PLAN BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR 2018-2019
Revised on October 2017
Social Sciences Division
Indian Statistical Institute 203, Barrackpore Trunk Road Kolkata 700 108 SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
2 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 SUMMARY CONTENTS Plan New Projects Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page New, Noth East Project 1 LRU 2.1 Traning on ‘Application of Statistical Techniques in Linguistic Stuidies’ (Northeast, New) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 8 (2018-2019) and Probal Dasgupta 2 SOSU 6.1 North East Training Program on Applications of Statistics in Social Sciences and Official … Kajal Dihidar … 10 Data (Northeast, New) (2018-2019) New, General Projects 3 LRU 2.2 POS Tagged Bangla Text Corpus Generation (General, New) (2018-2021) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 14 4 PSU 3.1 Workshop on Techniques of Analysis of Demographic and Health Statistics and Application … Prasanta Pathak, … 21 of Computer Software (General, New) (2018-2019) Partha De and Subhas Burman
5 PRU 4.1 Orientation training on Data Visualization (General, New) (2018-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 25 6 PRU 4.3 Development of Face Recognition Test for ethnicities in West Bengal using Real World … Garga Chatterjee … 160 Facial Images (General, New) (2018-2021) 7 SRU 5.1 A micro-level study of impact of life-style and socio-economy on adolescent overweight or … Susmita Bharati … 28 obesity in Kolkata city, West Bengal. (General, New) (2018-2020) 8 SRU 5.2 Contract Farming: Participation, Partnership and Socioeconomic Development in Eastern … Hari Charan Behera … 38 India (General, New) (2018-2019) 9 EAU 8.1 Workshop on Data Anomaly in Official Statistics regarding Women’s Labour in India. (General … Molly … 44 New) (2018-2019) Chattopadhyay
Plan 0n-Going Projects Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page On-Going, Noth East Project 1 ERU 1.1 Training on Advanced Econometric Methods and Their Applications, (Northeast, On- … Amita Majumder, … 50 Going) (2017-2020) Samarjit Das 2 SOSU 6.3 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 53
On-Going, General Project 3 ERU 1.2 Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application of an Easily Implementable … Amita Majumder … 55 Sampling Strategy (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) 4 ERU 1.3 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Souvik Roy … 57 5 ERU 1.4 Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic theory and applications: 2017-18 … Indraneel Dasgupta, … 60 to 2020-2021 (General, On-Going) (2017-2021) Soumyanetra Munshi, Souvik Roy 6 PRU 4.2 Safe school survey (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 63
New Plan Projects start from page no. … 8 On-Going Plan Projects start from page no. … 50 Plan Budget Non-Projects (2018-19) start from page no. … 66 Publications (2012-17) starts from page no. … 79 Interim Reports (2016-17) start from page no. … 144 Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2018-19) [summary Sheet] … 165 Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Non-Projects (2018-19) [summary Sheet] … 166
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4 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Contents (By unit)
Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page Members of the Technical Advisory Committee, Social Sciences Division for the year 2016-2018 … … 7 1 Economic Research Unit 1.1 Training On Advanced Econometric Methods And Their Applications, (Northeast, On-Going) (2017-2020) … Amita Majumder, Samarjit Das … 50 1.2 Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application of an Easily Implementable Sampling Strategy (General, … Amita Majumder … 55 On-Going) (2016-2019) 1.3 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Souvik Roy … 57 1.4 Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic theory and applications: 2017-18 to 2020-2021 (General, On- … Indraneel Dasgupta, … 60 Going) (2017-2021) Soumyanetra Munshi, Souvik Roy. Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 66 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, ERU … … 79 Interim Report ERU (2016-17) … Souvik Roy … 144 2 Linguistic Research Unit 2.1 Traning on ‘Application of Statistical Techniques in Linguistic Stuidies’ (Northeast, New) (2018-2019) … Niladri Sekhar Dash and Probal … 8 Dasgupta 2.2 POS Tagged Bangla Text Corpus Generation (General, New) (2018-2021) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 14 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 67 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, LRU … … 94 Interim Report LRU (2016-17) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 141 Final Report LRU (2014-17) … Probal Dasgupta … 155 3 Population Studies Unit 3.1 Workshop on Techniques of Analysis of Demographic and Health Statistics and Application of Computer Software … Prasanta Pathak, Partha De … 21 (General, New) (2018-2019) and Subhas Burman
Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 69 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, PSU … … 100 4 Psychology Research Unit 4.1 Orientation training on Data Visualization (General, New) (2018-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 25 4.2 Safe school survey (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 63 4.3 Development of Face Recognition Test for ethnicities in West Bengal using Real World Facial Images (General, New) … Garga Chatterjee … 160 (2018-2021) Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 70 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, PRU … … 103 5 Sociological Research Unit 5.1 A micro-level study of impact of life-style and socio-economy on adolescent overweight or obesity in Kolkata city, … Susmita Bharati … 28 West Bengal. (General, New) (2018-2020) 5.2 Contract Farming: Participation, Partnership and Socioeconomic Development in Eastern India (General, New) … Hari Charan Behera … 38 (2018-2019) Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 72 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, SRU … … 106 Interim Report SRU (2016-17) … Hari Charan Behera … 149 Final Report SRU (2016-17) … Hari Charan Behera … 156
6 Sampliing & Official Statistics Unit 6.1 North East Training Program on Applications of Statistics in Social Sciences and Official Data (General, New) (2018- … Kajal Dihidar … 10 2019) 6.3 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, On-Going) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 53 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 74 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, SOSU … … 116
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7 Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 75 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, EPU, Delhi Centre … … 122
8 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre 8.1 Workshop on Data Anomaly in Official Statistics regarding Women’s Labour in India. (General, New) (2018-2019) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 44
Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 77 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2012 – 2017, EAU, Bangalore Centre … … 136 Interim Report EAU (2016-17) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 151 Final Report EAU (2015-17) … Madhura Swaminathan … 158
9 Social Sciences Division Office Non-project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 … … 78 Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2018-19) … … 165 Divisional Plan Budget for Non-Projects (2018-19) … … 166
6 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the year 2016-2018
1. Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Director (Chairman) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
2. Professor Achla Raina Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
3. Professor Rajni Palriwala Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, Delhi – 110007
4. Professor Saikat Sinha Roy Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
5. Professor Arvind Pandey Ex-Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110 029
6. Dr. Subrata Lahiri Former Professor and Head, Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies, International Institute of Population Studies, IIPS, Mumbai-400 043
7. Professor Manoj Kumar Panda Director, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, North Campus, Delhi 110 007
8. Professor Arunava Sen Professor-in-Charge (Convener), Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
7 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 LRU (North-East, New) Project No. 2.1
1. Title of the Project: TRAINING ON ‘APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN LINGUISTIC STUDIES’
2. Brief Objective and Justification (2 or 3 sentences): The goal is to impart training in the use of statistical methodologies and tools in the study and analysis of language data to the researchers and academicians in linguistics of the North Eastern (N-E) states as well as of non-N-E states. It is expected that such a training would enrich them academically and help them in doing research on linguistics having sufficient quantitative content, and also provide them with better job opportunities. The emphasis would be on application of some of the basic statistical tools and methods in different domains of applied and theoretical linguistics. The workshop will be held at the North-East Centre of ISI at Tezpur with appropriate faculties drawn from ISI, Kolkata and ISI, N-E Centre. The Chairman of the Committee for ISI N-E Centre has agreed to extend all possible help in this regard.
3. Date of Commencement: April 2018. 4. Expected Date of Completion: March 2019 5. Names of Proposing Scientists: Niladri Sekhar Dash and Probal Dasgupta 6. Names of other Associated Scientists: None 7. Scope and Justification of the Project:
Perhaps this will be the first training programme of this kind in India where the importance of statistics in research and application of language data will be discussed at length. The basic aim of this academic programme is to train research scholars and researchers in linguistics from North Eastern and non-N-E states in the use of statistical techniques in various areas of linguistics, namely, corpus linguistics, language technology, natural language processing, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, computer assisted language teaching, language documentation and digitization, language description, computational lexicography, language modelling, etc. The proposed programme will provide participants with an excellent opportunity to familiarize themselves with applications of statistics in linguistics research. The statistical techniques to be covered include Basics of Probability Theory, Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Basics of Sampling Theory including SRSWR and SRSWOR, Hypothesis Testing, Measures of Association, Classification Tree Analysis, Configurational Frequency Analysis, Correlation and Regression Analysis, ANOVA, Chi-Squared test, t-test, Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Hidden Markov Model. The participants would be adequately trained to use these methods and tools in language data analysis and linguistic research and development works. In this program, few lectures on statistical software, SPSS, would be given, and adequate hands-on- exercises would constitute an integral component of this training program. We would like to view this programme as an important first step towards disseminating the importance of modern statistics in linguistic research activities so that level of such research works in the country could be significantly improved. Moreover, through this programme ISI will succeed in establishing its academic significance and functional relevance in the mainframe linguistic activities of the country.
8 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Our target is to register thirty (30) participants for the week-long orientation programme. The target group will include research scholars, and researchers working in various domains of linguistics in both N-E and non N-E states. Some final year Master’s students in Linguistics may also be considered. The participants will be selected based on their CVs and merit of research proposals to be submitted by them. Finally, this is, however, imperative that issues like number of participants, number of experts, duration of training, etc. may vary based on the budget approved as well as on other logistic issues linked with the programme.
8. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
No. Item Heads 2018-2019 Total 01 Capital NIL NIL 02 Accommodation for Participants 50,000 50,000 03 Food (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Tea, water etc.) 1,00,000 1,00,000 04 Airfare for Experts 2,00,000 2,00,000 05 Conference Kit + Stationers 30,000 30,000 06 Road Transport (Guwahati-Tezpur-Guwahati) 1,00,000 1,00,000 07 Miscellaneous 20,000 20,000 Total 5,00,000 5,00,000
9. Brief Particulars of the Assets to be procured Not Applicable
10. List of on-going projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money Budgeted, (iii) Money Spent, (iv) Publications
Not Applicable
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2018-2019
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
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1. Project Title : North East Training Programs on (1) Applications of Statistics in Social Sciences and (2) Applications of Statistics on Official Data 2. Name of Proposing Scientists : Kajal Dihidar 3. Name of Others Scientists associated with their affiliation : Nil 4. Date of Commencement : April 2018 5. Project Summary (Max. 200 words): The main objective of this project is Enhancing the manpower in North Eastern States of India for development of the entire region. The proposed program is meant for research fellows, young teachers/researchers in various disciplines of Social Sciences working in colleges, universities, institutions, who are actively engaged in empirical research in their line of work as well as Officers from various statistical services of the government. 6. Introduction with Background (Max. 300 words): SOSU has conducted several workshops on Applications of Statistics in various disciplines like Biosciences, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences and Official Data since its birth in 2012. The attended participants (MPhil students, Research Scholars and young faculty from those disciplines who are engaged in analysing data in their line of work as well as Officers from various statistical services of the government) from North Eastern States of India appreciated and found the programmes useful in their official/administrative/academic work. Encouraged by their feedback it is felt that there is need for similar programmes in improving the skills of the officers/teachers from government and public sector departments, schools, colleges and universities in the north eastern parts of India. 7. Objectives: The core objective of the proposed workshop will be to equip the research scholars/teachers with set of skills and potentiality to undertake the research very effectively in the disciplines of social science and to turn completed research into publishable material of high quality in the form of articles, journals and books. In the same time, the course will be used to enhance the capacity of the officers engaged in various government departments and public-sector departments. The course will intend to deal with variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods used in social sciences. It will also give exposure to data analysis with the help of software packages. By the end of such programme the participants will be expected to develop conceptual clarity and practical knowledge to undertake quality research and to produce quality official statistics.
As the students/researchers in social sciences and the government officials have very different data analysis requirements, we plan to hold to two separate workshops at two different North East India Venue as follows.
Workshop 1: Workshop on `Applications of Statistics in Social Sciences’ targeted for students and/or researchers in various disciplines of Social Sciences. Workshop 2: Workshop on `Applications of Statistics on Official Data’ targeted for government officials.
Statistical Tools and methods to be used for Workshop 1: The program will be formulated keeping in mind the level suitable for researchers to be able to learn how to formulate their hypotheses to be tested and analyze their data. The topics to be covered are: Different types of variables, diagrammatic presentation of data, Basic exploratory 10 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 univariate data analysis with measures of central tendency, dispersion, histogram, box plot, etc. Exploratory bivariate data analysis both for categorical and continuous variables. Various types of basic hypotheses testing, e.g. Chisq test of independence, one and two sample tests for means, proportions, analysis of variance, normality assumption testing, non-parametric tests. Various regression analyses, e,g. multiple linear regression, logistic regression, ordinal logistic regression, Poisson regression analysis. Scaling techniques and reliability analysis. Several multivariate statistical analyses, e.g. factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis. Time table will be prepared with ample scope for hands-on practice to analyze the social science related data and understanding the interpretation with suitable statistical software available, say, with any one of SPSS/R/Excel.
Statistical Tools and methods to be used for Workshop 2: The program will be formulated keeping in mind the level suitable for newly appointed government officials to be able to learn how to analyze the official data and how to produce the meaningful official statistics indicators. The topics to be covered are: Introduction to Official Statistics. Basic descriptive statistics and inferential statistical analyses, census and sample surveys. Framework of National Accounts and State Domestic Product, Vital Statistics, Agricultural Statistics, Fiscal and macro-economic indicators, Price Statistics, Basic Time Series analysis, Industrial Statistics. Here also the time table will be prepared with ample scope for hands-on practice to analyze the available official data, understanding the interpretation and to produce the meaningful official statistics presentable in government reports with suitable statistical software available, say, with any one of SPSS/R/Excel.
We will try to make use of local resource persons from the host universities and or organizations as well. The resources available in ISI (faculty from SOSU as well as from other units) for training in statistics, data analysis will be used for this purpose. The programme will be formulated keeping in view the requirements of the potential participants and use of computers in their data processing works. For assisting in hands- on practical classes the expertise of available trainee personnel of SOSU may be utilized.
8. Budget Estimates : Summary Revenue Expenditure, 2018 – 19: Details below is for one workshop. A. Salary Expenditure: Nil. B. Below are for General Expenditures. 1. Travel for resource persons (7 individuals including one office staff) a) Air, Taxi, Hired Car Fare (From Kolkata to Rs. 70,000.00 Venue & Back) Rs. 40,000.00 b) Local transport at venue 2. Boarding and Lodging a) T.A./D.A. for External candidates (15 Rs. 70,000.00 persons) b) For 3 resource persons (Rs. Rs. 54,000.00 3000/head/day for 6 days) c) For 4 resource persons (Rs. Rs. 64,000.00 4000/head/day for 4 days) 3. Workshop lunch and tea for 5 days Rs. 80,000.00 4. Stationary, Workshop kit & training Rs. 60,000.00 materials 5. Remuneration for supporting staffs Rs. 20,000.00 6. Miscellaneous Rs. 20,000.00 Total Rs. 4,78,000.00 Total budget for two such proposed workshops = 2 X Rs. 4,78,000.00 = Rs. 9.56,000.00. 11 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
b) Capital Expenditure: Nil Nil
Expected date of Completion: March 2019
9. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during Year 1 : One workshop will be held within first 6 months and the another one will be held within next 6 months. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 50% 50%
10. List of all completed and/or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years : Nil
a. Project title : b. Status : c. Money Budgeted : d. Money spent : e. List of Publications : f. Capital item purchased :
List of Publications of the proposing scientist in last 5 years:
1. Dihidar, K. and Bhattacharya, M. (2017). Estimating sensitive population proportion using a combination of binomial and hypergeometric randomized responses by direct and inverse mechanism. Statistics in Transition, New series. 18(2), 193 - 210.
2. Pal, S., Dihidar, K., Pal, S., Basak, S., Ghosh, A. and Mandal, G. (2017). A revisit to the determination of robust optimum plot size. Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary. 4(5), 61-73.
3. Dihidar, K. and Basu, L. (2017). Privacy Protection in Estimating Sensitive Population Proportion by a Modified Unrelated Question Model. Statistics and Applications. 15(1 & 2), 19 – 25.
4. Dihidar, K. (2016). Estimating Sensitive Population Proportion by Generating Randomized Response Following Direct and Inverse Hypergeometric Distribution. Chapter 26 (pages: 427 - 441) in Handbook of Statistics, vol 34 : Data Gathering, Analysis and Protection of Privacy Through Randomized Response Techniques: Qualitative and Quantitative Human Traits. Edited by Arijit Chaudhuri, Tasos C. Christofides and C.R. Rao. Elsevier, North Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
12 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 5. Pal, S., Mandal, G. and Dihidar, K. (2015). Determination of robust optimum plot size and shape - a model-based approach. Biometrical Letters. 52(1) , 13- 22.
6. Dihidar, K. (2015). On the comparison of some randomized response techniques under unequal probability sampling and superpopulation modelling. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 10, 299-307.
7. Dihidar, K. (2015). Simultaneous estimation of several survey population parameters in complex surveys by Bayesian and classical methods. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 10, 163-173.
8. Dihidar, K. (2014). Estimating population mean with missing data in unequal probability sampling. Statistics in Transition. . New Series, 15(3), 369-388.
9. Chaudhuri, A. and Dihidar, K. (2014). Generating randomized response by inverse mechanism. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 9, 343-351.
10. Mukherjee, D., Mitra, S., Dihidar, K., Mukherjee, A., Talukdar, P., and Poddar, M. (2013). Community vs. individual targeting in CSR projects: A case study in West Bengal. Productivity. 54 (3), 275-290.
11. Dihidar, K. and Chowdhury, J. (2012). Enhancing a randomized response model to estimate population means to sensitive questions. Mathematical Population Studies. 20, 123-136.
13 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 LRU (General, New) Project No. 2.2
1. Title of the Project: POS Tagged Bangla Text Corpus Generation 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Niladri Sekhar Dash, LRU, ISI 3. Names of Other Scientists associated with their affiliation:
(a) Dr. Probal Dasgupta, Professor and Head, LRU, ISI, Kolkata (b) Dr. Kaushik Roy, Professor, Dept. of CSE, Barasat State University, Barasat (c) Dr. Sudip Naskar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (d) Dr. Atanu Saha, Assistant Professor, School of LL, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 4. Date of Commencement: April 2018 to end in March 2021 5. Project Summary (200 words):
• Convert ISCII-based TDIL Bangla Text Corpus into Unicode compatible text • Normalize the TDIL Bangla Text corpus of 3 million words • Render the normalized TDIL Bangla Text Corpus into RTF version • Break the normalized TDIL Bangla Text Corpus at the sentence level • Separate grammatically valid sentences from segments in the corpus • Convert Bangla sentences from doc version to excel version • Use the BIS (GOI) Tagset for POS tagging of words in the corpus • Develop a POS (Part-of-Speech) Tagged Bangla Text Corpus • Make this resource available for all kinds of LT works for Bangla • Make this resource available for Applied Linguistics works • Make this resource available for commercial utilization by IT industries
6. Introduction with Background (300 words):
Most of the corpora developed for Bangla so far contain only text data in a simple format so as to make the text accessible to human users. Due to many technical reasons, however, these text corpora have not yet been annotated with textual and extratextual encoding for machine readability. But it is understood that a corpus without textual and extratextual information encoded within the text itself, has least applicational relevance in linguistics and language technology. It is, therefore, necessary to develop annotated Bangla text corpora of various types (orthographic, prosodic, grammatical, semantic, anaphoric, discoursal, etymological, figurative, etc) to make the texts usable for all kinds of linguistic and language technology works. Since all kinds of annotation are not possible to carry out on a single platform, in this project, I propose only for POS level annotation on the Bangla text corpus following the BIS POS annotation guidelines proposed by the Govt. of India.
7. Description of the Problem (max 300 words)
The present project is in accordance with the recent Pan-Indian initiative of the DeitY, Govt. of India for generation of digital linguistic resources (like POS Tagged Corpora, Digital Lexical Databases, Scientific & Technical TermBanks, Chunked Corpora, Parsed Corpora, TreeBanks, Digital Dictionaries, WordNets, etc.) for all the Indian languages to 14 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 put the Indian languages in the list of resource-rich Asian languages (along with Chinese and Japanese), based on which, at the global level, Indian languages can establish their functional relevance in language technology works (man-machine interface, machine translation, data and information retrieval, e-governance, on-line language education, etc). Since Bangla is recognized as one of the resource-poor Indian languages, it is an urgent need to develop digital linguistic resources of various kinds for Bangla the lack of which has kept the language remarkably low in the field of language technology works. Bangla language urgently requires a resource like POS tagged corpora without which it is almost impossible to achieve any major breakthrough in Bangla language technology works. Hence I propose to develop a POS tagged Bangla text corpus, an essential resource for language technology and applied linguistic works for the language. Since it is a highly specialized work, people having wide experience in the area of corpus generation and processing can develop such a useful resource. Some of the essential components that are required for this project are already made ready for this purpose. These include the followings:
(1) TDIL Bangla Text Corpus of 3 million words (2) Unicode version of the TDIL Bangla text corpus (3) BIS POS tagset (Approved and accepted by GOI) (4) GUI tool for POS tagging in the corpus (5) Trained people for POS tagging (6) Expert in corpus management and processing
8. Objectives
(a) Convert ISCII-based TDIL Bangla Text Corpus into Unicode compatible text (b) Normalize the TDIL Bangla Text corpus of 3 million words (c) Render the normalized TDIL Bangla Text Corpus into RTF version (d) Break the normalized TDIL Bangla Text Corpus at the sentence level (e) Separate grammatically valid sentences from segments in the corpus (f) Convert Bangla sentences from doc version to excel version (g) Use the BIS (GOI) Tagset for POS tagging of words in the corpus (h) Develop a POS (Part-of-Speech) Tagged Bangla Text Corpus (i) Make this resource available for all kinds of LT works for Bangla (j) Make this resource available for Applied Linguistics works (k) Make this resource available for commercial utilization by IT industries
9. Study Area
A POS-tagged text corpus is an indispensable linguistic resource in research and development works of language technology and applied linguistics. In language technology, a POS tagged corpus is used in generation of digital lexical profile, digital dictionary, machine-readable dictionary, morphological processing, grammar checking, parsing, WordNet, information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine learning, machine translation, knowledge representation, semantic web technologies, word segmentation, named entity recognition, data mining, and many other works. On the other hand, in applied linguistics, a POS-tagged text corpus is used in syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis of texts, computer assisted language teaching, e-learning, on-line teaching, grammar writing, language planning, and language description. That means many important works of language technology and applied linguistics can be successfully carried out if a POS tagged corpus is available.
10. Review and Status of Research and development in the subject (max 500 words) 15 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 10.1 International Status
No. POS Tagged Bangla Text Developer Available at Price Corpus 01 4K sentences news text Microsoft Research India LDC, University of USD 5000 Pennsylvania, USA 02 50K sentences of Emilie Lancaster University, UK Lancaster University, UK USD 10000 Corpus 03 5K sentences of news LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore, Not available for general text use 04 25K sentences from LRU, ISI, Kolkata DeitY, MeitY, Govt. of Free from Health text (ILCI-I) India TDIL.org 05 25K sentences from LRU, ISI, Kolkata DeitY, MeitY, Govt. of Free from Tourism Text (ILCI-II) India TDIL.org 06 10K Sentences in LRU, ISI, Kolkata DeitY, MeitY, Govt. of Free from Agriculture domain India TDIL.org ILCI-2 07 10K Sentences in LRU, ISI, Kolkata DeitY, MeitY, Govt. of Free from Entertainment domain India TDIL.org ILCI-2 08 30K sentences in Mass LRU, ISI, Kolkata DeitY, MeitY, Govt. of Free from Media Text ILCI-2 India TDIL.org
Table 1: Availability of POS tagged Bangla text corpus till date
The last five sets of POS tagged Bangla corpus are used by MT teams of IIT-Mumbai, IIIT-Hyderabad, Jadavpur University, as well as by a large number of Ph.D. scholars across the country.
10.2 National Status
With more than 25 years of experience in corpus generation, annotation, processing, and utilization, the present proposer is willing to develop this resource for Bangla in its most usable format for global utilization. Although there are a few universities and institutes in West Bengal where language technology works are carried out (e.g., Jadavpur University, Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, etc), except the present institute, none of them has ever worked in this area and none of them has ever tried to develop POS tagged corpus for Bangla.
10.3 Novelty of the present Proposal
It is visualized that once this resource is made available to the Bangla speech community, new horizons of research and development works will open up. The resource will be the first of its kind in Bangla. The immediate beneficiaries of this resource will be the researchers, system developers, language technologists, language processing people, language teachers and learners, grammarians, lexicographers, translators, and others. The POS tagged corpus developed in this project may be patented as a resource of the Institute to be distributed as free corpora or may be commercialized against payment.
11. Importance of the proposed project in the Context of current status (max 200 words):
The project output has real life application relevance. I can identify many immediate users of the output of the project. The LT and NLP people will be using this resource for MT, data mining, information retrieval, machine learning, NER, and many other works; researchers will be using it for specific investigation on the language; grammarians will be using it for writing grammars, describing sentences, and analysis phrases; 16 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 lexicographers will be using it for compiling term databases, lexical databases, and dictionaries; language teachers will be using it for teaching POS of words to learners; education technology people will be using this for on-line Bangla teaching and reference works; linguists will be using it for describing the language and structure of words; government will be using it to provide linguistic services to the people as a part of e- governance. Finally, anyone interested in Bangla may be using the corpus when POS tagged words are necessary.
12. Review of the Expertise available with the group/institute in the subject of the project
In fact, LRU, ISI, Kolkata is nationally and internationally acknowledged for decades as one of the Indian centers specialized in corpus generation, processing, storage, and dissemination.
13. Work Plan
13.1 Methodology
It is estimated that a single Project Linked Person (PLP) can POS tag 50 sentences per day. In that case, it is possible to produce nearly (50 x 20 x 12 x 2 x 3 = 72,000) POS tagged sentences at the end of the project if 2 PLPs are engaged in the project. The output will be treated as a huge contribution of the Unit (and Institute) for the development of digital linguistic resources for Bangla. Given below the GUI that will be used for POS tagging of Bangla text corpus (Fig.1)
Fig. 1: The GUI for POS tagging of Bangla text corpus
Given below a table where an example of an untagged sentence and its counterpart in POS Tagged version is given to give an idea about the possible outcome of the project (Table 2).
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Table 2: An example of untagged and POS tagged Bangle sentence
13.2 Organization of work element and time schedule of activities giving milestones
No. Year Putting Sentence in Excel Tagging of Sentence Output Validation 01 I Year 25,000 25000 25000 02 II year 25,000 25,000 25,000 03 II Year 25,000 25,000 25,000
14. Utilization of Research Results
In essence, it will be a highly usable digital linguistic resource, which will be utilized in all kinds of research and development activities of computational linguistics, language technology, Natural Language Processing, Descriptive Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics for the Bangla language.
15. Budget Estimates: Summary
Items Heads 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 Total in Lakh Revenue I Year II Year III Year A. Salary of 3 PLPs 10.80 10.80 10.80 32.40 (2 Linguists + 1 Technical Assistant) (30K X 3 X 12 = 1080K Sub-total (A) 10.80 10.80 10.80 32.40 B. General 1.Contingency 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.50 2. TA/DA 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.50 3. Consumables 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.50 4. Others 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.50 Sub-total (B) 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 18 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
C. Capital - - - NIL 1. Equipment -- - - 2. Others - - - - Sub-total (C) - - - - Grand Total (A+B+C) 12.80 12.80 12.80 38.40
Two high-end computers are required for carrying out POS tagging work using POS tagging software. Two Project Linked Person will work for day-to-day POS tagging works on the available Bangla text corpus. However since the required PCs are available in LRU lab, we do not require any PC for this project.
16 References
Asif Ekbal and S. Bandyopadhyay (2007) “Lexicon Development and POS tagging using a Tagged Bengali News Corpus”, In Proc. of FLAIRS-2007, Florida, 261-263. Asif Ekbal and S. Bandyopadhyay (2008) “Part of Speech Tagging in Bengali Using Support Vector Machine”, ICIT-08, IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, pp. 106-111. Asif Ekbal et.al, “Bengali Part of Speech Tagging using Conditional Random Field”. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP- 2007), Pattaya, Thailand, 13-15 December 2007, pp.131-136 Asif Ekbal, Samiran Mandal and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (2007) “POS Tagging Using HMM and Rule-based Chunking”, Workshop on shallow parsing in South Asian languages, shiva.iiit.ac.in/SPSAL2007/proceedings.php. Asif, Ekbal, R. Haque and S. Bandyopadhyay (2008) “Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach”, In Proc. of 3rd IJCNLP, 51-55. Debasri Chakrabarti (2011) “Layered Parts of Speech Tagging for Bangla”, Language in India. www.languageinindia.com, May 2011, Special Volume: Problems of Parsing in Indian Languages. Delip Rao and David Yarowsky (2007) “Part of Speech Tagging and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages”, Proceedings of the workshop on "Shallow Parsing in South Asian Languages" shiva.iiit.ac.in/SPSAL2007/final/iitmcsa.pdf. Hammad Ali (2010) “An Unsupervised Parts-of-Speech Tagger for the Bangla language”, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia. Pradipta Ranjan Ray, V. Harish, Sudeshna Sarkar and Anupam Basu (2012) “Part of Speech Tagging and Local Word Grouping Techniques for Natural Language Parsing in Hindi”, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. www.mla.iitkgp.ernet.in/papers/hindipostagging.pdf. R.K. Pattabhi, T. Rao, Vijay Sundaram, R. Vijayakrishna and Sobha L (2007) “A Text Chunker and Hybrid POS Tagger for Indian Languages”, AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai. Sandipan Dandapat, Sudeshna Sarkar, Anupam Basu (2007) "Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging for Bengali: An Approach for Morphologically Rich Languages in a Poor Resource Scenario”, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistic, pp 221-224.
17. Does the project require clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans? If yes, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiver form forwarded by the P-in-C.
No. This project does not require clearance from Ethics Committee
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1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter Salar Ge Cap. Total Salar Gen Cap. Total Salar Gen Cap. Total Salar gen Cap. Total y n y y y 25% 25 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% %
19. Projects are undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 3 years (max 5):
Project Title: Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary Status: Ongoing Duration: April 2015 – March 2018 Funding Agency: ISI, Kolkata Money Budgeted: 21 Lakhs Money Spent: (7 + 3 + 3 = 13 Lakhs) Capital Items purchased: NIL
List of Publications
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) "Etymological Annotation: A New Concept of Corpus Annotation". Proceedings of the 34th All India Conference of Linguists (34-AICL), Dept. of Linguistics, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), November 1-3, 2012, Shillong, Meghalaya, India, Pp. 100-104. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) "Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bangla Language Corpus". Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI-2011), NITTTR, Kolkata, Feb. 16-17, 2012, Pp. 46-52, Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “From KCIE to LDC-IL: some milestones in NLP journey in Indian multilingual panorama”. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 73. No. 1-4. Pp. 129-146. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “Part-of-speech (POS) tagging in Bangla written text corpus”. International Journal on Linguistics and Language Technology. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 53-96. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) "Marking Words with Part-of-Speech (POS) Tags within Text Boundary of a Corpus: the Problems, the Process, and the Outcomes". Translation Today. Vol. 9. No. 1. Pp. 5-24. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) “Syntactic, lexical, and semantic-cum-cultural barriers in English to Bangla translation”. International Journal of Translation. Vol. 27. No. 1&2. Pp. 49-73. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) "Culling Scientific and Technical Terms (STTs) from Text Corpora for Compiling TermBank in Bangla". An International Journal of Engineering Sciences Vol. 21. Pp. 107-122. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) "Multifunctionality of Hyphen in Bangla Text Corpus: Problems and Challenges in Text Normalization and POS Tagging". International Journal of Innovative Studies in Sociology and Humanities, Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 19-34. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) “Some Corpus Access Tools for Bangla Corpus". Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 42. No. 1 & 2. Pp. 7-31. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Arulmozi Selvaraj (2016) "Generating Parallel Translation Corpora in Indian Languages: Cultivating Bilingual Texts for Cross-Lingual Fertilization". Translation Today. Vol. 10. No. 1. Pp. 84-118. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Pronomita Basu (2012) “Developing scientific and technical terminology database from electronic language corpora”. Language Forum. Vol. 38. No. 1. Pp. 5-21. Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Arulmozi Selvaraj and Mazhar Hussain (2016) "The Carriage of Indian Languages Corpora: And Miles to Go Before We Stop" Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 42. No. 1 & 2. Pp. 63-92.
20 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 PSU (General, New) Project No. 3.1
1. Project Title: Workshop on Techniques of Analysis of Demographic and Health Statistics and Application of Computer Software 2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Prasanta Pathak, Partha De and Subhas Burman 3. Name of Others Scientists associated with their affiliation: Nil 4. Date of Commencement: April, 2018 5. Project Summary: There are various sources of demographic and health statistics. Two such well known sources and National Sample Survey and National Family Health Survey. Besides these, there are various primary and secondary sources. The users of these data are often not aware or partially aware about the techniques of analysing it. This workshop will give a scope to learn the techniques with computer applications. Both the researchers and the practitioners in the areas of Demography and Public Health are expected to benefit from this workshop. 6. Introduction with Background: Long experience of the Population Studies Unit in organising similar workshops in Kolkata and elsewhere gives an indication that the researchers/teachers in different universities and institutes and practitioners in the area of community medicine have high demand for such workshops. They are not fully aware of the sources and the scope of using the demographic and health statistics. The techniques of analysing such data are also not known or partially known. Computer applications for analyses of such data are also a grey area of knowledge for them. These justify the need for organising such workshop every year. 7. Description of the Problems: The areas where the targeted researchers and practitioners have very inadequate knowledge are techniques of fertility, mortality and survival analyses, epidemiological and bio-statistical methods and techniques of analysing demographic and public health statistics, uses of computer software like PAS, SPSS, and STATA and so on. 8. Objectives: (1) Refresh knowledge about various techniques of demography and public health statistics. (2) Update knowledge in terms of new and modern techniques of demography and public health statistics. (3) Acquaint participants about the common statistical software used in the analysis of demographic and health data. (4) Developing a network with various institutions/organizations who are contributing directly or indirectly to the public health, population control and other development programmes.
9. Study area: Selected researchers and practitioners, including teachers in the universities and the institutes, from all over India with prior knowledge in MS Excel will be invited to take part in the workshop.
10. Review and Status of Research and development in the Subject:
a. International Status: Such workshops are organised in advanced countries. 21 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
b. National Status: In India, short term training is organised by few institutions in Delhi and Mumbai. c. Novelty of the present Proposal : Proposed workshop emphasizes on the use of quantitative techniques for both demographic and health statistics. Additionally, it exposes the participants to the relevant computer applications.
11. Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status (Max. 200 words):
While large amount of demographic and health data are generated by governments and various institutions scientific analyses and utilisation of the same are much below expectation. The workshop will encourage the participants in greater scientific use of the available data. It will also help in clearing the concepts and the background assumptions. 12. Review of the expertise available with the group/ institute in the subject of the project Institute has the necessary expertise to organise the workshop; however, two/three resource persons may have to be invited to enrich further the sessions.
13. Work Plan :
a. Methodology:
The course will focus on the quantitative techniques and the advanced tools that are applied in demographic and public health studies in the areas concerning fertility, mortality, epidemiology, programme evaluation, demographic and health surveys, etc. The course will emphasize on the use of the common computer software like MS Excel, SPSS and STATA in analysis of demographic and public health data. Appropriately formulated Feedback Forms will be used to assess the knowledge up gradation of the participants.
b. Organization of Work Element and time schedule of activities giving milestones
After necessary publicity, the interested applicants will be screened and invited to participate in the workshop. They will be allowed to participate after doing registration and paying registration fees.
14. Utilization of research results
Experience from the workshop will be used for improving the workshop standard in the future.
15. Budget Estimates: Summary
Sl. Item Earning Expenditure No. (Rs. in lakhs) (Rs. in lakhs)
1. Registration Fee (Local 20 persons @1500/- and Outstation 10 persons 0.5500 @2500/-) 1. Train (AC 3-Tier, to & fro) for 10 out-station participants (@Rs.8,000) 0.8000 2. Board and lodging for 10 out-station participants for 4days (@Rs.400 0.1600 per day per person) 3. Lunch for 45 participants, resource persons and organizing staff for 3 0.2700 22 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
days (@Rs.200per day per person) 4. Tea and snacks for 45 persons for 3 days (@ Rs.30 per day per person) 0.0405 5. Honorarium for external resource persons (@Rs.1500/- per lecture) and 0.0800 conveyance (@Rs. 1000/- , to and fro per day) for 4 lectures 6. Reading materials for 40 persons (@Rs.200) 0.0800 7. Training kits including bags, pads, pens, etc. for 40 persons 0.4000 (@Rs.1000/-) 8. Preparatory activities including advertisement, communications, 0.2500 travels, preparation of materials, etc. 9. Stationery, computer consumables, etc. 0.2000 10. Miscellaneous 0.3000 TOTAL 0.5500 2.5805 OVERALL EXPENDITURE 2.0305
Item wise Justification: 1) To meet partially the cost of conference kits, food and lodging for participants. 2) To encourage outstation participants. 3) to 4) self explanatory. 5) To pay honorarium to external resource persons and also pay for their local travel. 6) & 7) Required for taking part in the workshop. 8) Required for publicity, local travel and printing of publicity materials. 9) and 10) To acquire all required input materials and payment to external support staff. 16. References:
Not applicable. 17. Does the Project require clearance from the Review Committee for the protection of research risk to humans? If yeas, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiber form forwarded by the P-in-C.
No.
18. Quarterly projection of the expenditure during Year I :
1st quarter 2nd quarter Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000
3rd quarter 4th quarter Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 1,65,000 1,65,000 33,000
19. List of completed and / or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last five years 1. Name : Pathak, Prasanta [2012] (A) Project title: Estimation of Technical Manpower Requirement through Effective Means for Improving Quality of Training of Technicians (a project financed by the West Bengal State Council of Technical Education, Govt. of West Bengal). a. Status: Completed b. Money budgeted:Rs.4 lakhs c. Money spent:Rs.3 lakhs d. List of publications: Project Report e. Capital item purchased: None
(B) Project title: Direct and Indirect Roles of Socio-economic, Demographic, Health and Programmatic Factors in the Growth of Population in Giridih, a District in Jharkhand a. Status: Completed 23 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
b. Money budgeted:Rs.6 lakhs c. Money spent:Rs.6 lakhs d. List of publications: Project Report e. Capital item purchased: None
2. Name : Partha De [2014-16] Project title: Developmental Challenges in Children and Associated Socioeconomic Factors: A Study in the Purulia District of West Bengal a. Status: completed. b. Money budgeted: 9.15 c. Money spent: 8.10 d. List of publications: De, Partha, Sahu, D., Pandey, A., Gulati, B.K., Chandhiok, N., Shukla, A.K., Mohan, P. and Mitra, R.G. (2016) Post Millennium Development Goals Prospect on Child Mortality in India: An Analysis Using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averages (ARIMA) Model; Health, 8, 1845- 1872. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2016.815176. De Partha (2016). Child Disability and Malnutrition in a backward district of India: A Cross Sectional Study. Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Political Issues (ICSPI), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, 19-20 October, 2016, Bali, Indonesia. Sahu, D. Pandey, A. De, P. (2015) Levels, Trends and Projection of Under-five Mortality Rates and Prospects of Achievement of Millennium Development Goal Four in India. International Journal of Epidemiology; 44 (suppl_1): i207. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv096.340.
