Quantitative “Combating Barriers to Gaps and Challenges. UNICEF Research Methods as part Adolescent Girls’ Education: A Consultation on Evidence based of a National Workshop on Case Study of MV Foundation”. Research on Child Protection: Research Methodology, Prime In Triggering Success: Identifying gaps, challenges Minister Rural Development Innovative Interventions to and opportunities. Centre for Fellowship Programme, Promote Educational Access Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad. December 8th, in India, by Jacqueline Bhabha Hyderabad, February 3, 2017. 2016. and Anisha Gopi. New Delhi: Harvard South Asia Institute, Exploring the anti -trafficking Publications 2016. movement in India: A Dr. Nilanjana Ray movement against gender Mamidipudi, S., & Dand, S. based violence. National Human Trafficking: A form “Tribal Women Organizing Conference on Sociology of of violence against women. for Land Rights in Dahod Social Movements: Trends and In Rashmi Jain and Virendra and Panchmahaals”. In Land, Goswami (Eds.) Series on Directions in Contemporary Labour and Livelihoods: Indian Gender: Health and Violence. India, Savitribai Phule, Pune Women’s Perspectives by Bina New Delhi: Studium Press, LLC. University, Pune, June 12-13, Fernandes, Meena Gopal and (In Press) 2016. Orland Ruthven. Switzerland: Short-term Relationship, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Narrative Inquiry. UGC Development and Cooperation, Workshop for Young Faculty, July 2016, 33-34. Research Projects St. Francis College, Hyderabad, Dr. Sunayana Swain September 20, 2016. Patriarchy and forbidden love, The Book Review Journal Co-Project Leader, CSR Project, Adolescents in India: The (Special issue on Gender), Jaigad, Ratnagiri, [Sponsored context of vulnerability. August 2016. by JSW Steel Limited], with Strategic Consultation Prof.S. Siva Raju (Ongoing on Adolescents, UNICEF, Dr. Sowjanya T. project). Hyderabad, May 12, 2016. Understanding Politics of Discrimination based Prof. U.Vindhya Encouraging Community on Skin Colour in India Based Research in Educational Evaluation of ICall Psychosocial in The Philosopher: A Institutions. UNESCO Workshop Helpline, TISS Mumbai, Research Journal, Kerala: on Learning to Do Community (member of review team). Adisankaracharya University Based Research: Perspectives, Press. Other Academic Services opportunities and Ways Forward, Centre for Economic ”Political as Personal”: Politics Prof. U.Vindhya and Social Studies, Hyderabad, of Inter-caste Marriage Among Reviewer for manuscripts April 18, 2016. Dalits (manuscript submitted to Indian Journal of Gender submitted to the following Gender Sensitization of the Studies) journals: Indian Journal Police Curriculum. Workshop of Gender Studies (Sage), Dr. Sunayana Swain on Training Needs Assessment, Psychological Studies (Springer), Telangana State Police From the Gender Perspective. Journal of Women, Politics Academy, Hyderabad, April [Review of the book Purdah and Policy (Taylor & Francis), 27, 2016. to Piccadilly: A Muslim Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Woman’s Struggle for Identity, Services (Taylor & Francis); Thematic Analysis. Research by Zarina Bhatty]. The Book Sage Open. Methods Workshop for Prime Review [Special Issue on External member, Complaints Minister’s Rural Development Gender], XL (8). Fellows, Tata Institute of Social Committee on Prevention Sciences, Hyderabad, December Dr. Jessy Philip of Sexual Harassment of 9, 2016. Lived Realities, The Book Review Women in the Workplace, 2016 XL No 8, 2. Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research,

19 Department of Atomic Energy, in Tamilnadu; Supervisor of Stand-up Comedy, Bucknell Government of India. Dr. Poulumi Bhattacharya University, Lewisburg, PA, USA, 5-8 April, 2017. Dr. Nilanjana Ray Ritika Dubey - Contribution of Women in the Weaving Industry Khushboo Savita, MA semester Reviewer of manuscript for of Varanasi; Supervisor 4:Presented paper titled Sage Open Dr. Nilanjana Ray ‘Understanding women’s Student Activities and Achievements Reproductive Rights through Ishita Paul - Exploring ‘Agency’ the legal framework of Medical M.Phil Thesis amongst the ‘Empowered’: Case Termination of Pregnancy Act, Studies of Women in Paid Formal Shruti Kalyanraman - 1976’ in the 3rd International Employment; Supervisor Negotiating New Work Graduate Seminar organized by Prof. Padmini Swaminathan Spaces: Self Employed Urban the School of Public Policy and Women’s Experiences of Conferences and Seminars Governance, TISS Hyderabad, Conducting Business Through March 16-18, 2017. Neha Pande, MA semester Contemporary Social Media; 4. Presented paper titled SupervisorDr. Nilanjana Ray ‘What’s Funny To Daniel M. Karuppasami — Working Fernandes Might Not Be Funny conditions of Women To Aditi Mittal’ accepted for Agricultural Labourers : A presentation in the Conference study of Tirunelveli District on The Ethics and Aesthetics

School of Human Resource Management

The School of Human Resource Students and Course Outline stipulated deadline. Some of the Management was set up in 2015 The total number of students in 2nd organisations where students did with the vision to contribute and semester was 39. There were four FIPs were Colgate Global Business strengthen education in the field core and three visiting faculties Services, Larsen & Toubro, Mondelez, of Human Resource Management assigned for the teaching of the Tata Motors, HPCL etc. All the within a fast changing world of courses. In addition to the core and students had one organisational work, employment, businesses visiting faculties, we invited several and one faculty mentor, who worked and entrepreneurship. Accelerated eminent industry practitioners from in close collaboration to determine economic growth coupled with reputed organisations to share their the key learning outcomes, agreed globalization has brought in knowledge with our students. In beforehand through the learning unprecedented worker diversity, addition, the students have formed a agreement. creating vast, versatile and committee known as Dhriti, which is Assessment Centre (Duration 2 continuously developing talent a platform that provides key insights days) pools. At the same time revolutionary into industry best practices. As a part An Assessment Centre is also developments especially in of Dhriti initiative, several of leading organised to understand the basic communications and information industry practitioners are invited by competence of each student, her/ technology have facilitated new students to share their experiences in his aptitude and interest areas to modes of employment on one different domains of HRM practices. facilitate placement in the right hand and produced huge skill Field Immersion Programme (FIP) organisations. On 25th and 26th of gaps and skill requirements on Duration: One Month (1st March 2017- February, an assessment center for the other. The changing nature 31st March 2017) students was organized at TISS, and terms of employment and Mumbai campus. The students global commitments to issues of Mr. Himanshu Dhaka coordinated the were given multiple tasks to assess environment and sustainable use of process of placing the students for their competencies for becoming natural resources, create the need to their Field Immersion Programme, successful HR professionals at entry nurture management professionals which targets to provide students level. Dr. Balram and Dr. Randhir had who are sensitive to the paradigms of with hands-on experience of working joined the students to coordinate ethical business and have developed in live HR projects of various and oversee the assessment center capacities to work with a spectrum of organisations. All the students exercise. employers with a humane approach. were placed successfully before the

20 Students went to IPhysician Hub Pvt the practical challenges in day-to- role of Environmental Factors. Limited, Habsiguda, Hyderabad for a day management. Mr. Bimal Rath (Manuscript ID: JMO-2016-0337). Field Trip. This helped : explained how their consultancy Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. (2016), To enrich students’ overall work caters to the talent acquisition Strategic IT-Business Alignment learning experience. and talent management needs of and Organizational Agility: their clients. To better understand the HR- from a developing country payroll system. Publications perspective. (Manuscript ID: JABS-10-2016-0132) To relate theory into practice. Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. (2017), “The effect of Human IT Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. (2016), To learn preparation of a typical capability on Organizational Modelling the Structural employee payroll system. Agility: An empirical analysis”. Linkage between Information To comprehend the effective Management Research Review. Technology Capability and utilization of technology in real (Accepted for publication). Organizational Agility: life organizations for creating Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. (2016), Exploring the role of greater business value of IT. “Modelling the Relationship Environmental Factors. Dissertation between Information (Manuscript ID: AAMJ 3325). The MA programme requires the Technology Infrastructure and Conference Presentations / Talks: students to submit a dissertation by Organizational Agility: A Study Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. the end of fourth semester. During in the Context of India”. Global “Modelling the relationship second semester, all the students Business Review, Vol. 19, No. 2. between Information chose their dissertation guide. Ms. Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. (2016), Technology Capability and Sukanya is chairing the dissertation Investigating the Structural Organizational Performance: coordinator position and has devised linkage between IT capability In context to Indian Banking a time line and template for the and Organizational agility: units”. The 16 th Consortium format of different outputs that is A Study on Indian Financial of Students in Management expected from the students. All the Enterprises. Journal of Research (COSMAR-2016; Nov. students have narrowed down to Enterprise Information 11-12), IISc. Bangalore. Best their broad topic of dissertation and Management, Vol. 29, No. 5. Paper Awarded. are working closely with respective pp. 751-773. Kumar, R. (2016) Globalisation guides on executing their research Panda, S. and Rath, S.K. (2016), of Services Production: ideas. Information Technology Economic and Social Upgrading Guest Lectures by resource persons capability, Knowledge in Support-Service Industry from industry Management capability, and Catering to International Mr. T. Mohan Reddy, Compensation Organizational Agility: the ICT-ITES firms in Mumbai, and Benefit manager, INVESCO, Hyderabad Dr. P. V. Ramana Murthy, Sr. Vice- President and Global Head - Human Resources at the Indian Hotels Company Ltd., Mumbai Mr. Bimal Rath, Founder, Think Talent Services, New Delhi The lectures imparted by the guest lecturers reinforced the practical learning of the students. Mr. Mohan Reddy explained the intricacies of determining the pay packages for different departments and individuals in an organisation. Dr. Ramana Murthy explained in details how the theories of organisational behaviour are relevant in solving

21 Amsterdam: University of Philippines, Quezon City, The Student Participation and Amsterdam (ISBN: 978-90- Philippines Achievements 78862-28-4) Kumar R. Resource person for Prakriti Dasgupta (Batch 2016-18) Kumar, R., & Beerepoot, N. University Dept. of Commerce Secured Second prize in IIM (2017) Altering the social fabric & Management, Vinoba Bhave Shillong Case Study- HRahasya of the working poor? Work University, Hazaribag for one (2016). and employment issues of week (7 Days) work shop on Secured Second prize in Poster support workers catering to Research Methods & SPSS in Competition organized by CII (Reboot international ICT-ITES firms April 2017. to Reinvent: HR in Evolving Paradigms) in Mumbai. In P. D’Cruz & Himanshu Dhaka (2016). E. Noronha (Eds.), Critical Understanding Self-Defeating Paper Publication - ‘Smothered Perspectives on Work and Behaviors at Work place: A by Control, Her Tormented Soul: Employment in Globalizing Buddhist Approach. Paper Addressing the Discourse of Domestic India. Singapore: Springer. presented at International Violence Against Women in India’ Kumar R. (2016) IT-BPO Conference on Spirituality and published in 2016 Journal of West and service-driven growth: Management at IIM Bangalore, Bengal Human Rights Commission capturing the indirect India(3-6 January, 2016) (ISSN 2456353-6) (2016). development gains The IT- Himanshu Dhaka attended Participated in Airtel BPO industry stakeholders Teaching Cases and Research Hyderabad Marathon- 2016 ~ 10K conference, Asian Institute of Methodology Workshop, Run (2016). Management, Makati City, The International Summer Philippines University at MDI Gurgaon Kumar R. (2016) ‘The IT-BPO (2016) as catalyst for sustainable Himanshu Dhaka participated and inclusive service-driven at International Conference on growth: illusion or opportunity? Innovation & Case Research Academic seminar, School Workshop at MDI Gurgaon of Labour and Industrial (2016) Relations, University of the

School of Livelihoods and Development

The School of Livelihoods and MA in Development Studies and MA measurable and non-measurable Development in consonance with in Natural Resource Governance. The outcomes of these programmes, the overall Vision and Mission of the School constantly strives to expand as also, the various attempts that Institute endeavors to be a knowledge the scope and breadth of its research civil society/non-state actors have/ hub for sustainable development. through partnerships with state and are undertaking in different parts It emphasises in particular non-state actors. of the country to strengthen rural the livelihood challenges of the livelihoods. Over the years, classroom Academic Programmes Overview marginalised and hitherto excluded teaching combined with experiential communities adversely impacted by The course curriculum of MA Rural learning has helped immensely in development, non-development and Development and Governance developing the critical faculties of mal-development. To realise this is aimed at building students’ our students. The 4th batch of our vision it engages in two key processes: perspectives on various aspects of students from this programme will one, knowledge building through development read as human well be passing out in May 2017. Most of faculty and student research, and being with a specific focus on rural the students from our earlier batches through experiential learning; two, it development in India. A significant who passed out in 2014, 2015 and contributes towards building human part of this Course is concerned 2016 have joined government and capital required for strengthening with exposing students (in class non-government organisations of livelihood promotion processes at and outside) to how the ‘rural’ repute including the prestigious different levels - policy, planning and is conceptualised in theory and Prime Ministers’ Rural Development program implementation, through its practice; the different programmes Fellowship catering to the most three Masters’ programmes – MA in of central and state governments backward districts of the country. Rural Development and Governance, aimed at addressing the ‘rural’; the

