PLAN BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR 2016-2017
Revised Final Copy As on 14th August 2015
Social Sciences Division
Indian Statistical Institute 203, Barrackpore Trunk Road Kolkata 700 108 2 Social Sciences Division, ISI
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Plan New Projects
Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page New, Noth East Project 1 LRU 2.1 Advanced Academic Programs for North Eastern States (Northeast, New) (2016- … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 8 2017) and Probal Dasgupta 2 SOSU 6.1 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, New) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 11 New, General Project 3 ERU 1.1 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, New) (2016-2019) … Souvik Roy … 13 4 PRU 4.1 Safe school survey (General, New) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 20 5 PRU 4.2 Orientation training program on Psychological Data Analytics: Summer/Winter school … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 25 (General, New) (2016-2017) 6 SRU 5.1 Small-marginal landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in Jharkhand … Hari Charan Behera … 29 (General, New) (2016-2018) 7 SOSU 6.2 Measuring the Untapped Human Resource Potential of the 60+ Population in India … NachiketaChattopa … 32 (General, New) (2015-2018) dhyay
Plan 0n-Going Projects
Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page On-Going, Noth East Project 1 LRU 2.2 The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla (Northeast, On- … Probal Dasgupta … 36 Going) (2014-2017) 2 SOSU 6.3 North East Official Statistics Workshop … Prasanta Pathak … 38 (Northeast, On-Going) 3 EAU 8.1 Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura (Northeast, On- … Madhura … 39 going) (2015-2017) Swaminathan On-Going, General Project 4 ERU 1.2 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with … Priyodorshi Banerjee … 42 Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal and Indraneel (General, On-Going) Dasgupta 5 LRU 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary (General, On-Going) (2015-2018) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 44 6 PRU 5.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka (General, On-going) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 48 (2015-2018) 7 PRU 5.3 The contribution of unpaid family workers in the handloom sector of textile industry. … Sonali Chakraborty … 53 (General, On-going) (2015-2017) 8 EPU 7.1 Annual Conference (General, On-going) … Faculty of EPU … 57
New Plan Projects start from page no. 7 On-Going Plan Projects start from page no. 35
Plan Non-Projects (2016-17) start from page no. 58
Publication (2010-15) starts from page no. 73 Interim Report (2014-15) 123
Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2016-17) [summary Sheet] 124 Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Non-Projects (2016-17) [summary Sheet] 125
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Contents (By unit)
Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page
Members of the Technical Advisory Committee, Social Sciences Division for the year 2014-2016 … … 6
1 Economic Research Unit 1.1 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, New) (2016-2019) … Souvik Roy … 13 1.2 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Priyodorshi Banerjee and … 42 Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal (General, On-Going) … Indraneel Dasgupta Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 59 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, ERU … … 74
2 Linguistic Research Unit 2.1 Advanced Academic Programs for North Eastern States (Northeast, New) (2016-2017) … Niladri Sekhar Dash and … 8 Probal Dasgupta 2.2 The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla (Northeast, On-Going) (2014-2017) … Probal Dasgupta … 36 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary (General, On-Going) (2015-2018) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 44 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 60 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, LRU … … 84 Interim Report (2014-15) … Probal Dasgupta … 123
3 Population Studies Unit Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 62 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, PSU … … 94
4 Psychology Research Unit 4.1 Safe school survey (General, New) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 20 4.2 Orientation training program on Psychological Data Analytics: Summer/Winter school (General, New) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 25 (2016-2017) Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 63 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2018, PRU … … 96
5 Sociological Research Unit 5.1 Small-marginal landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in Jharkhand (General, New) … Hari Charan Behera … 29 (2016-2018) 5.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka (General, On-going) (2015-2018) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 48 5.3 The contribution of unpaid family workers in the handloom sector of textile industry. (General, On- … Sonali Chakraborty … 53 going) (2015-2017) Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 65 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, SRU … … 100
6 Sampliing & Official Statistics Unit 6.1 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, New) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 11
6.2 Measuring the Untapped Human Resource Potential of the 60+ Population in India (General, New) … NachiketaChattopadhyay … 32 (2015-2018) 6.3 North East Official Statistics Workshop (Northeast, On-Going) … Prasanta Pathak … 38 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 67 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, SOSU … … 105
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7 Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre 7.1 Annual Conference (General, On-going) … … 57 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 68 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, EPU, Delhi Centre … … 108
8 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre 8.1 Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura (Northeast, On-going) (2015-2017) … Madhura Swaminathan … 39
Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 71 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2010 – 2015, EAU, Bangalore Centre … … 120
9 Social Sciences Division Office Non-project plan proposals for the year 2016-17 … … 72
Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2016-17) … … 124 Divisional Plan Budget for Non-Projects (2016-17) … … 125
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Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the year 2014-2016
1. Professor Bimal Kr. Roy Director (Chairman) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
2. Professor Manoj Kumar Panda Director, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, North Campus, Delhi-110007. India.
3. Professor Aravind Pandey Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029
4. Professor Sarmila Banerjee Calcutta University Rajiv Gandhi Chair professor Eco-systems and Sustainable Development 56A, B. T. Road, Kolkata 700050
5. Professor T.J. Kamalanabhan Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai 600036
6. Professor Tista Bagchi Department of Linguistics University of Delhi Arts faculty Extension Building Delhi 110007
7. Professor Partha Nath Mukherji Residence: Flat 803, Jasmanium 2 Vatika City, Sohna Road, Sector 49, Gurgaon - 122002, HARYANA
8. Professor Manoranjan Pal Professor-in-Charge (Convener), Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108
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New Projects
Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page
New, Noth East Project
1 LRU 2.1 Advanced Academic Programs for North Eastern States (Northeast, New) … Niladri Sekhar Dash and … 8 (2016-2017) Probal Dasgupta
2 SOSU 6.1 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, New) (2016-2019) … Head, SOSU … 11 New, General Project
3 ERU 1.1 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, New) (2016- … Souvik Roy … 13 2019)
4 PRU 4.1 Safe school survey. (General, New) (2016-2019) … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 20
5 PRU 4.2 Orientation training program on Psychological Data Analytics : … Debdulal Dutta Roy … 25 Summer/Winter school (General, New) (2016-2017) 6 SRU 5.1 Small-marginal landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in … Hari Charan Behera … 29 Jharkhand (General, New) (2016-2018) 7 SOSU 6.2 Measuring the Untapped Human Resource Potential of the 60+ Population … NachiketaChattopadhya … 32 in India (General, New) (2015-2018) y
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LRU (Northeast, New) Project No. 2.1
1. Title of the Project: Advanced Academic Programs for North Eastern States 2. Brief Objective and Justification (2 or 3 sentences): The primary goal of this project is to organize several academic programs and orientation courses for the researchers, faculty members, and academicians of language and linguistics of the North Eastern states. It is expected that such interactive academic activities will not only enrich North Eastern scholars but will also open up further collaborative research possibilities for the benefit of the North Eastern languages and their people. Therefore, it is proposed to organize academic programs in the fiscal year 2016-2017 emphasizing some of the basic research as well as recent advances in certain domains in which the Unit specializes, namely, corpus linguistics, language technology, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, computer assisted language teaching, language documentation and digitization, language description, computational lexicography, etc.). It is also proposed to arrange possible visits by LRU faculty members to the North Eastern Universities/Institutes in connection of these academic programmes and courses. 3. Date of Commencement: April, 2016. 4. Names of Proposing Scientists: Niladri Sekhar Dash and Probal Dasgupta 5. Names of other Associated Scientists: NA. 6. Scope and Justification of the Project: In this project we aim to train the faculty members, researchers, academicians, and postgraduate students of the North Eastern States/Institutes in various advanced areas of linguistics, namely, corpus linguistics, language technology, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, computer assisted language teaching, language documentation and digitization, language description, computational lexicography, etc. which are linked with the core research areas of the Unit. The proposed academic programme will provide an opportunity to the participants to familiarize themselves with several key areas of research and development of linguistics through collective interactions with the experts of the Unit as well as the experts hired from outside for the purpose. We propose to invite some experts across the country who will teach and train the participants in the workshops and orientation courses conducted at various North Eastern Universities/Institutes. Through these workshops/orientation courses we shall advocate exchange of ideas and facilitate formation of peer networks, thereby enhancing the research environment and productivity at the Unit. We would, therefore, like to view this programme as one of the platforms through which the we may establish the academic importance of our Unit in the spectrum of high quality linguistic research activities of the country. Within the wider frame of the programme, we may either (a) organize workshops/orientation course/seminars, etc. in the North Eastern Universities/Institutes, or (b) arrange for LRU faculty members to visit North Eastern States for intensive academic interactions with the faculty members of the North Eastern Universities/Institutes, or (c) may invite faculty members/research scholars from the North Eastern Universities/Institutes to the LRU laboratory for collaborative research work. We have selected Manipur University because we personally talked to Prof. Yashwant Sinha, Head of the Linguistics Department of the University about this programme and he readily agreed to our proposal and assured all kinds of logistic and technical support to carry out the programme successfully. We made similar proposal to NEHU and Tezpur University but did not receive good response as they have some other programmes funded by UGC, CIIL, NEILS, etc. However it is understood that if this programme becomes successful at Manipur University then similar programmes may be
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carried out in other NE state/central universities in the same fashion – Manipur University being the first hosting centre in the row. We intend to be more specific to the areas of our specialisation – particularly to NLP, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Language Documentation and Digitization– obviously the whole thing will be structured based on the availability of Indian experts although we intend to exploit the home team of ISI (including faculty members and PhD scholars) for the purpose. The training programme will include lectures on specialised areas as well as hand-on training for the participants (particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics and language documentation with a focus on endangered Indian languages including that of the North Eastern regions). Definitely the linguists of the North-Eastern languages will benefit from the training that the LRU is proposing to impart (with emphasis on language technologies and documentation and on cognitive linguistics) for analysing and documenting their languages. Thus LRU will succeed to establish its academic significance and functional relevance in the mainframe linguistic activities of the country. Our target is to register fifty (50) participants for the 3-day training programme for the scholars of universities and institutes of the North Eastern States (alphabetically, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura). The target group includes PhD scholars, university and college teachers, researchers working in NGOs, independent researchers, and others involved in the act of protection and promotion of the NE languages. The team of teachers will include faculty members and competent PhD scholars from ISI, Kolkata as well as well experts from Indian universities and institutes. Moreover, effort will be made to search for competent resource persons from the locality. It is however imperative that the details about specific themes, training programme, number of participants, number of experts, duration of training, etc. will be finalized keeping in mind the budget approved by the Institute.
7. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page): No. Item Heads 2016-2017 Total 01 Capital NIL NIL 02 Accommodation of Participants and speakers in 1,00,000 1,00,000 the Manipur University Guest House/Hotel (50 persons for 4 days) 03 Food (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Tea-Snacks, 1,00,000 1,00,000 water etc.) 04 Airfare for the Experts (5 X 40,000/-) 2,00,000 2,00,000 05 Honorarium for the Experts (5 X 3000 X 3) 50,000 50,000 06 Charges for Auditorium and class rooms 50,000 50,000 07 Charges for Audio-Visual Equipments 50,000 50,000 08 Conference Kit 50,000 50,000 09 Remuneration to Local Staff 50,000 50,000 10 Local Transport 50,000 50,000 11 Stationers 50,000 50,000 12 Travel of ISI Staff to Imphal 1,00,000 1,00,000 13 Miscellaneous 50,000 50,000 Total 9,00,000 9,00,000
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8. Brief Particulars of the Assets to be procured: Not Applicable 9. List of on-going projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money Budgeted, (iii) Money Spent, (iv) publications (if any) : Not Applicable 10. Expected Date of Completion: March 2017 11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2016-2017 st nd rd th 1 2 3 4 Total
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
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SOSU (Northeast, New) Project No. 6.1
1. Title of the Project: North-East Training Programme 2. Brief objective and justification: Development of manpower in the North East is an important agenda of the GoI. In this respect SOSU can play an important role with its unique position as a close collaborator with several Ministries that generates and uses official statistics. It would be valuable exposure for the participants to learn recent statistical techniques from SOSU. 3. Date of Commencement: 1.4.2016 4. Name of the proposing scientist: Head, SOSU 5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation: 6. A brief write up on the scope & justification of the project and proposed work (not more than half a page): Trainees (MPhil students, Research Scholars and young faculty from several disciplines like Biosciences, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences who needs to analyse data in their line of work as well as Officers from various statistical services of the government) from North Eastern States of India who attended the training programmes conducted by SOSU in the North Eastern States appreciated and found the programmes useful in their official/administrative/academic work. Encouraged by their feedback it is felt that there is need for similar programmes in improving the skills of the officers/teachers from government and public sector departments, schools, colleges and universities in the north eastern parts of India. Every effort will be made to identify faculty from the host institutions or local institutions who may act as resource persons. The resources available in ISI for training in statistics, data analysis and computers, mayalso be used for this purpose (faculty from SOSU as well as from the Applied Statistics and Computer and Communication Science Divisions). The programme will be formulated keeping in view the requirements of the potential participants and use of computers in their data processing works.
We plan to hold one such programme every year.
1. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than ¼ page): (a) Revenue Expenditure, 2016 – 17
1. Travel for resource persons (6 individuals) a) Air, Taxi, hired car Fare (Kolkata – Venue & back) Rs. 60,000.00 b) Local Transport at venue Rs. 40,000.00 2. Boarding & Lodging T.A./D.A. For External Candidates (15 persons) Rs. 60,000.00 For 3 resource persons (Rs. 3000/head/day for 6 days) For 3 resource Rs. 54,000.00 persons (Rs. 4000/head/day for 3 days) 3. Working Lunch & Rs. 36,000.00 Tea for 5 days Rs. 80,000.00 4. Stationary, Workshop Kit & training materials Rs. 60,000.00 5. Remuneration for supporting staff Rs. 20,000.00 6. Workshop special dinner Rs. 40,000.00 7. Miscellaneous Rs. 20,000.00 Total Rs. 4,70,000.00
(b) Capital Expenditure: Nil Nil
2. Brief particulars of Assets proposed to be acquired: NA 3. List all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist: 4. Expected date of Completion: 31.03.2019 5. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2016-17
1st 2nd 3rd Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total
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Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 4.70 Nil 4.70
4th Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Nil Nil Nil 4.70 Nil 4.70
6. For North-East Projects (new): Proposed budget for 2017 – Proposed budget for 2018 – 18(A) 19 (B) Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 5.40 0 5.40 6.20 0 6.20 Escalation assumed at 15% (approx.)
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ERU (General, New) Project No. 1.1
1. Title of the Project: Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design 2. Brief Objective and Justification (2 or 3 sentences): The main objective of this project is to study the Bayesian Incentive Compatible mechanism design which is known to enlarge the set of dominant strategy incentive compatible mechanisms in collective decision making problem under incomplete information. Since, this is a huge open area, I want to work jointly with the PhD students of ERU, ISI, Kolkata and look forward to collaborating with A. Sen (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), D. Mishra (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), H. Peters (Maastricht University, Netherlands). 3. Date of Commencement: First quarter, 2016-17 4. Name of Proposing Scientists: Souvik Roy 5. Name of other Associated Scientists: None 6. Scope and Justification of the Project: The purpose of this project is to study issues in collective decision making problem under incomplete information. The study is a part of a much larger study in the theory of mechanism design. In general terms, mechanism design theory is concerned with resource allocation in multi-agent environments. The key feature of the problem is that the determination of the “optimal” allocation depends on information which agents possess privately. In order to achieve an optimal allocation this private information must be elicited from the agents. But agents are sophisticated and they recognize that they may be served better by lying, rather than by telling the truth. Computing the optimal allocation from incorrect information may entail serious errors: hence the challenge is to devise a mechanism or a procedure for communicating the information of agents such that the outcome is an optimal allocation even when agents behave strategically. In the current study we would like to analyze the problem of mechanism design under incomplete information in the context of both collective decision making (e.g. voting model) and private good allocation model (e.g. auction model).
In this project we want to understand the role of prior belief formation in determining the outcome of an economic or social phenomenon. In the existing literature it is almost always assumed that the people in a society are completely aware of the behaviour of the other people. However, this is far from truth in reality! A voter can have some idea about who the other voter is going to vote, but can never be hundred percent sure about that. So, a more practical and natural assumption would be to assume people in a society form belief about their fellow members, and they behave according to their belief. This is clear and well accepted that formation of wrong belief can be sustained for long time resulting in big economic crisis, like the financial crisis. So, policy makers should be aware of the fact that citizens may form wrong belief and behave in a way that would lead to big crisis. Note that the important ingredient here is the correlation among beliefs. Some beliefs are very quickly accepted and spread for their nature. So, the amount of correlation makes a big difference. If everybody in a society believes the same thing then things will lead to some extreme situation, either very good or very bad! On the other hand less correlated beliefs are on the safe side as they won’t result in big crisis. So, the question has three parts: firstly how people in a society form their beliefs in a correlated model. Secondly, how different amount of correlation amounts to different equilibrium, and thirdly how to design policies to prevent a society from big fall. We now describe our project in a more technical and structured way. We present the model in voting
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framework, however the model is enough flexible to be used in any socio-economical and market phenomenon.
Voting procedures are natural in many collective decision making problems such as elections, referendums and committee decisions. A “voting rule” is a method for aggregating individual opinions into an outcome. The chosen outcome can be thought of as the “optimal” proposal in that situation. An example of a voting rule is the well known “Plurality Rule” where the proposal selected is the first ranked candidate for the largest number of voters. Like any other problem of mechanism design, it is well known that a voting rule will typically provide incentives for agents to behave strategically. That is, in many situations a voter may be tempted not to vote for his/her most preferred candidate in the hope of manipulating the outcome. The task here is therefore to identify voting rules that would induce voters to vote “sincerely/truthfully” for their most preferred candidate. This issue is known in the literature as the incentive compatibility of a mechanism. The most widely known notion of incentive compatibility is “strategy- proofness” where the voting rule provides dominant strategy incentives for voters to vote truthfully. In their classic papers, Gibbard (1973) and Satterthwaite (1975), show that there are only trivial rules that satisfy strategy-proofness. The rules are of the following type: there is only one voter whose best candidate is elected in every conceivable situation. Such rules are called “dictatorial” rules and are obviously quite undesirable.
The objective of this project is to focus on the relatively less explored direction of weakening the truth-telling requirement from strategy-proofness to ordinal Bayesian incentive compatibility (OBIC). OBIC requires truth-telling to maximize each voters expected utility computed with respect to the voter’s prior belief. Majumdar and Sen (2004) show that when the prior beliefs of the voters are independent and generic (defined appropriately), and the voting rule is deterministic, there is no escape from the negative result of Gibbard and Satterthwaite. In this project we want to take the analysis further in two different directions.
Problem 1 Mazumdar and Sen (2004) consider the unrestricted domain and show that the OBIC rules are dictatorial ones. However, characterization of OBIC rules in other restricted domains is still unknown. One such important restricted domain is the domain of single- peaked preferences. Mishra, Pramanik and Roy (2014) consider multidimensional mechanism design in single-peaked type spaces and show that some simple condition called 2-cycle monotonicity is necessary and sufficient for implementablity in such spaces. Another such interesting restricted domain is the domain of dichotomous types. Mishra and Roy (2013) show that 2-cycle monotonicity is not sufficient in such domains, however 3-cycle monotonicity is sufficient. So, natural interesting problem is to look for OBIC in such domains as the DSIC results are known for such domains. Moreover, Mishra (2015) shows that an extra assumption of monotonicity makes OBIC equivalent to DSIC (dominant strategy incentive compatibility). However, as our main objective is to find a bigger class of rules that can be implemented in reality, we intend to study the nature of all OBIC rules defined over single-peaked domain.
Problem 2 In this problem we want to study the random version of the model allowing voting rules to pick a probability distribution over the alternatives at every profile of preferences. The study of probabilistic voting rules (also called decision schemes) was initiated by Gibbard (1977, 1978). In this scenario, even with dominant strategy incentive
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compatibility one can escape the negative consequences of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem (Gibbard (1973), Satterthwaite (1975)). However, the only voting rules that are dominant strategy incentive compatible and unanimous are random dictatorships, in which each voter is assigned a fixed probability of being the dictator - fixed in the sense that these probabilities are independent of the preference profile (see for example Duggan (1996), Nandeibam (1998)). The random dictatorship in which each voter has an equal chance of being the dictator is efficient and anonymous - the names of the voters do not matter, each voter gets equal weight. This might seem to suggest that random dictatorship provides a positive resolution to the dilemma posed by the Gibbard- Satterthwaite theorem - an equal distribution of power consistent with efficiency - dominant strategy incentive compatibility. However, random dictatorships are still unsatisfactory as the example given in Dutta, Peters and Sen (2007) suggest. This example provides a motivation to search for other voting rules that may be incentive compatible under the weaker notion of OBIC. On the other hand, the result of Majumdar and Sen (2004) for the deterministic rules do not extend to the probabilistic rules as there are OBIC random rules that are not random dictatorial. Moreover, Mishra (2015) considers only deterministic rules. So, at the first step we decide to explore the condition under which OBIC becomes equivalent to DSIC in the case of random rules. Thereafter we plan to explore the structure of all random OBIC rules defined over unrestricted domain.
Research methodology Our project addresses these problems both from an experimental and a theoretical perspective. Naturally, the results in Bayesian Incentive Compatibility environment are very much sensitive to the assumptions on the prior beliefs. Hence, it is very important for us to derive the structure of prior beliefs that holds in reality. On the empirical side we plan to run a number of experiments to study how people form beliefs in social networks.
On the theoretical side we plan to develop a model based on the assumption on prior belief formation that are informed by experiments.
Experimental Design In this section we describe the experimental design and the methodology. First we present the general model and then we elaborate using specific examples.
General Model We select n many people (called players) for the experiment and m many numbers 1,2,...,m that are supposed to be m parties. We explain the players the rule of the experiment. The rule says that they have to write one number from 1 to m (in the sense that they are voting for them) on a piece of paper secretly from each other. Note that the experimenter keeps the information about who is voting for whom. The number that receives maximum number of votes wins the game/election. Ties are broken with uniform probability distribution. Each of the players who votes for the winning candidate is paid 100 rupees and all other players are not paid anything. This kind of game is called coordination game in voting framework. The game is played for 20 rounds. Each round ends with the payment. Moreover, at the end of each round the experimenter announces the numbers that were chosen by each of the players. So, at the end of each round each player gets to know the choices of the other players. Note that the players use this information to update their belief using Bayesian method regarding the number their opponents write on the paper.
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The experiment varies along two dimensions, namely, number of players and number of strategies provided to each player. Altogether there will be 3 treatments, as shown in the box below.
No. of Players: 2 No. of Players: 3 No. of Strategies: 2 Treatment 1 Treatment 3 No. of Strategies: 3 Treatment 2
There will be two decisions that will be of importance and recorded for each treatment. First, the strategy that each player choses and second, the belief about the other persons’ choice. The belief can be about any specific strategy that the other persons will chose or a probability distribution over the set of strategies available. The two decisions will be recorded separately for each player and each round that will be played.
Technically, at the end of the experiment the experimenter has the following data: t t (n i, b i,j) for i=1,2,...,n and t=1,2,...,20 t t where n i is the number that the i-th person writes on the paper at the t-th round and b i,j is the belief of the i-th person at the t-th round regarding the number that the j-th person writes on the paper.
Objective Our objective in this experiment is to understand and analyse the pattern in which people form belief about their opponents and the correlation that the players establishes through their belief and the outcome of the game (without any direct communication). We use Bayesian method to analyse the belief updation. We use uniform prior distribution for this purpose. On the other hand, to calculate the correlation in the beliefs established by the players we use two different notions for measuring correlation. The technical details are given below.
Note on the Bayesian method we apply for our analysis In the classical approach the parameter, θ is thought to be an unknown , but fixed, quantity. A random sample X1, X2, . . . , XN is drawn from a population indexed by θ and, based on the observed values in the sample, knowledge about the value θ is obtained. In the Bayesian approach θ is considered to be a quan-tity whose variation can be described by a probability distribution (called the prior distribution ).This is a subjective distribution, based on the experimenters belief, and is formulated before the data are seen (hence the name is prior dis-tribution). A sample is then taken from a population indexed by θ and the prior distribution is updated with the sample information. The updated prior is called the posterior distribution. This updating is done with the use of the Bayes Rule, hence the name is Bayesian statistics.
If we denote the prior distribution by π(θ) and the sampling distribution by f (X | θ) then the posterior distribution, the conditional distribution of θ given the sample, X, is π(θ | X) = f (X | θ)π(θ)/m(X), where m(X) is the marginal distribution of X, that is, m(X) = f (X | θ)π(θ)dθ
Notice that posterior distribution is a conditional distribution, conditional upon observing the sample. The posterior distribution is now used to make statements about θ, which is still considered a random quantity. For instance, the mean of the posterior distribution can be used as a point estimate of θ.
Measure of correlation
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We would like to impose the condition that the beliefs for the voters are positively correlated and we propose two definitions of correlation. The first one is based on the notion of the Kemeny distance function between preference orderings. Given two preferences Pi, Pi' in IP, the preference Pi is said to be at a “distance” k from Pi' if it takes k “adjacent transpositions to obtain Pi' from Pi. The distance between Pi and Pi' is denoted by d(Pi, Pi') = k. If |A| = m then, k can take values in {0, 1, ..., mC2 }.The second notion of correlation is based on the likelihood of top k alternatives (for any k) of all the other voters agreeing with one’s own opinion of the top k alternatives.
Remark: Note that the experiment is simple enough (does not involve computer knowledge or advanced education) to be applied to common people and hence our results are expected to be general enough.
Specific case (an example with two players and two parties): We take two players for this experiment. The methodology employed to study the two problems presented above will entail an experiment which will be an 2-person strategy- matching game in the voting framework. Two players are choosen for the experiment. Each player will be provided with the same set of 2 distinct strategies (parties). If both the two players vote for the same party from the list of parties provided then each player wins Rs. 100/-, otherwise no one is paid anything. The game is repeated for 20 rounds. The normal form game is given below: Consider two players {1,2} and two parties {a,b}.
Players: 1/2 a b a (100,100) (0,0) b (0,0) (100,100)
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Moulin, H. (1983), The Strategy of Social Choice, Advanced Textbooks in Economics, C.J. Bliss and M.D. Intrilligator (eds), North-Holland. Muller, E,. and M. Satterthwaite (1977), “The Equivalence of Strong Positive Association and Strategy Proofness”, Journal of Economic Theory, 14:412-418. Nandeibam S (1998) "An alternative proof of Gibbard’s random dictatorship result", Social Choice and Welfare 15:509–519 Satterthwaite, M. (1975), “Strategy-proofness and Arrow’s conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions”, Journal of Economic Theory, 10:187-217. Sen, A. (2001), “Another Direct Proof of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem”, Economics Letters, 70:381-385.