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1. Project Title: Orientation training on Data Visualization 2. Name of Proposing Scientist: Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata. 3. Name of Other Scientist associated with their affiliation: Nil 4. Date of Commencement: April, 2018 5. Project summary: Data visualization Chen, Härdle, Unwin (2007) is a general term that describes any effort to help people understand the significance of data by placing it in a visual context. It is important for Psycho-informatics (2010) in which researchers retrieve the data from data warehouse, clean and mine the data for patterning the data. Finally, pattern provides the knowledge to researcher about data behaviour. Besides data mining, data visualization is important for hypothesis driven research to explore data quality before application of suitable statistical tools. For mass communication, data visualization acts as good persuasive tool for its graphical representation of complex events. So it can be used in health surveillance system in Information education and communication. The training will impart knowledge about theory, statistical models, tools and application of data visualization in Psychology. Trainees can explore and gain further insight into their own data through the data visualization and design approaches. 6. Introduction with background: Psychological data sets increase in size and complexity. The data are both qualitative (text, image, sound and video) and quantitative. Data visualization helps explore the variability in data, identification of outliers or extraneous data, understand the explanatory variable and prediction of data behaviour. Data visualization is the communication through data. It is of two types – exploratory and explanatory. Several Univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistics are used in data visualization. It is the graphical distribution of data. Base graphics, grid, lattice and ggplot are common tools of data visualization. There are several data visualization tools. R is good software for data visualization but it is effective for good program writing. STATISTICA is powerful statistical software where in writing program is not necessary. 7. Description of the problem: The training will be imparted during summer and winter for the professionals, Institute faculties and research fellows. Venue will be selected as per availability of resource persons and accessories. It will be approximately five days workshop. Trainees will learn – a. Complexity of psychological data set. b. Uni, Bi and Multivariate data visualization statistical software. c. Applications of data visualization in health, education and Industrial solutions.
8. Objectives: The training will impart knowledge about theory, statistical models, tools and application of data visualization in Psychology. Trainees can explore and gain further insight into their own data through the data visualization and design approaches.
9. Study area: It will be National level workshop. Trainees will be requested to bring their data for application of software.
10. Review and status of research and development in the subject:
10.1. International status: Does not arise 10.2. National Status: National level workshop 10.3. Novelty of the present proposal: The concept of data visualization is innovative in psychological research training. 25 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 11. Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status: Due to rapid change in information technology, computer science and statistical software, data visualization is the future of psychological research. Second, due to lack of knowledge it is not usually taught in the department of Psychology of different universities. Hope, this workshop will sensitize the community of psychology. Third, I conducted many programs on data visualization in the different states of India like Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chennai and West Bengal. Everywhere I received good response to learn the steps and application of data visualization software.
12. Review of expertise available of the group/Institute in the subject of the project: IIT., Kharagpur, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad are doing work on it.
13. Work plan:
13.1. Methodology: One technical advisory committee will be formulated with experts for processing the training program. 13.2. Organization of work element and Time schedule of activities giving mile stones: It is one year program. It will commence on 1st, April, 2018 and end on 31st March, 1989.
14. Utilization of research results: One training manual will be prepared and book will be published based upon data analysis. 15. Budget summary
Capital
Sl Items Amount Justification 1. Costs of appropriate 200000 It is useful for big data graphical software (STATISTICA) : representation and it is menu driven. It can handle multidimensional data with better graphical accuracy.
Revenue
Sl Items Amount Justification
2 Air fare for 4 resource 80000 For course dissemination persons 3 Boarding and lodging for 10 32000 As the course is new, attention will be outstation participants for 4 paid to target persons through which days @Rs.800 knowledge can be disseminated more. 4 Lunch for 40 participants 64000 Basic requirement @Rs. 400 for 4 days 5 Tea & Snacks for 80 14400 Basic requirement persons for 3 days @ Rs. 60 6 Honorarium for 10 invited 20000 Contribution to manual persons @2000 per hour 7 Reading materials for 40 20000 Basic requirement persons @Rs. 500 8 Training kits (bag, writing 32000 Basic requirement pad, pen etc.) for 40 persons
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9 Local transport for 5 days 40000 Basic requirement 10 Advertisement and 5000 Basic requirement communication 11 Food and accommodation 25000 Basic requirement specially outstation charges program 12 Miscellaneous expenditure 25000 Basic requirement (Generator, photography, postal expenses, banner, flower, secretarial assistance, contingencies etc.) 13 Train (AC 3-tier) for 10 50000 Basic requirement outstation participants 14 Total revenue expenditure 407400 15 Total (both capital and 607400 revenue)
16. References:
1. Chen ,C. Härdle , W. K., Unwin, A. (2007).Handbook of data Visualization. Taiwan:Springer publication. 2. Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Psychoinformatics: Innovation in mining randomized data. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,1,23-31.
17. Does the project require clearance from the Review committee for the protection of Research Risk to humans? : Does not arise
18. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-2019) :
1st Salary Gen. Cap. Total 407400 200000 607400
19. List of all completed and/or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years.
Title Status Money budgeted Money spent Publications Safe school survey (2016-17) Ongoing 158000 154404 Orientation training program on Data analytics in Psychological Completed 240000 194486 Research (2017) Winter school on Data Mining in Completed 294000 253000 Psychological Research (2016) Differential validity of computer Completed 549000 41692.11 4 programming abilities (2012-15)
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SRU (General, New) Project No. 5.1
1. Project Title : A micro-level study of impact of life-style and socio-economy on adolescent overweight or obesity in Kolkata city, West Bengal. 2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Dr. Susmita Bharati, SRU 3. Name of Others Scientists associated with their affiliation: Professor Manoranjan Pal (ERU), Professor Premananda Bharati (Retired, BAU, ISI), Dr. Suparna Shome (SRU), Dr. Sonali Chakraborty (SRU), Dr. Suman Chakraborty (Assistant Prof and Head, Mrinalini Dutta Mahavidyapith, Birati) and Prof. Anjali Ghosh (Retired, PRU, ISI). 4. Date of Commencement: April, 2018 5. Project Summary (Max. 200 words) The problem of adolescent obesity in developed countries is common and the studies made on this problem are many. But in developing countries like India, especially in urban areas, it is an emerging problem though relevant studies regarding this problem are very few. From the literature survey, it is evident that obesity can affect mental health also and it is important to understand its complex nature of interactions. So the study of such interactions is urgently needed among adolescents since they are the future adults of the society. But there are only a few studies made on adolescent obesity in India. Hence, we have proposed to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity of adolescent children in Kolkata and to formulate an appropriate model to address the problems of obesity and its causal link with life style, food habit, physical and mental health among the adolescent children. 6. Introduction with Background (Max. 300 words) The term overweight refers to excess body weight for a particular height whereas the term obesity is used to define excess body fat (National institute of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 2013). Overweight and obesity primarily happen either due to excess calorie intake or insufficient physical activity or both. Furthermore, various genetic, behavioural, and environmental factors play a role in pathogenesis.
Obesity has now emerged as a major health issue in developing countries, especially in India due to urbanization, modernization, sedentary life style, consumption of oily and junk foods and other lifestyle changes which is presently facing a swift epidemiological changeover (Jain et al. 2012). It is reported that 2.2 billion adults were overweight in the world in 2013 (Ranjini et al., 2016). Today more and more children and adolescents are being diagnosed with Diabetes, hypertension and other co-morbid conditions which are associated with overweight or obesity (Brahmbhatt et al., 2012).
Adolescence is a process to change to ‘to attain identity’ of one self and is essentially the period of rapid physical and psychological development starting from the onset of puberty to complete growth and development. World Health Organization (WHO) defines ‘adolescent’ as an individual between 10 to 19 years of age (WHO,2015). In 2009, there was an estimated 1.2 billion adolescents in the world, forming 18% of the global population. The vast majority of the world’s adolescents – 88 per cent – live in developing countries. The least developed countries are home to roughly 16 percent of all adolescents. Around 243 million of them live in India. According to Census 2011 that 20.9% of Indian population are in the adolescent stage. The rural and urban population constituted 22% and 19% adolescents respectively. 7. Description of the problem (Max. 300 words) Relationship between socio-economic status (SES) with obesity is obvious but it differs according to development status of the country. In a developed country, SES is not always 28 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 directly related with obesity, but in developing countries like India, it is directly related with obesity (Sobal and Stunkard, 1989). Among adolescents, there is an evidence to support a causal association between depression during childhood or adolescence and obesity. Overweight children believed that they hindered their interaction with peers due to their obesity and 69% of the sample believed that if they lost weight, they would have more friends (Pierce and Wardle, 1997).
Very recently, another trend being observed, among Indian adolescents, is the skipping of breakfast. But breakfast skipping has an effect on obesity. And it has been observed that it is often underrated and skipped, especially among the adolescents. It is evident from many countries that skipping of breakfast is the sign to lose the body weight but the researcher says that skipping has been asserted with increased prevalence of obesity rather than weight lose (Woodruff et al., 2008; Wong et al., 1999; Burgman et al., 1998; Bellisle et al., 1995). Adolescents being more receptive to change and new ideas are easily imparted through exposure to media such as television, mobile phone, video-games, computer, internet and advertisements. The food choices, purchasing behavior and consumption pattern of the youth are influenced by advertisement particularly the ones that use local language and endorsement from local celebrities.
8. Objectives The main objectives of the study are --- (i) to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescent children aged 10-18 years, (ii) to see the relationship of obesity with socio-economic variables, (iii) to see the association between overweight or obesity with the state of their physical and mental health and (iv) to see how far various life style activities like sedentary habits, taking junk food, skipping breakfast etc. are associated with adolescent obesity. 9. Study area: The study will be done in Kolkata district. 10. Review and status of research and development in the subject (Max. 500 words.) 10.1 International Status Obesity is a serious health condition in US because 32% of children aged 10-17 are overweight and 16% are obese (Singh, GK, 2010). According to the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among 10-19 years children between 1998 and 2001 have increased from 9 to 14% in boys and 9 to 10% in girl (Reports on Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, 1999 & 2002). Across countries, the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity depends on the level of socioeconomic development and the stage of the nutrition transition (Case et al. 2002). In industrialized countries, obesity is inversely related with SES. This relationship has been documented throughout Western Europe (Centers for disease control and prevention, 2009, Chang et al. 2003) and in the United States (Cole et al., 2000). But a positive relationship between adolescent obesity and SES has been documented in Brazil (Filmer et al. 2001) , Colombia (Filozof et al., 2001) and Mexico (Finch, 2003; Finkolstein et al., 2007; Flegal et al., 2004).
Investigations have reported that adolescence with major depressions lead to increasing obesity in adulthood, especially among females (Pine et al. 2001; Richardson et al. 2003; Goodman and Whiteker, 2002). Weight teasing by peers and weight criticism by parents have the relationship between poor self-esteem and obesity in adolescents (Davidson and Birch, 2001).
29 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Breakfast skipping is highly prevalent in many countries including USA and Europe (10- 30%) and more common among adolescents (Rampersaud et al. 2005).
Dietz and Gortmaker (1985) was the first to publish the relationship between high Television (TV) watching with higher risk of obesity. According to Vereeckn et al. (2006), TV viewing time is often associated with higher intake of sweetened drinks and high energy dense food. Recently, a positive relation between electronic games and obesity has been found among Portuguese and Spanish children (Carvalhal et al. 2007; Vicente –Rodriguez et al. 2008).
10.2 National Status School surveys in Indian cities indicate that larger numbers of adolescents from the affluent population are either overweight or obese (Kapil et al. 2002; Bhardwaj et al., 2008; Goyal et al., 2010; Misra et al., 2011). A recent study carried out on 13-17 years old adolescents reveals that the prevalence of overweight in private school was 27% – 6 times higher than the prevalence in government schools (Stigler et al., 2011).
Recently, a study investigated among 1818 school going adolescent children in Delhi and found that weight control was thought to be important among almost all the youth irrespective of their youth status and found that fasting, skipping meals and food restricting were among the common unhealthy weight control behavior, and mainly among girls (Stigler et al., 2011). Very recently, Bharati et al. 2017 have found the relationship of children’s (6-10 years) overweight and obesity with socio-economy and television watching in Kolkata.
10.3 Novelty of the present proposal: Sedentary habits and life style like taking of junk food, breakfast skipping etc. are more prevalent in urban setting. Therefore the study is necessary to understand the overall prevalence of overweight and obesity among urban adolescent children in Kolkata as well as it will help to know about the level of socio-economic development through the pattern of relationship on obesity.
11. Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status (Max. 200 words) There are only a few studies made on adolescent obesity in India. So, the results may also be used in future health planning and research in order to combat the emerging adolescent obesity problem in India. Besides this, in our previous project during (2013-15), we tried to find out the relationship between childhood (6-10 year) overweight or obesity and impact of socio-economy, having of junk food and sedentary habits like TV watching etc. on it. The result shows that in Kolkata, 32.1% children are either overweight or obese and one of the reasons for such rate is the sedentary life style of the children and their food habits. Therefore, the present study is very much relevant as it gives the scenario of obesity at a crucial stage of life, i.e., adolescent and post adolescent period of life.
12. Review of the expertise available with the group/institute in the subject of the project ?
13. Work Plan 13.1 Methodology Study Design This study is the continuation study of our previous project where our population consisted of (6-10) year old children in Kolkata. And here, our population will be from 10 to 18 year children. However, due to obvious difficulty of identifying the children who do not go to school, we shall restrict our study to only school-going children. Sample of schools will be taken from the list of all Higher secondary school (Class V- XII). This is a 30 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 micro level cross-sectional study using multistage stratified sampling procedure and the total study would be divided into two phases. All the students of selected schools will be included in the first phase of study. In the second phase, approximately 25-30% of the total children who were studied in the 1st phase, will be considered for detailed study.
In the first stage of sampling, due to differentiation of socio-economic background, medium of school has been considered as one of the criteria. The reason is that the upper class or more economically affluent people try to admit their child or children in English medium school than in Bengali medium school. Our study will be restricted to two mediums namely (i) English medium and (ii) Bengali medium schools.
Again with the idea of socio-economic differences of the children, type of school, i.e. Government, Government sponsored and private, will be considered as another layer for stratification. So, finally along with the medium and type, the schools will be categorized into six groups, namely ---- (i) Bengali medium & Government, (ii) Bengali medium & Government sponsored, (iii) Bengali medium & Private, (iv) English medium & Government, (v) English medium & private and (vi) English medium & Government sponsored. The date of birth of each child will be taken from the school records and it will be cross checked from their respective parents or guardian.
From each selected school, to assess the health status, height, weight and mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC) will be measured for all the students and the respective age and sex. Nutritional status will be assessed through Body Mass Index for age and gender (WHO, 2006) when [BMI (wt/ht2) - height is expressed in meter and weight is expressed in kilogram]. Overweight is defined as having a BMI between the 85th and 95th percentiles for age and gender. Obesity is defined as greater than 95th percentile for age and gender, undernutrition is defined as below 15th percentile for age and gender and thus normal is in between 15th and 85th percentile. The household socioeconomic data such as community, literacy status and occupation of parents will be collected from the students, and the same will be confirmed with school records and also their respective parents. To assess the economic status of the family, per-capita expenditure and asset data will be taken.
In the 2nd phase of the study, for detailed survey, information on some activities on Psychological data which perceived mental health and behavioral data like physical activity level, sedentary habits like duration of TV watching, video game, computer and net surfing, mobile phone using etc. sleeping habits, about skipping of breakfast, food habits and having of amount of junk food items, vegetables and fruits etc. and prices of grains, vegetables and fruits will be collected through pre-tested structured questionnaires by recall method.
Sampling procedure Sample of schools will be selected from each of the six groups like English medium& Government, English medium & semi Government, English medium & private, Bengali medium & Government, Bengali medium & semi Government and Bengali medium &private. From each group, at least two schools i.e. total 12 schools will be selected by SRSWOR. From each selected schools, height and weight and MUAC will be measured for all the students and the respective ages, sex along with the required socio-economic variables will be noted.
Since from each of the six groups of schools, two schools will be selected and height and weight along with other anthropometric measures will be taken from all the students in the selected schools, we can expect the sample size in the first phase to be at least 4800 31 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 (400 students ˟ 12 schools). The age range would be (10-18) years. So in each age there would be 4800/9 = 533 students. Assuming that boys and girls are equally distributed, we get more than 200 students in each age-sex group. We have seen that the standard deviation (σ) of height is about 6 cm in each age for students in the age range 6-10 years. If we want to estimate mean height within 1 cm (d = allowable error) of the true average, then the formula for minimum sample size is
2 n = [(z1-α/2) σ/d] = (1.96) * (1.96) * (6)*(6)/(1*1) = 138 Moreover, the standard deviation of height in the age range (10-18) years will be much less. Thus we expect the optimum sample size to be less than 100. We have taken sample size around 200.
For the 2nd phase: All students of the selected schools will be divided into three groups according to health status namely overweight or obese, normal and underweight. Among them approximately 50 students will be selected randomly from each group i.e., 50 from overweight or obese, 50 from normal and 50 from under-weight from each school for the detailed survey. The same procedure will be followed for all selected schools.
Statistical Analysis Descriptive analysis will be done for the health, nutrition, duration of involvement in different sedentary habits, socio-economic and psychological parameters. Contingency χ2 test will be used to understand association between health and nutritional parameters and socio-economic variables, different sedentary habits and also psychological parameters to identify the significant factors associated with overweight and obesity. Age will be adjusted as and when necessary. Logistic regression and other multivariate statistical analysis will also be carried to find out the most effective parameters on overweight or obesity
13.2 Organization of work element and time schedule of activities giving milestones I Year -Preparation for requisite field work, data collection, analysis of data for interim report writing. II Year -Data collection, analysis and Final report writing. III Year – Nil. 14. Utilization of Research Results The result will be used in future health planning and research in order to combat the emerging adolescent obesity problem in India. Besides this, in our previous project during (2013-15), we tried to find out the relationship between childhood (of age 6-10 year) overweight or obesity and impact of socio-economy and TV watching on it. So the present study is very much relevant as it will give the scenario of obesity at another stage of life, i.e., adolescent and post adolescent period of life.
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15. Budget Estimates: Summary
Item (Rs. in Lac) Total I year II year III year (Rs.) in Lacs Revenue
A. Salary 1.80 1.80 3.60 B. (For 1 Project (15000 *12) (15000 *12) (15,000*24) Linked personnel)
Sub Total (A) 1.80 1.80 3.60 B. General
1. Contingency 0.5 0.5 1.00 2. TA/DA 1.00 1.00 2.00 3. Consumables 1.00 1.00 2.00 (Field Guide)
4. Others (data analysis & report 0.60 writing) 0.70 1.30
Sub-total (B) 4.90 5.00 9.90 Capital
1. Equipment
2. Others
Sub Total (C) Nil Nil Nil Grand Total 4.90 5.00 9..90
Justification of above Items.
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16. Does the project require clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans? If yes, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiver form forwarded by the P-in-C. --- ? Okay.
17. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during Year 1 :
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total
0.45 0.65 - 1.10 0.45 0.65 - 1.10 0.45 0.75 - 1.20 0.45 1.05 - 1.50
18. List of all completed and/or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years
g. Project title : A micro level study of Television (TV) Watching and Childhood Obesity in Kolkata, WB, India. h. Status : Completed i. .Money Budgeted : Capital 2.0 (lakh), Revenue 7.88(lakh) j. Money spent : Capital - Rs. 44,655/- ; Revenue Rs. 7.13 (lakh) approx.
k. Capital item purchased : Rs. 44,655/-
f. List of Publications : (1) Bharati S, Pal M, Shome S, Roy P, Dhara P and Bharati P. 2017. Influence of socio-economic status and television watching on childhood obesity in Kolkata. HOMO 68/5 (In Press).
(2) Bharati, S, Pal, M, Hossain, MG and Bharati, P. 2017. Validity of Different Methods for Assessing Overweight among Children Aged 6-10 Years in Kolkata, India. Mal J Nutr. 23 (2): 219-225.
(3) Susmita Bharati. 2017. Association of Economic Inequality 3 with Health Inequality: Women in Northeast India. In … Edited Issues on Health and Healthcare in India, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
(4) Susmita Bharati, Md. Ashraful Islam, Suman Chakrabarty, Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati. 2017. Patterns, Determinants and Comparative Account of Son Preferences in India. Genus Homo, 1, 13-33.
(5) SusmitaBharati, Manoranjan Pal and PremanandaBharati. 2017. Child Health in North East India. In: SarthakSengupta Edited Contemporary Anthropological Research in Eastern and North Eastern India.Gyan Publishing House New Delhi, pp. 87-100.
36 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 (6) Bharati, S; Pal, M. and Bharati, P. 2017. Childhood obesity in Kolkata, India. Its trend and consequence. Proceedings of International Conference on Bio- informatics and Bio-statistics for Agriculture health and Environment, 20-23rd January: pp. 113-121.
(7) Bharati, S, Bharati, P. 2016. Tagore and his contribution towards rural development. Nrtattv, THE ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 9 (11): 113- 121.
(8) Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Mitashree Mitra and Premananda Bharati. 2016. Changes in Basic Amenities, Awareness, Socio-Economy and Child Morbidity: A Comparative Study from NFHS-2 and NFHS-3. The Asian Man, 10 (1), 40-50.
(9) Bharati S, Pal M and Bharati P. 2015. Declining patterns of average height of adult Indians between 20 and 49 years: State wise trends and influence of socioeconomic factors. In Dasgupta Edited Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modelling, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
(10) Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan; Shome, Suparna Shome and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Temporal Trend of Anemia Among Reproductive-Aged Women in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 27 : 1193-1207.
(11) Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan, Chakrabarty Suman and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Socioeconomic determinants of iron-deficiency anemia among children aged 6 to 59 months in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 27: 1432-1443.
(12) Bharati, Susmita. 2015.Domestic violence against women in Jharkhand. International Journal of Current Research. 7 (I), 11748-11752.
(13) Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P.2014. Women Autonomy, Nutritional and Immunization Status of their Children. Anthropology,, 2 (2), 118.
(14) Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Premananda. 2013. Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children: A comparative study of Jharkhand, Bihar and WB in Dasgupta R edited Advances in Growth Curve Models, Springer, New York.pp. 257-270.
(15) Bharati, S; Pal, M and Bharati, P. 2013.The status of Infant health in India. Health. 5: 14-22.
(16) Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P. 2013. Autonomy of Tribal Women in India. Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities. 3: 32-45.
Paper Published in Book 1.Bharati Susmita, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda.2015. Social dimensions related to under nutrition among adult men. In: Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK edited Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, pp.21-31.
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SRU (General, New) Project No. 5.2
1. Project Title: Contract Farming: Participation, Partnership and Socioeconomic Development in Eastern India 2. Name of Proposing Scientists : Hari Charan Behera 3. Name of Others Scientists associated with their affiliation : No 4. Date of Commencement : April 2018 5. Project Summary (Max. 200 words): The proposed research is to study diverse agricultural policies, contractual norms and land leasing arrangement under contract farming in the selected states. It is also meant to explore new ideas from the study and frame alternative approach for successful farming practice in backward regions of the state with forward and backward linkage, social networking, and experience sharing from successful cases. Focus on formal and informal farming system, agrarian relations and contractual arrangement on the basis of size of landholding, land use practice, production and marketing relation, institutional arrangement, social relation (network), and other socioeconomic and political dimensions will be part of the research. The nature and extent of participation will help us understand the form of substitute or supplementary farming practice. Moreover, the study will focus on the socioeconomic condition of the farmers.
6. Introduction with Background (Max. 300 words): Contract farming has emerged as an agribusiness model in many developing countries including India. This has gained momentum in India since early 2000s after pursuance of new agricultural policy. Corporate participation in farming and partnership with farmers was encouraged to boost production output and ensure better market support for the products, mainly the processed variety, through supply chain network (Singh, 2005; Sharma., 2008: Gulati, Joshi and Landes, 2011; Oya, 2012). The study of contract farming in sociology and other social science disciplines has received due attention considering its wider socio-political linkage, economic important and emerging social relation (Glover and Kusterer, 1990; Watts, 1992). Contract farming is believed as as an alternative farming model to share investment and minimize production risks through participation and partnership. It involves diverse contractual arrangement, oral or written, under one or more specific conditions for production and marketing (Roy, 1972). With focus on contractual nature of production, marketing, and changing nature of social relation, Zhang (2012) noted, contract farming is a form of commodity production, usually household based, but it differs from subsistence farming in that contract farmers enter into monetized relation with agribusiness companies and specialize in commodity production and market transactions in stead of self consumption. Contract farming is nothing new, but its presence is restricted to limited geographic, agro-climatic and socioeconomic conditions of farmers in the country. Further, it is observed that contract farming co- exists with conventional or traditional farming. Mostly small and marginal farmers use it as a supplement rather than substitute to age-old agricultural practice.
7. Description of the problem (Max. 300 words): The problem is concerned with two parts. First part is concerned with theoretical issues, and the second part is concerned with contract farming policy and implications. While contract farming is widely
38 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 considered as neoliberal farming model, the structural and agrarian relational perspectives need to be examined in the neoliberal economic context. The contract farming having been associated with a multiple number of players and unequal partners like the firm and the producers, can be interpreted as capital driven farming practice. But there is ample scope for social driven practices under the contract faring based on mutual trust, obligations and reciprocity among others. Understanding complex land tenure including nature of landholding and land usages pattern, institutional efficiency, risk sharing pattern in contract farming are less examined or reviewed. Further, contract farming needs to be carefully scrutinized due to highly subjective and regional biases involved in it. The proposed research is to study diverse agricultural policies, contractual norms, and land-leasing arrangement under contract farming in the eastern Indian states. The eastern Indian part not being adequately covered for this type study may provide important insights. The study is meant to explore new ideas from the study and frame alternative approach for successful farming practice in backward regions of the states with forward and backward linkage, social networking, and experience sharing from successful cases.
8. Objectives: a. To review agrarian history, agricultural policies, approaches and norms under contract farming in the selected states. b. To assess institutional framework and land leasing arrangement for development of contract farming in the regions c. To examine the nature and extent of participation and also to examine the factors that determines farmers’ participation in contract farming. d. To determine how contract farming has impacted socioeconomic conditions of farmers, particularly small and marginal farmers. e. To identify both opportunities and constraints in contract farming in the regions.
9. Study area: Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal a. Selection of areas from each state will be based on contract farming presence. Based on concentration of contract farmers high, medium and low contract farming zones will be identified.
10. Review and status of research and development in the subject (Max. 500 words.)
a. International Status: Contract farming is widely practiced farming practice in both developed and developing countries. Large scale contract farming practice is reported in the countries like US, UK, Australia, Thailand, and Vietnam to name a few. These countries however, have different land tenure system. Literature suggests that countries having the complex land tenure system have less recognized this form of farming than in the developed countries. Contract farming in the developing countries of South Asia and African nations is relatively a new practice and coexist with complex land tenure system and institutional inefficiency.
b. National Status: In India contract farming is widely practiced in Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, etc. Major companies working in the field of contract farming are PepsiCo, ITC, HLL, Patanjali, etc. The eastern India in this regard is not well covered. The issues
39 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 related to technology dissemination, complex land tenure system , landholding pattern, institutional inefficiency, etc cannot be avoided
11. Novelty of the present proposal: Focus on eastern Indian part, particularly in Bihar and Odisha that are less studied by scholars. Equal emphasis on theoretical and empirical analysis to justify the nature and extent of participation or involvement, partnership and social inclusion of the marginalized social groups. Also, emphasis on agrarian relation, emerging social pattern, potential to build social capital, entrepreneurship, etc. Survey based approach will be adopted. In addition, the research will have focus on the participatory approach and use of mapping techniques.
12. Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status (Max. 200 words): Understanding agrarian root, land tenure system, and institutional framework is important part of the proposed project. Given the emergence of contract farming new form of agrarian relation will be significant part of the study. Moreover, the nature of contracting, its institutional and legal structures and their outcomes are being covered in the study. The risk sharing arrangement is equally vital in the context of contract farming. Moreover, the assessment of socioeconomic impact will be further important part of the paper.
13. Review of the expertise available with the group/institute in the subject of the project:
A study in West Bengal for contract farming among the potato growers is already conducted by the researcher.
Was involved in organizing workshop on this area during 2008 at LBSNAA, Mussoorie
14. Work Plan
a. Methodology: Primary and secondary sources of data collection: Review of agrarian history, agricultural policies, role of APMC, state intervention in land reforms and agricultural production, marketing and processing, etc.Collection of secondary data will be from the firms, government agencies, and other non-government agencies. Mapping may be done by useful participatory method and use of GPS tool.
Selection of farmers will be based on intensity of contract farming from different pockets. Based on intensity of contract farming practice it may be classified as high intensity CF zone, medium intensity CF zone and low intensity CF zone will be identified on the basis of intense review and survey. Apart from FGD, questionnaire survey methodology will be opted for data collection and quantitative analysis.
Selection of contract farmers (CF) and non- contract farmers for the study from each zone will be based on appropriate sampling techniques and estimation. Stratified random sampling and SRS techniques will be used. Two districts from each state and two or more villages from each districts will be studied based on both cost and duration.
40 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Hypotheses: 1. Socioeconomic factors like landholding, caste, family type, family size, non-farm income, highest education in the household, etc significantly influence farmers’ participation in contract farming. 2. Contract farming participation has increased land transaction (leasing-in and leasing-out), crop diversification, and farm mechanization. 3. There is significant difference in access to institutional services between CF and NCF 4. Contract farming has increased social network and it has strengthened social relation at the village level. b. Organization of work element and time schedule of activities giving milestones
I Year: Review of policy: revised policy framework, institutional and policy reforms, other literature review concerned with theoretical and empirical studies. Reading agrarian history, land tenure system, and land leasing arrangement for development of contract farming in the regions.This will be followed by survey designing, questionnaire framing, and launching field work.
II Year: Data entry, processing, data analysis and report-writing
15. Utilization of Research Results: For better planning and executing of contract farming, promote participation, and partnership, ensure social inclusion and agricultural growth.
16. Budget Estimates : Summary
Item (Rs. in Lac) Total I year II year III year (Rs.) in Lacs Revenue 300000 180000 Nil 480000 C. Salary
Sub Total (A)
B. General
5. Contingency 20000 10000 30000
6. TA/DA 300000 70000 370000
7. Consumables 10000 10000 20000
8. Others (two day 300000 Nil 300000 workshop)
Sub-total (B)
Capital 0
3. Equipment
4. Others
Sub Total (C)
Grand Total 930000 270000 1200000
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17. References : Dev, S.M. & N.C. Rao (2005). Food Processing and Contract farming in Andhra Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly, June 25
Gulati., Joshi, P.K., & M. Landes (2011). Contract farming in India: A Resource Book, accessed from http://www.ncap.res.in/contract_%20farming/
Oya, Carlos (2012). Contract farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Approaches, Debates and Issues, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 12 No. 1, January (pp.1-33).
Sharma, V.P. (2008). India’s agrarian crisis and corporate-led contract farming: Socioeconomic implications for smallholder producers, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Vol. 11, Issue4, 2008.
Singh, Sukhpal (2005). Political Economy of Contract farming, Allied Publishers Private Limited, New Delhi.
Swain, B.B. (2011). Contract farming in Andhra Pradesh: A Case of Rice Seed and Gherkin Cultivation, Economic Political weekly, Vol. XLVI (42).
Toy, E., (1972). Contract farming and Economic Integration, Danville, Interstate Press.
Sharma, N. (2016). Determining Growers’ Participation in Contract Farming in Punjab, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LI (2).
Zhang, Q.F. (2012). Political Economy of Contract Farming in China’s Economic Transition, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 460-483
18. Does the project require clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans? If yes, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiver form forwarded by the P-in-C.
19. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during Year 1 :
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Sala Ge Ca Tot Sala Ge Ca Tot Sala Ge Ca Tot Sala Ge Ca Tota ry n. p. al ry n. p. al ry n. p. al ry n. p. l
20. List of all completed and/or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years
l. Project title : 1. Dynamics of land use pattern in north Chotanagpur plateau: A micro-level study 2. Contract farming participation and emerging trend in agrarian relations: A case of potato growers in West Bengal
m. Status : 2 completed and 1 ongoing
42 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 n. Money Budgeted : Rs. 375000/- for completed projects and Rs. 627000 for ongoing project o. Money spent : Rs. 344972 for completed projects & Rs.323722 for the ongoing project as of now p. List of Publications :
1. Behera, H.C. (2015). Socioeconomic Perspective of Land use Practice in Jharkhand, The Eastern Anthropologist 68 (4), 497-526.
2. Behera, H.C. (2015). The Pattern of Landholdings and Emerging Agrarian Relations: A Study in North Chotanagpur Region of India, The Oriental Anthropologist, 15 (1).
3. Behera, H.C. (2014). Land Alienation, Dispossession and Displacement: A Reappraisal of Constitutional Safeguards and Tribal Rights in K.K. Misra and N.K. Das (eds.) Dissent, Discrimination and Dispossession, New Delhi: Manohar, pp.321-337.
4. Behera, H.C. and A.P. Singh (2014). Land Reforms and Record Management in Tribal Areas: Pertaining Issues and Prospects in M.C. Behera and Jumyir Basar (eds.) Resources, Tribes and Development, Rawat, pp. 173-187.
Books/report (coedited and coauthored) 5. Land Records Management in India: A Plea for Reforms (coedited), published in 2014 by Concept Publishing Company (P) Ltd., New Delhi (ISBN-13:978-93- 5125-095-1). 6. Identifying Existing Capacities to Execute the National Land Records Modernisation Programme in West Bengal: An Appraisal (Coauthored), 2014, CRS, LBSNAA
q. Capital item purchased : nil
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EAU (General, New) Project No. 8.1
1. Project Title: Workshop on Data Anomaly in Official Statistics regarding Women’s Labour in India. 2. Name of Proposing Scientists : Molly Chattopadhyay 3. Name of Others Scientists associated with their affiliation: Madhura Swaminathan, EAU, ISI; Niyati, S., EAU, ISI; Vijayamba R., EAU, ISI. 4. Date of Commencement: April 1, 2018. 5. Project Summary (Max. 200 words): This project seeks to evaluate gender gap in official statistics relating to the number of women workers in India. Secondly, the project intends to make gender statistics related to an approximation of employment size with three case studies. First case study will examine women’s labour in rice farming. Second case study will look at women’s labour in livestock economy. Third case study will involve women in plantation sector.
6. Introduction with Background (Max. 300 words): Level of participation in economic activity in a population measured in terms of Work Participation Rate depends crucially on how ‘work’ and ‘worker’ are defined. Data on number of women workers in India is collected by population censuses, National Sample Survey Organization’s (NSSO) employment-unemployment surveys and Annual Survey of Industries (ASI). For a sound understanding and analysis of women’s position in Indian society and economy, we require adequate and good quality data. There are a variety of sources that provide information on a range of variables disaggregated by sex, that is, for men and women separately. On the one hand, Annual Survey of Industry (ASI) collects data from formal sector by sampling and total enumeration; on the other hand, NSSO does the same based on household survey while Census data is collected by total enumeration. Thus, there is lack of consistency in the data since ASI data is based on organized sector while NSSO and Census covers both organized and unorganized sector based on sampling and total enumeration respectively. As per NSSO Employment- unemployment Survey (2011-12), share of principal female worker in rural area is 72.1% against 23.3% of urban workers. While as per Census (2011), share of female main workers in rural area is 55.6% while in urban area it is 77%. Overall, female labour force participation is 22.5% for NSSO (2011-12) and 25.5% for Census (2011). Data anomaly arises due to the definition of worker and methodology adopted by different labour force surveys. For example, in NSS Report 559, proportion of female workers in animal rearing activity is 37.5% (principal and subsidiary), while primary survey shows more than 40% of female workers are engaged in animal rearing activity (Swaminathan and Usami, 2016). Women’s work in animal rearing activities is undercounted in standard labour force surveys. In the same way, in UP, as per NSSO (2009-10), female labour force participation was 28.2% in rural areas and 11.8% in urban areas. But the primary survey (Saha, et.al., 2016) found 47.3% of women are working in rural UP against 48.4% in urban UP. The NSS definition is based on the major time criteria for the reference year (and over 30 days in the reference year for subsidiary employment) while the definition authors used is major time criterion for the last one month from the date of survey. Similarly, from our previous study on coffee industry in Karnataka, there are differences in the number of women plantation workers between Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. India and Labour Bureau, Govt. of India (2010). The difference between two government organizations is nearly 1.3 lakh.
44 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 7. Description of the problem (Max. 300 words): The items on employment (e.g. workforce participation rate, status and sector of employment) in Women and Men in India (CSO, 2012) do not help us to understand the types of jobs and occupations of women. To understand women’s role in the economy, information is required not only on aggregate participation in the labour force (by sector) but also diversification of women’s employment that would be a very useful indicator of changing patterns of employment among women workers (Swaminathan, 2013). Women contribute significantly to the total labour input involved in cultivation of rice. They specifically engage in labour intensive crop operations like, threshing, weeding and harvesting. There are few official statistics to measure the extent to which women participate in crop specific operations. CACP (Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices) provides data on labour inputs involved in a crop, but gender disaggregated estimates are not provided in published reports. NSSO Employment and Unemployment Surveys provide estimates on workforce participation rate of women in rice production (using the NIC activity code), but that cannot be disaggregated operation wise. In case of CACP, data is collected crop-operation-wise for female workers, but this aspect of the questionnaire is not utilised for providing estimates. Thus, compilation of this data can be helpful in estimating the actual participation of women in operations of rice cultivation. In livestock sector, 73 percent of the labour force is women. Though women have an important role in animal rearing they do not report it as a primary activity. If we take animal rearing as secondary, tertiary occupations the number of women engaged in it goes up and is greater than men. Time use surveys are important to recognize women’s labour in animal care. There are some secondary data sources to understand women’s participation in livestock economy. The NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey collect data on time disposition during the week. But this does not further divide the tasks of animal husbandry. The NSSO pilot time use survey has information on time disposition of persons on selected days of the week. It has information of activities on selected days with actual time spent. This work shall address the gap that the number of women engaged in animal care is undercounted and time spent by women in animal care is not reported as economic activity in usual surveys. In case of plantation, land size and number of workers differ hugely between NSSO, Coffee Board, Labour Bureau and Labour Department of respective State Governments. This study will make an attempt to detect data anomaly between different data collecting agencies that cover plantation sector regarding a) size of harvested area, b) number of plantation units and c) employment size by gender. 8. Objectives: To examine data anomaly in official statistics regarding women’s labour in India. 9. Study area: Women and Labour in both agricultural and non-agricultural sector.