22 The 2nd batch of students from the students are taught various tools these students have come into MA Development Studies (2015- and techniques for diagnosing these the programme from a science/ 17), will be passing out from TISS- issues. Finally, they are trained to technology background. This Hyderabad this year. The major critically look at the various solutions diversity and the regional spread emphasis in Development Studies that are suggested for resolving of our students is reflected in the is to equip students with a holistic these issues. The students have had range of topics selected for MA understanding of the concept of extensive field work at various FES dissertations by the students. This ‘development’; the contemporary locations across India. In addition, academic year 2016-17 we have a debates around the theory and the students have also worked total of 87 MA dissertations covering practice of what constitutes with other NGO’s and civil society all three MA programmes. As part of ‘development’ and the impacts and groups as part of their mandatory their field immersion the students consequences of ‘developmental’ internship programme. The students have worked closely with the people. activities on the lives and livelihoods have been trained to understand the Not only have they gained from the of persons/households both in institutional structures concerning community, but they have also been rural and urban areas. The Course natural resources at the micro and encouraged to contribute to the takes students through the role of macro level (local, state, national, society where they have been placed state in propelling development, international) as well as the policies, for their field work. urbanisation and its impact on issues and problems of India and Faculty development, nexus between natural strategies to address these. The resources and development, and programme has equipped the Over the last three years the School understanding development from students to partake in organisational has brought together a range of the lens of human rights. Besides, efforts in managing projects and faculty whose multi-disciplinary the Course aims at strengthening initiatives by preparing them with orientations combined with rich field students’ analytical skills through analytical skills. The 1st batch of NRG experience add strength, purpose training in various quantitative students will be passing out in May and depth in the delivery of the and qualitative data analysis with 2017. Two students from the second academic programmes including the help of widely used software batch of MA NRG 2017 are a part of student research. The faculty has and impact evaluation techniques. the student exchange programme expertise of research and capacity Experiential Learning component of with the Alpen Adria University, building in the core subjects of this programme exposes the students Austria. the School namely rural economy, to various research organizations, labour, sustainable development, TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus is NGOs and government departments. natural resource governance and the knowledge partner in the Some students from the first batch livelihood promotion. The faculty implementation of the Prime have competed and benefited from continue to hold strong networks and Minister’s Rural Development Fellows exposure to Universities abroad collaborations with both government Scheme and two faculty, namely (University of Sydney, and Keel and civil society organisations to Dr. Ipsita Sapra and Dr. P Karunakar University, UK). Most of the 1st support students in their experiential from the school are part of this batch of students of this Course learning. programme. have been absorbed by Planning Faculty members of the School teach related departments of the states of Student’s strength: Trajectory of several courses which traverse both Telengana and Andhra Pradesh. growth the school, as well as, all the other The Masters programme in Natural The Masters in Rural Development schools in TISS Hyderabad, including Resources and Governance (NRG) and Governance was the first BA in Social Sciences. The faculty being conducted in partnership programme of the school, which are also engaged in guiding BA, MA, with FES (Foundation for Ecological began in the academic year, 2012; the MPhil, PMRDF and PhD students in Security) is one of its kind. This Masters in Development Studies was their research work. partnership with FES ensures that initiated in the academic year, 2014; Publications the students are exposed to both and the Masters in Natural Resource practises and theories surrounding Governance is the newest addition The School faculty are involved the governance of natural resources. since the academic year of 2015. in research, publish widely and The course has been designed in three engage in other knowledge building The school has been able to attract unique phases. In the first phase, the activities. considerable numbers of interested students are exposed to the various students from diverse backgrounds issues that concern the governance of from across the country. It is also natural resources. In the next phase, important to note that several of

23 Prof. Padmini Swaminathan (Chair models for Livelihood Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak of the School of Livelihoods and Promotion, Ministry of Rural Nayak, B. P. and S. Manasi Development) Development, Government of (2016), ‘Performance of India, 2016, pp 25-33, “The Gendering of a Discipline” Participatory Irrigation in Teacher Plus, Vol. 14, No. Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya Management in Odisha: A 5, May-June 2016, pp100-104 (Coordinator: MA Development Study of Pani Panchayats in (magazine published by the Studies) Two Irrigation Projects’ in Azim Premji University) Kumar, P. and S. Mohankumar M. Karuppasamy and P. (Ed.), Indian Agriculture: “Globalisation and Work in Bhattacharya(2016) ,Working Performance, Growth and India: Analysis, predictions Condition of Women Challenges, London & New and suggestions” , co-authored Agricultural Labourers : A York: Routledge (Chapter 13, with Dr. Bhavani Arabandi, Study of Tirunelveli District of Page: 329-354) Mathrubhumi Year Book Plus Tamil Nadu , Proceedings of Dr. Lavanya Suresh (Faculty in charge 2017, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp 84-96 National Seminar on Dr. B.R. of Student Affairs, RM Campus) Ambedkar’s vision of Economic “Persons with Disabilities Development of India, Page Suresh, L. (2017). Decentralised in the Labourscape of Tamil No. 113-121(ISBN No.978-93- and Effective Forest Resource Nadu”, co-authored with Dr. 85777-91-2) Governance in India. South J. Jeyaranjan, India: Social Asia Research, 37(1), 78-92. Development Report 2016, Dr. Johny Stephen (Coordinator: MA Suresh, Lavanya., (2016). OUP, New Delhi, Ch6, pp103- Natural Resource Governance) Understanding Nestedness in 121 Song, A. M., Scholtens, J., Democratic Decentralisation Co-editor, Re-presenting Stephen, J., Bavinck, M., & through the Lens of Forest Feminist methodologies: Chuenpagdee, R. 2017. Resource Governance in Tamil Interdisciplinary Explorations Transboundary research in Nadu . In E. Venkatesu (Ed.), (with Prof. Kalpana Kannabiran), fisheries. Marine Policy, 76, Democratic Decentralization Routledge, New Delhi, 2017; 8-18. in India Experiences, Issues and Challenges. New York: “Introduction: Re-presenting Stephen, J., & Menon, A. 2016. Routledge, pp. 174-187. feminist methodologies” (co- Fluid territories: Rethinking authored with Prof. Kalpana state territorialisation in Sivanna, N., & Suresh, L. Kannabiran) in Kalpana Palk Bay, South Asia. Norsk (2016). Urban Governance and Kannabiran and Padmini Geografisk Tidsskrift- Organizational Restructuring: Swaminathan (edited). 2017. Norwegian Journal of The Case of Bruhat Bangalore Re-presenting Feminist Geography, 70(5), 263-275. Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Methodologies: Interdisciplinary In A. K. Vaddiraju, S. Sangita, Stephen, J. 2016. Looking beyond Perspectives, Routledge, New & K. S. Sridhar (Eds.), Urban the fish, social sciences in Delhi, pp1-24 Governance in Karnataka and fisheries research - experiences Bengaluru: Global Changes and “Planning for modernization? from transboundary fishing Local Impacts.Newcastle, UK: Feminist Readings of Plans and in Palk bay in Proceedings Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Planned Development in India” of the National Seminar on pp. 190-207. in Kalpana Kannabiran and Sustainable fisheries in an Padmini Swaminathan (edited). ecosystem perspective, 10-11 Seminars/Conferences and 2017. Re-presenting Feminist December 2015, St. Michael’s Workshops Methodologies: Interdisciplinary College, Cherthala, Kerala, India Paper presentation Perspectives, Routledge, New Dr. Ipsita Sapra Dr. Srinivas Surisetti Delhi, pp205-228 Sapra I (2016). Women and Family Violence: Abuse and Dr. Srinivas Surisetti (Chair of Men at Work: Livelihood neglect of elderly women in Academic Programmes; Coordinator: Experiences of Persons with India in the National Seminar MA Rural Development and Disabilities in West Bengal in On Domestic Violence, RM Governance, RM Campus In-charge) the book edited by Nandini College of Social Work and Case Study, Women Managed Ghosh Interrogating Disability Research Center, ICSW- Milk Procurement Services, in India: Theory and Practice, Telangana State, 28th January Compendium of Business Springer, India: pp. 145-166. 2017

24 Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya 6th LCSR International Research Member in the Curriculum “Determinants of Export Workshop ‘Trust, Social Capital workshop of PG Diploma Competitiveness of Fresh and Values in a Comparative Program on 27-28 January Fruits in India”, Paper presented Perspective’ within the XVI 2017 at NIRD-PR, Hyderabad April International Academic at 53rd Annual Conference of Faculty expert for Social Audit Conference on Economic and the Indian Econometric Society, Practicum Evaluation for Social Development, April 22nd-24th December, 2016, NIRD-TISS Certificate Program 18-22, Moscow, Russia. NISER, Bhubaneswar for Social Audit and Social Presented paper on ‘Trust and Responsibility, 19-20 February “Productivity Growth and Reciprocity Amongst Urban 2016, Andhra Pradesh Technical Efficiency Change in Slum Communities’ Indian Food Processing Sector: Dr. Lavanya Suresh Dr. Ipsita Sapra A Firm Level Analysis”, paper presented at 3rd International Paper on “Participation of Panelist in Performance Review Conference of Applied Women in Panchayats: Interplay of PMRDFs in Andhra Pradesh Economics and Finance, 28th of Politics of Inclusion and organised at SERP, Andhra January, 2017, Gitam School Exclusion” co-authored with Pradesh by the Ministry of Rural of International Business and N Sivanna, and N Veeresha, Development, Government of Finance, Vishakhapatnam. presented at the International India, 5th May 2016 Seminar on State, Politics, Panelist in Performance Review Dr. Johny Stephen Governance and Development of PMRDFs in Telengana in India organised jointly by Presented at the Too Big To organised at SERP, Telangana Hiroshima University, Japan Ignore (TBTI), Symposium on by the Ministry of Rural and Centre for Decentralisation Small scale fisheries , Thailand, Development, Government of and Development, ISEC, August 2016 India , 4th May 2016 Bengaluru on 28th Dec, 2016 Dr. Ipsita Sapra Paper presented at the Panelist in Performance Review Flying High: Sustainability Lokniti Reunion Seminar of PMRDFs in Odisha organised issues with Life and Work styles on ‘Understanding at XIM, Bhubaneswar by the of Professional Elites in India , Decentralization Through Ministry of Rural Development, presented in Sustainability the Lens of Forest Resource Government of India 27, May Summit, XIM Bhubaneswar, Management: A Study in the 2016 2016 State of Tamil Nadu, India’, in Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak Bangalore on the 9th of July, The Vibrant Invisible: Work Lives Panelist for the session on 2016 of Women with Disabilities in ‘Green Highways, Livelihoods Indian Association of Women’s Panelists and Entrepreneurship Studies, Chennai, 2017 Prof. Padmini Swaminathan Development’ at the National Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak Panel member for the book Convention on Innovations in discussion - Labour and Green Highways, November Workshop on Climate change, Development: Essays in Honour 7-9, 2016, New Delhi, organized Sustainable Development of Prof. T.S. Papola, held at the by National Green Highways Goals and Coastal Habitats GIRI institute of Development Mission, National Highway in India, August 29-30, 2016, Studies, Lucknow on March Authority of India (MoRTH). INCOIS (MoES), Hyderabad, 4th, 2017 India. Made a presentation on Discussant for the session Dr. Srinivas Surisetti ‘Climate change, environmental ‘Social Capital, Quality of Panel member for the CII-Global degradation and livelihood Governance and Economic Summit on Skill Development challenges for the coastal Development’ at the XVI on 6 Nov.,2016, Hyderabad communities’ April International Academic Panel member for the Conference on Economic and XUB Sustainability Summit Consultative Programme Social Development, April 18- 2016, August 11-13, 2016, on Role of Women in rural 22, Moscow, Russia. Xavier University Bhubaneswar, governance on 15th December Dr. Lavanya Suresh India, Presented the paper on 2016 by Sehgal Foundation, A part of the one day Working ‘Leveraging Social Capital for Gurgaon, FTAPCCI, Hyderabad Group Meeting organised by Clean Cooking’ and NIRD&PR, Hyderabad

25 The Centre for Gender Studies March 8th, 2017 an event under “Gendering Public Policy” on and Development, NIRD&PR on the UK Chevening Scholar 17th March, 2017 25th January, 2017 under the Lecture Series on Women’s Day. Delivered a lecture on “Persons UN Women sponsored project As a part of this, Prof Shanta with Disabilities in the Labour- titled “From Opportunities to Sinha delivered a talk and was scape of Tamil Nadu” for the Capacities: A Multi-sectoral a part of a programme titled Workshop on Disabilities and Approach to Enhancing Gender “In Conversation with Prof U Education conducted by the Responsive Governance”. The Vindhya” Azim Premji School of Educa- tion at TISS, Hyderabad on 25th focus of the meeting was on Dr. Johny Stephen March, 2017 ‘Women in Panchayat’. Dr. Srinivas Surisetti Was a panelist on a session on Participated in the National Spoke at a session onMicro-En- ‘Community Forestry’ at the Workshop on Innovating terprise and BusinessPlan on Centre for Economic and Social fish market chains for urban food security, Amrita Vishwa 24th June 2016 for SRPs-NRLM Studies, Hyderabad 23rd Feb, at NIRD-PR, Hyderabad 2016 Vidyapeetham (University), Bangalore, 11-12th February Radio Talk on International Other Academic Activities 2017 Yardstick to Measure Poverty Prof. Padmini Swaminathan and Wealth, 17th October 2016, Dr. P Karunakar All India Radio, Hyderabad Conducted a one day workshop on “Feminist Methodologies” at Co-organised the Writing Radio Talk on Financial Inclu- Hyderabad Central University Workshop for 20 Fellows sion: Savings Services for the Poor, 22nd December 2016, All for the Department of Gender (PMRDF Batch-II) at TISS India Radio, Hyderabad Studies along with Prof. Hyderabad between 19th and Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya Kalpana Kannabiran on August 23rd September, 2016 along 31st, 2016 with TISS Hyderabad PMRDF Delivered a lecture on “Human Team . Development Index: Concepts Dr. Srinivas Surisetti , Measurements and Implica- Conducted a one day Co-Organised Dissertation tions” at a programme on Consultation Workshop Writing Workshop from 5th to “Indices & Indicators” for the on Urban Swachbharat in 10 December, 2016 along with officers of the Government of Visakhapatnam on 11th August TISS Hyderabad PMRDF Team. Maharashtra, Administrative 2016 Staff College of India , Hyder- School faculty Invited as keynote abad on July 28th, 2016. National Consultation on speakers Research collaborations Urban Swach Bharat, Ministry Dr. Srinivas Surisetti of Urban Development, GoI and Prof. Padmini Swaminathan Field based Projects-Completed TISS, 16-18 August 2016 Chair and speaker of the panel Workshop on Business models on “Disabilities and Labour” at Social Impact Assessment study for Wide Service Road for Livelihood Promotion, the Labour Economics Confer- Under Fatehnagar Bridge, Hy- 2nd Sept 2016, DDY-NRLM, ence at Guwahati from 23rd derabad, Telangana State New Delhi-Presentation on a November to 26th November, 2016 Business enterprise by SHG Social Impact Assessment for Formation of New BG Rail- federation in Telangana Keynote speaker for the Action Aid sponsored programme on way line for Western Railways Dr. Ipsita Sapra “Feminism” held at Osmania in Anantapuramu District, Co-Organised Dissertation University in Oct, 2016 Andhra Pradesh (with Prof Lakshmi Lingam) Writing Workshop from 5th to Delivered a lecture at IIT Hyder- 10 December, 2016 along with abad on “Gender and Labour” Social Impact Assessment of TISS Hyderabad PMRDF Team. on March 8th, 2017 NTPC Water Corridor in Ram- billi Mandal, Visakhaptnam Co-organised and facilitated the Delivered the plenary address District, Andhra Pradesh (with PMRDF dissertation workshop for the 3rd International Grad- Prof Lakshmi Lingam) with TISS Hyderabad PMRDF uate Seminar on Fostering Field based New Projects - Initiated Team for selected PMRDF from Change: Public Policies Impact- across the country between ing State, Markets and Society, Social Impact Assessment conducted by the School of Study for Construction of ROB 19th and 23rd September, 2016 Public Policy and Governance, at Katilapur from Madhapur Organised and facilitated on TISS Hyderabad on the topic: Hi-Tech City Main Road to Moo- sapet IDL Road Via Ayyappa

