PLAN BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR 2013-2014
Revised as on 29 June 2012
Social Sciences Division
Indian Statistical Institute 203, Barrackpore Trunk Road Kolkata 700 108
Social Sciences Division, ISI 2 Contents Name of the Project Project Page Leader(s)
Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the … … 3 year 2010-2012
1 Economic Research Unit 1.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 41
2 Linguistic Research Unit 2.2 Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. (General, New) … Probal Dasgupta … 5 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form. (General, On- … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 23 going) 2.4 Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework. (NE, On-going) … Probal Dasgupta … 25 2.5 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 42
3 Population Studies Unit 3.3 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 44
4 Psychology Research Unit 4.1 Students’ temperament styles, parenting styles and academic achievement of school … Rumki Gupta … 8 students. (General, New) 4.2 Differential validity of Computer programming abilities (General, On-going) … Debdulal.Dutta Roy … 27 4.3 Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining academic … Anjali Ghosh … 30 performance of school students of North- Eastern India. (NE, On-going) 4.4 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 45
5 Sociological Research Unit 5.2 A micro level study of childhood obesity and TV watching in Kolkata and its … Susmita Bharati … 13 periphery, West Bengal, India. (General, New) 5.3 Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of Jharkhand. … Rabindranath Jana … 16 (General, New) 5.4 Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry. (General, On-going) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 34 5.5 Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings. (General, On-going) … V.K. Ramachandran … 36 5.6 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 47
6 Planning Unit, Delhi Centre 6.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 48
7 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre 7.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 50
8 Social Sciences Division Office 8.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 51 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, ERU … … 52 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, PRU … … 59 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, SRU … … 62 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, LRU … … 66 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, PSU … … 68 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, EAU, Bangalore Centre … … 70
Interim Report PRU … … 71 Divisional Projects Expenditure Statement 2013-14 … … 75 Divisional Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-14 … … 76
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Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the year 2010-2012
1. Professor Bimal Kr. Roy Director (Chairman) Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700 108
2. Professor Jayati Ghosh Centre for Economics Studies & Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067
3. Professor Rajni Palriwala Department of Sociology Delhi School of Economics Delhi University Delhi 110 007
4. Professor Sulabha Parasuraman Department of Population Policies & Programmes I.I.P.S., Deonar, Mumbai 400088
5. Professor Ayesha Kidwai Centre for Linguistic Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067
6. Professor Minati Panda Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067
7. Professor Madhura Swaminathan, Professor-in-Charge (Convener), Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
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LRU (General, New) Project No. 2.2
1. Title of the project: Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The purpose of this project is to apply the biaxial apparatus to the problem of delineating cranberry-compatible environments in Bangla. Current work suggests that an idiom containing a bound word cannot cross a predicate boundary; we need to sharpen our knowledge of predicate boundaries. The results of this project are not only of computational and psycholinguistic interest but also overlap with the socio-cultural study of common sense as it is encoded in idiomatic structures. 3. Date of Commencement: April 2013- March 2016 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta, LRU, ISI 5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Niladri Sk. Dash (LRU, ISI) 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): The purpose of this project is to apply the biaxial apparatus to the problem of distinguishing cranberry-compatible from cranberry-incompatible syntactic environments in Bangla. Current work by the P.I. suggests that an idiom containing a bound word (usually called a cranberry word) cannot cross a predicate boundary; we need to sharpen our knowledge of predicate boundaries. In particular, the older proposals that the subject-predicate boundary within the body of the clause is the relevant line of demarcation are incompatible with data highlighted by Manaster-Ramer and Wasow; the P.I. is exploring the possibility that the topic-comment boundary is the maximal outer boundary but that prototypical idioms are confined to the narrow verb phrase. The results of this project are not only of computational and psycholinguistic interest but also overlap with the socio-cultural study of common sense as it is encoded in the metaphoric structure of idiomatic expressions. Idiom descriptions underwritten by the biaxial approach have begun to, and are expected to continue to, illuminate the complex predicate domain of South Asian lexical systems that need to be better understood for computational purposes. The contrastive study of ethnic languages vis-a-vis the idiom-free and opacity-minimizing Archimedean language Esperanto has yielded results reported in the P.I.’s (2011) book Inhabiting Human Languages cited below; these results will underpin the proposed study.
7. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 Total Capital NIL NIL NIL NIL Revenue Salary of 1 Project Assistant 2,40,000 2,40,000 2,40,000 7,20,000 (20,000 X 36 = 7,20,000) Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total: 2,80,000 2,80,000 2,90,000 8,50,000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost): Computer, photocopier, and antivirus software are to be procured.
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9. 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:
No. of on-going projects : 1 (One) Project No 6 : (Ongoing, Northeastern) Title : Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework Status : On-going Money budgeted in 2012-2013: Rs. 2.20,000/-
Publications: Dasgupta, P. The ubiquitous complementizer. In: Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages. Ed. By Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, M.T. Hany Babu. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2007. 163-173. Dasgupta, P. Concrete knowledge, the conversational turn, and translation. AI & Society 2007. 21:1-2.7-13. Dasgupta, P. Advances in substantivist grammatical research. In Research Trends in Lexicography, Sanskrit and Linguistics: Proceedings of the Professor S.M. Katre Birth Centenary Seminar. Ed. By K.S. Nagaraja, V.P. Bhatta, Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi, P.M. Pingle. Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. 151-181. 2007. Dasgupta, P. Names, writing and perspective. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 5. 2008. Pp 126-34. Dasgupta, P. Transparency and arbitrariness in natural language: some empirical issues. Rajendra Singh (ed.) ARSALL 2008. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 3-19. Dasgupta, P. Bangla vector verbs and their selectivities. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics [U. of Kashmir, Srinagar] 2. 2009. Pp 41-68. Dasgupta, P. After temples and templates: history’s claims on the translator. Ipshita Chanda, Chandra Mohan, Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta (eds.) Travelling in Cultures: Comparative Studies, Theory and Practice. Delhi: Worldview. 2009. 25-36. Dasgupta, P. Characterizations in linguistic science. Amiya Dev (ed.) Science, Literature and Aesthetics (History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Volume XV Part 3). Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilization. 2009. 149-65. Dasgupta, P. (with Madhavi Sardesai). Sociolinguistics in South Asia. Martin J. Ball (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World. London/ New York: Routledge. 2009 81-8. Dasgupta, P. Strategies and their shadows. Rajendra Singh (ed.) ARSALL 2009. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2010. 3-40. Dasgupta, P. (with Josef Bayer.) 2010. Prosnobaakke nibedon-badol aar kriyaapader saakaankho otit cehaaraa. Alochonachakro 28:9-25. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Baakke bibhoktir bandobosto. Alochonachakro 29:39-58. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Discourse and generative grammar: a substantivist approach. Rajat Mohanty, Mythili Menon (eds.) Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VII 2009. Hyderabad: EFL University Press. 21-61. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominal in a co- representation analysis. K. Srikumar (ed.) Papers for Presentation at the 32nd All-India Conference of Linguists. Lucknow: Linguistic Society of India and University of Lucknow. 1-5. Dasgupta, P. 2010. La internacia lingvo kaj la universala gramatiko. [Introduction to Noam Chomsky. 2010. Lingvo kaj Menso. Tr. Edmund Grimley Evans. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio.] vii-x. Dasgupta, P. 2010. The Hindi long vowel problem: a substantivist approach. S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Shreesh Chaudhary (eds.) Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural Theoretical and Applied Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Rama Kant Agnihotri. Delhi: Aakar. 286-291.
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Dasgupta, P. 2010. Issues in the description of Bangla’. Rajendra Singh (ed.) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2010. Berlin/ New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 137-42. Dasgupta, P. Retrieving the cognitive from the industrial: the translator as apprentice’. Translation Today 6(1-2).72-96. De jure 2009, de facto 2011. Dasgupta, P. 2011. Nakshaar chhaayaa upopaaddo. Jiggasa 29:1-2.127-133. Dasgupta, P. 2011. Laaloner jabaan. Arshinagar 1:7-22. Dasgupta, P. Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla. Indian Linguistics. 72:103- 112. 2011. Dasgupta, P. Bhaasaar punorbibeconaa o Rabindranath. Parikatha 14(1):1-16. 2011. Dasgupta, P. Agreement and non-finite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh, Ghanshyam Sharma (eds) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2011. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 35-48. 2011. Dasgupta, P. Inhabiting Human Languages: The Substantivist Visualization. New Delhi: Samskriti, on behalf of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 2011./ Loghi en Homaj Lingvoj: La Substancisma Perspektivo. New York: Mondial. 2011.
10. Expected date of Completion: March 2016
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2013-2014:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
5%
25% 100% 2 NIL 25% NIL 25% NIL 100%
Social Sciences Division, ISI 8 PRU (General, New) Project No. 4.1
1. Title of the Project: Parenting styles and academic achievement of the school students. 2. Brief objective and justification: Academic achievement of school students depends on a host of factors including students’ parenting styles. Available questionnaires on parenting styles are mostly developed in western countries. Need is felt to develop a parenting style questionnaire to suit the local context.
The objective of the study is to ● develop a parenting style questionnaire in the 1st year considering local situation. ● to find relationship between parenting style and academic achievement (last annual examination marks) in the 2nd year. The study will help to inform the teachers and parents in promoting a better understanding parenting style differences in their students and how do teachers or parents help students to earn a high/good grade in school. 3. Date of commencement : April, 2013. 4. Name of the proposing Scientist : Rumki Gupta, Psychology Research Unit, ISI. 5. Name of other associated scientist with their affiliation: Prof. S. N. Chakrabartty, Ex - Director (R&D), Indian Maritime University, Kolkata Campus and Professor of Galgotia Business School, Noida. 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work: Parents have the main responsibility for socializing their children and thus parents can not avoid having an impact on their children's personality and character. This study will discuss the conceptualization of parenting in a new fashion. Till date we are concerned with the four different parenting styles defined by Baumrind (1960) and Maccoby and Martin (1983) and the effects of different parenting styles on children's behavioral adjustment and academic achievement. Studies regarding above mentioned parenting style were conducted with a sample from the western countries. On the other hand, very rare studies have been done which showed the relationship between parenting styles and academic achievement in our country rather in our state also. Therefore, it is not clear whether such relations would be consistent in our state. So the current study is being undertaken.
In this connection works will be done in the 1st year: ---- Literature review (Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological aspects) of parenting style. ---- Exploratory research will be undertaken through open ended questions to be administered among the parents primarily to identify relevant factors of parenting style. ---- to explore the possibility of variation of such factors in terms of number and intensity, the questionnaire for exploratory research will be different for male child and female child. It is proposed to administer the questionnaire to both the parents. Separate questionnaire will also be prepared for administration to the children to elicit children’s view about relevant factors like parental authority, disciplinary practices, permissiveness, authoritative /flexible etc. Three questionnaires(two parents and one for children) will be administered/interviewed to a small sample of parents and children in one rural area and in one urban area. ---- Content analysis will be undertaken to identify the factors of parenting style and their relative importance considering both point of views of parents and children. Based on the above, a parenting style questionnaire will be developed with Likert type items to suit the local condition.
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----- The items chosen (approximately 30 items) will be distributed to a group of experts requesting them to
n ● indicate their preference for each pair of items (total c2 no. of pairs in case of n items). ● suggest changes in wording of items, if any
----- based on the responses from the experts paired comparison test will be used to find scale value of each finally selected items. These scale values will be used subsequently for scoring parenting style questionnaire. ----- Reliability of Parenting style questionnaire will be measured through split half reliability or Chronbach α ----- Validity through suitable method In the 2nd year impact of parenting style on academic achievement will be observed. The objective of the study in the 2nd year is to see the impact of students parenting style on academic achievement. The study will help to inform the teachers and parents in promoting a better understanding personal and learning style differences in their students (Horton and Oakland, 1996) and how do teachers or parents help students to earn a high/good grade in school.
Sample: In the 1st year exploratory research will be done covering about 30 families. Around 25 experts will be selected to whom items will be given for their opinion. In the 2nd year the study will be conducted on about 320 class VIII students selected from two districts in West Bengal. Multistage simple random sampling scheme without replacement (SRSWOR) method will be followed in this study. In the first stage out of 19 districts, 2 districts will be chosen. In the next stage, two regions i. e., rural and urban will be selected from each of the chosen districts. In the next stage, four schools (2 boys and 2 girls) from each of the selected regions will be chosen by SRSWOR. Finally, 20 students (chosen by SRSWOR) studying in class VIII from each of the selected schools will be selected for this study.
Instruments: Few scales and inventories to be reviewed to find suitable instruments to measure Parenting style questionnaire (through suitable questionnaire which will be developed in the 1st year of the project duration) Academic Achievement – Annual examination marks obtained by the students in Bengali, English, Mathematics and Science). Biographical questionnaire After collecting data appropriate analysis will be undertaken.
Beneficiaries: Students, teachers and parents
References: Baumrind, D. (1966). Effects of authoritative parental control on child behavior. Child Development. 37. 887-907. Dishion, T. J. (1990). The family ecology of boys' peer relations in middle childhood. Child Development. 61. 874-892. Maccoby, E. E., & Martin, J. A. (1983). Sociahzation in the context of the family: Parent child interaction. In P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.) & E. M. Hetherington (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psvcholo^- Vol. 4. Socialization, personality, and social development (pp. 1-101). New York: Wiley.
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Total outlay for the project: 6.15 lakhs (for two years, 2013-14 & 2014-15)
Sr. Item Amount Justification No (Rs.) 1 Salary for one Project 1,20,000.00 To perform various types of works of the Linked Person for 10 project, one project Assistant is required months 2 Professional Services 30,000.00 For opinion from the specialized person 3 Travel 50,000.00 In and around Kolkata and visit to Different districts in West Bengal 4 Transport 28,000.00 Charges for Car hire, bus, auto, rickshaw etc. in Kolkata and outside Kolkata 5 Boarding / Lodging / 20,000.00 For outside Kolkata Field Trip 6 Procurement of 30,000.00 Required for project work. Psychological Tests 7 Printing, Xerox, 10,000.00 For Printing of schedules, papers , reports publication etc. 8 Stores and Stationary 3,000.00 For handling and keeping the records.
9 Telephone and postage 1,000.00 For communication with school authorities, school education board etc. 10 Miscellaneous 3,000.00 Unforeseen Total : 2,95,000.00 This amount will be increased due to 20% increment towards price escalation
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from capital budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned : Nil 9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years:
Sr Name of the project Status Money Money publications No budgeted spent (Rs.) (Rs.) 1 Self assessment and its Project report submitted. relationship with Completed One paper has been academic achievement 2,25,000/- 1,73,000/- published as a book and achievement (approx.) chapter and one paper has motivation among been published in Secondary level School Journal. One paper sent Students(2007-09) for publication. One lecture delivered in Budapest, Hungary 2 Bullying in school and Completed 2,92,000/- 2,80,000/- Project Report submitted. its effect on the (approx.) One paper presented in a behavioural aspects of National conference. the school students (2009-11)
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Personality profile, Ongoing 2,50,000/- 1,56,000/- Interim Report submitted. 3 stress and job (approx.) satisfaction of Indian sea farers (2011-13)
List of important scientific papers published over the last five years: Rumki Gupta (2007-11)
1. Gupta Rumki (2007) - Deprivation of Food Items on Academic Achievement of Young Girls. Health Psychology: Psychosocial Perspective, Sunita Malhotra, Promila Batra and Amrita Yadava (Eds.) Common wealth Publishers. New Delhi, pp. 169 -173.
2. Gupta Rumki (2007) - Effectiveness of Training for Merchant Navy Personnel, Psychological Assessment in Personnel selection, S Subramony and SB Raj (Eds.) DRDO Special Publication Series, Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi.
3. Gupta Rumki (2007) - Special Education in India. The Encyclopedia of Special Education, 3rd Edition, Vol.2, Reynolds, C.R. and Fletcher-Janzen, E. (Eds.) John Wiley and Sons: New York, pp.1089-1091.
4. Gupta Rumki and Panja Sanghamitra (2008-2009) - Gender and Religion Bias on the Academic Achievement of the students of Class X Level, Journal of Education and Psychology, 65, 1- 4, 17 - 29.
5. Gupta Rumki (2010) - Empowerment and Gender Difference in Education Status. Delhi Business Review, 11, 1, 55 - 60.
6. Gupta Rumki (2010) - Opinion Survey on Curriculum, Performance in Madhyamik Vis-à-vis Higher Secondary Level. Gorakhpur Social Scientist, 1, 2, 20 - 28.
7. Gupta Rumki and Dhara Jayeta (2010) - Dimensions of Self-Concept: A Factor Analytic Study. Indian Journal of Social Science Researches, 7, 2, 92-99.
8. Gupta Rumki and Dhara Jayeta (2011) – Nature of Involvement of Self-concept, Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation of Girls in Comparison to Boys in Urban West Bengal. Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women an Indian Perspective: Concepts, Issues and Challenges, Utpal Kumar De and Bhola Nath Ghosh (Eds.). LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Deutschland, Germany.
10. Expected date of completion : March, 2015 11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2013-14:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Rev. C Total Rev. C Total Rev. C Total Rev. C Total Rev. C Total a a a a a p p p p p
60,000 - 60,000 80,000 - 80,000 1,000,00 - 1,000,00 55,000 - 55,000 2,95,000 - 2,95,000
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12. For General Projects Only (N.A.)
