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INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 1997-98 PROGRAMMES STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS ARUNA ASAF ALI MARG, NEW DELHI-11() 067 Publication No. 206 1999 Non-Priced Printed at Shivam Offset Press, Al211 Naraina Industrial Area, Phase-1, New Delhi-110 028 and Published by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Post Box 10528 Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, Jawaharlal Nehru University Institutional Area, New Delhi-11 0 067. CONTENTS PROGRA~1ES I. General II. Research Promotion 9 III. Dm:umcntation 20 IV. Publications 26 V. Data Archives 28 VI. International Collaboration 34 VII. ICSSR Regional Centres 49 VIII. Other Programmes 61 IX Research Institutes 70 APPENDICES t 1. Members of the Council 1997-98 81 2. ICSSR Senior Officials 1997-98 83 3. Projects Sanctioned 85 4. Researches Completed 91 5. Fellowships A warded 98 6. Grants-in-Aid for Documentation and Bibliographical Services 107 7. Publication Grants 108 8. Sale and Distribution of Publications 110 9. List of Data Sets Acquired during 1997-98 112 10. Institutions Providing Guidance and Consultancy Services in Data Processing 113 11. Scholars who have availed of the Guidance and Consultancy Services in Data Processing through Different Participating Centres 114 12. Scholars who went Abroad for Attending Conferences/ Data Collection 118 13. Final Allocation and Disbursement of Grants to the Research Institutes during 1997-98 120 Research Institutes 122-203 14. Academic Activities of the Staff During the Year 1997-98 204 STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS 205-261 ICSSR Annual Report 1997-98 I GENERAL This is the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) covering the period Ist April 1997 to 31st March 1998. The ICSSR's main deliberative body, known as the Council, has twenty-six members, - a Chairman, eighteen Social Scientists, six representatives of the Government oflndia nominated by the Government and a Member-Secretary appointed by the ICSSR with the approval of the Government of India (Appendix 1). On 31st March 1997 no new member wa& \lppointed as there was no vacancy caused by retiremefll of any member. Tnt: Co\.uwil has apart from itself, seven other committees comprising of m.embcr:o~ ctmwn bmh from the Council and also from outside (not more than three}. The following Hlble shows the number of meetings of the Co unci I and its standing anct functional committees held during the year 1997-98. Council/Committee No. of Meetings Indian Council of Social Science Research 4 (Four) Planning and Administration Committee 3 (Three) Resean;h Committee 3 (Three) Committee on International Collaboration 1 (One) Research Institutes' Committee 1 (One) Data Archives Com1nittee l (One) Cornmittee on Documentation Services and Research Information. I (One.) During the reporting perioct (1997·98) the ICSSR took the following major initiatives; 1. Constituted a high powered committee under the chairmanship of Justice V .S. Malimath to work out practicable steps towards removing ad hocism on appointments that was continuing since 1980s. · 2. Streamlined the exiting procedures for efficient and tim;,~:; uisro,s.al of pro posals for grants. 3. Near!~ completed the. constru~:.:::,-;1 of the n'lW Qffice complex. 4. Reacttv.<_tted the ~~~::,~~~.:ation prograrnnw including restarting the ICSSRjout:nal n~'~; ~ailed Indian Social Science Review. 2 5. Published 4 volumes of Tribal Studies I II III IV pending for publication. 6. The book entitled, Meeting the Challenges of the European Union Prospects of Indian Exports, published under the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development (IDPAD) received wider acclaim. 7. A National Seminar on 'The Policy of Subsidy', was organized in Jawaharlal Nehru University to discuss the government paper on the Subsidy Issues to facilitate public discussion on an important subject. 8. The first time the ICSSR organized an award giving function for the award of 8 National Fellowships. 9. Initiated a programme on Indian Diaspora. I 0. Signed a Letter of Intent with the Human Science Research Councils of South Africa to promote collaborative programme between India and South Africa. II. Obtained approval of the Government of India for implementing a Resolu tion proposed in September 1992 to initiate a social science collaboration hetween the ICSSR and the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science. 