26 Society, Kukatpally Mandal, Advisory Member, Review of Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak Telangana State Women Studies, Economic Joint Secretary, Indian Society and Political Weekly, Mumbai, Dr. Ipsita Sapra of Ecological Economics and Sameeksha Trust Collaboration with the Govern- Member, Scientific Advisory ment of Andhra Pradesh for Editorial Advisory Member, In- Committee and Member, Local student research project as dian Journal of Gender Studies, Organizing Committee of 9th a part of Rural Development, New Delhi, Sage Publications Biennial INSEE Conference on Livelihood and Social Policy Editorial Advisory Member, Sustainability, Institutions and Basket Gender, Technology and Devel- Incentives: Voices, Policies and Positions held by faculty outside opment at the Asian Institute Commitments, 8-10 Nov 2017, the institute of Technology, Bangkok, Sage KILA, Thrissur Publications Prof. Padmini Swaminathan Associate Researcher, Labo- Editorial Advisory Member, ratory for Comparative Social Board Member of Institute for Journal of Entrepreneurship Research, National Research Social and Economic Change, at the Indian Institute of Man- University, Moscow Bangalore agement, Ahmedabad, Sage Member, Behavioral Insights Board Member of GIRI Institute Publication Research Committee, Green of Development Studies, Luc- Dr. Ipsita Sapra Growth Knowledge Platform know Board Member, SAHAY- Chil- Dr. Piyali Das Board Member of SAMA-Re- dren International, a non profit source Center for Women, New Visiting scientist, ISI-Delhi, for organization supporting chil- Delhi the month of November 2016. dren in need based in Kolkata Trustee Member of Anusand- han Trust, Mumbai

27 Workshops, Seminars and Public Lectures organized by the School All the three MA Programmes have periodically conducted Workshops on specific themes, including Writing and Methodology workshops, and lectures by external experts. Students are thus exposed to various perspectives, as well as, trained in academic writing.

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June 2016 NRG students led a campus cleaning drive. Students across all the programmes joined this drive.

July 2016 The MA-NRG has taken part in a plantation drive (8th July) at Cyberabad Commissionerate in accordance with ‘haritha haaram’ Scheme of the Government of Telangana

July 2016 The NRG students held a Tree and Bird Walk. Mrs. Asiya Khan, a naturalist, working with the Aga Khan foundation and Mr. Mohammed Azam Khan, a Businessman and an avid bird watch- er, guided the Trees and Birds walk around RM campus.

July 2016 Two day Workshop on Academic Writing by Dr. Nazia Aktar

July 2016 Two day Workshop on Writing a Literature Review by Dr. Lavanya Suresh. This was repeated for the TISS Hyderabad PhD students and PMRDF fellows at a later date.

July 2016 DS Press: A student led discussion forum discussed “Creative Expression: Should literature, or any piece of art/entertainment have to justify itself in terms of aesthetic or politics?” and in the consecutive week discussed “Uniform Civil Code: Is India ready? What are the challenges of implementing UCC? What is its future?”

August 2016 Workshop on Protection of Sparrow in urban landscapes organized by students of MA NRG

September 2016 Dr. Ram Reddy delivered a public lecture on ‘Independence of Media in India: Print and TV’

October 2016 DS Press: A student led discussion forum discussed “How relevant are the environmental arguments for banning beef?”

December 2016 Workshop on Systematic Review in Natural Resources Governance by Dr. Biljana Macura

December 2016 NRG students from the first semester attended a Two Day Orientation Program for TISS Hyderabad Campus Students on “Community Forest Rights under the Forest Rights Act of 2006”.

January 2017 One day Budget Workshop organised by Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya, Coordinator of MA Development Studies and Dr. Piyali Das. The workshop was attended by students from MA Development Studies and MA Women’s Studies. The invited panellists were Profs. Achin Chakraborty, Lekha Chakraborty, R Srinivasan, Jyostna Jha, and Subodh Kandamuthan

February 2017 Dr. Ramachandra Bhatta delivered a lecture on “Conflicts in Marine Resources: A participatory model”

28 Guest Lectures Government of Telangana Development Economics Guests invited for the MA NRG- spoke on “Administration of course for MA DS 2nd Sem Seminar Series (Sem 3 from June Rural Development Programs” students 2016-Oct 2016) Mr. K.S.Gopal, Center for Invited Prof. Gopinath Reddy Derek Johnson, Associate Environmental Concerns, (Prof at CESS, Hyderabad) for Professor, University of Hyderabad spoke on a session on Forest Rights Act Manitoba, Canada. “Working with Government- for the course Environment Ms Anuradha Pati, Public Implementation of Rural and Development for MA DS, Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate Development Program” 3rd Sem students General, Hyderabad. Mr. R. S. Sharat, Head- Ms. Meena Menon, was invited Mr. Navooru Vamsee CSR, Mytrah Energy & CEO on 6th September, 2016 Krishna, Senior Engineering Mytrah Foundation spoke to speak on “Trade Unions Consultant, L&T Infrastructure on “Building institutions for and Development in Present Engineering Limited. development support and the Time.” Ms Farida, the Director of WWF emerging perspectives on the Prof. Kalpana Kannabiran (World Wild life Fund)-India’s Development sector” was invited on 30th August, Andhra Pradesh State Office Prof Rama Chandra Bhatta, 2016 to speak on “Law and (APSO)—now Hyderabad spoke on “Governance in Development” Office. Fisheries sector” Dr. Usha Seethalakshmi, was Mr Ravi Rohan, Center for Guest speakers for MA-DS program invited on 21st February, 2017 good governance, Hyderabad. Invited Prof. Sisir Debnath to speak on “Status of Women (Asst. Prof. ISB) for a sessions Farmers in India” Guest speakers for MA-RDG on Quantitative methods in program Development and Health- Dr. C. Suvarna, Member care economics in India for Secretary, Bio-diversity Board,

School of Public Policy and Governance

Established in the year 2013, methods to think through disciplinary backgrounds. the School of Public Policy and operational frameworks for Student-led Academic and Policy Governance (SPPG) is a singular accountable governance, ways, Research Pursuits endeavour aimed at upskilling young and means of achieving profound professionals in public policy and human opportunities that lead to The SPPG inaugurated a student- governance. The school provides a just society. In service of these led academic and policy research interdisciplinary foundational goals, students are enabled: agendawith its very first 2013-15 training in Ethics and Policy, batch. This pioneering initiative was To comprehend, interpret Economics (including econometrics), further strengthened with 2014- and analyse policies, budgets, Law, Political Science, and Sociology. 16, 2015-17 and 2016-18 batches. legislations, and legal It encourages students to be Incorporating a learning-teaching documents including court reflexive in incubating institutional frame, it enables students to initiate judgments and situate them designs that can transform public and determine the contours of in the existing socio-economic services. research programmes, research and socio-political processes. papers related to topical policy With a firm grounding in these core To acquire fluency in data concerns, academic publications, courses, students are expected to analytics – collecting primary policy conferences, and weekly choose and specialise in specific data as well as working on lectures. Student-led activities are policy area concentrations big data sets in aid of policy thus the fulcrum of the school’s (henceforth PACs). These decisions. work, and they comprise of the concentration areas offered for following: the 2016-18 batch Regulation and To acquire skills – written Institutional Reform, Urbanisation, and oral - facilitating A. Policy Research Programmes and Social Conflict and Public Policy. communication with diverse The student-led research audiences. The archetypal SPPG graduate – programmes are an off- whichever be her/his chosen policy The students of SPPG are drawn shoot of the PACs offered by concentration - is led through a from variegated fields including the school. Having chosen combination of classroom and social science, law, engineering, their PACs based on their hands-on experiential learning and medicine amongst many other proclivities in research and 29 policy, students wrote field- What are the institutional sexual violence, child protection, based research dissertations settings and actors (old and education, health and nutrition, on the following themes: new/ formal and informal) in and livelihoods of the Rohingya Regulation: Compliance of Public the context of public policy community in their settlements in Policies compliance? Hyderabad. A public document is In a narrow sense compliance of How can (non)compliance be expected to be published by May public policies (CPP) implies a set monitored and documented? 2017. The research questions that of authoritative and binding rules What are the institutional inform this study were developed in together with an institutional frameworks for deciding and conjunction with Save the Children, mechanism, usually a public agency, executing penalties for non- whose focus areas provided the for monitoring and promoting compliance? graduate researchers with the adherence to those rules. However, What are the factors that framework with which to approach the broader understanding of CPP determine policy (non) fieldwork. refers to institutions/instruments compliance? Research Questions: beyond the making and enforcement How can the compliance What are the contours of of rules by the agencies of the state framework be made more gender-based sexual violence and includes actors in the domain effective through a variety of faced by women and children of markets and civil society. The regulatory techniques? within stateless settlements? instruments of compliance can Coordinator: What understandings and range from taxation, subsidies, Prof. Aseem Prakash, Chairperson, agreements about gender (voluntary) disclosures, licensing, School of Public Policy and roles exist among the men economic incentives etc. on one Governance within the community? hand to the processes of social Team Members: What factors inform access control emanating from a variety to and type of education for of non-state processes. The broader Name Research Theme children in these settlements? range of policy compliance can be Gowry Mallissery Health Insurance in What explains the lack of child carried out by non-government tertiary sector protection in a community actors – corporations, professional Imsen Jamir Food Safety and that has been subjected to associations (doctors, auditors, Standards continuous trafficking? lawyers, and accountants), business What are the livelihood associations, non-governmental Jaswant Malik Skills challenges faced by those organizations, socio-cultural groups Prabhujeet Panda Property Tax who do not have the requisite representing diverse citizen groups Shruti Prasad Sharing Economy paperwork that could allow etc. CPP in its new avatar imagines a Udit Kusulia Forest Rights them to work and earn a de-centered state that steers rather living? than rows. However, while the state Statelessness and Vulnerability in Coordinator is re-imagined as steering economic India processes, political compulsions Within the broader area of ‘Borderland Dr. Amit Upadhyay, Assistant and social dynamics do not allow Studies’, the Social Conflict Professor, School of Public Policy it to break free completely from its and Public Policy concentration and Governance past. In the emergent hybrid state, examined the vulnerabilities of Team Members: compliance is not just a single event stateless communities resident in but an ongoing social and political Hyderabad. The Rohingyas as a Name Research Theme process of regulation. community have historically been Ayyagari Subramaniam Gender-based Sexual Violence It is against this backdrop, that discriminated against and denied among the Stateless their rights in many registers. the research group will look at the Divya Ruth Jose Gender-based Sexual Violence But what is their experience in various dimensions of enforcement among the Stateless and compliance of select public their current settlements? In Priyanshu Barodia Livelihoods of the Stateless policies in some sectors of the collaboration with the NGO Save economy. the Children - Balraksha Bharat, Rajaneesh Raghavan Child Protection among the Research Questions: students from the concentration Rohingyas What are the political, interviewed over 130 respondents Rupam Kumari Health and Nutrition among economic and legal contexts of each and produced authoritative the Stateless the emerging framework(s) of status reports on various aspects of Sonali Singh Education for Stateless compliance of public policies? statelessness such as gender based Children