13. For General projects only ( New)
Total expected Proposed budget Action Plan/Target in Financial target in terms of budget for 2013-2014 terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) (A) (B)
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 2013- 2014- 2015- 2013- 2014- 2015- 2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2016
6.15 6.15 2.95 2.95 35% 65% - 40% 60% -
14. For North-East Projects only (On-going) : Not applicable
15. For North-East Projects only (New) : Not applicable
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SRU (General, New) Project No. 5.2
1. Title of the Project: A micro level study of childhood obesity and TV watching in Kolkata and its periphery, West Bengal, India 2. Brief objective and justification: The main objectives of the study are i. to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children aged 6-10 years, ii. to see the relationship of obesity with socio-demographic variables and finally, iii. to understand, how far TV watching is associated with childhood obesity after controlling other confounding factors like food habit of children. In developed countries, this type of study is very common but it is an emerging problem among the urban Indian children. Also there have been a limited number of studies on this emerging issue. Therefore, it is noteworthy to study television (TV) watching and childhood obesity in an urban centre like Kolkata and its periphery. 3. Date of commencement: April, 2013 4. Name of the proposing scientist (Principal investigator): Dr. Susmita Bharati 5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation: Professor Manoranjan Pal (ERU), Professor Premananda Bharati (BAU) and Suparna Shome (SRU). 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work: The terms ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ have acquired great importance in public health community in recent times. It is debatable whether obesity is a condition or a disease. It is the result of a sustained imbalance between energy intake and expenditure when energy intake being substantially more than energy expenditure. Obesity is responsible for many diseases like Type-2 diabetes, hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problem, trouble in sleeping and depression (Styne, 2001). In recent years, this obesity is dramatically increasing throughout the world both in developed and developing countries. In India, the prevalence of obesity has increased by 54 % among 6-11 years old children (Suresh et al. 2011). This current rapid increase in the obesity among children is largely due to socio-economic changes and nutrition transition. Along with it, a great explosion has occurred in the world of media through the increase of use of TVs and channels in the TV, Video games, computer activities and internet web sites. TV has emerged as the primary vehicles for delivering commercial messages to the children.
One of the causes of increased obesity among TV addicted children may be changing food habits due to influence of TV Advertisement. It is also seen that the middle school children who watch TV more have more tendency to eat snacks and also other unhealthy food like candy, soda instead of homemade food while sitting for watching TV (Giammattei et al. 2003). The physiological process towards obesity due to more TV watching is that during TV watching, children’s metabolic rate is reduced and it contributes to weight gain. As TV watching is more prevalent in urban settings therefore the study is necessary to estimate the overall prevalence of overweight and obesity among urban 6-10 years children like in Kolkata (West Bengal) to see the difference of impact of socio-economy and TV watching on childhood obesity and how far the food habit is changing with TV advertisement.
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Methodology
Study Design and Sample Size
This will be a micro level cross-sectional study using multistage stratified cluster sampling procedure. Some schools will be selected taking into considerations of medium of instructions (Bengali, English and Others) and type of sponsorship/management (Government, Semi-Government and Private). Heights and weights will be measured and age and sex will be noted for all the students in the selected schools of 6-10 years children. For detailed study, a subset of students using Simple Random Sampling without Replacement (SRSWOR) scheme will be drawn from the list of all students in the age group 6-10 years from each selected school.
The subjects will be the children aged 6 to 10 years, who are generally studying in class I to IV at the Kolkata city of West Bengal. The household socioeconomic and demographic data such as community, literacy status, and occupation of father and mother will be collected from the students, and the same may be verified from the school records and also their respective parents. The date of birth of each pupil will be taken from the school records and will be cross checked from their respective parents or guardian.
Information on the whole day activities of the last three days will be collected as well as food intakes of last three days will be collected from the students or from their respective parents by re-call methods. Information also will be collected about distance of school from the residence and the mode of transport used to go to school. Besides this, height and weight of the children as well their mothers will be taken to see the heridity of obesity through anthropometric rod and weighing machine. Duration of TV watching will be collected indirectly from whole day activity and nature of TV watching also will be collected as an accessaories of TV watching.
Statistical Analysis Descriptive analysis will be done for the health, nutrition, duration of TV watching and socio-economic parameters. Contingency χ2 tests will be done to understand association between health and nutritional parameters and socio-economic variables with duration of TV watching. Linear and logistic multiple regressions will be performed to identify the significant factors associated with overweight and obesity. Age will be adjusted as and when necessary.
References:
1. Styne, DM. 2001. Childhood and adolescent obesity: Prevalence and significance. Pediatric clinics of North America. 48: 823-854.
2. Suresh, V; Rupnath, K; amesh, V; Rajarani, M; Ramadevi, T and Sambasivarao, KRS. 2011. Television watching and sleep promotes obesity inurban and semi-urban children in India. Journal of Toxicology and environmental health sciences. 31: 001-007.
3. Giammattei, J; Blix, G; Marshak, HH; Wollitzer, AO and Pettitt, DJ. 2003. Television watching and soft drink consumption: Association with obesity in 11-13 year old school children. Archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine. 157: 882-886.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same: 8. Item-wise break up of the budget proposal for 2013-2014
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(a) Revenue Rupees in lakhs
Fieldwork (TA, DA, Transport, field guide etc.) 2.00 One Project Assistant @12000 per month x 12 months 1.44 Data analysis, Report writing Miscellaneous 0.50 TOTAL (Revenue) 3.94 (b) Capital (Anthropometric set, Skinfold Caliper and 2.00 Weighing machines) GRAND TOTAL 5.94
9. Brief Particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, Particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g. Year of Purchase, Cost). (b) Capital (Anthropometric set, Skinfold Caliper and Weighing machine) 2.00 Height and Weight machine: 1.50 (approx.) Machine to measure skinfold: .08 (approx.) Other anthropoetric equipments: 0.36 (approx.) 10. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years : NIL 11. Expected date of completion: March 2015. 12. Quarterly projection of expenditures (in lakhs) during 2013-2014
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot 0.86 0.0 0.86 1.11 2.0 3.11 1.11 0.0 1.11 .86 0.0 0.86 3.94 2.0 5.94
13. For General Projects only (Ongoing): Does not arise 14. For General Projects (in lakhs) only (New) Total expected Proposed budget Acton Plan/Target Financial target in budget for 2013 – 2014 in terms of percentage (A) (B) Terms of percentage (%) (%) Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 2013 2014- 2015- 2013- 2014- 2015- -14 15 16 14 15 16 7.88 2.0 9.88 3.94 2.0 5.94
15. For North-East Projects only (On-going): Does not arise 16. For North-East Projects only (New): Does not arise
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1. Title of the project: Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of Jharkhand.
2. Brief objective and justification: It has been observed in various studies that migration has brought both positive and negative impacts on the socio-economic conditions in the village scenario. In one hand, migration helps (i) to increase the standard of living of the migrants, (ii) to generate the possibility of investments and savings, and (iii) to slacken the power grasped by the upper-caste land-owners (Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana, 2006). On the other hand, (i) the income from migration may not be sufficient to balance the excessive expenditure in market products newly adopted through migration, like introducing of catering and decoration in festivals, use of luxurious goods, etc. (Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana, 2006); (ii) at peak period of cultivation, there is a shortage of labour due to out-migration and, as a result, it creates negative labour impact on production (Taylor and Dyer, 2006); and (iii) migration contributes to increase in the incidence and spread of different contagious diseases. There are broadly two kinds of migration, like permanent and temporal. The present study will cover seasonal and other temporal out-migration from the rural Jharkhand.
A social network is defined as an articulation of ties of a social relationship among social units, like persons, households, organizations etc. which are called actors and the ties are links between the actors. Different types of social relations identify different social networks, even when imposed on the same set of social units. It may be cited examples on social networks like friendship network, kinship network, marriage network, etc, (Moreno 1934, 1956; Barry Wellman 1997; Rao 1995). In a society, there exists, no doubt, involuntary ties of relationship as for example, relationship by kinship, caste and religious or community affiliation. But ties are also established voluntarily, and they may be identified empirically, such as, ties of friendship or individuals spending leisure time together, making social visits, attending invitations on the occasion of a family ceremony or household festival, extending help and support to a household at the time of an urgent need, etc. (Bandyopadhyay, Rao and Sinha, 2010). The present study will be opened to cover the both types of ties among the households in a village so that it can be studied which type of ties facilitate what type of migration and vice-versa. Caste-based relations help in migration of migrants (De Hann, 2003) and flow of migration is occurred through household level networks (Palloni et al., 2001). Rao and Bandyopadhyay (1987) have studied the impact of migration on reciprocity of a village social network. Besides migration through the networks of kinship, community affiliation and friendship, migration may occur through other intermediaries having self-sustaining structures largely created by migration processes themselves. These are travel agents, lawyers, bankers, labour recruiters, brokers, interpreters, housing agents as well as human smugglers and traffickers (Castles 2004). All these agents have an interest in continuing migration, and for many facilitating aspects migration is a major business (Salt and Stein 1997).
In the context of seasonal and other temporal out migration in rural Jharkhand, the proposed research project attempts (i) to investigate how the migratory channel is opened, and how social network and migration are affected by each other and (ii) to study the positive and negative impacts of migration on the households and the pattern of relational ties among them.
3. Date of commencement: 1April, 2013
4. Name of the Principal Investigator: Dr. Rabindranath Jana, SRU, Kolkata
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5. Name of other associated Scientists: Prof. Debapriya Sengupta (ASU), Dr. Anil Kumar Chaudhuri (SRU, Giridih), Dr. Tirthankar Ghosh (SRU), Shri Dipankar Sen (SRU), Shri Kamalaksha Das (SRU). In addition, Dr. Prabir Ghosh Dostidar (Scientist / Director, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, New Delhi) and Dr. R. Maruthakutti (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu) have kindly agreed to give their expertise in the project context as and when required.
6. Scope, justification and proposed work:
Scope and Justification There are several studies on migration in the literature. Caste identity plays an important role in the personal ties that mediate the migration of the migrants (De Haan, 2003). Family ties and networks have a positive impact on the flows of migration (Palloni et al., 2001; Ma, 2002; Poros, 2001). Social and cultural changes of the migrant families are observed in anthropological studies on migration (Watkins, 2003; Choudhuri, 1992, 2002; Rogaly, 2003 on West Bengal; Kabki and Appiah, 2003 on rural families of Holland-based migrants in Ashanti Region of ghara). Migration can play innovative roles in introducing new method of cultivation, such as double cropping (De Haan, 2001). The migration outcomes help to improve education and health care (de Haan, 2000; Skeldon, 1997; Rogaly, 2003). De Neve (2003) and De Haan(2003) have observed that migration may help to change the occupation of the migrants. There are several studies on negative impact of migration on households with respect to different dimensions like incurring excessive expenditure to household budget (Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana, 2006); facing labour shortage at peak period of cultivation (Taylor and Dyer, 2006); increasing incidence and spread of different contagious diseases; and so on. Here, in case of rural Jharkhand, the present study will lead to investigate (i) how social network and migration facilitate each other; (ii) how groups are formed among the migrants and whether there is any link between the groups; (iii) to what extent migration has created extra income and how it is invested in agriculture, health care of the family members and education for the children; and (iv) how new social/cultural ideas are adopted through migration and whether they are diffused through social network to some extent (Jana, 2011). From the above study, it would be known how social networks contribute to generate migration in rural Jharkhand. Also, it would be focused how and to what extent the migration helps to change the village scenario with respect to socio-cultural as well as agro-economic aspects. As a result, the present conditions of rural Jharkhand will be reflected to some extent. Besides, the study has an interdisciplinary relevance in the sense that it comprises the disciplines statistics, mathematics and sociology and across these disciplines, the study may also explore possible areas for further research.
Methodology It has been observed earlier that the district of Giridih in Jharkhand suffers from economic deterioration. Also, in 1960, Indian statistical Institute undertook an in-depth study on social transformation in the villages within 20 mile radial distance around the town of Giridih as the nodal centre, which may help in our proposed study (Bandyopadhyay et al. 1997). Because of these backdrops, the district of Giridih has been chosen for our study. In this district, the blocks Giridih and Bengabad are mainly based on agriculture and are less politically disturbed compared to the other blocks. In addition, during the earlier study by Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana (2006), some extent of rapport has already been built up in the two blocks. That is why, Giridih and Bengabad blocks are selected for our study. Two villages from each selected block will be selected on the basis of the following features: (i) size of each village would be around 250 households of multi-castes having agriculture as principal source of livelihood; and (ii) there will have larger number of migrant households to be collected from the local resources.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 18 Since, in addition to relevant composite variables, social network data are also needed for the present study, a complete enumeration method will be adopted here for household level study from each selected village. There will have two phases of data collection. In the first phase, household listing with basic information and collection of relevant village level information (like migration history, transport communication, etc.) from knowledgeable persons will be made for each selected village. In the second phase, main data through questionnaire schedule will be collected from all households of each selected village and the respondent will be the most knowledgeable person/s of the household (Bandyopadhyay, Rao and Sinha, 2010; NSSO Report-64th Round; Hutman 2007; Carleto and Brauw 2009). The schedule consists of the following information: (i). Demographic aspects of the family; (ii) Occupation pattern of the family; (iii) Level of literacy; (iv) Landholding pattern; (v) Agricultural practice and irrigation system; (vi) Total man-days of work done in the villages; (vii) why, when, how, and where the member of the family has migrated out from the village during the last year ?; (viii) what is the nature of his work, the duration of work, the amount of earnings etc.; (ix) remittances received during the last year and nature of its uses; (x) (for measuring impact of migration as per households’ perception) ‘before and after migration’ information on poverty (and financial assets), housing, health, education, etc. to be collected by recall method (Hutman 2007; Casale and Posel 2006); (xi) who approaches whom for getting help at any crisis during last 5 yrs.? (Rao and Bandyopadhyay, 1987), how many times in which year ?, what relation to whom?, what purposes served?, etc. and so on. It is mentioned that few information items will not be applicable to the non-migrant households. We would also gather relevant information through group discussion. First of all, both the qualitative and quantitative data, thus collected, will be converted into electronic version. Then both qualitative and quantitative (statistical and graph theoretic techniques) approaches will be undertaken to analyse the collected data for understanding the impact of migration on the different socio-economic and cultural aspects (e.g., poverty, health, education etc.) on the basis of relevant collected information before and after migration as per households’ perception; relation between the patterns of migration and social network characteristics (e.g., reciprocity, reachability, fragmentation, hierarchiness, assortativity) by using the correlation and regression analysis techniques; and so on.
Plan of work In first year, the following works (i) literature review; (ii) collection of relevant official data from local sources; (iii) relevant village level information; (iv) village selection; (v) listing of households of each selected village with basic information; and (vi) preparation of main questionnaire schedule and its testing will be done and in second year, (i) data collection on main questionnaire schedule and group discussion; (ii) scrutiny of data and data computerisation; and (iii) analysis and report writing will be completed.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (only Revenue): Financial requirement: Grand Total Outlay : Rs. 4,20,000.00
a) Proposed budget for 2013-2014 : Total outlay : Rs. 1,85,000.00 Revenue expenditure: i) TA, DA & local hired transport : Rs. 90,000.00* for field visits and different offic ii) Local field Investigators : Rs. 40,000.00* (4 persons x 2 months x Rs. 5000.00 = Rs.40,000.00) iii) Data entry : Rs. 15,000.00
iv) Contingency (Stationary, printing, : Rs. 40,000.00 Xerox, computer consumables, books, journals, etc)
Total : Rs.1,85,000.00
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Capital expenditure : Nil
b) Proposed budget for : 2014-2015 : Total outlay : Rs. 2,25,000.00
Revenue expenditure: i) TA, DA & local hired transport : Rs.1,00,000.00* for field visits and different offices ii) Local field Investigators : Rs. 60,000.00* (4 persons x 3 months x Rs. 5000.00 = Rs.60,000.00) iii) Data entry : Rs. 25,000.00
iv) Contingency (Stationary, printing, : Rs. 50,000.00 Xerox, computer consumables, books, journals, etc)
Total : Rs.2,35,000.00
Capital expenditure : Nil
Grand Total : Rs. 4,20,000.00
Revenue expenditure for 2013-2014 : Rs. 1,85,000.00 Revenue expenditure for 2014-2015 : Rs. 2,35,000.00
[* Out of the total budget, the maximum is incurred in connection with field works due to the following reasons (i) remoteness of the selected villages; (ii) poor communication system and transportation problems; and (iii) existence of political disturbance (though comparatively less).]
8. Assets: None 9. Projects in last five years: Not applicable 10. Expected date of completion: 31 March, 2015 11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2013-2014:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year Rev. Total Rev. Total Rev. Total Rev. Total Rev. Total 35000/- 35000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 185000/- 185000/-
12. For general projects only (on-going): Not applicable 13. For general projects only (New):
Action Financial target Total expected Proposed budget for Plan/Target in in terms of budget (A) 2013-14 (B) terms of percentage (%) percentage (%) 2013- 2014- 2013- 2014- Rev. Total Rev. Total 2014 2015 2014 2015 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 1,85,000/- 1,85,000/- 1,85,000/- 1,85,000/- % % % %
14. For North-East project only (on-going): Not applicable
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Names of the three referees in the field i) Dr. Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna Senior Professor S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata E-mail: [email protected] ii) Dr. Srijib B. Bagchi Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Aliah University E-mail: [email protected] iii) Dr. Sudhanshu S. Maity Associate Professor Dept. of Statistics Visva-Bharati University E-mail: [email protected]
Research contributions of Dr. R. Jana in the field
Published /Accepted R. JANA (2012). Lecture Note On Social Networks: formation, data and few analytic techniques. 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 R. JANA (2011). Importance of weighted social networks in diffusion of agricultural innovations: An empirical study. Sociology in the 21st century: The first decade. A book on Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Level Conference held on December 2010. Published by Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College and Sociological Association of West Bengal, Barrackpore 2011, pp. 93-101, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6. R. JANA. (2011). Means and variances of some statistics in simple social network with given out- degrees. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin. (Accepted). R. JANA, S.B. Bagchi, A.R. Rao and Suraj Bandyopadhyay (2007). Multinomial-type probabilistic models for weighted social networks. For publication in the Proceedings Volume of “International Conference on Social Network Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications” by World Scientific. (Accepted). R. JANA, Suraj Bandyopadhyay and Anil K. Choudhuri (2007). Application of SNA in reciprocity among farmers: farming system research. For publication in the Proceedings Volume of “International Conference on Social Network Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications” by World Scientific. (Accepted). A.R. Rao, R. JANA and Suraj Bandyopadhyay (1996). A Markov chain Monte Carlo Method for generating random (0-1) matrices with given marginals. Sankhy a , 1996, Vol. 58, Series A, Pt. 2, pp. 225-242.