7. Itemwise Breakup of the Proposed Budget (Capital and Revenue):
Item Heads 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 Total Capital
Revenue
Travel and subsistence for principal 1,50,000 1,50,000 1,50,000 4,50,000 investigator and collaborators Software, web developer for 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 designing experiments, computer consumables
Cost of running Experiments 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 Purchase of books etc. 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 2 Project linked personnel @ 6,00,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 18,00,000 25,000 per month for 12*3=36 months Miscellaneous expenses 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total 9,10,000 9,10,000 9,10,000 27,30,000
Justifications: Since this is a research project involving field work, two project linked persons (preferably M.Stat or M.Sc completed students who are motivated to do research) are required for carrying out the project work successfully.
8. Brief Particulars of the Assets to be Procured: NIL
9. List of on-going Projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last five years and for each, give (i) Status, (ii) Money Budgeted, (iii) Money Spent, (iv) Publications (if any)
(i) No. of on-going Projects: 1 (one) (ii) Title: Mechanism Design in Internet Economics (iii) Starting date: November, 2014 (iv) Status: To be completed in August, 2015 (v) Money Budgeted: Rs. 4,15,000 /- (vi) Money Spent: Rs. 1,85,716 /-
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10. Expected Date of Completion: 2018-19, fourth
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2016-2017:
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%
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PRU (General, New) Project No. 4.1
1. Title of the Project: Safe school survey Brief title: SSS 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Proposed project proposal includes two objectives. First objective is to develop a questionnaire for assessment of safe school climate perception. Second objective is to examine differences in safe school climate perception of students of relatively more and less violence-prone schools. 3. Date of Commencement and end: April, 2016- March, 2019 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist or Principal Investigator: Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata. 5. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): Repeated violence in school has generated great public concern and fostered wide spread impression that schools are unsafe. This causes school phobia, drop out, negative affectivity, parental mistrust to school authorities, and decline in school image. In order to stop school violence and to design healthy school, it is important to develop a questionnaire for assessing safe school climate perception. First objective of the study is to develop a questionnaire for assessment of safe school climate perception. Safe school climate will be measured with perceived dignity, freedom, connection climate, incivility and disruption, personal safety, delinquency/major safety, cleanliness, ramp, barrier free environment. Earlier studies paid attention to only four variables as connection climate, incivility and disruption, personal safety, delinquency/major safety (Skiba, Simmons, Peterson and Forde, 2006). Questionnaire results will provide knowledge about principal components of safe school perception from the perspective of respondents.
Second objective of the study is to examine differences in safe school climate perception in students of the more and less violence-prone schools. A checklist will be prepared to identify violence prone school. The constructed questionnaire will be administered to both more and less or least violence prone schools.
Findings will be used for psychological counseling and guidance to students suffering from school phobia or negativity to school. Besides, results will be useful to design safe school climate and theory development.
Method
Objective 1: Initially, literature reviews will be made to explore more indicators or domains of safe school. Next, item construction will be made for assessing each domain of safe school climate. And data will be collected from teachers (n=400), staffs (n=400) and students (n=800) of both rural (n=800) and semi-urban (n=800) schools. Provisional report about psychometric properties of questionnaire and differential perception will be presented.
Objective 2: Violence prone checklist will be prepared for school classification with respect to occurrence of different violence like school associated delinquent activities, death, suicide, accident, injuries, teacher and staff injury in school, fights, weapons, use
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of drugs or alcohol by students etc. Suitable statistics will be used to determine School violence index. School violence index will be prepared for school classification. Finally, sample schools will be categorized as per the classification index. Next data will be collected from 1200 students (100 students X 2 school types (violence prone and less violence prone) X 2 genders (boys and girls) X 2 regions (semi urban and rural) X 2 castes (SC/ST and Non SC/ST).
Measures: (a) Perception of safe school climate: A questionnaire will be developed to assess different areas of safe school climate perception - perceived dignity, freedom, connection climate, incivility and disruption, personal safety, delinquency/major safety, cleanliness, ramp, barrier free environment.
(b) School violence checklist: A checklist will be constructed to assess occurrence of violence in school. The indicators will be bullying, school associated death, suicide, accident, injuries, teacher and staff injury in school, fights, weapons, use of drugs or alcohol by students.
(c) Socio-Economic schedule: It includes 22 items covering family type, no. of households, housing conditions, family income and educational status besides basic information - gender, religion, tribal status etc.
Statistical analysis: Data scrutiny and quality analysis; Item analysis; Reliability with respect to internal consistency, Principal component analysis, ANOVA, MANOVA, Regression, SEM.
Expected results: Psychometric properties of safe school climate perception Questionnaire; Descriptive statistics about safe school perception; Differential patterns of safe school climate perception, Relation between safe school climate perception and school violence.
Research plan 2016-17 : Selection of project linked personnel; Literature review; Item construction for safe school climate perception; collection of data from students of Urban and Rural schools for internal validation of safety school climate perception Questionnaire; Submission of provisional report.
2017-2018: In this session, Data will be collected from rural areas of West Bengal. Provisional report will be submitted about main and interaction effects of gender and castes on safety school climate perception and relation with school violence.
2018-2019: Data collection to be completed. A report will be submitted.
Work done: Approximately 470 data were collected from Nadia district of West Bengal on safe school perception. Data entry and analyses are in process.
Project outcome: 1. Reliable and valid questionnaire can be used for counseling and guidance to students suffering from negative affectivity to school.
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2. School psychologist or School quality management officers can use the questionnaire to guide school authorities for school reform. 3. Results will provide knowledge about extent of differences in school safety climate among teachers, students and staffs. 4. Results will provide knowledge about how the students of different demographic conditions perceive the school safety. 5. Results will provide knowledge about how perception of school safety affects school violence.
Project beneficiaries: • Department of Education, Govt. of West Bengal; • Researchers concerned with School psychology; • School safety management.
References &Additional Readings
Dutta Roy, D. (2015). Psychotherapy and violence prevention in school. Proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Psychology for safe schools and healthy students. P. 62. Saha, T. and Dutta Roy (2015). Characteristics of safe school: Rabindrik approach, Proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Psychology for safe schools and healthy students. P. 63 Skiba, R., Simmons, A.B., Peterson, R., and Forde, S. (2006). The SRS safe school survey: A broader perspective on school violence prevention. In Jimmerson, S.R. and Furlong, M.J., (Eds.). N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. 157-169. About Barrier free environment: http://www.undp.org.af/Publications/ KeyDocuments/ 2005_cdap_guidelines.pdf (retrieved 25.3.2015)
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 240000 Assisting in overall activities; personnel @ Rs. 20000 X 12 months 2. Car hiring charges and other local 50000 School visit transport cost 3.Accommodation charges 30000 for field investigations 4. Costs for food for local investigators 20000 Basic requirement for stay in and collaborating scientists locality and field visit 5. Data scrutiny and entry 10000 It will be entered through computer. 6. Computer consumables, Stationary, 40000 To print questionnaire and Xerox, printing, postal charge, telephone communication charge etc. 7. Project report typing, binding 20000 8. Miscellaneous 10000 Emergency condition in field work Total 420000 Total: Four lakhs twenty thousand only
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List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any).:
Money Money Title Status Publications budgeted spent Winter school on Data Mining in Completed 294000 253000 Psychological Research Differential validity of computer Completed 549000 41692.11 4 programming abilities (2012-15) Self-efficacy of Agricultural Completed 171000 75102.95 1 farmers (2009-10)
Expected date of Completion: March, 2019
Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2016-2017:
Total 4th 3rd 2nd 1st Total Cap. Rev. Tota Cap. Rev. Tota Cap. Rev. Tota Cap. Rev. Tota Cap. Re l l l l v. 100 100 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25 % % %
For General Projects only (New) Financial target in terms of Action Plan/Target in Proposed budget Total percentage (%) terms of percentage (%) for 2009-2010 expected (B) budget (A) 201 2016- 2017- 2018- 20 2016 2017 2018 Total Ca Rev. Tot Ca Re 6- 2017 2018 2019 16- - - - p. al p. v. 201 20 2017 2018 2019 9 19 36% 36% 28% 45% 30% 25% 2.50 2.50 9.1 9.1 5 5
Publications: Dutta Roy, D. and Gupta, P. (2014). Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28, 2, (in print) Santosh. S., Dutta Roy. D&Kundu P.S. (2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry; 23: 65-70. Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh, S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012).Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120. Dutta Roy, D. (2011).School Psychology. Psybernews, 2, 3, 103-105. Dutta Roy, D. - Construct validity of writing motivation questionnaire. International Journal of Psychological Research 3, 2, 6-11
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Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Rabindrik Psychotherapy in Stress Management. PsyInsight. 1, 3, 10. Dutta Roy, D. and Basu, K. (2010). Autistic behaviour analysis: Pre-post and repeated measure design. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 4, 39-46. Roy, A. and Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal: An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management research in Emerging economics. Vol.1.1. (in print). Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Cluster Analysis for Test-Retest Reliability. International Journal of Psychological Research, (published from USA). 3,9,132-140. Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Construct validity of Reading motivation. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, (to be published in January 2011, vol.37, No.1). Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Roy, A. and Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal: An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management Research in Emerging Economies, 1, 1, (paper to be published). Dutta Roy, D. and Mondal, A. (2010). Information organization errors in backward digit span task. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 3, 43-49. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Stem-Leaf Plot: Problem of Data Visualization. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 3, 50-54. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Challenges of Psychometrics. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 3, 18-19. Ganguly, A. and Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Web Content analysis to study researches on entrepreneurial psychology. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 2, 27-31. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Data entry error. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 2, 36-39. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Psychoinformatics: Innovation in mining randomized data. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 1, 23-31. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Pre-Requisites of Psychological testing PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 1, 13-14.
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PRU (General, New) Project No. 4.2
1. Title of the Project: Orientation training program on Psychological Data Analytics : Summer/Winter school Brief title: PDA 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Aim of this study is to develop orientation about psychological data analytics. It will cover the scope, importance, statistical tools, techniques and application of Psychological data analytics. 3. Date of Commencement and end: April, 2016- March, 2017 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: • Professor Professor Ayanendranath Basu, Applied Statistics Unit, ISI., Kolkata • Professor Saumyadipta Pyne, Ph.D.,PC Mahalanobis Chair Professor, CR • Drag Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,University of Hyderabad Campus • Dr. Susmita Mukhopadhyay, Asst. Professor, VGSOM, IIT., Kharagpur
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): Background: Psychological Data analytics (DA) is the science of examining raw data with the purpose of better decisions in action research and to verify or disprove existing models or theories of different branches in Psychology – Consumer Psychology, Organizational psychology, Educational psychology, Abnormal or clinical psychology, Child or developmental psychology, Forensic psychology.
Data analytics is different from data analysis. Analytics is a multi-dimensional discipline. There is extensive use of mathematics and statistics, the use of descriptive techniques and predictive models to gain valuable knowledge from data—data analysis. The insights from data are used to recommend action or to guide decision making in different issues of psychological problems. Thus, analytics is not so much concerned with individual analyses or analysis steps, but with the entire methodology. In India, department of psychology of different universities provides knowledge about analysis of data rather psychological data analytics. Psychological data analytics is important for the people involved in psychological projects with large data.
Aim of the summer/winter school is to provide orientation about different mathematical and statistical models of psychological data analytics. It aims to provide knowledge about different applications of psychological data analytics in business, Web mining, mental health data mining, Human relations and human resource development, insurance, safety, educational decisions, marketing (psychographic profile analysis), forensic (criminal identification).
The course is designed for faculty and professionals as well as for research fellows in Psychology and allied disciplines who are comfortable with data analysis software (i.e., SPSS, SAS) and multivariate modelling. Instruction consists of lecture, computer applications, and individualized consultations. The emphasis will be practical with minimal emphasis on statistical theory, but those seeking more statistical information can arrange an
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individualized session with the instructors. Participants will learn how to analyze large psychological data, and be able to interpret the results from their analyses.
It will be three days orientation program. It will cover three things – Introduction (importance, assumption, scope); Statistical tools and techniques (Correspondence analysis, Cluster analysis, Principal component analysis, Discriminant function analysis, MANOVA, Multiple Regression analysis, SEM); Applications and approaches. In-house resource persons will be invited to give lecture. Few resource persons will be invited from other institutes. It will include a lecture component with hands-on application of the material covered in lecture, as well as one-on-one consultation meetings concerning participants’ actual research and data analytic questions. Participants will be encouraged, but not required, to bring their own data so that they can apply these new methods to their own projects.
Resource Persons: • Professor Professor Ayanendranath Basu, Applied Statistics Unit, ISI., Kolkata • Professor Saumyadipta Pyne, Ph.D., PC Mahalanobis Chair Professor, CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,University of Hyderabad Campus • Dr. Susmita Mukhopadhyay, Asst. Professor, VGSOM, IIT., Kharagpur • Professor D. G. Mukherjee, (Head, Department of Psychiatry, R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata) • Dr. Koel Das (Assistant Professor Dept: Mathematics and Statistics, IISER)
The Trainees: The course is designed for faculty and professionals as well as for research fellows in Psychology and allied disciplines who are comfortable with data analysis software (i.e., SPSS, SAS) and multivariate modelling.
Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital &Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
SL No. Item Amount 1 Air fare for 4 resource persons 80000 2 Boarding and lodging for 20 outstation participants for 4 days 64000 @Rs.800 3 Lunch for 80 participants @Rs. 400 for 3 days 96000 4 Tea & Snacks for 80 persons for 3 days @ Rs. 60 14400 5 Honorarium for 6 invited persons @2000 per hour 12000 6 Reading materials for 80 persons @Rs. 500 40000 7 Training kits (bag, writing pad, pen etc.) for 80 persons & 48000 600 8 Local transport for 3 days 20000 9 Advertisement and communication 5000 10 Food and accommodation charges 25000 11 Miscellaneous expenditure (Generator, photography, postal 25000 expenses, banner, flower, secretarial assistance, contingencies etc.) 12 Train (AC 3-tier) for 20 outstation participants 80000 Total 509400
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7. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status; (ii) Money budgeted; (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any) : Money Money Title Status Publications budgeted spent
Winter school on Data Mining in Completed 294000 253000
Psychological Research Differential validity of computer Completed 549000 41692.11 4 programming abilities (2012-15) Self-efficacy of Agricultural farmers Completed 1,71,000 75102.95 1 (2009-10)
8. Expected date of Completion: March, 2019 9. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2016-2017:
Total 4th 3rd 2nd 1st
Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev. Total Total Total Total Total
% % 100 100 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25%
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of for (A) 2010 Total Total get in get 2009 - ge (%) ge (%) Action Action budget l target l target Propose in terms terms in terms of percenta percenta Financia Plan/Tar d budget d budget expected
Cap. Rev. Cap. Rev. 2017 2018 2019 2019 2017 2018 2019 Total Total 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2016 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2016 - 2019
2.50 2.50 9.15 9.15 36% 36% 28% 45% 30% 25%
Publications:
Dutta Roy, D. and Gupta, P. (2014).Construction of academic achievement test for high school students. Journal of Psychometry, 28,2,(in print)
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Santosh. S., Dutta Roy. D & Kundu P.S. (2013). Psychopathology, Cognitive Function, and Social Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia. East Asian Achieves of Psychiatry; 23: 65-70. Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh, S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012).Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120. Dutta Roy, D. (2011). School Psychology.Psybernews, 2, 3, 103-105. Dutta Roy, D. - Construct validity of writing motivation questionnaire. International Journal of Psychological Research 3, 2, 6-11 Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Rabindrik Psychotherapy in Stress Management. PsyInsight. 1, 3, 10. Dutta Roy, D. and Basu, K. (2010). Autistic behaviour analysis: Pre-post and repeated measure design. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 4, 39-46. Roy, A. and Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal : An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management research in Emerging economics. Vol.1.1. (in print). Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Cluster Analysis for Test-Retest Reliability. International Journal of Psychological Research, (published from USA). 3,9,132-140. Dutta Roy, D. (2010).Construct validity of Reading motivation. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, (to be published in January 2011, vol.37, No.1). Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Roy, A. and Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal: An exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management Research in Emerging Economies, 1, 1, (paper to be published). Dutta Roy, D. and Mondal, A. (2010). Information organization errors in backward digit span task. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 3, 43-49. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Stem-Leaf Plot: Problem of Data Visualization. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 3, 50-54. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Challenges of Psychometrics. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 3, 18-19. Ganguly, A. and Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Web Content analysis to study researches on entrepreneurial psychology. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 2, 27-31. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Data entry error.PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 2, 36-39. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Psychoinformatics: Innovation in mining randomized data. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 1, 23-31. Dutta Roy, D. (2010). Pre-Requisites of Psychological testing PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1, 1, 13-14.
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SRU (General, New) Project No. 5.1
1. Topic: Small-marginal Landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A Study in Jharkhand 2. Brief background: Jharkhand is a state to about 85 percent small-marginal landholders. Further, about 70 percent landholdings belong to very marginal landholdings category (having below 1 acre of land). Small marginal farmers are inherently positioned as the subsistence producers in the state. Majority of the cultivators (both owner cultivators and tenant cultivators) fight poverty and their livelihood remains under stress. In 2011-12, 36.96 percent of Jharkhand’s population were below poverty line (Tendulkar methodology). Rural poverty in the state lies at 40.84 percent (Jharkhand Economic Survey 2013-14). Agrarian question is a question of ages in the state. The agrarian question remains pivotal in concern to property ownership, mode of production and in relation to distribution amongst others. Inequity and uneven distribution of landholding remains key agrarian issues. Opportunity to develop capitalism is constrained by different socioeconomic and political factors.
The epitome of whole agrarian discourse since twentieth century is on the issue of property, proprietorship and the mode of production (Thorner, 1956; Patnaik, 1972, 1986; Beteille, 1974; Ghosh, 1979; Desai, 1984; Omvelt, 1988). Moreover, the focus on green revolution and the role of technology in class formation had got profound space in agrarian studies during the same time (Byres, 1981). The review of literature in the field of agrarian studies suggests that under increasing livelihood concerns for small-marginal peasant landholdings, the political economy aspect cannot be over looked, particularly in the context of Jharkhand. Capitalism is restricted in under developed areas of Jharkhand as found in the work of Alpa Shah (2013); this agrarian issue, which is rare in a modern state, needs to be further explored in different geopolitical and economic set-up (in backward and non-backward areas). Further to be examined, if development (agrarian) is resisted by internal and external forces in the state. Moreover, to answer the above question will be inappropriate without identifying the agents and their activities that are antithetical to internal coherent development process. This may probably help in answering to the query why there is persistence of pre-capitalist relations of production in farming in some parts, and increasing bi-polarisation in some other parts of the state. Semi-feudal landlord-tenant exploitative property and production relation continues in some parts in the absence of proper land reforms implementation. It seems poverty is perpetuated through generations while allowing livelihood of some communities under stress. The above issues may be supplemented with other dimension of development discourse. A very few individuals from any caste or tribe could take advantages of statutory policy provisions and development practices, for instance reservation in employment and politics, restriction on land property transfer, etc for their own interest. They check the path of progress for the others even within their own caste or community. This may happen irrespective of backward and developed regions but may be in different degrees. This dimension is important to study under agrarian context.
3. Date of Commencement: April 2016 4. Name of the proposing scientist: Hari Charan Behera (Principal Investigator)
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5. Other Associated Scientist with affiliation: External: Dr. Indrajit Pal (Co-Principal Investigator), School of Environment, Resources and Development & School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
Objectives & Methodology of the Study: • To understand the nature of landholding distribution and mode of production in both backward and non-backward areas of the state. • To examine livelihood issues in the context of agrarian political economy with reference to Jharkhand • To illuminate the emergence of class differentiation and resistance to development of capitalism in agriculture. • To examine the role of modern state in agrarian development particularly with reference to the small and marginal farmers
Hypothesis:
H1. The non-agrarian groups or individuals have greater control over the property and mode of production than their agrarian counter parts in both backward and non-backward areas H2: Upward mobility of poor peasant households is restricted by already empowered members of the same community H3: Development of peasant households is positively influenced under better land- market relations
Two agriculturally developed and two agriculturally backward districts from Jharkhand will be selected for the study. From each district two gram panchayats, one backward and other non-backward, will be considered for the study. Selection of gram panchayats will also be based on population of tribal, scheduled caste, other caste members and other backward classes’ communities. Two villages, one backward and the other non- backward, from each panchayat will be taken into account for the study. Due attention will be given to select a few most backward villages, and also socially disturbed villages. Selection of households from each hamlet will be based on SRS while selection of hamlet will be done through proportionate random sampling. ‘Questionnaire’ is not the only tool but an important tool for data collection for household data collection. Village schedule will be employed for village level data collection. Collection of secondary data from the department of agriculture, or department of land reforms and revenue, and from the district level offices for collection of land related information about each selected district. Village level data will be collected from the selected blocks of each district. Just to supplement further, key livelihood indicators, but not limited to focus on food availability/nutrition through periodic calculation, housing pattern, access to fuel, income, saving, and other consumption practices will be taken into account. However, these livelihood issues in the agrarian context need to be discussed in relation to property rights, distribution and production relations along with freedom of choice over production and distribution. Additionally, basic socioeconomic indicators such as education, health condition, household access to basic services such as electricity, drinking water facility in village/household, sanitary mechanism, etc need to be studied.
6. I tem wise break-up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same:
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Items 2016-17 2017-18 Travel, local and field visits including taxi 120000 100000 hiring charges (TA & DA) Engagement of one Project Associate @ Rs. 192000 108000 16000/month for one year 2016-17 and 18000/month for six months (2017-18) Supporting field investigators (2 nos.) @ 30000 30000 Rs.500/Day for 30 days Workshop/Seminar 200000 --- Computer consumables and other stationery 15000 15000 items Miscellaneous expenses 9000 9000 Total 566,000 262,000
7. Expected Date of Completion: April, 2018 8. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years:
Pilot Study on Dynamics of Land Use Pattern in North Chotanagpur Plateau: A Micro-level study Budget sanctioned: 130000 Amount spent: 110740 (1,15,290) Draf t report submi tted
9. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to acquire from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. I n case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned(e.g., Year of purchase, cost): Nil
Refer ences: Omvelt, G. and C. Gala (1988) Peasant Question is a Class Question, EPW, July 2, 1988 Byres, T.J. (1981) The New technology, Class Formation and Class Action in the Country Side, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 8, No.4, 1981 Beteille, A. (1974): Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, New Delhi: Oxford University Press Ghosh, A. (1979) Caste Idiom for Class Conflict: Case of Khanjawala, Economic and Political Weekly, February 3, 1979 Desai, A.R. (1984) India’s Path of Development: Marxist Approach, Delhi: Sangam Books Limited Shah, Alpha (2013) The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Gaurrilla Zone: Land, Labour and Capital in the Forests and Hills of Jharkhand, India, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 13 No. 3, July 2013, pp. 424–450. Patnaik, Utsa (1972) Development of Capitalism in Agriculture-II, Social Scientist, October, 1 (3): 3-19 Patnaik, Utsa (1986) The Agrarian Question and Development of Capitalism in India, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 (18), pp. 781-93 Thorner, Daniel (1956) Agrarian Prospects in India, Delhi: University Press
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SOSU (General, New) Project No. 6.2
1. Title of the project: Estimating the size and productivity of the 60+ population of India available for different productive activities 2. Brief objective:The objective of the project is to obtain a national profile of the segment of the 60+ population whose current non-employment in productive activities is not by preference or due to physical incapacity but from a lack of opportunity.The project will also study the implications of alternative government policies relevant to the issue.
The project is proposed in response to the UGC’s request to ISI to undertake research in gerontology. The UGC’s letter refers to the National Policy for Older Persons (1999), which recognizes that the “60+ phase of life is a huge untapped resource. Facilities will be made available so that this potential is realized and individuals are enabled to make the appropriate choices.” The study will be useful to assess the availability of older persons with professional qualifications and knowledge in science, arts,etc. for interaction with younger persons, on which the National Policy for Older Persons lays special stress. 3. Date of commencement: April 1, 2016 4. Name of the proposing scientist: Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, SOSU 5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation: a. Diganta Mukherjee, SOSU b. AsitBaran Chakraborty, ISEC/SOSU c. MrinalBhaumik, ISEC/SOSU d. PrabirChaudhury, ISEC/SOSU 6. A brief write-up of the scope and justification of the project and proposed work:
The entire Indian population aged 60 or more is not a totally untapped resource: some are engaged in economic activities, usually in self-employment, as unpaid family workers in household enterprises, and as domestic workers, with another section fully occupied withhousehold duties. On the other hand, there is a large segment that has worked in regular wage/salaried employment till the age of superannuation and stops working not because of any decline in faculties but because the age clause in their work contract requires it. In surveys of employment, they are routinely reported as “out of labour force”. But their departure from the labour force is really a response to the state of opportunity perceived, rather than a supply problem. There is also a large section engaged in domestic duties (and “out of labour force”) because of a lack of opportunities for work outside their families. Finally, the rentiers, pensioners and remittance receivers are categories of populationwho, apart from having time for suitable work, include a large proportion that is highly qualified and equipped to provide training to younger people. The activity status classification of persons adopted in the NSS employment surveys – together with the detailed classification by general and technical educational level and information on vocational training received, if any – enables us to identify, from unit level survey data, the segments of 60+ population whose productive potential is presently not realized. The data collected on reason for pursuance of domestic duties of those principally engaged in such duties will also be relevant here. Since the latest available
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employment survey data relates to 2011-12, obtaining estimates of the relevant population categories for, say, 2017-18, will require mortality adjustments through appropriate use of life tables taking into account the heterogeneity of the population. It will, additionally, be necessary to use unit level data on illness from the NSS healthsurvey of 2014. Apart from these,the exercise will use micro Census data available at ISI Data Centre and productivity data from CSO (ASI and other relevant surveys).It is also proposed to interact with the Institute of Applied Manpower Research (now the National Institute for Labour Economics Research and Development) for possible use of their databases, and request institutions like ICSSR and UGC to share reports of similar studies.We will need to have discussions and meetings with relevant Ministry officials in Kolkata or elsewhere; thus travel and accommodation costs will be incurred for the investigators as well as the invitees. 7. Itemwise break-up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same: For 2016- 2017 (a) Revenue Expenditure:
Project-linked personnel (12 ×Rs.20,000) Rs.2,40,000.00 Books, Computer consumables, reprography, publications Rs.30,000.00 Contingency Rs.30,000.00 Discussions/meetings with stakeholders Rs.1,00,000.00 Overheads Rs. 40,000.00 Total Rs.4,40,000.00
(b) Capital Expenditure: NIL
For 2017- 2018 (a) Revenue Expenditure: Project-linked personnel (12 ×Rs.20,000) Rs.2,40,000.00 Contingency Rs.30,000.00 Discussions/meetings with stakeholders Rs.2,00,000.00 Overheads Rs.50, 000.00 Total Rs.5,20,000.00
(b) Capital Expenditure: NIL 8. Brief particulars of assets proposed to be acquired. In case of replacement, particulars of the assets to be condemned: Not applicable 9. List all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist: Review and Compilation of Trade Indices (sponsored by Directorate-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics) 10. Expected date of completion: March 31, 2018 11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2016-17
1st 2nd 3rd Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total 1,40,000 - 1,40,000 1,20,000 - 1,20,000 1,00,000 - 1,00,000
4th Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total 80,000 - 80,000 4,40,000 - 4,40,000
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12. For general projects only (ongoing): Not applicable 13. For general projects only (new):
For expected budget (A) Proposed budget for 2016-17 (B) Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total 9,60,000 - 9,60,000 4,40,000 - 4,40,000
Action plan/ target in terms of Financial target in terms of percentage percentage 2016-17 2017-18 2016-17 2017-18 50% 50% 46% 54%
14. Data sources: Govt. of India, MoS&PI, National Sample Survey Office (2006). NSS Report No. 505: Employment and Unemployment Situation in India, 2004-05. Govt. of India, MoS&PI, National Sample Survey Office (2011). NSS Report No. 537: Employment and Unemployment Situation in India, 2009-10. Govt. of India, MoS&PI, National Sample Survey Office (2013). NSS report No. 554: Employment and Unemployment Situation in India, 2011-12. Govt. of India, MoS&PI, National Sample Survey Office (2006). NSS Report No. 507: Morbidity, Health Care and the Condition of the Aged. Govt. of India, MoS&PI. Unit level data of NSSO survey on employment and unemployment: NSS 61st, 66th and 68throunds. Govt. of India, MoS&PI. Unit level data of NSSO survey on health: NSS 60th and 71st rounds. Govt. of India, Office of the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India. Census 2001 and 2011: Various publications.