30 Segregation in Urban India Coordinator: Author Title The spatial structure of cities is Dr. Amit Sadhukhan, Dr. Ekta Singh, Deepti Raj Caste Segregation in Urban determined by multiple interactions Assistant Professors, School of Public India and Indian Cities: a between people, enterprises, and Policy and Governance, Comparative Study from urban governance mechanisms Census 2011 and 2001 over extended periods of time. This structure is often marked by clusters Team Members: Amish Sarpotdar Patterns of Residential Segregation and Spatial where people and enterprises Name Research Theme congregate due to various reasons. Inequality: a Case Study of Akanksha Swachh Bharat A large body of Western literature Pune studies this phenomenon under Amrit Gogoi Residential Segregation Divya Jose Humiliation and Violence: the rubric of ‘segregation’ with a Amish Sarpotdar Spatial Inequality and Prevalence and Perceptions of particular focus on race and class Residential Segregation Gender Based Violence among and the implication of segregation Rohingyas in Hyderabad on a variety of urban issues. Deepti Raj Caste Based Segregation in Urban India Sonali Singh Education of Refugee Children In contrast, segregation in the urban context has only recently begun to Sneha Haldar Segregation and Gowry Mallissery Institutional Compliance: Case attract academic attention in the Drudgery of Aarogysri Health Insurance India, despite sufficient anecdotal Policy Pedagogy evidence to suggest that it exists, Shruti Prasad Compliance in the Sharing especially in the housing market. As part of our critique of the top- Economy: a Study of App-based Recent studies have based their down approach usually found in Taxi Aggregators in Hyderabad conclusions on Census data on the Indian curriculums, students in Udit Kusulia Understanding Compliance internal structure of cities and are SPPG are encouraged to research with reference to the Forest seriously limited by the choice of a theme and make presentations Rights Act 2006: a Case Study variables and the level of spatial within the classroom; this gives of Rayagada District in Odisha disaggregation. them ownership of the material and the ideas discussed, and instructors Jaswant Malik Compliance As Process: It is against this backdrop, that the step in later to enrich the classroom Delivery of Skill Training under research group explored the various with their theoretical and field Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas dimensions of segregation in terms insights. Students thus learn from Yojana in Gurgaon District of of urban housing and amenities for the instructor’s inputs and this Haryana selected cities of India. The project hones students’ presentation skills, aims to interpret segregation B. Experiential Learning and strengthens their ability to make on India-specific terms, develop Research Training reasoned, analytical, and data-based innovative methodologies for arguments. The rural experiential measuring segregation and explore learning component of the its intricate linkages with the urban Research Publications students of MA Public Policy housing market and public policies. The Student Working Paper Series & Governance is linked with Research Questions: commenced in 2015 – 16, and has the research interests of their now become an integral part of accompanying instructors. In How is segregation the school’s student-led activities. the previous year, students of conceptualized in the Indian Students are encouraged to publish the 2015-17 batch travelled context, in quantitative and their policy research work thereby to Raichur and Ratnagiri in qualitative terms? communicating with a wider policy order to understand different What is the extent of audience. This year, there are eight aspects of agrarian life. The segregation in selected Indian working papers that have been aim of the activity was for cities? published by the SPPG, and they are the students to observe and as follows: How can public policies extend imbibe from SPPG instructors or counter segregation? undertaking primary research. Students had thus taken

31 their first tentative steps in “Fostering Change? Public Activists, Lawyers, Leaders conducting ethnographic and Policies Impacting State, from Non-Governmental survey interviews in rural Markets, and Society” was held Organisations, and of course, from 16-18 March 2017. Nearly leading academicians and India. This year, students of the 70 papers were presented, policy practitioners. The 2016-18 batch travelled to the encompassing multifarious Perspectives lecture for this farm suicide capital of India in themes at the intersection academic year (2016-17) began Yavatmal, Maharashtra aided of various disciplines. The with the Commencement by two faculty members from participants in this edition Lecture titled “Policy and the school. They examined of the conference travelled Ethics: Looking at the Problem from India and beyond. of Childhood Malnutrition different aspects of the issue, Successful efforts were made in India” delivered by Dr. R. not least the pressures this to be inclusive of a variety of Srivatsan, Fellow at Anveshi brings to bear on the residual different registers. Research Centre for Women’s family. E. Perspectives Lecture Series Studies. C. Journal of Public Policy The SPPG’s weekly seminar Research (JPPR) series - ‘Perspectives’ - has also correspondingly scaled

up from its modest beginnings in 2014-2015. It’s well- attended and eclectic sessions are increasingly contributing to the public discourse in Hyderabad. The series has invited speakers from diverse domains - Artists, The students conceived Documentary Film Makers, and developed a bi-annual Social and Environmental E-Journal – Journal of Public Policy Research (JPPR) – to discuss, deliberate and A comprehensive list of the speakers or lead participants, type of disseminate rigorous peer- programmes, and the topics that have been addressed over the reviewed articles written by academic year 2016-17 are : students of Public Policy from across the world. The Journal S.No Date Speaker(s) Type of Topic is now in its third year, with Programme steadily increasing visibility and contributions from 1 01-07-2016 R Srivatsan Lecture Policy and Ethics: Looking diverse institutions of higher at the problem of childhood learning. malnutrition in India D. Graduate Conference In 2017, the student-led 2 07-07-2016 Ajay Gudavarthy Lecture Brahmanism, Liberalism, and the International Graduate Postcolonial Theory Seminar grew in size and stature when compared with 3 14-07-2016 Aseem Prakash Round Table Debates in Contemporary India the first Conference (which and Amit Upadhyay Discussion was entitled “Growth Well- being and Development” - held 4 21-07-2016 Jai Undurti Lecture How to build a world: imaginary on 27-29 April 2015 - where lands through pictures and words 30 papers were presented by graduate students drawn 5 28-07-2016 Sasheej Hegde Lecture Inquiry: Scholastic and Reflexive from 10 national and two 6 04-08-2016 Prabhat Datta Lecture Promoting Democratic international universities). We scaled up somewhat Decentralisation in Rural India with the subsequent Where and How the Shoe Pinches Graduate Conference entitled 7 04-08-2016 Alka Singh Lecture Prevention, Protection & “Democracy, Development and (Re)Distribution” held on Promoting the Rights of Children 28-30 April 2016 where over 8 11-08-2016 Rachana Round Table Round Table on Transgender 40 Research Scholars from several institutions of higher Mudraboyina, Discussion Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, learning in India presented Sabera Bakash, and 2016 papers. Vyjayanti Vasanta This year, in 2017, the third Mogli edition of the conference -

32 S.No Date Speaker(s) Type of Topic in becoming adept and articulate policy professionals. Apart from Programme their commitment to the craft of 9 08-09-2016 S Siva Raju Lecture Issues of Older Persons in India: teaching in the classroom, they Public Policy Responses push students to enhance their capabilities and to try and excel. 10 15-09-2016 Pankaj Sekhsaria Lecture Andaman & Nicobar: An Island This characteristic trait of the Journey teachers has been the sine qua non 11 22-09-2016 Piyali Das Lecture Goods and Services Tax: Issues and of the student-led academic and Prospects policy research programme. Contribution to Policy Making 12 29-09-2016 Renjith Kuzhur Film Screening Screening of the film and Discussion Prof. Aseem Prakash was invited by Economic and 13 15-12-2016 PPG Students and Debate The Demonetization Debate Social Research Council, TISS Faculty London to be panel member for evaluating the quality of 14 12-01-2017 Adithya Krishna Lecture Institutional and Behavioural research proposals and their Chintapanti, Aspects Of Regulation eligibility to receive research grants. 15 19-01-2017 Johny Stephen Lecture Jallikattu: Cultural Vs. Animal Rights Prof. Aseem Prakash was invited by Indian Council for 16 02-02-2017 Youth Parliament Debate Agricultural Crisis & Farmer Social Science Research, New suicides (towards finding a Delhi to be panel member solution). to evaluate and decide on 17 09-02-2017 Vijay D Pamarthi, Debate Universal Basic Income research grant to Indian academic/ researchers. Saroj Kumbhar, Boicha Huidrom, Prof. Aseem Prakash was Sneha Kuriakose, invited by EU-India Platform Mohammed Shahid, for Social Sciences and and Mehak Bhatia Humanities (EqUIP), Helsinki to explore the themes of 18 16-02-2017 Moses Tulasi, Film Screening “Walking the Walk” by Moses Tulasi future collaboration between Rachana and Discussion and “That’s My Boy” by Akhil European and Indian social Mudraboyina, Sonia Sathyan scientists. Shaik and Aditya Dutta Publication 19 23-02-2017 Krishna Reddy Lecture The Financial Sector and Growth in Prakash, Aseem. (2016). The Chittedi India: Role of RBI Indian Middle Class, Oxford University Press 20 09-03-2017 C. Sathyamala Lecture The Bhopal gas leak disaster: Challenges to scientific ethics Seminars/Workshops/ Invited Talks Prof. Aseem Prakash MA-PPG - The Third Batch: 2015-17 The fourth batch (2016-18) has 32 students. All of them are going Delivered a Lecture on The third batch of SPPG, who are to join diverse organisations for “Universal Income Guarantee” graduating in the 3rd Convocation, six weeks to acquire practical at the III International have further cemented and experience of the implementation of Graduate Conference on institutionalised the foundations of specific policies. “Fostering Change: Public the school. They came from diverse Polices Impacting State, academic and social backgrounds, Faculty Markets and Society”, 16-18 undertook challenging policy The faculty have, by working closely March, 2017, TISS-Hyderabad. research, wrote rigorous policy together, further bolstered the analysis and policy briefs, and foundations of the school. They learned to work with big data sets. spend time in assisting students

33 Delivered a Lecture on “ Discussion Paper on ‘Agenda of Dr. Amit Sadhukhan E-Governance: Instruments Social Science and Humanities Paper titled “A Conjectural of Transparency and for European Union and Exercise in Resource Transfer Accountability” at Short Term India Collaboration’, at the to Special Category States Course on E-Governance, 15-20 International Symposium on in North-East India during November, 2016; UGC-Human ‘Sustainable Prosperity, Well 14th Finance Commission” at Resource Development Centre, Being and Innovation’, at Seminar titled Towards a New Maulana Azad National Urdu the EU-India Platform for the Regime of Fiscal Federalism University, Hyderabad Social Sciences, Helisinki, 9-10 in India: Implications of June, 2016 Delivered a Lecture on the Fourteenth Finance “Reading and Evaluating Public Conducted a Workshop on Commission, 28-29 March, Policies: Approaches and “Work Ethics for Development 2017, at OKD Institute of Social Methods” at Refresher Course Professionals” for the officers Change and Development, in Research Methodology in of Department of Agriculture, Guwahati. Social Sciences for Assistant Horticulture, Animal Dr. Amit Upadhyay Professors; 22 August, Husbandry, Sericulture and 2016, UGC-Human Resource Allied Sectors from various Lecture on “Always Already Development Centre, states of India; 2 May, 2016, Political? Furbishing an Maulana Azad National Urdu MANAGE Campus, Hyderabad Archaeology of Rights in University, Hyderabad India” at the Department of “Private Sector and (Adverse) Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad, Delivered a Lecture on Inclusion” at International August 24 2016. “Ethics in Public Life” to All Seminar on Private Sector and Indian Agriculture Extension Social Inclusion, organized Research Grant Officers, 10 August, 2016, by Indian Institute of Dalit Prof. Aseem Prakash National Institute Agriculture Studies on the occasion Extension and Management, of Celebrating 125th Birth Project Title: Cities, Social History Hyderabad. Anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar, and Muslim Entrepreneurs New Delhi, 14th May, 2016 Funding Agency: Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi

School of Vocational Education

The School of Vocational Education work books for Foundation courses, in Andhra Pradesh, orientation began its education programmes and Training of Trainers. programs were organised for the in the current year with its skill faculty coordinators anchoring The Programme development programmes in skills initiatives and students in all Andhra Pradesh. On similar lines The project was envisaged as a the 100 select colleges. An exposure of NUSSD, the Andhra Pradesh three year progressive learning visit for select college principals University Students’ Employable with Foundation courses (English was organized to NUSSD and its skill Skill Development Program Proficiency, Financial Literacy, initiatives in Mumbai. The program (APUSESD) frame work has been Digital Literacy, Legal Literacy, was introduced in 100 colleges designed at the invitation of the and Analytical Abilities, Social across 13 districts of Andhra Govt of Andhra Pradesh. The entrepreneurship and Youth & Pradesh. About 12000 students have Commissioner, Collegiate Education leadership). Skill training in various attended the Foundation Courses within the Department of Higher domains was supposed to be taken in these colleges. A workshop was Education with the support of up in year two and three of this organized on the strategies for the Secretary, Higher Education, Program. raising CSR funds and a stall was anchors the project. NUSSD, TISS- put up in FICCI conference in New Mumbai has extended necessary Progress in the year 2016-17 Delhi to campaign for this initiative support in providing the Curriculum towards raising funds. As a preparation to the launch including Trainers Manuals, Student of this project across colleges

34 A dedicated team was recruited Priorities for next year programme, these might be consisting of four Zonal Managers about 5000 students. The major priority for the next to provide the necessary quality acedamic year shall be setting up Continue to endeavour for assurance of the conduct of the of Knowledge Centre in Vijayawada, mobilizing resources from programme. Besides the Project the new capital of Andhra Pradesh other agencies to complement Director, a Senior Professor of state to take the programme forward the grants from Government TISS and the Chairperson of the with the programmes of State and of Andhra Pradesh to School provided the oversight to non-state organizations engaged implement this programme. implementation and monitoring in employability training and of the programme along with the Dr. Srinivas Surisetti, vocational education. The Higher counterparts in the Government of Chairperson, Education Department is very much Andhra Pradesh. School of Vocational Education keen for this initiative. Some of the The project performance is being immediate priorities are: reviewed periodically by the 3500 students who will Steering Committee constituted complete their final year by the State Government with due degree programmes have to representation from Tata Institute be assessed and if possible, of Social Sciences, Higher Education given short-term skill training Department, Vice Chancellors of and certified. select Universities in the state. The steering committee reviewed Sector specific skill training the performance periodically and to the students pursuing ensured that the program is rolled their second year degree out as per plans.