10. Review and status of research and development in the subject (Max. 500 words.) 10.1 International Status: The following aspects have been raised in the international literature on addressing the gender gaps in official statistics; firstly, official statistics on individuals should be disaggregated by sex. Secondly, all variables should be analysed with sex as a primary classification. Thirdly, specific efforts to identify gender issues and addressing them. Fourthly, a need to broaden the definition of work in data collection to capture the diversity of women’s work. Finally, data must take into account the social and cultural factors that produce biases in the data collection (Corner 2003). An agreement by the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) to use the minimum set of gender indicators, consisting of 52 quantitative and 11 qualitative indicators, as a guide for international compilation of gender statistics is a step towards the harmonisation of indicators. New methodological guidelines have been developed with the aim to provide reliable, comparable and quality data on gender statistics (United Nations 2015).
45 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Another aspect which has been discussed widely is on capturing the women’s paid and unpaid work in the informal sector. Time Use Surveys (TUS) can be useful in this regard (Hirway 2009).Regarding this, International Labour Organisation (ILO) is developing guidelines to collect data on women’s work. In the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), a resolution has been passed to include unpaid non-SNA work as a part of “work” (United Nations 2015). Thus, time use surveys have emerged as an important statistical survey to get a comprehensive idea of women’s work (Hirway and Jose 2011).
The third important issue in this area is the comparability of the estimates of work. Irrespective of the method used to prepare international and country specific estimates, the quality of such estimates will depend upon the availability and comparability of the data on which estimates are based (Hussmanns 2004). 10.2 National Status In case of India, the problem with India’s official statistics is that statistics from various government agencies are not comparable to each other. Thomas and Jayesh (2016) show discrepancies in the employment estimates from NSSO (National Sample Survey Office) and Census. A part of the discrepancy is possibly due to differences between the Census and the NSSO in their definitions of the work force. Sen and Himanshu (2004) have also highlighted the discrepancies in the NSSO data with the data in National Account Statistics (NAS). And thus, detecting such data anomalies is a crucial step for improving the quality and reliability of data. Despite the importance of this issue, there are a very few which have systematically identified and analysed data anomalies regarding women’s labour (Chattopadhyay and Lahiri 2017). 10.3 Novelty of the present proposal: Three issues have been highlighted in the literature. The first is about gender gaps in official statistics and how to address them. Second, is to broaden the definition of “work” to get a more clear understanding of women’s work in unpaid activities. Third, aspect is about addressing the comparability issues in official statistics. As evident from literature review, both national and international, time-use surveys based on sex-disaggregated data on women’s labour fail to capture diversity of women’s labour which the current project will try to find out. 11. Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status (Max. 200 words) The Indian labor market displays several striking features: very low rates of female labor force participation; considerable variance in rates of female labor force participation across Indian states; and a large share of both women and men working in the informal sector. The literature on female labor force participation in India has traditionally focused on how demographic characteristics and educational attainment affect the labor force participation decisions of women. In a separate literature, well-known rigidities in Indian labor markets have been put forth as the reason for the high share of informal employment in overall employment—for example, about 85 percent of India’s non-agricultural workers are employed in informal sector jobs. Over the years, the main objective of the policies of the Government of India with regard to female labour has been to remove the handicaps under which they work, to strengthen their bargaining capacity, to improve their wages and working conditions, to augment their skills and to open up better employment facilities for them. In this perspective, it is assumed that any developmental programme supposed to augment decent work conditions for women workers should be supported by reliable statistics. 12. Review of the expertise available with the group/institute in the subject of the project: Prof. Madhura Swaminathan has already deliberated on the issue of gender statistics in the area of rural economy and livestock economy (2013). Principal investigator, Dr. M.Chattopadhyay completed project on Data anomaly in mining statistics of India and published on it (2017).
13. Work Plan: In the first part of the year, we will identify the participants and different sources of data and problems. The workshop will be held in the second or third
46 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 quarter. A summary of the workshop in terms of future research agenda will be prepared in the fourth quarter. 13.1 Methodology: NA 13.2 Organization of work element and time schedule of activities giving milestones I Year Identification of data sources, examining gaps in data, finding out different stakeholders and holding of workshop. II Year NA III Year NA 14. Utilization of Research Results: Preparation of draft report and dissemination of findings in the workshop, publication of research papers and two theses will come out of the findings. 15. Budget Estimates : Summary
Item (Rs. in Lac) Total I year II year III year (Rs.) in Lacs Revenue
Salary 200000 - - 200000
Sub Total (A) 200000 - - 200000
B. General
Contingency 30000 - - 30000 TA/DA 300000 - - 300000 Consumables 50000
Others 30000 - - 50000
Sub-total (B) 410000 - - 30000 Capital - - 410000 Equipment N.A.
Others N.A.
Sub Total (C) - - - -
Grand Total 610000
Justification of above Items: Two project linked personnel for five months to collect official statistics on labour and employment of women workers from different government and non- government agencies. Additionally, they have to collect data on women workers for plantation, livestock economy and rice farming. Salary = Monthly Rs. 20000*2 persons*5 months = Rs.200000. Air fare, car hire charge, accommodation for 20 participants = Rs.3,00,000. Other expenditure e.g. contingency and consumables including stationery, local travel for PI and project personnel and food = Rs. 1,10,000. Total Rs. 610000 is required for the workshop.
16. References :
Central Statistical Organization. 2012. Women and Men in India. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. Government of India. 47 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
Chattopadhyay, M. and Lahiri, A. (2017), “Data anomaly in mining statistics of India”, Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 33(2017), pp 547-556.
Corner, L. (2003),“From margins to mainstream. From gender statistics to engendering statistical systems”, Regional Economic Advisor,UNIFEM in Asia-Pacific & Arab States.
Government of India. 2016. Department of Commerce. Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Annual Report, 2015-16. New Delhi.
Government of India. 2009. Ministry of Labour & Employment (2009), ‘Socio-Economic Condition of Women Workers in Plantation Industry’, Government of India, Labour Bureau, Chandigarh.
Government of India. 2012-13. Ministry of Labour & Employment (2009), ‘Statistical Profile on Women Labour”, Government of India, Labour Bureau, Chandigarh.
Hirway, I.(2009),“Mainstreaming Time Use Surveys in National Statistical System in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, pp.56-65.
Hirway, I. and Jose, S. (2011),“Understanding Women's Work Using Time-Use Statistics: The Case of India”, Feminist Economics, 17(4), pp.67-92.
Hussmanns, R. (2004),“Defining and Measuring Informal Employment”, Bureau of Statistics Paper, ILO, Geneva, February (http://www. ilo. org/public/english/bureau/stat/download/papers/meas. pdf).
Saha, Partha, et.al. 2016. Declining female employment in India: Insights from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. In Dasgupta, Sukti and Sher Singh Verick (eds.) Transformation of Women at Work in Asia: An Unfinished Development Agenda. Sage, New Delhi.
Sen, A., and Himanshu (2004),“Poverty and inequality in India: II: Widening disparities during the 1990s”,Economic and Political Weekly, pp.4361-4375.
Swaminathan, Madhura (2013), “Gender Statistics in India: A Short Note with a Focus on The Rural Economy”, Accessed at http://mospiold.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/Them_paper_Gender.pdf
Swaminathan, Madhura and Yoshifumi Usami. 2016. ‘Women’s Role in the Livestock Economy’, Review of Agrarian Studies, 6(2), 123-133.
Thomas, J.J., and Jayesh, M.P. (2016),“Changes in India's Rural Labour Market in the 2000s: Evidence from the Census of India and the National Sample Survey”, Review of Agrarian Studies, 6(1), pp.81-115.
United Nations (2015): The World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Publications, New York.
17. Does the project require clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans? If yes, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. If no, submit the waiver form forwarded by the P-in-C. Not required.
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18. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during Year 1 : 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 0.0 60000 0.0 60000 60000 90000 0.0 150000 60000 140000 0.0 200000 60000 140000 0.0 200000
19. List of all completed and/or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years Year 2012-15 r. Project title : Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Indian Mining Industry s. Status : Completed t. Money Budgeted : 1,02,000 u. Money spent : 1,00,000 v. List of Publications : 1. Chattopadhyay,Molly and Anupam Lahiri. "Data Anomaly in Mining Statistics of India". Statistical Journal of the IAOS. DOI. 10.3233/SJI160281, 2017. 2. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2012. “Women Miners of India: Gender Intervention and Analysis". Book of abstracts, Second ISA Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012, Pp.114. Available at http://www.isasociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/isa-forum2012-book-of- abstracts.pdf 3. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2013. “Invisible workers of mining and quarrying sector: Data gap in official statistics”. Paper presented at the conference on “The Unorganised Sector in India: Extending the Debate to Mining and Quarrying” hold at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 27-28th July, 2013. Available at http://www.mlpc.in/doc/Seminar%20report.p 4. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women in the Indian Mining Sector”. Paper presented at 57th Annual conference by Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Srinagar, 10-12 October, 2015, (p. 230). w. Capital item purchased : NA Year 2015-18 a. Title: Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka b. Status: Ongoing c. Money Budgeted in 2015-16: 3,00,000 d. Money spent: 2.90,000 e. List of Publications : 1. Chattopadhyay, Molly. “Workplace Gender Discrimination among Curing Workers of India’’. International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies. 2, 1, 2017, Pp: 77-90. 2. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women workers in Coffee industry of India”. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Colombo, 11- 13 August 2015 organised by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka, Pp. 5-14.
f. Capital item purchased : NA
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1. Title of the Project: Training ON ADVANCED ECONOMETRIC METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, 2017-2020
2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Amita Majumder, Samarjit Das.
3. Brief objective and justification: The School is meant for research fellows, young teachers/researchers working in colleges, universities, institutions, and analysts working in different organizations, who are actively engaged in empirical research in economics and finance.
Econometrics - both time series and cross-section- have experienced phenomenal growth in the last 35 years. This began with what G.S.Maddala called the ' three revolutions ' in time series econometrics, namely, Unit Roots, Cointegration and Volatility Models, in the late seventies of the last century. This has been followed by significant developments in the methodologies dealing with the analysis of cross section data. A lot of the very recent growth in econometrics reflects the rapid advances in computing technology. Increased availability of data at micro level is a major advance which has, of late, facilitated growth of panel data models and microeconometrics. Under such an advanced state of this subject, practitioners and researcher are confronted with an overwhelmingly large literature most of which are quite difficult to comprehend from consideration of econometric theory. The application of the methodologies involved also requires formidable computational skills. Thus, appropriate analysis of economic data now requires not only a certain level of knowledge on econometric methods concerning these advanced topics but also competence with standard software packages like EViews, STATA, and R. With the purpose to cater to this specific requirement for knowledge in advanced topics in Econometrics that the Economic Research Unit proposes to organize a Two weeks (12 days) training program ‘on Advanced Econometric Methods and Their Applications’.
We will make use of local resource persons from North-East Universities; and also resource persons from other Universities/Institutes. Recently, we organized similar workshop at Mizoram university, Mizoram, for one week successfully. Participants wanted us to organize similar workshop for a longer version throughout the whole north-east. Keeping in mind the serious travelling issue, we plan to organize workshop at various corners of north-east, viz., Nagaland, Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh etc.
The objective of the school is to familiarize its participants with the theory and methods of advanced econometrics as well as to applications of latest econometric techniques with hands-on exercises. The topics to be covered are the following. Basic regression Analysis with diagnostics; Qualitative and limited dependent variable models; non-parametric and semi-parametric regressions; frontier production function and stochastic frontier production function; panel data models; ARIMA modelling, forecasting, Unit root Test, Co-integration Analysis ; volatility models like the GARCH, EGARCH and multivariate GARCH; tests for multiple structural breaks; Policy evaluation and treatment effects; and the software package R and STATA.
The School is meant for research fellows, young teachers/researchers working in colleges, universities, institutions, and analysts working in different organizations, who are actively engaged in empirical research in economics and finance. Applicants must have consistently good academic records with at least a Master’s degree in Economics/Applied Economics/ Econometrics from a recognized university/institution. They must have had a sound training in Statistics and/or Econometrics, and also be familiar with the basics of econometrics and time series analysis.
4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation: N/A
From other Institutions:
From the Institute:
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5. Date of Commencement: April 2017. 6. Expected Date of Completion: March 2020.
7. Interim report (max 500 words) including publication/patent based on work from the project : N/A
8. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. in Lakhs) :
Total budget for three Outlay till date Expenditure till date years Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 48 nil 48 0 0 0 0 0 0
9. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page): Budget for 2nd Year
Srl no. Item Heads Amount (Rs.) 1 Capital Nil 2 TA (3-tier/bus etc. ) for 30 outstation participants @ 1,50,000 Rs.4000 (average) per participant 3 Travel for the resource persons including faculties and 2,00,000 office staffs (10@15000) 4 Airport drop at both ends and Local transport 70, 000 5 Board (breakfast & dinner) charges of 40 persons for 15 4,50,000 days @ Rs.750/day (approx.) per participant 6 Lunch for 50 persons for 14 days @ Rs.400/day per 2,80,000 participant 7 Tea/coffee and snacks (twice daily) for 14 days 35,000 8 Lodging of participants and resource persons 2,50,000
9 Workshop kit (bag, pen, pad, name tag etc.), numbering 75,000 50 @ Rs. 1500 per kit 10 Honorarium to 4 resource persons from outside for a 60,000 total of 20 lecture hours @ Rs.3000 per lecture-hour 11 Miscellaneous expenses (Postal Expenses, Banner, Flex, Photocopying, Pen Drives 100,000 and other incidental expenses) Total 16,00,000 12 Registration fees for 30 outstation participants @ 30,000 Rs.1000 per participant Amount Claimed 15,70,000
Total (in words): Rupees Fifteen lakh seventy thousand only.
Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total
1 12 13 0.6 15.4 16 2 17 19
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A. Project title: Status : Money Budgeted : Money Spent : Publications :
11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-19):
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salar Gen Cap. Total Salar Gen Cap. Total Salar Gen Ca Tota Sala Gen. Cap. Total y . y . y . p. l ry 0.6 15.4 16
12. For General Projects only : N/A
Action plan /Target in Terms of Financial target in terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year
13. Rank (to be given by the Division)
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1. Title of the Project: North-East Training Programme
2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Head, SOSU
3. Brief objective and justification:
Development of manpower in the North East is an important agenda of the GoI. In this respect SOSU can play an important role with its unique position as a close collaborator with several Ministries that generates and uses official statistics. It would be valuable exposure for the participants to learn recent statistical techniques from SOSU.
Trainees (MPhil students, Research Scholars and young faculty from several disciplines like Biosciences, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences who needs to analyse data in their line of work as well as Officers from various statistical services of the government) from North Eastern States of India who attended the training programmes conducted by SOSU in the North Eastern States appreciated and found the programmes useful in their official/administrative/academic work. Encouraged by their feedback it is felt that there is need for similar programmes in improving the skills of the officers/teachers from government and public sector departments, schools, colleges and universities in the north eastern parts of India. The resources available in ISI for training in statistics, data analysis and computers, may be used for this purpose (we plan to use the faculty from SOSU as well as from the Applied Statistics and Computer and Communication Science Divisions). The programme will be formulated keeping in view the requirements of the potential participants and use of computers in their data processing works. Effort will also be made to identify faculty from the host institutions who may supplement the delivery.
We plan to hold one such programme every year.
4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation:
From other Institutions: From the Institute:
5. Date of Commencement : 1.4.2018
6. Expected Date of Completion : 31.03.2019
7. Interim report (max 500 words) including publication/patent based on work from the project :
8. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. in Lakhs) :
Total budget for three years Outlay till date Expenditure till date Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Tota l 6,30,000.00* Nil 6,30,000.00* 6,30,000.00* Nil 6,30,000.00* Nil Nil Nil
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9. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page):
Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 50,000.00 5,80,000.00 Nil 6,30,000.00
10. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years.
A. Project title: Status : Money Budgeted : Money Spent : Publications :
11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-19):
1st (Rs. in Lac.) 2nd 3rd 4th
Salar Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total y 0.5 5.8 0 6.3
12. For General Projects only :
Action plan /Target in Terms of Financial target in terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 100 100
13. Rank (to be given by the Division)
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1. Title of the Project: Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application of an Easily Implementable Sampling Strategy 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Amita Majumder
3. Major aims of the Project (use a bulleted list, max 200 words):
• As unorganized manufacturing and trade contribute a big share to India’s national Income, it is necessary to have reliable and comprehensive data pertaining to the informal sector for planning and policy formulations. • It has been observed that the traditional two-stage sampling adopted by NSS is ineffective for some of the enterprises because of failures to capture their sparse and scattered locations (Maiti et al., 2015). • Two alternative sampling strategies have been proposed in Maiti et al. (2015), which is expected to fare better than the existing two-stage design adopted by NSS office. • The proposed sampling procedure for the survey of enterprises in the informal sector will be the same as in the existing scheme, except that here it is proposed to take a Gram Panchayat (a cluster of villages) as the unit of analysis in the Rural Sector as opposed to Village as FSUs as per NSS scheme. • A list of all economic activities under the Panchayat and the Municipality is readily available, as construction of such a list by the office of the Panchayat and the Municipality is mandatory to generate revenue (enlistment fee) at the local level. All the establishments in the selected panchayats will be visited by investigators. Since none is expected to be missed, a major source of underestimation is expected to be removed.
• This project proposes to conduct a pilot study to examine if the proposed designs would be better than the existing one, in the sense of providing an improved estimate.
5. Date of Commencement: April, 2017
6. Expected date of completion: March, 2019
7. If the project requires clearance from the Review Committee for the Protection of Research Risk to Humans, has the clearance been obtained? If not, apply for the clearance through the prescribed form. NOT APPLICABLE
8. Interim report including publications based on work from the project (only for proposals of Year 3) [max 500 words] NOT APPLICABLE
9. Outlay and Expenditure during Year 1 of project (only for proposals of Year 3): NOT APPLICABLE
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Total budget requested Budget requested Expenditure during for three years for Year 1 Year 1
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
10. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed for next year:
Item Total (Rs.) Revenue Field work 5,00,000 Stores and Stationeries 40,000 Local Transport 50,000 Miscellaneous 60,000 (including on the spot field check etc.) Capital 0 Total 6,50,000
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during next year:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total . . . . 50,000 0 50,000 4,00,000 0 4,00,000 1,50,000 0 1,50,000 50,000 0 50,000
12. Brief particulars of assets proposed to be acquired from capital budget of next year: NONE
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1. Title of the Project: Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Souvik Roy 3. Brief objective and justification: • The purpose of this project is to study issues in collective decision making problem under incomplete information. The study is a part of a much larger study in the theory of mechanism design. In general terms, mechanism design theory is concerned with resource allocation in multi-agent environments. The key feature of the problem is that the determination of the “optimal” allocation depends on information which agents possess privately. In order to achieve an optimal allocation this private information must be elicited from the agents. But agents are sophisticated and they recognize that they may be served better by lying, rather than by telling the truth.
• In this project we want to understand the role of prior belief formation in determining the outcome of an economic or social phenomenon. In the existing literature it is almost always assumed that the people in a society are completely aware of the behaviour of the other people. However, this is far from truth in reality! A voter can have some idea about who the other voter is going to vote, but can never be hundred percent sure about that. So, a more practical and natural assumption would be to assume people in a society form belief about their fellow members, and they behave according to their belief.
4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation: From other Institutions: Nil From the Institute: Nil
5. Date of Commencement: First quarter, 2016-17 6. Expected date of completion: 2018-19, fourth
7. Interim report (max 500 words) including publication/patent based on work from the project:
We consider a finite set of agents and a finite set of alternatives. Each agent has a set of possible strict preferences over the set of alternatives. A collection preferences is called a preference profile. A decision scheme is a mapping from the set of preference profiles to the set of probability distribution over the set of alternatives. Such a scheme is called ex-post Pareto efficient if it never assigns a positive probability to an alternative that dominated by another alternative at every preference. A decision scheme is called neutral if it treats all the alternatives equally. Such a rule is called anonymous if it treats all the agents equally. We introduce the notion of ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility (OBIC). A decision scheme is called OBIC with respect to a prior belief if no agent can improve the expected ordinal utility of any upper contour set by misrepresenting his/her preferences. A decision scheme is called random dictatorial if every agent is a dictator with some probability. Also, such a decision scheme is called top-weighted if it never assigns a positive probability to an 57 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 alternative that not a top element of any agent at a preference profile. We call a decision scheme tops-only if its outcome at preference profile depends only on the top alternatives at that profile. Observe that any TDS is TWDS but the converse is not true. Also observe that both TWDS and TDS satisfy ex-post efficiency. Theorem. Any neutral random rule is OBIC wrt uniform prior. Theorem. Suppose there are three alternatives. Then, every neutral and efficient OBIC rule is random dictatorial. We also characterize the neutral, anonymous and OBIC rules for arbitrary number of alternatives. We don't present that in this report as the presentation of that result requires many notations and preliminaries. Experimental part: Note that the notion of OBIC is based on some prior belief of the agents about the preferences of the others. However, nothing is known about how agents form such beliefs. In particular, it is also known if such beliefs are independent or not. This requires us to conduct experiment to elicit the beliefs of agents formed in such environment. Therefore, we conduct experiment (mostly involving students) where students are asked to play a voting game. In such games, each student is given a preference as his/her true preference and is asked to report a preference to the designer. For every collection of preference an outcome is chosen and students are paid (normally, ten times m minus r, where r is the rank of the outcome according to their true preferences). Every time a student plays a strategy, he/she is asked to report his/her prior belief over the true preferences of the others. We finally check the correlation amongst these reported beliefs. Future plan: We intend to estimate the pattern with which their beliefs change. Finally, we would like to see if these beliefs converge to anything, and, if they do, then what is the limit. We would like to establish this limit as social prior belief for a Bayesian model. On the theoretical part: Our plan is to prove the following conjectures. CONJECTURE 1: A Tops-only DS (TDS) is OBIC with respect to a generic prior, if and only if it is a random dictatorship. CONJECTURE 2: A TWDS is OBIC with respect to a generic prior if and only if it is a random dictatorship. CONJECTURE 3: Let D be a regular domain. Suppose every generic OBIC, neutral, and efficient random rule on D is random dictatorial. Then, so happens on any domain D' such that D' contains D.
8. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. in Lakhs):
Total budget requested Budget requested for Expenditure during for three years Year 1 Year 1
Rev. Cap Total Rev. Ca Total Rev. Cap. Total . p. 27,30,000 9,10,000 9,10,000 178690 178690
9. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page):
(For 1st Year, 2nd Year, and 3rd Year)
Item Heads General Salary Capital Grand Total 58 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Capital 0 0
Travel and subsistence for principal 1,50,000 1,50,000 investigator and collaborators Software, web developer for designing 1,00,000 1,00,000 experiments, computer consumables, books, stationary, journal fees etc. academic expenses. Cost of running Experiments 35,000 35,000 2 Project linked personnel @ 25,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 per month for 12 months Miscellaneous expenses 25,000 25,000 Total 3,10,000 6,00,000 0 9,10,000
10. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years.
No. of completed Projects: 1 (one) (b) Title: "Mechanism Design in Internet Economics": (i) Starting date: November, 2014 (ii) Status: completed in March, 2016 (iii)Money Budgeted: Rs. 4,15,000 /- (iv) Money Spent: approx. 3,65,000 /- (v) Publication: Work in progress
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during next year: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 10% 10% 25% 25% 35% 35% 25% 25%
12. For General Projects only:
Action plan /Target in Terms of Financial target in terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year
25% 35% 40% 25% 35% 40%
13. Rank (to be given by the Division)
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1. Title of the Project: Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic theory and applications: 2017-18 to 2019-2020 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Indraneel Dasgupta, Soumyanetra Munshi, Souvik Roy.
3. Brief objective and justification:
• In this project we aim to acquaint the faculty members, researchers, academicians, and postgraduate students of the Indian Statistical Institute with various advanced areas of economic research which are related to the core research areas of the Unit. The proposed seminar series will provide an opportunity to the participants to familiarize themselves with several key areas of research and development of economic studies through collective interaction with experts invited from all over India and other countries for the purpose. We propose to invite about 10 outstanding scholars per year, both from within and outside India, who will not only give seminars on their domain of expertise but also academically interact with the participants during their entire duration of stay. Through these interactive sessions/seminars/workshops we shall advocate exchange of ideas and facilitate formation of peer networks, thereby enhancing the research environment and productivity at the Unit. We would, therefore, like to view this programme as one of the platforms through which we may enhance the academic importance of our Unit in the spectrum of high quality economic research activities of the country and beyond.
• We intend to invite speakers both from within India and abroad, focusing particularly on the neighboring regions of South and South-east Asia, and, as mentioned, will request them to not only deliver talks on their chosen topics but also interact with students and faculty. Hence we will request invited speakers to stay over for 3 to 4 days each so that there is ample time for further interaction with the speaker, either in the form of some intensive lectures for students/scholars or collaborative engagements with them. We would like to invite speakers doing frontier research in microeconomic theory, applications, econometric theory and applications, development economics, and political economy, all of which are pursued by faculty in ERU.
• Currently, the budget allocated for seminars at ERU neither permits extended stays over multiple days, nor, most importantly, the reimbursement of airfare and related travel expenses such as visa fees. Consequently, ERU is restricted to inviting speakers within the city, which hampers our ability to generate globally competitive research. It is standard practice at comparable institutions both within India and abroad to cover the full travel expenses of seminar speakers, at least within a reasonable distance threshold. The proposed seminar-cum- workshop series is intended to rectify these weaknesses in our current practice.
• Details regarding specific themes, number of experts, etc. will be finalized keeping in mind the budget approved by the Institute, and will vary from year to year. 60 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
• As obvious from the above, the takers for the proposed project are the entire research community in Economics at ISI Kolkata, as well as in other institutions in the city, whereas the resource persons will be the speakers invited.
4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation:
From other Institutions: From the Institute:
13. Date of Commencement: April 2017. 14. Expected Date of Completion : March 2020 15. Interim report (max 500 words) including publication/patent based on work from the project : NA 16. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. in Lakhs) :
Total budget for three Outlay till date Expenditure till date years Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
17. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page):
No Capital items are proposed. Please see attached Excel spreadsheet for Revenue budget. Revenue budget is calculated under the assumption of a 10% rise in costs every year.
Budget (Rs.) Budget (Rs.) Budget (Rs.) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year S C C a C Sala a Total Sal a l a Gen. Gen. Total Gen. Total ry p ary p a p . . r . y 5,17,000 5,17,000 5,68,700 5,68,700 6,25,570 6,25,570
Revenue Budget (No capital items are proposed) No Item Heads 2018-19 1 Accommodation of speakers in ISI Guesthouse 60,500 or nearby hotel (10 speakers x 4 days each) 2 Food (breakfast, lunch and dinner for 10 speakers 1,21,000 x 4 days each, including one formal dinner per speaker with 2/3 faculty members) 3 Economy class airfare for speakers (10 x 25,000) 2,78,300 4 Other travel expenses for speakers including taxi fare and Indian visa fees (10 x 5,000) 48,400 5 Miscellaneous (tea, snacks, publicity material etc.) 60,500 and honorarium for speakers Total 5,68,700
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18. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years.
Soumyanetra Munshi: Not Applicable
Indraneel Dasgupta: Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): 2015- 16 to 2018-19. (i) Status: The Workshop for 2015-16 is to be hosted by IGIDR during 21-22 March, 2016. (ii) Money budgeted: 90,000 for 2015-16 (iii) Money spent: approx. 90,000 expected for 2015-16. (iv) Publications: Not applicable/
Souvik Roy: No. of on-going Projects: 1 (one)
(a) Title: "Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design": (i) Starting date: 2016-17, first quarter (ii) Expected Date of Completion: 2018-19, fourth quarter (iii)Status: Not yet started (iv) Money Budgeted: Rs. 27,30,000 /- (v) Money Spent: 0 /- (vi) Publication: Not yet
No. of completed Projects: 1 (one) (b) Title: "Mechanism Design in Internet Economics": (vi) Starting date: November, 2014 (vii) Status: completed in March, 2016 (viii) Money Budgeted: Rs. 4,15,000 /- (ix) Money Spent: approx. 3,65,000 /- (x) Publication: Work in progress
19. Quarterly projection of expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-19):
Please see attached Excel spreadsheet for Revenue budget. Revenue budget is calculated under the assumption of a 10% rise in costs every year.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salar Gen. Cap. Total Salar Gen Cap. Total Salar Gen Cap Total Salar Gen. Cap. Total y y . y . . y 15% 15% 25% 35% 35% 25% 25% 25%
20. For General Projects only :
Action plan /Target in Terms of Financial target in terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 25% 25% 50% 33.33% 33.33% 33.33%
21. Rank (to be given by the Division)
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1. Project Title: Safe school survey 2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata. 3. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Proposed project proposal includes two objectives. First objective is to develop a questionnaire for assessment of safe school climate perception. Second objective is to examine differences in safe school climate perception of students of relatively more and less violence-prone schools. 4. Name of other scientists associated with their Affiliation: Nil 5. Date of Commencement : April, 2018 6. Expected date of completion: March, 2019 7. Interim report (Max 500 words) including publications/patent based on work from the project: Safe school stimulates social growth, builds confidence, and promotes understanding in children. Safe school indicates one’s perceived experiences in connection to school climate, incivility, personal safety and delinquency in school. Making school safe should be survey based. Survey based approach saves time and unnecessary financial cost and makes the safety project more target-oriented. Current study was aimed at examining the perception of safe school by the high school students of the Government affiliated rural schools.
64 items-Safe School perception questionnaire, was developed to assess the 8 domains namely, climate, incivility, personal safety, delinquency, social discrimination, participation, bullying and cleanliness, after conducting a focused group discussion with the headmaster , teachers, students and parents which helped in identifying these important factors. The reliability of the scale developed was satisfactory (α=0.85). Responses on safe school perception questionnaire revealed the following common areas where the students were feeling less safe: Interpersonal conflict (name calling, physical fighting, cheating), discrimination done by teachers and students on the basis of social status, often the reason for punishment is unknown to the students and actual offender never gets punishment in class. Out of all the individual characteristics (age, gender, religion, caste), caste was found to have a significant correlation with safe school perception and school attendance motivation. Furthermore, correlation was done between safe school perception, its domains and school attendance motivation and the results revealed that safe school perception was positively and significantly correlated with all its domains and also all the domains were intercorrelated. Out of eight domains, six (climate, incivility, personal safety, delinquency, participation, cleanliness) were more correlated (r>0.5), it suggests that students comprehended safe school by experiencing teacher student trust worthy relations, well-mannered relation among peers, feeling secured, lawful and disciplined, opportunity to participate into school activities and perceiving the school clean. All the sub-scales of safe school perception were significantly correlated with school attendance motivation. Out of the eight domains, bullying r (394) = 0.325, p<0.0001 and school climate r (394) = 0.283, p<0.0001 were more related. Therefore, it can be suggested that teacher student relationship, school environment, the degree of connection students feel with the school, the incidents of bullying in school, all these are related to the student’s motivation for attending the
63 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 school. Lastly, Principal Component Analysis with varimax rotation was performed using eight domains of the safe school questionnaire and the factor solution indicated that there were three factors, each explaining 29.74%, 22.56% and 13.47% respectively of the total variance (65.77%). Delinquency, Incivility, Climate, and Cleanliness were grouped into first factor, which was named Safe conduct. Participation, Bullying and Personal safety were grouped into second factor named as Harmony and social discrimination formed the third factor named as Respect for diversity.
8. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. In Lakhs) :
Total budget for three years Outlay till date (2016-17) Expenditure till date (2016- (2016-18) 17) Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 418000 418000 158000 158000 154979 154979
9. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page) :
Budget (Rs in Lac.) Budget (Rs in Lac.) Budget (Rs in Lac.) 1st Year (2016-17) 2nd Year 3rd Year Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 46250 111750 158000 240000 151000 391000
Salary Account Item Rs. Justification 1.Remuneration to Project 240000 Assisting in overall activities; linked personnel @ Rs. 20000 X 12 months General Account Item Rs. Justification 2. Car hiring charges and other 50000 School visit local transport cost 3.Accommodation charges 20000 for field investigations 4. Costs for food for local 20000 Basic requirement for stay in locality investigators and collaborating and field visit scientists 5. Data scrutiny and entry 10000 It will be entered through computer. 6.Computer consumables, 20000 To print questionnaire and Stationary, Xerox, printing, postal communication charge, telephone charge etc. 7. Project report typing, binding 20000 8. Miscellaneous 11000 Emergency condition in field work Total 151000
10. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give i. Status ii. Money budgeted iii. Money spent, iv. Publications (if any) 64 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
Title Status Money budgeted Money spent Publications Safe school survey (2016-17) Ongoing 158000 154404 Orientation training program on Data analytics in Psychological Completed 240000 194486 Research (2017) Winter school on Data Mining in Completed 294000 253000 Psychological Research (2016) Differential validity of computer Completed 549000 41692.11 5 programming abilities (2012-15)
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-2019) :
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 12.5% 12.5% 25% 12.5% 12.5% 25% 12.5% 12.5% 25% 12.5% 12.5% 25%
12. For General Projects only:
Action Plan/ Target in Terms of percentage (%) Financial Target in Terms of percentage (%) 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 25% 37.5% 37.5% 30% 35% 35%
13. Rank (To be given by the Division):
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Economic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2018– 2019
Rupees in lakhs Sl. General Salary Capital Total No. Name of the Project Economic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 10.000 17.000 27.000 2 Seminar 6.000 6.000 3 Internal travel 2.500 2.500 Submission fee for 4 publication in Journals 1.500 1.500 5 Computer Consumables 7.000 7.000 6 Repair and Maintenance 7.000 7.000 7 Office Expenditures 6.000 6.000 8 Capital Expenditure 10.000 10.000 Sub-total: 40.000 17.000 10.000 67.000
66 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Linguistic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2018– 2019 NON PROJECT PLAN PROPOSALS OF LRU (2018-2019)
Items Heads Amount for the year 2018-2019 General Salary Capital Total Computer, Photocopier, Software, Scanner, 5.00 5.00 Printer, Cupboard, Internet Hub, Furniture, Water Filter, UPS, Air-conditioning, Camera, Data Recorder, Wi-Fi, etc. Visiting Scientists 0.26 6.24 6.50 Seminars (departmental, on regular basis) 1.00 1.00 Internal Travel 1.50 1.50 Computer Consumables 1.50 1.50 Maintenance 1.50 1.50 Office Expenditures (Stores and 1.50 1.50 Stationeries) Fellowship for One (1) New JRF/SRF 4.00 4.00 (2018-2019) Total 7.26 10.24 5.00 22.50
Justification for LRU Unit’s Plan Budget Proposal: 2018 -2019
(a) Capital Items: With regard to capital items and resources LRU is poorly furnished. It suffers from lack of a laboratory furnished with advanced systems and tools necessary for successful execution of research and development works in the area of Natural Language Processing, language technology, applied linguistics, & cognitive linguistics. It needs some good computers, printers, and photo-copiers to carry out academic and research activities. Also, due to lack of computer facilities, visitors and summer trainees who come to work at LRU face severe problems. It is imperative that we should provide the basic infrastructural facilities to the scholars as well as scholars who visit LRU. At present, there are 15 computers in LRU. At least 5 or more computers are urgently required for carrying out research works and for Ph.D. scholars. We also need laser printers, scanners, and photo copiers, chairs, tables, computer tables, cupboards, UPS, AC, etc. for proper functioning and seamless execution of the research and administrative works of the unit. Therefore, LRU needs an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- to meet such expenses.
(b) Visiting Scientists: During last few years at least ten scientists from home and abroad have visited LRU – either in short or long term period. For providing honorarium and local hospitality to visiting scientists LRU needs an amount of Rs. 6,50,000/-.
(c) Seminar/workshop: LRU organizes seminars on regular basis. During last one year some scholars have presented their research works at LRU seminars. This gives us an opportunity to have academic interactions with different researchers. We propose to pay an amount of Rs. 3000/- to each non-ISI presenter as honorarium for each lecture. Also, we invite well-known scientists from different parts of the country to give special lectures on
67 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 specified topics. To meet TA and local hospitality, local transport, etc. LRU needs an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/-.
(d) Internal Travel: Scientists of LRU attend conferences/seminars at various universities and institutes within India. Also interactions become necessary with experts from outside (within India) for research. This provides scope for better interaction with other scholars. Over the years the cost of travel has increased in a massive scale. Therefore, to meet TA, DA and other costs for attending and presenting papers in conferences and seminars by scientific workers of LRU, we need an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/-.
(e) Computer Consumables: Our dependence on computers and related devices has increased. This results in more utilization of computer consumables like cartridges, toners, pen drives, CDs, external hard disks, data cards, computer papers etc. The cost of these instruments and items has multiplied over the years. To meet such needs we require an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- for the Unit.
(f) Maintenance: Fund is also required for maintaining the computers, UPSs, water filters, anti-virus software, AC machines, WiFi systems, networks, laptops, etc. Maintenance also includes internal repair and patch works, computer repair, internal painting of doors and windows, etc. We require an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- for this purpose.
(g) Office Expenditures: The Central Store of the institute often fails to meet requirement of office stationery goods and items urgently needed in the Unit. We need to have provision for procuring items like pad, note sheets, pencils, ribbon, gems clips, gum, cups, cover files, envelopes, staplers, flat files, pens, and other relevant consumable items for the Unit. Also we need to have provision for procuring some electrical equipments. For this we need an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- for this financial year.
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NON PROJECT PLAN PROPOSALS FOR 2018-2019 (in Lac of Rs.) Total Amount (in Lac of Sl. Items Rs.) No. Revenue Capital 1. Visiting Scientists 7.00 --- 2. Research Fellows / Statistical Trainees etc. 4.00 --- 3. Seminars by invited Experts 1.50 --- 4. Submission Fee for Publication in Journals 0.70 --- 5. Internal Travel 0.80 --- 6. Computer Consumables 1.50 --- 7. Office Expenditure 1.50 --- 8. Repair and Maintenance etc. 1.50 --- 9. AC machines for computer & seminar rooms --- 2.00 10. Software & Capital Equipment : Software --- (Demographic, Statistical, Virus Guard), Desktop 7.00 computers, scanner and Printers Sub-total 18.50 9.00 Grand Total 27.50
Justifications: 1. External experts in Demography and related fields will be invited to work at the unit for the year. For local hospitality and honorarium to the visiting scientists of the unit requires the amount of money. 2. JRF / Statistical Trainees will be employed for the financial year. 3. It will be used to invite well-known population scientists from different parts of the country to deliver lectures on different topics. 4. At present most of the National/International journal needs submission fee for referring and processing. The amount will be used for that purpose. 5. The researchers of the unit often present papers in different conferences / seminars organized by Universities and Institutions within India. To meet TA, DA and Registration fees for attending and presenting papers, the unit proposes that amount. 6. To meet regular requirements of computer consumables various items will be purchased. 7. It will be utilized for purchasing stationeries, meeting expenses on conveyance and refreshments etc. 8. It will be required for internal repair and patch work with painting of inside walls of the unit. 9. Two (2) very old (more than 12 yrs) and badly functioning AC machines in the Seminar room need replacement by power saving new models of AC machines. 10. The unit has to purchase virus software in each year. The unit also requires Population Studies related software and other scientific software for scientific research. At least two (2) computers, one printer (1) and one Scanner (1) are required for the unit, majority of the existing computers are very old and running under back dated operating system and not supporting most of the updated scientific and office software.