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Ongoing Projects
Plan 0n-Going Projects
Srl Unit Project No. and Name of the Project Project Leader(s) Page
On-Going, Noth East Project
1 LRU 2.2 The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla … Probal Dasgupta … 36 (Northeast, On-Going) (2014-2017)
2 SOSU 6.3 North East Official Statistics Workshop … Prasanta Pathak … 38 (Northeast, On-Going)
3 EAU 8.1 Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura … Madhura … 39 (Northeast, On-going) (2015-2017) Swaminathan On-Going, General Project
4 ERU 1.2 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in … Priyodorshi Banerjee … 42 Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research and Indraneel (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal (General, On-Going) Dasgupta
5 LRU 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary (General, On-Going) (2015-2018) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 44
6 PRU 5.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka … Molly Chattopadhyay … 48 (General, On-going) (2015-2018)
7 PRU 5.3 The contribution of unpaid family workers in the handloom sector of … Sonali Chakraborty … 53 textile industry. (General, On-going) (2015-2017)
8 EPU 7.1 Annual Conference (General, On-going) … Faculty of EPU … 57
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LRU (Northeast, On-going) Project No. 2.2
1. Title of the project: The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Biaxial syntax, the syntactic wing of substantivist generative grammar, focuses on incidence differentials and other effects that involve both the syntagmatic axis and the paradigmatic axis. The project proposed here will study the greater incidence of gerundial complement clauses in Assamese relative to Bangla, whose complement clause default is finite, on the basis of corpus data. 3. Date of Commencement: April 2014 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta, LRU, ISI 5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Jyoti P. Tamuli, Gauhati Univ, Guwahati, Assam 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): Nominally inflected clauses in Bangla have been under intensive investigation since the seventies and are relatively well understood (Dasgupta 1979, 1980, Bhattacharya 2000). Their Assamese counterparts were found by Ghosh (2001 personal communication) to occur over a wider paradigmatic range than in Bangla. In certain contexts where finite complement clauses are mandatory in Bangla and many other well studied languages, Assamese uses nominally inflected clauses instead. The agenda of biaxial syntax (Dasgupta 2011) – unlike the formalistic paradigm – focuses on such incidence differentials to highlight effects that involve both syntagmatic phenomena and the paradigmatic axis. Thus, we propose to describe initially in synchronic terms the incidence contrast between Assamese and Bangla with regard to nominally inflected clauses, sometimes called gerundial constructions. We shall begin by considering data available in CIIL’s Assamese and Bangla corpora and expand our empirical coverage by gather fresh texts. We propose to focus on written texts and on speaker intuitions, which have been argued (Dasgupta 2011) to be consubstantial with the written mode.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 Total Capital NIL NIL NIL NIL Revenue Salary of 1 Project Linked Person 2,40,000 2,40,000 2,40,000 7,20,000 (20,000 X 36 months = 7,20,000) Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 15,000 45,000 Computer consumables 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total: 2,75,000 2,75,000 2,75,000 8,25,000
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):
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No. of on-going projects : 1 (One) Title : Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax Status : To be Completed in March 2016 Money Budgeted in 2014-15 : Rs. 2,80,000/-
10. Expected date of Completion: March 2017
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2014-2015
st nd rd th 1 2 3 4 Total
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
25% 25% 25% 25% 100 %
References
Bhattacharya, Tanmoy. 2000. Gerundial aspect and NP movement. Rajendra Singh (ed.) The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2000. 123-146. Dasgupta, Probal. 1979. The Bangla –Wa/ –no form as participle and gerund. Indian Linguistics 40:3.185-197. Dasgupta, Probal. 1980. Questions and relative and complement clauses in a Bangla grammar. New York University doctoral dissertation. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms. Dasgupta, Probal. 2011. Inhabiting human languages: the substantivist visualization. New Delhi: Samskriti, for the Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
1. Non Project Plan Proposals (2016-2017)
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SOSU (Northeast, On-going) Project No. 6.3
Name- North East Official Statistics Workshop The research on official statistics have not been adequately undertaken in the North East States of India. There is an increasing need to provide a platform for a meaningful dialogue between the data collecting agencies (like CSO, NSSO, Statistical Bureaus of the respective state Governments). An official Statistics net work for the N.E states may be a good idea under the aegis of Sampling and Official statistics Unit of ISI. An annual workshop is proposed for the next five years to be conducted at each and every state of North East in collaboration with a local University/organisation and data collecting agencies of state and Central Government. It is expected that such a step would inspire researchers (especially empirical and policy research oriented ) in the fields of Economics, Statistics and related areas .It is also expected that the data collecting organisation would interact with researchers for more useful, user friendly and demand driven data base . Proposed budget 2015-2016: Rs.6.35 lakhs Proposed venue: Kohima Science College, Kohima, Nagaland Proposed team: Prasanta Pathak (PI), ISI Sandip Mitra (Co-PI), ISI D.C Nath (Regional Coordinator), Gauhati University
ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR THREE DAYS WORKSHOP: No. of Participants =30 Resource Persons Air Ticket = Rs.100,000.00 Board & Lodging for Resource Persons = Rs. 70,000.00 TA for 15 outside participants (Bus /Rail ACIII) = Rs. 70,000.00 Board & Lodging for Participants = Rs. 80,000.00 Food (BF+Lunch+Tea) = Rs.1,20,000.00 Workshop Dinner (One) = Rs. 50,000.00 Registration Kit = Rs 30.000.00 Local Transport (Car renting etc) = Rs. 50,000.00 Supporting Staff Remuneration = Rs. 15,000.00 Xerox + Stationery +Banner & Misc. = Rs. 35,000.00 Generator +Hall Charges = Rs. 15,000.00 ------Total Rs.6,35,000.00
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EAU (Northeast, On-going) Project No. 8.1
1. Project Title: Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in Tripura 2. Brief Objective: The purpose of this project is to (a) analyse data on land use in Tripura in order to make recommendations for land use planning and improved homestead cultivation; and (b) assess improvement in certain aspects of human development (specifically education and access to food). 3. Date of Commencement: APRIL 1, 2015 4. Proposing Scientist: Madhura Swaminathan 5. Other Associated Scientists: V. K. Ramachandran (EAU), Biplab Sarkar (SRF) External: Professor R. Ramakumar (TISS), Professor T. Jayaraman (TISS), Dr. Aparajita Bakshi (TISS), Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dhar (TISS), Professor Jeta Sankrityayna (NBU)
6. Scope and Objectives: In 2005, the PI was asked to advise the Department of Planning of the Government of Tripura on the preparation of the Tripura Human Development Report 2007 (GOT 2007). The Report ended with some specific priorities for planning. These included the need to (a) expand employment and livelihoods based on the natural conditions of Tripura, that is, the diverse pattern of cultivation and Tripura’s forest wealth, and (b) to plan for improvements in human development including higher levels of attainment in respect of education among all people of the State.
The proposed project is a follow-up to the Tripura Human Development Report (HDR) and as such, the main objectives are the following policy objectives:
• To assist in planning land use so as to enhance sustainable farm and non-farm rural employment and incomes. Specifically, to suggest agricultural and horticultural alternatives and explore prospects for homestead cultivation in Tripura.
• To monitor changes in certain indicators of human development including access to education and the public distribution of food.
Land use, homestead-based employment and incomes
The North-East as a whole has enormous potential as a supplier of horticultural commodities – vegetables, fruit and flowers – to the rest of India and to regions eastward. Whether or not the potential of the North-East with respect to horticulture is realised will depend not only on increases in the production of these commodities, but on their quality, and whether an all India market can be established and kept supplied. Any programme of crop diversification will require detailed land use planning, that is currently not available.
In discussing rural livelihoods, an important though unexplored aspect of rural Tripura is the role of homesteads in the household economy. The most comprehensive definition of homestead cultivation is by Jacob (1997): the home garden or homestead is “a functional/operative and self- sustaining farm unit that consists of a conglomeration of crops and multipurpose trees, planted arbitrarily, with or without animals/poultry/apiculture, owned and primarily managed by the
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dwelling farm family, with the objectives of satisfying the basic family needs (food, fuel, timber) and producing marketable surplus for the purchase of non-producible items.”
Homestead land around the dwelling of rural households in Tripura covers courtyards, places for storage of grain and hay and yards for livestock. It also covers trees and a variety of fruit, vegetable and tuber crops that contribute directly to the households’ nutrition and income.
In the villages surveyed by the Tripura HDR, the average extent of homestead plots was substantial, and around 0.33 acres. Kerala is the state in India where the economics of homestead cultivation had attracted scholarly and policy attention in recent years. It is noteworthy that the average size of homestead plots in these Tripura villages was higher than the corresponding figure from a recent study of homestead cultivation in north Kerala (which was 0.25 acres) (Ramakumar 2005). In the Kerala study, about 10 per cent of the household incomes of agricultural worker families, the average size of whose homestead plots were 0.27 acres, came from homestead cultivation.
If planned, the mixed cropping of tree crops, tubers, and vegetables on homestead land and on live fences can enhance nutrition and incomes in rural Tripura substantially.
There is no specific study of homestead farming in Tripura, nor are there estimates of the income contribution of such farming.
In conclusion, while there is potential for enhanced incomes through crop diversification, particularly to horticultural crops, and expansion of homestead cultivation, there have been no studies on this issue.
Human development indicators
Despite the limitation arising from low incomes and geographical isolation, Tripura has made gains in respect of basic indicators of human development. However, the HDR noted that despite big increases in enrolment, there remained problems in terms of school infrastructure, availability of teachers and paucity of higher education. On the nutritional front, despite a well- functioning public distribution system, the HDR found that there was a high prevalence of undernutrition and stunting among young children.
The two key indicators of human development that we wish to study in this project are education and the public distribution of food.
Methodology In order to fulfil these objectives, the project will examine all available secondary data, from departments of the Government of Tripura as well as national data sources. Secondly, the project will undertake some village level data collection. Three villages were surveyed for the Tripura HDR: Mainama in Dhalai District, West Muhuripur in South district and Khakchang in North district. We propose to return to the same villages and resurvey a sample (20 per cent) of households in each village. This will allow us to use panel data for our analysis. In addition, some case studies will be conducted.
Year 1: Collection of official reports and data and their analysis and resurvey of selected villages (2015-16).
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Year 2: Collection of additional case study material, completion of analysis and report writing. We will also have a workshop to discuss the findings with policy makers (2016-17).
References Jacob, J. (1997) Structure Analysis and System Dynamics of Agroforestry Home Gardens of Southern Kerala, Ph.D. Thesis, College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University. Government of Tripura, 2007, Tripura Human Development Report 2007. Ramakumar, R. (2005), Socio-Economic Characteristics of Agricultural Workers, Ph. D thesis, ISI, Kolkata. 7. Budget: Revenue Items 2016-17 1. Travel, incl. air fare and local travel for PI and 150,000 research collaborators
2. Project-linked personnel (12 months @ Rs 30,000 360,000 p.m) 3. Field investigators (@ Rs 1000 per day) 30,000 4. Stationery, printing, telecommunications, etc. 10000 5. Workshop/seminar 400,000 6. Miscellaneous 10,000 Grand Total 9,60,000
Proposed expenditure: Nine lakhs sixty thousand rupees.
8. Assets: NONE 10. Expected date of completion: MARCH 31, 2017 11. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure during 2016-17 Revenue Expenditure Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Total 120,000 220,000 400,000 220,000 9,60,000
15. Projections Total Proposed Action plan (%) Financial target (%) expected budget for budget 2016-17 2015-16 2016-17 2015- 2016-17 16 1632,000 960,000 41 59 45 55
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ERU (General, On-Going) Project No. 1.2
1. Title of the Project: Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal. 2. Brief Objective and Justification (2 or 3 sentences): Doctoral students in economics do not get adequate exposure to the work of young researchers in comparable institutions. Additionally, a platform where they can present their own research to young researchers from other institutions is mostly absent. This initiative would encourage exchange of ideas, and facilitate the formation of peer networks, thereby enhancing the research environment and productivity at ERU. The project has already been sanctioned by the DCSW-TAC in 2014 for the period 2015-16 to 2018-19, the present, supplementary, proposal involves plans for its further expansion in 2016-17 and 2018-19. 3. Date of Commencement: Fourth Quarter, 2015-16. 4. Names of Proposing Scientists: Priyodorshi Banerjee and Indraneel Dasgupta 5. Names of other Associated Scientists: None 6. Scope and Justification of the Project: We are therefore currently organizing an annual doctoral students’ workshop series in collaboration with IGIDR. The first workshop was held in March, 2014. It was hosted by IGIDR. The second, hosted by ISI, was held in March, 2015. In the proposal presented to, and accepted by, the DCSW-TAC of SSD in 2014, we proposed to extend this series for the next four years (2015-16 through 2018- 19), with workshops in 2015-16 and 2017-18 to be held at IGIDR, and in 2016-17 and 2018-19 to be held at ISI. As mentioned in the original proposal, and as suggested by the DCSW-TAC, we also hope to encourage students from other institutions to participate, making the workshop more productive and enhancing quality of idea-exchange. Towards this end, and with the experience of one year of hosting the workshop behind us, we wish to expand the number of external participants significantly in the coming years. Towards this end, we request an increase in budgetary outlay for the years 2016- 17 and 2018-19, when ISI is slated to host the workshop.
7. Itemwise Breakup of the Proposed Budget (capital and revenue): No capital item is proposed. 8. Revenue budget proposed for 2016-17 is as follows (ISI will be the host) Accommodation, Rs. 2400 per person (600 Sub-total: 2400*20 = 48,000 breakfast, dinner for about per day) 20 incoming participants from IGIDR and other institutions who will present research papers and spend 4 nights at ISI Accommodation, Rs. 2500 per day (1250*2) Sub-total: 1250*4 = 10,000 breakfast, dinner for 2 incoming faculty member from IGIDR who will spend 4 nights at ISI Refreshments and lunch Rs. 1000 per person (333 Sub-total: 115,000 for about 115 daily per day) attendees for 3 days (20 incoming participants from
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outside the city, about 30 students from ERU, another 35 students from various other institutions in Kolkata, and about 30 faculty members and staff from ISI and other institutes) Contingency Rs. 27,000 expenses (copying, circulation of papers, reading material, stationery, bags, folders, notepads and files, travel expenses for speakers from other institutions within Kolkata, etc.) Total Rs. 2,00,000
9. Brief Particulars of Assets Proposed to be Acquired: Not applicable. 10. List of All Ongoing Projects Undertaken by the Proposing Scientists in the Last 5 Years: Not applicable. 11. Expected Date of Completion: Fourth Quarter, 2018-19. 12. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure During 2016-17 First Quarter: Revenue - 0, Capital - 0, Total - 0 Second Quarter: Revenue - 0, Capital - 0, Total - 0 Third Quarter: Revenue - 0, Capital - 0, Total - 0 Fourth Quarter: Revenue – 2 lakhs, Capital - 0, Total - 2 lakhs Total: Revenue - 2 lakhs, Capital - 0, Total - 2 lakhs Workshops in every year are projected to take place in the fourth quarter
13. For General Projects Only (New): Total Expected Budget (A) in lakhs: Revenue – 6.85 (revised) 5.1 (original), Capital - 0, Total – 6.85 (revised) 5.1 (original) Proposed Budget for 2016-17 (B) in lakhs: Revenue -2.0, Capital - 0, Total – 2.0 Action Plan/Target in terms of percentage (%)*: 2015-16 -16.1, 2016-17 – 29.2, 2017-18 – 19.4, 2018-19 – 35.3 Financial Target in lakhs*: 2015-16 - 1.10, 2016-17 – 2.00 (revised) 1.21 (original), 2017-18 - 1.33, 2018-19 – 2.42 (revised) 1.46 (original)
* Based on the assumption that prices will escalate 10% every year
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LRU (General, On-Going) Project No. 2.3
1. Title of the project: Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The objective of this project is to augment the on-going Bengali pronunciation dictionary with an additional 30,000 words of modern Bengali with full lexicographic details furnished in the proposed dictionary. These words are already collected from various digital sources including modern Bengali text corpora and digital lexical databases. The proposed dictionary will become an indispensable digital resource for various works of applied linguistics and language technology including computer assisted language teaching, text-to-speech conversion, word sense disambiguation, E- governance, language processing, and machine learning. 3. Date of Commencement and Completion: April 2015 – March 2018 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Niladri Sekhar Dash, LRU, ISI 5. Name of associated scientists with affiliation: Probal Dasgupta (LRU, ISI) and Mina Dan (Dept. of linguistics, Calcutta University) 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 augment the lexical entries as well as other lexicographic data and information in the digital pronunciation dictionary that is under development in the unit. In the first phase our target was only for 20,000 words. Since this small list does not cover the large lexical stock available in the language, in this project we propose to add up additional 30,000 words to make it a final list of 50,000 words of modern Bengali. In fact, we have already processed a written text corpus of nearly 10 million words of modern Bengali and have collected a list of 50,000 new words (including Tatsama, Tadbhava, Deshi, Local and Foreign words) of different part-of-speech and lexico-syntactic functions. Moreover, these words are lemmatized, tokenized, and alphabetically sorted to be considered as candidate entry words for inclusion in the proposed dictionary. The issue of spelling variation of the words is already fixed following the proposal of the Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata. At present, nearly 7,000 entry words are transliterated into Indic Roman and are tagged with diacritic symbols and marks for easy readability by the end users. The pronunciation of Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB) is adopted for the entry words and this is being presented in standard Bengali orthographic (for those people who know Bengali script but do not know IPA) as well as in IPA (for those people who know IPA but do not know Bengali script, particularly for non- native Bengali learners). Descriptive meaning along with usage in sentential form for each entry word is being provided for sense disambiguation, learning patterns of syntactic use of words, and for differentiating among those homographic and homophonus homonyms lexical entries that exhibit similar orthographic or pronunciation representation albeit their lexico-semantic differences. Furthermore, each entry word in its unique syntactic frame is rendered into English translation for general access across spatio-temporal boundaries. The audio output of standard pronunciation (along with one or two possible variation) of each entry word will be made available both in sentence-free and sentence-bound contexts. The tentative end-user interface of the proposed dictionary may be visualized from the following levels of lexicographic information (stated below) as well as from the screen shot which replicates the actual web-based interface of the pronunciation dictionary under construction.
1. Entry Word in Bengali : িচ� 2. Display in Indic Roman Script : cihna 3. Pronunciation in Bengali Script : (িচনেহা)
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4. Pronunciation in IPA : [ʧinɦo] 5. Output in spoken form : [ʧin-ɦo] 6. An example of usage : কেয়কটা িচ� �� েচনা যাে� 7. English Translation : “Some signs are clearly identifiable”
Application Relevance and Immediate Beneficiaries: This dictionary is the first of its kind in Bengali in the world. We have meticulously checked all possible avenues and nowhere did we find any dictionary of this kind in Bengali, which is corpus-based and computer-assisted with a user-friendly multimedia interface and which can be used both on-line and off-line. A digital pronunciation dictionary of this kind can be tremendously useful for first and second language teaching, text-to-speech conversion, on-line Bengali education, classroom-based language teaching, language recognition, word-form 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 in Bengali word pronunciation, recognition, and usage. The beneficiaries of this resource are not only the native Bengali speakers and learners, but also a wide range of people including foreign learners, language teachers, machine translation system developers, text-to-speech system developers, lexicographers, language planners, speech pathologists, and others.
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7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 Total Capital - - - - Revenue Salary of 2 Project Linked Persons 6,00,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 18,00,000 (25,000 X 2 X 36 = 18,00,000) Stores and stationeries 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 Computer consumables 50,000 50,000 50,000 1,50,000 Total: 7,00,000 7,00,000 7,00,00 21,00,000
Justifications: Two Project linked persons are required for carrying out the project work successfully.
8. Brief Particulars of the Assets to be procured: NIL
9. List of on-going projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money Budgeted, (iii) Money Spent, (iv) publications (if any)
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) “Digital dictionary: a physical realization of virtual reality”. Published in the 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) “Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for Bengali: A Tool of the Time”. In, Sharma, Dipti Misra, Rajeev Sangal and Sobha L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011), Pp. 117-124, Anna University, Chennai, India, 16th – 19th December 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Bengali Script. Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing [ISBN: 978-3-8383-4448-5]. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya”. Alochana Chakra. [ISSN: 2231 3990]. Vol. 32. Pp. 166-178, Baimela Sankhya, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2012) “Developing Scientific and Technical Terminology Database from Electronic Language Corpora”. Language Forum. Vol. 38. No. 1. Pp. 5- 21. January-June 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2013) “Developing a Digital Pronunciation Dictionary in Bengali for Computer-Assisted Language Teaching, E-Learning, and Language Technology”. Proceedings of Abstract of the 35th Annual and 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-1), Pp. 78-81. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India, 27-29 November, 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Consonant Graphic Variants in Bengali: Their Patterns of Usage and Their Nature of Pronunciation within Words”. Abstract published in the
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Souvenir of the 11th International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL 11), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, 23-25 January 2014, Pp. 26. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2014) “Investigating into the Patterns of Usage and Nature of Pronunciation of Some Consonant Grapheme Clusters in Bengali”. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (AJHSS). Vol. 2. No. 2. Pp. 330-340, April 2014. [ISSN: 2321 2799]
10. Expected Date of Completion: March 2018
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2015-2016
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SRU (General, On-Going) Project No. 5.2
1. Title of the project: Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee I ndustry of Karnataka 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The project will study gender relations in the coffee industry of Chikmagalur, Koorg and Hasan talukas in the State of K arnataka. The purpose of the project is to (1) to find out dynamics of gender relations i n di f f erent strata of cof f ee pl antati on, (2) to assess various forms of production that exist in the coffee manufacturing industry and their interrelationship, (3) to anal yze division of labour between men and women in different forms of production, and the wage di f f erences thereby, (4) to anal yze the rol e of trade-unions in coffee-industry and the role of women workers in the union. 3. Date of Commencement: April 2015 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal I nvestigator: Molly Chattopadhyay, SRU, I SI 5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Prof. M adhura Swaminathan, EAU, I SI , Bangalore; Ms. Meera Mundayath, I nstitute of Development Studies, M ysore University. 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): Importance of coffee industry in comparison to other export earning plantation industry The main feature of Coffee plantation sector is their structural concentration in terms of their size. Forms of production varies from <2 hectare landholding to more than 100 hectare to coffee curing sector. The bulk production in coffee (60 per cent) comes from the small holdings (0-2 hectare; 42.2% of total 3.8 lakh hectares area under coffee cultivation). The dominance of the small and marginal producers especially in case of coffee and rubber signifies that these crops are potential sources of livelihoods to millions of small and marginal producers, who are geographically concentrated. Gender bias in coffee is evident as women continue to dominate the harvesting operations along with their strong presence in the routine management of coffee plantations. Changes in the liberalisation policies and globalisation have transformed the plantations’ identity, changing the pattern of traditional plantation estates towards more flexible forms of production. The organisation of production in tea plantations in India have shifted away from the principal estate sector to the decentralised forms of production, namely small holder- BLF (Bought-Leaf Factory) sector. Co-operative forms of production like the share of co-operative societies and self-help groups in small holder cultivation have also shown growing trends in the recent decade (Sumitha, 2012; Upendranath, 2010). In the case of coffee, this structural change was characterised by the dynamic growth of the smallholder sector against the decline of the large plantations. Accordingly, the smallholder sector has emerged as the major stakeholder in coffee and rubber sectors with dominant shares in harvested area (75% and 90% respectively) and production (70% and 93% respectively) (Sirkar, 2008; Viswanathan and Shah, 2012). International studies on coffee industry shows that intensification of coffee production led to large increases in women's work, but the work involved is mainly the 'most time- consuming tasks (weeding and picking)' whereas men mainly undertake tasks 'requiring some knowledge of coffee technology (planting, shading, fencing and pruning)' for which only they receive training (Barnes 1981, p. I 74).The findings by Overfield and
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Fleming (1999) from their study of smallholder coffee production in Eastern Highlands Province confirmed this state of affairs.