35 Deputy Director’s Academic Activities Research Projects and Other Projects Title Sponsor Date of Sanction Present Position Faculty In-Charge e-PG Paathshala Project UGC May 2016 Ongoing Prof. S. Siva Raju Impact Assessment Study for ONGC HelpAge India June 2016 Ongoing Prof. S. Siva Raju supported in 4 MMU Locations Baseline Study of Impact India Impact India July 2016 Ongoing Prof. S. Siva Raju Foundation’s Community Health Foundation Initiative Training Programme for NTPC National Thermal Aug 2016 Completed Prof. S. Siva Raju Executives on Land Acquisition, Power Corporation Resettlement and Rehabilitation Ltd. TISS-JSW Collaboration in JSW Steel Works, Sept 2016 Writing Prof. S. Siva Raju Corporate Social Responsibility Salem Report Increased Awareness, Access and United Nations Jan 2017 Ongoing Prof. S. Siva Raju Quality of Elderly Services Population Fund

Publications Prof. S. Siva Raju Approaches to Assessment of Community Needs. In S.Siva Raju (Ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017. (co-author) Assessing Changes in Community Development through CSR Interventions: A Case Study. In S. Siva Raju (Ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017. (co-author) Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017. (Editor) Enhancing the Quality of Pre-School Education through Training of Anganwadi Workers: A CSR Initiative. In S. Siva Raju (Ed.),Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017. (co-author) Population Dynamics: the Demographic Decline of The Parsis. In S. Bharat and A.S. Desai (Eds.), The Indian Parsis: Themes Old and New (Volume 1), New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2017. Profiling the Communities: Methodological Issues. In S. Siva Raju (Ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017. (co-author) Special Issue on Positive Ageing, Journal of Madras School of Social Work, 10 (1&2), 2017. Stakeholder Mapping for Holistic Interventions. In S. Siva Raju (Ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017. (co-author) The Parsi Elderly: To Live with Dignity, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2017. Understanding Community: Base Line Surveys. In S. Siva Raju (Ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence, New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2017.

Republic Day Celebrations - 2017

36 MENTORING PMRDF PROGRAMME

The Prime Minster’s Rural Faculty of the PMRDF team- attended the workshop. It was Development Fellowship Scheme- TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus a part of a longer process Hyderabad campus organised the Performance that involved selection of the Review of PMRDFs in Andhra Fellows through a process of The Tata Institute of Social Science Pradesh organised at the evaluation of abstracts, giving (TISS) is the knowledge partner of Society for the Elimination of feedback to build their cases the Ministry of Rural Development Rural Poverty (SERP), Andhra and supporting them with (MoRD), Govt. of India, in the Pradesh by the Ministry reading material on the issues Prime Minster’s Rural Development of Rural Development, they wanted to write about. Fellowship Scheme (PMRDF). The Government of India on 5th The workshop was attended PMRDF unit of TISS Hyderabad Off- May 2016. The initiative was by Prof Seeta Prabhu and Campus has a team of three faculty chaired by Mr Solomon A , other members of the PMRDF members and one Programme CEO, SERP and attended by cell from TISS Mumbai. The Officer. The team mentors the Prof Sankar Datta, mentor for workshop had invited experts PMRD Fellows located across the the PMRDF programme in the from UNICEF, research three states of Andhra Pradesh, state. agencies like the Institute Telangana and Odisha. In addition, for Resource Analysis and the faculty members are responsible Faculty of the PMRDF team- Policy in addition to in-house for the delivery of the Masters in TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus faculty of TISS Hyderabad Off- Development Practice (MDP) and organised the Performance Campus who gave their inputs supervision of the MA dissertations Review of PMRDFs in Odisha as a part of several thematic along with other team members in organised at XIM, Bhubaneswar panels. The output of the Mumbai. by the Ministry of Rural workshop is currently being Development, Government of The important activities of the team edited and will be published as India on 27th May 2016. The in Hyderabad for the year 2016-17 a book. The faculty members initiative was chaired by Mr are as follows: of the PMRDF team have also P J Nath, Director, SRLM and contributed chapters in the Performance Appraisals attended by Prof Aurobindo book. Faculty of the PMRDF team- Behera, mentor for the PMRDF TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus programme in the state. Dissertation Workshop organised the Performance Documentation Workshop A Dissertation writing Review of PMRDFs in workshop was organised at A week long Documentation Telengana at the Society TISS Hyderabad from 5th- Workshop was organised with for the Elimination of Rural 10th December, 2016. The the fellows of PMRDF Batch- Poverty (SERP), Telangana in workshop was meant to orient II at the Hyderabad Campus partnership with the Ministry the fellows and provide inputs of the institute from 19th- of Rural Development, in writing dissertations for 23rd September, 2016. The Government of India , 4th partial fulfilment of their objective of the workshop was May 2016. The initiative degree on MDP (Master in to document the experiences was chaired by Ms Usha Development Practices). A of the Fellows and capture Ramachandran , CEO, SERP total of 26 Fellows from the some of the best practices and attended by Prof Sankar States/Districts attended the that they have been able to Datta, mentor for the PMRDF workshop. The workshop put in place. About 25 Fellows programme in the state. followed a step by step from different States/Districts

37 procedure of selecting workshop have been able to fellows through a process of complete their dissertation, evaluation of their papers, an important milestone in giving feedback to build their academic requirement of the cases and supporting them programme. with reading material. In Dissertation Supervision: addition to the PMRDF faculty, The PMRDF team completed TISS Hyderabad faculty also supervision of 15 MA took sessions as a part of dissertations as a part of the workshop. The workshop the MDP programme. The also provided the space for details such as the name of the fellows to discuss their the fellows, title of the thesis dissertations with the faculty and faculty supervisor is as supervisors. The workshop follows: was very successful in giving the required push to the dissertation and most of the fellows attending the

38 Dissertation Supervision: The PMRDF team completed supervision of 15 MA dissertations as a part of the MDP programme. The details such as the name of the fellows, title of the thesis and faculty supervisor is as follows:

Dissertations submitted under faculties of TISS,Hyderabad (PMRDF Batch I-II)

Name of the Fellow Title of the Dissertation Faculty Supervisor Supervisor Ajitendra Kumar Knowledge of Maternal and Neonatal Health Care Components among Staff Nurses in State of Chhattishgarh, India Aman Akash Bhardwaj Primary School Children and “Mission Quality”: A Study of Remedial Education Program for Primary School Children of Public Dr. Ipsita Sapra Schools of Chenari Block of Rohtas District.

Arpit Asthana Women In Distress: A socio-economic study on the Widowed, Divorced and Separated women in Surguja District (Chhattisgarh) Munmun Biswas An Analysis of Anandadhara: The State’s Flagship Women Empowerment Program in Bankura District of West Bengal Prasad Bhat Measurement and Management of the Vulnerability of Tribal Villages to Malnutrition Deaths: A Study of Nagada

Rashmi Ranjan Rout Sustaining Impacts: Optimizing MG NREGA through Convergence in Mayurbhanj, Odisha Santosh V. Gedam Measuring Development: Dr. Ipsita Sapra Dynamics of Rural Infrastructure Development and Net Infrastructure Deficiency Index (NIDI) A Study in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra R. Shiva Ram Rathod Role of ICT in Democratizing Social Protection: Analysis of Single Window Camps Initiative in Subarnapur District, Odisha Vijay Siddharth Pillai Impact of Educational Technology on the Learning Levels of Students and Teachers in Resource Deprived Government Schools (A Study in Kanker District of Chhattisgarh) Shivani Mishra Livelihood Patterns of Dr. Karunakar Peda Baiga Tribe: A Case Study of Rajnandgaon District of Chhattisgarh

39 Name of the Fellow Title of the Dissertation Faculty Supervisor Amit Kumar Kushawaha People’s Participation in Development: A Case study of Three Villages in Jorhat, Assam Chandra Sekhar Bhuyan A Study on Efficacy of Early Child Care and Education (ECCE) in Mother Tongue in Kendujhar District of Orissa Riya Anie Cherian Changing Contexts of Work and Wellbeing Among Dr. Jessy K. Philip Women Tea Plantation Workers in Nagaon District of Assam

Shila Matang Women in Kashmir: Experiences of Resilience and Survival (Assessment of Coping Mechanism and Experience of Women in Conflict in Kashmir Valley) Unnikrishnan D A Comparative Study on the Socio- Economic Status of Muslim Women Across Linguistic Identities (A Case Study of Nagaon District)

PMRDF Team- Dr Ipsita Sapra, Associate Professor Dr Jessy Philips, Assistant Professor Dr Karurnakar Peda, Assistant Professor Ms Priyanka Mohanty, Programme Officer

40 Public Lectures

Ms. V. Geetha Prof. Shantha Sinha (Retd.) Feminist, historian and writer from Chennai Department of Political Science in University delivered a public lecture on 14/02/2017 titled of Hyderabad, delivered a public lecture on “Ambedkar’s vision of knowledge: Its relevance 08/03/2017 titled “Exercising Agency and today” Children’s Right to Education with a Focus on Girls”

Mr. T. Mohan Ms Anuradha Pati Compensation and Benefit manager, INVESCO, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad delivered a public lecture on Hyderabad delivered a public lecture on 17-19/01/2017 titled “The intricacies of 01/10/2016 titled “Feminist perspective on determining the pay packages for different ecology and the commons ” departments and individuals in an organisation”

Prof. Bandana Purakayastha Professor of Sociology and Asian & Asian Prof. Kalpana Kannabiran American Studies, and Head, Sociology, at the Director of Council for Social Development, University of Connecticut (UCONN) delivered Hyderabad delivered a lecture on 30/08/2016 a lecture on 17/03/2017 titled “Exploring titled “Law and Development ” intersectionality from a 21st century perspectives”

Ms. Meena Menon Prof. Aseem Prakash Independent Scholar and Labour Activist School of Public Policy and Governance based at Mumbai delivered a public lecture Chairperson delivered a public lecture on 15- on 06/09/2016 titled “Trade Unions and 20/11/2016 titled “E-Governance: Instruments Development in Present Time” of Transparency and Accountability”

Senator Pamela J. Althoff Illinois, U.S.A. Visited the Campus on 07/04/2017 and interacted with the faculty and students

41 STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Apart from academics, students of our campus participate in various academic and cultural activities in other institutions located in Hyderabad. Some of their achievements are listed below: The HRM students have formed a committee known as Dhriti, which is a platform that provides key insights into industry best practices. As a part of Dhriti initiative, several of leading industry practitioners areinvited by students to share their experiences in different domains of HRM practices. NRG students led a campus cleaning drive. Students across all the programmes joined this drive - June 2016 The NRG students held a Tree and Bird Walk. Mrs. Asiya Khan, a naturalist, working with the Aga Khan foundation and Mr. Mohammed Azam Khan, a Businessman and an avid bird watcher, guided the Trees and Birds walk around RM campus - July, 2016 DS Press: A student led discussion forum discussed “Creative Expression: Should literature, or any piece of art/entertainment have to justify itself in terms of aesthetic or politics?” and in the consecutive week discussed “Uniform Civil Code: Is India ready? What are the challenges of implementing UCC? What is its future? - July, 2016 Student led Workshop on Protection of Sparrow in urban landscapes organized by students of MA NRG :August, 2016 DS Press: A student led discussion forum discussed “How relevant are the environmental arguments for banning beef?” October, 2016 QuinTISSessence – A student fest with sports, literary and cultural activities. DS Press: A student led discussion forum discussed “Culture of Protest”

42 LITERARY AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES ON THE CAMPUS

Cultural Events 1st Position 2nd position Group Dance BA 2nd Year Anjana Hemanth Kumar Rheeya K. Sreedharan K. Jayasurya Aditi Ahuja Maitreyee Sevekari Sandra Prakash Mayank Singh Devak Dev Krishnan Anil Kishan Nag Group Song BA 1st Year BA 2nd Year Kirti Kaushika Sadhu Saumya Srushti Satpathy Shuvenih Mohan Kaul Varsha Priyadarshini Rheeya K. Sreedharan Ekata Lahiri Maitreyee Sevekari Vinathi Gurijala Mayank Singh Devak Sowmya Vinjamuri Anjana Hemanth Kumar Anjali Anil Ishma Raina Duet Dance BA 1st year Vaishnavi Niyogi Shrutija Saxena Duet Song BA 2nd year Sadhu Saumya Rheeya K. Sreedharan Mime BA 2nd year Afrin Shairaj Ahalya Ganesh Ameen Arimbra Dev Krishnan Anil K. Jayasurya Maitreyee Sevekari Aloknana Bisoyi Mayank Singh Devak Kishan Nag Prop Culture BA 2nd year BA 2nd year Dev Krishnan Anil Shuvenih Mohan Kaul Afrin Shairaj Sadhu Saumya Ahalya Ganesh Ishma Raina Namitha Madhukumar Madhur Sharma Viswamitra Komal Vaishnav

43 Literary Events Events 1st position 2nd position Quiz BA 1st year BA 2nd year Vasudev Chakravarti Afrin Shairaj Ekata Lahiri Ameen Arimbra Susruth Jagdish Dev Krishnan Anil Shipwreck BA 1st year BA 2nd year Akhil Mohan Komal Vaishnav Story Relay BA 2nd year Shuvenih Mohan kaul Komal Vaishnav Rheeya K. Sreedharan Anjana hemanth Kumar Ishma Raina Walking the editorial tightrope BA 2nd year Komal Vaishnav Pyramid BA 2nd year BA 1st year Ahalya Ganesh Kirti Kaushika Afrin Shairaj Ekata Lahiri Debate BA 2nd year Komal Vaishnav Ahalya Ganesh Afrin Shairaj Poetry writing BA 1st year BA 1st year Ekata Lahiri Maleeha Fatima

Sports Events Event 1st position 2nd position Badminton Mixed Doubles: Women’s Doubles: BA 2nd year BA 2nd year Y. Samanvita Rheeya K. Sreedharan Eby Eugene Y. Samanvita Men’s doubles: BA 2nd year Dev Krishnan Anil Eby Eugene Men’s single: BA 2nd year Eby Eugene Table tennis Women’s Doubles: BA 2nd year Maitreyee Sevekari Y. Samanvita Women’s Single: BA 2nd year Maitreyee Sevekari