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Non-Project plan proposals for the year 2018-19 Name of the Project Sl. Total. Capital Revenue No. 1.80 1.80 Visiting Scientists/Research 1. Collaborator 1.50 1.50 Computer Consumables 2. 6.00 6.00 Research Fellow 3. 1.20 1.20 Maintenance for Computer 4. & equipment 2.00 2.00 Seminar/Workshop/Training 5. Programme 0.80 0.80 Office Expenditure 6. 0.40 0.40 Internal Travel 7. 0.20 0.20 Submission fee for 8. publication 6.00 6.00 Software, Capital Exp. 9.
19.90 6.00 13.90 Sub: Total
The details of the Non – Project Budget Proposals for the Year 2018 - 2019
Visiting Scientist/Research collaborator: Unit is involved in different collaborative research activities. Scientists are coming from National and International Universities and Research Institutes. They give lecture and enlighten students. So, in this purpose, Rs. 1.80 lakhs will be spent for the honorarium, hospitality, accommodation, local travel, air and train fare etc.
Computer Consumables: In general, unit is procuring Pendrives, Cartridges, Tonner, Papers and other related items as when necessary by the Faculties/Staffs/Research Scholars etc. but such items are enormously changing rates particularly brand items, so we are suggesting at least 1.50 Lakhs for the same.
Research Fellow: Rs. 6.00 Lakhs (Self explanetory).
Maintenance for Computer & equipment: It will be required to regular maintaining of all PCs, UPS, Scanners, Laptop, Acqua Guard, Printers, Clocks, Pedestal Fans and other accessories etc. So we are proposing an estimate Rs. 1.20 lakh.
Seminar/Workshop/Training Programme: The Unit is organizing various lectures/seminars/conferences/ in collaboration with other organizations in Kolkata and different part of ISI Branches. Even the unit is organizing training programmes with the support of distinguished academicians to disseminate recent advancement in statistics, research methods in Psychological Research all over the country. Approximately, 2.00 lakh is required for the same.
Office Expenditure: Office stationary items are not availing in time to the Central Stores, routine stationary items are procuring from vendors very often. Vendors are claiming rates that 70 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 we are paying as they are charging day to day increasing market rate. So expenses on account of office stationary items is escalated, we propose Rs. 0.80 lakh.
Internal Travel: To attend local seminars/conference/workshops or to visit experts for paper presentation or for upgrading knowledge, an estimate Rs. 0.40 lakh is required.
Submission fee for Publication: Many Indian and Foreign Journals require submission fee for reviewing the paper from the author. Expert comment is important for upgrading research. We propose Rs. 0.30 lakh only.
Software/Capital Exp.: Regular developing software like statistical tool and Psychological software like are essentially required to the unit for smooth analysis for research data. We have already suggested in earlier budget proposal to develop our Psychological Testing Lab and procurement of testing materials but it remains suspended due to unavailability of fund, so this year we require Rs.6.00 Lakh for this purposes along with other capital items will be procured at the same time.
71 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Sociological Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2018– 2019
Non-Project Plan Proposal for the year of 2018 – 2019
Sl. Item Budget ( Rs. in Lakhs ) No. Revenue Capital Total 1. Visiting Scientist 7.00 7.00 2. Seminar & Workshop 6.00 6.00 3. Internal Travel 3.00 3.00 4. Research Fellow 6.50 6.50 5. Software 9.00 9.00 6. Processing fees for publication 1.50 1.50 7. Computer Consumables 5.10 5.10 8. Maintenance/ Office expenditure 4.10 4.10 9. Capital equipment : Upgrading computers/ AC/ 12.00 12.00 furniture/ other related equipments. 10. Maintenance of New Unit Seminar Room 4.00 4.00 TOTAL 37.20 21.00 58.20
The details of the Non- Project Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-2019 .
1. Visiting Scientist: Unit is involved in different collaborative researches with Indian and Foreign Universities and Research Organizations. In this connection, an estimate of honorarium, hospitality (food and accommodation), train/air fares and local transport will be required. This requires a total amount of Rs.7.00 lakhs.
2. Seminar & Workshop: The unit is organizing different academic seminars, workshops and training programmes to disseminate research output from time to time. Several outside speakers are also invited to disseminate the ideas related to specific theme. This enables unit to make several academic exchange with the speakers as well as the participants. The research scholars of the unit are benefited through this programme. This requires a total amount of Rs. 6.00 lakh.
3. Internal travel: The scientific workers of the Unit attend seminar/conference/workshop at different reputed universities/ institutions in India and abroad. To meet TA an DA (according to the rules of I.S.I.) for attending the said academic events in India, an estimate of Rs. 3.00 lakh will be required.
4. Research Fellow: Rs.6.50 lakh. (Self-explanatory)
5. Software: The unit should have own purchased different software and different OS. Such as for OS : latest version of Windows, Linux etc., For data handling/ report writing etc, the Unit requires latest version of MS-Office, SPSS, other packages related to data entry, data analysis etc. Besides this, the Unit needs Virus Software every year. In considering the regular up-date of software, it needs to purchase most up- date software. So, the Unit requires a total amount of Rs.9.00 lakh.
6. Processing fees for publication : Many Indian and foreign journals require processing fees for publication of research manuscripts, papers etc. from the authors. So, an estimate of Rs.1.50 lakh will be required for this purpose.
7. Computer Consumables: In general, the price of any item has increased tremendously. As a result, the prices of computer consumables like Cartridge, Toner, CD-R & W, DVD, DVD-RW, external hard disk, pen drive, Papers, Transparency Sheets and other related items etc., are increasing day by day, but the Unit requires all of these. So, it requires at least an amount of Rs. 5.10 lakh.
8. Maintenance/ Office Expenditure: Stationary items are not available in time from the Central Stores, even sometimes they are unable to supply the items. These include writing pads, note sheets, pencils, pens, 72 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
ribbon, gem clips, envelops, staplers, gum, etc. and some other related equipments. So, we propose an estimate of Rs.4.10 lakh.
9. Capital equipment : Upgrading computers/ AC/ furniture/ other related equipments: At least nine (9) Desktop Computers are urgently required for Scientific Workers, for Office Staff and for Computer Lab. , who are at present working with old computers somehow running under back dated operating system and back dated software. Naturally theses said computers are not supporting most of the latest/ updated scientific and office software. Besides this, unit requires one ( 1 ) or two ( 2 ) latest network printer and other related scientific equipments. It is estimated that Rs. 12.00 lakhs will be spent for the same.
10. Maintenance of New Unit Seminar Room : S.R.U. has a new seminar room. Last year, S.R.U. organized a series of seminars by different eminent scholars from different reputed universities in India but S.R.U. has to depend on the availability of required instruments for smoothly running of the seminar to the other units (like PSU, BIRU etc.). At present, in addition to the seminar programmes of S.R.U., regular class-teaching programmes are also undertaken there. Naturally, sometimes it is difficult to organize the seminar in time. So, S.R.U. should maintain it systematically and it is urgently required for the research/ academic development. We propose an estimate of Rs.4.00 lakh.
73 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Sampling & Official Statistics Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2017– 2018
Sampling & Official Statistics Unit General Salary Capital Total Honorary Visiting Professor/Visiting 1 Scientist/Research Collaborators 5.750 5.750 2 Computer Consumables 2.300 2.300 External Hard Disk for Storage of Office 3 Material and project data 2.300 2.300 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, 4 fittings, equipment etc. 11.500 11.500 Purchase new Desktop Computer, Laptop, Laser Printer, Photocopier, Air-condition 5 machine, Projector machine 9.200 9.200 6 Research Fellow/Statistical trainee 11.500 11.500 7 Office Expenses 5.750 5.750 Repair & Maintenane for Computer, Printer, Scanner, Xerox and otherequipent's in the the 8 unit including AMC etc. 2.300 2.300 Conference/Seminar/Workshop Training 9 Programme etc. 9.200 9.200 10 Internal Travel of Scientists and Researchers 2.300 2.300 Sub-total: 24.150 17.250 20.700 62.100
74 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre Budget Proposals for the Year 2018– 2019 1. Plan Revenue (non-project): Rs. 49 lakhs Project Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In No. Lakhs 1.1 Visiting Scientist 540,000.00 1.2 Post - Doctoral Fellows-cum-Lectures 3,840,000.00 1.3 Travel of Scientists 100,000.00 1.4 Seminars 100,000.00 1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationary, Consumables 150,000.00 1.6 Misc. Including Communications and Fax 120,000.00 1.7 Maintenance 50,000.00
Sub Total 4,900,000.00
Plan Revenue (projects): Rs. 5.00 lakhs
Project Name of the Project Revenue Rs. No. In Lakhs
1.8 Annual Conference 500,000.00
2. Plan Capital (non-projects): Rs. 6.00 lakhs Project Name of the Project Revenue Rs. No. In Lakhs 2.1 Upgrading Computers, manuals, software, Furniture, 600,000.00 Fittings, equipments
Total (Revenue non - project+projects+Capital non-projects+ projects): Rs. 60 lakhs The details of the Budget Proposal 2018-19 1.1Visiting Scientists: We have approximately twenty visitors from home and foreign universities/institutes every year visiting our department. Out of them 5-6 are usually long- term visitors, who not only contribute through collaborative research with our faculty, but also take part in teaching in the MSQE program.This year’s budget also reflects our desire to have 3 visiting faculty for a period of 4 months. Assuming a monthly emolument of approximately Rs. 45,000 per month, this works out toRs. Five Lac and Forty Thousand only (5.40 Lacs).
1.2 Lecturer-cum-Post- doctoral fellows: As in the past few years, and we would like to continue to have 4 Lecturers cum Post Doctoral fellow in the unit. Given that these positions are funded under a regular payband with grade-pay, dearness, travel, and HRA allowances, the total monthly emolument currently works out approximately to 80,000 INR (9,60,000 annually). Four positions would mean Rs. Thirty Eight Lacs and Forty Thousand (38.40 Lacs.)
1.3 Travel of scientists: Scientists of the unit often present papers in conferences / seminars
75 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 organized by reputed universities, and institute within India. Scientists also travel within India for discussions with colleagues interested in mutual research interests. If travel, and conference registration fee is provided for the said activity, it would encourage scientific activity of the unit. We propose an estimate of Rs.One Lac (1 Lac).
1.4 Seminar and Honorariums: The Economics and Planning Unit (EPU) organizes academic seminars on a weekly basis. Approximately 35 academics present research seminars in a year at EPU. We propose to spend an amount of Rs. 2000/- on each seminar, on an honorarium to the speaker as well as refreshments. Moreover, we sometimes invite well-known scientists from different parts of the country to deliver special lectures, as well as organize one-day workshops on important topics. We also pay an honorarium to external experts during the viva. For all these items we propose an estimate of Rs. One Lac (1 Lac).
1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers/photocopiers has increased by a lot. This has resulted in an increase in the use of computer consumables like Cartridges, Toners, Pen Drives, CDs, papers, transparency sheets etc. This is in addition to usual stationery items likes pens, pads, white-board pens and dusters, staplers, gum, clips, envelopes, chalks, etc.This requires at least an amount of Rs.One Lac Fifty Thousand(1.5 Lacs).
1.6 Miscellaneous including communications and fax: In this globalized world quick communication is of the essence. Even with e-mails, we often need to fax documents, or send original documents through reliable couriers. STD/ISD phone-calls are also required. The amount marked for these items areRs. One Lac Twenty Thousand (1.20 Lacs).
1.7 Maintenance: This amount is meant for repair work on older cup-boards, as well and repairing of chairs etc requiresRs.Fifty Thousand (.50 Lacs).
1.8 Annual Conference (project): The annual conference of the Economics and Planning Unit on Growth and Development has become one of the best international conferences in the field of economic growth and development and attracts a number of distinguished researchers from all over the world. The most recent 12th annual conference held in December 2016 had 128 accepted papers and 3 plenary speakers with a approximately 250 participants from 14 countries. The amount to be budgeted is Rs.Five Lac (5 Lacs).
2.1The Economics & Planning Unit finds that the following items (capital goods) are necessary to carry out its academic programs.
1) Computers and Laptops: We need to replace a number of computers because they have become very old and slow. The proposed budget on this head isRs.Three Lacs (3 Lacs).
2) Chairs, Tables, Almirah& Whiteboards: Many of the existing chairs, tables (including computer tables) and almirahs have become old and some of them are damaged, repairing of which are not economical and sometimes are not possible. These periodically need to be replaced. The estimated budget for these is Rs. One Lac (1 Lac).
3) Electronic Software, pen-drives, printers, etc.: For research work we urgently need the use of newly developed multi-use electronic statistical software, word processing, andreference software. We also budget for a possible replacement of a PU printer, if required. The estimated budget for these is Rs. Two Lacs (2 Lacs). Therefore, total estimated cost on Project 2.1 is Rs.Six Lac (6 Lacs). 76 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre
Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore) General Salary Capital Total 1 Visiting Scientists 3.000 3.000 6.000 Post Doctoral Fellows/Research Associate 12.000 12.000 2 PCs & Printers 1.600 1.600 3 Furniture 1.000 1.000 4 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900 5 Seminar/Workshop 0.250 0.250 0.500 6 Software/Data purchase 0.500 0.500 7 Stationery 0.500 0.500 8 Repair & Maintenance 0.500 0.500 9 Miscellaneous 2.500 2.500 Sub-total: 8.150 15.250 2.600 26.000
77 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Social Sciences Division Office Non-project Plan proposal for the year 2017-18
Social Sciences Division Office General Salary Capital Total 1 Visiting Scientists 20.000 20.000 40.000 2 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 3 Office Expenditure 3.000 3.000 4 Travel for Academic Purpose 6.000 6.000 5 Maintenance 2.000 2.000 6 Capital Expenditure 11.000 11.000 Sub-total: 33.000 20.000 11.000 64.000
78 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Economic Research Unit Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years List of Publications of DCSW Members: April, 2012 – March, 2017
Economic Research Unit Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years
Name of the Title of the Scientific Name of the Year, Vol., Issue No., Page Scientist(s) Paper Journal Nos. of Publication Priyadarshi An Analysis of Price India Growth and 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2 Banerjee Interventions in an Development Era of Reform Review Reversals
Satya R. Stochastic Dominance Journal of 2012, Vol.147, Chakravarty and Relations for Integer Economic Theory Pp.1331-1341. C. Zoli Variable
R. Barua Measuring P-Power of Journal of 2012, Vol.1, Satya R. Voting Economic Theory Pp.81-91. Chakravarty and Social
and P.Sarkar Development
Satya R. Poverty and Time Journal of 2012, Vol. 10, Chakravarty, Economic Pp.145-162. W. Bossert and Inequality C. D’Ambrosio
Satya R. Ethnic Polarization Journal of 2012, Vol.7, Chakravarty and Orderings and Indices Economic Pp. 99-123. Bhargav Maharaj Interaction and Coordination Satya R. Multidimensional Review of Income 2013, Vol.59, Chakravarty, Poverty and Material and Wealth Pp.29-43. W. Bossert and Deprivation with C. D’Ambrosio Discrete Data Satya R. An Axiomatic Economic 2013, Vol. 35, Chakravarty and Approach to the Modeling Pp. 874-880. Conchita Measurement of D’Amrrosio Poverty Reduction Failure Satya R. Financial Inclusion in Journal of Policy 2013, Vol. 35, Chakravarty India: An Axiomatic Modeling Pp. 813-837. and Rupayan Pal Approach Social Welfare Artha Beekshabn Satya R. Equivalences of (Journal of the 2014, Vol. 22, Pp. 24-37. Chakravarty Stochastic Dominance Bengal Economic Relations Association) Arup Bose Richness Orderings Journal of 2014, Vol. 12, Pp. 5 – 22. Satya R. Economic Chakravarty and Inequality Conchita 79 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
D’Amrrosio Satya R. Vulnerability Japanese 2015, Vol. 66, Pp. 300-310. Chakravarty Orderings for Economic Review Nachiketa Expected Poverty Chattopadhyay Indices and Liu Qingbin Satya R. Generalized Gini International 2015, Vol. 11, Chakravarty and Polarization Indices Journal of Pp.231-246. Bhargav Maharaj for an Ordinal Economic Theory Dimension of Human Well-Being Satya R. Reference Groups and Research on 2016, Vol. 24, Pp, 1 – 27. Chakravarty the Poverty Line : An Economic Nachiketa Axiomatic Approach Inequality Chattopadhyay with an Empirical Joseph Deutsch Illustration Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber Satya R. Measures of Well- Chakravarty and being, Poverty and Sarvekshana 2016, Vol. 101, Pp, 36 – 65. Siddhartha Deprivation: Theory Kundu and Estimates at State and District Levels in India Satya R. On a Family of Health Economics, Vol. 25, Pp. 1503 – 1513, Chakravarty, , Achievement and 2016. Chattopadhyay, Shortfall Inequality Nachiketa and Indices, D’Ambrosio, Conchita
Globalization and History Workshop 2013, Vol. 76(1), Economic Injustice in Journal Pp. 327-334. Indraneel Modern India Dasgupta Ronelle Burger Why Pay NGOs to Annals of Public 2015, Vol. 86 (1), Indraneel Involve the and Cooperative Pp 7 – 31. Dasgupta Community? Economics and Trudy Owens Ronelle Burger A Model of Economic 2015, Vol. 64 (1), Indraneel Non governmental Development and Pp 71-111. Dasgupta Organization Cultural Change and Trudy Regulation with an Owens Application to Uganda
S. Das G. Sinha Economic Growth and Journal of 2014, Vol. 12, and Income Inequality: Quantitative Pp. 86 – 95. T.K. Mitra Examining the Links Economics, New in Indian Economy Series S. Das C. Ghate Remoteness, 2015, Vol. 66, and Urbanization, and World Pp. 572 – 587. P. Robertson India’s Unbalanced Development Growth S. Das, R. Maiti, Time Series of Zero- Journal of 2015, Vol. 34, and inflated Counts and its Forecasting Pp. 694–707. 80 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
A. Biswas Coherent Forecasting
Saswati Das Child Labour and Indian Journal of 2012, Vol.55, No. 2, Child work: Pattern, Labour Economics Pp. 307-333. Deprivation and Determinants Inequality in Saswati Das Educational Child Indicators 2016, Vol. 9(1), Opportunity in India: Research Pp. 51-71. Evidence and Consequence of Social Exclusion Saswati Das Variations in Income Elasticity: Sarvekshana 2016, Pp. 103-124. An Analysis of Indian Household Budget Data.
Saswati Das Impact of Oxford 2016, Vol. 44, No. 4, Pp. 420- MGNREGA on the Development 440. Livelihood Security of Studies Rural Poor in India: A Study Using National Sample Survey Data
Buddhadeb District Level European Journal 2013, Vol. 1, No.1 Ghosh and Transition in India: A of Applied Social Swagata Gupta Test of Divergence Science Research Buddhadeb The Key to One India One 2014, Vol. 17, No. 4 Ghosh Infrastructure People Development
Chandana Ghosh Pitfalls in Monetary Rabindra Bharati 2013, Vol. 8, and Policy University Journal Pp. 1 – 11. Ambar Ghosh of Economics
Globalisation, Crisis and Automatic Chandana Ghosh Destabilisers, Artha Beekshan 2014, Vol. 22, No. 4, and Keynote paper in the Pp. 98-107. Ambar Ghosh Session on Global Economic Crisis in the 34th Annual Conference of Bengal Economic Association Interaction between Chandana Ghosh the Real Sector and 2016, Vol. 6, Pp. 1 – 14, Social Sciences Ambar Ghosh the Financial Sector: ISSN: 1817-4604. and An Alternative to the S. Jha IS-LM Model, Contemporary Issues and Ideas H. Lahiri India’s Balance of South Asian 2016, Vol. 5(1), Pp. 1 – 35. Chandana Ghosh Payments, Growth Journal of 81 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
and and Fiscal Policy Macroeconomics Ambar Ghosh and Public Finance
Skilled-unskilled wage inequality, Manash Ranjan product variety, public Economic 2012, Vol. 29, Gupta and P.B. input and increasing Modelling Pp. 502 – 513. Dutta returns: a static general equilibrium analysis Manash Ranjan Endogenous Growth 2013, Vol. 49, Gupta and with Environmental Keio Economic Pp. 93-103 Trishita Ray Pollution and Studies Barman Depreciation of Public Capital: A Theoretical Note Manash Ranjan Skilled Unskilled Journal of 2014, Vol. 5, (1), Gupta and P.B. Wage Inequality, Globalisation and Pp. 103 – 128. Dutta Growth of Skilled Development Labour and Development Policies Manash Ranjan International Trade Keio Economic 2014, Vol. 50, Gupta and P.B. and Wage Inequality Studies Pp. 29 – 49. Dutta in a Dynamic Model Manash Ranjan Environmental Hitotsubashi 2015, Vol. 56 (1), Gupta and Pollution, Informal Journal of Pp. 73 – 91. Trishita Ray Sector, Public Economics Barman Expenditure and Economic Growth, C. Bhattacharyya Unionised Labour Metroeconomica 2015, Vol. 66(3), and Manash Market, Pp. 397 – 425. Ranjan Gupta Unemployment Allowances, Productive Public Expenditure and Endogenous Growth
Tarun Kabiraj Outsourcing Some Indo. Myanmar 2013, Vol. 1, No. 4 &5, Strategic Aspects Border Trade Pp. 6 – 17. Bulletin
Tarun Kabiraj Strategic Outsourcing Economics Bulletin 2014, Vol.34, (2), Pp.1133- and with Technology 1140. Uday Bhanu Transfer under Sinha Cournot Competition Srobonti Incomplete Economics Bulletin 2015, Vol. 35, (1), Chattopadhyay Information and R&D Pp. 14-20. and Tarun Organization Kabiraj Tarun Kabiraj Foreign Entry, The Manchester 2015,Vol. 83, No. 6, and Acquisition Target, School Pp 725-748. Uday Bhanu and Host Country Sinha Welfare Tarun Kabiraj Cooperative versus Economics of 2015, Vol. 24, No. 6, and Non-cooperative Innovation and Pp. 624-632. Srobonti R&D Incentives under New Technology Chattopadhyay Incomplete 82 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
Information Tarun Kabiraj India in a Global Eco Echos 2015, Vol. 15, Perspectives Pp. 33-35. Aditya Bhan and Incentives for Product Indian Economic 2016, Vol. 49, No. 2, Tarun Kabiraj and Process Review Pp 193-204. Innovations: A Case for Drug Industry Tarun Kabiraj Strategic Outsourcing International 2016, Vol. 44, Pp. 281-290. and with Technology Review of Uday Bhanu Transfer under Price Economics and Sinha Competition Finance
The Calculation of American Journal 2012, Vol. 94, No. 5, Amita Majumder Rural Urban Food of Agricultural Pp. 1218 – 1235. Ranjan Ray and Price Differentials Economics Kompal Sinha from Unit Values in Household Expenditure Surveys: a new procedure and comparison with existing Methods
Amita Majumder Temporal Indian Growth and 2013, Vol. 6. No, 2 Ranjan Ray and Comparisons of Development Pp. 195 – 211. Kompal Sinha Prices, Expenditure Review and Growth in India: A State-wise Analysis Amita Decomposition of 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1, Majumder, Inter regional Poverty Empirical Pp. 65 – 99. Somnath Gap in India: A Economics Chattopadhyay Spatial Approach and Hasanur Jaman
Amita Majumder Spatial Comparison Ranjan Ray and of Prices and Kompal Sinha Expenditure in a Macroeconomic 2015, Vol. 19, Heterogeneous Dynamics Pp. 931 – 989. Country: Methodology with Application to India Amita Majumder Estimating Purchasing Ranjan Ray and Power Parities from Kompal Sinha Household 2015, Vol. 61, Issue 2, Expenditure Data Review of Income Pp. 302–328. Using Complete and Wealth Demand Systems with Application to Living Standards Comparison: India and Vietnam Amita Majumder Estimates of Spatial and Prices in India and Social Indicators DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-1124- Ranjan Ray their Sensitivity to Research 1, 2015. Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Items 83 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
M. Chakrabarty, Household Budget Amita Majumder Share Distribution and and Welfare Implication: Journal of Applied 2015, Vol. 42, Issue 12, Pp. J. Racine An Application of Statistics 2754-2768. Multivariate Distributional Statistics M. Chakrabarty, Preferences, Spatial Journal of 2015, Vol. 51, No. 11, Amita Majumder Prices and Inequality Development Pp. 1488–1501. and Studies R. Ray N. Chakraborty Occupational and Segregation and Wage Sarvekshana 2016, Vol. 100, Pp. 53-67. Amita Majumder Differentials between Males and Females in India, A Unified Framework for the Estimation of Amita Majumder Intra and Inter Ranjan Ray and Country Food Indian Growth and Kompal Sinha Purchasing Power Development 2016, Vol. 9(1), Pp. 2-31. Parities with Review Application to Cross Country Comparisons of Food Expenditure: India, Indonesia and Vietnam Amita Majumder Gender Bias in Indian Growth and 2016, Vol. 9(2), Pp.129-150. and Chayanika Household Education Development Mitra Expenditure: The Review Case of West Bengal,
Manipushpak An Alternative Proof Mitra and of Fishburn’s Economics Letter 2014, Vol. 124 (2), Debapriya Sen Axiomatization of Pp. 168 – 170. Lexicographic Preference
Manipushpak Strategy-proofness 2014, Vol. 9(2), Mitra and Pareto-efficiency Theoretical Pp. 361 – 381. Mridu Prabal in Quasi-linear Economics Goswami and Exchange Economies Arunava Sen
Manipushpak Egalitarian Economic Theory 2014, Vol. 56(2), Mitra Equivalence and Pp. 425 – 442. Youngsub Chun Strategyproofness in and the Queueing Problem Suresh Mutuswami Manipushpak Characterizations of Mathematical 2014, Vol. 72, Mitra Pivotal Mechanisms Social Sciences Pp. 62 – 66. Youngsub Chun in the Queueing and Suresh Problem Mutuswami Manipushpak Reversal of Bertrand- Journal of 2014, Vol. 170 (3),
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Mitra and Cournot Rankings in Institutional and Pp. 496 – 519. Arghya Ghosh the Presence of Theoretical Welfare Concerns Economics Manipushpak Subgroup Additivity European Journal 2014,Vol. 238 (1), Mitra and in the Queueing of Operational Pp. 281 – 289. Youngsub Chun Problem Research Manipushpak Privatization, Journal of Public 2015, Vol. 17(3), Mitra Underpricing and Economic Theory Pp. 433-460. Arghya Ghosh Welfare in the and Presence of Foreign Bibhas Saha Competition, Youngsub Chun A Characterization of Games and DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2015.04.001, Manipushpak the Symmetrically Economic 2015 Mitra and Balanced VCG rule in Behavior Suresh the Queueing problem Mutuswami Manipushpak Bidding rings-A Games and DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2016.03.007, Mitra Bargaining Approach Economic 2016. Kalyan Behavior Chatterjee and Conan Mukherjee Parikshit De and Incentives and Justice Economic Theory DOI: 10.1007/s00199-016- Manipushpak for Sequencing 0983-2 Mitra Problems Youngsub Chun Reordering an Social Choice and DOI: 10.1007/s00355-017- Manipushpak Existing Queue Welfare 1051-y Mitra and Suresh Mutuswami
Dipak Kumar Anthropological The Anthropology 2012, Vol. 2, No. 2, Adak, Demography and its Pp. 40-55. Manoranjan Pal Historical and Premananda Development in India Bharati Premananda Can Mother’s Human Biology 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2, Bharati, Education and Family Review Pp 207-221. Manoranjan Pal Welfare Reduce and Susmita Under-nutrition of Bharati Pre-school Children in India? Premananda Temporal Trend of Asia-Pacific 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2, Bharati Anemia among Journal of Public Pp. 1193 – 1207. Manoranjan Pal Reproductive-Aged Health Susmita Bharati Women in India and Suparna Som
Susmita Bharati Autonomy of Tribal Asian Journal of 2013, Vol. 3, No. 8, Manoranjan Pal Women in India Research in Social Pp. 32-45 and Sciences & Premananda Humanities Bharati Premananda Morphometric Human Biology 2013, Vol. 2, No. 2, Bharati Variation among the Review Pp. 153 – 175. Manoranjan Pal Central Indian 85 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
Dipak Kumar Populations Adak and Gautam Kumar Rajesh Susmita Bharati The Status of Infant Health 2013, Vol. 5, No. 8D Manoranjan Pal Health in India Pp. 14 – 22 and Premananda Bharati Premananda Bharati Variation in Height ence 2014, Vol. 47, No. 1 Manoranjan Pal and BMI of Adult Pp. 47 – 65 Susmita Bharati Indians Suparna Som and Stanley Ulijaszek Premananda Variation in Height Journal of 2014, Vol. 46, No. 1, Bharati and BMI of Adult Biosocial Pp. 47 – 65. Manoranjan Pal Indians Science Susmita Bharati Suparna Som and Stanley Ulijaszek S. Som, P. Roy, Variation of Adult Human Biology 2014, Vol. 3, No. 3, M. Pal and P. Heights and Weights Review Pp 242-257. Bharati in India: State & Zonewise Analysis J. Saha and A Modified Chow Asian-African 2014, Vol. 14, No. 1, M. Pal Test Approach Journal of Pp. 57 – 67. towards Testing Economics and Differences in the Econometrics Engel Elasticities Md. Golam Factors Associated Hossain with Age at Menarche Advances in Life 2014, Vol. 4(2), Mst. Selina of Secondary School Sciences Pp. 88 – 93. Khatun Girls in Rajshahi City, Md. Rafiqul Bangladesh Islam Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal Premananda Bharati and Manoranjan Pal Susmita Bharati, Women Autonomy, Anthropology 2014, Vol. 2, No. 2, Manoranjan Pal Nutritional and Pp. 118. and Premananda Immunization Status Bharati of their Children Susmita Bharati Socioeconomic Asia-Pacific 2015, Vol. 27(2), Manoranjan Pal Determinants of Iron- Journal of Public Pp.1193– 1207. Suparna Som Deficiency Anemia Health and Among Children Premananda Aged 6 to 59 Bharati Temporal Trend of Anemia among Reproductive-Aged 86 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
Women in India Susmita Bharati Socioeconomic Asia-Pacific 2015, Vol. 27(2) Manoranjan Pal Determinants of Iron- Journal of Public Pp. 1432 – 1443. Suman Deficiency Anemia Health Chakrabarty and Among Children Premananda Aged 6 to 59 Months Bharati in India
Utpal Kumar De Global Warming and International 2015, Vol. 36, No. 3, Manoranjan Pal the Pattern of Overall Journal of Pp. 88-105. and Climate Changes in Ecological Kamal Badosa Sub-Himalayan Economics and Assam Region of Statistics North-East India Suparna Shome Is Women Autonomy The Asian Man 2015, Vol. 9, No. 1, Manoranjan Pal an Issue in Health Pp.1-12. and Care? Evidences from Premananda Central and Eastern Bharati India Susmita Bharati, Changes in Basic Manoranjan Pal Amenities, M. Mitra and Awareness, Socio- The Asian Man 2016, Vol. 10 (1), Pp. 40-50. Premananda Economy and Child Bharati Morbidity: A Comparative Study from NFHS-2 and NFHS-3
Abhirup Sarkar Understanding FDI in Economic and 2013, Vol. 18, No. 1 Retail: What can Political Weekly Economic Principles Teach Us Abhirup Sarkar Private Investment in Economic and 2014, Vol. XLIX, No. 13, and Education: Evidence Political Weekly Pp. 44 – 52 Kausik Across Castes and Gangopadhyay Religion from West Bengal Abhirup Sarkar Muslims in Gujarat Economic and and West Bengal: Political Weekly 2014, Vol. XLIX, No. 38, Comparing Prosperity and Vulnerability
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List of Important Scientific Papers over last 5 years (April 2012-March 2017)
Probal Dasgupta
[1] Dasgupta, Probal (2012) Co-representation of linguistic structures. Indian Linguistics 73:1-4.47-59.
[2] Dasgupta, Probal (2012) Deriving the dialectic. Shivarama Padikkal; Tariq Khan (eds.) Vaagartha: A Festschrift for Prof. Padmakar R. Dadegaonkar. Hyderabad: Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad. 3-21.
[3] Dasgupta, Probal (2012) La politique linguistique et les langues indiennes moins répandues. Droit et Cultures 63:143-160.
[4] Dasgupta, Probal (2012) Look across: The paradigmatic axis and Bangla causatives. Eric Reuland; Tanmoy Bhattacharya; Giorgos Spathas (eds.) Argument Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 213-237.
[5] Dasgupta, Probal (2012) Rephrasing the question of complex predicates in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh, Shishir Bhattacharja (eds.) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2012. Berlin/ New York: Mouton De Gruyter. 3-44.
[6] Dasgupta, Probal (2013) La rugho kaj la verdo: fi-trajto-inertaj sanskritidaj substantivoj en kunreprezenta analizo / Shamaantor protikriti-bisleshoner cokhe Bhaarotiyo Aarjo bhaashaar phaai-nishkriyo bisheshsho. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank (ed.) Littera Scripta Manent: Serta in Honorem Helmar Frank. Paderborn/ Prague: Akademia Libroservo. 182- 192.
[7] Dasgupta, Probal (2013) The titular problem and the title mystery. Global Media Journal (Indian Edition) 3:2.1-14. [De jure 2012.] 2013.
[8] Dasgupta, Probal (2014) Deriving the dialectic. Our Heritage 41.80-93. 2014.
[9] Dasgupta, Probal (2015) Bayaaner phalok. Alochonachakra 39:9-16. 2015.
[10] Dasgupta, Probal (2015) Dek demandoj. Esperanto 108:10.198-199. 2015.
[11] Dasgupta, Probal (2015) Dialects, literature and thin description. Humanities Circle 3:1.117-128. 2015.
[12] Dasgupta, Probal (2015) Shaangshkritik ganotantrer baanaaner shandhaane. Arek Rakam 3:13.45-47. 2015.
[13] Dasgupta, Probal(2015) Shaangshkritik shaahosh aar Rabindranather Naibedya. Arek Rakam 3:9.41-3. 2015.
[14] Dasgupta, Probal (2015) Shankettattwer paadaanite. Bwakalam 5:2.45-59. 2015.
[15] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Asok Sener kichu upokaron. Alochonachakra 41:255-8. 2016. 94 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 [16] Dasgupta, Probal (2016). Barato: Ombro de diskriminacio sub lampo de sukceso. Monato 37:6.8-10, 2016.
[17] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Bishshobiddaalayer shaasti debar adhikaar aar Rohith Vemula. Arek Rakam 4:7.14-19. 2016.
[18] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Jabaan-jominer aabaad. Ebong Mushayera 22:3-4.33-50. 2015- 16.
[19] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) La dialektoj, la beletro kaj la maldika priskribado. Federico Gobbo (ed.) Lingua, Politica, Cultura: Serta Gratulatoria in honorem Renato Corsetti. New York: Mondial. 2016. 57-67.
[20] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Meta-verbal harassment and the idea of the university. Seminar 686:54-59. 2016.
[21] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Pri la forpaso de Detlev Blanke. Probal Dasgupta, István Ertl, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Suso Moinhos (eds.) Beletra Almanako 27. New York: Mondial. 2016. 96.
[22] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Review of Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices through History (Florian Coulmas). Language Problems and Language Planning 40:3.328-31. 2016.
[23] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Review of Historio de Esperanta Literaturo (Carlo Minnaja, Giorgio Silfer). Language Problems and Language Planning 40:3.316-9. 2016.
[24] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Shaangshkritik shaahosh aar moukhik niraapattaa. Arek Rakam 4:13.36-41. 2016.
[25] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) The theater and classical India: some availability issues. Philosophy East and West 66:1.60-72. 2016.
[26] Dasgupta, Probal (2016) Totality and utopia. Humanities Circle 4:1.95-116. 2016.
[27] Dasgupta, Probal (2017) Analysis and modernity: the language debate in the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. M. Sridhar, Sunita Mishra (eds.) Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates. London/ New York: Routledge. 2017. 112-25.
[28] Dasgupta, Probal (2017) Anargaler porishutrokaar Wittgenstein. Bwakalam 7:1.24-8. 2017.
[29] Dasgupta, Probal (2017) Antanaš Poška and Esperanto in India. Laimonas Talat-Kelpša (ed.) India and Lithuania – A Personal Bond. New Delhi/ Vilnius: Lithuanian Embassy in New Delhi. 2017. 71-80.
[30] Dasgupta, Probal (2017) Ekzameneme sekvi la evoluon de la lingvo. La Ondo de Esperanto 2017:3.6-9. 2017.
95 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Niladri Sekhar Dash
[1] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “A Semasiological Investigation into the Nature of Figurative Usage of Animal Names in Bangla”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 5. No. 1-2. Pp. 301- 312.
[2] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “Baidyutin bangla abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya”. Alochana Chakra. Vol. 32. Pp. 166-178.
[3] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “From KCIE to LDC-IL: some milestones in NLP journey in Indian multilingual panorama”. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 73. No. 1-4. Pp. 129-146.
[4] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “Language specific synsets in Bangla: some empirical explorations”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 1. No. 1-2. Pp. 189-207.
[5] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “Lexical generativity of Bangla prefixes: a corpus based investigation”. Sino-US English Teaching, Vol. 9. No. 5. Pp. 1171-1180.
[6] Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Pronomita Basu (2012) “Developing scientific and technical terminology database from electronic language corpora”. Language Forum. Vol. 38. No. 1. Pp. 5-21.
[7] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) "Bangla Bhasay Pranibachak Shabda Byabaharer Samaj Manstattvik Ruparekha". Alochana Chakra. 2013. Vol. 34. No. 1. Pp. 169-199.
[8] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “English language corpora as a secondary ELT resource for Indian learners”. Sino-US English Teaching. Vol. 10. No. 1. Pp. 10-22.
[9] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “Linguistic divergences in English to Bangla translation”. International Journal of English Linguistics. Vol. 3. No. 1. Pp. 31-40.