Why to study gender relations in coffee industry? Review of literatures – both national and international suggests that while there has been several studies on varied aspects of labour market of the North East tea industry [George (1986); UPASI (2003); Hayami and Damodaran (2004)], none of the studies examined different forms of production, interrelationships between different forms and women’s roles in different forms. Condition of women workers, role of women workers in trade union, patriarchal attitudes by management towards women workers in plantation industry are studied [Bhowmik (1982, 1994); Govt. of India 2009; Jain, 1998; Koshy & Tiwary, 2011; Rajasenan (2010); Rege (1946);]. The study by Tessy Kurien ( 2000) deals on working conditions, consumption pattern and the gap between Plantation Labour Act, 1951 and its implementation among four plantation sectors of Kerala e.g. tea, coffee, rubber, and spices. But his thesis does not examine dynamics of gender relations in different forms of production and in different strata of land holding. A special issue on “Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia” by The Journal of Peasant Studies (1992) focused on the origins and recruitment of plantation labour, the labour process into which the plantation workforce was deployed, and the labour regimes governing this. What are missing are forms of production and dynamics of gender relations.
When one considers the status of research on labour market issues in plantations other than tea, namely rubber, coffee and spices in India, it is disconcerting to note that the existing studies have hardly recognised the need to account for these diverse issues in other plantation crops namely rubber, coffee and cardamom (Sumitha, 2012).Though there have been various studies and individual or committee based investigations to understand and report about the plantation crisis induced by the trade reforms, most of them approached the problem from the framework of conventional supply and demand analysis (market instruments), prices and trade (Joy, 2004). Hardly few empirical studies are available that try to understand the labour dynamics and the gender impacts of the crisis and the trade reforms in a holistic manner and offer valuable suggestions and policy guidelines from a sustainable plantation development perspective (Viswanathan and Shah, 2012).
Internationally also, only two studies are found (Adagal, ; Kurian & Jayawardena, 2013) that examined plantation patriarchy justifying and normalising subordinate status of women workers in both tea and coffee plantation. Overfield and Fleming (1999) laments that , judging from a review of the research planning documents of plantation industry gender relations in coffee industry have seldom been considered in setting research priorities and formulating their research programs. These studies underpin an industrial model of competitiveness, based on low-wage female labour which is mainly descriptive; does little to reveal the dynamics of socio- cultural factors that affect the division of labour between men and women, both inside and outside the factory that directly or indirectly determine gender differentiated treatment in the workplace. In a nutshell, review of literature on plantation industry shows that to what extent gender plays a role in differential access of men and women to various employments has not been studied.
Coffee is a rare example which is grown concurrently and within the same agro-ecological zone as both peasant crop and plantation crop. In other words, the relations of production that characterizes its cultivation vary from small-scale self-employment to self-employment supplemented by wage labour (that is, different strata of the peasantry) to more socialized forms, that is, of large-scale farming units based exclusively on the employment of wage labour. It is of substantial analytical interest to the sociologist to observe and analyze different roles played by
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women in the different agrarian regimes and forms of production represented in the coffee sector.
Plan of work During the year 2015-16, literature survey, collection of official data from different sources, mapping of coffee plantation units, listing of coffee curing units and preparation of questionnaire-schedule will be taken up. In the second year (2016-17) a pilot study will be conducted among 150 coffee plantation workers (100 female + 50 male). Another 50 workers will be interviewed from coffee curing sector. Scrutiny and computerization of data will be done. In the third year (2017-18), interview with owners of coffee plantation units, coffee entrepreneurs, and focus group discussion with unorganized sector workers, analysis and report writing will be done.
References
Adagala, Kavesta. 1991. Households and Historical Change on Plantations in Kenya. In Women, Households, and Change. Eleonora Masini and Susan Stratigos (Ed.). United Nations University Press, Tokyo. Pp. 205-240. Barnes, H. 1981. “Women in Highlands Agricultural Production in D. Denoon and E. Snowden (eds), A Time to Plant and a Time to uproot, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Port Moresby, 265- 284. Bhomick, S. 1982. ‘A Workers’ Co-operative in Tea: Success Turned into Failure’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 17, No. 31 (Jul. 31, 1982), pp. 1224-1226. ……………. 1994. ‘Tea Plantation Wage Agreement: Workers, Interests Sacrificed,’ Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 29, No.41. Daniel, E. Valentine, Henry Bernstein and Tom Brass (ed.). 1992 April/July. Special Issue on ‘Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia’. The Journal of Peasant Studies. Vol. 19, No. 3&4. Government of India. 2009. Ministry of Labour & Employment (2009), ‘Socio- Economic Condition of Women Workers in Plantation Industry’, Government of India, Labour Bureau, Chandigarh. Hayami, Y. and A. Damodaran. (2004), ‘Towards an Alternative Agrarian Reform: Tea Plantations in South India,’ Economic and Political Weekly, 39 (36): 3992-3997. Jain, Shobita. 1998. Gender Relations of Plantation System in Assam, India. In Shobita Jain & R. Reddock (Ed.) Women Plantation workers; International Experience. Oxford. Joy, C.V. 2004. Small Coffee Growers of Sulthan Bathery, Waynad. Discussion paper No. 83. Centre for Development Studies, Thruvananthapuram. Kurian, Rachel and Kumari Jayawardena. 2013. “ Plantation Patriarchy and Structural Violence: Women Workers in Sri Lanka” . Conference on Bonded Labour, Migration, Diaspora and Identity Formation in Historical and Contemporary Context, June 6th. – 10th, 2013, Paramaribo, Suriname Kurien, Tessy. A Study of Women Workers in the Plantation Sector of Kerala. Unpublished thesis. Mahatma Gandhi University. Kottayam, Kerala. Koshy, tina & Manish Tiwary. 2011. Enhancing the Opportunities for Women in India;s Tea Sector. Prakruthi, Bangalore. Overfield, Duncan and Euan Fleming. 2001. A Note on the Influence of Gender Relations on the Technical Efficiency of smallholder Coffee Production in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol.52, Issue 1, Pages 153-156. Rajasenan (2010), ‘Livelihood and Employment of Workers in Rubber and Spices Plantations’, NRPPD Discussion Paper 6, Centre for Development Studies.
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Rege, D. V., (1946), Report on an Enquiry into Conditions of Plantation Labour in India and Ceylon, Delhi, Government of India. Sirkar, Kingshuk (2008) ‘Globalisation, Restructuring and Labour Flexibility in Tea Plantations in West Bengal’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 51 (4).
Sumitha, S. Bringing In. Living In, Falling Out.: Labour Market Transitions Of Indian Plantation Sector, A Survey. NRPPD Discussion Paper 14. UPASI (2003), ‘Emerging Trends in the Plantation Sector: A Synoptic Perspective’, Coonoor, Nilgris, Tamil Nadu. Upendranath (2010), ‘Coffee Conundrum: Whither the Future Of Small Growers In India?’, NRPPD Discussion Paper 3, Centre for Development Studies. Viswanathan, P.K. and Amita Shah. 2012. Gender Impact of Trade Reforms in Indian Plantation Sector: An Exploratory Analysis. NRPPD Discussion Paper.
7. I tem wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page):
Item heads 2016-17 2017-18 Travel and subsistence for principal investigator 1,00,000 1,00,000 2 Field investigators @ Rs. 500 per day for 90 days in 90,000 - each year Local Travel & subsistence 70,000 40,000 Stationery, printing, communication 30,000 10,000 Purchase of Data, books, consumer consumables 30,000 20,000 Data scrutiny and entry 30,000 20,000 1 project-linked personnel @ 20000 per month for 8 1,60,000 months Total 3,50,000 3,50,000 Grand Total 7,00,000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. I n case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost): Nil.
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) M oney budgeted, (iii) M oney spent, (iv) Publicati ons (if any):
1. Year 2012-15 Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Indian Mining Industry Status: Completed 2012-13 Money budgeted: 1,02,000 Money spent: 99,505 2013-2014 Money budgeted: 1,50,000 Money spent: 1,49,236 2014-15 Money budgeted: 2,50,000 Money spent: 2,48,963
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2. (i) No. of on-going pr oj ects: 1 (One) (ii) Title: Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka (iii) Status: To start from April 2015 (iv) Money Budgeted in 2015-16: 2, 90,000 (v) Money spent: Not applicable 10. Expected date of Completion: M arch 2018 11. Quarterly projection of expenditure 2016-17(in lakh) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Rev Cap Total Rev Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total Rev. Cap Total 0.50 0.0 0.50 1.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 3.50 0.0 3.50
12. For general projects only (in lakhs) (on-going) Proposed budget for 2016- Total budget Amount spent Total outlay Physical progress in Financial progress in 17 allocation till till 31.03.2015 (proposed) for terms of percentage terms of percentage 31.03.2015 Twelfth plan (%) as on (%) as on 31.03.2015 31.03.2015 Revenu Capita Total e l 3.50 0.0 3.50 Not Not applicable 9.90 Not applicable Not applicable applicable 13. For General Projects Only (New): N.A. 14. For North-East Proiects only (On-going): N.A. 15. For North-East projects only (New): N.A. 16. Rank (to be given by Division)
Publications in the last five years Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. “Occupational segregation and gender wage gap”. Accepted for publication in Demography India, Vol.42, No.1 & 2. Chattopadhyay, Molly, Sonali Chakraborty and Richard Anker. “Sex Segregation in India’s Formal Manufacturing Sector”, International Labour Review. Vol. 152/1, March 2013, Pp: 43-58. Chattopadhyay, Molly: “Women workers in the mica industry: A case study”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 2011, 18:311-340 (Sage publications). Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sonali Chakraborty: “Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the Pattern of Segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01”, Crossing the Borders, Vol.2, 2009, Pp. 91- 98.
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SRU (General, On-Going) Project No. 5.3
1. Title of the Project: The contribution of unpaid family workers in the handloom sector of textile industry. 2. Brief Objective: A large section of workers concealed within the aggregate figures of self employment, are unpaid family workers/helpers that are mostly female. They don’t receive any independent payment/income but contribute their labour to the production. The main objectives of this project are, a) To find out proportion of unpaid workers among total workers in weaving and allied works. b) To find out the share of income of the unpaid workers in the total income of the household from weaving and allied works. c) Time spent on different unpaid activities viz., handloom related works, domestic and extra-domestic works and also on other activities and leisure-time in a day. d) To find out the association, if any, between unpaid work and factors like house hold size, number of children, number of female, amount of debt and some other socio- economic factors. 3. Date of commencement: 1st April 2015. 4. Name of the proposing scientist: Dr. Sonali Chakraborty, SRU 5. Name of the other associate scientist with their affiliation: Dr. Diganta Mukherjee, Associate Professor, SOSU, Dr. Suparna Shome , Associate scientist ‘c’, SRU 6. Name of the associated academic advisors with affiliation: NA
7. A brief write up on the justification and scope of the project and proposed work: Labour market segmentation, un-employment, wage differentials, labour force participation all are well investigated subjects but the unpaid family work has received less attention. A large number of unpaid female labour force participation has been subcategorized within the broad category of self-employment and accounted for 72 per cent during the year 2004-05 and 68 per cent in the year 2009-10 (Ray and Mukherjee 2013). The rural self employment consists of three fourth of female unpaid workers while in urban the percentage is about 43 in the 2007-08 as obtained from NSS data (Majumdar, 2011). Women’s participation in labour force are overwhelmingly concentrated in household- based manufacturing, where they often serve as unpaid family worker, such as dairying, fisheries, small animal husbandry, handlooms, handicrafts, sericulture etc. Handloom industry is the largest cottage industry in West Bengal and it provides employments in a large number (7.8 lakhs handloom Census 2009-10) next to agriculture (Directorate of Textile, Government of West Bengal, 2009-10). Handloom work largely depends on the unpaid family workers who are mainly female. The existence and role of unpaid family workers especially the active participation of female in pre-loom and post-loom activities is undoubtedly prevalent and they are the economic asset of weaver households (Reddy, 2010). The whole industry is running with the great support of the female members of their family. Though their income is included in the aggregate income of the family they are not paid individually. This situation undermines their role as an earner in the family, curbing economic independence and social status. As a result of unpaid work, they suffer from gender discrimination in the allocation of resources within the household, in spite of their considerable labour. This certainly goes against the government issues and policies for the development of women’s economic independence, individual savings and empowerment.
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Hence, it is important to assess the full extent of their contribution in the productivity sector. In this context it is very much relevant to get the share of income of these unpaid female workers to the aggregate income of their respective families.
Unpaid household-workers may be grouped into following groups. a) Children (of age ≤ 14 years) – Some amount of Child labour is involved in handloom industry in the form of unpaid worker. It will be worth to study whether the extent of child labour in handloom industry is nominal or significant. b) Elderly members (aged ≥ 60 years) – It is also a matter of socio-economic interest to study the extent of involvement of aged persons in economic activity, what proportion of their engagement is as unpaid household-workers, the share they contribute in family earning etc. c) Household-members mainly involved in other activities other than domestic works, doing nominal unpaid works. d) House-wives and other members doing substantial amount of unpaid works of handloom industry – It is important from sociological view point to estimate the (imputed) earning of these unpaid household-workers. If the contribution is found to be substantial then this aspect is required to be studies on a larger scale.
The secondary source of data regarding unpaid workers is available from the various rounds of Employment and Unemployment surveys conducted by NSSO. But these surveys do not provide any information of an individual’s earning and time spent of those who are falling under the activity status of self employment. Neither the Hand loom census (2009-10) conducted by the ministry of Textile, GOI nor the Directorate of Textile of the state government provides data on unpaid family workers. In this backdrop a pilot survey will be done to study the above said objectives.
The pre-loom and post-loom activities of main weaving process are mainly done by unpaid female, children and aged family members.
Methodology: The entire weaving process involves mainly the following steps. i) Pre-loom activities include sizing of yarns, bobbin (pirn/spool)-winding, warping and beaming, drafting and denting and setting up of Jacquard. ii) Weaving iii) Post-loom activities include calendaring and wrapping. To compute the earnings (imputed) of unpaid workers, mainly market rates will be considered. All most all the activities that will be covered in this survey have prevailing local market rates which are accessible to the women workers also. Payment is made on piece-rate basis and not on the basis of time. However, if it happens during the survey that prevailing market rate is not available for any of the activities then, in that case, shadow pricing will be done. Sampling procedure: The population for this study will be the people who are engaged in weaving and allied work in the main handloom hubs of Nadia district of West Bengal namely Shantipur and Fulia. It will be a multistage stratified sampling procedure. A sample of around 200 weaver households will be selected from this population. In this survey, weaver households will mean the households who are carrying out any of the activities mentioned above.
Allocation of the sample. The sample will be allocated in each of the localities proportionately according to the number of the weaver households they have. The number of the weaver
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households can be obtained from two major sources. One is unit level data of Economic Census conducted by Central Statistical organisation. Village wise weaver households in the rural sector and ward/UFS block wise weaver households in the urban sector can be obtained from this source. Another source is the office of additional secretary of handloom section, to the Govt. of W.B, Directorate of Textiles, (Handlooms, Spinning Mills, Silk weaving & Handloom Based Handicrafts Division).
In the 1st stage from each urban locality UFS (Urban Frame Survey) blocks will be selected by the method of PPS sampling, size will be the number of weaver households. Listing of the weaver households will be made in selected UFS blocks to prepare the frame for selection of weaver households.
Weaver households of each selected UFS block can be divided into two second stage strata 1) Households having handloom and 2) Households not having any handloom. In the 2nd stage from each stratum 5 households will be selected.
In the village if the population size is small then listing of the households will be done in the whole village. In case of larger village the whole village will be divided into some parts and a sample of parts will be selected by PPS. The total number of parts or the sample parts will be depend on the number of weaver households size and the number of sample households to be covered in that village.
References: Annual Report (2009-10) GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL. Directorate of Textiles, (Handlooms, Spinning Mills, Silk weaving & Handloom Based Handicrafts Division.) Indrani Mazumdar Neetha N. GENDER DIMENSIONS: EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN INDIA, 1993-94 TO 2009-10 Occasional Paper No.56 Key Indicatorors of Employment Unemployment survey in India (NSS 55th round, 61srt round. 66th round and 68th round) Ashis Mitra, Prabir Choudhuri and Arup Mukherjee 2009: A diagnostic report on cluster development programme on Shantipur Handloom cluster, Nadia, West Bengal. India journal of traditional knowledge Vol 8(4), 2009, 502-509 Handloom Census of India 2009-2010, Ministry of Textile GOI Ashis Ray and Salil Mukherjee ,2013, Employment Growth in India at desegregated level, paper presented in the National Seminar on the results of NSS 66th round survey 20-21 June 2013 Bengaluru D. Narasimha Reddy 2010 , Women handloom weavers: Facing the brunt, Gender and trade policy. Handloom Census of India 2009-2010, Ministry of Textile GOI Booklet published by Daskar Andhra 2010, A j o u r n e y i n t o Handloom weaving
8. Item wise break- up of the budget proposed (only Revenue): For the year 2016-17
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Revenue Rupees in lakhs Fieldwork (TA, DA, Transport) 0.30 Salary of field investigators 0.20 TOTAL (Revenue) 0.50 Contingency (Stationary, print, Xerox, computer 0.25 consumables, books, journals, etc) Data entry, analysis, report writing and miscellaneous 0.25 Total 1.00
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years : NA 10. Expected date of completion: March 2017 11. Quarterly projection of expenditures (in lakhs) during 2016-17
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot .40 -- .40 .30 -- .30 .20 -- .20 .10 -- .10 1.00 -- 1.00
12. For general projects only (on –going): Not applicable 13. For General Projects (in lakhs) only (New) Total expected Acton Plan/Target Financial target in budget in Terms of terms of percentage percentage (%) (%) Rev. Cap. Total 2016-17 2016-17 1.00 --- 1.00 100% 100%
14. For North-East Projects only (On-going): Not applicable 15. For North-East Projects only (New): Not applicable
Publications in the last five years Sonali Chakraborty (December, 2013) Occupational Gender Segregation in India: Research journali’s Journal of Economics Vol.1/ No.2. pp. 1-31 ISSN 2347- 8233(web journal) Molly Chattopadhyay, Sonali Chakraborty and Prof. Richard Anker ‘Sex segregation in India’s formal manufacturing sector’ International Labour Review, Vol. 152 (2013), No. 1p.p 43-58 Sonali Chakraborty ‘EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION’ The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2012 p.p 485-500 Chattopadhyay Molly and Chakraborty Sonali, 2009, Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the Pattern of Segregation in the factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01’ Critical Issues’ Vol-2 p.p 91-98 Prasanta Pathak and Sonali Chakraborty, 2009 ‘Statistical Models for finding out determinants of potentiality to get absorbed in jobs for different of labours in three north Indian states’ Indian Journal of Regional Science, vol xxxxi,p.p 91- 102. Sonali Chakraborty and Molly Chattopadhayay 2013, ‘Gender wage gap and Occupational Segregation in Indian labour market accepted in ‘Demography India’ will be publish in the month of August 2014 in vol 42 no.1
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EPU (General, On-going) Project No. 7.1
1. Title of the Project: “Annual Conference” 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The conference will provide a forum for dissemination of modern research in economic growth and development economics using both theoretical and empirical approaches. It will also seek to examine the development implications of emerging fields in economics and to re-examine old questions in the light of new problems and new evidence. 3. Date of Commencement: 2016-17 4. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Members of the Planning Unit. 5. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page): Rs. 4 Lakhs
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Non Project Plan Proposals
Srl No. Unit Page No. 1 Economic Research Unit ……………………….. 59
2 Linguistic Research Unit ……………………….. 60
3 Population Studies Unit ……………………….. 62
4 Psychology Research Unit ……………………….. 63
5 Sociological Research Unit ……………………….. 65
6 Sampliing & Official Statistics Unit ……………………….. 67
7 Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre ……………………….. 68
8 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre ……………………….. 71
9 Social Sciences Division Office ……………………….. 72
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Economic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2016 – 2017
Sl. No. Items Amount (in lakh) 1. Visiting Scientists: 20.000 2. Seminar: 5.000 3. Internal travel: 3.000 4. Submission fee for publication in Journals: 1.000 5. Computer Consumables: 5.000 6. Repair and Maintenance: 7.000 7. Office Expenditures: 4.000 8. Capital Expenditure: 15.000 TOTAL 60.000
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Linguistic Research Unit Non Project Plan Proposals (2016-2017)
Items Heads Amount for the year Remark 2016-2017 Capital 5,00,000 Essential Computer, Photocopier, Software, Scanner, Printer, 5,00,000 Cupboard, Internet Hub, Furniture, Water Filter, UPS, Air-conditioning, Camera, Data Recorder, Wi-Fi, etc. Revenue 12,50,000 Visiting Scientists 1,00,000 Seminars (departmental, on regular basis) 1,00,000 Internal Travel 1,50,000 Computer Consumables 1,50,000 Maintenance 1,50,000 Office Expenditures (Stores and Stationeries) 1,50,000 Fellowship for 1 (one) New JRF/SRF (2016-2017) 4,50,000 Total 17,50,000
LRU’S TOTAL BUDGET PROPOSED FOR 2016 -2017
Items Heads Amount for the year Remark 2016-2017 Capital 5,00,000 Essential Computer, Photocopier, Software, Scanner, Printer, 5,00,000 Cupboard, Internet Hub, Furniture, Water Filter, UPS, Air-conditioning, Camera, Data Recorder, Wi-Fi, etc. Revenue 12,50,000 Essential Visiting Scientists 1,00,000 Seminars (departmental, on regular basis) 1,00,000 Internal Travel 1,50,000 Computer Consumables 1,50,000 Maintenance 1,50,000 Office Expenditures (Stores and Stationeries) 1,50,000 Fellowship for 1 (one) New JRF/SRF (2016-2017) 4,50,000 Plan Projects Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary (2015-2018) 7,00,000 7,00,000 Approved Advanced Academic Programs for North Eastern 9,00,000 9,00,000 Proposed States (2016-2017) Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and 2,75,000 2,75,000 Approved Bangla (2014-2017) Total 36,25,000
Justification for LRU Unit’s Plan Budget Proposal: 2016 -2017
(a) Capital Items: With regard to capital items and resources LRU is poorly furnished. It suffers from lack of a laboratory furnished with advanced systems and tools necessary for
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successful execution of research and development works in the area of Natural Language Processing, language technology, applied linguistics, & cognitive linguistics. It needs some good computers, printers, and photo-copiers to carry out academic and research activities. Also, due to lack of computer facilities, visitors and summer trainees who come to work at LRU face severe problems. It is imperative that we should provide the basic infrastructural facilities to the scholars as well as scholars who visit LRU. At present, there are 15 computers in LRU. At least 5 or more computers are urgently required for carrying out research works and for Ph.D. scholars. We also need laser printers, scanners, and photo copiers, chairs, tables, computer tables, cupboards, UPS, AC, etc. for proper functioning and seamless execution of the research and administrative works of the unit. Therefore, LRU needs an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- to meet such expenses.
(b) Visiting Scientists: During last few years at least ten scientists from home and abroad have visited LRU – either in short or long term period. For providing honorarium and local hospitality to visiting scientists LRU needs an amount of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
(c) Seminar/workshop: LRU organizes seminars on regular basis. During last one year some scholars have presented their research works at LRU seminars. This gives us an opportunity to have academic interactions with different researchers. We propose to pay an amount of Rs. 3000/- to each non-ISI presenter as honorarium for each lecture. Also, we invite well-known scientists from different parts of the country to give special lectures on specified topics. To meet TA and local hospitality, local transport, etc. LRU needs an amount of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
(d) Internal Travel: Scientists of LRU attend conferences/seminars at various universities and institutes within India. Also interactions become necessary with experts from outside (within India) for research. This provides scope for better interaction with other scholars. Over the years the cost of travel has increased in a massive scale. Therefore, to meet TA, DA and other costs for attending and presenting papers in conferences and seminars by scientific workers of LRU, we need an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/-.
(e) Computer Consumables: Our dependence on computers and related devices has increased. This results in more utilization of computer consumables like cartridges, toners, pen drives, CDs, external hard disks, data cards, computer papers etc. The cost of these instruments and items has multiplied over the years. To meet such needs we require an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- for the Unit.
(f) Maintenance: Fund is also required for maintaining the computers, UPSs, water filters, anti-virus software, AC machines, WiFi systems, networks, laptops, etc. Maintenance also includes internal repair and patch works, computer repair, internal painting of doors and windows, etc. We require an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- for this purpose.
(g) Office Expenditures: The Central Store of the institute often fails to meet requirement of office stationery goods and items urgently needed in the Unit. We need to have provision for procuring items like pad, note sheets, pencils, ribbon, gems clips, gum, cups, cover files, envelopes, staplers, flat files, pens, and other relevant consumable items for the Unit. Also we need to have provision for procuring some electrical equipments. For this we need an amount of Rs. 1,50,000/- for this financial year.
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Population Studies Unit NON-PROJECT PLAN PROPOSALS FOR 2016-17
Total Amount (in Lac of Sl. Items Rs.) No. Revenue Capital 1. Visiting Scientists 4.00 0.00 2. Research Fellows / Statistical Trainees etc. 1.50 0.00 3. Seminars by invited Experts 1.00 0.00 4. Submission Fee for Publication in Journals 0.50 0.00 5. Internal Travel 0.50 0.00 6. Computer Consumables 1.10 0.00 7. Office Expenditure 1.20 0.00 8. Repair and Maintenance etc. 5.50 0.00 9. AC machines for computer & seminar 0.00 2.00 rooms 10. Software (Demographic, Statistical, Virus 0.00 2.50 Guard) 11. Purchase of Desktop computers and Printers 0.00 2.00 Sub-total 15.30 6.50 Grand Total 21.80
Justifications: 1. External scientists will be invited to work at PSU for the year. So for local hospitality and honorarium to the visiting scientists the unit requires the amount of money. 2. Statistical Trainees will be recruited for the financial year. 3. It will be used to invite well-known population scientists from different parts of the country to deliver lectures on different topics. 4. At present most of the National/International journal needs submission fee for referring and processing. The amount will be used for that purpose. 5. The researchers of the unit often present papers in different conferences / seminars organized by reputed universities and institutions within India. To meet TA and DA for attending and presenting papers, the unit proposes that amount. 6. To meet regular requirements of computer consumables various items will be purchased. 7. It will be utilized for purchasing stationeries, meeting expenses on conveyance and refreshments etc. 8. It is required for solving the chronic problem of water leakage from the roof and outside wall, and for internal repair and patch work with painting of inside walls of the unit. 9. Five (5) very old (more than 15 yrs) and badly functioning AC machines in the computer rooms (3) and Seminar room (2) need replacement by power saving new models of AC machines. 10. The unit has to purchase virus software in each year. The unit also requires Demographic and other scientific software for scientific work and for demonstration purpose in various workshops. 11. At least two (2) computers and one printer (1) are urgently required for the unit, majority of the existing computers are very old and running under back dated operating system and not supporting most of the updated scientific and office software.