44 TISS STUDENT REFLECTIONS

Student Exchange Program with Alpen-Adria Universität, Austria, March 2017 The student exchange program with Alpen-Adria Universität has provided me a wonderful opportunity to study in the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna which is a prominent institute which focuses on the interactions between social and natural systems. The program is for an entire semester from March to June. It offers courses on Energy, Social Ecology, Land Use Competition and Environmental Justice. As I am Masters Student of Natural Resources and Governance, these topics closely align to my study interest. It is a nice exposure as we get to meet pioneer researchers in this field and have discussions with them.The teaching mode is discussion based and not lecture based, which makes the students think and also put their point of view. Apart from studies the exposure of travelling to a foreign country with a different culture, language and lifestyle teaches us a lot in life and gives us a better picture of the world we live in. I am really thankful to TISS for giving me this opportunity. Madhuri Mondal MA-Natural Resources and Governance

Visit to Mahasarakham University under Global Citizenship Camp on Sustainable Development, Thailand. Nov- 2016 With the wisdom of hindsight, I now believe that joining Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad was a landmark decision of my life. The institute shaped the way I understand contemporary India and the world. The fundamentals of my assumptions and beliefs were questioned. Everyday was positively challenging and the clash of ideas helped me grow. I could now look at the same issue from various standpoints and could accommodate numerous perspectives. Besides the culture of dialectics and discussion at my institute, it also provided me with the opportunity to go for an exchange programme to Thailand where I interacted with students from fourteen other nations. Mahasarakham University, where I attended Global Citizenship Camp on Sustainable Development, is in the heart of Isaan region of Thailand. The trip which lasted for two weeks provided me an exposure to a plethora of cultures and helped me imbibe the best from those. Overall, TISS gave me a platform to grow through challenges and I look at my three years at TISS with nostalgia. Rakshit Mohan BA-Social Sciences

45 Vinay, 2nd year M.A in Rural Development and Governance We are in an age that is led by disruptions, opportunities yet backed by deep inequalities and insecurities, life at T.I.S.S helped me see a wide variety of such realities and understand the nature of these realities from wide array of lenses. The learning from my diverse peers, faculty, with a vital mix of macro and micro theories, an ample space of deliberation and extensive field visits as part of the course has been a great revelation. While the course has equipped me with the technical tools that the market demands across domains and sectors, yet it also nurtured an analytic mindset which would identify and work on resolving the complex challenges the development sector has. I would highly recommend the course to any who is willing to embark a career in this sector or to those willing to develop a good perspective of the many societal themes and challenges.

Sakshi Baranwal, 1st year M.A in Women’s Studies I am a first year M.A Women’s studies student. It has been a wonderful experience of engaging into various aspects of gender. Through experiential learning I got an opportunity to relate my theoretical knowledge into practical learning. TISS has helped me to develop a vision of learning beyond the classroom.

Murchana Roychoudhury, 2nd year B.A in Social Sciences I find myself extremely privileged to have started my journey into the domain of social sciences with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. There has been a monumental shaping of my personality and my thought process in this institute over the two years I have spent here. Every course has been specifically designed to introduce us to the ground realities of our society with adequate theoretical support. Classical Political Economy and Math Appreciation were two courses I especially enjoyed. The professors here are really approachable; they take learning beyond the four walls of the classroom. I would not trade this experience for anything else in the world.

TISS ALUMNI VOICE Jagdish Sonrish, M.A in Rural Development and Governance My journey at TISS Hyderabad was more related to learning and experiencing the paradigm of development in the country than as usual academic discourse around it. The faculty at campus has imparted many theoretical and practical skills to my knowledge in making me good human capital for livelihood promotion in rural areas. The curriculum prepared under august guidance of experienced academician includes learnings from field which are helping me at great level in carrying out my present job. The learnings acquired during course work on Project Management, are assisting me in preparing Detailed Project Reports for each Local Body under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana. The insights on local governance and administration obtained at TISS are guiding at each level of communication with field functionaries of government. At last, I owe my due respect to the faculty and staff of TISS Hyderabad for making me a good human resource in the arena of development.

46 TISS HYDERABAD CAMPUS TEAM

Deputy Director Management & Administrative Staff Prof. S. Siva Raju Controller of Examinations Dr. Ch. Venkateswara Rao Deputy Director’s Office Dr. Satish Kumar Finance Officer Dr. Neetha Rani Mr. B. Pandu Reddy Dr. Mohan Kumar Dharavath Placement Officer Dr. Monal Dewle Ms. Niraja Guda

Azim Premji School of Education Logistics Manager Mr. Suresh Madhavan Dr. Rekha Pappu - Chairperson Dr. Jayasree Subramanian Programme Manager Dr. Ritesh Khunyakari Ms. Sumangaly Suresh Dr. Murali Krishna M. Student Coordinators Dr. Sonia Sawhney Ms. Amrita R Mr. Kunal Das School of Gender Studies Ms. Swetha Shenoy Mr. Ananda Sandeep Prof. Vindhya Undurti - Chairperson Mr. Shaik Nayeem Dr. Nilanjana Ray Dr. Sowjanya Tamalapakula Administrative Assistants Mr. Md. Siddiq Dr. Sunayana Swain Mr. Tony Arnold Geddam Dr. Jessy Philip Ms. Sita Mamidipudi System Administrators Mr. Devansh Varma School of Human Resource Management Mr. S.M. Jahangeer Prof. S. Siva Raju- Chairperson Student Counselors Ms. Spandana Priyanka Dr. Randhir Kumar Ms. Megha Pharande Dr. Balram Bhushan Mr. Himanshu Dhaka Assistant Librarian Ms. Sukanya Panda Mr. Srinivas Vemula Library Assistant School of Livelihoods and Development Mr. V.Vijay Kumar vasa Mr. Hari Bau Prof. Padmini Swaminathan- Chairperson Dr. Srinivas Surisetti Library Attendant Dr. Ipsita Sapra Mr. P. Ashok Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak Office Attendants Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya Md. Awais Dr. Lavanya Suresh Mr. G. Chandra Kumar Dr. Johny Stephen Hostel Caretakers Dr. Karunakar Peda Ms. Girija Shashidaran Mr. Srinivas School of Public Policy and Governance Ms. Shravani Prof. Aseem Prakash - Chairperson Drivers Dr. Amit Upadhyay Mr. Kaleem Dr Amit Sadhukhan Mr. Ravi Kiran Dr. Ekta Singh Mr. D. Ashok

School for Vocational Education Dr. Srinivas Surisetti - Chairperson

47 Research Dissertations Undertaken By Students

B. A in Social Sciences (2014 -2017 batch) Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 1 Aditya Menon Traditional Retail in the Backdrop of Modern Retail Expansion in India 2 Aprajita Verma Islamic Financial Institutions and the Muslim middle class: A multi – stakeholder perspective study in Hyderabad 3 Baddam Pauline Daniel Disability access to leisure spaces: A study with a limelight on newly formed Cyberabad area 4 Binayak Prasad Sahu An Intergenerational study on Social Mobility among Affluent, Aspirational and Marginal Families in Hyderabad 5 Chaviti Sai Gowri Nithisha Understanding Leisure patterns in Muslim middle class of Hyderabad 6 D Amrutha Disability Access in Built in Environments of Government offices 7 Deepti Mary Minj Special Education: a path to integration or segregation Analysis of special education as a tool for inclusion of children with special needs 8 Deeshna A Audience based study on Malayalam commercial cinema: Is commercial cinema for the male or female audience? 9 Durga Venkata Punyaamurthula Socio-political Awareness and Inclination towards Tasks in Daily life among class 8 class 9 students 10 Duthuluri Chaitanya Sudha A Case Study of Rythu Bazaar in Hyderabad 11 Fateen Ahmad Middle class Muslims in the new economy: Security, Dignity and Aspirations 12 Gandhamalla Abraham Noel Disability Access audit on built-in environment of banks 13 Jaykris Gurucharan Joseph Access Study: Understanding accessibility of transport stations of Cyberabad: An Architectonic study 14 Joan Shilpa Kiran The Ismaili community of Hyderabad: Intersection of Identity, Education and Mobility 15 K Carolyn Changsan A Field Study on Unfamiliar Terrains of Marginality : Gender Discrimination of Elderly Widows 16 Kavya Munduri Ease of doing agricultural business: A report on infrastructural facilities in rythu bazar 17 Krithika V.G A study of Transport Systems: The case analysis of rythu bazar in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad 18 Kumar Shashikant Gautam Urbanisation and Water Resources: Understanding the Demand- Supply and Consumption Pattern of Water in Hyderabad 19 Lekshmi M Women construction Workers: Vulnerabilities and Desire for Social Security

48 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 20 Lenminsei Kipgen Access study of clinics and hospitals in Madhapur, Gachibowli, and Hitec city areas of Cyberabad 21 Lynda Nianghauching Disability access in built-in environments of malls and shopping centre: A case study in Cyberabad, Hyderabad 22 Manasvini Injeti The Journey of the Onion from the soil to the spoon. A case study of the Onion Supply chain in Malakpet Onion Market, Hyderabad 23 Meghana Gautam Understanding Student’s Satisfaction on Extra Curricular Activity at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad Off-Campus 24 Mohd Lone Political Participation of Muslim middle class of Hyderabad 25 Parvathy J Unheard and Unknown: Narratives of Exclusion of Elderly Women 26 Poorva Sharma Understanding the importance of counselling in schools 27 Prajkta Gaidhani Understanding the structure and consumer preference of organic products: A case study of Sage Organics, Hyderabad 28 Rakshit Mohan Shilparamam as a Cultural Institution : An Inquiry into the Socio- Economic Condition of the Artisans 29 Rallapalli Bhargavi Study of the reasons for the shift from Textbook learning to digital learning in secondary schools 30 Ravali Yendala Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan – An evaluation report 31 Reethu Philomina K.J Influences on choices: Clothing preferences among middle class youth 32 Roshan Kumar An Exploratory Study of Potential and Pitfalls of Technology in the lives of elderly 33 Rudra Atri Talagadadeevi Self – Actualisation :A Lost Possibility? 34 Rahul S What it means for “The Beneficiary”: A study of the effectiveness of the BSUP Sub-Mission of the JNNURM as perceived by the Urban poor 35 Sai Vishwas Domdala Understanding The Challenges faced by Drivers Working with On Demand Platform Aggregators: A Case Study of Uber Drivers of Hyderabad 36 Sallagalla Indika Gender Inequality and Social exclusion: trangender’s accessibility to public spaces 37 Sampriti Mukherjee Professional Muslim Middle Class women in Hyderabad: Integrating their Professional and Religious Identities 38 Saurabh Suman Understanding Student Perceptions about grading: A case study of TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus 39 Shourya Patel Educational Technology: Engaging with Teaching Pedagogy and Student’s understanding of Secondary and Higher secondary schools 40 Shubhangi T Advent of organic products in the new age; An analysis of consumer behaviour in metro cities 41 Stuti Chakraborty Trajectory of Cotton Handloom weavers sustenance: A case study of Dastkar Andhra Marketing Association (DAMA) 42 Sunny Kumar Retailing in Rythu Bazaars (A study in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad)

49 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 43 Surya R Muslim Middle Class: Engagements with civil society organisations 44 Susheel Gadela Access study of schools and colleges in Madhapur, Gachibowli and Hitec city areas of Hyderabad 45 Swarnava Sayan Bhadra Understanding Teacher’s Engagement with Teaching in Two school settings in Hyderabad: A comparative study 46 Thirumamangai Thirumavalavan Understanding Montessori Education – Integrating Audio, Visual and Tactile Skills for Holistic Development at Blue Blocks, Hyderabad 47 Upendra Dwivedi India Post at the Crossroads: A Microcosmic Study of its Contemporary State of Affairs 48 Vandana Menon Understanding the Influence of User Generated Content: A study of Food Applications in India 49 Venkata Sahithi Kompella All-Round Development of a Student: A comparative study of schools 50 Vishnupriya M Beef trade in Hyderabad: A Socio – Political and Economic Analysis 51 Vivekina Koul From HMT to Smart Watches: Post Reform changes in Consumption Pattern of Wristwatches in Hyderabad 52 Yashoda Pathak A study on water governance, people’s perception, access: NBT Nagar, Hyderabad 53 Niharika Mangesh Exploring Mental Health Literacy 54 Vineet John Samuel Uberization in a Developing Nation 55 Shainy. B. Prasanna A Study of Dropouts in an Urban School: An exploratory study of primary school dropouts in a semi-urban area: Rajendra Nagar

M. A in Education

Sl. No. Student’s Name Dissertation Title 1 Bidisha Dasgupta A Study Exploring Student’s Strategies In Understanding Familiar Words 2 Chandrakumar Kadugula Academic Challenges in Higher Education for Students from Rural Schools (A Study of Students from Low-Budget English and Regional Medium Schools) 3 Diksha Kharbanda Probing Children’s Thinking in Design Problem Situations Embedded in Story Contexts 4 Ekta Shokeen Using Digital Technology for Teaching Elementary Concepts in Geometry : An Exploration 5 Girisuta Kar The School Mathematics Knowledge and Out of School Mathematics Knowledge 6 Gurleen Sekhon Case Study of the Psychology Resource Centre Offering Career Counselling at SCERT, Chandigarh. 7 Jhasaketan Patra Role of Socio-cultural factors on School Dropouts: A Study of Bathudi Children in Mayurbhanj District of Odisha 8 Kalyani Day Understanding perceptions of Students and Teachers on Sex Education 9 Meenu Chowdary Talasila Exploring Prevalence of Peer Conflict Issues Among Adolescents in Indian Schools