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Paper presented in Conference / Seminar and Technical Report
R. JANA, and Anil K. Choudhuri (2012). “Statistical and graph-theoretic approach to use social networks for studying social transformation: An attempt”, presented in ‘National Conference on Applications of Statistics in Industry and Planning’, organized by Department of Statistics of Visva- Bharati in collaboration with Calcutta Statistical Association during 25-27 February, 2012. R. JANA, Suraj Bandyopadhyay and S.B. Bagchi (2009). “Distributional aspects of some statistics in weighted social networks”, presented in International Conference on Social Network Analysis, organized by NISTADS, New Delhi, 28-29 January, 2009. Anil Kumar Choudhuri, Suraj Bandyopadhyay and R. JANA (2006). Caste, Class and Social Support: A Social Network Analysis on six villages of Jharkhand − Rarh region. A technical report on projects (i) Pattern of Social Relations: An Exploratory Social Network Analysis in two villages in Jharkhand, and (ii) Study of Social Network in some villages in Giridih area in Jharkhand and Md. Bazar area of West Bengal. Submitted to SRU, ISI, 2006. A.R. Rao, Suraj Bandyopadhyay, Bikas K. Sinha, Aditya Bagchi, R. JANA, D. Sen and A.K. Choudhuri (1998). “Changing social relations : social network approach”, presented in SURDAC Seminar, organized by Indian Statistical Institute, 1998. R. JANA, A. R. Rao and Suraj Bandyopadhyay (1994). Switching pairs and determining arcs in a network with given out-degrees and in-degrees. A technical report No. 14/94, dated 31.3.94, Statistics-Mathematics Unit, ISI, Calcutta.
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Ongoing Projects
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LRU (General Ongoing) Project No. 2.3
1. Title of the project: Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The objective of this project is to develop a Bengali pronunciation dictionary in electronic and printed form with lexical database obtained from a corpus of modern Bengali texts. It will become a resource for research and application in applied linguistics, speech technology, language technology, and language processing. 3. Date of Commencement and Completion: April 2012 – March 2015 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Niladri Sk. Dash, LRU, ISI 5. Name of associated scientists with affiliation: Probal Dasgupta (LRU, ISI) 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): The purpose of the project is to develop a pronunciation dictionary in printed and electronic form in Bengali. Total number of twenty thousand entry words will be selected from a large lexical database of frequently used lexical items collected from modern Bengali corpus. Entry words (including tatsama, tadbhava, native, local and foreign words of different part-of-speech) will be used in dictionary in their lemmatized and alphabetically sorted form. Spelling of entry words will be fixed with the proposal of Bangla Akademi, Kolkata to avoid disputes. Entry word will be transliterated in Indic Roman tagged with diacritics for end users. Accepted pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB) will be adopted for entry words, and this will be presented in standard Bengali script (for those people who know Bengali script but do not know IPA) and in IPA (for those people who know IPA but do not know Bengali script). Meaning for entry word will be provided for sense disambiguation. It will be particularly useful for those homographic and homophonus homonyms (words having similar orthographic forms or pronunciation but different meanings). The speech output of pronunciation of entry words will be available both in sentence-free and sentence-bound contexts. This dictionary will be the first of its kind in Bengali. It will be corpus- based and computer-assisted with a multimedia interface. It will be useful for language learning, text-to-speech conversion, on-line language teaching, language recognition, word recognition, machine learning, machine translation, E-Governance, Bengali-English parallel sentence generation, computational lexicography, and word-sense disambiguation. It can also be useful for linguistically impaired people to train them in Bengali speech production. The beneficiaries of the resource are Bengali learners, foreign learners, language teachers, MT system developers, TTS system developers, lexicographers, language planners, speech pathologists, and cognitive linguists.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 Total Capital 2 Personal Computers 100,000 - - 1,00,000 2 software for dictionary design 20,000 20,000 Revenue Salary of 2 Project Assistants 3,60,000 3,60,000 3,60,000 10,80,000 (15,000 X 2 X 36 = 10,80,000) Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total: 5,20,000 4,00,000 4,10,00 13,30,000
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Justifications: Two (2) computers are required for executing the project and two (2) Project Assistants are required for carrying out the project work
8. Publications:
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Frequency-based analysis of words and morphemes in Bengali text corpus. Indian Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 25. No. 26. Pp. 223-253. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Generating electronic lexical resources from text corpora in Bengali. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 68. No. 3-4. Pp. 361-371. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) The art of lexicography. In, Vesna Muhvic-Dimanovski and Lelija Sočanac (Eds.) (2007) Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems. Oxford: EOLSS Publishers. Pp. 225-276. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Toward lemmatization of Bengali words for building language technology resources. South Asian Language Review. Vol. 17. No. 2. Pp. 1-15. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Language Corpora and Applied Linguistics. Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad [ISBN: 81-7955-122-9]. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Digital dictionary: a physical realization of virtual reality. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI 2010), 23-24 December 2010, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, pp. 91-95. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Utilization of language corpora in compilation of digital dictionaries for Indic languages. Presented in the International Seminar on Tamil Computing, 24th-26th February, 2010, Linguistic Studies Unit, Dept. of Tamil Language, Madras University, Chennai, India. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Modern Bengali Script: An Introduction. Kolkata: Daksha Bharati [ISBN: 81-89803-07-7]. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Bengali Script. Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing [ISBN: 978-3-8383-4448-5].
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LRU (Northeast, Ongoing) Project No. 2.4
1. Title of the project: Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The purpose of this project is to develop the empirical base for electronic lexical resources for Asamiya. Electronic lexical resources are an essential presupposition for other sectors in research within the domains of Language Technology (LT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). 3. Date of Commencement: April 2011-March 2014 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta, LRU, ISI 5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Niladri Sk. Dash (LRU, ISI) 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): The purpose of this project is to develop the empirical base for electronic lexical resources for Asamiya. Electronic lexical resources are an essential presupposition for other sectors in research within the domains of Language Technology (LT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This type of resource is of use in machine translation, information extraction, word-sense disambiguation, semantic net, ontology, etc. Also, it has direct academic relevance in electronic dictionary and thesaurus development, language teaching (first and second language), discourse analysis, lexical semantics, and language cognition. The proposed lexical resources will set a precedent for Asamiya, and the enterprise may be extended to other Northeastern Indian languages for which background descriptive material is available on a similar scale. The utility of the project is further enhanced by the fact that it extends the advances in interlexical understanding attained in the context of earlier research on Asamiya, Boro and Bengali.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 Total Capital NIL NIL NIL NIL Revenue Salary of 1 Project Assistant 1,80,000 1,80,000 1,80,000 5,40,000 (15,000 X 36 months = 5,40,000) Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total: 2,20,000 2,20,000 2,30,000 6,70,000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost): Nil.
9. 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):
No. of on-going projects : 1 (One) Project No 1 : (Ongoing general Project) Title : Substantivist lexicological study of Bangla Status : Ongoing Money budgeted in 2010-2011 : Rs. 1,35,000/- Money budgeted in 2011-2012 : Rs. 2,01,000/-
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10. Expected date of Completion: March 2014
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2012-2013:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
25% 25% 25% 25% 100%
12. Report for 2011-12 of Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework (2011-2014)
In this first year of work in this project the focal findings are those reported in the Linguistic Research Unit's Technical Report no. 03/2011, 'Agreement and nonfinite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach'. The paper is attached. Its abstract reads as follows: "The class of acceptable sequences of nonfinite verbs in Bangla becomes easier to characterize if we employ a notion of agreement that generalizes from its prototypical morphological exponence. The present study of these and related issues proposes a framework of syntactic analysis that develops substantivist assumptions in a biaxial direction – in the sense of combining syntagmatic and paradigmatic devices in its descriptive apparatus." The mention of Bangla rather than Asamiya in the title requires clarification. Earlier project work -- I am attaching the most relevant paper by Dasgupta and Ghosh -- showed that South Asian languages bifurcate into phi-prominent Hindi type languages and tau-prominent Asamiya-Bangla-type languages, and that the study of the interlexical properties of agreement held the key to further understanding in this domain. Such study in comparative formal syntax does not press every key in every paper. The Bangla and Asamiya threads of the work, though formally reported under two distinct projects, are interconnected. Serious advances in our understanding have been obtained during the research year 2011-12.
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PRU (General, On-going) Project No. 4.2
1. Title of the Project: Differential validity of Computer programming abilities 1.1 Short term: DVC 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Objective of the study is to examine differential validity of computer programming abilities. Findings will help to (a) validate existing ability test battery, and to (b) provide knowledge about differential pattern of computer programming abilities and validity coefficients across demographic variables (sex, region, socio-economic status). The findings will be used for career counselling and guidance for the students aspiring computer programming profession. 3. Date of Commencement: April,2012 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist or Principal Investigator : Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology Research Unit, ISI., Kolkata 5. Name of other associated Scientists with & their affiliation: 5.1 Professor Manjula Mukerjee, Director, Indian Institute of Psychometry. 5.2 Professor Manas Mondal, Director, Defence Institute of Personnel Research, , Delhi. 5.3 Dr. Gurpreet Kaur, Scientist, Defence Institute of Personnel Research, Delhi. 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): The study aims at examining differential validity of computer programming abilities. In 2013-14 session, data will be collected from 600 students (75 students X 2 areas X 2 achievement levels X 2 genders) using computer programming ability test, introductory schedule and standard computer programming achievement test. 2014-15: Rest of the data will be collected, analyzed as discussed and report will be submitted. 7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page) :
Item Rs. Justification 1. Remuneration to Project linked personnel @ Rs. 12000 144000 Assisting in overall activities. X 12 months. 2. Costs for car hire including local journey for 70000 School sampling. Field work, investigators. library visit. 3. Data scrutiny and entry 20000 It will be entered through computer. 4.. Computer consumables, Stationary 20000 To print questionnaire and communication. 5. Typing, Xeroxing 16000 Reporting. 10000 Emergency condition in field 6. Miscellaneous work. Total: Two lakhs eighty thousand only. 280000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost) : NA
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any).
Title Status Money budgeted Money spent Publications Workshop on Completed 80000 70000 Nil application of reliability statistics in Psychological
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Research (2011-12) Self-efficacy of Completed 597000 296742.5 2 Agricultural farmers (2009-12) Orientation training on Completed 2,15,000 35063 1 questionnaire design for psychological and educational researches(2008-09) Attitude towards Completed 1,17,000 84446.22 2 school infrastructure in rural areas (2007-08)
Publications from various projects over the last 5 years:
Title of the Name of the Journal Year,Vol.,Issue No., Page Scientific paper Nos. of publication Dutta Roy, D. Perceived Indian Journal of 2012, January Ghosh, S.K. environmental Psychology and Rahman, uncertainty in crop F.H. cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological counselling perspective. Dutta Roy, D. Assessing Validity Journal Of The 2008, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 127- of Web-Based Indian Academy of 136. Computer Adaptive Applied Psychology. Training Modules. Dutta Roy, D. Self-efficacy of Journal of the 2009, 35,2, 323-328. Agricultural Indian Academy of farmers: A case Applied Psychology study. Dutta Roy, D. Construct validity of International 2010. 3,2, 6-11. writing motivation Journal of
questionnaire. Psychological Research (published from USA) Web Content PSYBER NEWS: 2010, 1,2,27-31. analysis to study International Ganguly,A. and researches on Psychology Dutta Roy,D. entrepreneurial Research psychology. Publication. Dutta Roy,D. Information PSYBER NEWS: 2010, 1,3,43-49. and Mondal, A. organization errors International in backward digit Psychology span task. Research Publication Dutta Roy,D. Construct validity of Journal of the 2011, vol.37,No.1, 106-113 Reading motivation. Indian Academy of Applied Psychology
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Dutta Roy, D. Autistic behaviour PSYBER NEWS: 2010, 1,4,39-46. and Basu, K. analysis : Pre-post International and repeated Psychology measure design. Research Publication. Roy,A. and Predicting cash flow Journal of 2010, Vol.1.1. 60-69. Dutta Roy,D. of Sarva Shiksha Management Abhiyan in West research in Bengal : An Emerging exploratory study of economics public finance. Dutta Roy,D. Cluster Analysis for International 2010, 3,1,132-140. Test-Retest Journal of Reliability. Psychological Research ,(published from USA).
10. Expected date of Completion: March, 2015 11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2013-2014 : 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 100% 100%
12. For General Projects only (Ongoing)
Proposed budget for 2013- Total budget Amount Total outlay Physical Financial 14 allocation till spent till (proposed) for progress in progress in 31.03.2012 31.03.2012 Twelfth Plan terms of terms of (2012-2017) percentage (%) percentage (%) as on 31.03.2012 as on 31.03.2012 Rev. Cap. Total 2.7 2.7 N.A. N.A. 9.0 N.A. N.A.
13. For General Projects only (New): Not applicable 14. For North-East Projects only (On-going): Not applicable 15. For North-East Projects only (New): Not applicable
Social Sciences Division, ISI 30 PRU (North-East, On-going) Project No. 4.3
1. Title of the Project: Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining academic performance of school students of North- Eastern India. 2. Brief objective and justification: The objective of the project is to find out the role of planning, attention, simultaneous and successive (PASS) processes of cognitive functioning in determining the academic performance of different groups of school students of North-Eastern India. The study will help us to know strengths and weaknesses of students in particular area of PASS and its relation with academic achievement, and on that basis intervention programme like cognitive enhancement programme (Das, 2004) and / or PASS remedial programme (Das, 1999) can be introduced to improve performance of students. 3. Date of commencement: April, 2012 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Anjali Ghosh, PRU, ISI. 5. Name of other Associated Scientists with their affiliation: Professor Bikas K. Sinha, Honorary Visiting Professor, B.I.R.U., I.S.I. , Kolkata. 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (Not more than half a page): Planning, attention, simultaneous and successive ( PASS) processes are the essential elements of cognitive functioning. Through this cognitive assessment system of PASS, it is possible to know an individual’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses in each of the four processes of PASS. This emphasis on processes rather than abilities makes it useful for differential diagnosis like learning difficulties and attention deficit disorder and accordingly, intervention programme can be introduced to improve performance. Cognitive process based training such as PASS remedial programme (PREP) and cognitive enhancement training programme (COGENT) contain several training tasks which are aimed at improving the information processing strategies and research studies have indicated the effectiveness of the programme (Das, Mishra & Pool, 1995; Carlson & Das, 1997; Naglieri & Gottling, 1997; Naglieri & Johnson, 2000).
No study is available on cognitive processing through PASS and its relation with academic achievement on children of North- Eastern India, and also utility of the intervention strategies of cognitive enhancement training has not been studied. Hence, the present study is being undertaken. The study will be conducted on 200 class-VI students selected from two states of North- Eastern India. Multistage simple random sampling without replacement (SRSWOR) method will be followed in this study. In the first stage two states out of seven North-Eastern states of India will be chosen and then in the second stage one district from each of the two states will be selected. In the next stage, four schools (2 boys and 2 girls) from each of the selected districts of the two states will be chosen through SRSWOR after collecting the list of schools data from the respective School Education offices of the districts. Finally, 50 students studying in class VI from each of the selected schools (100 boys & 100 girls from each of the states) will be selected for the study.
In the next phase of the study, based on the performance of the students on achievement tests, nearly 20 low achievers will be identified from each school, and this groups of students will be divided into two groups : experimental and control. On experimental group the intervention programme of PREP (Das, 1999) and COGENT (Das, 2004) will be introduced for several sessions, but the control group will not receive any training. Then after a time gap of 4/5 months both the groups will be tested again on achievement tests and PASS to find out the effectiveness of the intervention programme. Data will be analysed by using correlation, regression, ANOVA and other statistical techniques.
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The study will help us to know how PASS cognitive processes are related with academic performance of the students and how intervention programme help low achievers to improve their academic performance. Literature review of the project has been started.
Beneficiaries: Students, parents, teachers, counselors and educational planners.
7. Item wise break-up of the budget ( 2013-14) proposed (Capital and Revenue) and justification for the same :
Total outlay of the budget for three years: Rs. 9,50,000/-.(2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15)
Budget for 2013- 2014 :
Sr. Item Amount Justification No (Rs.) 1 Salary for one Project Linked To assist in the project work Personnel - (one year) 1,44,000/- @ Rs.12,000/- per month 2 Wages to field investigators 5,000/- To help while collecting data from the field 3 Professional services / 30,000/- For expert opinion / ideas workshop 4 Travel (airfare to N.E.States) 60,000/- 5 Transport (Car hire charges) 10,000/- For data collection from the field 6 Boarding /Lodging / Field Trip 60,000/- 8 Purchase of Psychological 20,000/- For developing / administering Test /scale tests/scales 9 Printing, Xerox, Publication 6,000/- For printing questionnaires / tests / 10 Stores & Stationaries 2,000/- reports / papers etc. 11 Telephone, postage, courier 2,000/- To communicate with schools / etc. institutions 12 Miscellaneous 1,000/- Total : 3,40,000 - 8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from capital budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned : N A
9.List of all projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last five years :
Sl. Project / research Status Money Money Publications No Undertaken budgeted spent
1 Ego-identity status during Report submitted. One Adolescence and Early Completed 2,39,000/- 2,03,000/ paper published in a adulthood. (2006-08) P.I. - journal & one paper published in Conference Proceeding. 2 Improvement upon Completed Report submitted. Management Entrance Test (Externally 2,00,000/- 1,67,000/ using Item Response Theory funded) - (IRT). (2006) P.I. With Prof. (approx.)