12. Restructured the joint programme with the Soviet Union into Indo-Russian programme in social science collaboration. ICSSR extention counter of Canara Bank was started to facilitate functioning of ICSSR and its Employees. ORGANIZATION The ICSSR has a total strength of 62 Officers (Appendix-2). The Officers of the Council shall be the Chairman, the Member Secretary and such other employees of the Council who can be so designated by the Council. The Chairman shall be honorary and he shall be nominated by the Government of India in the Depart· ment of Education. The Member-Secretary shall be appointed by the Council with the approval of the Central Government. It has also Administrative and Accounts Secretariat, clerks and library assistants, etc. The Council's professional staff have been academically active and contributed a number of papers, in seminar~ conferences in India and abroad. completed doctoral theses, and research reports. and also published books. The details may be seen in Appendix 14. IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE COUNCIL FELLOWSHIPS NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS The ICSSR has presently a total number of ten National Fellowships includinf, .. one each in the categories of J.P. Naik Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru Fcllowship),.c Dr. B.R Arilbedkil!Jellowship and Mahatama Gandhi Fellowship. During thv year under review, thCtc~SR...a_warded 8 national fellowships to the eminent ani distinguished scholars. The fellows 1 ~ . re formally conferred by the form~ President oflndia, Dr. Shanker D1tyal Sharma, at a 1 "' · · ceremony held at Nehn, 3 Memorial Museum and Lihrary, Teen Murti House, New Delhi in March 1998. The research works of two national fellows awarded earlier were in progress during the year. The ICSSR received final research reports in the case of three national fellows during the current year. SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS The Senior Fellowships of the ICSSR are awarded in response to the request of the senior social scientists, who have significant publications to their credit. During the year, the Council awarded 10 such fellowships. Broadly, the themes covered are Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development; Social Justice and Panchayati Raj; Poverty and Human Development; Tribal Economics; Panchayali Raj and Peoples' Participation; Drug Addiction, Energy Studies, etc. The ICSSR received final reports from six senior fellows during the period under review. GENERAL FELLOWSHIPS General Fellowships are also awarded in response to the requests of the young social scientists, who have obtained their Doctorate degree. The Council has awarded 3 general fellowships to the scholars during the current year. The broad themes covered are, Women in Industry, Women's Education, Rural Health, etc. During the year. the JCSSR received final reports in cases of five such scholars. DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS The Council has also introduced priority areas for doctoral fellows. The young scholars may pay attention on the field, and do creative/useful research so that the society gets benefitted. During the year under review the Council has allocated two Doctoral Fellowships to the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, D.B. Rodda Road, Jubilee Circle, Dhm·wad so that scholars belonging to the surrounding region be benefittt:d. The Council has also given special provision to North-Eastern Rt:gion schol ars and fivt: scholars were awarded Doctoral Fellowships, exclusiwly belonging to North-East. PROJECTS RESEARCH PROJECTS During the year 1997-98, it was proposed to sanction I 25 research projects in social science disciplines. Against this target, the Council could only sanction 74 projects. The short-fall is due to the extremely low rates of remuneration for research staff in projects which discourages scholars from seeking financial support. As per the current rules, a junior research assistant in the project is entitled to get Rs. 800 per month while the minimum wage for a labour is Rs. 1950 per month. 4 The Council requested the Ministry of Human Resource Development ~q revise the salary structure of the project staff at par with the staff employed in research projects in other similar research organisations of the Government. Bu~ so far llP response to this effect was ;eceived. COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECT£ During the period 1997-98, 70 project reports ,against the target of 90 were received. Project Directors were reminded regularly to furnish their final reports in time but due to academic commitments and other administrntlv&! responsiqilities, some of them could not finalize their report in the stipulated time frame. A rnajoF problem which is responsible for delay in completion of projects in time is the meagre emoluments which we are still providing to the projec~ staff and with the result no suitable staff are found to work for the projects. Besides, Pmject PirectQf§ sometimes face problems in dealing with the affiliating insLitution/univQrsiti~~ sp far as getting funds in time from them is concerned. Out of seventy reports, one final report on the major research project entlrlttd 'National Election Study 1996' was received in four volumes namely (i) Recent Publications on Electoral PqJi~ics 1996-97, (ii) Election and Social Change in India: Results of National Election Stu4y J996, (iii) State Politics in India: Exploration in Competitive Politics and Social C/langG, Vol. I: North and West, and (iv) State Politics in India: Exploration in Competitive Pp)itjp and Social Change Vol. II, South & East. A sum of Rs. 16,27,500 was sanctioned for the project and Dr. V.B. SingjJ. of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi was its Project Director, All the four volumes of the reports arc available in our library for refercnc() and consultation purposes by the scholars.