50 Sl. No. Student’s Name Dissertation Title 10 Rishabh Sotie A Study to Understand Two Different Approaches Supporting Mathematics Learning in School: The Case of Shiksha Protsahan Kendra and Read India 11 Supriya Arun Study of the English Language Skill like Reading, Speaking and Writing of the 6th Grade Government School Students in Bihar. 12 Shrijita Sengupta A Study of Socialization in Schools with Respect to An Alternative School 13 Neejwm Mushahary A Comparative Study of Private and Government School in Assam 14 Rohan Kapil Coaching for IIT Entrance Exams – A Case Study from Bihar 15 Thomsong Mangminthang Singsit A Study of Private Tuition Classes in Rural Manipur 16 Sathya Narendran Towards a World of Equals: A Study on The Textbook Development and The Use of the Textbook in a Classroom. 17 Bhavna Ganesh Exploring parental Choice of Schooling for their Children, A Study in Tamil Nadu 18 Shreya Prakash Child Rights in Schools: Exploring the Perceptions and Practice of Participatory Rights 19 Sravanthi Kovur Education for Spiritual Development: A case study in Contemporary India

M. A in Women’s Studies

Sl. No. Name of the Student Title 1 Anupreeta Chatterjee Gender in Pedagogy of Natural Sciences 2 Jannet Varghese Good Mothers are Always Happy?: Exploring Perceptions of Post- Partum Depression and Motherhood Amongst Health Professionals in Delhi 3 Khushboo Savita Exploring the Relationship of Sex Workers with the Men in their Lives: Clients and Babus 4 Mona Dhall Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility and its Activities using Gender Lens 5 Neha Pande Are you Serious? A Study of Gendered use of Sarcasm in Indian Stand up Comedy 6 Pallavi Gahlaut Studying the Role of Community Health Workers in Making Pregnancy Safe for Women in Uttar Pradesh 7 Pinki Goyal Expectation of the Society and the Challenges Faced by Indian Girls Before Marriage 8 Priyam Sinha Analysing the Portrayal of Women with Disabilities in Bollywood and its Relevance to Societal Reality 9 Rohini Mansinh Ghatge Understanding Living and Working Conditions of Domestic Workers through the Lens of Capability Approach in Vadodara 10 Sethu John Sexual Morality, Gender Biases and Struggles with Work-Life Balance Among Practicing Lawyers of Kerala 11 Shamolie Oberoi Gender Perceptions of Public Toilet Provision in Kolkata 12 Sheetal Jose Engendering Kerala Model of Development : A Study of Self- Employment Scheme for Women

51 Sl. No. Name of the Student Title 13 Upasana Goswami Portrayal of Women in Partition Movies 14 Varun Gopal Tiwari Even I am a feminist: An inquiry into the Agency, Subjectivities and Politics of Articulations of Women Associated with Right Wing Political Parties in Mumbai 15 Nancy Tingneihoi NGO and State Government Intervention in Combating Trafficking of Women and Girls in Manipur 16 Vishal Bapurao Rokade Understanding Justice System Response to Domestic Violence: A study of Women’s Organisation in Pune District. 17 Rambhau Manik Kasbe Understanding Lives of Widows of Farmers who Committed Suicide in Rural Maharashtra

M.A in Human Resource Management Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 1 Ashish Kumar Vocational workers skill gap analysis for manufacturing SME industries in Nagpur and its impact 2 Vandita Purohit The Imapct of Social Networking sites on Talent Acquisition 3 Mukesh Dilip Bhavsar Key Reasons for the failure of Tech Start-ups : Analysing variable influencing their sustainability 4 Kamanuri Venkata Srinivasulu A study on Effectivity of Skill Development in career progression with relevant to Hospitality Skills. 5 Kanthikar Nethagani An analytical study on factors affecting employee attrition in an organization located in Hyderabad 6 Rimleena Boro Employee Motivation and Fringe Benefits. 7 Swathi Dabbiru Hues may vary but Humanity doesnot : Work place discrimination of LGBTI community at Hyderabad 8 Amrit Panda Maturity of HR Practices in MSMEs: The Inverted Pyramid Model 9 Lakshmi Haridas Engaging People with Disabilities 10 Aditya An exploratory study to know the reasons for Voluntary Turnover and Retention Strategies at Startups: Cases from India. 11 Prachiti Bhuskute Beauty and its effects on the labor market. 12 Pooja Gupta Understanding the Intricacies at the Leadership positions and the role of HR in Indian NGOs 13 Abhinay Chaturvedi Employee Retention Strategy in Business Process Outsourcing Industry: - A Qualitative Study 14 Abhishek Kumar An exploratory study on the relationship of Opinion of the Employer and strength of Employer Brand and its Implication on the Recruitment strategy 15 Chandan Kumar Retaining Young and Talented Professionals : A challenge for the Companies. 16 Tarique Abdullah Akhon Factors That Influence Job Seekers to Apply for an Organization 17 Goutami Patra A debate of importance between Management and Specialist. 18 Sai Jaswanth Punyamurthy Exploration of Factors Influencing Employee Engagement in the Indian IT sector

52 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 19 Priyanka Priyadarshini Recruitment Strategies in Start-ups 20 Anand Kumar Role of the Organizational Culture on Employees performance in the service sector 21 Sharola Sakkari Unravelling the factors influencing success and failure of Disruptive innovation in established organizations 22 Charu Priya Palni Enabling culture for women professionals in organizations: The incumbent woes and the prospective panacea

M.A in Rural Development & Governance Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 1 Abhishek Anand Role of Institutions in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture of Small and Marginal Farmers 2 Adrija Ghosh No Agriculture No Income- My Life goes on Taking God’s Name: Experience of Livelihood Challenges among the Farmer Sucide Widows. 3 Amit Kumar Impact of Integrated Watershed Management Program on Livelihood of Small and Marginal Farmers of Chandwara Block of Koderma District of Jharkhand 4 Amit Kumar Mahto Impact Assessment of Agricultural Technologies Over the Livelihood Status of Small and Marginal Farmers of Ranchi District, Jharkhand. 5 Anirudh Pulugurtha To Understand the Efficacy of Training and Rudseti through the Perceptions of First Generation Women Entrepreneurs in Ananthapur District. 6 Gayatri Prakash Accounting the Unaccounted : Exploring the Perspectives of Women who chose to stay out of Labour Force in New Delhi. 7 Harini Raj Public health : Revisiting an Old Theme Through a Study of Swachh Bharat Campaign 8 Himanshu Bhaiyaji Korde Implementation and use of ICT in Rural Agriculture and its Impact on Farmers Livelihood. 9 Javed Hussain Primary Health Centre and Women’s Health : A Study on Antenatal Care Under Universal Immunization Programme. 10 Jetti Vidya “Working of Farmer Field Schools” for Tribal Peasants: A Study of Tribal Communities under ITDA - Paderu, Andhra Pradesh 11 Kalyani Hemant Thatte Community Stewardship over Groundwater: Understanding the Enablers and Barriersa in Rural Maharashtra. 12 Mahathi Gandi Evaluate the Effectiveness of State and Non State Intervention in Disability Skill Development in the State of Telangana. 13 Mandem Nishanth How the Small and Marginal Farmers are Benefiting through Cooperative 14 Manish Singh Health and Working Conditions in Leather Industries: A Case study of Tanning in Jajmau area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. 15 P H Ramaikalo Impact of Agricultural Technology on the Livelihood of Upland Rice Cultivator. 16 Praveen Kumar Chadar Study on M-Health Services to Improve Existing Rural Health in Mandla Disrtict of Madhya Pradesh.

53 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 17 Purvi Mahavirkumar Jain State Intervention in Community Health Volunteeries Scheme: To Explore and Understand Functioning of Community Health Volunteers of Jodhpur District of Rajashthan and in Villages of Bharuch District in Gujrat. 18 Rashmi Chauhan Question of Survival of Soliga Tribes: Its Viable Solution with the Involvement of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment and Vivekananda Girijan Kalyan Kendra. 19 Shahnawaz Khan Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women with the Participation in the Self-Help Groups. 20 Sonal Daftuar A Qualitative Comparison between Government and Low Income Govt. Schools in a Village of Haryana. 21 Sree Pruthvi Bulusu Impact of MSp on cultivation of Finger Millet: A Study in Kodihelli Village of Karnataka 22 Sunit Tirkey Understanding Farmers Perceptions about Hybrid Technology. 23 Veera Reddy Gandluru Dairy Intervention: A Study on Inclusive Growth of Farmers. 24 Vijayaraghavan Ramaiah Ayyanan The Economic Social and Political Advantages and Disadvantages of Relocating of Parvatharajakulam Fishing Community in Pillumedu Post: 2014 Tusunami Recovery 25 Vinay Kore Kumar Information Systems in Extension Services in Farming Practices and its Influence on Farm Productivity 26 Bandela Mahesh A Study of the Livelihood challenge of De-Notified, Nomadic, Semi Nomadic Tribes in Telengana 27 Manish Ojha Impact of Rural Women Participation in Self-Help Groups on Self Socio-Economic Empowerment. 28 Budumuru Usha Rani People’s Participation in Development Projects; A Study in National Rural Employment Garuntee Scheme. 29 P. Shravani Mother and Child Tracking System in Maharashtra 30 Md. Tanveer R Land Acquisition and Displacement cause by Highways Construction A study carried in Gridih District in Jharkhand 31 Mahmood. M.K How Displacement Affects the Livelihood Pattorns of Dalit and Tribal Communities; A Special Reference to Muthanga Wild Life Sanctuary in Wayanad District of Kerala 32 Minakshi Patel Role of Institution in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and its Impact on Rural Livelihoods: A Study of Jharsuguda District, Odisha

M.A in Development Studies Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 1 Aishwarya Khanna Understanding Urban Water Governance at the Local Level in Jagdumba Slum Camp and Vasat Kunj of South Delhi 2 Andrews Jefferson Raj Sustainable Livelihood reconstruction of India’s Forgotten People 3 Arushi Varma Incorporating Skill Development into the Higher Education Curriculum: A Case Study of the TISS-NUSSED Program.

54 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 4 Avula Prasanna Kumar A comparative study of Industry led initiative for skill development and (ISDS), A Centre led skill development programme specific to textile industry-sewing machine operator training programme in East Godavari - Andhra Pradesh and (Yelankha) Bangalore 5 Deepak Kumar Value Chain Analysis of Marine Fisheries in Tarasahi Village, Odisha 6 Devendra Madhukar Hirapure The Impact of “Implementation of Forest Rights Act 2006” on Forest Dependent People’s Livelihood 7 Jagannath Sendriya Factors that affects the food security of Inland fishing community in Jharasuguda District 8 Kanhu Charan Behera The Role of Middlemen and Cooperative Society in the Fisheries Economy. 9 Maurya Reddy Sirreddy Right to Water and Water Reforms in Telangana 10 Megha Sen Understanding the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Approach and the Organizational Linkages between the Different Stakeholders 11 Meher Soni Peoples’s Perspective of Redevelopment: Heritage Conservation and creation of Modern Amenities 12 Nishkala Sekhar Community Based Organisation as a Conduit of Rights for Slum Dwellers 13 Poorva Shekher A Journey of Hope: Identity and Livelihoods of Afghan refugees in Delhi 14 Prakash Kumar Shukla Extent of Child Poverty in India - Calculting Maltidimensional Child Poverty Index for 23 States of India using data from DLHS 2012-13 15 Pramila Sundriyal Cross Case Study to understand the changes in skill development courses offered by Individual Training Institutes in Hyderabad 16 Premlal C Rainwater Harvesting in Palakkad District in Kerala: Issues and Challenges 17 Shivangi Gupta Understanding the Tourist’s Perception on Pollution of Ganges River in Pindra and Varanasi City 18 Swetha Yadav Alternate School Education - Comparative Analysis of two alternate schools: Adharashila Learning Centre, Madhya Pradesh and Sloka Waldorf Schools, Telangana 19 Soumya Guha Enrolment and Substantive Usage: A Study of the Technological Prerequisites of AADHAAR 20 Vidushi Dhawan Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes for Girls and the Contours of Intra-Household Dynamics 21 Warsha Thakur Seasonal Migrants of Western Odisha: A Case Study of Brick-Kiln Labourers in Balangar District 22 Sarash Basumatary Maternal Health Care: A case Study of Bodo Ttibe in Chirang District of Bodoland Assam 23 K. Aila Bandagi Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes for Girls - A Multi Stake-Holder Perspective Study in Telangana 24 Arvind Sai Chennupati Reaching “PEDDA” [Big] Hospital Tribals Access to Tertiary Health Care

55 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 25 Mohamed Jansher Khan Understanding Tertiary Level Public Healthcare Institutions in Kerala 26 Vibhor Choudhary Women in Agriculture: A Case Study on Tracking the Wages of Farm Women in India 27 Souparna V. Perceptions on dam safety - A case study of the Mullaperiyar dam 28 Padmasri Nivedita A Technology for Women’s Health - A Study of MCTS in Tribal Areas of Jayashankar District, Telangana 29 Vishnu Sajimon Natively Foreign :Understanding the Relevance of Rehabilitation programmes for Return Emigrants in Kerala.

M.A in Natural Resources & Governance Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 1 Ananth Venkata Padmasola Urban Waste Management in India: Is there a role for communities? 2 Anas K Effectiveness of The implementation of forest rights act 2006 in Nilambur Taluk-Kerala. 3 Anil Durgam Sustainable livelihoods of small and marginal Farmers through the farmer producer company in rain-fed areas. (A case study on Chetna Organic agriculture Producer company Limited, in Asifabad and Adilabad Districts of Telangana). 4 Anwesha Mohanty Understanding Artist’s Perceptions of city Landscapes through their Paintings in Hyderabad. 5 Apurva Duddu Assessing the Socio-Economic and Environment Impacts of Mining.(A study of Mukkunimala in Thiruv Ananthapuram District in Kerala) 6 Athary Janiso Economic dependance on the Environmental Resources for Livelihoods in Rural Manipur: A Case study of Punge and Sorathen Villages. 7 Baddhu Rathlavath Water governance in drought prone areas. (A case study of Tollapalli, Bagepalli Taluk, Chikkaballapur Dist. Karnataka) 8 Binoy Chutia Understanding the scenario of post implementation of community forest rights: A study in Rayagada District of Odisha. 9 Karn Mahadik Economic significance of wastelands (A case study of Ajmer and Jaipur, Rajasthan) 10 Keigu Angpou Israel Panmei Bamboo handicrafts: A study on the livelihood challenges of the crafts in Tamenglong Town, Manipur. 11 Liya Bensy Thomas Community intervention in governing water resources. (A case study of Udaipur, Rajasthan) 12 Mariam Khan A study on the importance of urban parks (KBR Walkway) for people from different Socio-economic groups in Hyderabad. 13 Monika Devi Moving towards organic farming in Punjab: Understanding the farmers perspective. 14 Nagaraju Bijja Degradation of Urban Lakes as Governance failure: A case study of Durgam Cheruvu in Hyderabad.