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A. Chowdhari, Dr. R. Gupta &Mr. S.K. Mitra. Of ASRC 3 Emotional Display Rules & Completed 4,81,000/- 4,35,000/ Report submitted. Two Personality Pattern Across - papers presented in Different Groups of (approx.) International Individuals. (2008-11) P.I. Conferences and one paper published in an International journal. 4 External Evaluation of Special Completed All the Report Submitted Adult Literacy Programme of expenditure Tripura (2010-11) – P.I. incurred by the Government of Tripura
Publications from various projects during 2007 - 2011 Ghosh, A. - Academic Self-Efficacy and Achievement in a Group of siblings of Primary Schools. Psychological Studies, 2007, Vol.52, No.4, 364-371. Karmakar, R. & Ghosh, A. – Moral Development of Female Students of North-Eastern Region of India. In Gassah, L.S.(Ed.) Women Empowerment Movement In North-East India. Omsons Publications, New Delhi, 2008, 228-244. Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Ego-Identity Status and Its relationship with self-esteem in a Group of Late Adolescents, Journal of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 2008, 34, 2, 337-344. Ghosh,A. – Transactive Memory, Self-Construal and Subjective Well-Being in a Group of Indian Couples,Interpersona,2008 ,2 (2) 173-192. Karmakar,R.; Ghosh, A. & Dewanji, A.- On Some Determinants For distributive Justice in Children : A Study Based on Three States of India, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin,2008,60 (239-240),255-275. Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Relation of Parental Education and Occupation with Mathematics Self- efficacy and Achievement of Students, Journal of Education and Psychological Studies, 2010, 4(1), 1-7. Ghosh, A. – Expressive Differences for Emotions In Visually Challenged and Normal Individuals, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 2010, 3(15), 255-265. Ghosh, A- Ego- identity Status in Different Groups of Late adolescents. In P.Singh, P. Bain, Chan-Hoong. Leong, G. Misra,& Y. Ohtsubo (Eds.) Identity, Multiculturalism & Changing Societies, Progress in Asian Social Psychology Series,2011, Vol.8, 95-108, Mac Milan Publishers.
10. Expected date of completion : March, 2015 11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2013-14
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total
40,000 40,000 80,000 80,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 3,40,000 3,40,000 12. For General Projects only (ongoing) : N.A. 13. For General Projects only (New) : N.A.
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14. For North- East Projects only (ongoing):
Proposed budget for Total budget Amount spent Total outlay Physical Financial 2013-2014 ( in Lakhs) allocation till till 31.03.2012 (proposed) for progress in progress in terms 31.03.2012 Twelfth Plan terms of of percentage (2012-2017) percentage (%) as on (%) as on 31.03.20012 31.03.2012
Revenue Capital Total
3.40 3.40 N.A. N.A. 9.50 N.A. N.A.
15. For North- East Projects only (New ): N.A.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 34 SRU (General, On-going) Project No. 5.4
1. Title of the Project: Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry 2. Brief objective and justification: Data on number of miners in India is collected by population censuses and National Sample Survey Organisation’s (NSSO) employment-unemployment surveys, Annual Survey of Industries and Director General of Mines Safety among others. The purpose of this project is to check anomalies in the official data relating to the strength of the miners and their wages. This project seeks to evaluate gender gap in official statistics relating to the number of miners and wages in India. 3. Date of commencement: April 2012. 4. Name of the proposing scientist or principal investigator: Molly Chattopadhyay 5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation. Prof. Madhura Swaminathan, SRU, ISI, Kolkata; Sonali Chakraborty, Associate Scientist ‘A’, SRU, ISI, Kolkata, Sri Anupam Lahiri, Director, NSSO, Giridih. 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work: Mineral wealth and its exploitation have substantially contributed to the growth of Indian national economy. Mineral production has increased from 42 million ton in 1951 to 1078.19 million ton in 2008 (DGMS, 2010). Despite the increase in mineral production, there are discrepancies in the number of mines reported and employment data. While Indian Bureau of Mines report number of operating mines as 2991 in 2008-09, DGMS reports it as 3150 for the same period. Though, Ministry of Labour portrays the number of miners as 553.3 thousand (2006), DGMS shows 559.5 thousand, and Labour Bureau shows the number of miners as 543 thousand. Moreover, MMSD shows the number of only artisanal miners as around 33,000 (Chakraborty, 2001).
However, there is not much recorded involvement of women’s participation in the formal mining industry in India. As per NSSO, male share has declined from 1.00% to 0.12% and female share declined from 1.13% to 0.43% from 1993-94 to 2004-05. Additionally, artisanal miners who are mostly women who occupy a number of roles ranging from labour-intensive mining methods to the processing aspect of artisanal mining, their size is not known. While DGMS, ASI, NSSO provide male-female distribution of workers, IBM does not provide the break-up. Data from ministry of labour reveals that although average wage for mine workers has increased in open caste and above ground mines, there is distinct difference in the increase of wages for men and women (Mary Abraham). In 2002-03 wage ratio is 1.14, whereas in 2003-04 it is 0.42 (ASI, 2005-06); in one year the decrease in wage ratio is 0.72. The reasons behind declining wage ratio between 2002-03 and 2003-04 for both male and female are perplexing.
The proposed project seeks to address the degree of differences in the data collected by different agencies. Secondly, the project tries to find out gender gap in baseline statistics in the mining sector. Lastly, the project intends to make gender statistics related to an approximation of employment size and wage pattern in the mining sector.
References: Abraham, Mary. Mining, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods. The Energy and Resources Institute, India. 2008. Chakraborty, S.L. 2001. Artisanal and small-scale Mining in India. Report No. 78. MMSD. Director General of Mines Safety. 2006. Standard Note.1.1.2007. Dhanbad. National Sample Survey Organisation, Employment and Unemployment Survey, 2004-05. Statistical Pocket Book, India. Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, New Delhi, 2005, P.38.
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Statistical Profile on Women Labour. 2005-2006. Labour Bureau. Ministry of Labour and Employment, New Delhi, 2007.Table 4.8.
7. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (2012-15) and justification for the same: Sr.No. Item/Description Year (2012- 2015) Justification
1. Two Project Linked Personnel Rs. 2,88,00 1.One project assistant to collect official statistics from different Govt. offices, and to enter data 2. Second project assistant for analysis of data
2. Purchase of data in CD-Rom Rs. 70,000 Procurement of official statistics to collect data 3. Travel grant for project leader Rs. 70,000/- and to attend conferences in Kolkata, Delhi and mineral rich states
4. Printing, Photocopying & publications Rs. 26,000 5. Contingency Rs. 36,000/- 6. Total Rs. 4,90,000
8. Brief Particular of Assets, proposed to be acquired from capital budget, should be mentioned in case of replacement, particulars of asset to be condemned: N.A. 9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years: N.A. 10. Expected date of completion: March, 2015
11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2013-14: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 37,000 37,000 37,000 39,000 1,50,000
12. For General Projects Only (ongoing) Proposed Budget Total Budget Amount spent Total outlay Physical Financial For 2013-14 allocation till 31.3.12 proposed for progress in problem till twelfth plan terms of % as in terms of % 31.3.12 2012-17 on as 31.3.12 on 31.3.12 Rev. Cap. Total 1,50,000
13. For general projects only (new) 14. For North-east projects only (on-going) 15. For North-east projects only (new)
Social Sciences Division, ISI 36 SRU (General, On-going) Project No. 5.5
1. Project Title: Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings 2. Brief Objective: In this Project, we propose to use our extensive experience with village data to comment on and improve the scope and method of official data collection and the quality of official data across a range of parameters associated with agriculture and rural development in India. In the first instance, we wish to examine official data on land and livestock holdings of rural households. 3. Date of Commencement: APRIL 1, 2012 4. Proposing Scientist: V. K. RAMACHANDRAN 5. Other Associated Scientists: Madhura Swaminathan (SRU), Niladri Sekhar Dhar (SRF), Shamsher Singh (SRF), Kaustav Sarkar (JRF), Biplab Sarkar (JRF) External: Professor Abhijit Sen (JNU and Planning Commission), Dr. Vikas Rawal (JNU), Dr. V. Surjit (CIP), Dr. R. Ramakumar (TISS), Pallavi Chavan (RBI)
6. Scope and Objectives: Land is the primary prerequisite for production in agriculture. The distribution of land between households is an important indicator of their position in the system of agrarian production. Understanding changes in the distribution of land and changes in inequality among rural households in the ownership and operation of this fundamental asset is of central importance to an understanding of the rural economy.
Nevertheless, the economic size of a farm cannot be measured by its extent alone. First, a single size category of land holding may conceal considerable variations in the physical characteristics of land, such as in irrigation and drainage facilities available, type of soil and its fertility (Ramachandran, 1980). Secondly, a single size category of land holding may group together households that differ in respect of several essential characteristics (ibid.). Households with the same extent of land may differ in terms of techniques of cultivation, in the possession of machinery, and thus in the scale of production. Households with the same extent of cultivated land may also differ with regard to the terms of possession (for example, with respect to tenurial status). Given these variations in features of land holding of the same acreage, it is important to be careful in the collection and processing of data on land holdings.
Animal resources maintained by a large proportion of households are an important source of livelihood for these households. Animals are used for draught power, and for animal products like milk, eggs, meat, wool and honey, and make an important contribution to incomes of a large proportion of rural households. Animals are also an important component of the asset base of rural households.
Despite the importance of reliable large-scale data bases on land holdings in India, the available data on land holdings cannot be used to understand some important aspects of land relations. Data on livestock holdings do not provide any information on lease and rental markets of animals, on sale and purchase of animals, on how animals are maintained, or on what use they are put to. There are gaps in terms of data collected in the large-scale surveys on land and livestock holdings, there are definitional problems, and there are problems in terms of loss of information and accuracy due to aggregation at the time of tabulation. In addition, there are problems of comparability of data across surveys, regions, and time-periods.
This project proposes to prepare a revised survey schedule for collection of data on land and livestock holdings, to test that schedule with data from selected villages, and to assess the quality
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of data generated through the village surveys. On the basis of this study, the project aims to propose a revised schedule to be used in the NSSO’s Survey on Land and Livestock Holdings, which is the most important current source of information on household ownership and operational holdings of land in India
Specifically, this project proposes to (a) evaluate the extent, nature and sources of discrepancies in available NSSO data on land and livestock holdings, and (b) design and test questionnaire blocks that will help improve the quality of data collection in NSSO's surveys on land and livestock holdings, through primary surveys in selected villages. In relation to (a) the project will analyse existing NSS data from land and livestock surveys to (a) identify important variables on which information is not available from these surveys, and (b) evaluate the quality and consistency of information from the variables on which data are available.
For evaluation of quality and consistency, NSSO data will be compared with other sources of official statistics as well as data from primary surveys.
To undertake (b), it is noted that, the principal investigators and associated scientists have been engaged in village surveys for several years. One of the objectives of these surveys was to analyse village-level production, production systems and livelihoods and to characterise the socio- economic features of different strata of the rural population. For this purpose, a census-type survey that covers every household and individual has been conducted in selected villages. These surveys used a revised prototype of a schedule for a survey on land holdings.
From this data base of village surveys, the module for data collection on land holdings and associated variables will be cleaned and processed. This will allow us to verify the quality of data collected, identify the new items of data and their uses, and present some findings on the uses of such data. On the basis of these village surveys, the study will propose a modified survey schedule for the NSSO Land and Livestock Survey.
7. Budget: PROPOSED BUDGET: Rs Nine lakhs Forty thousand in 2013-14 and Rs Five lakhs Seventy thousand in 2014-15 ITEM 2013-14 2014-15 REVENUE Travel and Fieldwork (investigators) 2,00,000 2,00,000 JRF or Project linked personnel or data 2,90,000 2,90,000 processing charges Stationary, printing, communication 20,000 30,000 Purchase of data and books, computer 20,000 30,000 consumables Workshop/Seminar 4,00,000 - Miscellaneous 10,000 20,000 GRAND TOTAL 9,40,000 5,70,000
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8. Assets: NIL 9. Projects in Last Five Years: 1. YEAR 2007-09: Agrarian Relations in India Status: Completed 2007-08 Money Budgeted: 3,06,000 Money Spent: 2,78,733. 2008-09 Money Budgeted: 2,25,000 Money Spent: 2,24,059
2. YEAR 2010-2011 Seminar on Dalit Households in Village Economies Status: Completed: Seminar held on January 7-8, 2011, and book in press. Money Budgeted: 1,28000 Money Spent: 1,28000
Relevant Publications (in last five years) Books
Agrarian Studies 2: Financial Liberalisation and Rural Credit, edited by V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, was published in 2005. Agrarian Studies 3: Dalits Households in Village Economies, edited by V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, is in press (due in summer 2011). Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh: A Study of Agrarian Relations (eds V. K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan), New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2010. Selected Research Papers of Principal Investigator and Associated Scientists See Ramachandran, V. K., Yoshifumi, Usami, and Sarkar, Biplab (2010), “Lessons from BPL Censuses”, The Hindu, April 20, 2010 and Yoshifumi, Usami, Sarkar, Biplab, and Ramachandran, V. K. (2010), "Are the Results of BPL Census 2002 Reliable?" (available at www.fas.org.in). Madhura Swaminathan “Agriculture and Livelihoods: A Village Report Card”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Eliminating Hunger and Poverty, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, August 7-9, 2010 (forthcoming). Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan and Niladri S Dhar, “On Diversification of Rural Incomes: A View from Three Villages”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 51, No. 2, April-June, 2008, pp 237-256. Ramachandran, V. K., and Rawal, Vikas (2010), “The Impact of Liberalisation and Globalisation on India’s Agrarian Economy”, in Harriss, John and Bowles, Paul (eds.), Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses, Palgrave Macmillan. Rawal, Vikas (2010), “Tenancy Relations in Ananthavaram, 1974-2005-06”, paper presented at the Second International Conference on Environment, Agriculture and Socio-economic Change in India", Daegu (South Korea), March 29-30. Ramakumar and K Raut “Agricultural Employment in a Vidarbha village: Results from a Resurvey” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1 (2), June-December, 2011 (forthcoming). Ramakumar and Pallavi Chavan, “Changes in the Number of Rural Bank Branches in India, 1991 to 2008” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1 (1), January-June, 2011.
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R. Ramakumar “India’s Agricultural Economy”, Chapter 5 in Contemporary Issues in Indian Economy, Text Book Manuscript for undergraduates prepared by J. Mohan Rao, Jayan Jose Thomas and R. Ramakumar, Instituto de Altos Estudios Universitarios, Spain, 2008. Rawal, Vikas (2008a), “Estimates of Rural Household Incomes in India: Selected Methodological Issues.”, paper presented at the Colloquium “Studying Village Economies in India: A Colloquium On Methodology,” Chalsa. (http://www.agrarianstudies.org/UserFiles/File/S5_Rawal_Estimation_of_Rural_Household_Inco mes_in_India.pdf) Rawal, Vikas (2008b), “Ownership Holdings of Land in Rural India: Putting the Record Straight”, Economic and Political Weekly, March 8. Rawal, Vikas (2008c), “Making Sense of Statistics on School Education in India”, presented at the National Seminar on School Education Statistics, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, March 3-4. http://agrarianresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/vikas-nuepa.pdf Rawal, Vikas (2006a), “Landlessness in Rural West Bengal”, a report submitted to the Ddevelopment and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata. Rawal, Vikas (2006b), “Indebtedness in Rural West Bengal”, a report submitted to the Development and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata.
10. Expected Date of Completion: MARCH 31, 2015 11. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure during 2013-14: REVENUE EXPENDITURE Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Total 1,30,000 1,30,000 550,000 130,000 9,40,000
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Non Project Plan Proposals
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Economic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2013 – 2014
Items Amount (in lakh)
1. Visiting Scientists: 7.26 2. Seminar: 0 .61 3. Internal travel: 0 .66 4. Submission fee for publication in Journals: 1.65 5. Computer Consumables: 2.42 6. Repair and Maintenance: 1.82 7. Office Expenditures: 0 .48 8. Capital Expenditure: 5.45 TOTAL 20.35
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Linguistic Research Unit
LRU UNIT’S BUDGET PROPOSED FOR 2013 -2014
Items Heads Amount for the year Remark 2013-2014 Capital 5,00,000 Essential Computer, Photocopier, Software, Scanner, Printer, 5,00,000 Cupboard, Internet Hub, Furniture, Wi-Fi, etc. Revenue 8,90,000 Fellowship for 1 (one) Existing JRF/SRF 3,00,000 (2012-2016) Fellowship for 1 (one) New JRF/SRF 2,50,000 (2013-2017) Visiting Scientists 50,000 Seminars (departmental, on regular basis) 30,000 Internal Travel 50,000 Computer Consumables 90,000 Maintenance 50,000 Office Expenditures (Stores and Stationeries) 70,000 Total 13,90,000
Justification for LRU Unit’s Plan Budget Proposal: 2013 -2014
(a) 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. 50,000/-. (b) 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. 2000/- to each non-ISI presenter as TA and honorarium. Also, we invite well-known scientists from different parts of the country to give special lectures on specified topics. To meet TA and local hospitality, etc. LRU needs an amount of Rs. 30,000/-. (c) 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. To meet TA and DA for attending and presenting papers in conferences and seminars by scientific workers LRU needs an amount of Rs. 50,000/-. (d) Computer Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers and related devices has increased. This results in more utilization of computer consumables like Cartridges, Toners, Floppies, CDs, computer papers, transparency sheets, etc. To meet such need LRU requires an amount of Rs. 90,000/- for the Unit. (e) Maintenance: Fund is also required for maintaining computers, UPS, aqua guards, anti-virus software, etc. Maintenance also includes internal repair and patch works, internal painting of doors and windows, of the Unit etc. LRU requires an amount of Rs. 50,000/- for this purpose. (f) Office Expenditures: Quite often Central Store fails to meet requirement of office stationery goods and items urgently needed in LRU. We need to have provision for procuring items like pad, note sheets, pencils, ribbon, gems clips, envelopes, staplers, gum, cups, cover files, flat files, pens, etc.