[10] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “Part-of-speech (POS) tagging in Bangla written text corpus”. International Journal on Linguistics and Language Technology. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 53-96.
[11] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Baidyutin Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan”. Alochana Chakra. Suniti Kumar Chatterji 125 Special Issue. Vol. 37. No. 1. pp. 155-187.
[12] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Consonant graphic variants in Bangla: their patterns of usage and their nature of pronunciation within words”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 3. No. 1-2. Pp. 168-186.
[13] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Investigating into the Patterns of Usage and Nature of Pronunciation of Some Consonant Grapheme Clusters in Bengali”. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies. Vol. 2. No. 2. Pp. 330-340.
[14] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Non-allographed Consonants and Diacritics in Bangla Words: Defining their Patterns of Usage & Nature of Pronunciation”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 7. No. 1-2. Pp. 31-50.
[15] Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Arpita Ray (2014) “Investigating the Nature of Use of Animal Names in Bengali Written Texts”. Language Forum: Special Issue on Sociolinguistics. Vol. 40. No. 1-2. Pp. 87-120.
96 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 [16] Dash, Niladri Shekhar (2014) “Consonant Graphic Variants in Bengali: Their Patterns of Usage and Their Nature of Pronunciation within Words”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 3. No. 1-2. Pp. 168-186.
[17] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) "Marking Words with Part-of-Speech (POS) Tags within Text Boundary of a Corpus: the Problems, the Process and the Outcomes". Translation Today. Vol. 9. No. 1. Pp. 5-24.
[18] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2015) “Syntactic, lexical, and semantic-cum-cultural barriers in English to Bengali translation”. International Journal of Translation. Vol. 27. No. 1&2. Pp. 49-73.
[19] Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Atul Aman (2015) “Generation of a Dialect Corpus in Khortha used in Jharkhand, India: Some Empirical Observations and Theoretical Postulations" Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 4. No. 1-2. Pp. 151-161.
[20] Pal, Alok Ranjan, Diganta Saha and Niladri Sekhar Dash (2015) “Automatic Classification of Bengali Sentences based on Sense Definitions Present in Bengali WordNet”. International Journal of Control Theory and Computer Modelling. Vol. 5. No. 1. Pp. 1-13.
[21] 2016: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) "Culling Scientific and Technical Terms (STTs) from Text Corpora for Compiling TermBank in Bangla". International Journal of Engineering Sciences. Vol. 21. No. 1. Pp. 107-122.
[22] 2016: Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) "Language Attitude of Khortha Speakers in Giridih: A Survey Report". Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies.. Vol. 5. No. 1-2. Pp. 147-173, 2016.
[23] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) "Multifunctionality of Hyphen in Bangla Text Corpus: Problems and Challenges in Text Normalization and POS Tagging". International Journal of Innovative Studies in Sociology and Humanities, Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 19-34.
[24] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2016) “Some Corpus Access Tools for Bangla Corpus". Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 42. No. 1 & 2. Pp. 7-31.
[25] Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Arpita Chakraborty (2016) "Digital Pronunciation Dictionary in Bangla for Computer Assisted Language Teaching, E-Learning, and Speech Technology". International Journal of Engineering Sciences. Vol. 21. No. 1. Pp. 47-57.
[26] Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Arulmozi Selvaraj (2016) "Generating Parallel Translation Corpora in Indian Languages: Cultivating Bilingual Texts for Cross Lingual Fertilization". Translation Today. Vol. 10. No. 1. Pp. 84-118.
[27] Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Arulmozi Selvaraj and Mazhar Hussain (2016) "The Carriage of Indian Languages Corpora: And Miles to Go Before We Stop" Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 42. No. 1 & 2. Pp. 63-92.
[28] Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2017) "Janajatir Bhasa: svatantrer Sankat o Astvitver Anumodan" (The Language of the Aboriginals: The Conflict of Identity and the Acknowledgement of Existence). Janajati Darpan (A Journal for Tribal and Dalit People). Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 9- 21.
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2012-2013
[1] Ghosh, Rajat, Director of Studies, English Language, Majan University College, Ruwi, The Sulatanate of Oman, visited LRU 16th - 20th July 2012.
[2] Selvraj, Arulmozi, Dravidian University, Kuppam, India visited LRU from 3rd – 6th May 2012.
2013-2014
(a) Bayer, Josef, University of Konstanz, Germany, 19-28 February 2014
(b) Das, Debopam, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 28-30 August 2013.
(c) Ghosh, Rajat, Majan University College, Oman, 12 August 2013.
(d) Majumder, Tapas, Cognizant Technology Solutions India, 20 September 2013.
(e) Saha, Jay, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 9-10 September 2013.
(f) Sahay, Poonam, Ranchi University, India, 30th September – 1st October 2013.
2014 – 2015
(a) Ray, Arpita, IIIT, Hyderabad, visited LRU on 6 -7 May 2014.
(b) Chandra, Pritha, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, 2-13 November 2014.
(c) Kar, Somdev, IIT-Ropar Visiting LRU 23 December 2014.
(d) Rajendran, S., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, 8-15 February 2015.
(e) Nandy, Paromita, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India 5-6 February 2015
(f) Schenkel, Elmar, Dept. of English, Leipzig University, Germany, 24 February 2015.
2015-2016
[1] Arpita Ray, IIIT, Hyderabad, 6-7 May 2015.
[2] Parteek Bhatia, Thapar University, Patiala, 19-21 August 2015.
[3] Pratibha Bhattacharya, Dept. of Linguistics, Delhi University, 28th August 2015
[4] Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik/ Department of Databases and Information Systems/ Saarbruken/ Germany, 30th December 2015.
[5] Arpita Bose, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Reading University, UK, 11-12 February 2016.
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2016-2017
[1] Muhammad Ehsanul Kabir, Mitcham Institute, Victoria, Australia, 7-8 September 2016.
[2] Ujjwal Jana, Dept. of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, 4-5 January 2017.
[3] Tiyasa Sengupta, Department of language and Communication, University of Denmark, 9 January 2017.
[4] Tapan Baman, Director, Mihup Communications Private Limited, Module # 113, SDF Building, Ground Floor, Sector-V, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700091, India, 26 October 2016.
[5] Anupam Bhattacharya, Mihup Communications Private Limited, Module # 113, SDF Building, Ground Floor, Sector-V, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700091, 10 February 2017.
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List of Scientific papers/publications in the Population Studies Unit (2012 – 2017) Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao, Prasanta Pathak and Santosh Jatrana [2016] "Hindu-Muslim Fertility Differential in India: A Cohort Approach", Journal of Biosocial Science, http://journals.cambridge.org/abstractS0021932016000262, pp.1-26, June 13, 2016.
Pathak, Prasanta (2015) “Temporal Variation in Ageing of Population and Replacement by Young Dependent in Developed and Developing States in India” (presented at the National Workshop on Growth Curve Models, held at ISI, Giridih during February 27-28, 2015).
Bakshi, Sanjeev and Pathak, Prasanta (2013) “State of Empowerment of the Elderly in India: A Statistical Exposition” in Ageing, Health and Development ed. S. Sivaraju, U.V. Somayajulu and C. P. Prakasam, (Proceedings of the 9th National Conference of the Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health, November 24-26, 2011, TISS, Mumbai).
Pathak, Prasanta and Verma, Vivek (2013) “Projection of Indian Population Using Leslie Matrix with Changing Age Specific Mortality Rate, Age Specific Fertility Rate and Age Specific Marital Fertility Rate” in Advances in Growth Curve Models ed. Ratan Dasgupta, (Proceedings of the National Conference on Growth Curve Models held at the Giridih Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during March 28 -30, 2012), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, Vol.46, 227 -240.
Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao, Chattopadhyay, A.K. and Pathak, Prasanta. (2012) “Spatial and Temporal Changes in the Dynamics of Tubal Sterilization Practice in India”. (presented in 2012 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America (PAA), San Francisco, CA, May 3-5, 2012 and available in PAA website).
Pathak, Prasanta [2012] “Estimation of Technical Manpower Requirement through Effective Means for Improving Quality of Training of Technicians” (A report based on a project sponsored by the West Bengal State Council of Technical Education, Govt. of West Bengal). Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao and Pathak, Prasanta [2012] “Cohort Fertility Patterns by Caste and Religion in India”, presented at the National Seminar on Demographic Transition and Inclusive Development, organized in ISI, Kolkata by the International Institute for Population Studies, Mumbai in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during March 15- 17, 2012. Bakshi, Sanjeev and Pathak, Prasanta [2012] “What Makes Them Feel Healthier? The Correlates of Self Perceived Health among Older Adults in India”, presented at the National Seminar on Demographic Transition and Inclusive Development, organized in ISI, Kolkata by the International Institute for Population Studies, Mumbai in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during March 15-17, 2012. Pathak, Prasanta and Verma, Vivek [2012] “Projection of Indian Population by Using Leslie Matrix with Changing Age Specific Mortality Rate, Fertility Rate and Marital Fertility Rate” (presented at the National Conference on Growth Curve Models, held at ISI, Giridih during March 28-30, 2012). Barman, Subhash (2013). Socio-economic and demographic differentials of contraceptive usage in Indian states: A study based on NFHS data, Journal of Human Ecology,42(1), 53-68.
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De, Partha, Sahu, D., Pandey, A., Gulati, B.K., Chandhiok, N., Shukla, A.K., Mohan, P. and Mitra, R.G. (2016). Post Millennium Development Goals Prospect on Child Mortality in India: An Analysis Using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averages (ARIMA) Model; Health, 8, 1845-1872. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2016.815176.
De Partha (2016). Child Disability and Malnutrition in a backward district of India: A Cross Sectional Study. International Conference on Social and Political Issues (ICSPI), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, 19-20 October, 2016, Bali, Indonesia.
De Partha (2015). Inequality in Child Mortality in the North Eastern States of India. Presentation for the seminar on Poverty, Inequality and Health in India with special reference to North-East India, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya on 8-10 October, 2015.
D. Sahu, A. Pandey, P. De. (2015) Levels, Trends and Projection of Under-five Mortality Rates and Prospects of Achievement of Millennium Development Goal Four in India. International Journal of Epidemiology; 44 (suppl_1): i207. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv096.340.
Sahu,Damodar, Pandey,Arvind, De, Partha. (2014). Levels, Trends and Projection of Under- five Mortality Rates and Prospects of Achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4 in India. 20th IEA World Congress of Epidemiology, Global Epidemiology in a changing environment: The Circumpolar Perspective; 17 – 21 August, 2014; Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
De, Partha, Dhar, Arpita (2013) Inequality in Child Mortality across different States of India: A Comparative Study; Journal of Child Health Care, 17(4): 397–409, December 2013, Sage Publications, London, United Kingdom. DOI: 10.1177/1367493512468359.
De, Partha, Dhar, Arpita, Bhattacharya, B.N. (2012) Efficiency of Health Care System in India: An Inter-State Analysis using DEA Approach; Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 482-506, Taylor & Francis, Routledge.
Pandey, Arvind, Bhattacharya, B.N, Sahu, D., De, Partha, Gulati,B.K., Shukla, A.K. , Mitra, R.G., Mohan, Pavitra. (2012) Infant and Child Mortality in India: Levels, Trends and Determinants, National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and UNICEF India Country Office, New Delhi, India (UNICEF Publication: unicef.in/Uploads/Publications/Resources/pub_doc35.pdf). Pandey,Arvind, De, Partha, Sahu,D., Gulati,B.K., Shukla, A.K (2012) Prospects of Achieving Millennium Development Goal – A Time Series Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality in India. Seminar on Advances in Quantative Research on Reproductive & Child Health, organized by Population Studies Unit, ISI, January 10, Friday.
Pandey, Arvind, De, Partha, Sahu, D., Gulati, B.K., Shukla, A.K. (2012) Infant Mortality in India: Time Trend & Future Prospects. IIPS National Seminar on Demographic Transition and Inclusive Development, 15th to 17th March, 2012 at ISI, Kolkata.
De, Partha and Ghosh, Arpita. (2012) Effect of Socio-economic Inequality on Child Mortality in the Major States of India. IIPS National Seminar on Demographic Transition and Inclusive Development, 15th to 17th March, 2012 at ISI, Kolkata.
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Ghosh Buddhadeb and Gupta Swagata (2013) District Level Divergence in India in Post - reform Period: Relationship between Infrastructure, Vulnerable Class and Purchasing Power. European Journal of Applied Social Sciences Research, 1 (1), 1-22, June. Pasupuleti, S.S.R., Jatrana, S., & Richardson, K. (2015). Effect of nativity and duration of residence on chronic health conditions among Asian immigrants in Australia: a longitudinal investigation. Journal of Biosocial Science, 48(3): 322-341. EISSN: 1469-7599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021932015000206 Jatrana, S. & Pasupuleti, S.S.R. (2015). Women’s autonomy, education and birth intervals in India: visiting the less familiar. Asian Population Studies, 11(2):134-148. ISSN: 1744-1730 (Print), 1744-1749 (Online). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/ 17441730.2015. 1050083?journalCode=raps20 Pasupuleti, S.S.R. & Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2013). Probability distributions of number of children and maternal age at various order births using age-specific fertility rates by birth order, Sankhya Series B 75(2):374-408.
VISITING SCIENTISTS (Last 5 Years)
YEAR (2012-13)
M. Nazrul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
M. Taj Uddin, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
YEAR (2014-15)
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia.
YEAR (2015-16)
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia.
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Journal Publications for last five years (2012-2017):
a) Ghosh,S. and Dutta Roy,D. (2016).Factors influencing self-care activities in Diabetes Mellitus. Research Horizons,6,167-174. b) Kundu,A.and Dutta Roy,Debdulal (2016). Innovative work behaviour of School teachers: role of belief for Innovation and personality patterns.Journal of Organisation and Human Behaviour,5,1,129-133. c) Datta,Sumona and Dutta Roy,Debdulal(2015). Construction of Test Measuring Mental Rotation Ability of Adolescent High School Students.The International Journal of Indian Psychology,3,2,5,91-100 d) Dutta Roy, D. (2015). Rabindrik value orientations of war returned senior rank police officers. Journal of Organization & Human Behaviour,4,4,2015. e) Datta,Sumona and Dutta Roy,Debdulal(2015).Abstract reasoning and spatial visualization in formal operational stage. International journal of scientific and research publications, 5,10,1-6. f) Shah,H. and D. Dutta Roy (2015). Structure of Rabindrik human values. Indian Journal of Positive Psychology. 5, 4, 368-375. g) Dutta Roy,D. and Gupta,P. (2014).Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28,2, 18-28. h) Dutta Roy, D and Bhaduri, S (2014). Gender and Rabindrik value orientation. Psybernews, 5,1,46-50. i) Santosh. S.,Dutta Roy. D&Kundu P.S.(2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry ;23:65-70. j) Dutta Roy,D and Basu,D. (2013). Rabindrik work value preference. Psybernews,4,2,82- 89.
Book chapter publications (2013-2017) a) Basak,M. and Dutta Roy,D. (2015).PREFERENCE TO RABINDRIK VALUES: A STUDY ON SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENTS. In Anjali Ghosh,Debdulal Dutta Roy and Rumki Gupta (Eds.)Adolescent Development:Issues and Challenges. Selected papers from the National Conference on Adolescent development: Issues and Challenges organized by the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, January 29-30,2015.(pp 122-130),New Delhi: Prasad Psycho Corporation.
b) Datta,S. and Dutta Roy,D. (2015).Development of Reasoning abilities in Adolescent school students.In Anjali Ghosh,Debdulal Dutta Roy and Rumki Gupta (Eds.)Adolescent Development:Issues and Challenges. Selected papers from the National Conference on Adolescent development: Issues and Challenges organized by the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, January 29-30,2015.(pp 178-194),New Delhi: Prasad Psycho Corporation.
c) Gupta,P.and Dutta Roy,D.(2015).Reasoning abilities as predictors of Academic achievement.In Anjali Ghosh,Debdulal Dutta Roy and Rumki Gupta (Eds.)Adolescent Development:Issues and Challenges. Selected papers from the National Conference on Adolescent development: Issues and Challenges organized by the Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, January 29-30,2015.(pp 195-206),New Delhi:
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d) Gupta,P.and Dutta Roy,D.(2015).IMPACT OF ATTITUDE ON ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY IN FIRST LANGUAGE. In Panch Ramalingam (Ed.) School Psychology: Prospects to Multiple Disabled Children. M/S Cambridge Scholars Publishers, United Kingdom (In Press).
e) Dutta Roy,D.(2015). PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY IN INDIA. In Panch Ramalingam and Indranee Phookon Barooah (Eds.), School Psychology:Enhancing Psychological competencies. Puducherry,Puducherry Co-op. Book Society Ltd.36-41.
f) Dutta Roy,D.(2014).READING MOTIVATION OF TRIBAL STUDENTS IN TRIPURA AND MANIPUR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY . In Niladri Pradhan (Ed.) Tribal Education in India: Challenges and strategies. Kolkata:FIRMA KLM Pvt.Ltd.159- 180.
g) Dutta Roy,D. (2014). DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE CONSCIOUSNESS: PROBLEM OF TEACHER EDUCATION. In Roy,R. (Ed.) Education for sustainable development. New Delhi:Shipra Publications. 126-137.
List of Visitor in PRU Short time visitors in the Psychology Research Unit:
2013-14 1. Coulacoglou, Carina, Greece, January 15, 2014. 2. Chatterjee, Susmita, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, September 07, October 25, and November 01, 2013.
2014-15 1. Basak, Rituparna, Department of Psychology, Salesian College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, April 01 -July, 2014. 2. Chatterjee, Susmita, Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata, April 29, May 06 and 08, 2014. 3. Chatterjee, Madhabi, Teachers College, Columbia Unoiversity, New York, USA, February 20, 2015. 2015-16
1. Adhikari, Mitali, Senior Lecturer of Nursing Training College, Calcutta Medical College, February-26, 2016.
2. Bandyopadhyay, Souvik, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, August- 17, 2015. 3. Bhattacharya, Swaha, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, February- 26, 2016. 4. Bhattacharya, Swaha, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, January-21, 2016. 5. Basu, Jayanti, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, March -22, 2016. 6. Das Gupta, Sadhan, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, February-17, 2016. 7. Das, Koel, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IISER. August-19, 2015. 8. Jana, Amlan, Assistant Professor, K.P.C. Medical College, Kolkata, February-16, 2016. 9. Mukherjee, Divyagopal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R. G. Kar Medical College, August-17, 2015.
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10. Mondal, Shankar, Uday, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R. G. Kar Medical College, February-16, 2016. 11. Mukherjee, Divyagopal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, R. G. Kar Medical College, February-16, 2016. 12. Mukhopadhyay, Susmita, Assistant Professor, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT, Kharagpur. February-17, 2016. 13. Pyne, Saumyadipta, Professor, University of Hyderabad, August-17, 2015. 14. Pandey, G.K. Director- Professor, Departmant of Epidemiology, August-19, 2015. 15. Pal Nilanjana, Assistant Professor, Haldia Medical College, February-16, 2016. 16. Pandey, Arvind, Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi, February-17, 2016. 17. Poddar, Ashok, Ex- Secretary (Actuarial), Central office, LIC, Mumbai, February-16, 2016. 18. Pahwa, Khuswant, Actuary, New Delhi, February-16, 2016. 19. Ray, Anjali, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, March 4, 2016. 20. Sharma, K. Narendra, Retried Professor, IIT Kanpur, February-17, 2016.
2017-18 1. Prof. Ravindra Nath Rai,Centre for Distance Education,NEHU,(Bijni Campus) 2. Professor Anjali Ray,Department of Applied Psychology,University of Calcutta 3. Professor Pritha Mukhopadhyay,Department of Psychology,University of Calcutta. 4. Professor S.P. Mukherjee, Indian association for Productivity, Quality & Reliability. 5. Prof.Sitamma .M., IBS Hyderabad (IFHE, Deemed University) 6. Prof.Saumyadipta Pyne, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad. 7. Dr. Meghana V. Aruru, IIPH Hyderabad 8. Mr. Joy Mustafi, Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research, Hyderabad 9. Ms.Vyjayanthi Sankar, Centre for Science of Student Learning 10. Professor Meena Hariharan, Head, Department of Health Psychology, Central University of Hyderabad. 11. Dr.Gopal Ch.Biswas, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases,Govt.Of West Bengal, Sasthya Bhawan. 12. Professor Joseph Indelicato, Touro College School of Health Sciences, Chair of Touro College Research Collaborative.New York,USA. 13. Professor Anand Kumar, President: Indian Academy of Health Psychology,Former Head, Department of Psychology, M.G.Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. 14. Shri Prasanta Roy, Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata. 15. Dr.Anirban Sinha, Dept of Endocrinology, Medical College, Kolkata; Visiting endocrinologist,AMRI hospitals. 16. Professor Gurdeep Singh, Hazaribagh University, Jharkhand. 17. Dr. Pramod Pathak, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines),Dhanbad.
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Dr. Bhola Nath Ghosh
Papers Published in Journals
2017: “Education and Socio-economic Marginalization of Muslims Women: A Case Study of North 24-Parganas District in west Bengal”, NotanBhusankar&BholaNath Ghosh, in Bangladesh e-journal of Sociology, Volume 14, Number 1, January 2017, p.129-149.
2016: “Land acquisition in Singur for Industrialization, SEZ, Politics and Economic Intricacy”, (B. N. Ghosh)& Utpal Kumar De, in South Asian Journal of Policy and Governance (SJPG), Volume 38, Number 1, June 2016, P.77-93. Cdpa.edu.np, Public Administration Campus, Central Department of Public Administration (CPDA), Tribhuvan University, Balkhu, Kathmandu, Nepal. Email:[email protected]. Phone:977- 1-4671192-4276887.
2016: “Involvement of Women in Natural Resource Collection in Rural Jharkhand, India”, Utpal Kumar De & (B. N. Ghosh), in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 23 (2) 1-18, @2016 CWDS, SAGE Publications, sagepub.in/home.nav, DOI: 10.1177/0971521516635326, http://ijg.sagepub.com, SAGE
2015: “Empowerment as an Indicator of Development of Tribal Women in rural Jharkhand”, (B.N. Ghosh), in Indian Sociological Society, E-Journal, July- December, 2015, Volume 1, Number 1, P-102-120, New Delhi.
2015: “Outsourcing Babies: A Discourse of Surrogacy and the Attitude of Today’s Youth in India”, Sreyashi Ghosh & (B.N. Ghosh), Journal of Rural and Community Affairs, Vol. I, No. I, May-Nov., 2015, P-158-178, Published by: Tufangung Mahavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, West Bengal.
2014: “Causes of HIV/AIDS in underdeveloped Countries: A critical Review”, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, (B.N. Ghosh), Volume 5, Issue 6, pp 308- 312, ISSN: 0976-3376, www.journalajst.com, June 2014.
2014: “Contextualizing Intergenerational Mobility of Women ‘Techies’ of Kolkata”, Asmita Bhattacharya & (B.N. Ghosh), Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, the Official Journal of Bangladesh Sociological Society, (committed to the Advancement of Sociological Research & Publication), Volume 11, Number 1 January 2014, pp. 38-53, ISSN1819-8465, www.bangladeshsociology.org,
2014: “Development of Tribal Women in Rural Jharkhand”, (B.N. Ghosh), The Grassroots Governance Journal, Volume XI, No.2, July- December, 2013, pp. 243- 257 ISSN 0973-0257, Published by Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India.
2014: “Existing status of co-operatives specially milk co operatives in India: The case study of west Bengal”, (B.N. Ghosh), Ranjit Karmakar and Kamalakhya Das, The Grassroots Governance Journal, Volume XI, No.1, January-June 106 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
2013, pp. 6-20, ISSN 0973-0257, Published by Academy of Grassroots Studies and Research of India.
2013: “Gender Inclusivity in Information Communication Technology: Some Policy Indications”, (B.N. Ghosh) & Asmita Bhattacharya, International Journal of Humanities and Social Invention, ISSN (Online): 2319-7722, ISSN (Print) 2319-7714, www.ijhssi.org, Vol. 2, No. 6, June, PP. 61-65.
2013: “Ethnicity: A Continuum on Education”, (B.N. Ghosh) & Sujata Chakraborty, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 02, p. 128 -147, ISSN: 2161- 6248, Website: www.journalajst.com.
2012: “Concept and Implications of Empowerment of Women in North-East India: A Case Study”, (B.N.Ghosh), Society Today: An Interdisciplinary of Social Sciences, Vol.2, PP. 1-19, December, ISSN 2319-3328, available online at http//www.society today.
2012: “Co-operatives: A few words”, (B.N. Ghosh), Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol.4, No. 11. PP. 050-053, ISSN: 0976- 3376, Website: www.Journalajst.com.
2012: “Gender differences specially in health: A Case study in Meghalaya and Tripura”, (B.N. Ghosh), Journal of Humanities and Social Science (JHSS), Vol.4, No. 6 (November. - December, pp. 18-25, ISSN: 2279-0837, ISBN: 2279-0845, 0461825, can be checked at www.doi.org
2012: “Women in Indian Information Technology (IT) Sector: A Sociological Analysis” (B.N. Ghosh) & Asmita Bhattacharya, Journal of Humanities and Social Science (JHSS), Vol. 3, No. 6 (Nov.- Dec.), PP 45-52, ISSN:2279-0837, ISBN: 2279- 0845, www.Oosrjournals.org,DOI: 10.9790/0837-0364552, can be checked at www.doi.org
Papers Published in books
2015: “Empowerment: Status of Muslim women in West Bengal”, with Sarmistha Das & (B.N. Ghosh), in Women Empowerment in India: Challenge Ahead edited by Debasis Mazumdar and at el. Published by Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya, 2015, ISBN 978-81-923645-7-5, pp.220- 227, Kolkata.
2014 : “Poverty eradication programmes in India: Actions Taken & Impacts Made”, M .Pal, (B.N.Ghosh) & P. Bharati Social Work and Social Development, Volume III, edited by Sven Hessle, Stockholm, Sweden, Ashgate Publishing Company, USA.
2013 : “Process of Development of Women in Rural Jharkhand”, in P. DASH SHARMA and D. Chatterjee (eds.), Livelihood and Health: Issues and Process in Rural Development, (B.N.Ghosh), Serial Publications, New Delhi, pp. 92-105. ISBN: 978-81-8387-629-2
2012 : “Gender Budgeting, Resource Control & Empowerment of Women: A Study in Meghalaya” in Abdul Motin (ed.) Gender Budgeting: State Towards Justice: (B.N.Ghosh), (Conceptual and Empirical No), Dasgupta & Company Publication House, Kolkata, Pp. 27-37, ISBN: 978-81- 8211-088-5, ISBN: 978-81-8211-0885 Papers Published in Conference Proceedings
2015: “Women in Natural Resource Collection: Experience from Rural Jharkhand in Rural India”, (B.N.Ghosh) & Utpal Kumar De, in AIP Proceedings, The Second ISM International
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2015: Bengali Translated by Himanshu Ghosh, Gramin Netritya O Unnayan, (B.N. Ghosh), Pragatisil Prakasak, 37A, College Street, Kolkata-700 073, Total Page 222, ISBN: 978-81- 89846-62-6
2015: Empowerment of Women in North East in India, (B.N.Ghosh) Concept Publishing Company (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Total Page 183+xxiii, ISBN- 13:978-93- 5125-104-0,
2012: Gender Issues & Empowerment of Women, edited by Manoranjan Pal, Prasanta Pathak, Premananda Bharati, (B.N. Ghosh) & Amita Majumdar, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, Total pp. xxii + 323, Price USD 69, (www.novapublishers.com) ISBN 978-1-62100-407-3 (hbk).
Dr Anil Kumar Choudhuri
Papers Published in Journals
Anil K Choudhuri and others (2014). Atmospheric Fine and Coarse Mode Aerosols at Different Environments of India and the Bay of Bengal During Winter-2014: Implications of a Coordinated Campaign, MAPAN-Journal of Metrology Society of India, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s12647-014-0109-x.
Anil K Choudhuri and others (2014). Variations in Particulate matter over Indo-Gangetic Plains and Indo-Himalayan Range during four field campaigns in winter monsoon and summer monsoon: Role of pollution pathways. Atmospheric Environment, ELSEVIER, 154, pp. 200-224.
DR HARI CHARAN BEHERA
Paper published in Journals
1. Behera, H.C. (2015). Socioeconomic Perspective of Land use Practice in Jharkhand, The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 68 (4), pp. 497-526.
2. Behera, H.C. (2015). The Pattern of Landholding and Emerging Agrarian Relations; A study in north Chotanagpur Region of India, The Oriental Anthropologist, Vol. 15(1), pp. 151-175
3. Rao, P.V., and H.C. Behera (forthcoming). Agrarian questions under Neoliberal Economic Policies in India: A Review and Analysis of Dispossession and Depeasantisation, The Oriental Anthropologist, Vol. 17 (1)
DR. SUPARNA SHOME
Paper published in Journals
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2. Shome S. Women’s intra-household decision making power in Jharkhand state, India, International Journal of Current Research. 7 (1), 11742-11747, 2015.
3. Shome S, Pal M and Bharati P : Is women autonomy an issue in health care: Evidences from Central and Eastern India, The Asian Man, 9(1), 1-12, 2015.
4. Shome S, Srimani P, De (Bose) A and Bharati P. Height, weight and BMI of the teenagers: A Comparative Study of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa, Human Biology Review, 3(2) 116-139, 2014.
5. Som, Suparna; Ulijaszek, Stanley; Pal, Manoranjan; Bharati, Susmita and Bharati, Premananda. 2014. Variation in height and BMI of adult Indians. Journal of Biosocial Science. 46 (1) : 47-65.
6. Shome S, Roy P, Pal M and Bharati P. Variation of Adult Heights and Weights in India: State and Zonewise Analysis. Human Biology Review, 3(3) 242-257, 2014.
Paper Published in Book
1. Shome S, Pal M and Bharati P: Levels of undernutrition among the tribes of central India, Recent researches on the tribes of Central India, B Tripathy and B Mohanta (eds), AAYU publication, New Delhi. pp 337-344. 2016.
2. Suparna Shome, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. Relation among socio-economic status, body mass index and diabetes in India: An overview from National data, Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK (eds) Mittal Publication, NewDelhi, pp.67-78. 2015.
3. Papiya Roy, Suparna Som, Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati. Intra and Inter-State Variation of Height and Weight in North-Eastern States of India, Explorations in anthropology of North East India Sarthak Sengupta (ed), Gyan Publishing House 23, Main Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002, India, pp179- 188. 2015.
4. Bharati, S., Pal.M., Som, S and Bharati, P. Empowerment of Women Through Household Decision Making Power in India: A State Wise Analysis. Edited M. Pal, P. Pathak, P. Bharati, B. Ghosh and A. Majumder (eds.), Gender Issues and Empowerment of women, NOVA Science Publishers. Inc. New York, 109-127, 2012.
Books
Shome Suparna and Bharati Premananda.: Women Autonomy and Its Influence On Safe Motherhood. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, pages 148, 2014.
DR. TIRTHANKAR GHOSH
Paper Published in Journal/ Proceedings
Ghosh Tirthankar & Kamalaksha Das, ‘Rural Development and the Dalits: With Special Reference to Jharkhand’, in a Conference Proceedings, National Conference on Interdisciplinary
109 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Researches in Social Sciences in Eastern India with Special Reference to Jharkhand’, organized by Indian Statistical Institute, at Giridih, during 27-28 February 2014.
Ghosh, Tirthankar, H. Bhattacharya, R. Jana A. Ghosh: ‘Studding performance of old adults under special adult literacy programme of Tripura’, Proceedings of 17th Biennial Conference of Association of Gerontology, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, September 15-16, 2014 India
Ghosh Tirthankar, ‘Globalisation, Social Justice and Development: With Special Reference to Dalits of Jharkhand”, in the Proceedings of twoday international seminar on ‘Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice: Perspectives, Issues and Concerns’, at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow held on February 25-26 2016.
Published paper, ‘Social Justice and Development : With Special Reference to Dalits in Eastern India’. In International Conference Proceedings on Social and Political Issues ( ICSPI ) 2016, at Universitas Indonesia ( Sanur Pradise Plaza Hoel ), Bali, Indonesia, October 19th – 20th 2016.
DR. SUSMITA BHARATI
Paper published in Journals
SusmitaBharati, Manoranjan Pal and PremanandaBharati. 2017. Child Health in North East India. In: SarthakSengupta Edited Contemporary Anthropological Research in Eastern and North Eastern India.Gyan Publishing House New Delhi, pp. 87-100.
Bharati, S; Pal,M. and Bharati, P. 2017. Childhood obesity in Kolkata, India. Its trend and consequence. Proceedings of International Conference on Bio-informatics and Bio-statistics for Agriculture health and Environment, 20-23rd January: pp. 113-121.
Pal,M.Bharati, P. and Bharati, S. 2017. Comparing Methods for Assessing Overweight and Obesity of (6-10) year children in Kolkata. Proceedings of International Conference on Bio-informatics and Bio-statistics for Agriculture health and Environment, 20-23rd January: pp. 122-130. Bharati, S, Bharati, P. 2016. Tagore and his contribution towards rural development. Nrtattv, THE ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 9 (11): 113- 121.
Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Mitashree Mitra and Premananda Bharati. 2016. Changes in Basic Amenities, Awareness, Socio-Economy and Child Morbidity: A Comparative Study from NFHS-2 and NFHS-3. The Asian Man, 10 (1), 40-50.
Bharati S, Pal M and Bharati P. 2015. Declining patterns of average height of adult Indians between 20 and 49 years: State wise trends and influence of socioeconomic factors. In R Dasgupta Edited Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modelling, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan; Shome, Suparna Shome and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Temporal Trend of Anemia Among Reproductive-Aged Women in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 27: 1193-1207.
Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan, Chakrabarty Suman and Bharati, Premananda. 2015. Socioeconomic determinants of iron-deficiency anemia among children aged 6 to 59 months in India. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 27: 1432-1443.
110 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Bharati, Susmita. 2015. Domestic violence against women in Jharkhand. International Journal of Current Research. 7 (I), 11748-11752.
Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P.2014. Women Autonomy, Nutritional and Immunization Status of their Children. Anthropology,, 2 (2), 118.
Bharati, S; Pal, M and Bharati, P. 2013. The status of Infant health in India. Health. 5: 14-22.
Bharati, S., Pal,M and Bharati, P. 2013. Autonomy of Tribal Women in India. Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities. 3: 32-45.
Paper Published in Book
2. Bharati, S., Pal. M., Som, S and Bharati, P. Empowerment of Women Through Household Decision Making Power in India: A State Wise Analysis. Edited M. Pal, P. Pathak, P. Bharati, B. Ghosh and A. Majumder (eds.), Gender Issues and Empowerment of women, NOVA Science Publishers. Inc. New York, 109-127, 2012.
3. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Premananda. 2013. Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children: A comparative study of Jharkhand, Bihar and WB in Dasgupta R edited Advances in Growth Curve Models, Springer, New York. Pp. 257-270.
4. Susmita Bharati. Dual burden of malnutrition among Indian women: A comparative analysis between NFHS-3 and NFHS-2. In: Kaushik Bose, Edited, Human Malnutrition: Twin Burdens of Undernutrition and Overnutrition, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge, New. York., pp. 165-176, 2013.
5. Bharati, Susmita; Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Premananda.2015. Social dimensions related to under nutrition among adult men. In: Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK edited Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, pp. 21-31.
6. Bharati, Premananda Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, Susmita.2015. Determinants of nutrition- deficient anaemia among adult Indian men. In: Bharati p, Singh SP, Kaur J and Adak DK edited Health, Nutrition & Physical Growth in Developing Nations, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, pp. 33-42. Books
Bharati, S., Golam Hossain, M and Bharati, P.: Variability of Human Head Form in India. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, pages 168, 2012.
DR. RABINDRANATH JANA
Published paper (2011-16) of Rabindranath Jana
Jana, Rabindranath: On Social Networks: formation, data and few analytic techniques. As invited speaker in the ‘Workshop on Social Networks’, jointly organized by Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, during 20-24 February, 2012. website DOI: http://www.imsc.res.in/~sitabhra/meetings/ socialnetwork0212/talks/Rabindranath_Jana.pdf
111 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Jana, Rabindranath, Bandyopadhyay, Suraj and Choudhuri, Anil: Reciprocity among farmers in farming system research: Application of social network analysis, Journal of Human Ecology, 41(1): 45-51, 2013 .
Jana, Rabindranath and Choudhuri, Anil: Studying various aspects of social networks with socio-economic changes in a rural area: A case study from West Bengal, Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, Nos. 1&2, pp.1-29, 2013.
Misra, Sanchayeeta, Goswami Rupak, Basu, Debabrata and Jana, Rabindranath: Application of Social Network Analysis in Livelihood System Study, Space and Culture, India, Vol.2, Number 3, pp. 24-46, 2014.
Choudhuri, Anil. K. and Jana, Rabindranath. (2014): Social Network Analysis Approach for Studying Caste, Class and Social Support in Rural Jharkhand and West Bengal: An Empirical Attempt, in Mrutyunjaya Panda, Satchidananda Dehuri and Gi-Nam Wang(eds.), Social Networking ‐ Mining, Visualization, and Security, Vol.65, pp. 147-200, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer.
Jana, Rabindranath and Bagchi, S. B.: Distributional Aspects of Some Statistics in Weighted Social Networks, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 39: 1-28, 2015.
R. JANA, RangasamyMaruthakutti and Anil K. Choudhuri (2017). Survival Strategy of Elderly Headed Households of Rural West Bengal: An SNA Approach, Indian Journal of Gerontology, Vol. 31, No. 2. Pp.169 – 195.
DR. SONALI CHAKRABORTY
Published in journal:
1) Chakraborty Sonali and Chattopadhyay Molly: A Comparative Study on Gender Segmentation in Organized and Unorganized Manufacturing Sector of India, Indian Labour Journal 56(6), 585- 596, 2015.
2) Chakraborty Sonali: Employment Situation in Jharkhand, Journal of Economic & Social Development, 11(01), 1-10, 2015.
3) Sonali Chakraborty and Molly Chattopadhyay: Occupational Segregation and Wage, Demography India. 42(1), 47-63, 2015.
Sonali Chakraborty and Molly Chattopadhayay , ‘ Gender wage gap and Occupational Segregation in Indian labour market’ ‘Demography India’ 2013 in vol 42 no.1
4) Sonali Chakraborty (December, 2013) Occupational Gender Segregation in India: Research journali’s Journal of Economics Vol.1/ No.2. pp. 1-31 ISSN 2347-8233(web journal)
5) Molly Chattopadhyay, Sonali Chakraborty and Prof. Richard Anker ‘Sex segregation in India’s formal manufacturing sector’ International Labour Review, Vol. 152 (2013), No. 1, pp. 43-58
6)Sonali Chakraborty ‘EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION’ The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2012 p.p 485-500
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Sonali Chakraborty(January 2017) Gender inequality in morbidity pattern: An overview from Indian perspective: paper presented in the international conference on “ Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for Agriculture, Health and Environment”
Received Award
The K.Srinivasan Award for the Occupational Segregation and Gender wage gap published in Demography India Vol 2, No 1& 2 in December 2016
Visitors/ Lectors/ Seminars (2012 – 2017)
Mallick, Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata (27.06.2012): Measuring Quality of Life in the Sundarbans Region.