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Psychology Research Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2016-2017 Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2016-2017
Sr. No. Name of the Project Rs. in lakhs Rs. in lakhs Rs. in lakhs Revenue Capital Total 1 Computer Consumables 2.00 - 2.00 2 Research Fellow 4.10 4.10 3 Maintenance for Computer & Equipment 1.80 - 1.80 4 Seminar / Workshop / Training programme 1.70 - 1.70
5 Software 2.00 - 2.00
6 Office Expenditure 1.20 - 1.20 7 Visiting Scientist / Research Collaborator 3.00 - 3.00
8 Internal Travel 1.50 - 1.50 9 Submission fee for publication in journal 0.70 0.70 10 Capital Expenditure (Psychological Instrument, PC, 8.00 8.00 Laptop, Printer and Chairs, Xerox Machine, Book self, Sofa etc.)
The details of the Non- Project Budget Proposals for the year 2016- 17 . 1. Computer Consumables: This expenditure has increased tremendously. As a result, the use of consumables like Cartridge, Toner, CD-R & W, DVD, Papers, Pen drive, Transparency Sheets etc., are increasing day by day. This requires at least an amount of Rs. 2.00 lakhs. 2. Research Fellow : Rs. 4.10 lakhs. (Self-explanatory) 3. Maintenance: It will be required for maintaining the PCs, UPS, Aqua guard, Laptop Battery Anti-Virus software, Printers, Scanners, Cleaning of PC and accessories etc. So we propose an estimate of Rs. 1.80 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. 1.70 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.2.00 lakhs. 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.1.20 lakhs. 7. Visiting Scientist: The 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.3.00 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. 1.50 lakh will be required. 9. 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.
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upgrading research An estimate of Rs.0.70 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, Xerox machine: Currently, we have 3 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 2 PC with most up to date configuration. Our printer has similar problem. Current printers are not adequate to satisfy work load. Therefore, we want one printer.. There is no Xerox machine in our unit. It will be required for Xeroxing official documents and project related materials.
Furniture: Few chairs and two sofa are required in the computer lab and psychological testing lab. Some new Book shelves required for psychological data storage. An estimate of Rs. 8.00 lakhs will be required to purchase all the above mentioned Capital items.
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Sociological Research Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2016-2017
Sl. Item Budget ( Rs. in Lakhs ) No. Revenue Capital Total 1. Visiting Scientist 6.000 6.000 2. Seminar 4.000 4.000 3. Internal Travel 3.000 3.000 4. Research Fellow 6.000 6.000 5. Software 6.000 6.000 6. Processing fees for publication 1.000 1.000 7. Computer Consumables 3.000 3.000 8. Maintenance/ Office expenditure 2.000 2.000 9. Capital equipment : Upgrading computers/ AC/ 9.000 9.000 furniture/ other related equipments. 10. New Unit Seminar Room 9.000 9.000 11. New Unit Library Room 5.000 5.000 TOTAL 39,000 15,000 54.000
The details of the Non- Project Budget Proposals for the year 2016-2017 .
1. Visiting Scientist: Unit is involved in different collaborative researches with Indian and Foreign Universities and Research Organizations. In this connection, an estimate of honorarium, hospitality (food and accommodation), train/air fares and local transport will be required. This requires a total amount of Rs.6.00 lakhs.
2. Seminar: The unit is organizing different academic seminars, workshops and training programmes to disseminate research output from time to time. Several outside speakers are also invited to disseminate the ideas related to specific theme. This enables unit to make several academic exchange with the speakers as well as the participants. The research scholars of the unit are benefited through this programme. This requires a total amount of Rs. 4.00 lakh.
3. Internal travel: The scientific workers of the Unit attend seminar/conference/workshop at different reputed universities/ institutions in India and abroad. To meet TA an DA (according to the rules of I.S.I.) for attending the said academic events in India, an estimate of Rs. 3.00 lakh will be required.
4. .Research Fellow: Rs.6.00 lakh. (Self-explanatory)
5. .Software: The unit should have own purchased different software and different OS. Such as for OS : latest version of Windows, Linux etc., For data handling/ report writing etc, the Unit requires latest version of MS-Office, SPSS, other packages related to data entry, data analysis etc. Besides this, the Unit needs Virus software every year. In considering the regular up-date of software, it needs to purchase most up-date software. So, the Unit requires a total amount of Rs.6.00 lakh.
6. .Processing fees for publication: Many Indian and foreign journals require processing fees for publication of research manuscripts, papers etc. from the authors. So, an estimate of Rs.1.00 lakh will be required for this purpose.
7. .Computer Consumables: In general, the price of any item has increased tremendously. As a result, the prices of computer consumables like Cartridge, Toner, Floppy, CD-R & W, DVD, Papers, Transparency Sheets and other related items etc., are increasing day by day, but the Unit requires all of these. So, it requires at least an amount of Rs. 3.00 lakh.
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8. .Maintenance/ Office Expenditure: Stationary items are not available in time from the Central Stores, even sometimes they are unable to supply the items. These include writing pads, note sheets, pencils, pens, ribbon, gem clips, envelops, staplers, gum, etc. and some other related equipments. So, we propose an estimate of Rs.2.00 lakh.
9. Capital equipment: Upgrading computers/ AC/ furniture/ other related equipments: At least nine (9) Desktop Computers are urgently required for Scientific Workers, for Office Staff and for Computer Lab. , who are at present working with very old computers somehow running under back dated operating system and back dated software. Naturally theses said computers are not supporting most of the latest/ updated scientific and office software. Besides this, unit requires one (1) or two (2) latest network printer and other related scientific equipments. It is estimated that Rs. 9.00 lakhs will be spent for the same.
10. New Unit Seminar Room: S.R.U. has no own seminar room. Last year, S.R.U. organized a series of seminars by different eminent scholars from different reputed universities in India but S.R.U. has to depend on the availability of the seminar room of other units (like PSU). At present, in addition to the seminar programmes of P.S.U. and S.R.U., regular class-teaching programmes are also undertaken there. Naturally, sometimes it is difficult to organize the seminar in time. So, S.R.U. should have own seminar room and it is urgently required for the research/ academic development. We propose an estimate of Rs.9.00 lakh.
11. New Unit Library Room: S.R.U. completed different research projects at different time periods and submitted the said different project/ research reports. Besides this, in present situation, the scientific workers of S.R.U. are conducting different DCSW approved research projects. So, S.R.U. should keep the different research reports systematically for the ready references and for future research/ academic plan. Not only that the scientific workers of S.R.U. purchase social science related different types of books and journals by their own cost and they are ready to keep it in a systematic manner in the Unit. So, it is urgently required to build up a unit library. This requires at least an amount of Rs. 5.00 lakh.
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Sampling & Official Statistics Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2014-2015 Revenue (in Capital (in Total (in lakh) SL Particulars of Project Head lakh) lakh) No . 01 Honorary Visiting Professor/ Visiting Scientist/ Research 5 ------5 Collaborators.
02 Computer Consumables. 2 ------2
03 External Hard Disk for Storage of Office Materials and Project Data. 3 ------3
04 Upgrading of Compu ters manuals, Software Procurement etc. ------5 5
Purchase new Desktop Computer, Laptop, Laser Printer, 05 Photocopier, Air- condition machine, Projector machine. ------6 6
06 Research Fellow I Statistical Trainee. 12 ------12.
07 Office Expenses. 5 ------5
Repair & Maintenance for Computer, Printer, Scanner, Xerox 08 and other eq u i pment's in the unit includ ing AMC etc. 2 ------2
09 Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop/ Training Programme etc. 8 ------8
10 Internal Travel of Scientists and Researchers. 4 ------4
11 Office Furn iture and others. ------5 5 12 Workshop on Official Statistics in the North-East India 8 ------8
TOTAL: 49 16 65
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Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre
1. Plan Revenue (non-project): Rs. 57.70 lakhs Project No. Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In Lakhs 1.1 Visiting Scientists 7.20 1.2 Post - Doctoral Fellows-cum-Lectures 43.00 1.3 Travel of Scientists 0.80 1.4 Seminars 1.50 1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationary, Consumables 1.20 1.6 Misc. Including Communications and Fax 0.50 Journal Submission and Professional 1.7 memberships 0.50 1.8 Maintenance 1.00 1.9 Students Interns 1.00 1.10 Student Research Funds 1.00 Sub Total 57.70
2. Plan Capital (non-projects): Rs. 5.00 lakhs Project No. Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In Lakhs Upgrading Computers, manuals, software, 2.10 Furniture, 5.00 Fittings, equipments Total (Revenue non - project+ Capital non-projects+ projects): Rs. 62.70 lakhs
Details of Budget Proposals 2016-17
1.1 Visiting Scientists: The unit on an average has 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 Lecturer-cum-Post- doctoral fellows: We have decided to increase the number of Lecturers cum Post Doctoral fellow in the unit fromthree to five fellows in any given academic year. This is an increment of two compared to last year. Given that these positions are funded under a regular payband with grade-pay, dearness, travel, and HRA allowances, the total monthly emoulment works out approximately to 70,000 INR (840,000 annually). Five positions would mean 42 Lacs. Allowing for future increases in the CPI one year ahead, we are requesting an additional 1 Lacs. Total (43 Lacs)
1.3 Travel of scientists: Scientists of the unit often present papers in conferences / seminars organized by reputed universities, and institute within India. Scientists also travel within India for discussions with colleagues interested in mutual research interests. If travel, and conference registration fee is provided for the said activity, it would encourage scientific activity of the unit. We propose an estimate of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
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1.4 Seminar: The Economics and Planning Unit (EPU) organizes academic seminars on a weekly basis. Approximately, 35 non-ISI scientific persons present research seminars in a year at EPU. We propose to spend an amount of Rs. 2000/- 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. 80,000/-.
1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers/photocopiers has increased tremendously. This has resulted in an increase in the use of computer consumables like Cartridges, Toners, Pen Drives, CDs, papers, transparency sheets etc. This is in addition to usual stationery items likes pens, pads, white-board pens and dusters, staplers, gum, clips, envelopes, chalks, etc.This requires at least an amount of Rs. 1.5 lacs.
1.6 Miscellaneous including communications and fax: In this globalized world quick communication is of the essence. Even with e-mails, we often need to fax documents, or send original documents through reliable couriers. STD/ISD phone-calls are also required. The amount marked for these items is: Rs. 1.20 lacs.
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 a chance to be published in top-ranked journals. Some journals waive the admission fee for members of developing countries, but this is increasing by becoming an exception. We propose an estimate of Rs. 50,000/- 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. 1,00,000/- (1 Lac).
1.9 Students Interns: Bright students at the undergraduate or masters level in institutes and universities throughout India would like to come to the unit to work as RAs for 1-2 months. For this we budget Rs. 1,00,000/- (1 Lac).
1.10 Students Research Funds: These funds are to be allocated towards advanced Ph. D students journal submission fees and annual subscription fees for professional organizations. Amount to be budgeted is Rs. 1,00,000/- (1 Lac).
1.11 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 10th annual conference held in December 2014 had 128 accepted papers and 5 plenary speakers with a total of 250 participants from 14 countries. The amount to be budgeted is Rs. 4,00,000/- (4 Lacs).
2.1 Economics & 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.3,00,000/- (3 Lacs).
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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. 50,000/- (.50 Lacs).
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. 1,50,000/- (1.5 Lacs).
Therefore, total estimated cost on Project 2.1 is Rs. 5,00,000/- (5 lacs).
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Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre
Economic Analysis Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre Budget 2016-17
Sl.No. Items 2016-17 2016-17 Capital Revenue Total 1 Visiting Scientists 8.00 8.00 2 PCs & printers 2.50 2.50 3 Furniture 1.00 1.00 4 Computer Consumables 0.80 0.80 5 Travel Grants 1.25 1.25 6 Seminar/Workshop 1.25 1.25 7 Stationery 0.50 0.50 8 Miscellaneous 0.50 0.50 9 JRF 12.00 Total 3.50 24.30 27.80
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Social Sciences Division Office Non-project Plan proposal for the year 2016-17
Social Sciences Division Office Item Revenew Capital Total Visiting Scientists 30,000 30,000 Computer Consumables 2,000 2,000 Office Expenditure 4,000 4,000 Travel for Academic Purpose 6,000 6,000 Maintenance 2,000 2,000 Capital Expenditure 6,000 6,000 Total: 44,000 6,000 50,000
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List of Publications of DCSW Members and list of visitors during 2010 – 2015
Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years
Srl No. Unit Page No. 1 Economic Research Unit ……………………….. 74
2 Linguistic Research Unit ……………………….. 84
3 Population Studies Unit ……………………….. 94
4 Psychology Research Unit ……………………….. 96
5 Sociological Research Unit ……………………….. 100
6 Sampliing & Official Statistics Unit ……………………….. 105
7 Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre ……………………….. 108
8 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre ……………………….. 120
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Economic Research Unit 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 Priyadarshi Banerjee An Analysis of Price India Growth and 2013, Vol. 6, No. 2 Interventions in an Era of Development Review Reform Reversals
Satya R. Chakravarty and Polarization Ordering of Review of Income and 2010, Vol.56, Conchita D’Ambrosio Income Distributions Wealth Pp.47-64.
Satya R. Chakravarty A Reconsideration of the Journal of Economic 2011, Vol.9, Tradeoffs in the New Human Inequality Pp.471-474. Development Index Satya R. Chakravarty On Tradeoffs in the Human Indian Journal of Human 2011, Vol.5, Development Indices Development Pp.517-525.
Satya R. Chakravarty and Measuring Ethnic Polarization Social Choice and 2011,Vol.37, Bhargav Maharaj Welfare Pp.431-452. Satya R. Chakravarty and Subgroup Bhargav Maharaj Decomposable Inequality Keio Economic Studies 2011,Vol. 47, Indices and Reduced-Form Pp.57-83. Indices of Polarization Satya R. Chakravarty and Stochastic Dominance Journal of Economic 2012, Vol.147, C. Zoli Relations for Integer Variable Theory Pp.1331-1341.
R. Barua Measuring P-Power of Voting Journal of Economic 2012, Vol.1, Satya R. Chakravarty Theory and Social Pp.81-91. and P.Sarkar Development
Satya R. Chakravarty, Poverty and Time Journal of Economic 2012, Vol. 10, W. Bossert and Inequality Pp.145-162. C. D’Ambrosio Satya R. Chakravarty and Ethnic Polarization Orderings Journal of Economic 2012, Vol.7, Bhargav Maharaj and Indices Interaction and Pp. 99-123. Coordination Satya R. Chakravarty, Multidimensional Poverty and Review of Income and 2013, Vol.59, W. Bossert and Material Deprivation with Wealth Pp.29-43. C. D’Ambrosio Discrete Data Satya R. Chakravarty and An Axiomatic Approach to the Conchita D’Amrrosio Measurement of Poverty Reduction Failure Economic Modeling 2013, Vol. 35, Pp. 874-880. Satya R. Chakravarty Financial Inclusion in India: Journal of Policy 2013, Vol. 35, and Rupayan Pal An Axiomatic Approach Modeling Pp. 813-837. Satya R. Chakravarty Social Welfare Equivalences Artha Beekshabn 2014, Vol. 22, Pp. 24-37. of Stochastic Dominance (Journal of the Bengal Relations Economic Association) Arup Bose Richness Orderings Journal of Economic 2014, Vol. 12, Pp. 5 – Satya R. Chakravarty and Inequality 22. Conchita D’Amrrosio
Indraneel Dasgupta and Revealed Preference with The B.E. Journal of 2010, Vol. 10, No. 1, P.K. Pattanaik Stochastic Demand Theoretical Economics: Article 35.
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Correspondence Contributions Indraneel Dasgupta and Does Philanthropy Reduce Journal of Economic 2011, Vol. 9, No. 1, R. Kanbur Inequality? Inequality Pp. 1-21. Indraneel Dasgupta, Repayment vs. Investment Journal of Institutional 2011, Vol. 167, No. 2, S. Bougheas and Conditions and Exclusivity and Theoretical Pp. 247 - 265. O. Morrissey in Lending Contracts Economics
Mother or Child? Intra- Journal of Globalization 2011, Vol. 2, No. 1, Indraneel Dasgupta household redistribution under and Development Article 2. gender asymmetric altruism Contraction Consistent Social Choice and 2011, Vol.37, No.4, Indraneel Dasgupta Stochastic Choice Welfare Pp. 643-658. Correspondence Globalization and History Workshop 2013, Vol. 76(1), Economic Injustice in Modern Journal Pp. 327-334. Indraneel Dasgupta India Ronelle Burger Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Annals of Public and 2015, Vol. 86 (1), Indraneel Dasgupta Community? Cooperative Economics Pp 7 – 31. and Trudy Owens
Samarjit Das and Is the relative risk aversion Nityananda Sarkar parameter constant over time? Empirical Economics 2010, Vol. 38, No. 3, A multi-country study Pp. 605 – 617. S. Das G. Sinha and Economic Growth and Income Journal of Quantitative 2014, Vol. 12, T.K. Mitra Inequality: Examining the Economics, New Series Pp. 86 – 95. Links in Indian Economy
Saswati Das & Diganta Measuring Deprivation due to Child Indicators 2011, Vol. 4, No. 3, Pp. Mukherjee Child Work and Child Labour: Research 453-466. A study for Indian Children Saswati Das Incidence of Child Labour and International Scholarly 2012, Vol. 2012, Child Schooling in India: Research Network doi:10.5402/2012/42950 Pattern and Determinants Economics 6.
Saswati Das Child Labour and Child work: Indian Journal of Labour 2012, Vol.55, No. 2, Pattern, Economics Pp. 307-333. Deprivation and Determinants
Buddhadeb Ghosh and District Level Transition in European Journal of 2013, Vol. 1, No.1 Swagata Gupta India: A Test of Divergence Applied Social Science Research Buddhadeb Ghosh The Key to Infrastructure One India One People 2014, Vol. 17, No. 4 Development
Chandana Das and Pitfalls in Monetary Rabindra Bharati 2013, Vol. 8, Ambar Ghosh Policy University Journal of Pp. 1 – 11. Economics Globalisation, Crisis and Automatic Chandana Das and Destabilisers, Keynote paper Artha Beekshan 2014, Vol. 22, No. 4, Ambar Ghosh in the Session on Global Pp. 98-107. Economic Crisis in the 34th Annual Conference of Bengal Economic Association
Manash Ranjan Gupta and Public expenditure, Journal of Public 2010, Vol. 12, No. 6, Trishita Ray Barman environment, and economic Economic Theory Pp. 1109 – 1134.
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growth Skilled-unskilled wage 2010, Vol. 27, Manash Ranjan Gupta and inequality, nontraded good and Economic Modelling Pp. 923 – 934. P.B. Dutta endogenous supply of skilled labour: A theoretical analysis Manash Ranjan Gupta and Skilled-unskilled wage 2010, Vol. 64, P.B. Dutta inequality: A general Research in Economics Pp. 247 – 263. equilibrium analysis Skilled-unskilled wage Manash Ranjan Gupta and inequality and Economic Modelling 2011, Vol. 28, P.B. Dutta unemployment: a Pp. 1977 – 1983. general equilibrium analysis
Skilled-unskilled wage inequality, product variety, Manash Ranjan Gupta and public input and increasing Economic Modelling 2012, Vol. 29, P.B. Dutta returns: a static general Pp. 502 – 513. equilibrium analysis Endogenous Growth with Environmental Pollution and 2013, Vol. 49,
Manash Ranjan Gupta and Depreciation of Public Capital: Pp. 93-103 Trishita Ray Barman A Theoretical Note Keio Economic Studies
Manash Ranjan Gupta and Skilled Unskilled Wage Journal of Globalisation 2014, Vol. 5, (1), P.B. Dutta Inequality, Growth of Skilled and Development Pp. 103 – 128. Labour and Development Policies Manash Ranjan Gupta and International Trade and Wage P.B. Dutta Inequality in a Dynamic Keio Economic Studies 2014, Vol. 50, Model Pp. 29 – 49.
Tarun Kabiraj and Optimal Patent Length in a Singapore Economic 2011, Vol. 56, No. 1, S. Banerjee north-south framework: A Review Pp. 51-59 comment Tarun Kabiraj Technology transfer in a Trade and Development 2011, Vol. 4, No. 1, and C.C. Lee duopoly with horizontal and Review Pp. 19 – 40. vertical product differentiation Tarun Kabiraj Licensing contracts in Theoretical Economics 2011, Vol. 1, No. 3, and Ching Chyi Lee Hotelling Structure Letters Pp. 57 – 62. Tarun Kabiraj Outsourcing Some Indo. Myanmar Border 2013, Vol. 1, No. 4 &5, Strategic Aspects Trade Bulletin Pp. 6 – 17. Tarun Kabiraj and Strategic Outsourcing with Uday Bhanu Sinha Technology Transfer under Economics Bulletin 2014, Vol.34, (2), Cournot Competition Pp.1133-1140. Srobonti Chattopadhyay Incomplete Information and Economics Bulletin 2015, Vol. 35, (1), and Tarun Kabiraj R&D Organization Pp. 14-20.
Amita Majumder Estimating Spatial Consumer Review of Income and 2011, Vo. 57, No. 1, Somnath Chattopadhyay Price Indices Through Engel Wealth Pp. 138 – 155. and Dipankor Coondoo Curve Analysis Amita Majumder District-Level Poverty Journal of Applied 2011, Vol. 38, No. 10, Somnath Chattopadhyay Estimation: A Proposed Statistics Pp. 2327 – 2343. and Dipankor Coondoo Method The Calculation of Rural Amita Majumder Urban Food Price Differentials American Journal of 2012, Vol. 94, No. 5, Ranjan Ray and from Unit Values in Agricultural Economics Pp. 1218 – 1235. Kompal Sinha Household Expenditure
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Surveys: a new procedure and comparison with existing Methods Amita Majumder Temporal Comparisons of Indian Growth and 2013, Vol. 6. No, 2 Ranjan Ray and Prices, Expenditure and Development Review Pp. 195 – 211. Kompal Sinha Growth in India: A State-wise Analysis Amita Majumder, Decomposition of Inter 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1, Somnath Chattopadhyay regional Poverty Gap in India: Empirical Economics Pp. 65 – 99. and Hasanur Jaman A Spatial Approach
Amita Majumder Spatial Comparison of Prices Ranjan Ray and and Expenditure in a Kompal Sinha Heterogeneous Country: Macroeconomic 2014, (DOI: 10.1017/ Methodology with Dynamics S1365100513000576) Application to India Amita Majumder Estimating Purchasing Power Review of Income and 2013 (DOI:10.1111/ Ranjan Ray and Parities from Household Wealth roiw.12073). Kompal Sinha Expenditure Data Using Complete Demand Systems with Application to Living Standards Comparison: India and Vietnam
Manipushpak Mitra, Statistics of the Kolkata Paise Asim Ghosh, Restaurant Problem. New Journal of Physics 2010, Vol. 12 (075033) Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Arnab Chatterjee Manipushpak Mitra and Efficient Allocation of 2010, Vol. 35, Arunava Sen Heterogenous Commodities Social Choice and Pp.29-48. with Balanced Transfers. Welfare
Manipushpak Mitra and Comparing Bertrand and 2010, Vol. 109, Arghya Ghosh Cournot in Mixed Markets. Economic Letters Pp. 72-74.
Manipushpak Mitra and Group Strategyproofness in Games and Economic 2011, Vol. 72, Suresh Mutuswami Queueing Models. Behavior Pp.242-254.
Manipushpak Mitra and An Alternative Proof of Debapriya Sen Fishburn’s Axiomatization of Economics Letter 2014, Vol. 124 (2), Lexicographic Preference Pp. 168 – 170. Manipushpak Mitra Strategy-proofness and Pareto- 2014, Vol. 9(2), Mridu Prabal Goswami and efficiency in Quasi-linear Theoretical Economics Pp. 361 – 381. Arunava Sen Exchange Economies
Manipushpak Mitra Egalitarian Equivalence and Economic Theory 2014, Vol. 56(2), Youngsub Chun and Strategyproofness in the Pp. 425 – 442. Suresh Mutuswami Queueing Problem Manipushpak Mitra Characterizations of Pivotal Mathematical Social 2014, Vol. 72, Youngsub Chun and Mechanisms in the Queueing Sciences Pp. 62 – 66. Suresh Mutuswami Problem Manipushpak Mitra and Reversal of Bertrand-Cournot Journal of Institutional 2014, Vol. 170 (3), Arghya Ghosh Rankings in the Presence of and Theoretical Pp. 496 – 519. Welfare Concerns Economics Manipushpak Mitra and Subgroup Additivity in the European Journal of 2014,Vol. 238 (1), Youngsub Chun Queueing Problem Operational Research Pp. 281 – 289.