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Also we need to have provision for procuring some electrical equipment. LRU needs an amount of Rs. 70,000/- for this. (g) 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 language and speech technology, applied linguistics and 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 12 computers in LRU. At least 6 or more computers are urgently required for carrying out research works and for Ph.D. scholar. We also need printers, scanners, and photo copiers, chairs, tables, computer tables, cupboards, etc. for proper functioning and seamless execution of research and administrative works of the unit. Therefore, LRU needs an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- to meet such expenses.
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NON-PROJECT PLAN PROPOSALS FOR 2013-14 Sr. No. Items Rs. (in lakhs) 1. Visiting scientists 7.00 2. Research fellows, PLP, Statistical trainees 3.50 3. Computer consumables 0.85 4. Seminars by invited experts 0.75 5. Office expenditure 0.80 6. Repair and maintenance 0.80 7. Capital expenditure 3.00 TOTAL 16.70
(Total Rupees Fifteen Lakhs and Ninety Five Thousand Only.) Justification: 1. (Sr. No. 1) We like to have one Visiting Fellow for the whole year. Estimated cost of it will be about Rs. 4 lakhs. Besides this we have plan to invite three Visiting Scientists, each of whom is expected to work with us for about three months on an average. This will cost about Rs.1 lakh per Visiting Scientist. 2. (Sr. No. 2) We like to recruit one JRFs and for that the estimated cost is Rs.2 lakhs. Additionally, two Statistical Trainees will be taken for a period of six months. This will cost about Rs.1.5 lakhs. 3. (Sr. No. 4) Experts will be invited to deliver seminars. This will cost about Rs.2,500 per seminar of two hour duration and there will be about 30 such seminars. 4. (Sr. No.7) Two old laser printers are to be replaced. Some soft wares for common and frequent use are to be purchased. The two AC machines in the PSU Seminar Room are very old and make lot of noise. These need immediate replacement. The Seminar Room is not appropriately equipped and modernized. This needs major interior decoration and provision of modern facilities. The Head’s Room needs modernization including provision of an AC machine. All these are possible at a cost of Rs.3 lakhs.
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Psychology Research Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-2014
Sr. No. Name of the Project Rs. in lakhs Rs. in lakhs Rs. in lakhs Revenue Capital Total 1 Computer Consumables 1.20 - 1.20 2 Research Fellow 2.85 2.85 3 Maintenance for Computer & Equipment 1.30 - 1.30 4 Seminar / Workshop / Training programme 1.20 - 1.20
5 Software 1.20 - 1.20
6 Office Expenditure 0.75 - 0.75 7 Visiting Scientist / Research Collaborator 1.20 - 1.20
8 Internal Travel 0.75 - 0.75 9 Submission fee for publication in journal 0.30 0.30 10 Capital Expenditure (Psychological Instrument, PC, 5.00 5.00 Laptop, LCD Projector, Printer, Computer Table and Chair, Refrigerator, Xerox Machine, etc.)
The details of the Non- Project Budget Proposals for the year 2013- 14 .
1. Computer Consumables: This expenditure has increased tremendously . As a result, the use of consumables like Cartridge, Toner, Floppy, CD-R & W, DVD, Papers, Transparency Sheets etc., are increasing day by day. This requires at least an amount of Rs. 1.20 lakhs.
2. Research Fellow: Rs.2.85 lakhs. (Self-explanatory)
3. Maintenance: It will be required for maintaining the PCs, UPS, Aqua guard, Anti- Virus software, Printers, Scanners, Furniture etc. . Maintenance also include internal repair, patch works, internal painting of doors and windows, renovation of Seminar Room etc. So we propose an estimate of Rs. 1.30 lakhs
4. Seminar/ Workshop/ Training Programme: The unit is organizing different academic seminars, workshops and training programmes to disseminate research output from time to time. Several inside and 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. 1.20 lakhs .
5. Software: Different statistical software are regularly used in analysis of different multivariate research data. In considering the regular up-date of software, we need to purchase most up-date software. This requires a total amount of Rs.1.20 lakhs.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 46 6. Office Expenditure: Office stationary items are not available in time from the Central Stores. These include writing pads, note sheets, pencils, pens, ribbon, gem clips, envelops, staplers, gum, etc. and some other equipment. We propose an estimate of Rs.0.75lakhs.
7. 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.1.20 lakhs.
8. Internal travel: To attend local seminar/conference/workshop or to visit experts for paper presentation or for upgrading knowledge. An estimate of Rs. 0.75 lakh will be required.
1. Submission fee for publication in journal: Many Indian and foreign journals require submission fee for reviewing the paper from the authors. Expert comment is important for upgrading research. An estimate of Rs.0.30 lakh will be required for this purpose.
10. Capital Expenditure: Psychological instrument: Different psychological instruments are part and parcel of our research. Currently, scientists and research fellows are in difficulty to collect them. It is planned that we will keep them in our Psychology lab where our research fellows and scientists can do experimental research. So we want psychological instruments / scales for our psychology lab.
PC, Printer, LCD Projector, Xerox machine: Currently, we have 2 old PC. Spare parts are not available. They are useless to analyze vast data structure. Current configuration is inadequate to handle them. Therefore, we want to buy at least 1 PC with most upto date configuration. Our printer has similar problem. Current printers are not adequate to satisfy work load. Therefore, we want one printer. Unit is organizing seminar/workshop and training programs regularly. For this reason, one LCD Projector will be required. There is no Xerox machine in our unit. It will be required for Xeroxing official documents and project related materials.
Furniture, Refrigerator: Few computer tables and chairs in the computer lab. are broken and not repairable. Some new computer tables and chairs, Book shelves etc. are also required for the Lab. We need one refrigerator for our use. An estimate of Rs. 5.00 lakhs will be required to purchase all the above mentioned Capital items.
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Sociological Research Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-2014 Revenue Capital Total Rs. In Rs. In Rs. In Name of the Project Lakhs Lakhs Lakhs Visiting Scientists 2.500 2.500 Seminar 0.700 0.700 Internal travel 0.600 0.600 Research Fellow (two) 4.000 4.000 Computer Consumables 0.800 0.800 Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.750 0.750 Software 0.600 0.600 Capital Equipment: Upgrading furniture/computers A/C and other equipment 2.500 2.500 Total: 9.950 2.500 12.450
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1. Plan Revenue (non-project): Rs. 20.0 lakhs Project No. Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In lakhs
1.1 Visiting Scientists 14.0 1.2 Post-doctoral fellows- 20.0 cum-Lecturers 1.3 Travel of Scientists 1.0 1.4 Seminars 1.0 1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, 1.5 Consumables 1.6 Misc. including 1.0 communications & fax: 1.7 Journal Submission & 1.0 professional memberships 1.8 Maintenance 1.0
Plan Revenue (projects): Rs. 5.872 lakhs Project No. Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In lakhs
1.9 Annual Conference 3.0
2. Plan Capital (non-projects): Rs. 6.0 lakhs Project No. Name of the Project Capital Rs. In lakhs 2.1 Upgrading Computers, 9.0 manuals, software, Furniture, fittings, equipment TOTAL (Revenue non-project + projects + Capital non-projects + projects) : Rs. 52.5 lakhs. The details of the Budget Proposals 2013-14
1.1 Visiting Scientists: We have on an average twenty visitors (from home and foreign universities/institutes) every year visiting our department. Out of them 5-6 are usually long-term visitors (some of whom stay for 6 months or more), who not only contribute through collaborative research with our faculty, but also take part in teaching in the MSQE program.
1.2 Postdoctoral Fellows-cum-Lecturers: We currently have three postdoctoral fellows-cum-lecturers who are paid somewhat more than 50,000/month gross.
1.3 Travel of scientists: The scientists of the unit often present papers in conferences / seminars organized by reputed universities, institutes within India, and even Delhi. Further, they travel within India for discussions with colleagues interested in similar research issues. This provides scope for better interaction without much involvement of time. 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. 1,00,000/-.
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1.4 Seminar: Planning Unit (PU) organizes academic seminars on a weekly basis. Approximately, 50 non-ISI scientific persons present their research works in a year at PU. We propose to spend an amount of Rs. 1000/- on each non-ISI seminar, that is to be spent on 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. For all these items we propose an estimate of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers/photocopiers has tremendously increased. This has resulted in an increase of the use of computer consumables like Cartridge, Toner, Floppy CD, 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. 1.5 lakh.
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 are: Rs. 1.0 lakhs.
1.7 Submission fee for publication in journal and professional memberships: In a number of top-ranked international journals authors have to pay rather high submission fees. If a fee of maximum $100 per paper is provided to the author(s) (subject to peer review of the paper before submission), good quality papers may get chance to be published in top-ranked journals. Some journals waive the admission fee for members of the respective societies, so society memberships serve the same purpose. We propose an estimate of Rs. 1,00,000/- for this purpose.
1.8 Maintenance: This amount is meant for repairing work on some older cup-boards, as well as painting and repairing of doors etc: Rs. 1.0 lakhs.
1.9 Annual Conference (project): The annual conference of the Planning Unit on Growth and Development has become one of the well-known international conferences in the field of economic development and attracts a number of distinguished researchers from all over the world. The most recent 4th annual conference held in December 2008 had 45 accepted papers and 2 plenary speakers with a total of 72 participants from 14 countries.
2.1 Planning Unit finds the following items (capital goods) necessary to carry out its academic programs.
1) Computers and Laptop: We need to replace a number of computers because they have become very old and slow. The proposed budget on this head is: Rs. 3.0 lakhs.
2) Chairs, Tables, Almirah: Many of the existing chairs, tables (including computer tables), Almirahs have become very old and some of them have been damaged, repairing of which are not economical and sometimes are not possible. These are needed to be replaced. The estimated budget for these is Rs. 3.0 lakh.
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, and reference software. We also budget for a possible replacement of a PU printer, if required. The estimated budget for these is Rs. 3.0 lakh.
Therefore, total estimated cost on Project 2.1 is Rs. 9.0 lakh.
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Non Project Proposals for the year 2013-14 (Rs. in Lakhs)
2013 - 14 2013-14 Sl.No. Items Capital Revenue Total A Salaries 109.80 109.80 B Visiting Scientists 30.00 30.00 C PCs & Printers 3.20 0.50 3.70 D Computer Consumables 0.75 0.75 E Econometric & Computer Software 1.00 1.00 F Repair & Maintenance 0.75 0.75 G Furniture 0.75 0.75 H Furnishing & Facelift 0.50 0.50 I Travel Grants 1.00 1.00 TOTAL 148.25 TOTAL excluding Salaries 38.45
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Social Sciences Division Office Non-project Plan proposal for the year 2013-14
Revenue Capital Total (Rs. in lakh) (Rs. in lakh) (Rs. in lakh) 1 Visiting Scientists 10.500 10.500 2 Computer Consumables 0.500 0.500 3 Office Expenditure 1.500 1.500 4 Travel for Academic Purpose 2.000 2.000 5 Maintenance 0.900 0.900 6 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000 Sub-total: 15.400 5.000 20.400
Social Sciences Division, ISI 52 Economic Research Unit List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012
Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years
Name of the Scientist(s) Title of the Scientific Paper Name of the Journal Year, Vol., Issue No., Page Nos. of Publication Snigdha Chakrabarti and Chaiti An Exploratory Analysis of Journal of Development 2012, Vol. 48.No. 1, Sharma Biswas Women’s Empowerment in Studies Pp.164-180 India: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach Chaiti Sharma Biswas Can employment empower The International Journal of 2008, Vol. 3, No 7, Pp. women more at the household Interdisciplinary Social 43-51 level in India? Sciences Brati Sankar Chakraborty Capital Inflow under 2008, Vol. 59, Voluntary Export Restraint Metroeconomica No. 4, Pp. 633-655 Brati Sankar Chakraborty Protection and Real Rewards: 2009, Vol. 14, Some Antinomies Pacific Economic Review No. 1, Pp. 56-70 Manabendu Chattopadhyay, Non-frontier Profit Function: Arthaniti (New Series) 2007, Vol. 6, Nos. 1 & Manoranjan Pal and An Application to Indian 2, Pp.17-32. Atanu Sengupta Agriculture Manabendu Chattopadhyay and Crop Diversification by Poor Development of Agricultural 2010, Vol. 2, No. 10 Pp. Utpal Kumar De Peasants and Role of Economics 340-350 Infrastructure: Evidence from West Bengal Baidyanath Pal Income and Nutritional Status Anthropologischer Anzeiger 2011, Vol. 68, No. 2 Pp. Manabendu Chattopadhyay of the Fishing Community 195-208 Moumita Maiti Residing in Coastal Bay of Barun Mukhopadhyay Bengal: A Case study and Ranjan Gupta Samarjit Das and Testing for Unit Roots in Econometric Theory 2008, Vol. 24, J. Breitung Panels with a Factor Structure Pp. 88-108 Samarjit Das and Price Convergence across Empirical Economics 2008, Vol. 34, K. Bhattacharya Regions in India Pp. 299-313 Samarjit Das and Is the Relative Risk Aversion Empirical Economics 2010, Vol. 38, Pp. 605- Nityananda Sarkar Parameter Constant Over 617 Time? A Multi-Country Study Samarjit Das Regional Convergence of Economic Modelling 2010, Vol. 27, T.K. Mitra and Growth Inequality and Poverty PP. 1054-1060 G. Sinha in India – An Empirical Study Saswati Das and Measuring Deprivation due to Child Indicators 2011, Vol. 4, No. 3, Pp. Diganta Mukherjee Child Work and Child Labour: Research 435-466. A Study for Indian Children Diganta Mukherjee and Role of Parental Social Indicators 2008, Vol. 89, Saswati Das Education in Schooling and Research No. 2, Pp. 305-322. Child Labour Decision: Urban India in the Last Decade Saswati Das Human Well Being: A Decile Social Indicators 2008, Vol. 87, Group Analysis on Indian Research No. 3, Pp. 461-472. Household Data Saswati Das Income Distribution and Social Development 2008, Vol. 30, Social Welfare: A Temporal Issues No. 2, Pp. 90-101. Analysis of the Rural Indian Experience Saswati Das and Role of Women in Schooling Social Indicators 2007, Vol.82, No. 3, Pp. Diganta Mukherjee and Child Labour Decision: Research 463-486
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The Case of Urban Boys in India Buddhadeb Ghosh Poverty, Education and Economie & Humanisme 2008 Governance: Horizontal Rift Review versus Limited Vertical Mobility Buddhadeb Ghosh Working for Inclusive Growth Voices of Rural India 2008, Vol. 1, No. 3, Pp. under Limited Vertical 31-39. Mobility of People Across Economic Ladder in Indian States: Limits of Government Policy Buddhadeb Ghosh Reassessing Transaction Costs Economic & Political Weekly 2008, Vol. XLIII, No. of Trade at the India- 29, Pp. 69-79. Bangladesh Border Buddhadeb Ghosh Cross-Border Migration from Economic & Political Weekly 2009, P. De and J. Roy Bangladesh and India in Recent Period: A Field Level Survey Buddhadeb Ghosh Poverty, Disparity and Oxford Journal Forthcoming Ritanjan Das and Development in Indian Swagata Das Districts: Initial Finding from Perception Survey Buddhadeb Ghosh Technology, Urbanization and Ecological Economics Forthcoming Partha Dube Sustainable Future: A Spatial Model for the World Chandana Das and Bank Deregulation and Bank Indian Economic Review 2007, Vol. 42. Ambar Ghosh Solvency : A Macro View No. 1, Pp.19-40.
Chandana Das and Skill Acquisition in LDCs Macro Economic Annual, 2008, Pp. 107-117 Ambar Ghosh CSSS Chandana Ghosh and Modern Theories of Growth: The India Economy 2009 Ambar Ghosh A Critique Review Vol. 7.