Mohanti, B.B., Department of Sociology, Pondicherry University (27.07.2012): Farmer Suicides: Durkheim in India.
Mallick, Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata, May 01, 2012–June 30, 2012.
Mohanti, B.B., Department of Sociology, Pondichery University, September 30-October 17, 2012.
Rahman, Taimur, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, November 01-30, 2012.
Das, Rajat Kanti, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal (28.03.2014): Kinship, Society and Politics: when do they converge.
Ganguly, Ramanuj, Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal (11.02.2014): Gendered understanding for gender in Indian Society: A critical look ahead.
Ghosh, Biswajit, Department of Sociology, University of Burdwan, West Bengal (14.02.2014): Legal Strategies to curb violence against women and girl child at home: a critical review of some laws in India.
Ghosh, Himanshu, West Bengal College Service Commission (20.02.2014): Right to equality: Indian women.
Maruthakutti, Rangasamy, Department of Sociology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu (27.01.2014): Methodology for family social network research.
Rana, Kumar, Pratichi Institute, Pratichi Trust, West Bengal (10.03.2014): The Muslim question and practice of emocracy.
Ray, Antara, Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata (13.03.2014): Gender and caste: (re) locating Dalit women.
Banerjee, Anirban, Department of Sociology, University of Burdwan, West Bengal (06.05.2014): Student Radicalism in Contemporary Bengal.
113 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Bhattacharyya, Gayatri, Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal (25.04.2014): Use of Census as a source Economic and Cultural Data.
Das, Arnab, Department of Anthropology, Calcutta University (27.06.2014): Gender Within and Beyond the Development Discourse.
De, Utpal Kumar, Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya (15.01.2015): Does Agricultural Diversity Always Contribute to the Progress of Farmers? An Example from North East India?
Ghosh Dostidar, Prabir, Director, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi (10.03.2015): Role of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in deciphering internal structure of Knowledge Systems and Innovation Studies.
Maruthakutti, Rangasamy, Professor of Sociology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu (09.03.2015): Family Organization and Housing among the Kani Tribes.
Saha, Sumita, Presidency University, Kolkata (23.05.2014): Ageing as a social problem.
Sen Chaudhuri, Ritu, West Bengal State University, Barasat (12.09.2014): Conceptualizing the caste gender system: Revisiting “Annihilation of Caste”.
Dr. Rimu Chaudhuri, Heritage Business School, Anandapur, Kolkata 25 May, 2015 Occidental values & Modernity- at their Crossroad: A study on Sikkimese Women
Surendra Pratap Centre for Workers Education Sarita Vihar, New Delhi 30th June 2015 The Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms in India
Ranjana Ray Retired Professor and Emeritus Fellow Department of Anthropology Kolkata University, 14th July, 2015, Children and Child hood: A study among the Meendharas of Sundarbans, West Bengal, India
Dr. Jyotiprasad Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, West Bengal, 27th July, 2015, Adivasi Worldview and the Forest Rights Act: The ‘Development’ Dilemma.
Prabir Chaudhury, Ex- Deputy Director General, NSSO, 31st July, 2015, Shortening the NSS Consumer Expenditure Schedule: The Possibilities.
Dr. Amitesh Mukherjee Head, Sociology Department, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, 16th September, 2015, The making of a heritage site: The Sundarbans.
Dr. Indrani Chakravarty Chief Functionary, Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (CMIG), Kolkata, 28th September, 2015, Dynamics of ageing in India—role of NGOs.
Dr. Kanchan Sarker Dept. of Sociology University of British Columbia-Okanagan Kelowna, BC, Canada, 17th November, 2015, Food Security in India: Comparison among Different Systems.
Dr. Girija Shankar Mallick, Sr. Lecturer, School of Business, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW1797, Australia, 15 December, 2015, Extra Marital Affairs in Sikim.
Dr. Rupak Goswami, Assistant Professor, RKMVU, Narendrapur, 15 January, 2016, Social Network in Agriculture.
Prof. Swapan Bhattacharya, Ex-Professor of Sociology, Dept. Of Sociology, CU. 05 February, 2016, Sociology in Religion.
114 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Professor S. B. Bagchi, Visiting Professor, Dept. Of Statistics, Alia University, W.B. 12 February, 2016 Evolution of Statistics.
Dr. Debasis Poddar, Assistant Professor, National University of Study & Law, Ranchi . 13 January, 2016 Socializing the State in Globalized India: A Juridical Approach .
Utpal Kumar De, Professor and Head, Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 793022, Meghalaya, 21 January, 2016 Farmers' Adaptation through Cropping Choice under Changing Climate and Sustainable Progress.
Professor James Gomez is Associate Dean, School of Communications Arts, Bangkok University and Executive-Director, Asia Centre in Thailand. 29 February 2016 Singapore’s 2015 General Elections: A Cultural Sketch
Dr. Susmita Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata, 27 June 2016 R Revisiting Rabindra Sangeet in Contemporary S Situation
Dr. Sarthak Roy Chowdhury Assistant Professor (Senior) & Head of the Department of Sociology, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, 4 July 2016 For another complement from Cosmos
Dr. Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Assistant Professor PPM Group, in IIM-C, Joka, 26 August 2016 A Peasant or a Miner? Agrarian Transition, De-peasantisation and Gemstone mining in Western Odisha
Amit Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi & Research Professor, University of Goa, Goa, India. 6 September 2016 DANGER ZONES OF HIGH ECONOMIC GROWTH
Dr. Subrata Chatterjee, Assistant Professor (Stage-III) of Sociology, Khejuri College, East Medinipur, W.B. 2nd November, 2016 Sanitation and Rural Development
Dr. Hari Charan Behera, Assistant Professor, Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih, 9th January, 2017 Contract farming: Participation, partnership and socioeconomic development in West Bengal
Dr. Basabi Chakraborty, Assistant Professor and Co-ordinator Department of Sociology, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, 16th January, 2017 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - A SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
Professor Kaushik Bose, Anthropology Department, Vidyasagar University, Medinapore, 3rd February, 2017Nutritional Profile of Adult Tribal Populations in India: A Review
Dr. Arindam Chakraborty, Assistant Professor in Economics, S.R. Lahiri Mahavidyalaya Majdia, Nadia, 27th February, 2017 Economic & Social Aspects of MNNAGERA.
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Scientific Papers and Publications of SOSU (2012-2017)
Publications over the last five years 2012-2017
Dr. Nachiketa Chattopadhyay
1. A methodology for evaluation of a human resource development program (with A. Dewanji and B. K. Roy), Indian Journal of Training and Development, 43(4), 14-29, 2012.
2. “Inequalities in Societies, academic Institutions and Science Journals: Gini and k-indices”(with A. Ghosh and B. K. Chakrabarti), Physica A 410 (2014), pp30-34.
3. “Vulnerability Orderings for Expected Poverty Orderings" (with S. R Chakravarty and L. Qingbin), Forthcoming in Japanese Economic Review, Vol.66, 2015.
4. "Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation: A Theoretical Analysis" (with S. R Chakravarty), Forthcoming in Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, C. D’Amboise (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing: Northampton, MA.
5. "Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty: An Expected Poverty Approach" (with S. R Chakravarty), Forthcoming in Contributions to Economic Analysis: Essays in Honour of Satish Jain, S. Ghatak, R. Kundu and S. Subramanian (eds.), Routledge, New Delhi.
6. “On a family of achievement and shortfall Inequality Indices” (with Chakravarty,S. R. and D’Ambrosio, C) in Health Economics, Vol. 25, pages 1503-1513, 2016.
Papers published in books
1. “Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty: An Expected Poverty Approach" (with S R Chakravarty), in Contributions to Economic Analysis: Essays in Honour of Satish Jain, S. Ghatak, R. Kundu and S.Subramanian (eds.), Routledge, London.
2. “A Poverty Line Contingent on Reference Groups : Implications for the Extent of Poverty in Some Asian Countries"(with S R Chakravarty and others). Book edited by Jacques Silber, Department of Economics, Bar-IIan University, Israel and Guanghua Wan, Asian Development Bank Institute, Edward Elgar Tokyo, Japan,(pages: 30-52).
3. “Measuring the Impact of Vulnerability on the Number of Poor : A New Methodology with Empirical Illustrations"(with S R Chakravarty and others). Book edited by Jacques Silber, Department of Economics, Bar-IIan University, Israel and Guanghua Wan, Asian Development Bank Institute, Edward Elgar Tokyo,Japan,(pages: 84-117).
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1. "An Enquiry into Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, The Universal Elementary Education Programme of India", in Frank Columbus (Ed.), “Urban Schools: Problems, Solutions and Progress”, Nova Science Publishers, Chapter 1, pp. 1 – 36, NY, 2013.
2. ‘Pareto Honouring Poverty Reduction’,Bulletin of Economic Research, 64(2), 179 – 83,2012.
3. ‘Measuring Deprivation due to Child work and Child labour: A Study forIndian Children’, (with Saswati Das), Child Indicators Research, 4(3), 453 – 66, 2011.
4. ‘Influence of Big Traders on the Stock Market: Theory and Simulation’ (with Gopal K. Basak and Mrinal K. Ghosh), Dynamic Games and Applications: 1(2), pp. 220 – 52, 2011.
5. ‘Self Help Groups and Empowerment of Women: Self-Selection, or Actual Benefits?’ (withZakir Husain), Journal of International Development, 26, 422 – 37, 2014.
6. ‘Education and Electoral Outcomes’ (with Rajlakshmi Mallik), Theoretical Economics Letter, 2012.
7. ‘Are women self help group members economically more empowered in Left-run municipalities?’ (withZakir Husain and Mausumi Dutta), Development in Practice, 23(1), 107 – 22, 2013.
8. ‘Understanding NREGA: A Simple Theory and Some Facts’, (with UdayBhanu Sinha), in N. S. Siddharthan and K. Narayanan (Eds.), Human Capital and Development: The Indian Experience, Springer, 2013.
9. "Community vs. Individual Targeting in CSR Projects: A Case Study in West Bengal" (with co-authors), Productivity, 54(3), pp. 275 – 83, 2013.
10. ‘Identity, Envy and Resource Loss’, International Game Theory Review, 17(1), pp. 1540010- 1 – 1540010-13, 2015.
11. "An Improved Estimator of Omission Rate for Census Count: With Particular Reference to India" (with Kiranmoy Chatterjee), Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 45 (4), pp. 1047-1062,2016.
12. “Corruption in Delegated Public Procurement Auction” (with Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar), European Journal of Political Economy, 35, pp. 122 – 7, 2014.
13. “PIDE and Solution Related to Pricing of Levy Driven Arithmetic Type Floating Asian Options” (with Sudip R Chandra and IndranilSengupta), Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 33 (4), pp. 630 – 52, 2015.
14. “Direct income transfers and public good provisioning: choosing between two anti-poverty schemes” (with S. Subramanian), Economics Bulletin, July 2015.
15. “Impact of Social Network on Financial Decisions”(with Koushiki Sarkar and Abhishek Ray), Studies in Microeconomics, vol. 3, 2: pp. 101-119, 2015.
117 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 16. “Interlinkage Between Psychological and Network Characteristic”(with Koushiki Sarkar and Abhishek Ray), Studies in Microeconomics, vol. 3, 2: pp. 77-88,2015.
17. “A Mean-Reverting Stochastic Model for the Political Business Cycle” (with Gopal K. Basak and Mrinal Ghosh), Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 34 (1), pp. 96-116 2016.
18. “Barrier Option Under Levy Model : A PIDE and Mellin transform Approach” (with Sudip Ratan Chandra), Mathematics, 4(1), 2; doi:10.3390/math4010002,2016.
19. “An improved integrated likelihood population size estimation in Dual-record System” (with Kiranmoy Chatterjee), forthcoming in Statistics and Probability Letters, 2016.
20. “On the Estimation of Homogeneous Population Size from a Complex Dual-record System” (with Kiranmoy Chatterjee), forthcoming in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2016.
21. “Exploratory Study of Select Commodity and Equity Indices Around the Meltdown of 2008” (with ArnabMallick), in M. Roy and S. Sinha Roy (eds.), International Trade and International Finance, Springer India, pp 387 – 404, 2016.
22. “Bi-cooperative Network Games : A Link Based Allocation Rule” (with SurajitBorkotokey and LoyimeeGogoi), forthcoming in International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016.
23. “Assessing Consistency of Consumer Confidence Data using Latent Class Analysis with Time Factor” (with Sunil Kumar and Zakir Husain), Economic Analysis and Policy, 55, pp. 35 – 46, 2017.
24. "A Spatial Game Theoretic Analysis of Conflict and Identity" (with AnirbanGhatak and K S Mallikarjun Rao), Computational Economics, 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10614-017-9684-6.
Dr. Sandip Mitra
1. Incentives, information and malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India with Prakarsh Singh, European Economic Review, Elsevier, Volume 93, PP 24-46, April 2017
2. Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers with DilipMookherjee,SujataVisaria and Torrero Maximo, Review of Economics and Statistics(forthcoming),Harvard University, MIT Press.
3. Financing smallholder agriculture: An experiment with agent- intermediated microloans in India with Pushkar Maitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta, Sujata Visaria, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, Volume 127, pp 306-337, July 2017.
4. Cash versus Kind : Understanding the Preferences of the Bicycle Programme Beneficiaries in Bihar with MaitreeshGhatak and Chinmaya Kumar , Economic Political Weekly, March 12, 2015.
5. Changing Voting Patterns in Rural West Bengal - Role of Clientelism and Local Public Goods- Economic Political Weekly ,March15, 2014.
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6. Land Acquisition and Compensation in Singur with MaitreeshGhatak ,DilipMookherjee(Boston University) presented at ISI-IGC Growth Workshop – Economic Political Weekly , May25, 2013.
7. Community versus Individual Targeting in CSR projects with Diganta Mukherjee and others, Productivity, October, 2013
Books
1. Political Participation,Clientilism and Targeting of Local Government Programmes with PranabBardhan, DilipMookherjee, AbhirupSarkar in Is Decentralisation Good for Development? Editors: Jean-Paul Faguet and Caroline Posschi, London School of Economics, Oxford University Press,UK,2015
Dr. Kajal Dihidar
1. Dihidar, K. and Basu, L. (2017). Privacy Protection in Estimating Sensitive Population Proportion by a Modified Unrelated Question Model. Accepted for publication in Journal of the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications: Special Issue on Randomized Response Techniques and Their Applications.
2. Dihidar, K. (2016). Estimating Sensitive Population Proportion by Generating Randomized Response Following Direct and Inverse Hypergeometric Distribution. Chapter 26 (pages: 427 - 441) in Handbook of Statistics, vol 34 : Data Gathering, Analysis and Protection of Privacy Through Randomized Response Techniques: Qualitative and Quantitative Human Traits. Edited by Arijit Chaudhuri, Tasos C. Christofides and C.R. Rao. Elsevier, North Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3. Pal, S., Mandal, G. and Dihidar, K. (2015). Determination of robust optimum plot size and shape - a model-based approach. Biometrical Letters. 52(1), 13-22.
4. Dihidar, K. (2015). On the comparison of some randomized response techniques under unequal probability sampling and super-population.
5. modelling. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 10, 299-307.
6. Dihidar, K. (2015). Simultaneous estimation of several survey population parameters in complex surveys by Bayesian and classical methods. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 10, 163-173.
7. Dihidar, K. (2014). Estimating population mean with missing data in unequal probability sampling. Statistics in Transition. New Series, Summer 2014. 15(3), 369-388.
8. Chaudhuri, A. and Dihidar, K. (2014). Generating randomized response by inverse mechanism. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 9, 343-351.
9. Mukherjee, D., Mitra, S., Dihidar, K., Mukherjee, A., Talukdar, P., and Poddar, M. (2013). Community vs. individual targeting in CSR projects: A case study in West Bengal. Productivity. 54 (3), 275-290.
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1. Kar, A., (with Mrinal Bhaumik)Measuring Outsourced Manufacturing Process in India – its Relevance in National Accounts Compilation, in The Journal Of Industrial Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 2, Sept. 2015.
Shri Prabir Chaudhury
1. Chaudhury, P., (with GopaChattapadhyay)"On the Nature of Expenditure on Durable Goods"Sarvekshana, 99th issue.
Visitor visited during the period 2012-2017
Sl. Name of Visiting Scientist From To No. 01 Dr. SUNIL KUMAR 1st Sept 2012 30th Sept 2013 02 Dr. ZAKIR HUSSAIN 26th Dec2012 25th April 2013 03 Dr. Amitava Sarkar 11th July 2012 15th Jan 2014 04 Prof. SugataMarjit 1stNov 2012 01st Nov 2013 05 Prof.ShibdasBandyopadhyay 1st Nov 2012 31st Oct 2015 06 Shri Alokekar 1st March 2014 28th Feb 2015
VISITING SCIENTISTS
1. Pal Satyabrata- Institute of Agriculture, Calcutta University, April 1, 2014- March 31, 2015. 2. Mitra Murari- Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, May 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015. 3. Chakraborty Asit Baran- Reserve Bank of India, May 1, 2014- June11, 2016. 4. Rao T. J. - C Rao Institute of Advanced Studies of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad, May 26 and 29, 2014. 5. Bhaumik Mrinal- National Accounts Divisions, CSO, MOSPI, June 1, 2014 – February 28, 2016. 6. Maitra Pushkar- Monash University, Australia, June 17, 2014. 7. Visaria Sujata- Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, July 17, 2014. 8. Mookherjee Dilip- Boston University, USA, July 23, 2014. 9. Ghatak Maitreesh- London School of Economics, August 26, 2014. 10. Mukhopadhyay Joyti Prasad- Institute of Financial Management & Research, October 21, 2014. 11. Giri BimalKumar- CSO (IS wing), MOS&PI, November 18, 2014. 12. Bhattacharjee Koushik- IMT, Hyderabad, November 27, 2014 – December 02, 2014. 13. Biswas Malabika- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, December 17, 2014 – December 31, 2014. 14. Dev Pritha- Departmento Academico De Administracion, Instituto Tecvhnologico Autonomo De Mexico, Mexico City, January 1, 2015 and January 28-30, 2015. 15. Chaudhury Prabir- NSSO (SDRD) MOS & PI, January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015. 120 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 16. Lahiri Sajal- Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University, USA, February 1- 14, 2015. 17. Sajal Lahiri, Visiting Scientist, SOSU, ISI KOLKATA and Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University, USA, February 11, 2015. 18. Raut Lakshmi K. - Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, February 24, 2015. 19. MitraMurari, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Howrah, April 1,2015 – March 31,2016.
20. Bairagi Radhe Shyam- Freelance Consultant in Health, Nutrition and population, USA, April 4, 2015. 21. Subramanian Sreenivasan ICSSR National Fellow - Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, April 5, 2015 – April 11, 2015. 22. Bourguignon Francois- Paris School of Economics, Paris, April 27, 2015. 23. Das Kishore Kumar, Guwahati University, May 5, 2015 – June 6, 2015.
24. Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics, Boston University, July 24, 2015. 25. Pal Sarmistha, Department of Finance, University of Surrey Guildford GU27XH, UK, July 27, 2015.
26. Das Kishore K. - Department of Statistics, Guwahati University, Assam, and Visiting Scientist, SOSU, ISI, July 29, 2015(May 11, 2015 – July 31, 2015). 27. Sarmistha Pal, Department of Finance, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. 28. BorkotokeySurajit, Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh, September 18-25, 2015. 29. Gupta Ashmita, ISI Chennai, October 15, 2015. 30. Chatterjee Kiranmoy, Bidhannagar College, Kolkata, November 08, 2015-June 2016.
31. Bhattacharjee Arnab, Heriot- Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK, January 14,2016.
32. Alam Moneer, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, April 4-6, 2016.
33. Bhattacharjee Kaushik, Associate Professor TAPMI Manipal, April18 - June 15 2016.
34. Chandan Kumar Jha, Assistant Professor Dept, of Economics, Le Moyne College June 28, 2016.
35. Gradin Carlos, Full Professsor Universidade de vigo Spain, June 4-19 2016. 36. Barman R B, Chairman, National Statistical Commission, New Delhi, October 19, 2016.
37. Indranil Sen Gupta, Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University, November 15- December-15, 2016.
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Published journal by DCSW members for last 5 years in the Economics and Planning Unit (EPU) between 2012 - 2017 Published journal by DCSW members for last 5 years in the Economics and Planning Unit (EPU) between 2012-2013 to 2016-17
2012-13 Papers published in journals 1. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy. Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Fragmentation and Voice, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization,Vol.85,63-78.2013.
2. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Mukherjee,Arijit.Innovation and social desirability of Merger. Economic Bulletin,33, 248-260. 2013.
3. Chowdhury,Prabal Roy and Sengupta,Kunal.Transparency, Complementarity and Holdout, Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol.75, 598-612, 2012.
4. Ghate,Chetan, Wright, Stephen,.The V-Factor: Distribution, Timing, and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. With (Birkbeck College), Journal of Development Economics, September 2012, Volume 99 (1), pages 58-67. 5. Ghate, Chetan,Pandey, Radhika and Patnaik, Ila. Has India Emerged? Business Cycle Stylized Facts from a Transitioning Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2013, pages 157-172. 6. Ghate, Chetan, Wright, Stephen, (Birkbeck College) Why were some Indian states so slow to participate in the Turnaround? Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013, Vol. XLVIIINo. 13 (Special Article)
7. Mishra,Debasis and Roy,Souvik., Strategy-proof Partitioning, Games and Economic Behavior,Volume 76, pp 285-300.2012 8. Mishra,Debasis and Sen, Arunava., Roberts’ Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering Approach, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, pp 283-298.2012 9. Mishra,Debasis, Dimitrov, Dinko.,and Marchant Thierry., Separability and Aggregation of Equivalence Relations, Economic Theory,Volume 51, 2012.
10. Ramaswami, Bharat, Eswaran, M. , and Wadhwa,W., Status, Caste and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India, Economic Development and Cultural Change,61(2): 313-333, 2013.
11. Ramaswami, Bharat,and Jha, S., The Percolation of Public Expenditure: Food Subsidies and the Poor in India and the Philippines, India Policy Forum, 2011/12,8: 95-138.
12. Sen, Arunava, Gravel, Nicolas, Marchant, Thierry. “Uniform Expected Utility Criteria for Decision Making under Ignorance or Objective Ambiguity,” Journal of Mathematical Psychology 56, 297–315.(October 2012)
13. Sen, Arunava, Chatterji, Shurojit & Roy, Souvik., The structure of strategy-proof random social choice functions over product domains and lexicographically separable preferences, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 353-366, December 2012, 14. Sen, Arunava & Mishra, Debasis, Robertsʼ Theorem with neutrality: A social welfare ordering approach Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, Issue 1, pp.283-298.May 2012, 15.Sen, Arunava.,& Jérémy Picot, An extreme point characterization of random strategy-proof social choice functions: The two alternative cases. Economics Letters, Volume 115, Issue 1, Pages 49-52, April 2012. 2013-2014
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Book published
Callaghan, Michael, Ghate, Chetan, Stephen Pickford (Chatham House), and Francis Rathinam (DFID)(Eds.)Global Cooperation Among G20 Countries: Responding to the Crisis and Restoring Growth. SpringerVerlag: India. January 2014. Papers publihsed in Journals:
1. Afridi, Farzana, Vegard Iversen. (Eds.) Barry Bosworth, Panagariya, Arvind and Shah, Shekhar. Brookings NCAER.Social audits and MGNREGA delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh, India Policy Forum, July 2013.
2. Chaudhary, Prabal Ray., Guha, Brishti. Micro-finance competition: motivated micro-lenders, double-dipping And default, Journal of Development Economics, https://mpra.ub.uni- muenchen.de/36116/ December, 2013.
3. Chaudhary Prabal Ray, Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Fragmentation and Voice, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 85, 63-78, 2013.
4. ChaudharyPrabalRay, Mukherjee, Arijit, Innovation and social desirability of merger, Economics Bulletin,33, 248-260, 2013.
5. Chowdhury,Prabal Roy and Das,Satya P, Deterrence, Pre-emption and Panic: A Common-Enemy Problem of Terrorism.Economic Inquiry. Vol. 52(1), pages 219-238, 01. 6. Mishra Debasis and Quadir Abdul, Non-bossy Single Object Auctions,Economic Theory Bulletin, Volume 2, pp 93-110. 2014.
7. Mishra,Debasis,Roy,Souvik.Implementation in Multidimensional, Dichotomous Domains.Theoretical Economics, Volume 8, 2013, pp 431-466.
8. Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, AmparoCostellóCliment, Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Growth:the Case of India. Journal of Development Economics,Volume 106, Nov 2013.
9. Ramaswami, Bharat.,Bansal, S., Chakravarty, S.,The informational and signalling impacts of labels: experimental evidence from India on GM foods, Environment and Development Economics 18: 701–722, 2013.
10. Somanathan E. Are embankments a good flood-control strategy? A case study on the Kosirive, Water Policy. Vol. 15: 75-88.(2013),
11. Somanathan E., Chakravarty, Sujoy.,CarineSebi, and Theophilus, E., The Demographics of Cooperation: Evidence from a field experiment in the Himalayas, Journal of Economics and Management, 9(2):231-269. 2013.
12. Sen, Arunava,Shurojit, Chatterji and Sanver Remzi, On Domains that Admit Well- Behaved Strategy-Proof Social Choice Functions, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 148, pp. 1050-1073, 2013.
Papers published in Books :. Mike Callaghan,Ghate Chetan, Stephen Pickford, and Francis Rathinam.Introduction (Chapter 1).Global Cooperation Among G20 Countries: Responding to the Crisis and Restoring Growth. Springer Verlag: India.Pages 1 – 21, January 2014.
2014-2015
Papers publised in Journals:
1. Afridi Farzana with Sherry Xin Li and YufeiRen, Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System, Journal of Public Economics. 123:17-29, March 2015.
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2. Afridi Farzana with Vegard Iverson, Social Audits and MGNREGA delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh, India Policy Forum, (eds. Barry Bosworth, Arvind Panagariya and Shekhar Shah).
3. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Chowdhury, Shyamal and Sengupta, Kunal., Gradual repayment with sequential financing in micro-finance, Journal of Development Economics,Vol. 111(C), pages 167-180. 2014.
4. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy,. Das,Satya P., Panic, pre-emption and deterrence: A common enemy problem of terrorism, Economic Enquiry,Vol. 52(1), pages 219-238, 01, 2014.
5. Mishra, Debasis., Marchant, Thierry., Mechanism Design with Two Alternatives in Quasi- linear Environments, Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 44, pp 433-455, 2015.
6. Mishra Debasis, Deb, Rahul. Implementation with Contingent Contracts, Econometrica, Volume 82, pp. 2371- 2393. 2014.
7. Mishra,Debasis.,Pramanik Anupand.,Roy Souvik., Multidimensional Mechanism Design in Single Peaked Type Spaces, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 153, pp.103-116. 2014
8. Mishra,Debasis., Duives, Jelle., Birgit Heydenreich., Rudolf Muller., and Marc Uetz., Optimal Mechanism Design for a Sequencing Problem, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 18, pp. 45-59. 2015.
9. Das, Samarjit,Ghate,Chetan, Robertson, Peter. Remoteness, Urbanization and India's Unbalanced Growth, World Development, Vol. 66, pages 572-587, February 2015.
11. Sen Arunava.,Chatterji, Shurojit., and Zeng,Huaxia., Random Dictatorship Domains, Games and Economic Behavior,Vol 86, pp. 212-236. 2014.
12. Sen Arunava, Hans Peters., Roy Souvik.,and Storcken Ton, Probabilistic Strategy-Proof Rules over Single-Peaked Domains, Journal of Mathematical, Economics,Vol 52, 123-127, 2014.
13. Sen Arunava, Kar,Anirban.The Shapley Value as the Maximizer of Expected Nash Welfare", International Journal of Game Theory, Vol 43, 619-627, 2014.
14. Sen, Arunava, Goswami, MriduPrabal, and Mitra,Manipushpak. Strategy-Proofness and Pareto-Efficiency in Quasi-Linear Exchange Economies", Theoretical Economics, Vol. 9, 361-381. 2014.
15. Sen, Arunava, On cost sharing in the provision of a binary and excludable public good, Journal of Economic Theory,Volume 155, Pages 30–49, January 2015.
Papers published in Books :.
1. Somanathan, Eswaran., National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions, Chapter 15, IPCC Report 3, Cambridge University Press, 2014
2. Kotwal, Ashok.,and Ramaswami, Bharat., Delivering Food Subsidy: The Stateand the Market in R. Herring (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Food,Politics and Society, 301-326, Oxford University Press, 2015.
2015-2016
Papers publised in Journals:
1) Jha, Shikha, Kubo, Kensuke and Ramaswami, Bharat, International Trade and Risk Sharing in the Global Rice Market: The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Supply Shocks, Asian Development Review, 2016, 33 (1), 162-182.
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2) Somanathan, E. and Bluffstone, Randall, Biogas: Clean energy access with low-cost mitigation of global warming, Environmental and Resource Economics,62: 265–277. October 2015.
3) Morales-Hidalgo, David, Oswalt, Sonja N. and Somanathan, E.: Conserving forests for biodiversity - status and trends from the global forest resource assessment 2015, Forest Ecology and Management,352: 68-77. September 2015.
4) Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop and Gupta, Bhanu: Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 41, pp 14-30, January 2016
Papers published in Books:
Ramaswami, Bharat and Murugkar, Milind: Incremental Food Policy Reforms; What are the Possibilities? Development in India: Micro and Macro Perspectives, S. Mahendra Dev and P. G. Babu (Ed.,) Springer: New Delhi, 2015, 125-153. 2016-2017
Book published
Monetary Policy in India: A Modern Macroeconomic Perspective. (Eds.) Chetan Ghate (ISI Delhi) and Kletzer, Ken (UCSC). Springer Verlag: India, December 2016.
Papers published in Journals:
1) Ashokankur Dutta and E. Somanthan. “Climate Policy and Innovation in the Absence of Commitment,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, Volume 3(4), pp. 917-955.
2) Bag, Parimal and Chowdhury, Prabal Roy. “Gradualism in Aid and Reforms”, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 103, 2016, pp. 108-123.
3) Ghate, Chetan, Gerhard Glomm, and Jialu Liu Streeter. “Sectoral Infrastructure Investment in an Unbalanced Growing Economy: The Case of India”, Asian Development Review, Vol. 33 (2), September 2016, pp. 144-166.
4) Ghate, Chetan, Gopalakrishnan, Pawan and Bishnu, Monisankar. “Factor Income Taxation, Growth, and Investment Specific Technological Change”, Economic Modelling, Vol. 57, September 2016, pp. 133 - 152.
5) Ghate, Chetan, Gopalakrishnan, Pawan and Tarafdar, Suchismita. “Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Business Cycle Model”, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Vol. 16, November 2016, pp. 52-57.
6) Mahajan, Kanika and Ramaswami, Bharat. “Caste, Female Labor Supply and the Gender Wage Gap in India: Boserup Revisited”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017, Vol. 65 (2), pp. 339-378.
7) Mishra, Debasis. “Ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility in restricted domains”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 163, May 2016, pp. 925–954.
8) Mishra, Debasis, Pramanik, Anup and Roy, Souvik. “Local incentive compatibility with transfers”, Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol. 100, November 2016, pp. 149–165.
9) Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, Afridi, Farzana and Sahoo,Soham. “Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme”, IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:7, April 2016.
10) Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, and Sahoo, Soham. “Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India”, Economics of Education Review, Vol. 54, October 2016, pp. 124- 142.
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11) Ray, Tridip, and Gulati, Namrata. “Inequality, Neighbourhoods and Welfare of the Poor”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 122, pp. 214-228, 2016.
12) Ridhima Gupta, Somanathan, E. and Dey,Sagnik. Global warming and local air pollution have reduced wheat yields in India, Climatic Change, Volume 140, Issue 3, February 2017, pp. 593–604.
13) Sen, Arunava, Chatterji, Shurojit and Zeng, Huaxia. “A characterization of single- peaked preferences via random social choice functions”, Theoretical Economics, May 2016, Vol. 2, pp. 711-733.
14) Sen, Arunava, Pramanik, Anup, Pairwise Partition Graphs and Strategy-proof Social Choice Functions in the Exogenous Indifference Class Model, Social Choice and Welfare, June 2016, Vol. 47, pp. 1-24.
Papers published in Books:
1) Afridi, Farzana and Barooah, Bidisha. “Educational Attainment and Learning in India, 2004- 12” in Batabyal and Nijkamp (Eds.) Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia, Springer, January 2017.
2) Ramaswami, Bharat, Hunger and Food Security Concerns for India, in India and Sustainable Development Goals, The Way Forward, Research and Information Systems, New Delhi, 2016, 13-21.
3) Introduction (Chapter 1), in Monetary Policy in India: A Modern Macroeconomic Perspective. (Eds.) Ghate, Chetan and Kenneth Kletzer (UCSC), Springer Verlag: India, December 2016, pages 3 - 27.
List of visitors for the year 2012-2013 SHORT TERM VISI-RS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit
1 Auriel Gilardone, University of Gaen August 11-16, 2012.
2 Bhattacharya Anindya, University of York, United Kingdom August 06-10, 2012.
3 Bose Amitava, IIM Kolkata May 17-18, 2012.
4 Chakrabarti Rajesh July 23 - November 30, 2012.
5 Chakraborty Indranil, National University of Singapore May 6-9, 2012.
6 Chakraborty Shankha, University of Oregon December 20-25, 2012.
7 Chakravarty Shoibal, Prince-n University Oc-ber 4-10, 2012.
8 Chakravorty Ujjayant, TUFTS University July 9-13, 2012.
9 Chetry Moon, DRDO, Bangalore July 15- August 31, 2012.
10 Deb Rahul, University of -ron- July 23 - August 24, 2012. August 01- 16, 2012 and 11 Dmitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany February 19 - March 08, 2013.
12 Farmer Amy, University of Arkansas Oc-ber 27 - November 2, 2012. August 23 - September 11, 13 Kjelsrud Anders, University of Oslo 2012. 126 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
September 22 - Oc-ber 18, 14 Kjelsrud Anders, University of Oslo 2012.
15 Leoni Peter, Euromed Management November 25-28, 2012.
16 Lychogin, Central European University, Budapest April 19-21, 2012. December 20, 2012 - January 20, 2013 and February 20 - 17 Mallik Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School March 31, 2013.
18 Maniquet, Core, Universite Catholique de Louvain August 25, 2012.
19 Mathur Raj July 23 - November 30, 2012. December 20, 2012 - January 20 Mukherjee Diganta, ISI Kolkata 20, 2013.
21 Murty Sushama, University of Exeter July 9-29, 2012.
22 Mu- Nozomu, Universidad Au-noma De Barcelona, Spain August 09-16, 2012.
23 Nitzen Shmuel, Bar Ilan University February 24-28, 2013.
24 Pattnayak, National University of Singapore May 19-21, 2012. August 30 - September 10, 25 Postl Peter, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 2012.
26 Roy Debdatta Sinha, IISER, Mohali May 15 - July 20, 2012.
27 Roy Sanchari, University of Warwick, United Kingdom July 17 – August 24, 2012.
28 Sarkar Nityanand, Kolkata July 05-11, 2012.
29 Singh Gurbachan January 01 - April 30, 2013.
30 Sivadasan M.Jagadeesh, Trivandrom June 4-5, 2012.
31 Tarafdar Suchismita July 20 - November 30, 2012.
32 Wadhwa Willima July 23- November 30, 2012.
33 Wright Stephen, Bileck College, University of London December 8-15, 2012.
LONG TERM VISI-RS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit September 24 - Oc-ber 7, 2012, November 01 2012 - 1 Majumdar Dipjyoti, Condordia University August 31, 2013.
List of visitors for the year 2013-2014 SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit Balakrishnan Pulapre,Centre for Development Studies, 1 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala January - May 2014.
2 Barua Rashmi, Singapore Management University, Singapore March 1 – April 30, 2014.
3 Bhattacharya Sourav, University of Pittsburg, USA August 1 – 3, 2013. 127 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
4 Chakrabarti Rajesh, ISB July 22 - November 30, 2013.
5 Dasgupta Aparajita , Population Council 29th November, 2013.
6 De Sankar, Shiv Nadar University 11th October, 2013 August 8 – September 4, 7 Deb Rahul, University of Toronto 2013.
8 Dhasmana Anubha, IIM, Bangalore 13th September, 2013
9 Dhillon Amrita , Kings College London Aug 8 - 31, 2013.
10 Dimitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany 21st February 2014
11 Dubey Pradeep, Stony Brook University 25th October, 2013
12 Ghatak Maitreesh, London School of Economics, London, UK December 18 - 20, 2013.
13 Ghosh Parikshit, Delhi School of Economics 28th March, 2014
14 Guha Brishti, Singapore Management University 16th December, 2013
15 Hammer Jeffrey, Princeton University 17th January, 2014
16 Kapoor Mudit , Indian School of Business, Hyderabad 18th October, 2013
17 Khemani Stuti, World Bank 20th August, 2013
18 Kletzer Kenneth, University of California, Santa Cruz February 9 – 21, 2014.
19 Lahkar Ratul IFMR Chennai 6th June, 2013
20 Libois Francois, University of Namur November 13-20, 2013. November 25 – December 22, 21 Mace Antonin, Ecoe Polytechnique, Paria,France 2013.
22 Majumdar Dipjyoti ,Concordia University 5th April, 2013
23 Moffatt Peter G, University of East Anglia April 15-18, 2014. November 1 – December 23, 24 Paul Anand, Oxford University 2013.
25 Prakash Nishith, University of Connecticut 02 August, 2013
26 Prakash Nishith, Fairfield Way University of Conn July 29 - August 11, 2013.
Ranjan Abhishek, Institut for Transport 27 Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 27th September, 2013
28 Raut Lakshmi K. , Social Security Administration 13th December, 2013
29 Saran Rene, Yale University, Singapore March 31- April 5, 2014.
30 Sen Ananya,University of Toulouse 27th August, 2013
31 Singh Gurbachan January 1 - April 30, 2014.
32 Somanathan Rohini , DSE 30th August, 2012
33 Sudarshan Anant , Harvard University 24th January, 2014 128 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
34 Vohra Rajeev, Brown University July 3 – Aug 9, 2013
35 Wadhwa Wilima, ASER July 22 – November 30, 2013. September 12, 2013 – 36 Yamazaki Koji, Kobe University, Japan February 10, 2014.
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit September 1-30,2013, October 1-31,2013, November 1 Chand Srustidhar ,University of Venice 01, 2013 – March 31, 2014. September 1, 2013 - August 1, 2 Nath Swaprava, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2014.