S. Bharati Socio-economic Determinants Asian Pacific Journal of 2010, S. Chakrabarty of Underweight Children in Tropical Medicine Pp. 322 - 327. S. Som, M. Pal and West Bengal, India
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P. Bharati M. Bandyopadhyay Clinical and bacteriological A. Bhakta correlates of whole blood S. Chakrabarty interferon gamma (IFN-γ) in Asian Pacific Journal of 2010, M. Pal and newly detected cases of Tropical Medicine Pp. 224 – 231. P. Bharati pulmonary TB
Manoranjan Pal, Socioeconomic impact on P. Bharati, child immunisation in the Singapore Med. J. 2010, Vol. 51, No. 5, S. Som, and districts of West Bengal, India Pp. 406 – 412. S. Chakrabarty S. Bharati, M. Pal and Height and weight of pre- Journal of Empirical 2010, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, P. Bharati school children: A comparison Research in Social Pp. 15 – 27. between two National Family Science Health Surveys in India, Suparna Som, Manoranjan Do Socio-economic 2010, Vol. 40, No. 4, Pal and Premananda Bharati Development and Social Change Pp. 525 – 543. Improvement of Health Go Together? A Comparison among Susmita Bharati, Dipak Influence of Ethnicity, Coll. Anthropol. 2010, Vol. 34, No. 4, Mukherji, Manoranjan Pal, Geography and Climate on the Pp. 1207 – 1213. Suparna Som, Dipak Kumar Variation of Stature among Adak, TS. Vasulu and Indian Populations Premananda Bharati Utpal Kumar De and Dimensions of Globalization Asian Economic and 2011, Vol.1, No.1, Manoranjan Pal and their Effects on Economic Financial Review Pp. 1-13 Growth and Human Development
Trends in Socio-Economic and S. Bharati, M. Pal, Nutritional Status of Under Six Asia Pacific Journal of 2011, Vol. 23, No. 3, S. Chakrabarty and Children in India Public Health Pp. 324 – 340. P. Bharati Jadab Kumar Pal, Risk Factors Associated with Journal of Life Science 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2, Manoranjan Pal Morbidity Pattern of Working Pp. 147-156. Hare Ram Tiwari and Children Premananda Bharati Manoranjan Pal What Makes Child Labour Go International Labour 2011, Vol. 150, No. 3–4, Jadab Kumar Pal to School? Review Pp. 375-386. Hare Ram Tiwari and Premananda Bharati Susmita Bharati, Suparna Is Son Preference Pervasive in Journal of Gender 2011, Vol. 20(3), Shome, Manoranjan Pal India? Studies Pp. 291-298. Prabir Chaudhury and Premananda Bharati Pronab Sen, Susmita Growth and Nutritional Status Food and Nutrition 2011, Vol. 32(2), Bharati, Suparna Som of Pre-school Children in Bulletin Pp. 84-93. Manoranjan Pal and India: A Comparison of Two Premananda Bharati Recent Time Periods Utpal Kumar De and Willingness to Pay for Asian-African Journal of 2011, Vol. 11, No. 2, Manoranjan Pal Domestic Water Use: A Study Economics and Pp. 333-350. of Hilly Urban Area in North- Econometrics East India Dipak Kumar Adak, Anthropological Demography Manoranjan Pal and and its Historical Development Premananda Bharati in India The Anthropology 2012, Vol. 2, No. 2, Pp. 40-55. Premananda Bharati, Can Mother’s Manoranjan Pal and Education and Family
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Susmita Bharati Welfare Reduce Under- Human Biology Review 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2, nutrition of Pre-school Pp 207-221. Children in India?
Premananda Bharati Temporal Trend of Anemia Asia-Pacific Journal of Manoranjan Pal among Reproductive-Aged Public Health 2012, Vol. 27, No. 2, Susmita Bharati and Women in India Pp. 1193 – 1207. Suparna Som Premananda Bharati Variation in Height and BMI Journal of Biosocial Manoranjan Pal of Adult Indians Science 2014, Vol. 46, No. 1, Susmita Bharati Pp. 47 – 65. Suparna Som and Stanley Ulijaszek Susmita Bharati Autonomy of Tribal Women in Asian Journal of 2013, Vol. 3, No. 8, Manoranjan Pal and India Research in Social Pp. 32-45 Premananda Bharati Sciences & Humanities Susmita Bharati Socioeconomic Determinants Manoranjan Pal of Iron-Deficiency Anemia Asia-Pacific Journal of 2013 (On line) Suman Chakrabarty and among Children Aged 6 to 59 Public Health Premananda Bharati Months in India Premananda Bharati Morphometric Variation Human Biology Review 2013, Vol. 2, No. 2, Manoranjan Pal among the Central Indian Pp. 153 – 175. Dipak Kumar Adak and Populations Gautam Kumar Rajesh Susmita Bharati The Status of Infant Health in Health 2013, Vol. 5, No. 8D Manoranjan Pal and India Pp. 14 – 22 Premananda Bharati Premananda Bharati Manoranjan Pal Variation in Height and BMI ence 2014, Vol. 47, No. 1 Susmita Bharati of Adult Indians Pp. 47 – 65 Suparna Som and Stanley Ulijaszek S. Som, P. Roy, Variation of Adult Heights and 2014, Vol. 3, No. 3, M. Pal and P. Bharati Weights in India: State & Pp 242-257. Human Biology Review Zonewise Analysis
J. Saha and A Modified Chow Test Asian-African Journal of 2014, Vol. 14, No. 1, M. Pal Approach towards Testing Economics and Pp. 57 – 67. Differences in the Engel Econometrics Elasticities Md. Golam Hossain Factors Associated with Age at Mst. Selina Khatun Menarche of Secondary Advances in Life 2014, Vol. 4(2), Md. Rafiqul Islam School Girls in Rajshahi City, Sciences Pp. 88 – 93. Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal Bangladesh Premananda Bharati and Manoranjan Pal Susmita Bharati, Women Autonomy, 2014, Vol. 2, No. 2, Manoranjan Pal and Nutritional and Immunization Anthropology Pp. 118. Premananda Bharati Status of their Children Susmita Bharati Temporal Trend of Anemia Asia-Pacific Journal of 2015, Vol. 27(2), Manoranjan Pal Among Reproductive-Aged Public Health Pp. NP1193– NP1207. Suparna Som and Women in India Premananda Bharati Susmita Bharati Socioeconomic Determinants Manoranjan Pal of Iron-Deficiency Anemia Asia-Pacific Journal of 2015, Vol. 27(2) Suman Chakrabarty and Among Children Aged 6 to 59 Public Health Pp. NP1432 – NP1443. Premananda Bharati Months in India
Abhirup Sarkar On the Political economy of a Indian Growth and 2010, Vol. 3, No. 1, backward region Development Review Pp. 122 – 137.
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Abhirup Sarkar Understanding FDI in Retail: Economic and Political 2013, Vol. 18, No. 1 What can Economic Principles Weekly Teach Us Abhirup Sarkar and Private Investment in Economic and Political 2014, Vol. XLIX, No. Kausik Gangopadhyay Education: Evidence Across Weekly 13, Castes and Religion from West Pp. 44 – 52 Bengal Abhirup Sarkar Muslims in Gujarat and West Economic and Political Bengal: Comparing Prosperity Weekly 2014, Vol. XLIX, No. and Vulnerability 38,
Nityananda Sarkar and Is the Relative Risk Aversion Empirical Economics 2010, Vol. 38, Samarjit Das Parameter Constant Over Pp. 605 – 607. Time: A Multi-Country Study? Nityananda Sarkar and Long-Run Predictability in the Finance India 2011, Vol. 25, No. 3 Debabrata Mukhopadhyay Indian Stock Market Pp. 817 – 834 Nityananda Sarkar and Stock Returns under International 2013, Vol. 5, No. 1, Debabrata Mukhopadhyay Alternative Volatility and Econometric Review Pp. 1 – 19. Distributions Assumptions: The Case for India Mahua Barari Forecasting House Prices in International 2014, Vol. 6(1), Nityananda Sarkar the United States with Econometric Review Pp. 1 – 23. Srikanta Kundu and Multiple Structural Breaks Kushal Banik Chowdhury Shalini Chandra and A Restricted r-k Class 2015, Nityananda Sarkar Estimator in Mixed Regression Statistical Papers (DOI:10.1007/s00362- Model with Autocorrelated 015-0664-4) Disturbances
Snigdha Chakrabarti and An Exploratory Analysis of Journal of Development 2012, Vol. 48.No.1, Chaiti Sharma Biswas Women’s Empowerment in Studies Pp.164-180. India: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
Souvik Roy and On the Adjacency Matrix of a Linear and Multilinear 2014, Vol. 62, No. 9, R. B. Bapat Block Graph Algebra Pp. 406 – 418. Souvik Roy, Multidimensional Mechanism Journal of 2014, Vol. 153, Debasis Mishra and Design in Single Peaked Type Economic Theory Pp. 103 – 116. Anup Pramanik Spaces Souvik Roy, Ton Storcken Probabilistic Strategy-proof Journal of Mathematical 2014, Vol. 52 (C), Hans Peters and Rules over Single- Economics Pp. 1203 – 127. Arunava Sen peakeddomains
List of Visitors (April 2010 to March 2015)
Long-term visitor Bikas K. Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2010. Sarbajit Sengupta, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 1st January, 2010 to 31st May, 2010. Bikas K. Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2010. Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 1st January, 2011 to 30th June, 2011. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 1st February, 2011 to 30th July, 2011.
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Mahua Barari Mitra, Department of Economics, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA, 1st March, 2011 to 30th April, 2011. Rajlakshmi Mallik, NSHM Business School, Kolkata, 20th June, 2011 to 16th July, 2011. Bikas K., Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2011. Kalyan Chatterjee, Economics and Management Science, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 08th July, 2011 to 08th August, 2011. Debopam Bhattacharya, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Wellington Square, OX1 2JD, United Kingdom, 18th August, 2011 to 18th September, 2011. Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 01st July, 2011 to 31st December, 2011 & 01st January, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 01st February, 2011 to 30th July, 2011 & 1st November 2011 to 31st March, 2012. Debasri Mukherjee, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, USA, 01st September 2011 to 31st January, 2012. Arghya Ghosh, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, 28th December, 2011 to 13th January, 2012. Nora Lustig, Department of Economics, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, 204 Tilton Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA, 29th December, 2011 to 07th January, 2012. Sarbajit Sengupta, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 1st January, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 20th May, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. Bikas K. Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2012. Atsuko Kamiike, 1522-3, Shimotakaoka, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, KAGAWA, 761-0704, Japan, 1st June, 2012 to 7th October, 2012. Girijasankar Mallick, School of Economics & Finance, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW, 1797, Australia, 1st November, 2012 to 31st December, 2012. Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA,12th July, 2012 to 6th August, 2012 & 11th March , 2013 to 15th March, 2013. Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 01st July, 2012 to 31st December, 2012 & 01st January, 2013 to 30th June, 2013. Conan Mukherjee, Flat No. 10, Biva Apartment Kajipara, Nagerbazar, Kolkata - 700 028, 1st June, 2012 to 28th February, 2013. Osowole Oyedeji Isola, Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1st May, 2013 to 30th October, 2013. Debapriya Sen, Department of Economics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 1st November, 2012 to 31st August, 2013. Sarbajit Sengupta, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 1st January, 2013 to 30th June, 2013. Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA, 3rd June 2013 to 24th June, 2013. Srobonti Chattopadhyay, 125, Feeder Road, Ariadaha, Kolkata – 700 057, 1st July, 2013 to 30th August, 2013. Bikas K. Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2013.
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Swapan Dasgupta, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada, 16th September 2013 to 16th December, 2013. Pradip Maiti, Economic Research Unit, Kolkata, 1st July, 2013 to 31st December, 2013. Parimal Kanti Bag, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, AS2 Level 6, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570, 4th December, 2013 to 3rd January, 2014. Utpal Kumar De, Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793 022, Meghalaya, 20th December, 2013 to 10th February, 2014. Arghya Ghosh, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, 27th January, 2014 to 17th February, 2014. Debapriya Sen, Department of Economics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 1st November, 2012 to 31st August, 2013. Sarbajit Sengupta, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 1st January, 2013 to 30th June, 2013. Saurav Roychoudhury, School of Management, Capital University, Columbus, OH 43209, U.S.A., 1st September, 2013 to 31st July, 2014. Soumyanentra Munshi, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Gen. A.K. Viadya Marg Goregaon (E), Mumbai, 19 May 2014 to 20 June, 2014. Bikas K. Chakraborty, Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, Since August, 2014. Sushanta K. Bhattacharjee, Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 22 July 2014 to 16 August, 2014. Parimal Kanti Bag, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, AS2 Level 6, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570, 1 December, 2014 to 31 December, 2014. Debopam Bhattacharya, Department of Economic, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 20 December, 2014 to 11 January, 2015. Kalyan Chatterjee, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA, 10 June 2014 to 10 July, 2014 & 30 December 2014 to 14 January, 2015. Arpita Chatterjee, Australian School of Business, School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia, 8 September 2014 to 31 December, 2014. Nilanjana Roy, Department of Economics, Department of Economics, University Victoria, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada, 5 November to 26 November, 2014. Srikanta Kundu, Radha Gobinda Pally, Rajganj, 25, Bardhaman Sadar, P.O. Nutanganj, Burdwan, 26 July 2014 to 25 January, 2015. Utpal Kumar. De, Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793 022, Meghalaya, 22 December 2014 to 10 February, 2015.
Short-term visitor D’Ambrosio Conchita, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 4th January to 13th January, 2010. Suresh Mutuswami, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 3rd January, 2011 to 10th January, 2011. Arghya Ghosh, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, 13th January, 2011 to 27th January, 2011. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 7th February, 2011 to 21st February, 2011. Suresh Mutuswami, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 23rd April, 2012 to 27th April, 2012.
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Suresh Mutuswami, Department of Economics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, 2nd January, 2014 to 7th January, 2014. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 10th March, 2014 to 18th March, 2014. Indrajit Ray, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 18th August to 31st August, 2014. Shalini Chandra, Department of Economics, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, 29 October to 31 October, 2014.
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Linguistic Research Unit List of Important Scientific Papers in Journal over last 5 years (April 2010-March 2015)
Dr. Probal Dasgupta
Books published Jorge Camacho, Probal Dasgupta, István Ertl (Eds.) Beletra Almanako 7. New York, Mondial, 2010. Jorge Camacho, Probal Dasgupta, István Ertl (eds.) Beletra Almanako 8. New York, Mondial, 2010. Jorge Camacho, Probal Dasgupta, István Ertl (eds.) Beletra Almanako 9. New York, Mondial, 2010. Jorge Camacho, Probal Dasgupta, István Ertl (eds.) Beletra Almanako 10. New York, Mondial, 2011. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 11. New York: Mondial. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 12. New York: Mondial. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Loghi en Homaj Lingvoj: La Substancisma Perspektivo. New York: Mondial. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Inhabiting Human Languages: the Substantivist Visualization. New Delhi: Samskriti on behalf of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Chinno kathaay shaajaaye taroni. Kolkata: Gangchil. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 13. New York: Mondial. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 14. New York: Mondial. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 15. New York: Mondial. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 16. New York: Mondial. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhaashaar Bindubishargo. Kolkata: Gangchil. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 17. New York: Mondial. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 18. New York: Mondial. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 19. New York: Mondial. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 20. New York: Mondial. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 21. New York: Mondial. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal (with Jorge Camacho, István Ertl). Beletra Almanako 22. New York: Mondial. 2015. Dasgupta, Probal (with Papia Sengupta). Droit et Cultures 67: special number on ‘Les cultures à la rencontre du droit: l’Inde’. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal (tr into Bangla) Nemesis, by Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). Kolkata: M.C. Sarkar. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Merur Prarthona: Bishuber Uttor. Kolkata: Abhijan. 2015.
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Dasgupta, Probal (ed.) Rabindranath: Ek Asamanwito Dwandwo, by Manashi Dasgupta. Kolkata: Ebong Mushayera. 2015.
Papers Published in Journals Dasgupta, Probal: Recontextualizing Lakshmiswar Sinha. Language Problems and Language Planning, 34(3), 259-266, 2010. Dasgupta, Probal: Translating fiction for children: pedagogy and the post-national imaginary. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 47:13-26. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal: Ni estas en la sama boato kaj devas noveme kunveli. Revuo Esperanto 103:6.123. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal: Inauxgura parolado de la prezidanto. Revuo Esperanto 103:10.196-7. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. La vizagxoj de la serioza paclaboro. Revuo Esperanto 104:1.3. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Ni pioniras la simetriemon. Revuo Esperanto 104:3.51. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. (with Josef Bayer.) Prosnobaakke nibedon-badol aar kriyaapader saakaankho otit cehaaraa. Alochonachakro 28:9-25. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. Baakke bibhoktir bandobosto. Alochonachakro 29:39-58. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. Robindronaather Esperanto onubaadok Lakshmiswar Sinha. Korok Sept-Dec 2010:230-37. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. Paraadhin bhaabnaa banaam Amlan Datta. Aikya 16:33-45. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. Kobitaaguccho. Bangoposagor 2:2.17-18. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Nakshaar chhaayaa upopaaddo. Jiggasa 29:1-2.127-133. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Laaloner jabaan. Arshinagar 1:7-22. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. ‘La plugilo iras al la gxoja tasko de la paco’. [Review of: Juan Ramón Jimenéz. 2009. Platero kaj mi. Tr. Liven Dek. Málaga: Andaluza Esperanto-Unuigxo.] Beletra Almanako 4(8).122-7. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. ‘Demandosigna infanlibro’. [Review of: Alfredo Gómez Cerdá. 2005. Makako kaj Antono. Tr. & illus. Pedro Ullate López. Muriedas, Spain: MGA.] Beletra Almanako 4(7).121-3. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. ‘Sharbonaamer notun naamtaa’. [Review of Ranajit Guha. 2009. Kobir naam o sharbonaam. Kolkata: Talpata.] Bangadarshan 13:105-12. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. Retrieving the cognitive from the industrial: the translator as apprentice. Translation Today 6(1-2).72-96. De jure 2009, de facto 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Kothaay dnaarxaaye du baahu baarxaaye. Mallar 13(1).233-46. De jure 2009, de facto 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Notun poribese Lakshmiswar Sinhake bosiye deakhaa. Alochonachakra 30:148-155. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Raashtxro caai naa, aain caai: Noam Chomskyr noiraajjobaader kichu sutro. Alochonachakra 31:7-16. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. La vizaghoj de la serioza paclaboro. La Lanterno Azia 37(1).4-5. Dasgupta, Probal. Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla. Indian Linguistics 72:103-112. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Fear and beauty in Tagore’s Naibedya. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 48:93-114. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhaasaar punorbibeconaa o Rabindranath. Parikatha 14(1):1-16. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Ni pioniras la simetriemon. Revuo Esperanto 104(3).51. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Kopenhago signifu reagordon. Revuo Esperanto 104(5).99. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Teatro de kultura interproksimigo. Revuo Esperanto 104(6).127. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Kunludu sur la podio. Revuo Esperanto 104(6).141. 2011.
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Dasgupta, Probal. Kopenhaga inaugura parolado. Revuo Esperanto 104(10).196-7. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Post kiam Gautamo ighis Budho. Revuo Esperanto 105(1).3. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. En la lasta semajno de februaro ni chiujare festas SIA. Revuo Esperanto 105(2).34. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Kiel la japana tertremo aspektis al kolkatano. Formoza Folio 14:20- 21. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Niukliyo kampleks: siriyaas onushandhaaner ektxi baadhaa (tr Anuradha De). Alochonachakra 32:7-17. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Translating children’s literature as a vector of post-national pedagogies: the case of Horvat’s Waitapu. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 49:23-38.2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Shunner bibhinno baanaan. Bohnik 5:5.174-175. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Stotaakaahini. Anushtup 46:3.109-126. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Ebong Ingriji. Anushtup 47:1.133-149. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal (tr) Shepaai ki kathaa bolte paare? [From the English original by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: first installment.] Bwakalam 3:1.5-35. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Co-representation of linguistic structures. Indian Linguistics 73:1- 4.47-59. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. A personal tribute to Rajendra Singh. Indian Linguistics 73:1-4.275- 276. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. A personal tribute to Bhadriraju Krishnamurti. Indian Linguistics 73:1-4.277-278. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Post kiam Gautamo ighis Budho. Revuo Esperanto 105:1.3. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. En la lasta semajno de februaro. Revuo Esperanto 105:2.34. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Mastrumi intergeneracian transiron. Revuo Esperanto 105:6.127. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Plani, strategii kaj kongresi. Revuo Esperanto 105:6.141. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Ni chiuj klopodas niamaniere inde festi. Revuo Esperanto 105:10.196- 7. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. La 15a de decembro: Jubileoj ghojaj kaj malghojaj. Revuo Esperanto 104:12.243. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhaashaamonoshkotaae pnouchobaar ditiyo path Esperanto. Alochanachakra 30:143-147. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. La politique linguistique et les langues indiennes moins répandues. Droit et Cultures 63:143-160. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Sankha Ghosh proshongge. Alochanachakra 33:29-57. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Shaahitter baahon, upobhaashaa aar mitobaak shanketaayon. Alochanachakra 33:97-104. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhaarote Ingrijir abosthaaner 'maashir bhaashaa' bisleshon. Jiggasa 30:1-2.69-79. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Gronthonbaadi sharonjaam aar shaahitter bhaashsho. Samatat 171:249-260. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhaashaar theatre aar Badal Sircar. Bohurupi 117:167-178. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. It's not a strategic problem. Frontier 46:8. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. (tr) Shepaai ki kathaa bolte paare? [From the English original by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: second installment.] Bwakalam 3:2.44-71. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Esperanto shaahitter shukhopaattho jatkincit bibaron. Porikathaa 15:2.69-93. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Jini roddure bhijechilen. Kobikriti 15:76-80. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Merur bhumikaay shartobaacok ashamaapikaa. Shaahitto-Parishat- Potrikaa 117:2-4.114-117. 2013.
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Dasgupta, Probal. Goddobhaabnaae Sisir Kumar Das. Ebong Mushayera. 20:2-3.183- 191. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Insuloj kaj la intelekta digno. Esperanto 106:4.75. Dasgupta, Probal. Universala teksajho, kiun ni nomas UEA. Esperanto 106:6.127. Dasgupta, Probal. Internacia Jardeko por la Interproksimigo de Kulturoj. Esperanto 106:6.139. Dasgupta, Probal. Lerni de Islando. Esperanto 106:10.196-7. Dasgupta, Probal. The titular problem and the title mystery. Global Media Journal (Indian Edition) 3:2.1-14. [De jure 2012.] 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Adoptitaj infanoj. La Ondo de Esperanto 2013:8-9(226-7).17. Dasgupta, Probal. Postprezidaj meditoj. La Ondo de Esperanto 2013:11(229).3. Dasgupta, Probal. (tr) Shepaai ki kathaa bolte paare? [From the English original by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: third installment.] Bwakalam 4:1.112-154. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Deriving the dialectic. Our Heritage 41.80-93. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Review of Petro Desmet’ & Jozefo Horvath (eds.) Bildvortaro. Beletra Almanako 18:129-135, 2013 Dasgupta, Probal. Bangla bakke go-re-r gero. Anushtup 49:1.198-207, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Sunitikumarer janla-darja. Alochonachakro 37.22-29, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Bistaari banam shangstaari onubader bibadi istahar. Alochonachakro 37. 276-284, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Esperanto bhasha-carcaay Badal Sircar. Pashchimbanga Natya Akademi Patrika 16.196-208, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal (tr into English) To get the new temple started, by Alokeranjan Dasgupta. Ebong Mushayera 21 (1): 322, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhashatattwer karmopoddhotite ‘bedag’ banam ‘dagi’ proshongge jatkincit montobbo. Charvaak 2(2): 167-176, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Judges and grammarians in Britain’s liberal pedagogic performance: a diglossic approach to colonial Bengal. Droit et Cultures 67.151-186. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal (with Dasgupta, Malasree). Esperantor doutte shishu-shahitter lenden. Alochonachakro 37: 306-311, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Shangshkriter phashol aar warishder shattaashatto. Bwakalam 4(2): 69-95, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Bhashatattwer ar Banglar ubho-dut Pabitrababu. Rudrakal 3(2): 12-13, 2014. Dasgupta, Probal. Ashamprikto ishter shadabhidha. Alochonachakro 38: 159-63, 2015. Dasgupta, Probal. A mori Bangla bhasha. Arek Rakam 3 (4): 40-42, 2015. [Review of Moder garob moder asha by Sisirkumar Das, Kolkata: Chirayata, 1999.] Dasgupta, Probal: Prezento. Beletra Almanako 22: 4. 2015.
Papers Published in Conference Proceedings Dasgupta, Probal: 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, Probal. ‘To the confluence of languages’. G.N. Devy (ed.) Bhasha: Confluence at Ground Zero 2010. Vadodara: Purva Prakash, for Bhasha Research and Publication Centre. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. ‘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. 2010.
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Papers Published as Chapters in Books Dasgupta, Probal. ‘Between temples and templates: history’s claims on the translator’. Humphrey Tonkin, Maria Esposito (eds.) The Translator as Mediator of Cultures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-14. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. ‘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. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal. ‘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. 2010. Dasgupta, Probal.. ‘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, 2010 Dasgupta, Probal. ‘Some milestones in language and cognition studies’. Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Narayanan Srinivasan (eds.) Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. 272-290. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Reviziti sinjoron Sinha. Irmi Haupenthal, Reinhard Haupenthal (eds) Instrui Dokumenti Organizi: Festlibro por la 80a naskigh-tago de Claude Gacond. Bad Bellingen: Edition Iltis. 115-24. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Ramchandra Gandhi’s philosophical vision. [Preface to Second Edition.] Ramchandra Gandhi, I Am Thou: Meditations on the Truth of India. New Delhi: Academy of Fine Arts and Literature. 33-40. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Agreement and non-finite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh, Ghanshyam Sharma (eds) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2011. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 35-48. 2011. Dasgupta, Probal. Antauparolo. Truyen Kieu, La Rakonto pri Kjeu. Translated by Le Can Phan. Hanoi: Thé Giói. 7-9. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Rephrasing the question of complex predicates in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh, Shishir Bhattacharja (eds.) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2012. Berlin/ New York: Mouton De Gruyter. 3-44. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Ditiyo shangshkoroner bhumikaa. Badal Sircar, Bishshobhaashaa Esperanto. Hyderabad: Federacio Esperanto de Barato. iii-vi. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Antauparolo al la dua eldono de la lernolibro de Badal Sircar. Badal Sircar, Bishshobhaashaa Esperanto. Hyderabad: Federacio Esperanto de Barato. vi-viii. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Home and the civilian space in Tagore’s Book of Consecration. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Chinmoy Guha (eds.) Tagore: At Home and in the World. New Delhi/ Thousand Oaks/ London: Sage. 185-205. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. La rugho kaj la verdo: fi-trajto-inertaj sanskritidaj substantivoj en kunreprezenta analizo / Shamaantor protikriti-bisleshoner cokhe Bhaarotiyo Aarjo bhaashaar phaai-nishkriyo bisheshsho. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank (ed.) Littera Scripta Manent: Serta in Honorem Helmar Frank. Paderborn/ Prague: Akademia Libroservo. 182-192. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal (tr.) Oxford, 1993. [From the Esperanto original by Jorge Camacho Cordón.] Paul Gubbins (ed.) Star in a Night Sky: An Anthology of Esperanto Literature. London: Francis Boutle. 260-261. 2012.