Chandana Ghosh and Technological Progress, Contemporary Issues 2009 Ambar Ghosh Ability and Ideas in Social Vol.5, No.1, and Skill Acquisition in LDCs Sciences Pp.1-20 Manash Ranjan Gupta and Uniqueness and Indeterminacy The Japanese Economic 2007, Vol. 58, No. 3. B. Chakraborty of the Equilibrium Growth Review Path in the Uzawa-Lucas Model with Sector Specific Externalities Manash Ranjan Gupta and Innovation, Imitation and Japan and the World 2008, Vol. 20, Debasis Mondal Intellectual Property Rights: Economy No. 3, Pp. 369-394. Introducing Migration into Helpman’s Model Manash Ranjan Gupta and Intellectual Property Rights Economic Modelling 2008, Vol. 25, Debasis Mondal Protection and Unemployment No. 3, Pp. 463-484. in a North-South Model: A Theoretical Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Innovation, Imitation and Journal of Economics 2008, Vol. 94, Debasis Mondal Multinationalisation in a No. 1, Pp. 31-62. North-South model: A Theoretical note
Manash Ranjan Gupta and Endogenous Imitation and Journal of Macroeconomics 2009, Vol. 31, No. 4 Debasis Mondal Endogenous Growth In a North-South Model: A Theoretical Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Fiscal Policies, Environmental Economic Modelling 2009, Vol. 26, T. R. Barman Pollution and Economic No. 5, Growth
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Manash Ranjan Gupta Human Capital Inequality, Research in Economics 2009, Vol. 63, T. R. Barman and Endogenous Growth and No. 2. B. Chakraborty Educational Subsidy: A Theoretical Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Health Infrastructure, Journal of Macroeconomics 2010, Vol. 32, T. R. Barman Environment and Endogenous No. 2, Growth Manash Ranjan Gupta and Public Expenditure Journal of Public Economic 2010, Vol. 12, T. R. Barman Environment and Economic Theory No. 6, Growth Manash Ranjan Gupta and Skilled Unskilled Wage Economic Modelling 2010, Vol. 27, P.B. Dutta Inequality, Non-traded Goods No. 5 and Endogenous Supply of Skilled Labour: A Theoretical Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Skilled Unskilled Wage Research in Economics 2010, Vol. 64, P.B. Dutta Inequality: A General No. 4, Equilibrium Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Skilled Unskilled Wage Economic Modelling Forthcoming P.B. Dutta Inequality and Unemployment: A General Equilibrium Analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Skilled Unskilled Wage Journal of International Forthcoming P.B. Dutta Inequality and Imitation in a Trade and Economic Product Variety Model: A Development Theoretical Analysis Tarun Kabiraj On the Incentives for Research in Economics 2007, Vol. 61, Cooperative Research No. 1, pp. 17-23 Tarun Kabiraj, Brand Name Collaboration Economic Modelling 2007, Vol. 24, No.4, S. Marjit and H. Beladi and Optimal Tariff Pp. 636-647 Tarun Kabiraj and Adoption of New Technology Research in International 2008, Vol. 22, No.2, P. Roy Chowdhury and Joint Venture Instability Business and Finance Pp. 108-123 Tarun Kabiraj and Foreign-owned New India Macroeconomics 2008, Pp. 119-143 S. Marjit Subsidiary and Existing Joint Annual Venture: Competition Policy and National Welfare Tarun Kabiraj and Preemptive merger in a Indian Growth and 2009, Vol. 2, No. 2, Pp. M. Chaudhuri composite good framework Development Review 141-154. Tarun Kabiraj and Licensing contracts in Theoretical Economics Letters 2011, Vol. 1, No.3, Pp. C. C. Lee Hotelling Structure 57-62. Tarun Kabiraj and Technology transfer in a Trade and Development 2011, Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp. C. C. Lee duopoly with horizontal and Review 19-40. vertical product differentiation Tarun Kabiraj and Optimal Patent Length in a Singapore Economic Review, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 1, S. Banerjee north-south framework: A Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 51-59, 2011 Pp. 51-59. comment Amita Majumder, A Treatment of Absolute Japanese Economic Review 2007, Vol. 58, No.2, Satya R. Chakravarty and Sonali Indices of Polarization Pp. 273–293. Roy Amita Majumder and Measuring Human Poverty by Indian Economic Journal 2007, Vol. 55, Satya R. Chakravarty Population and Factor No. 1, Pp. 68-78. Decomposable Indices Amita Majumder and Millennium Development Journal of Human 2008, Vol. 9, No.1, Satya R. Chakravarty Goals: Measuring Progress Development Pp.109-129. towards their Achievements Amita Majumder, Alternative Approaches to Contemporary Issues and 2008, Vol.4, No.1, Dipankor Coondoo, Measuring Temporal Changes Ideas in Social Sciences, [Web April. Geoffrey Lancaster and Ranjan in Poverty with Application to Journal] Ray India
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Amita Majumder, Demand Threshold, Zero Metroeconomica 2009, Vol. 60, No.1, Pp. Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Expenditure and Hierarchical 91-118. Dipankor Coondoo Model of Consumer Demand Amita Majumder, Public -Community Habitat International 2009, Vol. 33, No.1 Snigdha Chakrabarti and Participation in Household Pp. 125-130. Subhendu Chakrabarti Waste Management in India: An Operational Approach Amita Majumder A Characterization of the Economics Bulletin 2009, Vol. 29, Composite Price Variable to No. 3, Approximate a Price Pp. 2051-2055 Aggregator Function in the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System Amita Majumder Estimating Spatial Consumer Review of Income and Wealth 2011, Vol. 57, Dipankor Coondoo and Somnath Price Indices Through Engel No. 1, Pp. 138-155. Chattopadhyay Curve Analysis Amita Majumder District-Level Poverty Journal of Applied Statistics 2011, Vol.38. Dipankor Coondoo and Somnath Estimation: A Proposed No. 10, Chattopadhyay Method Pp. 2327-2343 Manipushpak Mitra and Regulation of an openaccess Economica 2008, Vol. 75, Pp. 662 – Axel Gautier essential facility 682. Manipushpak Mitra, Anirban Kar On the coincidence of the Mathematical Social Sciences 2009, Vol. 57, and prenucleolus and the Shapley No. 1, pp. 16-25 Suresh Mutuswami Value Manipushpak Mitra, Anindya The Kolkata Paise Restaurant Physica A 2009, Vol.388, Sundar Chakrabarti, Problem and Resource No. 1 Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Utilization pp. 2420 - 2426 Arnab Chatterjee Manipushpak Mitra, Statistics of the Kolkata Paise New Journal of Physics4 2010, Vol. 12 (075033) Asim Ghosh, Restaurant Problem Arnab Chatterjee and Bikas K. Chakrabarti Manipushpak Mitra and Efficient allocation of Social Choice and Welfare 2010, Vol. 35, Arunava Sen heterogenous commodities No. 1, pp. 29-48 with balanced transfers Manipushpak Mitra and Arghya Comparing Bertrand and Economic Letters 2010, Vol. 109, Ghosh Cournot in mixed markets Pp. 72-74. Manipushpak Mitra and Group strategyproofness in Game and Economic Behavior 2011, Vol. 72, Suresh Mutuswami queueing models No. 1, Pp. 242-254. Chiranjib Neogi Economics of Summer Paddy- Asian Journal of Research in 2012, Vol. 2, Kamal Ray and Jute Substitution: A Profile of Social Sciences and Humanities No. 3. Ramesh Chandra Das Environmental Cost Samarjit Das and Is the Relative Risk Aversion Empirical Economics 2010, Vol. 38, Pp. 605- Nityananda Sarkar Parameter Constant Over 617 Time? A Multi-Country Study Debabrata Mukhopadhyay and Long-Run Predictability Finance India 2011, Vol. 25, Nityananda Sarkar in the Indian Stock No. 3, Pp. 817-834 Market Priyadarshi Banerjee Price Interventions in Cournot Berkely Electronic Journal: 2007, Vol.1, Oligopoly with a Dominant Topics in Theoretical Article 20 Firm Economics Priyadarshi Banerjee Information Acquisition and Contemporary Issues and 2007, Vol. 3(2). Market Power in Credit Ideas in Social Sciences Markets Priyadarshi Banerjee Collective Punishments: Berkely Electronic Journal: 2007, Vol. 7(1), Article Incentives and Examinations Contributions to Theoretical 37. in Organisations Economics Priyadarshi Banerjee Conflict and Consensus: A Berkely Electronic Journal: 2008, Vol. 8(1), Article Theory of Control in Topics in Theoretical 4. Organisations Economics
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Priyadarshi Banerjee Delegating Authority to a Contemporary Issues and 2008, Vol. 4(2) Dishonest Agent Ideas in Social Sciences Priyadarshi Banerjee Team Incentive Contracts with Contemporary Issues and 2008, Vol. 4(3) Interim Private Information Ideas in Social Sciences Priyadarshi Banerjee Hidden Action Principal- Contemporary Issues and 2009, Vol. 5(1) Agent Problems with Ideas in Social Sciences Endogenous Signal Precision Utpal Kumar De Willingness to Pay for Asian-African Journal of 2011, Vol. 11, No. 2, and Manoranjan Pal Domestic Water Use: A Study Economics and Econometrics Pp. 333-350. of Hilly Urban Area in North- East India Pronab Sen, Susmita Bharati, Growth and Nutritional Status Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2011, Vol. 32(2), Pp. Suparna Som, Manoranjan Pal of Pre-school Children in 84-93. and Premananda Bharati India: A Comparison of Two Recent Time Periods Susmita Bharati, Suparna Shome, Is Son Preference Pervasive in Journal of Gender Studies 2011, Vol. 20(3), Pp. Manoranjan Pal, Prabir India? 291-298. Chaudhury and Premananda Bharati Jadab Kumar Pal, Manoranjan Pal Risk Factors Associated with Journal of Life Science 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pp. Hare Ram Tiwari and Premananda Morbidity Pattern of Working 147-156. Bharati Children Pal Manoranjan, Pal Jadab K, What Makes Child Labour Go International Labour Review 2011, Vol. 150, No. 3– Tiwari Hare Ram and Bharati to School? 4, Pp. 375-386. Premananda Bharati S, Pal M, Chakrabarty S Trends in Socio-Economic and Asia Pacific Journal of Public 2011, Vol. 23(3), Pp. and Nutritional Status of Under Six Health. 324–340. Bharati P. Children in India. Utpal Kumar De and Manoranjan Dimensions of Globalization Asian Economic and Financial 2011, Vol.1, No.1, Pp. Pal. and their Effects on Economic Review. 1-13. Growth and Human Development Index. Susmita Bharati, Dipak Mukherji, Influence of Ethnicity, Coll. Anthropol. 2010, Vol. 34-4, Pp. Manoranjan Pal, Suparna Som, Geography and Climate on the 1207-1213. Dipak Kumar Adak, TS. Vasulu Variation of Stature among and Premananda Bharati. Indian Populations. Suparna Som, Manoranjan Pal Do Socio-economic Social Change. 2010, 40(4), and Premananda Bharati. Development and Pp. 525-543. Improvement of Health Go Together? A Comparison among Indian States S. Bharati, M. Pal and P. Bharati Height and weight of pre- Journal of Empirical 2010, 5(1-2), school children: A comparison Research in Social Science. Pp. 15-27. between two National Family Health Surveys in India. S. Bharati, S. Chakrabarty, S. Socio-economic Determinants Asian Pacific Journal of 2010, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Som, M. Pal and P. Bharati of Underweight Children in Tropical Medicine. Pp. 322-327. West Bengal, M. Bandyopadhyay, A. Bhakta, S. Clinical and bacteriological Asian Pacific Journal of 2010, Vol.3, Issue 3, Pp. Chakrabarty, M. Pal and P. correlates of whole blood Tropical Medicine. 224-231. Bharati. interferon gamma (IFN-γ) in newly detected cases of pulmonary TB. S. Som, M. Pal M, S. Chakrabarty Socioeconomic impact on Singapore Med. J. 2010, Vol. 51(5), Pp. and P. Bharati. child immunisation in the 406-412. districts of West Bengal, India. Premananda Bharati, Susmita Growth and Nutritional Status Collegium Anthropologicum 2009, 33, 1, Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Suman of Pre-School Children in Pp. 7–21. Chakrabarty, Suparna Som and India: Rural-Urban and Ranjan Gupta Gender Differences Premananda Bharati, Suparna Burden of anemia and its Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2009, vol. 30, no. 3, Pp. Shome, Suman Chakrabarty, socioeconomic determinants 217-226.
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Susmita Bharati, and Manoranjan among adolescent girls in Pal India Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal Determinants of Nutritional Journal of Biosoc. Sci. 2008, Vol. 40, and Premananda Bharati Status of Pre-School Children Pp. 801–814. In India. Premananda Bharati, Manoranjan How Parents’ Education and Asian Pac. J. of Trop. Med. 2008, Vol. 1, No. 4, Pp. Pal and Susmita Bharati Working Status Affect the 49-60. nutrition and Immunization Status of Preschool Children in India. Bharati, P., Suparna Som, Suman Prevalence of Anemia and Its Asia-Pacific Journal of Public 2008, Vol. 20, No. 4, Chakrabarty, Susmita Bharati and Determinants Among Non- Health. Pp. 347-359. Manoranjan Pal. pregnant and Pregnant Women in India. S. Chakrabarty, M. Pal, S. Bharati Body form and Nutritional Journal of Comparative 2008, Vol. 59, and P. Bharati. Status among Adult Males of Human Biology. Pp. 235–251. Different Social Groups in Orissa and Bihar States in India. P. Bharati, S. Bharati, M. Pal, S. Chronic Energy Deficiency Ecology of Food and 2008, Vol. 47, Chakraborty and R. Gupta Among Indian Women by Nutrition. Pp. 170–187. Residential Status. M. Chattopadhyay, M. Pal & A. Non-Frontier Profit Function: Arthaniti. 2007, Vol. 6, No. 1-2, Sengupta. An Application to Indian Pp. 17-32. Agriculture. S. Som, M. Pal, & P. Bharati. Role of individual and Annals of Human Biology. 2007, Vol. 34, No. 6, household level factors on Pp. 632–646. stunting: A comparative study in three Indian states. S. Bharati, M. Pal and P. Bharati. Obstetric care practice in International Journal for 2007, Vol. 19, No. 4 Birbhum District, West Quality in Health Care. Pp. 244–249, Bengal, India. S. Bharati, M. Pal, B. N. Prevalence and Causes of Human Biology. 2007, Vol. 79, No. 4, Bhattacharya, and P. Bharati Chronic Energy Deficiency pp. 395-412. and Obesity in Women of India. Abhirup Sarkar On the Political Economy of a Indian Growth and 2010, Vol.3, No. 2, Backward Region Development Review Abhirup Sarkar, Political Stability, Local Economic and Political Weekly 2009, Vol. 44, No. 9 P. Bardhan, D. Mookherjee Democracy and Clientelism in and Sandip Mitra Rural West Bengal Abhirup Sarkar Anatomy of the Recent India Macroeconomics Annual 2009 Financial Crisis and the Consequent Economic Recession Abhirup Sarkar Redistribution and Trade in Metroeconomica 2008, Vol. 59, No. 2 Agriculture: Are They Complementary? Abhirup Sarkar Development and Economic and Political Weekly 2007 Displacement: Land Acquisition in West Bengal Satya R. Chakravarty A Deprivation-based Journal of Economic 2007, Vol.5, pp. 339- Axiomatic Characterization of Inequality, 351. the Bonferroni Index of Absolute Inequality Satya R. Chakravarty and Jacques A Generalized Index of Mathematical Social Sciences 2007, Vol.53, pp. 185- Silber Employment Segregation 195 Satya R. Chakravarty, Amita. A Treatment of Absolute Japanese Economic Review 2007, Vol. 58, pp.127- Majumder and Sonali Roy Indices of Polarization 203 Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita. Measuring Human Poverty by Indian Economic Journal 2007, Vol.55,pp.67-77 Majumder Population and Factor
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Decomposable Indices Satya R. Chakravarty, Jacques On the Watts World Development 2008, Vol.36, pp.1067- Silber and Joseph Deutsch Multidimensional Poverty 1077 Index and its Decomposition Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita. Millennium Development Journal of Human Development 2008, Vol.9, pp. 109- Majumder Goals: Measuring Progress 127 towards Their Achievements Rana Barua, Satya R. Chakravarty Minimal-Axiom Mathematical Social Sciences 2009, Vol.58,pp. 367- and Palash Sarkar Characterization of the 375 Coleman and Banzhaf Indices of Voting Power Satya R. Chakravarty Equity and Efficiency as International Journal of 2009, Vol.5, pp.181-199 Components of a Social Economic Theory Welfare Function’ Rana Barua, Satya R. Chakravarty A Note on the Carreras- International Game Theory 2009, Vol. 11, pp 237- and Sonali Roy Coleman Decisiveness Index Review 245 Satya R. Chakravarty Deprivation, Inequality and Japanese Economic Review 2009, Vol. 60, pp.172- Welfare 190. Satya R. Chakravarty and Swami Subgroup Decomposable Spanish Economic Review 2009. Vol. 11, pp. 83-97 Tayagarupananda Intermediate Indices of Inequality Satya R. Chakravarty and Polarization Ordering of Review of Income and Wealth 2010, Vol.56, pp.47-64 Conchita D’Ambrosio Income Distributions Satya R. Chakravarty A Reconsideration of the Journal of Economic Inequality 2011, Vol.9, pp.471-474 Tradeoffs in the New Human
Development Index Satya R. Chakravarty On Tradeoffs in the Human Indian Journal of Human 2011, Vol.5, pp.517-525 Development Indices Development Satya R. Chakravarty and Measuring Ethnic Polarization Social Choice and Welfare 2011,Vol.37,pp.431-452 Bhargav Maharaj Satya R. Chakravarty and Subgroup Keio Economic Studies 2011,Vol. 47, pp.57-83 Bhargav Maharaj Decomposable Inequality Indices and Reduced-Form Indices of Polarization R. Barua, Satya R. Chakravarty Measuring P-Power of Voting Journal of Economic Theory 2011, Vol.1, pp.81-91 and P.Sarkar and Social Development Satya R. Chakravarty, W. Bossert Poverty and Time Journal of Economic Inequality Forthcoming and C. D’Ambrosio Satya R. Chakravarty and C. Zoli Stochastic Dominance elations Journal of Economic Theory Forthcoming for Integer Variables
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Psychological Research Unit List Of Publications (2007 – 2011)
D. Dutta Roy (Assistant Professor) Dutta Roy,D.(2009) - Construct validity of writing motivation questionnaire.International Journal of Psychological Research , (published from USA) 3,2,(in print) Dutta Roy, D. and Basu, K. (2010). Autistic behaviour analysis : Pre-post and repeated measure design. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1,4,39-46. Roy,A. and Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal : An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management research in Emerging economics. Vol.1.1. 60-69. Dutta Roy,D.(2010).Cluster Analysis for Test-Retest Reliability. International Journal of Psychological Research ,(published from USA). 3,1,132-140. Dutta Roy,D.(2011).Construct validity of Reading motivation. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, vol.37,No.1, 106-113. Dutta Roy,D. and Mondal,A. (2010). Information organization errors in backward digit span task. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,3,43-49. Ganguly,A. and Dutta Roy,D. (2010). Web Content analysis to study researches on entrepreneurial psychology. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,2,27-31. Dutta Roy,D.(2009). Self-efficacy of Agricultural farmers: A case study. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 35,2,323-328. Dutta Roy, D. (2008). Assessing Validity of Web-Based Computer Adaptive Training Modules, Journal Of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 127-136. Dutta Roy,D.(2006). Clusturing academic profiles of tribal and non-tribal school students of Manipur. Journal of Psychometry, 20,2, 1-12. Dutta Roy,D. (2006). Managing Incentive for Innovation, Effective Executive, 8,11,87-90. Dutta Roy, D.(2006). Managing school infrastructure for indigenous people in hills of Manipur, The Vision, Journal of Management and Allied Sciences, 2,1, 27-32. Dutta Roy, D. (2006).Psychological distress and body weight in Antarctic expedition,Indian Journal of Applied Psychology, 43, April, 63-69. Dutta Roy,D.(2006). Development of picture drawing test to assess consciousness layers of tribal children of Tripura, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology,Vol. 32, No. 1, 20-25
Anjali Ghosh (Professor)
Ghosh, A. - Academic Self-Efficacy and Achievement in a Group of siblings of Primary Schools. Psychological Studies, 2007, Vol.52, No.4, 364-371.