3 Sane Renuka, IGIDR, Mumbai July 01, 2013 – June 30, 2014.
List of visitors for the year 2014-2015 SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit
1 Bhargava Alok, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, 14th July, 2014. Anand Rahul and Volodymyr Tulin, International Monetary 2 Fund, 25th April, 2014
3 Asturias Jose, Georgetown University, August 6-8, 2014.
4 Bag Parimal, National University of Singapore, Oc-ber 24- November 6, 2014.
5 Banerjee Abhijit, MIT, 24th Oc-ber, 2014. September 1 - November 30, 6 Banerjee Prasenjit, University of Manchester, 2014.
7 Barua Rashmi, Singapore Management University March 1 – April 30, 2015.
8 Bhattacharya Prasad, Deakin University, December 11- 22, 2014.
9 Bhattacharya Saurav, University of Pittsburgh, August 11-30, 2014.
10 Bloch Francis, Paris School of Economics, February 7-16, 2015.
11 Chakrabarti Anindya S., Boston University, 16th January 2015. August 1 - November 30, 12 Chakraborty Rajesh, ISB 2014.
13 Chakravarty Abhishek, University of Essex, 5th September, 2014.
Chakravarty Shoibal, 14 Princeton Environmental Institute March 16-23, 2015.
15 Chowdhury Roy Sahana, January 1 – April 30, 2015. 129 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
Oc-ber 20 - December 18, 16 Cremades Roger , Internationl max planck Research School, 2014.
17 Dean Spears, CDE, 4th April, 2014.
18 Deshmukh Jayeeta, Presidency University, Oc-ber 18- November 5, 2014.
19 Dhillon Amrita, King’s college London, August 11-30, 2014.
20 Dhingra Swati, LSE, 31st Oc-ber, 2014.
21 Dimitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany, 23 -28 February 2015.
22 Dreze Jacques, Université Catholique de Louvain, March 15-17, 2015.
23 Duflo Esther, MIT, 19 September, 2014.
24 Dutta Prajit, Columbia University. 12th August, 2014.
25 Gupta Ashmita, University of Hous-n, 22 December 2014.
26 Heraklis Polemarchakis, University of Warwick, 15 July, 2014.
27 Köhlin Gunnar, University of Gothenburg, 24th November, 2014.
28 Kumar Rajnish, Queen’s University, Belfast, 1st December, 2014.
29 Lavy Vic-r, University of Warwick, December 15-20. December 22 , 2014 - January 30 Mallick Debdulal, Deakin University, 15, 2015.
31 Namrata Kala, Yale University, 20th March 2015.
32 Nandeibam Shasikanta, University of Bath, 5th August, 2014.
33 Patil Sumeet. R, University of California, Berkeley , January 29-30, 2015.
34 Pattanayak Subhrendu K, Duke University, 11th September, 2014.
35 Prasenjit Banerjee, University of Manchester, 9th January 2015.
36 Ray Debraj, New York University, December 18-20, 2015
37 Ray Indrajit, University of Birmingham, August 21-22, 2014.
38 Rene Saran, Yale Univ- Singapore, 2 April, 2014.
39 Roy Jaideep, University of Surrey, July 1-8, 2014.
40 Roy Souvik , ISI Kolkata, March 9-17, 2015.
41 Saggi Kamal, Vanderbilt University, 20th Oc-ber, 2014. Oc-ber 31 – November 1, 42 Sahu Sohini, IIT Kanpur, 2014.
43 Sarin Rajiv, University of Exeter, 27th October, 2014. 130 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
44 Singh Gurbachan, January 1 – April 30, 2015.
45 Singh Ram, Delhi School of Economics, 21st November, 2014.
46 Tarroux Benoit, University of Rennes I, February 15 - March 5, 2015.
47 Thakurata Indrajit, IIM, Ahmedabad) 23rd July, 2014. Vandewalle Lore, Graduate Institute of International and 48 Development Studies, Geneva, 1 3th February 2015. August 1 – November 30, 49 Wadhwa Wilima, ASER 2014. October 10 – November 10, 50 Zeng Huaxia, Singapore Management University, 2014.
LONG TERM VISI-RS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit
1 Chand Srustidhar ,University of Venice April 1 - August 31 2015. September1, 2014 - August 2 Nath Swaprava, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 31, 2015.
3 Sane Renuka, IGIDR, Mumbai July 1,2014 - June 30, 2015.
List of visitors for the year 2015-2016 SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visior with affiliation Period Of Visit
Bhattacharjee, Swagata, University of Texas, Austin, United 1 States January 22, 2016.
Bhattacharyya, Aditi, Sam Houston State University, United 2 States July 28, 2015.
Bloch, Francis, Universite Paris 1 and Paris School of 3 Economics, France March 18, 2016.
4 Bond, Eric, Vanderbilt University, United States November 13, 2015.
5 Bradford, Scott, Brigham Young University, United States July 23, 2015. September 22 - November 21, 6 Chand,Srustidhar Arya Kumar,IIIT Delhi 2015.
7 Chatterjee, Somdeep, University of Houston, United States February 12, 2016.
8 Chaturvedi, Rakesh, IIM, Udaipur August 28, 2015.
9 Coffey, Diane, RICE Institute, United States November 20, 2015.
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11 Deshpande, Ashwini, DSE October 9, 2015.
12 Dhillon, Amrita, King’s College London, UK August 21 2015. Dimri, Aditi, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain and 13 Paris School of Economics January 29, 2016.
14 Dubey, Ram Sewak, Montclair State University, United States July 24, 2015.
15 Dutta, Bhaskar, Warwick University, UK September 2, 2015.
16 Dutta,Prajit K, Columbia University, United States January 27, 2016.
17 Johann Caro Burnett,Yale University, United States March 4, 2016.
18 Karuna Krishnaswamy, GIZ, Germany February 5, 2016.
19 Khwaja, Ahmed, Yale University, United States August 14, 2015.
Kishor, Kundan, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, United 20 States January 15, 2016.
21 Kumar, Rishabh, The New School, United States March 23, 2016.
22 Mallick, Debdulal, Deakin University, Australia December 17-26, 2015.
23 Manghnani, Ruchita, UNC, Chapel Hill, United States March 16, 2016.
24 Narayanan, Abhinav, University of Georgia, United States February 29, 2016.
25 Prakash, Nishith, University of Connecticut, United States March 9, 2016.
26 Raimaekers, Eve, Core, Belgium July 16-22, 2015.
27 Sander, Frederico Gil, World Bank December 4, 2015. Sethi, Rajiv, Barnard College, Columbia University, United 28 States June 23, 2015.
29 Shigehiro Serizawa, Osaka University, Japan March 10, 2016.
30 Singh, Gurbachan January 1 - April 30, 2016.
31 Spears, Dean, RICE Institute October 16, 2015.
Subramanian, Arvind, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of 32 Finance May 22, 2015.
33 Wadhwa, Wilima, Visiting Faculty July 27- November 30, 2015.
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with affiliation Period Of Visit
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2 Sane, Renuka, IGIDR,Mumbai, Visiting Assistant Professor July 1, 2015 -June 30, 2017
Gupta, Amlan Das, Vancouver School of Economics, Lecturer 3 cum Post Doctoral Fellow July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Das, Sabyasachi,Yale University, Lecturer cum Post Doctoral 4 Fellow July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2018
Chaudhuri, Arka Roy, University of British Columbia, Canada, October 14, 2015 - September 5 Lecturer Cum post Doctoral Fellow 13, 2018
List of visitors for the year 2016-2017 SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visior with affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Aggarwal, Nidhi, IGIDR March 06, 2017.
Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Matyszkiel , Institute of Applied 2 Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw January 17, 2017. December 9, 2016 and January 3 Anand , Abhinav, University College Dublin 17, 2017.
4 Azariadis, Costas , Washington University December 16, 2016.
5 Banerjee, Ritwik, IIM, Bangalore November 25, 2016.
6 Banerjee, Shesadri, (NCAER) December 12 to 17, 2016.
7 Barua, Rashmi, JNU September 30, 2016.
8 Basu, Parantap, Durham University December 13 to 21, 2016.
9 Basu, Sujata, Jawaharlal Nehru University April 7, 2016.
10 Bhaskar, Umang, TIFR October 28, 2016
11 Borah, Abhinash, Ashoka University August 12, 2016.
12 Bradford, Scott, Brigham Young University July 24 to December 31, 2017.
13 Chaithanya, Jayakumar, University of Siena June 1, 2016.
14 Chakraborty, Tanika, IIT Kanpur September 16, 2016.
15 Chatterjee, Swarnendu Chatterjee, Maastricht University March 15, 2017.
16 Coffey, Diane, RICE July 1, 2016 to July 30, 2017.
17 Dasgupta, Kunal, University of Toronto January 15 to April 30, 2017.
18 Datt, Gaurav , Monash University April 1, 2016.
19 De, Parikshit, ISI, Kolkata October 7, 2016.
20 Desai, Sonalde, University of Maryland March 3, 2017.
21 Dubey, Ram Sewak ,Montclair State University July 22, 2016.
22 Dutta, Prajit K., Columbia University, New York January 16, 2017.
23 Girish Bahal, national council of applied economic research March 08, 2017.
24 Gopalakrishnan, Pawan, RBI, Mumbai May 1 to 5, 2017. 133 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
25 Gupta, Abhimanyu, University of Essex April 29, 2016.
26 Jha, Chandan Kumar, Le Moyne College July 27, 2016.
27 Jha, Nikhil, University of Melbourne October 14, 2016.
28 Kakar, Venoo, San Francisco State University January 11, 2017.
29 Khera, Purva, University of Cambridge December 19 to 21, 2016.
30 Kohlin, Gunnar, Environment for Development initiative March 8 to 11, 2017.
31 Kumar, Alok, University of Victoria, Canada March1 to 31, 2017.
32 Kunimoto , Takashi, Singapore Management University February 23, 2017.
33 Lahiri, Abhinaba, Maastricht University March 10, 2017.
34 Majumdar, Dipjyoti, Concordia University, Canada July 26 to August 2, 2016. December 18 35 Malick, Debdulal, Deakin University to 27 December, 2016.
36 Mazumder Debojyoti, ISI, Kolkata September 2, 2016.
37 Paramanik, Anup, Osaka University February 1 to 16, 2017.
38 Patnaik, Megha, Stanford University March 07, 2017.
39 Ranjan, Priya, UC Irvine July 21, 2016.
40 Serizawa, Shigehiro, Osaka University February 06, 2017. September 12 to December 12, 41 Sethi, Rajiv, Columbia University 2016.
42 Shabana, Mitra, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore March 17, 2017.
43 Sharma, Anisha, Ashoka University February 10, 2017.
44 Singh, Gurbachan, Visiting Scientist January 1 to April 30, 2017.
45 Sinha, Rishabh, World Bank August 5, 2016.
46 Soundararajan, Vidhya, IIM Bangalore March 31, 2017.
47 Spears, Dean, RICE November 18, 2016..
48 Tuteja, Divya, Delhi School of Economics December 13, 2016.
49 Wadhwa, Wilima, Visiting Scientist July 25 to November 24, 2016. August 1 to 20, 2016, Dec 7 to 50 Yadav, Sonal, University of Padova, Italy Jan 17, 2017.
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with affiliation Period Of Visit
1 Bhattacharya, Prasad , Deakin University July 1 to December 31, 2016
2 Borah, Abhinash, Shiv Nadar University, Visiting Scientist January 01 - June 30, 2016 Chaudhuri, Arka Roy, University of British Columbia, Canada, October 14, 2015 - September 3 Lecturer Cum post Doctoral Fellow 13, 2018 Das, Sabyasachi,Yale University, Lecturer cum Post Doctoral 4 Fellow July 1, 2015 - July 31, 2017 134 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
5 De, Parikshit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata January 1 to June 30, 2017 Gupta, Amlan Das, Vancouver School of Economics, Visiting 6 Scientist July 1 to December 31, 2016
7 Sane, Renuka, IGIDR,Mumbai, Visiting Assistant Professor July 1, 2015 -March 31, 2017
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Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre
Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years
PUBLICATIONS 2012-2017
BOOKS PUBLICATIONS
V. K. Ramachandran, Introduction, in in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books (2014).
V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan (Ed.), Dalit Households in Village Economies (Agrarian Studies 3) New Delhi: Tulika Press, 2014.
V.K. Ramachandran, Foreword in A New Statistical Domain in India New Delhi: Tulika Books, (2016)
V.K. Ramachandran , General Editor, Agrarian Studies Series 4, A New Statistical Domain in India by Jun-ichi Okabe and Aparajita Bakshi, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.
Madhura Swaminathan “Population and Food Security” in A. K. Shiva Kumar, Pradeep Panda and Rajani R. Ved (eds.) Handbook of Population and Development, Oxford University Press (2010), pp 50-56. Reprinted in paperback (2012).
Madhura Swaminathan and Shamsher Singh “Exclusion in Access to Basic Civic Amenities” in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2014.
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal “Persistent Disadvantage: Incomes of Dalit Households in Eight Villages” in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books (2014).
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal (Ed.), Socio-Economic Surveys of Two Villages in Rajasthan New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2015.
Madhura Swaminathan and Venkatesh Athreya, Economic Status and Child Deprivation: Findings from Village Surveys in A. K. Shiva Kumar, Preet Rustagi and Ramya Subrahmanian (eds.), India’s Children: Essays on Social Policy, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2015), pp 68-97.
Ramachandran, V. K.: “Socio-Economic Classes in the Three Villages,” in Madhura Swaminathan and Arindam Das (eds.), Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Karnataka: A Study of Agrarian Relations, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 69-85, 2017, ISBN 9789382381884.
Swaminathan, Madhura and Yasodhara Das : “Features of Asset Ownership in Three Villages of Karnataka” in Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Karnataka, Madhura Swaminathan and Arindam Das (Eds.), Tulika Books, New Delhi, 140-161, 2017, ISBN 9789382381884.
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V.K. Ramachandran, Ägrarian Relations and Village Studies,: Ramkrishna Mukherji Memorial Lecture, Indian Society of Labour Economics, December 2010, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012.
V. K. Ramachandran “Classes and Class Differentiation in India’s Countryside,” World Review of Political Economy, vol. 2, no. 4, 2012.
V. K. Ramachandran “P. Sundarayya on the Agrarian Question,” The Marxist, November 2012.
V. K. Ramachandran “Agrarian Relations and Village Studies,” Ramkrishna Mukherji Memorial Lecture, Indian Society of Labour Economics, December 2010, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012
Madhura Swaminathan, 2012, “Who Has Access to Formal Credit in Rural India? Evidence from Four Villages,” Review of Agrarian Studies, 2, 1.
Madhura Swaminathan, 2013, “Implementing the Food Security Act,” Yojana, vol 57, December, pp 22-24.
Shamsher Singh, Madhura Swaminathan and V. K. Ramachandran, 2013 "Housing Shortages in Rural India," Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 3, no. 2,
V. K. Ramachandran Introduction to "P. Sundarayya, 1913–1985 A Centenary Tribute," Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2013.
V. K. Ramachandran, Ägrarian Issues: Local and National” Review of Agrarian Studies, 4, 2, 2014.
A. Bheemeshwar Reddy and Madhura Swaminathan,“Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Rural India: Evidence from Ten Villages” Review of Agrarian Studies, 4, 1, 2014.
Madhura Swaminathan, “Dalit Workers in Rural India: Evidence from Village Studies,” Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 57, 1, 2014, pp 53-65.
Biplab Sarkar, V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, “Aspects of the Political Economy of Crop Incomes in India,” World Review of Political Economy, 5, 3, Fall 2014, pp 392-413.
Swaminathan, Madhura and Y. Usami, “Women’s Role in the Livestock Economy” Review of Agrarian Studies, 6, 2, 2016.
Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay, “A Comparative Study on Gender Segmentation in Organized and Unorganized Manufacturing Sector of India”. Indian Labour Journal, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 585-596.June 2015.
Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. “Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Gap”. Demography India, Vol 42, No. 1&2 (2013), pp. 105-130.
Chattopadhyay, Molly, Sonali Chakraborty and Richard Anker. “Sex Segregation in India’s Formal Manufacturing Sector”, International Labour Review. Vol. 152/1, March 2013, Pp: 43-58.
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Chattopadhyay, Molly. “Workplace Gender Discrimination among Curing Workers of India’’. International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies. 2, 1, 2017.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Madhura Swaminathan, 2013, Gender Statistics in India: A Short Note with a Focus on the Rural Economy, paper prepared for the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, available at http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/Them_paper_Gender.pdf
Madhura Swaminathan, “Income Inequality in an Era of High Growth: The Indian Experience,” The Uno Newsletter: Rejuvenating Marxian Economics through Uno Theory, Vol. II, No. 13, Working Paper Series 2-13-3, 25 December 2013.
Madhura Swaminathan and Arindam Das, 2014, “Differentiation of the Peasantry and Economies of Scale in Indian Agriculture: Evidence from Village Studies” Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23 to 25, 2014.
V. K. Ramachandran and Aditi Dixit, 2014, “Proletarianisation of the Peasantry in India: A Note”, Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23 to 25, 2014.
Swaminathan, Madhura and Arindam Das: Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Karnataka, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2017, ISBN 9789382381884..
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2012. “Women Miners of India: Gender Intervention and Analysis". Book of abstracts, Second ISA Forum of Sociology, organized by International Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012, Pp.114. Available at http://www.isasociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/isa-forum2012-book-of-abstracts.pdf
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2013. “Invisible workers of mining and quarrying sector: Data gap in official statistics”. Paper presented at the conference on “The Unorganised Sector in India: Extending the Debate to Mining and Quarrying” hold at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 27-28th July, 2013. Available at http://www.mlpc.in/doc/Seminar%20report.p
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women in the Indian Mining Sector”. Paper presented at 57th Annual conference by Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Srinagar, 10-12 October, 2015, (summary of paper at page 230).
Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women workers in Coffee industry of India”. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Colombo, 11-13 August 2015 organised by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka, Pp. 5-14.
List of Visitors at EAU (April 2012 to March 2017)
Long-term visitor
1. Dr. Puja Guha joined as a Visiting Scientist from 30th August 2011. She was a Lecturer-cum-Post Doctoral Fellow from September 2012 to August 30, 2013.
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2. Dr. Shalina Susan Mathew is a visiting scientist for the period October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014.
Short-term visitor
2012-13 1. Dr. Saumen Majumdar, IIM, Trichy, May 2 – 10, 2012.
2013-14 2. Okabe, Jun-ichi, Yokohama National University, Japan, November 1 – 9, 2013. 3. R. Ramakumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Nov. 6-7, 2013 4. Dr. Aparajita Bakshi. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai November 6- 7, 2013 5. Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljhapuri Nov.6-8, 2013 6. Prof. Venkatesh Athreya, MSSRF, Nov. 7-8, 2013 7. Dr. Thomas Isaac, Trivandrum, November 6-7, 2013. 8. Dr. Pronab Sen, National Statistical Commission, November 6-7, 2013. 9. Dr. Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission, November 6-7, 2013. 10. Prof. K.N.Harilal, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, November 7, 2013 11. Guo, Yanqing, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, January 12 – February 27, 2014. 12. Shindo, Junko, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, China, March 21 – 29, 2014. 13. Mori, Yuko, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, March 1 – 6, 2014. 14. Motiram, Sripad, IGIDR, Mumbai, March 9 to 18, 2014. 15. Dr. Kamal Murari, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai March 22-29, 2014. 16. Prof. T. Jayaraman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai March 22-29, 2014. 2014-15 17. Prof. Kazuyasu, Miyata, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan, 19-25 August 2014 18. Dr. Govinda Choudhury, North Bengal University, 2 weeks in March 2015 19. Athreya Venkatesh, MSSRF, Chennai, March 6, 2015 20. Bakshi, Aparajita, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, March 6, 2015 21. Chand, Ramesh, Director, NCAP, New Delhi, March 6, 2015 22. Chandran, K.P., CPCRI, Kasargod, Kerala, March 6, 2015 23. Choudhury, Govinda North Bengal University, Kolkata, March 5 – 19, 2015 24. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tulzhapur, March 6, 2015 25. Mukherjee Sanchari, North Bengal University, Kolkata, March 5- 13, 2015 26. Ramkumar, R, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, March 6, 2015 27. Rao, T.J., Vishakhapatnam, March 6, 2015 28. V. Surjit, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, March 6, 2015 29. Vijay, R, University of Hyderabad, March 6, 2015 2015-16 30. Shindo, Junko, University of Yamanashi, Japan, April 7-14, 2015 31. Murari Kamal, TISS, April 10, 2015 32. Jayaraman, T., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, April 7-14, 2015 33. Murai Kamal, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, April 7-14, 2015 34. Jayaraman T.,TISS, Mumbai, April 10, 2015 35. Shindo, Junko, Japan , April 10, 2015 36. Banerjee Debosree, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, May 21, 2015
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37. Asha Kuzhiparambil , NIAS Bangalore, September 18, 2015
38. Rao, Samba Siva, ISI, Kolkata , September 22-24, 2015
39. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, October 13-15, 2015
40. C. Periasamy, Bharathiyar University, November 2, 2015
41. Thomas Jayan Jose, IIT, Delhi , November 3, 2015
42. Sadashivappa Prakash, November 20, 2015
43. DR. Jesim Pais, ISID, Delhi, Feb 29-March 5, 2015
44. Anjan Chakrabarti, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling, 2 weeks in March 2016
45. Sandip Sarkar, CSSS, Kolkata, 2 weeks in March 2016.
46. A. Shiva Kumar, UNICEF, 1 week in March 2016.
2016-17
47. Pais Jesim, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi July 3- 13, 2016.
48. Dhar Niladri Sekhar, Tata institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur, July 29 – August 13, 2016.
49. Bakshi Aparajita, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, August 16 – 30, 2016
50. Reddy Bheemeshwar A, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, August 25, 2016.
51. Thomas Jayan Jose, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, August 28-30, 2016.
52. Chavan, Pallavi, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbari,September 27 – October 3, 2016.
53. Goli Srinivas, JNU, New Delhi, October 5-6, 2016.
54. Panda Sitakanta, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, October 20 – February 20, 2017.
55. Guha, Puja, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, October – March 2017.
56. Herring J. Ronald, Cornell University, Itacha, New York, January 23-28, 2017.
57. Athreya Venkatesh, February – March 2017.
58. Vishwanathan Brinda, Madras School of Economics, March 28-31, 2017
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Second Interim Report (April 2016 - March 2017)
(Revised on 23 August 2017)
1. Title of the Project: Bangla Pronunciation Dictionary
2. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash (Principal Investigator)
3. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The objective of this project is to augment the on-going Bengali pronunciation dictionary with an additional 30,000 words of modern Bengali with full lexicographic details furnished in the proposed dictionary. These words are already collected from various digital sources including modern Bengali text corpora and digital lexical databases. The proposed dictionary will become an indispensable digital resource for various works of applied linguistics and language technology including computer assisted language teaching, text-to-speech conversion, word sense disambiguation, E-governance, language processing, and machine learning.
4. Name of Other Scientists Associated with their affiliation Prof. Probal Dasgupta (Co-Investigator)
5. Date of Commencement and Completion: April 2015
6. Expected date of Completion: March 2018
7. Interim Report 7.1 Introduction The objective of this project is to develop a Bangla pronunciation dictionary in electronic form with lexical databases obtained from the corpus of modern Bangla texts as well as from other printed and digital sources. The proposed dictionary is being developed in such a manner that it becomes an indispensable linguistic resource for research and applications in applied linguistics (e.g., language teaching, e-governance, pronunciation teaching, etc.) speech technology, language technology, and language processing in Bangla. The inspiration behind designing this digital pronunciation dictionary is the absence of the same in machine readable form in the language. However, there are few pronunciation dictionaries in printed form. The pronunciation dictionary in Bangla that we can refer to is the Samsad Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan (1993) by Subhash Bhattacharya. It is published nearly two decades ago and has lost much of its referential relevance due to its inability to reflect the changes in pronunciation of Bangla words over the years as observed in Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB). The other printed dictionary which is published just a few years ago is the Sabda Sanket (2009) by Jamil Choudhury. This dictionary has several limitations in presentation of actual pronunciation of words both in IPA and in Bangla orthography, as well as in presentation of other relevant information of the words. The present digital dictionary proposes – with a user-friendly interface consisting of entries like POS, representation in Indic Roman, Pronunciation in IPA, Pronunciation in Bangla Orthography, Meaning in English, Meaning in Bangla, Usage in Bangla, translation of Bangla sentence into English, etc. – to serve the Bangla speech community as well as the Bangla language learners as a highly useful digital linguistic resource with actual empirical language data and information.
7.2 Purpose, Scope and Justification
141 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 The purpose of the dictionary is to develop a pronunciation dictionary both in printed and electronic form in Bangla. A total of twenty thousand (20,000) entry words will be selected from a large lexical database of frequently used lexical items collected from the modern Bangla printed text corpus, modern Bangla printed newspaper corpus, and some freely available digital lexical databases.
The entry words (including Tatsama, Tadbhava, native, local and foreign words of different part-of- speech) are used in the dictionary in their lemmatized and alphabetically sorted form. The spelling of entry words is fixed following the proposal of Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata to avoid all kinds of spelling disputes. In the next stage, each entry word is transliterated into Indic Roman script marked with diacritics for easy understanding by the dictionary users. The accepted pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB) is adopted for the entry words, and this is presented in standard Bangla orthography (for those people who know Bangla orthography but do not know IPA). The pronunciation of words is also presented in IPA for those people who know IPA but do not know Bangla orthography. This is meant particularly for the learners of Bangla language in various universities and institutes in Europe, USA, and other countries.
The meaning for each entry word is provided with an English equivalent for sense disambiguation of words, which is particularly useful for homographic and homophonous homonyms (words having similar orthographic forms or pronunciation but different meanings). The speech output of pronunciation of entry words is available both in sentence-free and sentence-bound contexts. The output of the dictionary is summarized below (Table 1):
No Item Example (1) Entry word in Bangla �িত (2) Part-of-Speech of the Word Noun (3) Display of the word in Indic Roman script kṣati (4) Pronunciation of word in Bangla orthography েখািত (5) Pronunciation of the word in IPA [khoti] (6) Meaning of the word in Bangla হািন, অিন�, েলাকসান (7) Meaning of the word in English Loss, harm (8) Digital audio output of the word [khoti] (9) Usage in a Bangla sentence েলাক�ট েতামার অেনক �িত করেত পাের (10) Translation of Bangla Sentence in English The person can cause much harm to you
Table 1: The outputs of the proposed dictionary
7.3 Applicational Relevance
This dictionary is the first of its kind in the Bangla language. It is corpus-based and computer-assisted with a multimedia interface facility for regular scope for data interface gradation, data and information augmentation, and device modification. It will be useful for first and second language learning, pronunciation teaching, text-to-speech conversion, on-line language teaching, language recognition, word-form recognition, machine learning, machine translation, E-Governance, Bangla-English parallel sentence generation, computational lexicography, and word-sense disambiguation. It can also be useful for linguistically impaired people to train them in Bangla speech production. The beneficiaries of this resource are native Bangla learners, foreign Bangla learners, language teachers, machine translation system developers, text-to-speech system developers, lexicographers, language planners, speech pathologists, and cognitive linguists.
7.4 Progress Status (April 2016 – March 2017)
Till the end of March 2016, we have successfully completed normalization and correction of spellings of the target lexical database of 54250 consonant-initiated words. The details of the works achieved are presented in the following table (Table 2)
1 Item Heads Target Achieved To be done 2 Total Number of Entry Words in Dictionary 69,500 Yes NA 142 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
3 Number of Vowel-Initiated Words 15,250 Yes NA 4 Number of Consonant-Initiated Words 54,250 Yes NA 5 Number of words Tagged at POS level 69,500 20,000 49,500 6 Number of words represented in Indic Roman 69,500 23,560 45,940 7 Number of words represented with pronunciation 69,500 23,560 45,940 in Bangla orthography 8 Number of words represented with Pronunciation 69,500 23,560 45,940 in IPA 9 Number of words represented with Meaning in 69,500 10,000 59,500 Bangla 10 Number of words represented with Meaning in 69,500 10,000 59,500 English 11 Number of words represented with audio output 69,500 NIL NIL 12 Number of words represented with Usage in 69,500 10,000 59,500 Bangla sentence 13 Number of words represented with Translation of 69,500 NIL NIL Bangla Sentence in English 14 Verification and validation of data by experts Done Done NA 15 Availability of the resource Available Available NA
Table 2: Details of the works achieved during April 2016-March 2017
7.5 Linguistic Issues of the Dictionary
7.5.1 Entry Words
The list of entry words includes tatsama, tadbhava, native, local and foreign words of different part-of- speech in their lemmatized and alphabetically sorted form. Spelling of entry words is fixed following the proposal of Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata to avoid all kinds of spelling disputes. The words are tagged at their part-of-speech level including major categories like noun, verb, adjectives, adverbs, indeclinable, postposition, etc. The POS tagging of entry words in this pronunciation dictionary plays an important role because they capture the following information:
(a) It provides all the possible POS categories a lexical unit may belong to in one click along with their other lexical information:
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কই indeclinable kai েকাই /koi/ কই indeclinable kai েকাই /koi/ কই noun kai েকাই /koi/ কই verb kai েকাই /koi/ (b) This is useful in distinguishing words with same orthographic structures but differing in their pronunciation depending on their part-of-speech and meaning.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কমল noun kamala কেমাল্ /kɔmol/ কমল adjective kamala েকাম্েলা /komlo/
7.5.2 Transliteration
All the entry words are represented in Roman script with diacritics as a part of transliteration for easy understanding by dictionary users. Transliteration of entry words show how words would have been pronounced if there was 1:1 mapping relationship between a phoneme and a grapheme. Thus transliteration - when compared with pronunciation of words - reveals the extent of grapheme-to- phoneme disparities and similarities in Bangla speech.
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শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কষ� adjective karṣī েকার্িশ /korʃi/ কল� noun kalatra কেলাত্ে�া /kɔlotro/
7.5.3 Representation of Pronunciation of Words in Bangla Orthography
The accepted pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB) is adopted for the entry words, and this is presented in standard Bangla orthography (for those people who know Bangla orthography but do not know IPA). The representation of the entry words itself will reflect how pronunciation of a word deviates from the actual orthography of the words.
শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ কলকাকিল noun kalakākali কেলাকােকািল /kɔlokakoli/ কালে�প noun kālakṣep কােলাক্ েখপ্ /kalokkhep/
Representation of sonants, which are realised mostly in borrowed words, is one of the major issues and it has been indicated within syllables of words.
বাংলা িলিপেত শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ উ�ারণ েকিমকাল্ , েকিমেকল্ /kemikal/ /kemikel/ েকিমক�াল Adjective/ noun kemikyāl েকিমক�াল্ , েকিমকল্ /kemikæl/, /kemik(ə)l/ কােলক্ শান্ , কােলকশন noun kālekśan /kalekʃan/, /kalekʃ(ə)n/ কােলক্ শন্
7.5.4 Transcription
Representation of pronunciation of word in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of oral language. The use of IPA in this dictionary plays the most vital role because it is able to represent the accurate pronunciation of Bangla words. This will help those people who are acquainted with IPA but do not know Bangla orthography. Therefore, this dictionary can be used by the learners of Bangla language in various universities and institutes across the world. Not only the pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB), but also the minute variations with all the regularities and irregularities in pronunciation of the entry words are captured in it.
শ� পদ েরামান িলিপ বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ পিরচয় কাতরতা noun kātaratā কােতােরাতা, কােতারতা /katorota/,/katorɔta/ ক�ল kajjal akampan কজজল্ , কজেজাল্্ /kɔʤʤɔl/, /kɔʤʤol/ kaṭmaṭa কট্মেটা, কট্মট্ /kɔʈmɔʈo/, /kɔʈmɔʈ/ কটমট noun kaṭmaṭ কর্েমািবেরাত্েতা / /kɔrmobirotto/ কম �বীর� noun karmabīratna কর্েমািবরত্েতা /kɔrmobirɔtto/
The Standard Regional varieties of the pronunciations of the English entry words have also been captured in this dictionary.
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কিরডর noun kariḍar কিরেডার / কিরডর /kɔriɖor/ /kɔriɖɔr/
7.5.5 Meaning of Words
Meaning is another important feature for word-sense disambiguation as the pronunciation of a word in SCB may vary depending on its parts-of speech and meaning. Even a word having same POS and pronunciation may vary in meaning. Variations may be of following types:
(a) A word may have just one part-of speech, one pronunciation and one meaning (b) A word may have different parts-of speech, same pronunciation and same meaning (c) A word may have different parts-of speech, same pronunciation and different meaning (d) A word may have different parts-of speech, different pronunciation and different meaning (e) A word may have same part-of speech, same pronunciation and different meaning (f) A word may have same part-of speech, different pronunciation and same meaning
7.5.6 Usage of Word in Bangla Sentence
The speech output of pronunciation of entry words is available in sentence-free and sentence-bound contexts. As Bangla characters and letters – when used in formation of words, deviate from standard norm of their sound representation in speech. Moreover, words change their pronunciation based on differences in parts-of-speech and meanings. Also, various lexico-semantic factors are responsible for differences in pronunciation of words in the language. The task of providing the usage of the vowel- initiated words started in June, 2016. So far, we have completed inputting usage for 10000 words which includes vowels অ, আ, ঈ, ঊ, ঋ, ঐ, ও, ঔ. A few dictionaries like Samsad Bangla Abhidhan provide some phrases of a very few words. Our aim is to provide the usage in the form of a complete sentence, so that it becomes easy for the target user to grasp the meaning. We have also provided alternate sentences for a better interpretation of the meaning or for providing options for better representation of meaning which can be opted out at the time of validation.
বাংলা িলিপেত আই-িপ-এ শ� পদ পিরচয় েরামান িলিপ অথ쇍 শে�র ব뷍বহার উ�ারণ উ�ারণ ঋণী বা অধমণ쇍 নয়; িনেজর বািড়েত অঋণী অঋণী adjective aṛṇī অিরিন /ɔrini/ ঋণমু�; ধারেদনা অব�ায় বসবাস সুখী েনই এমন। মানুেষর লক্ষণ। সরকাির িবিধ; িবধান; কানুন; েয আইন অমান뷍 করেল িনয়মাবিল েদেশর আইন noun /āin/ /আইꇍ/ /ain/ শাি� েভাগ করেত সম� মানুষ েমেন হয়। চেল বা মানেত বাধ뷍। ঈদৃশ কথা কখেনা ঈদৃশ adjective īdṛśa ই駍ি�েশা /iddriʃo/ এতাদৃশ, এই쇂প। �িন নাই। �েগ쇍র উদয়চােল ঊষসী noun ūṣosī উেশািশ /uʃoʃi/ ঊষা, �ভাতকাল। মূিত쇍মিত তুিম েহ ঊষসী' : রবী� কারও কােছ ঋণী ঋণী noun ṛṇī িরিন /rini/ অধমণ쇍 থাকেত চাই না ওইেকােমা重 েতা / /oikomott সদস뷍েদর মেধ뷍 মেতর িমল বা ওইেকাম重েতা o/ ঐকমত뷍 না হওয়ায় ঐকমত뷍 noun aikamatya অিভ�তা, মেতর / /oikomɔtt িস�া� েনওয়া েগল ঐক뷍। ওইেকােমাৎেতা o/ না। / ওইেকামৎেতা /oudarʤo উদারতা, বদান뷍তা; তাঁর িছল ঔদায쇍 noun audārýa ঔদা쇍েজা / মু� মেনর ভাব। মহাসাগরসম ঔদায쇍।
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7.5.7 Meaning of Words in English
Our aim is to provide the meaning of words in English which will be useful for the language learners as it will provide them a better understanding of the words and can also be used in translation studies. The meaning for each entry word is provided with an English equivalent for sense disambiguation, which is particularly useful for homographic and homophonous homonyms. The task of providing alternative English meanings of the vowel-initiated words started in June 2016 and so far English meaning of 10,000 words have been provided.
শ� পদ পিরচয় আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ অথ쇍 ইংরািজ অথ쇍 অ� adjective /ɔʧʧho/ দৃি� েরাধ কের না এমন। transparent. িনম쇍ল, পির�ার, ��; �িটেকর without impurities; অ� adjective /ɔʧʧho/ মেতা ��।। crystalline. অ� noun /ɔʧʧho/ �িটক। crystal
However, in case of some words mostly polysemous words, the usage of the word in some particular sense or meaning was almost unavailable or may be said that it is very rare. One such example is the word আহরণ ,
শ� পদ পিরচয় আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ অথ쇍 শে�র ব뷍বহার আগামীকাল েথেক সু�রবেন মধু আহরণ েমৗসুম আহরণ noun /aɦoron/ /aɦorɔn/ সং�হ। �쇁 হে�। ই�ারেনেটর মাধ뷍েম িবিভ�ভােব তথ뷍 স�ালন ও আহরণ noun /aɦoron/ /aɦorɔn/ সংকলন। আহরণ করা যায়। �ান অহরণ ছাড়া েকােনা েদেশর বা েকােনা জািতর আহরণ noun /aɦoron/ /aɦorɔn/ স�য়। অ�গিত স�ব নয়। অিধকাংশ সরকাির চাকিরজীবী এ সুিবধা �হণ কের আহরণ noun /aɦoron/ /aɦorɔn/ উপাজ쇍ন। নতুন ে�েল েবতন আহরণ করেছন। আহরণ noun /aɦoron/ /aɦorɔn/ আেয়াজন। িববাহািদর আহরণ noun /aɦoron/ /aɦorɔn/ উপেঢৗকন
7.5.8 Audio Output of Words
This feature will provide aid to the second language learners as to learn how Bangla words are pronounced and this will be useful to differentiate the homographic words. It may be used for text-to- speech conversion as well.
শ� : অিক্ষ পদ পিরচয় : Noun েরামান িলিপ :akṣi বাংলা িলিপেত উ�ারণ :ও嗍.িখ আই-িপ-এ উ�ারণ :[okkhi] অথ쇍 : েচাখ) Eye) ব뷍াবহার : তার অিক্ষকমল অিত সু�র ইংেরিজ অনুবাদ :Her eyes are very Beautiful
7.6 References Bhattacharya, Subhas (1993) Samsad Bangla Uccharan Abhidhan (Samsad Bangla Pronunciation Dictionary). Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad. Biswas, Shailendra (2012) Samsad Bangla Abhidhan (Samsad Bangla Dictionary). 5th Edition. Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad. Choudhury, Jamil (2009) Sabda Sanket (A Bangla Dictionary with Pronunciation in IPA). Kolkata: Dey’s Publishing. Mitra, Subal Chandra (2009) Saral Bangala Abhidhan (Easy Bangla Dictionary). 9th Edition. Kolkata: New Bengal Press. 146 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 Sarkar, Pabitra, Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, and Prashanta Kumar Dasgupta (2005) Akademi Banan Abhidhan (Akademi Spelling Dictionary). Kolkata: Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi.