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Dasgupta, Probal. Ramchandra Gandhi: The Gachibowli period. A. Raghuramaraju (ed.) Ramchandra Gandhi: The Man and His Philosophy. New Delhi/ London/ New York: Routledge. 238-249. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Kathaabaartaa. Júlia Sigmond (ed.) Dialogo. Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Exit. 18-19. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal (tr.) Kvar poemoj. [From the Bangla originals by Rabindranath Tagore: Aami tomaae jato; Shedin dujone dulechinu; Jodi tor daak shune keu; Gagone garoje megh.] Jorge Camacho et al. (eds.) Beletra Almanako 16. 13-16. 2013. Dasgupta, Probal. Introduction. Shubhasree Ganguly, Linguistic Norms and the Reception of Advertisements. Kolkata: Gangchil. Dasgupta, Probal. Deriving the dialectic. Shivarama Padikkal; Tariq Khan (eds.) Vaagartha: A Festschrift for Prof. Padmakar R. Dadegaonkar. Hyderabad: Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad. 3-21. 2012. Dasgupta, Probal. Look across: The paradigmatic axis and Bangla causatives. Eric Reuland; Tanmoy Bhattacharya; Giorgos Spathas (eds.) Argument Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 213-237. 2007 [received 2012]. Dasgupta, Probal. Review of K. Alfons Knauth (ed.) Translation & Multilingual Literature/ Traduction & Littérature Multilingue. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 49:115-124. Dasgupta, Probal. Postparolo: loghi en malegraj hejmoj. In: Jorge Camacho. En la Profundo. New York: Mondial. 2013. 289-304. Dasgupta, Probal. Dialogical investigations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi. Shail Mayaram (ed.) Philosophy as Saṃvāda and Svarāj : Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi. New Delhi: Sage. 199-213. Dasgupta, Probal. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominals in a co- representation analysis. Shu-Fen Chen, Benjamin Slade (eds.) Grammatica et Verba / Grammar and Verve/ Studies in South Asian, historical, and Indo-European linguistics in honour of Hans Henrich Hock. Ann Arbor/ New York: Beech Stave. 46-52. Dasgupta, Proba: Antauparolo. In: Louis Couperus. Pri maljunuloj, la ajhoj, kiuj pasas… (tr. Gerrit Berveling) New York: Mondial. 2013 [received 2014]. 7-11. Dasgupta, Probal: Goedel ar goddo. Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Soma Datta, Namita Chaudhuri (eds.) Proshonggo ‘Goedeler Ashampurnotaatatto’. Kolkata: Nandimukh Sansad. 50-75. 2014. Dasgupta, Probal: Kothay dnaraye du bahu baraye. In: Arindam Chakrabarti. Mononer Modhu. Kolkata: Gangchil. 351-367. 2014.
Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash
Books published Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Modern Bengali Script: An Introduction. Kolkata: Daksha Bharati. Pp. 235+, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: A Descriptive Study of the Modern Bengali Script. Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing. Pp. 309, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Language and Linguistics. New Delhi: Heritage Publishers. Pp. 291+, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Applied Linguistics. Heritage Publishers, New Delhi. Pp. 210+, 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: A Descriptive Study of the Bengali Words. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New Delhi. Pp. 382+, 2015.
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Papers Published in Journals Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Linguistic tasks on translation corpora for developing resources for manual and machine translation, SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 7(2), 2- 18, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Byabaharbhittik bangla byakaran: sambhabyatar bastabata, Alochana Chakra (Special Issue on Linguistics), 28(1), 133-177, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Bhasatattver sankhyatattva: tattvik tatparya (Statistics in Linguistics: Theoretical Significance), Computer Jagat. 7(1), 1-10, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Translation Corpora and Machine Aided Translation, Translation Today, 6(1-2), 134-153, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Yantranubad: Tathyayuger Kamdhenu. Computer Jagat, 3(1), 17- 23, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Use of English corpora as a primary resource to teach English to the Bengali learners. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 37(1), 7-18, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: The Bengali Script and the Unicode. Print Out. 2(8), 1-16, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya. Alochanachakra. 32(1), 166-178, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary. Indian Linguistics. 71(1-4), 93-102, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Lexical Generativity of Bengali Prefixes: A Corpus Based Investigation, Sino-US English Teaching, 9(5), 1171-1180, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Language Specific Synsets in Bengali: Some Empirical Explorations, Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies, 1(1-2), 189-207, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Developing Scientific and Technical Terminology Database from Electronic Language Corpora, Language Forum, 38(1), 5-21, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: From KCIE to LDC-IL: Some Milestones in NLP Journey in Indian Multilingual Panorama, Indian Linguistics, 73(1-4), 129-146, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya, Alochana Chakra, 32(1), 166-178, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Linguistic Divergences in English to Bengali Translation, International Journal of English Linguistics, 3(1), 31-40, 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: English Language Corpora as a Secondary ELT Resource for Indian Learners, Sino-US English Teaching, 10(1), 10-22, 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bengali Written Text Corpus, Journal of Linguistics and Technology, 1(1), 53-96, 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Bangla Bhasay Pranibachak Shabda Byabaharer Samaj Manstattvik Ruparekha. Alochana Chakra. 34(1): 169-199. 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Investigating into the patterns of usage and nature of pronunciation of some consonant grapheme clusters in Bengali, Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 2(2): 330-340, 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Baidyutin bangla uccharan abhidhan. Alochana Chakra, 37: 155- 187, 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Arpita Ray: Investigating the nature of use of animal names in Bengali written texts. Language Forum (Special Issue on Sociolinguistics), 40(1-2): 87- 120, 2014. Dash, Niladri Shekhar: Consonant graphic variants in Bengali: their patterns of usage and their nature of pronunciation within words. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies, 3(1-2): 168-186, 2014. Pal, Alok Ranjan, Diganta Saha and Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Automatic classification of Bengali sentences based on sense definitions present in Bengali WordNet, International Journal of Control Theory and Computer Modelling, 5(1): 1-13, 2015.
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Papers Published in Conference Proceedings Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Corpus Linguistics: A General Introduction. Published in Workshop Proceedings on Corpus Normalization of the Linguistic Data Consortium for the Indian Languages (LDCIL), CIIL, Mysore, 2010, at: www.ciil.org/ldc-il/pp. 01-25. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Spatial and Temporal Expressions in Bengali, published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Expressions in Natural Languages at Department of Linguistics, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya-793022, pages, 1-32, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Digital dictionary: a physical realization of virtual reality, published in the 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, pages, 91-95, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Indian Language Corpora. In Vetulani, Zygmunt (Eds.) Proceedings of 5th Language Technology Conference (LTC-2011): Human Language Technologies as a challenge for computer science and linguistics. Poznan, Poland. Pp. 101-105, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar, P. Dutta Chowdhury and A. Sarkar: Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for Bengali: A Tool of the Time. In, Sharma, D.M., R. Sangal and Sobha L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011), Anna University, Chennai, India, 16-19 December 2011, Pp. 117-124, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Extratextual (Documentative) Annotation in Written Text Corpora. In, Sharma, D.M., R. Sangal and Sobha L. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011) Anna University, Chennai, India, 16th – 19th December 2011, pp. 168-176, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Payel Dutta Chowdhury, and Amrita De: Rules for POS Tagging of the Bengali Corpus. In Proceedings of the 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Corpus Linguistics (APCLC), University of Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand, 15th-19th February 2012, pp, 63-65, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Baisakhi Topdar: Lexical Generativity of Bengali Prefixes: A Corpus Based Investigation. In Proceedings of the 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Corpus Linguistics (APCLC), University of Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand, 15th-19th February 2012, pp. 66-68, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bengali Language Corpus. In Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI-2011), National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Kolkata, February 16-17, 2012, pp. 46-52, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bengali Language Corpus, Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI-2012), pp. 46-52, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Etymological Annotation: A New Concept of Corpus Annotation”. Proceedings of the 34th All India Conference of Linguists (34-AICL), Dept. of Linguistics, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), November 1-3, 2012, Shillong, Meghalaya, India, pp. 100-104, 2012. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Mazhar Hussain: Designing a Generic Scheme for Etymological Annotation (EA): A New Type of Language Corpora Annotation. Proceedings of the ALR-11 in 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp., 64-71, Nagoya Congress Centre, Nagoya, Japan, 14-18th October 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Atul Aman: An Attempt towards Documentation and Preservation of Khortha. Proceedings of the Second Seminar on Endangered and Lesser
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Known Languages (ELKL-II), pp. 3-13, Dept. of Linguistics, Lucknow, India, 23-24th October 2013. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Developing a Digital Pronunciation Dictionary in Bengali for Computer-Assisted Language Teaching, E-Learning, and Language Technology. Proceedings of the 35th Annual and 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-1), pp. 78-81, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India, 27- 29 November, 2013. Dash, Niladri Shekhar: Consonant Graphic Variants in Bengali: Their Patterns of Usage and Their Nature of Pronunciation within Words. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL 11), pp. 26-36, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, 23-25 January 2014. Dash, Niladri Shekhar and Atul Aman: A Phonological Overview of Khortha – A Language Spoken in Jharkhand. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL 11), pp. 17-27, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, 23-25 January 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Vandana Mishra: Using Electronic Text Data in Constructing a Digital Hindi Newspaper Corpus: Perspectives and Challenges. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL 11), Pp. 89-99, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, 23-25 January 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Investigating into the Patterns of Usage and Nature of Pronunciation of Some Consonant Grapheme Clusters in Bengali”. Proceedings of the 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA 30), Pp. 88-98, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 6-8 February 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Vandana Mishra: A Quantitative Analysis of Lexical Distribution in a Sample Digital Hindi Corpus of Newspaper Texts”. Proceedings of the 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA 30), Pp.152-162, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 6-8 February 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Language Attitude of Khortha Speakers in Giridih: A Survey Report. Proceedings of the National Conference on Inter-disciplinary Researches in Social Sciences in Eastern India with special reference to Jharkhand (NCIRSSEI-2014), pp. 1-12. Sociological Research Units, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Giridih, Jharkhand, 27-28th February 2014. Bishwa Ranjan Das, Srikanta Patnaik, Sarada Baboo, Niladri Sekhar Dash: A system for recognition of named entities in Odia text corpus using machine learning algorithm, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM-2014), 20-21 December 2014, Burla, Sambalpur, India. Vol. 1. Pp. 315-324, 2014. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Back to basics: a road to return to nominal base through lemmatization, Proceedings of Abstracts of the 36th International Conference of the Linguistic Society Of India (ICOLSI-36), 1-4 December 2014, Trivandrum, India, pp. 94, 2014. Bishwa Ranjan Das, Srikanta Patnaik and Niladri Sekhar Dash (2015) "Odia Language Corpora and NLP Applications". Proceeding of the 2nd National Language Conference (NLC-2015), Institute of Odia Studies and Research, Bhubaneswar-15, Odisha, India, 30 March-2 April 2015, Pp. 13-20.
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Papers Published as Chapters in Books Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Bhasansher sahayye shabder prakrita artha uddhar kakar upay, Bhasa Prayukti, Anupam Basu, Tirthankar Dasgupta and Sibansu Mukhopadhyay (Eds.), Kolkata: Society for Natural Language Technology Research, pp. 71-88, 2010. Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) “Bengali Linguistics at the threshold of the twenty-first century”. In, Omkar Nath Koul (Ed.) Indo-Aryan Linguistics. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. Pp. 235-264, 2011. Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Development of ELT Resources from English Language Corpora: Some New Methods. In, Arvind M. Nawale and Prashant Mothe (Ed.) (2013) Emerging Issues in English Language Teaching (ELT). New Delhi: GNOSIS. Pp. 176-198. 2013. Pal, Umapada and Niladri Sekhar Dash: Language, script and font recognition, Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition, D. Dobermann and K. Tombre (eds.) Springer-Verlag, London, 290-327, 2014. Das, Bishwa Ranjan; Srikanta Patnaik and Niladri Sekhar Dash: Development of Odia language corpus from modern newspaper texts: some problems and issues, Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices: Advances of Intelligent and Systems and Computing, Lakhmi C. Jain, Srikanta Patnaik and Nikhil Ichalkaranje (eds.) Springer India, New Delhi, 515-522, 2014.
VISITING SCIENTISTS TO LRU 2010-2011 [1] Bayer, Josef, University of Konstanz, Germany, January 3-17, 2011. [2] Expert team from Pearson Education, New Delhi, India, January 13, 2011. [3] Sahay, Poonam, Dept. of English, Ranchi University, Jharkhand, January 18, 2011. [4] Jha, Girish Nath, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, January 24, 2011. 2011-2012 [1] Sahay, Poonam Dept. of English, Ranchi University, Jharkhand, July, 2011. [2] Jha, Girish Nath, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, May, 2011. 2012-2013 [1] Ghosh, Rajat, Director of Studies, English Language, Majan University College, Ruwi, The Sulatanate of Oman, visited LRU 16th - 20th July 2012. [2] Selvraj, Arulmozi, Dravidian University, Kuppam, India visited LRU from 3rd – 6th May 2012. 2013-2014 (a) Bayer, Josef, University of Konstanz, Germany, 19-28 February 2014 (b) Das, Debopam, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 28-30 August 2013. (c) Ghosh, Rajat, Majan University College, Oman, 12 August 2013. (d) Majumder, Tapas, Cognizant Technology Solutions India, 20 September 2013. (e) Saha, Jay, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 9-10 September 2013. (f) Sahay, Poonam, Ranchi University, India, 30th September – 1st October 2013. 2014 – 2015 (a) Ray, Arpita, IIIT, Hyderabad, visited LRU on 6 -7 May 2014. (b) Chandra, Pritha, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, 2-13 November 2014. (c) Kar, Somdev, IIT-Ropar Visiting LRU 23 December 2014. (d) Rajendran, S., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, 8-15 February 2015. (e) Nandy, Paromita, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India 5-6 February 2015 (f) Schenkel, Elmar, Dept. of English, Leipzig University, Germany, 24 February 2015.
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Population Studies Unit Research Publications of DCSW members in PSU (Last 5 years) Barman, Subhash (2013). Socio-economic and demographic differentials of contraceptive usage in Indian states : A study based on NFHS data, Journal of Human Ecology,42(1), 53-68. Barman, Subhash (2013). Socio-economic and demographic determinants of unmet need for family planning in India and its consequences, Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(3), 62-75. Barman, Subhash (2011). Socio-economic and demographic impact on child labour in India, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 3(2), 376-403. Barman, Subhash (2010). Parental education, parental death, poverty and socio- economic impact on school attendance status of children in India, Academic Leadership, 8(4). Datta Pranati (2011). Female Trafficking and Illegal Migration from Bangladesh to India, Pakistan Journal of Women Studies, 18(1), 47-62. Datta Pranati (2011). Trafficking and Illegal Female Nepali Migration in India, International Journal of Afro Asian Studies, 2(1), 34-44. Datta, Pranati. (2011). Immigration from Bangladesh to India: Causes, Consequences and Policy, International Journal of Mainstream Social Sciences, 1(2), 11-22. Datta, Pranati. (2011) Clustering of Nepali Female Migrants in West Bengal, Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, U.K.De and B.N. Ghosh (eds) LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, Pp 267-276. Datta Pranati (2010). Urbanisation and Environment, Geography and You, 10(60), 6-10. Datta Pranati (2010). Evaluation of Indian Census Data, International Journal of Human Development and Information System, 3(1&2), 27-36. De, Partha, Dhar, Arpita (2013) Inequality in Child Mortality across different States of India: A Comparative Study; Journal of Child Health Care, 17(4), 397-409, December, Sage Publications, London, U.K. De, Partha, Dhar, Arpita, Bhattacharya, B.N. (2012) Efficiency of Health Care System in India: An Inter-State Analysis using DEA Approach; Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 482-506, Taylor & Francis, Routledge. Pandey, Arvind, Bhattacharya, B.N, Sahu, D., De, Partha, Gulati,B.K., Shukla, A.K. , Mitra, R.G., Mohan, Pavitra. (2012) Infant and Child Mortality in India: Levels, Trends and Determinants, National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and UNICEF India Country Office, New Delhi, India. (UNICEF Publication : www.unicef.org/india/Report.pdf ) Ghosh Buddhadeb and Gupta Swagata (2013) District Level Divergence in India in Post - reform Period: Relationship between Infrastructure, Vulnerable Class and Purchasing Power. European Journal of Applied Social Sciences Research, 1 (1), 1-22, June. Sadhu Swati , Bhattacharya Bishwanath, Pal Monoranjan and Bharati Premananda (2012) Child Immunization Coverage in Rural India and Its Determinants . Gender Issues and Empowerment of Women. NOVA Science Publications, Inc.New York. Pp 149-164 Pasupuleti, S.S.R. & Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2013). Probability distributions of number of children and maternal age at various order births using age-specific fertility rates by birth order, Sankhya Series B 75(2):374-408.
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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. VISITING SCIENTISTS (Last 5 Years)
YEAR (2012-13) M. Nazrul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. M. Taj Uddin, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
YEAR (2014-15) Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia.
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Psychology Research Unit List of Publications (2010 – 2014)
Anjali Ghosh (Professor) 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. Indian 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: Empirical Understanding of the Concept among Kolkata Substance Abusers. Indian Journal 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. 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. Ghosh, Anjali. : Individualist- Collectivist Orientations and Achievement value in college students. Journal of Transpersonal Research, 2012, 4(1), 39 – 46. Karmakar, R. & Ghosh, A. –Altruistic Behaviour of Adolescents of Different Regions of India, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 2012, 38 (1), 44-53. Basak, Rituparna. & Ghosh, Anjali: Teacher Job Satisfaction in the Light of Career Stages and Self- efficacy, International Journal of Education and Management Studies, 3(4), 396-401, 2013. Ghosh, Anjali. : Social Axioms and Locus of Control of Indian College Students, Humanities and Social Sciences Review, 2 (2) 183-191, 2013. Ghosh Anjali.: Identity Development and Self- esteem in a Group of Late Adolescents, Human Rights International Research Journal, 2 (10), 557-561, 2014.
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Basak, Rituparna. & Ghosh, Anjali : Perception of Mathematics Self-efficacy and Achievement of Primary School Students, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 40(1), 113-120, 2014. Karmakar, R. & Ghosh, A. The Development of Distributive Justice: Does Type of Schooling really matter? International Journal of Indian Psychology, Vol.1, Issue, 3., 2014 Ghosh, A. (. Emotional Display Rules of Visually and Hearing Impaired Students. In L.Jackson; D. Meiring; Fons Vande Vijver & E.Idemudia (Eds.) Towards Sustainable Development through Nurturing Diversity: Selected Papers from the Twenty First Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Melbourne, FL: USA. International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 193-199, 2014
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. (2009). Self-efficacy of Agricultural farmers: A case study. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 35, 2, 323-328. 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. 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.(2011).Construct validity of Reading motivation. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, vol.37, No.1, 106-113. Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh, S. and Rahman, F.H. (2012).Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological Counselling Perspective. Indian Journal of Psychology. Special issue, January, 111-120. Dutta Roy, D. and Basu, D. (2013). Rabindrik work value preferences. Psybernews, 4, 2, 82-89. Dutta Roy, D. (2014). Rabindrik Psychotherapy, Journal of Social Science and Welfare. Vol. 1, 44-53.
Rumki Gupta (Associate Scientist ‘C’) 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. Gupta Rumki (2010) - Empowerment and Gender Difference in Education Status. Delhi Business Review, 11, 1, 55 - 60. Gupta Rumki (2010) - Opinion Survey on Curriculum, Performance in Madhyamik Vis- à-vis Higher Secondary Level. Gorakhpur Social Scientist, 1, 2, 20 - 28. Gupta Rumki and Dhara Jayeta (2010) - Dimensions of Self-Concept: A Factor Analytic Study. Indian Journal of Social Science Researches, 7, 2, 92-99.
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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, 255-266. Gupta Rumki (2012) - Gender Disparity in Madhyamik Examination Result. Gender Issues and Empowerment of Women, Manoranjan Pal, Prasanta Pathak, Premananda Bharati, Bholanath Ghosh and Amita Majumder (Eds.). Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York 246 - 256. Gupta Rumki and Dhara Jayeta (2012) - Fluctuation of Reliability with change of Response Categories in A Questionnaire, Proceedings of the National Conference on Psychological Measurement: Strategies For The New Millennium, Suhas Shetgovekar (Ed.), Discipline of Psychology, School of Social Science, IGNOU, New Delhi, 126-132. Gupta, Rumki: Self Concept and Academic Achievement in Girls and in comparison to the Boys, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Research, 1 (1) 28-33, 2013. Gupta, Rumki : Differences in Self-concept, Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation the school going Adolescents, International Journal of Review of Social Studies, Law and Psychology, VII, 3, 34-38, 2013. List of Visitors in P.R.U. 2010-2011: Mr. S. N. Chakraborty - Indian Maritime University, Kolkata, Dr. G. Chatterjee -Harvard University, U.S.A. Prof. Gavin J. Fairbairn - Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Dr. Gurpeet Kaur - Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi. Dr. S.K. Majumder - U.K.
2011-2012: Prof. Jayanti Basu - University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Dr. Pallavi Banerjee - Bethune College, Kolkata. Mr. S. N. Chakrabartty - Galgotias Business School, Noida. Dr. Susmita Chatterjee - Globsyn Business School, Kolkata. Dr. Atri Sen Gupta - Calcutta Business School, Kolkata. Ms. Soumya Subhadarshini – Symbiosis College of Arts &Commerce, Pune. 2012-2013: Dr. Susmita Chatterjee - Globsyn Business School, Kolkata Mr. S.N. Chakrabartty - Galgotias Business School, Noida Prof. G.P. Thakur- President, Indian School Psychology Association, Chennai. 2013-2014: Dr. Carina Coulacoglou - Fairy Tale Society, Greece. Dr.Susmita Chatterjee - Globsyn Business School, Kolkata. 2014 – 2015: Prof. Madhabi Chatterjee – Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. Dr. Susmita Chatterjee - Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata. Prof. Bikas K. Sinha – Kolkata.
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Long term visitor in the Unit: 2011-2012: Dr. Roman Gonzalvo - Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain, November 01, 2011 to January 31, 2012. 2014-2015: Dr. Rituparna Basak - Kolkata, 12 March, 2014 to 31 July, 2014.
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Sociological Research Unit (SRU) (Publications 2010-15) Bharati, Susmita Bharati, Susmita, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU) and Bharati, Premananda (BAU), Women Autonomy, Nutritional and Imunization Status of their Children, Anthropology, http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2332-0915.100015118, 2014. Bharati, S, Pal, M (ERU) and Bharati, P (BAU): The status of Infant health in India, Health, 5(4A), 14-22, 2013. Bharati, S, Pal, M (ERU) and Bharati, P (BAU): Autonomy of Tribal Women in India, Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities, 3 (8), 32-45, 2013. Bharati, Susmita, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU), Chakrabarty, Suman and Bharati, Premananda (BAU), Socioeconomic Determinants of Iron-Deficiency Anemia Among Children Aged 6 to 59 months in India, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, http://aph.sagepub.com/ content/early/ 2013/06/12/ 10539513491417), 2013. Susmita Bharati. Dual burden of malnutrition among Indian women: A comparative analysis between NFHS-3 and NFHS-2. In: Kaushik Bose, Edited, Human Malnutrition: Twin Burdens of Undernutrition and Overnutrition, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge, New York, pp. 165-176, 2013. Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati. 2013. Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children: A comparative study of Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal in Dasgupta R edited Advances in Growth Curve Models, Springer, New York. Pp. 257-270. Bharati, S., Pal. M., Som, S and Bharati, P. Empowerment of Women Through Household Decision Making Power in India: A State Wise Analysis. Edited M. Pal, P. Pathak, P. Bharati, B. Ghosh and A. Majumder (eds.), Gender Issues and Empowerment of women, NOVA Science Publishers. Inc. New York, 109-127, 2012. Bharati, S., Golam Hossain, M and Bharati, P.: Variability of Human Head Form in India. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, pages 168, 2012. Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Dipak Adak and Premananda Bharati. Ideology of son preference in north east India. People of contemporary North East India. Tiluttoma Baruah (ed) Pratishruti publication, Guwahati. 84-97, 2011. Bharati, S; Pal, M., Bandyopadhyay,M., Bhakta,A., Chakrabarty,S and Bharati, P. 2011. Prevalence and causes of low birth weight in India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301- 313, 2011. Bharati, S., Shome, S., Pal, M., Chaudhury, P and Bharati, P. 2011. Is Son Preference Pervasive in India? Journal of Gender Studies, 20 (3): 291-298. Sen Pronab, Bharati Susmita2, Som Suparna, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. 2011. Growth and Nutritional Status of pre-school children in India: A study of two recent time periods. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 32 (2) : 84 – 93. Bharati, S., Pal, M., Chakrabarty, S and Bharati, P. 2011. Trends in Socio-Economic and Nutritional Status of Children younger than 6 years in India, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 23.(3) : 324-340. 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, 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.
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Bharati, S., Chakrabarty, S., Som, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P. 2010. Socio-economic determinants of underweight children in West Bengal, India: A district-wise analysis. Asia Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. 3: 322-327. 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: 217-226. 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: 7–21.
Chattopadhyay, Molly Chattopadhyay, Molly & Sonali Chakraborty: “Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the Pattern of Segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01”, Crossing the Borders, Vol.2, 2009, Pp. 91- 98. Chattopadhyay, Molly: “Women workers in the mica industry: A case study”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 2011, 18:311-340 (Sage publications). Chattopadhyay, Molly, Sonali Chakraborty and Richard Anker. “Sex Segregation in India’s Formal Manufacturing Sector”, International Labour Review. Vol. 152/1, March 2013, Pp: 43-58.
Chakraborty, Sonali C.R.Pathak, Chakraborty Sonali, 2009, ‘Statistical models for job Potentiality in different caregories of Labour in three north Indian States’ Indian Journal of Regional Science, vol xxxxi,p.p 91- 102. Sonali Chakraborty (December, 2013) Occupational Gender Segregation in India: Research journali’s Journal of Economics Vol.1/ No.2. pp. 1-31 ISSN 2347-8233. Chakraborty, Sonali and Molly Chattopadhyay. Occupational Gender Segregation and Wage Gap. Accepted in Social Demography.
Choudhuri, Anil Kumar Anil. K. Choudhuri and R. Jana (2014): Social Network Analysis Approach for Studying Caste, Class and Social Support in Rural Jharkhand and West Bengal: An Empirical Attempt, in Mrutyunjaya Panda, Satchidananda Dehuri and Gi-Nam Wang(eds.), Social Networking Mining, Visualization, and Security, Vol.65, pp. 147 200, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer.