56 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 15 Pranathi Kolikapudi Understanding degradation of Urban Lakes: A study of Khajaguda Talab in Gachibowli in Hyderabad. 16 Prashanth Kumar D Enhancement of livelihoods of poorer communities through increased livestock productivity 17 Rajesh Sarma Impact of flood Mitigation strategies on Urban areas: A case study on Gowahati City using DPSIR framework. 18 Sai Parameswaran S Landscape restoration and climate change adaptation. (A case study of Udaipur, Rajasthan) 19 Sarika Rani Urban Water supply in India-Understanding the issues and challenges in Panvel City. 20 Saudamini A study of policies and practices in place for governing the ancient water tank system, and the current issues surrounding it. A case study of Baahour, Pondicherry. 21 Vinita Bastin Rodrigues Eroding and changing lives: A study on the impacts of coastal erosion on the coastal communities of the Kuruchikkupam, Pondicherry and Chinna Mudaliyar Chavady, Tamil Nadu. 22 Vishnu Karthik R M Understanding Perspectives of conversation of Indigenous Cattle breeds in the Districts of Madurai and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. 23 Prestha H Interventions of various stakeholders in reviving Waghadi River (Yavatmal, Maharashtra) 24 Jagannath Sabar Understanding the implementation process of community forest rights (CFRs) Under forest rights act (FRA), 2006: A study in Boudh District of Odisha 25 Chanku Hazarika Understanding the importance of commons for sustaining livelihood. (A case study on commons in Kandana and Santrampur Taluka of Panchmahal district, Gujarat)

M.A in Public Policy And Governance Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 1 Rajaneesh R B Factors Affecting Child Protection among the Stateless: A Case Study of Rohingya Children in Hyderabad 2 Divya Ruth Jose WHOSE MARZI IS IT ANYWAY? Negotiating autonomy and dignity of the Rohingya woman in a culture of humiliation 3 Priyanshu Barodia Livelihood Opportunities for Stateless Persons in Hyderabad: (Study of Rohingya Camps in Hyderabad ) 4 Rupam Kumari Gendered Living Conditions, Post Settlement Country and Health Crisis: Declining Health and Nutrition Outcomes of the Stateless 5 Sonali Singh Past-Experiences Matter Assessing Educational Outcomes of Rohingya Children in Hyderabad 6 Ayyagari Subramanyam A Perpetrator Narrative on Domestic Violence: (Case Study of Rohingya Masculinities in Refugee camps) 7 Deepti Raj Caste Based Segregation in Urban India and Indian Cities: A Comparative Study from Census 2011 and 2001 8 Amish Sarpotdar Patterns of Residential Segregation and Spatial Inequality: A Study of Pune City of Maharashtra

57 Sl. No Name of the Students Dissertation Title 9 Akanksha Swachh Bharat Mission: A Study of Patna City 10 Amrit Gogoi A Case Study on Segregation in Housing in the City of Guwahati (With a Focus on Household Characteristics and Household Amenities) 11 Sneha Haldar Women, Household Amenities and Slums: A Study of Segregation in Faridabad City 12 Prabhujeet Panda Compliance and Governance of Property Tax in Hyderabad 13 Gowry Mallissery Institutional Compliance: Case of Aarogyasri Health Insurance Policy 14 Imsennaro Jamir Compliance in the Food Sector: A Study on the Implementation of Food Safety Management Systems in Raipur and Durg 15 Jaswant Malik Compliance as Process (Delivery of Skill Training under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana in Gurgaon District, Haryana) 16 Shruti Prasad Compliance in Sharing Economy: A Study of App-based Taxi Aggregators in Hyderabad 17 Udit Narayan Kusulia Understanding Compliance for Forest Rights Act, 2006: A Case Study from Rayagada District in Odisha M. Phil in Education Sl. No. Name of the student Title 1 Harpreet Kaur Reading Comprehension Struggles: A study of Middle School Children in Delhi. 2 Sujata Maria Peres-Da-Silva Failing Meena: An Ethnographic Study of a Tribal Girl’s Alienation from School Learning. 3 Ashtami Rajan Gender Based Exclusion of Trans-women in Schools 4 Nandhini Nanjappan A Study of Social Justice Principles and Practices in Transaction of Social Science Curriculum at Primary School Education in Tamil Nadu 5 Garima Singh Exploring the Salience of Visuo- spatial Modeling in Developing Conceptual Understanding of Human Digestive System Among Middle School Students 6 Atima Singh Investigating Secondary School Students’ Conceptions about Earth’s Internal Structure and Related Phenomena 7 Ritu Gopal Narratives of Inclusion and Higher Education: Chronicling Educational Transitions of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities M.Phil in Women’s Studies Sl. No. Name of the student Title 1 Kuruppasamy M. Working Conditions of Women Labourers in Agriculture: A Study of Tirunelveli District in Tamil Nadu 2 Ritika Dubey Contribution of Women in the Weaving Industry of Varanasi 3 Shruti Kalyanaraman Negotiating New Work Spaces: Self-Employed Urban Women’s Experiences of Conducting Business Through Contemporary Social Media 4 Ishita Paul Exploring ‘Agency’ amongst the Empowered: Case Studies of Women in Paid Formal Employment Ph.D in Social Sciences Sl. No. Name of the student Title 1 Rimi Tadu Writing Local History of Apatanis : Constesting for the Native’s Voices Ph.D in Women’s Studies Sl. No. Name of the student Title 1 Bhanumathi Kalluri Metaphors of Gender in the Social Organisation of the Khonds in Andhra Pradesh

58 List of Students Taking Degrees: Third Convocation - May 4, 2017

BA in SOCIAL SCIENCES Mona Dhall Nishkala Sekhar Shainy Prasanna Neha Pande Poorva Shekher Aditya Menon Pallavi Gahlaut Prakash Kumar Shukla Aprajita Verma Pinki Goyal Pramila Sundriyal Pauline Daniel Baddam Priyam Sinha Premlal. C Binayak Prasad Sahu Rohini Mansinh Ghatge Shivangi Gupta Chaviti Sai Gowri Nithisha Sethu John Shweta Yadav Amrutha Dourla Shamolie Oberoi Soumya Guha Deepti Mary Minj Sheetal Jose Vidushi Dhawan Deeshna A Upasana Goswami Warsha Thakur Durga Venkata Punyaamurthula Varun Gopal Tiwari Sarash Basumatary Chaitanya Sudha Duthuluri Nancy Tingneihoi Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta Fateen Ahmad Arvind Sai Chennupati Gandhamalla Abraham Noel MA in HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Mohamed Jansher Khan Jay Kris Guru Charan Ashish Kumar Vibhor Choudhary Joan Shilpa Kiran Vandita Purohit Souparna Vappala K. Carolyn Changsan Mukesh Dilip Bhavsar Padmasri Nivedita Aduri Kavya Munduri Kamanuri Venkata Srinivasulu Krithika VG Kanthikar Nethagani MA in NATURAL RESOURCES AND Kumar Shashikant Gautam Rimleena Boro GOVERNANCE Lekshmi M Swathi Dabbiru Ananth Venkata Padmasola Lenminsei Kipgen Charu Priya Palni Anas K Lynda Nianghauching Amrit Panda Anil Durgam Manasvini Injeti Lakshmi Haridas Anwesha Mohanty Meghana Gautam Aditya Apurva N S Duddu Mohd Anwar Lone Prachiti Abhijeet Bhuskute Athary Janiso Parvathy J Pooja Gupta Baddhu Rathlavath Poorva Sharma Abhinay Chaturvedi Binoy Chutia Prajkta Hiraman Gaidhani Abhishek Kumar Karn Mahadik Rakshit Mohan Chandan Kumar Keiguangpou Israel Panmei Rallapalli Bhargavi Tarique Abdullah Akhon Liya Bensy Thomas Ravali Yendala Goutami Patra Mariam Khan Reethu Philomina K J Sai Jaswanth Punyamurthy Monika Devi Roshan Kumar Priyanka Priyadarshini Bijja Nagaraju Rudra Atri Talagadadeevi Anand Kumar Alice Pranathi Kolikapudi Rahul Sivanunni Sharola Sakkari Prashanth Kumar D D Sai Vishwas Rajesh Sarma Indika Sallagalla MA in RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND Sai Parameswaran S Sampriti Mukherjee GOVERNANCE Sarika Rani Saurabh Suman Mahesh Bandela Saudamini Marici Shourya Patel Manish Ojha Vinita Bastin Rodrigues Shubhangi Abhishek Anand Vishnu Karthik R.M Stuti Chakraborty Adrija Ghosh Prestha H Sunny Kumar Amit Kumar Jagannath Sabar Surya R Amit Kumar Mahto Chanku Hazarika Susheel Gadela Anirudh Pulugurtha Swarnava Sayan Bhadra Gayatri Prakash MA In PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE Thirumamangai Thirumavalavan Harini Raj Amish Sarpotdar Upendra Dwivedi Himanshu Bhaiyaji Korde Amrit Gogoi Vandana Menon Javed Hussain Ayyagari Subramanyam Venkata Sahithi Kompella Vidya Jetti Deepti Raj Vishnupriya M Kalyani Hemant Thatte Divya Ruth Jose Vivekina Koul Mahathi Gandi Imsennaro Jamir Yashoda Pathak Mandem Nishanth Jaswant Malik Niharika Mangesh Manish Singh Shruti Prasad Vineet John Samuel P H Ramaikalo Sneha Haldar Praveen Kumar Chadar Sonali Singh MA in EDUCATION Purvi Mahavirkumar Jain Udit Narayan Kusulia Bidisha Dasgupta Rashmi Chauhan Prabhujeet Panda Kadugula Chandra Kumar Shahnawaz Khan Priyanshu Barodia Diksha Kharbanda Sonal Daftuar Rajaneesh R B Ekta Shokeen Sree Pruthvi Akanksha Girisuta Kar Sunit Tirkey Gowry Mallissery Gurleen Sekhon Veera Reddy Gandluru Rupam Kumari Jhasaketan Patra Vijayaraghavan Ayyanan Ramaiah Kalyani Day Kore Vinay Kumar M.PHIL In EDUCATION Meenu Chowdary Talasila Mahmood. M.K Ashtami Rajan Neejwm Mushahary Usha Rani Budumuru Nandhini Nanjappan Rishabh Sotie Shravani Garima Singh Rohan Kapil Md Tanveer Raeni Atima Singh Shreya Prakash Minakshi Patel Ritu Gopal Shrijita Sengupta Harpreet Kaur Sravanthi Kovur MA in DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Sujata Maria Peres-Da-Silva Supriya Arun Vishnu Sajimon Thomsong Mangminthang Singsit Aishwarya Khanna M.PHIL in WOMEN’S STUDIES Bhavna Ganesh Andrews Jefferson Raj F Karuppasamy M Sathya Narendran Arushi Varma Shruti Kalyanaraman Avula Prasanna Kumar Ishita Paul MA in WOMEN’S STUDIES Deepak Kumar Ritika Dubey Rambhau Manik Kasbe Devendra Madhukar Hirapure Vishal Bapurao Rokade Jagannath Sendriya Ph.D in WOMEN’S STUDIES Anupreeta Chatterjee Kanhu Charan Behera Bhanumathi Kalluri Jannet Varghese Sirreddy Maurya Reddy Khushboo Savita Megha Sen Meher Soni 59 Students Receiving Prizes & Certificates

Sr. No. Name of Medal / Prize / Shield Programme* Name of the Student 1 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student B.A in BA-MA Durga Venkata Punyamurthula Social Sciences 2 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student BA-MA Sampriti Mukerjee B.A in Social Sciences 3 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student M.A. in DS Vidushi Dhawan Development Studies 4 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student DS Soumya Guha M.A. in Development Studies 5 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. in DS Andrews Jefferson Raj Development Studies 6 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student M.A. in Edu Meenu Chowdary Talasila Education 7 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student Edu Diksha Karbanda M.A. in Education 8 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. in Education Edu Diksha Karbanda & Meenu Chowdary Talasila 9 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student Public PPG Jaswant Malik Policy and Governance 10 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student PPG Shruti Prasad M.A Public Policy and Governance 11 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. in Public PPG Deepti Raj and Shruti Prasad Policy and Governance 12 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student M.A. in RDG Anirudh Pulugurtha Rural Development and Governance 13 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student RDG Adrija Ghosh M.A. in Rural Development and Governance 14 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. in RDG Gayatri Prakash Rural Development and Governance 15 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student M.A. in WS Shamolie Oberoi Women’s Studies 16 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student WS Sheetal Jose M.A. in Women’s Studies 17 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. in WS Shamolie Oberoi Women’s Studies 18 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student M.A. in NRG Apurva Duddu Natural Resources and Governance 19 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student NRG Binoy Chutia M.A. in Natural Resources and Governance 20 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. in Natural NRG Athary Janiso Resources and Governance 21 Institute Gold Medal to the Best Student M.A. in HRM Charu Priya Palni Human Resource Management 22 Institute Silver Medal to the Second Best Student HRM Vandita Purohit M.A. in Human Resource Management 23 Prize to the Best Research Project M.A. HRM Aditya Human Resource Management

* BA-MA : Integrated BA-MA; DS - Development Studies; Edu - Education; PPG - Public Policy and Governance; RDG - Rural Development and Governance; WS - Women’s Studies; NRG - Natural Resources and Governance; HRM - Human Resource Management.

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