7.7 Publications Dash, N.S. (2010) “Digital dictionary: a physical realization of virtual reality”. Proceedings of the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI 2010), 23-24 December 2010, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, pp. 91-95. Dash, N.S. (2010) “Utilization of language corpora in compilation of digital dictionaries for Indic languages”. Presented in the International Seminar on Tamil Computing, 24th-26th February, 2010, Linguistic Studies Unit, Dept. of Tamil Language, Madras University, Chennai, India. Dash, N.S (2011) “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102. Dash, N.S (2011) “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102. Dash, N.S (2011) “The Bangla Script and the Unicode”. Print Out. Vol. 2. No. 8. Pp. 1-16. August 2011. Dash, N.S (2011) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Bangla Script. Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing. Dash, N.S (2012) “Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya”. Alochana Chakra. Vol. 32. Pp. 166-178, Baimela Sankhya, 2012. Dash, N.S (2014) “Baidyutin bangla uccharan abhidhan”. Alochana Chakra. Vol. 37: 155 - 187. August, 2014. Dash, N.S (2014) “Consonant graphic variants in Bangla: their patterns of usage and their nature of pronunciation within words”. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Vol. 3. No. 1-2. Jan-Dec 2014, Pp. 168-186. Dash, N.S (2014) “Investigating into the patterns of usage and nature of pronunciation of some consonant grapheme clusters in Bangla”. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies. Vol. 2. No. 2. Pp. 330- 340, April 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Non-allographed Consonants and Diacritics in Bangla Words: Defining their Patterns of Usage and Nature of Pronunciation”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics [ISSN: 0974-3421]. Vol. 7. No. 1-2. Pp. 31-50. Dash, N.S. and A. Chakraborty (2016) "Digital Pronunciation Dictionary in Bangla for Computer Assisted Language Teaching, E-Learning, and Speech Technology". International Journal of Engineering. Vol. 21. Pp. 47-57. Dec 2016 Dash, N.S. and P. Basu (2012) “Developing Scientific and Technical Terminology Database from Electronic Language Corpora”. Language Forum. Vol. 38. No. 1. Pp. 5-21. January-June 2012. Dash, N.S., P. DuttaChowdhury and A. Sarkar (2011) “Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for Bangla: A Tool of the Time”. In, Sharma, Dipti Misra, Rajeev Sangal and Sobha L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011), Pp. 117-124, Anna University, Chennai, India, 16-19 Dec 2011.
8. Quarterly Expenditure
Total budget for the three years Outlay till date Expenditure till date Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total 13.00 NIL 13.00 13.00 NIL 13.00 11.50 NIL 11.50 (7+3+3)
9. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (Year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page)
Budget (Rs. in Lac) Budget (Rs. in Lac) Budget (Rs. in Lac) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year Salary Gen Cap Total Salary Gen Cap Total Salary Gen Cap Total 6.00 1.00 0 7.00 3.00 0 0 3.00 3.00 0 0 3.00
10. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years
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11. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-19)
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salary Gen Cap Total Salary Gen Cap Total Salary Gen Cap Total Salary Gen Cap Total 25% 0 0 25% 25% 0 0 25% 25% 0 0 25% 25% 0 0 25%
12. For General Projects Only
Action Plan/Target in terms of percentage Financial target in terms of Percentage (%) (%) 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 1 PLP is 1 PLP is not Given For 2 PLPs For 1 PLP For 1 PLP not given
13. Rank (To be given by the Division)
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Interim Report
22. Title of the Project: Small marginal landholders’ farming and livelihood issues: A study in Jharkhand
23. Name of Proposing Scientists: Dr. Hari Charan Behera, Assistant Professor, ISI Giridih
24. Brief objective and justification:
Objectives: • To understand the nature of landholding distribution and mode of production in both backward and non-backward areas of the state. • To examine livelihood issues in the context of agrarian political economy with reference to Jharkhand • To illuminate the emergence of class differentiation and resistance to development of capitalism in agriculture. • To examine the role of modern state in agrarian development particularly with reference to the small and marginal farmers Justification Livelihood issue in Jharkhand is not merely an economic issue alone. It may be viewed as a socio-structural arrangement in which politics and culture play important role along with other elements of society. Therefore, it is a complex socioeconomic process associated with other institutional elements. More radical changes are noticed in the backdrop of political transformation, governance and economic movement. New policies have been introduced to reframe political economy of the state and society. A new discourse on production and production relation have emerged globally with effect at the local level. The realistic attempt to understand society from within the perspective of emic approach may be more critical but crucial to define social structure, mode and means of production and production relation.
25. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation:
From other Institutions: Dr. Indrajit Pal, Assistant Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
From the Institute: Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani 12120, 聽Thailand
26. Date of Commencement : June 2016
27. Expected Date of Completion : July, 2018
28. Interim report (max 500 words) including publication/patent based on work from the project : Review of literature, survey designing, questionnaires’ framing completed and data collection is almost in final stage.
29. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. in Lakhs) :
Total budget for three Outlay till date Expenditure till date years Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 627000 323722 149 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19
30. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page):
Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year Ca Sala Cap Tot Salary Gen. Total Gen. Salary Gen. Cap. Total p. ry . al
31. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years.
A. Project title: Status : Money Budgeted : Money Spent : Publications :
32. Quarterly projection of expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-19): NA
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salar Gen. Cap. Total y
33. For General Projects only :
Action plan /Target in Terms of Financial target in terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year
34. Rank (to be given by the Division)
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1. Title of the Project: Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee I ndustry of Karnataka
2. Name of Pr oposing Scientists: Molly Chattopadhyay
3. Br ief obj ective and j ustification: The project will study gender relations in the coffee industry of Chikmagalur, Koorg and Hasan Di stri cts i n the State of K arnataka. The purpose of the project is to (1) to find out dynamics of gender relations in different strata of coffee plantation, (2) to assess various forms of production that exist in the coffee manufacturing industry and their interrelationship, (3) to anal yze division of labour between men and women in different forms of production, and the wage differences thereby, (4) to anal yze the rol e of trade-unions in coffee-industry and the role of women workers in the union. Review of literature on plantation industry shows that to what extent gender plays a role in differential access of men and women to various employments has not been studied. These studies underpin an industrial model of competitiveness, based on low-wage f emal e l abour whi ch i s mai nl y descri pti ve; does l i ttl e to reveal the dynami cs of soci o- cultural factors that affect the division of labour between men and women, both inside and outside the factory that directly or indirectly determine gender differentiated treatment i n the workpl ace.
Cof f ee i s a rare exampl e whi ch i s grown concurrentl y and wi thi n the same agro- ecological zone as both peasant crop and plantation crop. In other words, the r elations of production that characterizes its cultivation vary from smal l -scale self-employment t o sel f -employment supplemented by wage labour (that is, different strata of the peasantry) to more socialized forms, that is, of large-scale farming units based exclusively on the employment of wage labour.
For exampl e, ther e has been no study of the actual differential deployment of female labour time in the different production sectors of plantation industry. Further, ther e has been no study of the social relations of gender hierarchy in the different sectors of coffee industry.
It is of substantial analytical inter est to the sociologist to obser ve and analyze different roles played by women in the different agrarian regimes and forms of pr oduction r epr esented in the coffee sector .
4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation:
From other Institutions: Dr. Jesim Pais, SERC, New Delhi
From the Institute: Prof. Madhura Swaminathan
35. Date of Commencement : April 2015
36. Expected Date of Completion : March 2018
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The current study focused on the areas of gender inequality and discrimination in employment in coffee plantations of Karnataka and also land holding pattern by gender. According to Coffee Board of India (2016) Karnataka was the largest coffee producing region in India accounting for 55% of the total area under coffee and 71% of the total national production. As per Census 2011, coffee was a major employer of women workers in Karnataka; share of women workers was 62% out of total 4.8 lakh average daily workers employed in coffee plantations. Gender referred to the social, economic and cultural roles and relations between men and women including their different responsibilities in a given culture or location. The situation of men and women in labour market reflected the situation of gender equality in society. The study concentrated on categories where gender discrimination in labour market mostly occurred: employment status, wages, benefits, equality of treatment. In order to find out, if coffee plantation faced gender discrimination in above proposed categories, a representative survey was conducted in four different types of plantations by holding size namely estate, large, medium and small plantations. A total of 350 (195 male + 155 female) people active in labour market (who defined themselves as employed formally or informally) were interviewed for the survey in Chikmagalur and Kodagu District of Karnataka, India.
The present study found that only 29% of male workers and 25% of female workers were permanent workers; rest were either on contract or casual worker. Minimum wage was paid to 38% of male workers and 28% of female workers; around 13% of male workers and 22% of female workers were not paid minimum wage. Additionally, almost 50% of both male and female workers reported delayed wage payment. The gender disparity existed in benefits and other components - 22% of men had got earned leave, while among women this was 17%. Also 23% of men had got provident fund, while the same experience had been for 17% of women. The significant finding regarding benefits was that there was no gender gap regarding the safety measures in plantations – 35% of both men and women claimed that safety measures were very poor, only 15% of both male and female workers were satisfied with safety measures. In terms of land ownership, it was found that 19.46% of females individually own land and only one percent of women hold it jointly with their husband. Majority of the coffee land owners are small growers that is 75% of males and 19% of females possess less than four hectares of land.
In case of entitlement to other benefits, male-female disparity was found in all types of plantation units from estate to small coffee farm. In conclusion, it can be said that changes in the nature of recruitment from regular worker to contract workers in plantation units had resulted in marginalization of both male and female workers, more so in case of female workers due to the prevalence of plantation patriarchy.
38. Outlay and Expenditure of the project (Rs. in Lakhs) : Total budget for three Outlay till date Expenditure till date years Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 900000 0.0 900000 895000 0.0 895000 700000 0.0 755000
39. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (highlight the column (year) for which funds are being sought) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page): Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) Budget (Rs. in Lac.) 1st Year 2015-16 2nd Year 2016-17 3rd Year 2017-18
Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 0.6 2.4 0.0 3.0 1.16 1.84 0.0 3.0 1.72 1.23 0.0 2.95
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40. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years. I Year 2012-15 A. Project title: Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Indian Mining Industry a) Status : Completed b) Money Budgeted : 5,02,000 c) Money spent : 4,80,000 d) List of Publications : 5. Chattopadhyay,Molly and Anupam Lahiri. "Data Anomaly in Mining Statistics of India". Statistical Journal of the IAOS. DOI. 10.3233/SJI160281, 2017. 6. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2012. “Women Miners of India: Gender Intervention and Analysis". Book of abstracts, Second ISA Forum of Sociology, organized by International Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012, Pp.114. Available at http://www.isasociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/isa-forum2012- book-of-abstracts.pdf 7. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2013. “Invisible workers of mining and quarrying sector: Data gap in official statistics”. Paper presented at the conference on “The Unorganised Sector in India: Extending the Debate to Mining and Quarrying” hold at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 27-28th July, 2013. Available at http://www.mlpc.in/doc/Seminar%20report.p 8. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women in the Indian Mining Sector”. Paper presented at 57th Annual conference by Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Sher-e Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Srinagar, 10-12 October, 2015, (summary of paper at page 230).
e) Capital item purchased : NA
II Year 2015-18
E. Title: Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka a) Status: Ongoing b) Money Budgeted in 2015-18: 8,95,000 c) Money spent: 7,55,000 d) List of Publications :
i. Chattopadhyay, Molly. “Workplace Gender Discrimination among Curing Workers of India’’. International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies. 2, 1, 2017, Pp: 77- 90.
ii. Chattopadhyay, Molly, 2015. “Women workers in Coffee industry of India”. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Colombo, 11-13 August 2015 organised by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka, Pp. 5-14.
e) Capital item purchased : NA
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41. Quarterly projection of expenditure during the budgeting year (2018-19): 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total Salary Gen. Cap. Total 21000 25000 0.0 46000 50000 20000 0.0 70000 50000 20000 0.0 70000 34000 75000 0.0 109000
42. For General Projects only : Action plan /Target in Terms of percentage (%) Financial target in terms of percentage (%)
1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 30% 30% 40% 80% 95% 97%
43. Rank (to be given by the Division)
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Final Report on Northeastern Project Linguistic Research Unit Title: The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla P.I.: Probal Dasgupta Duration: 2014-17
This project focused, in its syntactic subdomain, on the role of the morphology and syntax of agreement elements, and in its sociolinguistic subdomain on the interaction between these phenomena and diglossia. Its major findings were presented in several papers listed below; the formal findings appear in ‘Pre-demonstrative gaps in Bangla: syntactic and semiotic recoverability’ and the sociolinguistic findings in ‘Judges and grammarians in Britain’s liberal pedagogic performance: a diglossic approach to colonial Bengal’.
Assamese played a key role in the psycholinguistic paper ‘Getting the identical infinitives filter in Bangla under control’ that was due out in 2015 but is now expected to appear in the second half of 2017. We received input from Guwahati based colleagues on the Assamese equivalents to the constructions under investigation in this paper. Thus, we were able to specify the parsing-related inflectional contrasts between Assamese and Bangla that underlie the fact that the identical infinitives filter phenomenon, instantiating the garden path syndrome in a sector where it has not been studied before, occurs only in Bangla and not in Assamese – despite the considerable commonalities between the morphological systems in these contiguous and typologically isomorphic languages.
Some results obtained from this project were reported in the following publications. Relevant results were also highlighted during presentations made in the Northeast, at Manipur University in 2016 and Tezpur University in 2017.
1.Dasgupta, Probal. La ruĝo kaj la verdo: fi-trajto-inertaj sanskritidaj substantivoj en kunreprezenta analizo/ Shamaantor protikriti-bisleshoner cokhe Bhaarotiyo Aarjo bhaashaar phaai-nishkriyo bisheshsho. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank (ed.) Littera Scripta Manent: Serta in Honorem Helmar Frank. Paderborn/ Prague: Akademia Libroservo. 182-192. 2014. 2. Dasgupta, Probal. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominals in a co-representation analysis. Shu-Fen Chen, Benjamin Slade (eds.) Grammatica et Verba / Grammar and Verve/ Studies in South Asian, historical, and Indo-European linguistics in honour of Hans Henrich Hock. Ann Arbor/ New York: Beech Stave. 46-52. 2014. 3. Dasgupta, Probal. Judges and grammarians in Britain’s liberal pedagogic performance: a diglossic approach to colonial Bengal. Droit et Cultures 67.151-186. 2014. 4. Bayer, Josef; Dasgupta, Probal. Emphatic topicalization and the structure of the left periphery: evidence from German and Bangla. Syntax 19.309-353. 2016. 5. Dasgupta, Probal. Pre-demonstrative gaps in Bangla: syntactic and semiotic recoverability. Jezyka Komunikacija Informacija 11. 2017. [In press: final proof-reading completed in January.] 6. Dasgupta, Probal. Getting the identical infinitives filter in Bangla under control. Forthcoming in the Festschrift for Raghavachari Amritavalli being edited by Shruti Sircar, Rahul Balusu, Gautam Sengupta. Expected to appear in 2017.
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1. Title of the Project: Contract farming participation and emerging trend in agrarian relations: A case of potato growers in West Bengal 2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Hari Charan Behera
3. Brief objective and justification: The proposed study is precisely narrowed down with an attempt to identify the socioeconomic factor that influenced the participation in contract farming. In addition, it is important to understand how new form of agrarian relations emerged due to contract farming practice by a study in West Bengal with special focus on Frito Lays model. The study will primarily deal with the potato growing farmers under contract farming to study the nature of relations established both at the micro (within the community) and macro level (beyond community periphery). Moreover, non-contract farmers will be part of the study to clearly identify the differential progress of the potato growers under contract and non contract farming. The relations established between the firms and the farmers along with the layers of intermediaries are primarily ‘class relations’. But the power relations between the firms and farmers cannot be ignored under the study. The question is if the capital accumulation has challenged the Marxian proposition of PCA-primitive capital accumulation where the firms accumulate capital by disallowing farmers and the agricultural labourers or by dispossessing the small and marginal landowners ad the agricultural labourers. Objectives of the study: 1. To study the nature of landholdings under contract farming 2. To identify other socioeconomic factors that determine participation in contract farming 3. To examine the emerging trend in agrarian relations and mode of production
While the study is an attempt to describe agrarian relations that work under a bundle of rights, social norms, obligations, and social network and about the mode of production, a few important hypotheses are also formulated for the test.
4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation: Nil
From other Institutions: From the Institute:
5. Date of Commencement : July-August 2015 6. Date of Completion : Draft report completed by 2017 7. Completion Report (Max 500 words) including publication and patents based on the work from the project: In view of above background, justification and objectives of the study, 2 villages in Burdwan district and 1 village in Bankura district were surveyed during 2015 and 2016. Total 329 farmers (197 contract farmers (CF), and 122 non-contract farmers interviewed to understand the dynamic of landholding, factors influencing participation and emerging agrarian relations. Apart from landholding, other key socioeconomic factors examined are: education, family income, access to banking services, house quality, family type, social category and non-agricultural occupation among others.
Major findings of the study: more than 10000 farmers distributed in 10 districts with high concentration of potato contract farming in the traditional potato growing zone. The nature of agreement is partly formal and partly semi-formal. A tripartite system of 156 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 agreement. Vendors are both private vendors belonged to farming community as well as cooperative societies. One agro-based industry was noticed as the biggest contract farmer in Jayaram Bati of Bankura district. Barring such farmer, data was collected from 10 sample private vendors in the district. The average annual income of vendors from contract farming was 0.35 million rupees in Bankura district with their network consisting of 275 farmers and spreading across 16 villages for each farmer only through the CF. Hundreds of private vendors and a few cooperative societies who are involved in the contract farming getting more or less similar opportunities out of contract farming. Therefore, the extent and coverage of farmers into the business and social network is better strengthened after contract farming venture. These vendors are not only rich farmers whose annual turn over is in million rupees but they are also social change agents.
There is enough potential to build social capital. The farming practice continues in trust building, mutual sharing, cooperation, and commitment at the part of the farmers. Farmers are now part of the bigger social network. States 5.1 million marginal and small farmers and double the number of landless agricultural labouers are primarily dependent of agriculture. Any significant effort to build social capital and ensure social inclusion will lead both social and societal changes. Significant variations in the socioeconomic conditions including family education, quality of houses farmers living in, landholdings, access to banking facility, and agricultural income are noticed. Both Chi-square test and binary logistic regression model applied for the analysis purpose.
The constraints in contract farming is due to high concentration of marginal landholdings, lack of ability of the farmers to invest, poor institutional supports in terms of insurance and credit to the marginal farmers and share croppers. A wider gap in participation between the tribe and non-tribes is noticed. Reforms in land tenure system is furthermore important at this point of time to benefit large number of tenant farmers, marginal and small farmers and landless agricultural labourers.
Publication: A research paper has been communicated to a peer reviewed journal for publication.
8. Outlay and Expenditure (Rs. In Lakhs.)
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Outlay Expenditure Outlay Expenditure Outlay Expenditure 215000 200703 30000 28979 NA NA
9. Percentage of Scientific Targets Met : 100%
10. Percentage of Financial Targets Met : 94%
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FINAL PROJECT REPORT (NORTH-EAST)
1. Title of the Project: Livelihoods, homestead farming and Human Development in Tripura. 2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Madhura Swaminathan (and V.K. Ramachandran) 3. Brief Objective and justification:
In 2005, the PI was asked to advise the Department of Planning of the Government of Tripura on the preparation of the Tripura Human Development Report 2007 (GOT 2007). The Report ended with some specific priorities for planning. The proposed project is a follow-up to the Tripura Human Development Report (HDR) and as such, the main objectives are the following policy objectives: • To assist in planning land use so as to enhance sustainable farm and non-farm rural employment and incomes. Specifically, to suggest agricultural and horticultural alternatives and explore prospects for homestead cultivation in Tripura. • To monitor changes in certain indicators of human development including access to education and the public distribution of food. 4. Name of Others Scientists Associated with their affiliation: 5. Date of Commencement : April 1, 2015 6. Date of Completion : March 31, 2017 7. Complete Report Max 500 words including publication and patents based on the Work from the project: The project examined all available secondary data, from departments of the Government of Tripura as well as national data sources. Secondly, the project undertook village level data collection. Three villages were surveyed for the Tripura HDR: Mainama in Dhalai District, West Muhuripur in South district and Khakchang in North district. Village resurveys were conducted in the three villages in the month of May-June, 2016. The sample households were randomly selected from the Register of Residents (RoR), maintained by the lowest tier of the local self governance bodies in Tripura.
A two day workshop was held in Agartala, from March 18 to 19, 2017, to present the preliminary results from our study. The Chief Minister attended the inaugural session. There was good participation from academics, government officials and members of peasant organisations.
An overview of the findings was presented by V. K. Ramachandran. As he argued, the assessment of various features of agrarian relations and development in Tripura between the two periods will be based on inter temporal as well as a spatial comparison, using data of these village studies.
Since 2005, it was observed that there was a marked change in the overall environment of the state. The 2005 survey was conducted at the peak of extremist violence in the state. The villages used to be first enveloped by the Tripura State Rifle squads before the survey teams could enter and conduct the household interviews. The selection of the study villages was also influenced by the prevailing security concerns in the state. However, in 2016 the scene had completely changed. There was no sign of any violence in the villages. Peace and calm had settled in the villages. The experience of the violence ridden days has slowly weaned from public memory.
158 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 The three survey villages represent different type and scale of agriculture, farming practices, terrain and production relations. The villages showcased various types of cultivation in transitional forms. The role of the state is seen in every aspect of agricultural development through investments made into extending agricultural growth and production. State investment has been increasing in all other aspect of human development needs.
A book manuscript is under preparation, and will be completed by December 2017.
8. Outlay and Expenditure (Rs. in Lakhs)
Year 1 (2015-16) Year 2 (2016-17) Outlay Expenditure Outlay Expenditure 3.0 lakhs 1.21 9.01 lakhs 9.007
9. Percentage of Scientific Targets Met: 90%
10. Percentage of Financial Targets Met: 85%
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1. Project Title: Development of Face Recognition Test for ethnicities in West Bengal using Real World Facial Images 2. Name of Proposing Scientists: Garga Chatterjee 3. Name of Others Scientists associated with their affiliation: None. 4. Date of Commencement: 1st April 2018 5. Project Summary (Max. 200 words)
The project aims to develop face recognition performance testing tools for the East Indian faces using real world facial images. This is not an algorithm based technique development but a project that will use psychophysical methods of cognitive neuroscience and also create a unique database of faces for this purpose. The full project will take 3 years the budget amount is for the first year. It will entail creation of a face database from ethnicity specific subjects, development of a face recognition test based on that database and assessing associated neurocognitive parameters during face recognition.
6. Introduction with Background (Max. 300 words) In the age of security and surveillance, it is imperative that face recognition happens correctly via-a-vis individuals of interest in various settings. The broad domain of face recognition is currently one of the most active areas of research in vision science, and cognitive neuroscience. Excitement about this domain is motivated partly by its clear everyday importance and partly by the discovery that face processing, while quite complex, is actually one of the most natural things we do. For example, the brain has specialized areas devoted almost entirely to face processing (Kanwisher, 2010, Tsao et al, 2006), and human and monkey infants preferentially stare at faces from birth onward (Sugita, 2008). Less attention has been paid to how individuals vary in their face-related abilities. This variance matters in terms of recruiting people whose job is dependent on good face recognition performance. The present project aims to create a tool for this purpose as well as general face recognition research purpose. Face recognition ability has huge inter person variance. Some people may be good at face recognition while some people's performance can be quite bad in a comparative sense. These performance differences can be assessed and measured using face recognition tests. In fact, such standard face recognition tests have been in vogue.
7. Description of the problem (Max. 300 words) The most used systematic databases are biased towards Western, specifically white Caucasian faces. More than a sixth of the world population lives in the Indian subcontinent. As such, absence of a systematic database of representative human faces are lacking for this part of the world. This limits the kind of research that can be done on the face processing patterns of South Asians. Due to interference from the well- documented Other Race effect white Caucasian databases are not suitable for this purpose. The intention of this research project is to create a rich, systematic database of the various people and ethnicities of East India. This will serve as the basic material for creating a wide variety of cognitive tests as well as a database for image analysis tools. From that, face recognition tests will be created and standardized in human subjects.
8. Objectives: The project specific aims are threefold. First, and most importantly, I will develop a facial image database for East Indian males ( at present 3 groups Bengalis, Santhals, Mech).Second, these images will be compiled into face recognition tests that can be done online or offline. Thirdly, such tests will be standardized using human subjects to arrive at the agreeable prototype for 160 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 mass public use. This test and database can become a research resource for the wider research community.
9. Study area: Cognitive Science, Face Recognition
10. Review and status of research and development in the subject (Max. 500 words.)
10.1 International Status
Chinese and Western Face Recognition tests exists but no CFMT based South Asian Face Recognition test exists..
10.2 National Status
No face recognition test based on South Asian / Indian ethnicity based tests exist. Certain databases of faces exist which are however not optimized for CFMT like test creation. 10.3 Novelty of the present proposal
The present proposal aims to fill the above crucial gap as stated earlier – it aims to build a South Asian face recognition test. 11. Importance of the proposed project in the context of current status (Max. 200 words)
Face recognition is an important assessment that has widespread use. For image analysis or for personnel training/recruitment for optimal performance, South Asia based face recognition test is required. This does not exist. This project will create such tests for public and research use. For this, a South Asian face database is also required that is optimal for the purpose of developing a psychophysical face recognition test. That does not exist either. Development of that is a crucial aspect of this project. This is precisely why standard databases cannot be used.
12. Review of the expertise available with the group/institute in the subject of the project
Proposing scientist did his PhD from Harvard University in Face Recognition issues and has multiple publications on the topic. It requires training in psychophysics and the cognitive neuroscience of face recognition. The proposing scientist has expertise on both.
13. Work Plan
13.1 Methodology
As the first step, persons in a certain age range (to maintain facial age homogeneity) will be recruited from 3 East Indian ethnic groups - Bengalis, Santhals, Mech. Male individuals will be recruited as volunteers for the face database. Their age has to be between 18-25 years. They will be photographed under tight parametric conditions. The database, to be representative, has to be large, and has to take into account demographic data. This does question of proportion does not apply to small ethnicities. Each face in the database will be captured under a. various illumination conditions b. various angles of viewing c. hair included and hair neutral (by making subject wear caps) conditions By ensuring a standard method of image capture and keeping ambient lighting conditions constant (by photometric measurement), the project will create a large database of faces, where each face is comparable to another as far as resolution, lighting condition and other standard physical parameters are concerned. Face images are central to my work on face recognition and face processing especially in the context of building tests that are relevant to Indian populations. Given that much of cognitive 161 Prepared By: Sri Satyajit Malakar, SSD SSD Plan Budget Proposals for the year 2018-19 neuroscience is done in the West, our own database needs to be created at the very outset of my research career so that it can be a resource that I can continually use. The creation of this database will require taking high-resolution pictures under standard lighting conditions with certain setups enabling the various kinds of images from a single face. This also has to be a mobile set-up so that subjects can be photographed at field-sites. Photographed subjects need to have token compensation (which they can waive if they want). After the face database is created, face recognition tests will be developed from them. Development of face recognition tests relies critically upon having good parametric psychophysical tests. Up until now, no good parametric psychophysical tests (for our purposes) have existed for any of the abilities mentioned above. The tests that do exist are designed to detect gross deficits in individuals with traumatic brain damage. Nearly everyone without such gross deficits performs at ceiling, and therefore all the variation between experts and poor, but not pathologically deficient, individuals remains unmeasured. However, the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) has emerged as a scientific standard. The basic schema and template of this test will be followed in developing our own tests from the database. Using crowd-sourced web piloted testing, the initial piloting of new tests will happen. These will be subsequently validated in the laboratory. Thus, the main tools for the study will be developed at a fraction of the cost. The web and lab combination facilitates the development of new tests because it allows a huge magnitude of test data to be collected quickly and at no incremental cost per individual who takes the test. EEG and GSR systems will be used to assess associated parameters during face recognition activity.
13.2 Organization of work element and time schedule of activities giving milestones
I Year Creation of face database Making the database public for the research community
II Year Continuation in face database creation and creation of face recognition test One review paper
III Year Web based and Lab validation of face recognition test to create final prototype One empirical paper
14. Utilization of Research Results: The face database database, once set up, will be of its first kind in India and can subsequently serve as an important research resource not only for my research projects but also for other cognitive/vision scientists in the field in India. The database and face recognition test that we would build would be made public for research use. We hope that several other researchers like us would use the database and face recognition test to carry out research in this topic.
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Item (Rs. in Lac) Total I II III (Rs.) year year year in Lacs Revenue
Salary 1.8 2.4 2.4
Sub Total (A) 1.8 2.4 2.4 6.6
B. General
Contingency 0.5 0.5 0.5
TA/DA 0.5 0.5 0.5
Consumables 0.5 0.5 0.5
Others 0.5 0.5 0.5
Sub-total (B) 2.0 2.0 2.0 6.0
Capital
Equipment 1.5 1.5 0
Others 0.4 0.2 0.2
Sub Total (C) 1.9 1.7 0.2 3.8
Grand Total 5.7 6.1 4.6 16.4
Justification: Salary - 11 month salary for PhD qualified PLP at Rs.30000 per month salary. Contingency and TA/DA includes costs for travel and associated costs during data collection outside of Kolkata, especially in Santhal and Mech areas. Equipments include - Computer systems, printers, EEG system – intergrated portable 8 channel, wearable mobile GSR system and other associated research hardware.
16. References: a. Chiao, J.Y., Heck, H.E., Nakayama, K. and Ambady, N. Priming race in biracial observers affects visual search for different race faces. Psychological Sci 17 (5): 387-392 2006) b. Duchaine, B. and Nakayama, K. The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants Neuropsychologia 44 (4): 576-585 2006
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Ethical clearance is being applied for.
18. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during Year 1 :
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Sala Ge Ca Tot Sala Ge Ca Tot Sala Ge Ca Tot Sala Ge Ca Tota ry n. p. al ry n. p. al ry n. p. al ry n. p. l 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.6 1.0 1.5 3.4 0.6 1.0 0.0 1.9 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.9
19. List of all completed and/or ongoing project undertaken by the proposing scientists in the last 5 years
1) a. Project title : Understanding the separation of information streams in face image processing b. Status : Ongoing c. Money Budgeted : Rs 8,90,000 d.Money spent : Rs 6,50,610
List of Publications:
1. Russell R, Chatterjee G & Nakayama K. Developmental prosopagnosia and super- recognition: no special role for surface reflectance processing. Neuropsychologia (2012), 50(2): 334- 40 2. Germine L, Nakayama K, Duchaine BC, Chabris CF, Chatterjee G & Wilmer JB. Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (2012),19(5):847- 57. 3. DeGutis J, Chatterjee G & Nakayama K. Face gender recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for holistic processing and use of configural information. Visual Cognition (2012) 4. Wilmer JB, Chatterjee G et al. Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology (2012) Jul;29(5- 6):360-92 5. Chatterjee G. & Nakayama K. Normal facial age and gender perception in developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology (2012) Jul;29(5- 6):482-502 6. Chakraborty N & Chatterjee G. Neural and behavioral correlates of face recognition in human infants. Current Indian Eye Research (2016), 3(1): 10
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Rupees in lakhs Units Name of the Project General Salary Capital Total New Project North East 2.1 Traning on ‘Application of Statistical Techniques in Linguistic 2 LRU Stuidies’ (Northeast, New) (2018-2019) 5.000 5.000 6.1 North East Training Program on Applications of Statistics in 6 SOSU Social Sciences and Official Data (Northeast, New) (2018- 9.160 0.400 9.560 2019) Sub-total: 14.160 0.400 0.000 14.560 General 2.2 POS Tagged Bangla Text Corpus Generation (General, New) 2 LRU (2018-2021) 2.000 10.800 12.800 3.1 Workshop on Techniques of Analysis of Demographic and 3 PSU Health Statistics and Application of Computer Software 2.581 (General, New) (2018-2019) 2.501 0.080 4.1 Orientation training on Data Visualization (General, New) 4 PRU (2018-2019) 3.874 0.200 2.000 6.074 4.3 Development of Face Recognition Test for ethnicities in West 4 PRU Bengal using Real World Facial Images 2.000 1.800 1.900 5.700 5.1 A micro-level study of impact of life-style and socio-economy 5 SRU on adolescent overweight or obesity in Kolkata city, West Bengal. 3.100 1.800 4.900 (General, New) (2018-2020) 5.2 Contract Farming: Participation, Partnership and 5 SRU Socioeconomic Development in Eastern India (General, New) 6.300 3.000 9.300 (2018-2019) 8.1 Workshop on Data Anomaly in Official Statistics regarding 8 EAU Women’s Labour in India. (General, New) (2018-2019) 4.100 2.000 6.100 23.875 19.680 3.900 47.455 On-Going Project North East 1.1 Training on Advanced Econometric Methods and Their 1 ERU Applications, (Northeast, On-Going) (2017-2020) 15.100 0.600 15.700 6.3 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, On-Going) 6 SOSU (2016-2019) 5.800 0.500 6.300 Sub-total: 20.900 1.100 0.000 22.000 General 1.2 Pilot Survey of the Informal/Unorganised Sector: Application 1 ERU of an Easily Implementable Sampling Strategy (General, New) 1.500 5.000 6.500 (2016-2019) 1.3 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, 3.100 6.000 9.100 1 ERU On-Going) (2016-2018) 1.4 Lecture-cum-workshop series on advances in economic 1 ERU theory and applications: 2017-18 to 2020-2021 (General, New) 5.687 5.687 (2017-2021) 4 PRU 4.2 Safe school survey (General, On-Going) (2016-2019) 1.510 2.400 3.910 Sub-total: 11.797 13.400 0.000 25.197 Grand Total : 70.732 34.580 3.900 109.212
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Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Non-Projects (2018-19) Social Sciences Division Rupees in lakhs Sl. General Salary Capital Total No. Name of the Project Economic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 7.000 11.000 18.000 2 Seminar 1.000 1.000 3 Internal travel 0.500 0.500 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.500 0.500 5 Computer Consumables 1.500 1.500 6 Repair and Maintenance 1.500 1.500 7 Office Expenditures 1.000 1.000 8 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000 Sub-total: 13.000 11.000 5.000 29.000 Linguistic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 0.260 2.000 2.260 2 Seminars (deparmental, on regular basis) 1.000 1.000 3 Internal travel 1.240 1.240 4 Computer Consumables 1.500 1.500 5 Maintenance (Stores and Stationaries) 1.500 1.500 6 Office Expenditures 1.500 1.500 Capital (Computer, Software, Scanner, Printer 7 etc.) 5.000 5.000 8 Fellowship for (one) New JRF/SRF (2017-18) 4.000 4.000 Sub-total: 7.000 6.000 5.000 18.000 Population Studies Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 3.000 3.000 2 Research Fellows/Statistical Trainees etc. 1.800 1.800 3 Seminars by invited experts 1.000 1.000 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.250 0.250 5 Internal Travel 0.500 0.500 6 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900 7 Office Expenditure 0.800 0.800 8 Repair, Maintenance, etc. 0.870 0.870 9 AC machines for Computer & seminar rooms 2.000 2.000 Software & Capital Equipment : Software (Demographic, Statistical, Virus Guard), 10 Desktop Computers, scanner and Printers 3.000 3.000 Sub-total: 4.320 4.800 5.000 14.120 Psychology Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 1.800 1.800 2 Computer Consumables 0.700 0.700 3 Research Fellow 3.000 3.000 4 Maintenance for computer & equipment 0.700 0.700 5 Seminar/Workshop/Training programme 2.000 2.000 6 Office Expenditure 0.800 0.800 7 Internal travel 0.400 0.400 8 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.200 0.200 9 Software, Capital Expenditure 2.000 2.000 10 North East Conference 1.500 1.500 Sub-total: 6.300 4.800 2.000 13.100
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Sociological Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 0.800 0.800 2 Seminar 0.800 0.800 3 Internal travel 0.500 0.500 4 Research Fellow (Giridih) 4.000 4.000 5 Processing fees for publication 0.500 0.500 6 Computer Consumables 0.500 0.500 7 Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.800 0.800 Capital Equipment: Upgrading computers/AC/furniture and other related 8 equipment 5.000 5.000 9 Software 2.200 2.200 10 Maintenance of New Unit Seminar Room 1.000 1.000 Sub-total: 4.100 4.800 7.200 16.100 Sampling & Official Statistics Unit Honorary Visiting Professor/Visiting 1 Scientist/Research Collaborators 4.000 4.000 2 Computer Consumables 1.800 1.800 External Hard Disk for Storage of Office 3 Material and project data 2.000 2.000 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, 4 fittings, equipment etc. 5.000 5.000 Purchase new Desktop Computer, Laptop, Laser Printer, Photocopier, Air-condition 5 machine, Projector machine 4.000 4.000 6 Research Fellow/Statistical trainee 10.000 10.000 7 Office Expenses 1.700 1.700 Repair & Maintenane for Computer, Printer, Scanner, Xerox and otherequipent's in the the 8 unit including AMC etc. 1.500 1.500 Conference/Seminar/Workshop Training 9 Programme etc. 4.000 4.000 10 Internal Travel of Scientists and Researchers 1.000 1.000 Sub-total: 12.000 14.000 9.000 35.000 Economics & Planning Unit (Delhi) 1 Visiting Scientists 5.400 5.400 2 Post-doctoral fellows-cum-Lecturers 38.400 38.400 3 Travel of Scientists 1.000 1.000 4 Seminar 1.000 1.000 5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables 1.500 1.500 6 Misc. Including Communications & fax 1.200 1.200 8 Maintenance 0.500 0.500 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, 9 furniture, fittings, equipments 6.000 6.000 10 Annual Conference 5.000 5.000 Sub-total: 10.200 43.800 6.000 60.000 Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore) 1 Visiting Scientists 3.000 2.000 5.000 Post Doctoral Fellows/Research Associate 7.750 7.750 2 PCs & Printers 1.500 1.500 3 Furniture 1.000 1.000 4 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900 5 Seminar/Workshop 0.250 0.250 0.500 6 Software/Data purchase 0.500 0.500 7 Stationery 0.500 0.500 8 Repair & Maintenance 0.500 0.500 9 Miscellaneous 2.350 2.350 Sub-total: 8.000 10.000 2.500 20.500
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Social Sciences Division Office 1 Visiting Scientists 6.400 20.000 26.400 2 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 3 Office Expenditure 2.000 2.000 4 Travel for Academic Purpose 4.000 4.000 5 Maintenance 2.000 2.000 6 Capital Expenditure 7.200 7.200 Sub-total: 16.400 20.000 7.200 43.600 Grand Total (Plan Non-Projects): 81.320 119.200 48.900 249.420 Plan Projects= 109.212 Total Budget of Social Sciences Division (Plan Projects + Plan Non- Projects) = 358.632
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