Sharma, M. & Ghosh, A. - Does Team size matter ? A study of the Impact of Team size on the Transactive Memory System and Performance of IT Sector Teams. Accepted for publication in South Asian Journal of Management, 2007, Vol.14, 4.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 60 Ghosh, A. – Impact of Technological Advances on Education at the Grassroots. In B. Patnaik (Ed.) Proceedings of the National Conference of Technological Advances and Emerging Societal Implications, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, (2007) 1-5.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Ego-Identity Status and Its relationship with self-esteem in a Group of Late Adolescents, Journal of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 2008, 34, 2, 337-344.
Ghosh, A. (with Shaikh F.A) – Perceived Social Support and Recovery from Substance Abuse : A Qualitative Enquiry, Indian Journal of Community Psychology, 2008, 4, 2, 131-143.
Ghosh, A. (with Matsumoto, D. et al.) – Mapping Expressive Differences Around the World : The Relationship Between Emotional Display Rules and Individualism Versus Collectivism, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Sage USA, 2008, 39, 55-74.
Ghosh, A. – Transactive Memory self-construal and subjective well-being in a group of Indian couples. Interpersona, 2008 , 2 (2) , 173-192.
Ghosh,A.- Social Axioms and Individualistic- Collectivist orientations in Indian College Students, In K. Leung & M.H. Bond ( Eds.) Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms: Understanding Global Belief System, 2009, 283-292, New York: Springer.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Relation of Parental Education and Occupation with Mathematics Self-efficacy and Achievement of Students, Journal of Education and Psychological Studies, 2010, 4(1), 1-7.
Ghosh, A. – Expressive Differences for Emotions In Visually Challenged and Normal Individuals, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 2010, 3(15), 255-265.
Ghosh, A. – (with Sinha, J.B.P. and others) – An Exploration of the Indian Mindset, Psychological Studies, 2010, 55(1), 3-17.
Shaikh, F.A. & Ghosh, A. – Exploring Life Meaningfulness and Its Psychosocial Correlates Among Recovering Substance Users – An Indian Perspective. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2010, 66, 1012-1017.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Self-efficacy, Locus of Control and Job Satisfaction of School Teachers. Indian Journal of Health & Well-being, 2010, 1, 1-2, 34-35.
Shaikh, F.A., Ghosh, A. & Azam, A.A.S. – Determinants of Perceived Social Support among Recovering Substance Users in Kolkata. Journal of Health & Well-being, 2010, 1, 1-2, 65-69.
Basak,R. & Ghosh, A.-Do Personality Traits have Influence on Self-Efficacy Belief of School Teachers ? Indian Journal of Positive Psychology,2010,2 (1),43-45.
Shaikh, F.A.,& Ghosh, A.- Measuring Meaning Beyond Substance Use : Emperical Understanding of the Concept among Kolkata Substance Absuers. IndianJournal of Positive Psychology,2010,2(1), 39-42.
Ghosh, A- Ego- identity Status in Different Groups of Late adolescents. In P.Singh,P. Bain, Chan- Hoong. Leong, G. Misra,& Y. Ohtsubo (Eds.) Identity, Multiculturalism & Changing Societies, Progress in Asian Social Psychology Series,2011, Vol.8, 95-108, Mac Milan Publishers.
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Basak, R. & Ghosh, A.- School Environment and Locus of Control in Relation to Job Satisfaction Among School Teachers – A study from Indian Perspective, Procedia-Social & Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier Ltd, 2011, 29,1199-1208.
Shaikh, F.A.,& Ghosh, A.—Effect of Social Support and Self-efficacy on Depression among recovering Substance Users. Journal of Psychosocial Research,2011, 6(2),211-219.
Rumki Gupta (Associate Scientist ‘C’)
Rumki Gupta (2010) - Empowerment and Gender Difference in Education Status. Delhi Business Review, 11, 1, 55 - 60.
Rumki Gupta and Sanghamitra Panja (2008-2009) - Gender and Religion Bias on the Academic Achievement of the students of Class X Level, Journal of Education and Psychology, 65, 1- 4, 17 - 29.
Rumki Gupta (2007) – Effectiveness of Training for Merchant Navy Personnel, Psychological Assessment in Personnel selection, S Subramony and SB Raj (Eds.) DRDO Special Publication Series, Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi.
Rumki Gupta (2007) - Special Education in India. The Encyclopedia of Special Education, 3rd Edition, Vol.2, Reynolds, C.R. and Fletcher-Janzen, E. (Eds.) John Wiley and Sons: New York, pp.1089-1091.
Rumki Gupta (2007) - Deprivation of Food Items on Academic Achievement of Young Girls. Health Psychology: Psychosocial Perspective, Sunita Malhotra, Promila Batra and Amrita Yadava (Eds.) Common wealth Publishers. New Delhi, pp. 169 -173.
S. N. Chakrabartty and Rumki Gupta (2006) - Quality Index in Education, Productivity, 47, 3, 273 - 282.
Rumki Gupta (2006) - Factors underlying Marks in Madhyamik Examination of West Bengal, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 32, 2 135 -141.
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Papers published in Journals, 2008-12
V. K. Ramachandran
V. K. Ramachandran, 2011, “Agrarian Relations and Village Studies”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol 54, No. 2, 2011.
V. K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan, 2010, Land, Assets, Income and Employment in Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh, The Marxist, 26, 2, April-June, pp 51-76.
V. K. Ramachandran, 2010, “Dungariya Village, Southern Rajasthan”, Critical Asian Studies, 42, 2, pp 273-288.
V. K. Ramachandran and V. Rawal, 2010, “Globalisation and Indian Agriculture”, Global Labour Journal , 1, 1, 56-91, Special Issue on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India.
Madhura Swaminathan
Madhura Swaminathan, 2010, “The New Poverty Line: A Methodology Deeply Flawed”, Indian Journal of Human Development 4, 1, 2010, pp 121-125.
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal, 2011, “Is India a Country of Low Income Inequality” Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, available at http://www.ras.org.in/index.php?Article=6512bd43d9caa6e02c990b0a82652dca
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal, 2011 “Are there Benefits from the Cultivation of Bt Cotton? A Comment Based on Data from a Vidarbha Village” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 1, 2011, pp 101-124.
Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan, 2011 “Income Inequality and Caste in Village India” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 2, 2011, pp 108-133.
Madhura Swaminathan: Food and Nutrition Insecurity, Yojana, Vol. 51, May 2007, pp.15-17.
Madhura Swaminathan, “Programmes to Protect the Hungry: Lessons from India”, UN Chronicle, December 2008.
Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan and Niladri S. Dhar, “On Diversification of Rural Incomes: A View from Three Villages”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 51, No. 2, April-June, 2008, pp 237-256.
Molly Chattopadhyay
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty, 2011, “Decline of Mica Industry, Informalization, Unionisation and Consequences for Women Workers”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 18:1, January- April .
Molly Chattopadhyay: Sub-Contracting System and Women Workers: A Study of Mica Manufacturing Industry of Jharkhand, Sociological Bulletin,. Vol. 56, No.2, May-August 2007, 289-307.
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Chattopadhyay, Molly and Sanyal, Siddhartha: Incidence of Occupational Disease among Mica-workers of Jharkhand, Journal of Human Ecology, 21(1) 59.
Chattopadhyay, Molly and Suparna Charkraborty "Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the pattern of segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01"; Critical Issues, No. 2, February 2009.
Bholanath Ghosh
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010, “Democratic Centralism., Party Hegemony and Decentralization in West Bengal”, (with Partha Nath mukherji), Sociological Bulletin, 59 (2), May- August, pp.1-17.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010 “Empowerment of Women: A study in Tripura & Meghalaya” in South Asian Anthropologist, Volume 10, Number 1, pp 11-28, March.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010 “Gender Empowerment, Deprivation and Poverty in Rural Jharkhand: A Case Study”, (with N.Sen,& U.K.De), in International Journal of Current Research, Vol. II, Page 107-116, December, available online at http:// www.journalcra.com.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2011 “Women in Information Communication Technology” (with Asmita Bhattacharyya), Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Page 006- 014, March.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010 “Creation in Rural Areas”, in Samaj-Tattya, Vol.16, Issue -2, December 2010, Page 60-67, A bi-lingual Half-yearly Journal of Sociology, Kolkata.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2011 “Industrialization Efforts in Singur and its Consequences”, South Asian Anthropologist, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2011,“Helpless Women: In the context of the present Fundamentalism & Globalization”, in Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Jadavpur University, Vol. 4, number 4, June 2011, pp 86-97.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2009, “Milk-co-operatives and Rural Development in West Bengal: A few issues” South Asian Anthropologist”, 9, 2, pp 167-76 S.C. Roy Institute of Anthropological Studies, Ranchi, Bihar.
Suparna Som
Som S, Pal M , Chakrabarty S, Bharati P., 2010, Socio-Economic Impact on Child Immunization in the Districts of West Bengal, India. Singapore Medical Journal, 51(5), pp: 406-412.
Suparna Som S, Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati (2010). Do Socio-economic Development and Improvement of Health Go Together? A Comparison among Indian States. Social Change, 40 (4) pp. 525-543.
Suparna Som: Role of individual and household level factors on Stunting: A comparative study in three Indian States, Annals of Human Biology, Vol. 34, No.6, December 2007, pp. 632-646.
Suparna Som, Bharati, S and Chatterjee AK: The role of women in weavers’ family: A case study in a West Bengal Village, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Vol. 42, No.1, 2007, 23-30.
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Prevalence of Anaemia and Its Determinants among Non-Pregnant and Pregnant Women in India”. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 20:4, 347-359, 2008. Bharati, P, Som,S, Chakrabarty, S, Bharati, S and Pal, M.
Sushmita Bharati
Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P.2010. Height and weight of pre-school children: A comparison between two National Family Health Surveys in India. Journal of Empirical Research in Social Science. 5: 15-27
Bharati, S., Adak, DK., Som, S., Mukherji, D., Pal, M., Vasulu, TS and Bharati, P. 2010. Variation of Stature in Indian Populations: Influence of Ethnicity, Geography and Climate. Collegium anthrpopologicum. 34:1207-1213.
Bharati, Susmita., Pal, Manoranjan [ERU]., Chakrabarty,Suman and Bharati, Premananda [BAU]. :Trends in socio-economic and nutritional status of children younger than 6 years in India, Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 23, 324- 340, 2011.
Sen,Pronab, Bharati, Susmita., Som, Suparna., Pal, Manoranjan [ERU] and Bharati, Premananda [BAU]. :Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in India: A study of two recent time periods, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 32, 84-93, 2011.
Bharati, Susmita., Shome, Suparna., Pal, Manoranjan [ERU], Chaudhury,Prabir and Bharati, Premananda [BAU]. : Is son preference pervasive in India? Journal of Gender Studies, 20, 291-298, 2011.
Bharati, S,. Pal, M. [ERU], Bandyopadhyay,M., Bhakta,A., Chakrabarty,S and Bharati, P [BAU]. : Prevalence and causes of low birth weight in India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301- 313, 2011.
Bharati, P, Bharati, S, Pal, M, Chakrabarty, S, Som, S and Gupta, R 2009, “Growth and Nutritional Status of Pre-School Children in India: Rural-Urban and Gender Differences” Collegium Antropologicum 33, 1, 7– 21
Bharati, P, Shome,S, Chakrabarty, S, Bharati, S and Pal, M. 2009, “Burden of anemia and its socioeconomic determinants among adolescent girls in India” Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 30, 3, 217-226.
Bharati, P, Chakrabarty, S, Som, S. and M.Pal 2009. “Socio-economic Determinants of Underweight Children in ‘West Bengal, India: A District-wise Analysis” Asia Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 1-6
Susmita Bharati, Bharati, P, Pal, M, Chakroborty, S and Gupta, R.: Chronic energy deficiency among the Indian women by residential status, Ecology Food and Nutrition, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2008, pp. 170-187.
Chakrabarty, S, Pal, M, Bharati, S and Bharati, P. 2008, “Body Mass Index and Nutritional Status of Adult Males of Orissa and Bihar States in India”. Homo Journal of Comparative Biology. 59: 3, 235-251.
Sonali Chakraborty
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty, 2011, “Decline of Mica Industry, Informalization, Unionisation and Consequences for Women Workers”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 18:1, January- April .
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P. Pathak and Sonali Chakraborty, 2009, “Statistical Models for Job Potentiality in different categories of labour in three north Indian States”, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol 41, 91-102.
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty "Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the pattern of segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01"; Critical Issues, No. 2, February 2009.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 66 Linguistic Research Unit List of Publications from April 2007- March 2012
Probal Dasgupta
Dasgupta, Probal “Concrete knowledge, the conversational turn, and translation”, AI and Society, 2007, vol. 21, No. 1-2, Pp. 7-13.
Dasgupta, Probal “The athletics of English in India”, Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2007, Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 73-85,
Dasgupta, Probal “Mother tongue vitality: translation as cultivation”, Sraboni, 2007. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 29-36.
Dasgupta, Probal and Ghosh, Rajat “The nominal left periphery in Bangla and Asamiya”, Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2007. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 3-29.
Dasgupta, Probal “A dependency syntax of Bangla”, Indian Journal of Linguistics, 2007. Vo. 25-26. No. 1. Pp. 15-97.
Dasgupta, Probal “Names, writing and perspective”. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2008. Vol. 5. No. 1. Pp. 126-34.
Dasgupta, Probal “Bangla vector verbs and their selectivities”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. 2009. Vol. 2. No. 1. Pp. 41-68.
Dasgupta, Probal “Recontextualizing Lakshmiswar Sinha. Language Problems and Language Planning, 2010. Vol. 34. No. 3. Pp. 259-266.
Dasgupta, Probal “Translating fiction for children: pedagogy and the post-national imaginary”. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, 2010. Vol. 47. No. 1. Pp. 13-26.
Dasgupta, Probal “Retrieving the cognitive from the industrial: the translator as apprentice”. Translation Today, 2011. Vol. 6. No. 1-2. Pp. 72-96.
Dasgupta, Probal “Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla”. Indian Linguistics. 2011. Vol. 72. No. 1-4. Pp. 103-112.
Dasgupta, Probal “Fear and beauty in Tagore’s Naibedya”. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature. 2011. Vol. 48. No. 1. Pp. 93-114.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “The Morphodynamics of Bengali compounds: decomposing them for lexical processing”, Language in India, 2007, Vol. 6, No. 7, Pp. 1-25.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Speech corpora Vs. Text Corpora: Need for Separate Development”, Indian Linguistics, 2007, Vol. 67, No. 1-4, Pp. 65-82.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Frequency-based analysis of words and morphemes in Bengali text corpus”, Indian Journal of Linguistics, 2007, Vol. 25-26. No. 1, Pp. 223-253.
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Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Generating electronic lexical resources from text corpora in Bengali”, Indian Linguistics, 2007. Vol. 68. No. 3-4. Pp. 361-371.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Some techniques used for processing Bengali corpus to meet new demands of linguistics and language technology”, SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2007. Vol. 4. No. 2. Pp. 12-31.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Toward Lemmatization of Bengali Words for Building Language Technology Resources”. South Asian Language Review. 2008. Vol. 17. No. 2. Pp. 1-15.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Context and Contextual Word Meaning”. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. 2008. Vol. 5. No. 2. Pp. 21-31.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Corpus Linguistics: An Empirical Approach for Studying a Natural Language”. Language Forum. 2008. Vol. 34. No. 2. Pp. 1-21.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Linguistic works in Bengali (2001-2007): a brief review”. Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 2008. Vol. 15. No. 1. Pp. 217-235.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Payel Dutta Chowdhury and Abhisek Sarkar. “Naturalization of English words in modern Bengali: a corpus-based empirical study”. Language Forum. 2009. Vol. 35. No. 2. Pp. 127-142.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Payel Dutta Chowdhury “Bengali matrimonial classifieds: some sociolinguistic cues to marital orientation”, Language Forum. 2009. Vol. 35. No. 2. Pp. 34 -52.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Corpus linguistics: a time-tested strategy for studying a natural language”. Language Forum. 2009. Vol. 35. No. 2. July-Dec. Pp. 5-18.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Relevance of electronically developed dialect corpora in dialectology”. Indian Linguistics. 2009. Vol. 70. No, 1-4. Pp. 91-101.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Linguistic tasks on translation corpora for developing resources for manual and machine translation”, SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2010. Vol. 7. No. 2. Pp. 2-18.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Translation Corpora and Machine Aided Translation”, Translation Today, 2010. Vol. 6. No. 1-2. Pp. 134-153.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Use of English corpora as a primary resource to teach English to the Bengali learners”. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2011. Vol. 37. No. 1. Pp. 7-18.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “The Bengali Script and the Unicode”. Print Out. Vol. 2. No. 8. Pp. 1-16.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. 2011. Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 68 Population Studies Unit List of Publications from April 2007- March 2012
Prasanta Pathak
Kumar, Santosh, Pathak, Prasanta and Gupta, S.D. (2008) Assessment of Sustainable Health Care Quality: A Study of State Owned Tertiary Care Hospital ,Journal of Cooperation among University, Research and Industrial Enterprises, Vol.1, No.3, p 1-41.
Pathak, Prasanta and Chakraborty, Sonali (2009) “Statistical Models for Finding out Determinants of Potentiality to Get Absorbed in Jobs for Different Categories of Labour in Three North Indian States” , Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. XXXXI, No.1, p.91-102.
Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao and Pathak Prasanta (2010) “Special form of Gompertz model and its application”, Genus, Vol. LXVI, No.2, p. 95-125.
Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao and Pathak, Prasanta (2010) “Spatial and Temporal Changes in Fertility Behavior of Indian Women Cohorts”, Genus, Vol. LXVI, No.3, p. 69-92.
Pranati Datta
Datta Pranati (2007) “Urbanisation in India”, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. XXXIX, No 1, p.124-133.
Datta Pranati (2007) “Tribal Women in India”, Indian Journal of Human Rights and the Law, Vol. 4, No 1&2, p 299 – 322.
Datta Pranati, Sadhu Swati, Bhattacharya B.N and Majumdar P.K.(2008) “Demographic Effects of Forced Illegal Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal : A Qualitative Study”, Dialogue, Vol. 10, No 2, p 144 – 156.
Datta Pranati (2009) “Tribal Fertility by Parity Progression Ratio in India and Madhya Pradesh”, The Oriental Anthropologist, A Bi-Annual International Journal of the Science of Man, Vol. 9, No. 1, p 23-36.
Datta Pranati (2010) “Urbanisation and Environment”, Geography and You, Vol.10, No 60, p 6- 10.
Datta Pranati (2010) “Evaluation of Indian Census Data”, International Journal of Human Development and Information System,Vol.3, No 1&2, 2010, p 27-36.
Datta Pranati (2011 ) “Female Trafficking and Illegal Migration from Bangladesh to India”, Pakistan Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 18, no 1, p 47-62.
Datta Pranati (2011) “Trafficking and Illegal Female Nepali Migration in India”, International Journal of Afro Asian Studies, Vol. 2, No 1, pp 34-44.
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Datta, Pranati (2011) “Immigration from Bangladesh to India : Causes,Consequences and Policy”, International Journal of Mainstream Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No 2, p 11-22.
Subhash Barman
Barman, Subhash (2008) “Role of gram panchayat members in improving child immunisation and maternal-child health programmes”, Bharatiya Samajik Bichintan, Vol.7, No.1, p 63-72.
Barman, Subhash (2009) “Role of the elected panchayat samity members in national health and family welfare programs- A Case Study”, The Qualitative Report, Vol.14, No.1, p 20-41.
Barman, Subhash (2009) “Socio-economic status of the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes in India”, Voice of Dalit, Vol.2, No.1, p 99-126.
Barman, Subhash (2010) “Parental education, parental death, poverty and socio-economic impact on school attendance status of children in India”, Academic Leadership, Vol.8, No.4.
Barman, Subhash (2011) “Socio-economic and demographic impact on child labour in India”, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Vol.3, No.2, p 376-403.
Partha De
Partha De , Arpita Dhar , B.N. Bhattacharya (2012) “Efficiency of Health Care System in India: An Inter-State Analysis using DEA Approach, Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 27, No. 4, p 325-4.
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Research Publications by N.S.S.Narayana, EAU, ISI Bangalore Centre during 2008 - 2012.
N.S.S.Narayana: “Social Value System in India – Looking back to go ahead”. Paper prepared for the project “Identifying the Elements of Heritage of Development Thinking in India” - ISEC, and the Development Foundation, Bangalore, January 2012. Under processing to be published as a monograph.
N.S.S.Narayana: “Ancient Hindu Principles of Social and Economic Management – Are they against globalization?” Published in Journal of Social and Economic Development, pages: 1- 44, Vol.13, No.1, January-June 2011.
N.S.S.Narayana: Who is Not a Statistician! ISI Karnataka Branch Lecture. Paper presented at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, 13 January 2010.
N.S.S.Narayana: A Book-review article on “Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research” edited by Francois Bourguignon, Yehuda Elkana and Boris Pleskovic, published by The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2007; published in Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, NIEPA, New Delhi, Vol. XXIII, No.2, April 2009, pages: 205-207.
N.S.S.Narayana and Probal P Ghosh: Macroeconomic Simulations based on VEC Models, Chapter 3 in Macro-Modeling for the Eleventh Five Year Plan of India, Edited by Kirit S. Parikh, Planning Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, published by Academic Foundation, New Delhi, May 2009, pgs: 37 - 118.
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Personality Profile, Stress and Job Satisfaction of Indian Sea Farers
Interim Report
Rumki Gupta (Principal Investigator) Jayeta Dhara (Project Linked Personnel) Prof. S. N. Chakrabartty- Associated Scientist
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 203, B. T. ROAD, KOLKATA – 700108
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Introduction:
In the profession of seafarers, both physical and mental load are considered high. The work conditions and content of the work contains many potential stress factors. Maneuvering a ship has many mental stressing phases for both the deck and engine room officers and crews. Shipping technology is changing continuously putting more stress to the seafarers and possibly resulting in greater number of accidents. Good numbers of Seafarers are choosing shore jobs after a short period at sea. Seafarers spend more time on board ship with few visits ashore during their duties on board the vessel. The seafarers work in an environment of multiple cultures, multiple languages with demand for higher skills. They are required to be ready for 24 hours either for normal operations or for catering to the requirements of contingencies. Thus, team work, stress tolerance, job satisfaction etc. appear to be relevant to the working life of sea. The study on behavioral profile of seafarers and their effect on accidents are likely to throw light in the common endeavor to minimize accidents, wastages and improve Risk Management Process. Remedial actions may help to reduce such accidents and wastage and may add to the quality of life of sea farers in particular and Indian Maritime Sector in general. Due to the isolated work environment aboard ships, it is of paramount importance for seafarers to be in optimum condition at all times, such that they can respond to any emergencies on board; after all, the ship is their home. However, rules governing the way of life aboard merchant ships, such as work scheduling are less stringent than those of naval vessels, resulting in a possible neglect of the welfare of merchant seamen. This may lead to decreased job satisfaction and mental and physical wellbeing, thus contributing to the onset of stress which further exacerbates the problem of poor performance of duties. There are certain unique characteristics of the seafarer’s occupation that have to be considered when studying the psychological work environment on board ships. The occupations of seafarers and the crews on ships as a whole differ a lot from land based workplaces (Kristiansen, 2005). Since seafarers work in shifts, the results are tough working hours and often time pressure connected to travelling time, and operations as unloading and loading of the cargo. There are many psychological stressors as result of the tough working hours. Fatigue, inadequate rest between watches and sleep loss by being woken unexpectedly often are seen as such stressors.
Social Sciences Division, ISI 72 Another important stress factor for all crew groups is separation from home (Kristiansen, 2005). Missing the family and lack of contact during periods of illness at home are both typical situations which are also known from studies within the offshore industry (Kristiansen, 2005). Factors such as worry about family, lack of support from home and absence of stability in home life are mentioned as contributors to stress. All the stated traits specifically apply for seafarers working on different type of ships. The unique functioning of crews has to be considered when studying factors that shape the psychological and the physical work environment on board ships. As variables these can be considered as an indicator of emotional well-being or psychological health. Understanding human factors underlying major shipping accidents appears to be a topic of key importance for maritime policy and management. Studies show that around 80% of causes of marine accidents are attributable to human errors (Moore, 1993; National Research Council 1976) Human error has traditionally been viewed as an individual cognitive, behavioural caused by carelessness or ignorance. However, there is a growing recognition of the influence of situational factors in provoking and shaping errors. (Carl, 2009) Situational factors such as inappropriate planning, wrong interpretation, poor communication, team support etc. can provide error traps for people to fall into. Reason (1997) observed that to understand and manage human error, we need to focus on human condition and also on conditions in which people work. Hill (1972) found that fewer men remain in the Merchant Navy for longer periods and look upon to sea as a short term career. This may be categorized as “wastage” since producing a Nautical Officer or a Marine Engineer cost to the society. Learning from past accident is challenging. The sequence of events leading to an accident is in fact a case study and often appears to be unique to each such case. To learn from past accidents in a generalized form, drawing systematic, general and widely applicable factors into their causes and mapping casual patterns across several level of analysis was proposed by Carl in 2009. Wall (1980) found that job-satisfaction and personality of shipmates are linked. He also found that personality profile of Sea-farers differs with the same for people working ashore. Hill (1972) found that quality of relationship on board becomes extremely important both horizontally and vertically between shipmates. From the review of literature it has been observed that various studies have highlighted in finding factors which cause accidents on sea. The present study aims at empirical investigation of personality profile of sea-farers with emphasis on stress, team work, job satisfaction and related aspects and their roles in shipping. The study also proposes to assess job satisfaction level of Indian Sea-farers and their effects.
METHOD Sample: In this project, data are being collected on the Indian Sea-farers in the officers’ category (both Nautical and Marine Engineers). Due to difficulty of access to personnel in port and the time delays involved in using the post, it was decided to approach those officers who were registered in Indian Maritime University, Kolkata Campus. To facilitate collections of data in a short time period, relevant data have been collected from the participants to various post-sea courses being conducted by Indian Maritime University, Kolkata Campus. Participants to those post-sea courses are being drawn from sea- farers working in various Shipping Lines (both Indian Flag vessels and Foreign Flag vessels). All participants were informed that participation was voluntary and about the confidentiality treatment of their reply. Measures used: The following measures have been used depending upon the purpose of the study. 1. The job satisfaction questionnaire consisted of 20 items as listed below. i) Leave, ii) salary, iii) Catering, iv) Mail facilities, v) Interesting work, vi) Promotion prospects, vii) Training, viii) working conditions, ix) Accommodation, x) Family welfare, xi) Job status, xii) Job security xiii) Participation in management, xiv) type of trade xv) company developments, xvi)
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Provision of uniform, xvii) Individuality to shore staff, xviii) Size of crew, xix) Ship type and xx) Continuity of ships 2. The stress questionnaire was designed for the evaluation of subjective perception of work and the individual feeling of work-related stress. The questionnaire consisted of 10 items as listed below: i) Mental strain related to the complexity of work ii) Lack of rewards for service iii) Lack of self- confidence related to the organization of work iv) Social relations v) Feeling of threat vi) Physical onerousness vii) Unpleasant work conditions viii) Lack of control ix) Lack of support x) Sense of responsibility 3. In the present study personality factors were considered in two ways i. e., individual factors and work- related factors. The individual factors comprised age, ego strength, extroversion-introversion, pessimism- optimism. On the other hand the work-related factors consisted of i) rough seas vs. other disturbing factors ii) rough seas causing problems iii) Noise disturbing iv) Climate conditions disturbing v) Sequence of work-leisure on board vi) Work place vii) Variability-monotony viii) Possibility to use skills and knowledge ix) Control over work x) Distribution of work xi) Insecurity in one’s employment xii) Social climate between shipmates xiii) Appreciation. Procedure: The measures have been administered along with some socio economic information on the Nautical Officers as well as Marine Engineers. After collecting the data, these were scrutinized carefully and scoring was done accordingly. The data so far analyzed have been presented in the result section.
Results: Table – 1 Mean and Standard Deviation of the participants on Job Satisfaction and stress score
Variables N Mean SD Job Satisfaction 56 42.88 10.641 Stress 56 23.27 4.097
Table – 2 Correlation between Job Satisfaction and stress ( N = 56)
Job Satisfaction Stress Job Satisfaction 1 -.044 Stress total -.044 1
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Table – 3 Comparison of Mean, SD and t values between two groups Nautical (N= 47) Engineer (N=9) t value
Mean SD Mean SD Job Satisfaction 42.68 11.245 43.89 7.079 .420 Stress 23.64 3.881 21.33 4.873 1.340
Discussion: The concept of job satisfaction consists of the feelings and attitudes one has about one’s job. It can be considered as the global feeling about the job, or as related constellation of attitudes about various aspects of the job (Riggio, 2009). There are two approaches to conceptualizing job satisfaction (Spector, 1997). One approach is global approach, which considers overall job satisfaction. This approach is used when the overall bottom line attitude is of interest. Overall satisfaction may be composite of numerous factors as satisfaction with pay, the type of work itself, working conditions, the type of supervision, company policies and procedures, relations with co-workers, and opportunities for promotion and advancement. Stress plays a role in many environments. It is a determinant of functioning, health or performance. Job satisfaction may be the amount of perceived stress on board a ship. In the present study, job satisfaction and stress are negatively related. Spector (2003) revealed that there are many different conditions at job that might serve as job stressors. Comparison was done between two groups and result is presented in Table 3. t value is not significant in case of job satisfaction and stress between the Nautical Officers and Marine Engineers. References: 1. Carl Macrae (2009) Human Factors at Sea : Common patterns of error in grounding and collisions, Maritime Policy Management, February, Vol 36, No. 1, p 21 – 38. 2. Hill, JMM (1972) The Seafaring Career. Tavistock Institute. 3. Kristiansen, S. (2005). Maritime transportation: Safety management and risk analysis. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann. 4. Moore, W.H. and Bea, R.G. (1993) Management of human-error in operations of marine system. Department of Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering Report. HOE – 93 – 1, University of California, Barkley. 5. National Research Council 1976, Human Error in Merchant Marine Safety, Washington DC, National Academy Press. 6. Reason, J.T. (1997) Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents (Aldershot: Ashgate). 7. Riggio, R.E. (2009). Introduction to industrial/organizational psychology (5th ed). London: Pearson Education. 8. Spector, P.E. (1997). Job Satisfaction. Application, assessment, causes, and consequences. Ca: Sage Publications. 9. Spector, P. E. (2003). Industrial and organizational psychology. Research and practice. NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 10. Wall, M R (1980) Job Satisfaction and Personality of Merchant Navy Officers. Maritime Policy Management, Vol 7, No. 3, p 155 – 174.
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Rupees in lakhs Units Name of the Project Revenue Capital Total New Project General 2 LRU 2.2 Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. 2.800 2.800 4.1 Students’ temperament styles, parenting styles and academic achievement 4 PRU of school students. 2.950 2.950 5.2 A micro level study of childhood obesity in Kolkata and its periphery, West Bengal, India. 3.940 2.000 5.940 5 SRU 5.3 Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of Jharkhand. 1.850 1.850 Sub-total: 11.540 2.000 13.540 On-Going Project North East 2 LRU 2.4 Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework. 2.300 2.300 4.3 Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining 4 PRU 3.400 3.400 academic performance of school students of North- Eastern India. Sub-total: 5.700 0.000 5.700 General 2 LRU 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form. 4.000 4.000 4 PRU 4.2 Differential validity of Computer programming abilities. 2.800 2.800 5.4 Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry. 1.500 1.500 5 SRU 5.5 Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings. 9.400 9.400 Sub-total: 17.700 0.000 17.700 Grand Total : 34.940 2.000 36.940
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Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-14 Rupees in lakhs Sl. Revenue Capital Total No. Name of the Project Economic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 7.260 7.260 2 Seminar 0.610 0.610 3 Internal travel 0.660 0.660 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 1.650 1.650 5 Computer Consumables 2.420 2.420 6 Repair and Maintenance 1.820 1.820 7 Office Expenditures 0.480 0.480 8 Capital Expenditure 5.450 5.450 Sub-total: 14.900 5.450 20.350 Linguistic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 0.500 0.500 2 Seminars (deparmental, on regular basis) 0.300 0.300 3 Internal travel 0.500 0.500 4 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900 5 Maintenance for Computer & Equipment 0.500 0.500 6 Office Expenditures 0.700 0.700 7 Capital (Computer, Software, Scanner, Printer, Furniture, etc.) 5.000 5.000 8 Fellowship for one JRF/SRF (two) 5.500 5.500 Sub-total: 8.900 5.000 13.900 Population Studies Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 7.000 7.000 2 Research Fellows, PLP, Statistical Trainees etc.(1 JRF + 1 SRF) 3.500 3.500 3 Computer Consumables 0.850 0.850 4 Seminars by invited external experts 0.750 0.750 5 Office expenses 0.800 0.800 6 Repair, Maintenance, etc. 0.800 0.800 7 Capital Expenditure 3.000 3.000 Sub-total: 13.700 3.000 16.700 Psychology Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 1.200 1.200 2 Computer Consumables 1.200 1.200 3 Research Fellow 2.850 2.850 4 Maintenance for computer & equipment 1.300 1.300 5 Seminar/Workshop/Training programme 1.200 1.200 6 Software 1.200 1.200 7 Office Expenditure 0.750 0.750 8 Internal travel 0.750 0.750 9 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300 10 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000 Sub-total: 10.750 5.000 15.750 Sociological Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 2.500 2.500 2 Seminar 0.700 0.700 3 Internal travel 0.600 0.600 4 Research Fellow (two) 4.000 4.000 5 Computer Consumables 0.800 0.800 6 Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.750 0.750 7 Software 0.600 0.600 Capital Equipment: Upgrading furniture/computers A/C and other 8 equipment 2.500 2.500 Sub-total: 9.950 2.500 12.450 Planning Unit (Dellhi) 1 Visiting Scientists 14.000 14.000 2 Post-doctoral fellows-cum-Lecturers 20.000 20.000 3 Travel of Scientists 1.000 1.000 4 Seminar Series 1.000 1.000 5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables 1.500 1.500 6 Misc. Including Communications & fax 1.000 1.000 7 Annual Conference 3.000 3.000 8 Journal Submission & professional memberships 1.000 1.000 9 Maintenance 1.000 1.000 Upgrading of Computers manuals software Furniture, fittings, equipment 10 etc. 9.000 9.000 Sub-total: 43.500 9.000 52.500
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Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore) 1 Visiting Scientists 30.000 30.000 2 PC, & Printers 0.500 3.200 3.700 3 Computer Consumables 0.750 0.750 4 Econometric & Computer Software 1.000 1.000 5 Repair & Maintenance 0.750 0.750 6 Furniture 0.750 0.750 7 Furnishing & Facelift 0.500 0.500 8 Travel Grants 1.000 1.000 Sub-total: 33.500 4.950 38.450 Social Sciences Division Office 1 Visiting Scientists 10.500 10.500 2 Computer Consumables 0.500 0.500 3 Office Expenditure 1.500 1.500 4 Travel for Academic Purpose 2.000 2.000 5 Maintenance 0.900 0.900 6 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000 Sub-total: 15.400 5.000 20.400 Grand Total: 150.600 39.900 190.500
Total Budget of SSD= 227.440