Ghosh, Bhola Nath Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2009. “Milk-Co-operatives and Rural Development in West Bengal: A few issues”, (with Ranjit Karmakar), in South Asian Anthropologist, Volume 9, Number 2, page 167-176, Serial Publications, New Delhi. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2009. "Empowerment of Khasi Women in Meghalaya: A Case study", (with Jyoita Roy Choudhury), in Journal of Empirical Research in Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 1-2, March- September, Page 68-81, Assam. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2009: “Decentralisation or Democratic Devolution”, (with Partha N. Mukherji), Panchayati Raj Update, Vol. XVI, No.1, pp. 6-7, January. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2010. “Democratic Centralism, Party Hegemony and Decentralization in West Bengal”, (with Partha N. Mukherji), Sociological Bulletin, 59 (2), May- August, page 1-17, ISSN; 0038-0229, New Delhi. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2010. “Empowerment of Women: A study inTripura & Meghalaya”, in, South Asian Anthropologist, Volume 10, Number 1, page 11-28, March, Serial Publications, New Delhi.
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Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2010. “Manab Nirapattya, Manbadhikar Abang Unnayan”, (with Ranjit karmakar),.in, Samaj Tattya, June, Vol. 16, Issue-1, Pp. 39-41, ISSN 0975-9980, A Bi- lingual Half-yearly Journal of Sociology, Kolkata. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 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, ISSN: 0975-833X, available online at http:// www.journalcra.com. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2010. “Creation in Rural Areas”, in Samaj-Tattya, Vol.16, Issue -2, December 2010, Page 60-67, ISSN 0975-9980, A Bi-lingual Half-yearly Journal of Sociology, Kolkata. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2010. “Status and Role of Women in the Rural Khasi Society of Meghalaya”, with Utpal Kumar De, in, North- East India Council for Social Science Research (NEICSSR), in the Volume No. 34, No. 2, Page. 1 -17, October, Shillong, Meghalaya, ISBN: 0970-7913. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2011. “Women in Information Communication Technology” (with Asmita Bhattacharyya), in, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Page 006- 014, March 2011, ISSN: 0976- 3376, Website: www. Journalajst.com. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2011. “Problems of Education of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes: A case study in Kolkata and Surroundings and Medinipur and Surrounding areas”, in Journal US-China Education Review, David Publishing, USA, June 2011, Volume 8, No.6, ISSN 1548-6613. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 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, ISSN 0976- 5212, Page, 86-97. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2011. “Singur: A Case Study for Industrialization”, in South Asian Anthropologist, 2011 (2): 115-120 Serial Publications, New Delhi. Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2012 : “Gender Budgeting, Resource Control & Empowerment of Women: A Study in Meghalaya” in Abdul Motin (ed.) Gender Budgeting: State Towards Justice: (Conceptual and Empirical No), Dasgupta & Company Publication House, Kolkata, Pp. 27-37, ISBN: 978-81- 8211-088-5, ISBN: 978-81-8211-0885 Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2011: “Empowerment of Rural Women in Backward Region of India: A comparative Study of Jharkhand, Tripura and Meghalaya” (with U. K. De) in U. K. De & B. N. Ghosh (eds) Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, Pp. 111- 146, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3- 8433- 9497-0, (www.lap- publishing.com), Germany. Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2011: “Women in Information Communications Technology (ICT): Opportunity and Constraint” (with Asmita Bhattacharya) in U. K. De & B. N. Ghosh (eds) Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective, Pp.277-289, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-8433- 9497-0, (www.lap-publishing.com), Germany. Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2010: “Nagarik Samaj Andolon”, in K. D. Chattopadhya & A. Chowdhury (eds) Bharater Samajik Andolon, pp.238-243, Levant Book, Kolkata, ISBN: 978-81-908065-1-0 Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2012. “Women in Indian Information Technology (IT) Sector: A Sociological Analysis”, (with Asmita Bhattacharya) in International Organisation of Scientific Research. (IOSR) Journal of Humanities And Social Science (JHSS), Volume 3, Issue 6 (November-December, 2012), PP 45-52, ISSN: 2279-0837, ISBN: 2279-0845, www.Oosrjournals.org, DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number is 10.9790/0837- 0364552,check it through www.doi.org Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2012. “Gender differences specially in health: A Case study in Meghalaya and Tripura”, in IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (JHSS), Pp. 18- 25, ISSN: 2279-0837, ISBN: 2279-0845, 0461825,check it through www.doi.org
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Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2012. “Co-operatives: A few words”, in Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol.4, Issue, 11. PP. 050-053, ISSN: 0976- 3376, Website: www. Journalajst.com. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2012. “Concept and Implications of Empowerment of Women in North-East India: A Case Study”, in, Society Today: An Interdisciplinary of Social Sciences, Vol.2, PP. 1-19, December 2012, Editor, Anirban Banerji, ISSN 2319-3328, available online at http// www.society today. Ghosh, Bhola Nath. 2013. “Ethnicity: A Continuum on Education”,(with Sujata Chakraborty), in US-China Education Review, B Education Theory, Vol. 3, Number -2, PP. 128- 147, ISSN 2161-6248, David Publishing Company, www.davidpublishing.com, February 2013 (Serial Number 21). Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2013. “Gender Inclusivity in Information Communication Technology: Some Policy Indications” (with Asmita Bhattacharya), International Journal of Humanities and Social Invention, ISSN (Online): 2319-7722, ISSN (Print) 2319-7714, www.ijhssi.org, Vol. 2, No. 6, June, PP. 61-65. Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2014. “Poverty eradication programmes in India: Actions Taken & Impacts Made”,(with M .Pal & P. Bharati), Social Work and Social Development, Volume III, edited by Sven Hessle, Stockholm, Sweden, Ashgate Publishing Company, USA. Ghosh, Bhola Nath 2014. “Process of Development of Women in Rural Jharkhand”, in P. DASH SHARMA and D. Chatterjee (eds.) Livelihood and Health: Issues and Process in Rural Development, Serial Publications, New Delhi, pp. 92-105.
Ghosh Tirthankar Ghosh, Tirthankar: Constraints of Development in the Rural Areas of West Bengal. 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. 83-92, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6.
Jana, Rabindranath Jana, Rabindranath: 2011. Means and variances of some statistics in simple social network with given out-degrees, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol.63 (Special 7-th Triennial Proceedings Volume), 2011(December), Nos. 249-252, pp. 359-369. Jana, Rabindranath: Importance of weighted social networks in diffusion of agricultural innovations: An empirical study. Sociology in the 21st century: The first decade. A book on Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Level Conference held on December 2010. Published by Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College and Sociological Association of West Bengal, Barrackpore 2011, pp. 93-101, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6. Jana, Rabindranath. 2012. On Social Networks: formation, data and few analytic techniques. As invited speaker in the ‘Workshop on Social Networks’, jointly organized by Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, during 20-24 February, 2012. website DOI: http://www.imsc.res.in/~sitabhra/meetings/ socialnetwork0212/talks/Rabindranath_Jana.pdf Jana, Rabindranath, Bandyopadhyay, Suraj and Choudhuri, Anil: 2013. Reciprocity among farmers in farming system research: Application of social network analysis, Journal of Human Ecology, 41(1): 45-51. Jana, Rabindranath and Choudhuri, Anil: 2013. Studying various aspects of social networks with socio-economic changes in a rural area: A case study from West Bengal, Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology, Vol.34, Nos 1&2, pp.1-29. Misra, Sanchayeeta; Goswami, Rupak; Basu, Debabrata; and Jana, Rabindranath.: 2014. Application of Social Network Analysis in Livelihood System Study, Space and Culture, India, Vol.2, No. 3, pp. 24-46.
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Jana, Rabindranath and Bagchi, S.B.; 2015. Distributional Aspects of Some Statistics in Weighted Social Networks, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 39: 1–28.
Suparna Shome/Som Som Suparna, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. 2010. Do Socioeconomic development and improvement of health go together? A comparison among Indian states. Social Change, 40 (4): 525-543. 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), 406-412. Sen Pronab, Bharati Susmita, Som Suparna, Pal Manoranjan and Bharati Premananda. 2011. Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in india: a study of two recent time periods. Food and nutrition bulletin, 32 (2): 84 – 93. Suparna Shome, Manoranjan Pal, Dipak Adak and Premananda Bharati.2011. Adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in the North East States of India. People of contemporary North East India. Tiluttoma Baruah (ed) Pratishruti publication, Guwahati. 9-25. Bharati, S., Shome, S., Pal, M., Chaudhury, P and Bharati, P. 2011. Is Son Preference Pervasive in India? Journal of Gender Studies, 20 (3): 291-298. Som, Suparna; Ulijaszek, Stanley; Pal Manoranjan; Bharati Susmita and Bharati Premananda. 2014, Variation in height and BMI of adult Indians. Journal of Biosocial Science, 46(1), 47-65, S. Shome, P. Srimani, A. De (Bose) and P. Bharati. 2014. Height, weight and BMI of the teenagers: A Comparative Study of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa. Human Biology Review 3 (2), 116-139. S. Shome, P. Roy, M. Pal and P. Bharati. 2014. Variation of Adult Heights and Weights in India: State & Zonewise Analysis, Human Biology Review 3 (3), 242-257. Shome Suparna and Bharati Premananda. 2014. Women Autonomy and its influence on Safemotherhood. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. Shome, Suparna. 2015. Women’s intra-household decision making power in Jharkhand state, India. International Journal of Current Research, 7(1), 11742-11747.
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Sampling & Official Statistics Unit Significant Research Publications during 2010 – 2015:
Papers Published/Accepted in Journals/ Books: Title, co-authors, Journal name/publisher, pages. a) Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, A. Dewanji and B. K. Roy: A methodology for evaluation of a human resource development program, Indian Journal of Training and Development, 43(4), 14-29, 2012. b) Diganta Mukherjee, Zakir Husain and Mousumi Dutta: Are women self-help group members economically more empowered in Left-run municipalities? Development in Practice, Online Version: DOI: 10. 1080/09614524. 2013. 750644, 2012. c) Amitava Sarkar: Functional Instability or Paradigm Shift? A Characteristic Study of Indian Stock Market in the First Decade of the New Millennium, Springer, 2012. d) K. Dihidar and J. Chowdhury ; Enhancing a randomized response model to estimate population means to sensitive questions, Mathematical Population Studies, 20, 123-136, 2013. e) M. Ghatak, D. Mookherjee, S. Mitra and A. Nath: Land Acquisition and Compensation-What really happened in Singur? Economic Political Weekly, 68, 32-44, 2013. f) Sunil Kumar: Estimation in finite population surveys: theory and applications, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 12(1), 2013. g) Sandip Mitra, "Community vs. Individual Targeting in CSR Projects: A Case Study in West Bengal" (with Diganta Mukherjee, Kajal Dihidar, Partha Talukdar, Abhishek Mukherjee, Moumita Poddar), Productivity, 54(3), pp. 275 – 83, 2013. h) S. Bhougal and Sunil Kumar: Sequential estimation of the mean survival time of the two parameter exponnential distribution, Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, 19(4), 2013. i) D. Mookherjee, S. Mitra, K. Dihidar, A. Mukherjee, P. Talukdar and M. Poddar : Community vs. individual targeting in CSR projects: A case study in West Bengal, Productivity, 54(3), 275-290, 2013. j) Diganta Mukherjee ‘Identity, Envy and Resource Loss’, forthcoming in International Game Theory Review, 2014. k) Diganta Mukherjee "An Improved Estimator of Omission Rate for Census Count: With Particular Reference to India" (with Kiranmoy Chatterjee), forthcoming in Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 2014. l) Diganta Mukherjee “Corruption in Delegated Public Procurement Auction” (with Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar), European Journal of Political Economy, 35, pp. 122 – 7, 2014. m) Sandip Mitra: Agent Intermediate Lending-Pushkar Maitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Mota,Sujata Visaria), ISB Insight, vol.1, issue2, pg 33-37,January 2014. n) Sandip Mitra Regional Inequalities of Land associated to Health Facilities in Rural India (with Moumita Poddar), Journal of Social and Development Sciences, vol 5, no 2, 2014. o) Dihidar, K. Simultaneous estimation of several survey population parameters in complex surveys by Bayesian and classical methods. Accepted for publication in Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. p) Dihidar, K. Estimating population mean with missing data in unequal probability sampling. Statistics in Transition. New Series, Summer 2014. 15(3), 369-388. q) Dihidar, K. Generating randomized response by inverse mechanism. (with A Chaudhuri) Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 9, (2014). 343-351. r) Nachiketa Chattopadhyay “Inequalities in Societies, academic Institutions and Science Journals: Gini and k-indices” (with A. Ghosh and B. K. Chakrabarti), Physica A 410 (2014), pp30-34. s) Nachiketa Chattopadhyay “Vulnerability Orderings for Expected Poverty Orderings" (with S. R Chakravarty and L. Qingbin), Forthcoming in Japanese Economic Review.
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t) Nachiketa Chattopadhyay "Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation: A Theoretical Analysis" (with S. R Chakravarty), Forthcoming in Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, C. D’Amboise (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing: Northampton, MA. u) Nachiketa Chattopadhyay "Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty: An Expected Poverty Approach" (with S. R Chakravarty), Forthcoming in Contributions to Economic Analysis: Essays in Honour of Satish Jain, S. Ghatak, R. Kundu and S. Subramanian (eds.), Routledge, New Delhi. v) Sandip Mitra: Political Participation, Clientilism and Targeting of Local Government Programmes: (with Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee, A.Sarkar,) Editor Jean-Paul Faguet of London School of Economics (Oxford University Press) –forthcoming. w) P. Bardhan, S. Mitra, D. Mookherjee and A. Nath: Changing Voting Patterns in rural West Bengal : Role of Clientelism and Local Public Goods, Economic Polictical Weekly, 49(11), 54- 62, 2014. x) P. Maitra, D. Mookherjee, S. Visaria, S. Mitra and A. Mota: Agent Intermediate Loans- A new approach to Microfinance, ISB Insight, 1(2), 33-37, 2014. y) “PIDE and Solution Related to Pricing of Levy Driven Arithmetic Type Floating Asian Options” (with Sudip R Chandra and Indranil Sengupta), forthcoming in Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 2015. z) Dihidar, K. Determination of robust optimum plot size and shape - a model based approach. (with Satyabrata Pal and Gautam Mandal). Accepted for publication in Biometrical Letters, Vol. 52, issue 1, 2015. aa) Dihidar, K. Simultaneous estimation of several survey population parameters in complex surveys by Bayesian and classical methods. Model assisted Statistics and Applications. (2015). 10, 163- 173. LIST OF VISITORS during (2010-15) Long term
Sl. No. Name of Visiting Scientist From To 01 Dr. SUNIL KUMAR 1st Sept 2012 30th Sept 2013 02 Dr. ZAKIR HUSSAIN 26th Dec 2012 25th April 2013 03 Dr. Amitava Sarkar 11th July 2012 15th Jan 2014 04 Prof. Sugata Marjit 1st Nov 2012 01st Nov 2013 05 Prof. Shibdas Bandyopadhyay 1st Nov 2012 31st Oct 2015 06 Prof. Satyabrata paul 1st April 2014 31st March 2015 07 Prof. Sajal Lahiri 1st Feb 2015 14th Feb 2015 08 Shri Aloke kar 1st March 2014 28th Feb 2015 09 Shri Mrinal Bhaumik 1st June 2014 28th Feb 2016 10 Shri Asit Baran Chakroborty 1st May 2014 11th June 2016 11 Shri Prabir Chaudhury 1st January 2015 31st Dec 2015 12 Prof. Koushik Bhattacharjee 27th Nov 2014 2nd Dec 2014 13 Prof. Murari Mitra 1st May 2014 31st March 2015 14 Prof. Sreenivasan Subramaniam 5th April 2015 11th April 2015 15 Prof. Francois Bourguignon 27th April 2015 27th April 2015 16 Ms. Pritha Dev 28th Jan 2015 30th Jan 2015 17 Prof. Kishore K. Das 11th May 2015 31st July 2015 18 Ms. Malabika Biswas 17th Dec 2014 31st Dec 2014
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Short term
Sl. No. Name of Speaker Date of Seminar 01 Prof. Sugata Marjit 12.02.13 02 Prof. Amitava Sarkar 03.04.13 03 Prof. Bikash kumar Sinha 21.05.13 04 Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak 19.08.13 05 Dr. Arun K. Sen Gupta 21.10.13 06 Prof. Sajal Lahiri 12.11.13 07 Dr. Bivas Chaudhuri 19.11.13 08 Dr. Lakhmi K. Raut 06.12.13 09 Prof. Bimal Kumar Sinha 07.01.14 10 Dr. Sahana Roy Chowdhury 28.01.14 11 Prof Bikas Kumar Sinha 18.02.14 12 Dr. Bidisha Mukhopadhyay 12.03.14 13 Dr. G. C. Manna 14.03.14 14 Mr. Mrinal Bhaumik 19.03.14 15 Dr. Asit Baran Chakraborty 01.04.14 16 Prof. Radhe Shyam Bairagi 04.04.14 17 Prof. Arijit Chaudhuri 23.04.14 18 Prof. T. J. Rao 26.05.14 19 Prof. T. J. Rao 29.05.14 20 Prof. Pushkar Maitra 17.06.14 21 Prof. Dilip Mookherjee 23.07.14 22 Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak 26.08.14 23 Prof. Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay 21.10.14 24 Prof. Bimal Kumar Giri 18.11.14 25 Mr. Aloke Kar and Mr. Mrinal Bhaumik 25.11.14 26 Prof. Prabir Chaudhury 12.12.14 27 Ms. Pritha Dev 30.01.15 28 Prof. SaJal Lahiri 11.02.15 29 Dr. Lakshmi K. Raut 24.02.15 30 Prof. Sreenivasan Subramaniam 06.04.15 31 Shri Mrinal Bhowmik 22.04.15
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Economics & Planning Unit, Delhi Centre Published journal by DCSW members for last 5 years in the Economics and Planning Unit (EPU) between 2010-2011 to 2014-15
2010-2011
Papers publised in journals
Mitra, M. and Sen, Arunava: Efficient Allocation of heterogenous Commodities with Balanced Transfers, in Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 35, June 2010, pp 29-48. Chatterjee, S., and Sen, Arunava: Top only Domains, Economic Theory, Vol 46, February 2011, pp 255-282. Chandrasekhar, S., and Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop. Poverty and Well being in Indian cities during the Reforms Era?,Berkley Electronic Press: Poverty and Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue2, April 2010. Afridi, Farzana. Women’s Empowerment and the goal of parity between the sexes in schooling in India, Population Studies, 64(2): 131-145, July 2010. Afridi, Farzana. Child Welfare Programs and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Mandated School Meal Program, Journal of Development Economics, 92(2): 152-165. 2010 Roy Chowdhury, Prabal. Firm Size and Pricing Policy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 62 ,181-195, 2010. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal. Porter Hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting, Economic Bulletin, Vol. 31, 167-176, 2011. Mishra, Debasis andTalman, Dolf. A Characterization of the Average Tree Solution for Tree Games, International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 39, pp 105-111, 2010. Somanathan, E. Effects of Information on Environmental Quality in Developing Countries, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 4(2): 275-292, Summer 2010. Bansal,Sangeeta and Ramaswami, Bharat. Labels for GM Foods: What Can They Do? Economic and Political Weekly: Review of Agriculture, Vol. XLV (26/27), 167-173, 2010.
Papers published in books Sen, Arunava, "Fair and Loverly: Some Theoretical Consideration in the Equitable Allocations of Goods” in “Markets and Morals: Ethical Issues in Economics” (ed) Ashok S. Guha. Sen, Arunava. Series: PHISPC Centre for Studies in Civilizations (ed) D.P. Chattopadhyay. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal. Entry Liberalization, Export Subsidy and R&D, in A. Dhar (Eds.) Some Contemporary Issues in Development and Growth Economics, 444-463, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2010. Roy Chowdhury, Prabal.Edgeworth Market Games: Price-taking and Efficiency, Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, (Eds.) Marc Kilgour, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011. Ghate, Chetan, Wright, Stephen and Fic, Tatiana. India’s Growth Turnaround, in The Concise Oxford Companion to Economics in India, (Eds.)KaushikBasuand AnnemieMaertens.Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
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Mishra, Debasis, Efficient Iterative Combinatorial Auctions. Wiley Encyclopedia of OperationsResearch and Management Science, Wiley, 2011.
2011-2012 Book published Ghate,Chetan. (Ed.)The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press: New York (March 2012)
Papers published in journals Afridi, Farzana, The Impact of School Meals on School Participation in Rural India.” Journal of Development Studies(Special Section on Impact Evaluation), 47(11): 1636- 1656, November 2011. Chowdhury, PrabalRoy.Transparency, complementarity and holdout (with KunalSengupta), Games and Economic Behaviour.75, 598-612, 2012. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy.Porter hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting, Economic Bulletin, 31, 167-176, 2011. Das,SatyaP. International Trade and Polarization in the Labor Market, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 6, 2012-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-6 Mishra,Debasis, SenArunava. Roberts’ Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering Approach. Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, 2012, pp 283-298. Mishra,Debasis.Dutta, Bhaskar. Minimum Cost Arborescences. Games and Economic Behavior,Volume 74, pp. 120-143, 2012. Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop. Rural Housing Quality as an Indicator of Consumption Sustainability” (with Indira Rajaraman), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 47(13), March 31st, 2012, pp. 112-117 Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop. The Economic Burden of Cancer” (with B. K. Mohanti, S. Das, K. Sharma & S. Dash): Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43(46), October 22, 2011, pp. 112-117 Rajaraman, Indira. “Fiscal Impact of Trade Tariff Reform: Long-Series Historical Evidence for the US and Canada” Global Policy3:3 (October), 2012 Rajaraman, Indira, (2011) “Response to Rakshit on the Finance Commission” Economic and Political Weekly,XLVI: 13 (26 March); 137-139. Ramaswami, Bharat, Carl E. Pray and N. Lalitha,The Spread of Illegal Transgenic Cotton Varieties in India: Biosafety Regulation, Monopoly and Enforcement, World Development, 40: 1, 177-188.Year ? Ramaswami,Bharat ,Ashok Kotwal, and Wadhwa, Wilima. Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What's the Evidence? Journal of Economic Literature, 49: 4, 1152-1199, 2011 Ramaswami, Bharat ,AshokKotwal, Milind, Murugkar.PDS Forever?Economic and Political Weekly,XLVI (21), 72-76, 2011. Ray, Tridip, Gurnani, Haresh, Gumus, Mehmet, &Ray, Saibal. Optimal Procurement Strategy Under Supply Risk, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 29(1), 1240006-1 - 1240006-31, February 2012. Sen, Arunava, “The Gibbard random dictatorship theorem: a generalization and a new proof”, SERIEs,Journal of the Spanish Economic Association,Vol. 2, No 4, December 2011, 515-527. Dutta, Bhaskar, Sen, Arunava. Nash Implementation with Partially Honest Players. Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol. 74, No 1, January 2012, 154-169.
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Mishra, Debasis, Sen, Arunava., “Robertsʼ Theorem withneutrality: A social welfare ordering approach. Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol. 75, No 1, May 2012, 283-298.
Somanathan, E.,Chaudhuri,Arka Ray.Impact of Biometric Identification-based transfers. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(21): 77-80, May 21, 2011. Papers published in books Chowdhury,Prabal Roy., Edgeworth Market Games: Price-taking and Efficiency."Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science'' Ed. Marc Kilgour, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 2011. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy., Micro-Finance: The SHG-Linkage Program. The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy(Ed.)ChetanGhate, Oxford University Press: New York, 2012.149-168. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy., Sequential Lending: Dynamic Institutions and Micro- finance, In Emerging Issues in Economic Development: A Contemporary Theoretical Perspective (Essays in Honour of Amitava Bose and DipankarDasgupta), (Eds.) S. Marjit and M. Rajeev, forthcoming, Oxford University Press. Ramaswami, Bharat., The Public Distribution System, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu and A. Maertens (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 567-571, 2012. Ramaswami,Bharat.,&Wadhwa, Wilima., Unemployment, Measure of, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, K. Basu and A. Maertens (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi,718-721, 2012 Ramaswami,Bharat.,C. Pray, L. Nagarajan, Huang,J. ,& R. Hu, Impact of Bt Cotton: The Potential Future Benefits from Biotechnology in China and India. Frontiers of Globalization: Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare. G. Moschini, C. Carter and I. Sheldon (Eds.,), Emerald Books, 83-114. 2011 Goyal, Ranjan, Rajaraman Indira. Tax Effort of Indian States 2002-07.Essays in Memory of Raja Chelliah.D. K. Srivastava and U. Sankar (Eds.). Chapter 6: 110- 124. 2012 Rajaraman, Indira. India’s Experience of the Crisis and Key Lessons.Reducing Vulnerability to Financial Meltdown: Assessing Alternatives. (Eds.) Roy Culpeper, et. al. (Ottawa: North-South Institute), Forthcoming. Rajaraman, Indira. Core Issues in a Statistical Syste.Papers for the International Statistics Education Centre, AmitaMajumdar and AyanendranathBasu (Eds.), Forthcoming.
2012-13 Papers published in journals
Chowdhury, Prabal Roy. Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Fragmentation and Voice, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization,Vol.85,63-78.2013. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Mukherjee,Arijit.Innovation and social desirability of Merger. Economic Bulletin,33, 248-260. 2013. Chowdhury,Prabal Roy and Sengupta,Kunal.Transparency, Complementarity and Holdout, Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol.75, 598-612, 2012. Ghate,Chetan, Wright, Stephen,.The V-Factor: Distribution, Timing, and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. With (Birkbeck College), Journal of Development Economics, September 2012, Volume 99 (1), pages 58-67.
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Ghate, Chetan,Pandey, Radhika and Patnaik, Ila. Has India Emerged? Business Cycle Stylized Facts from a Transitioning Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2013, pages 157-172. Ghate, Chetan, Wright, Stephen, (Birkbeck College) Why were some Indian states so slow to participate in the Turnaround? Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013, Vol. XLVIIINo. 13 (Special Article) Mishra,Debasis and Roy,Souvik., Strategy-proof Partitioning, Games and Economic Behavior,Volume 76, pp 285-300.2012 Mishra,Debasis and Sen, Arunava., Roberts’ Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering Approach, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, pp 283-298.2012 Mishra,Debasis, Dimitrov, Dinko.,and Marchant Thierry., Separability and Aggregation of Equivalence Relations, Economic Theory,Volume 51, 2012. Ramaswami, Bharat, Eswaran, M. , and Wadhwa,W., Status, Caste and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India, Economic Development and Cultural Change,61(2): 313-333, 2013, Ramaswami, Bharat, andJha, S., The Percolation of Public Expenditure: Food Subsidies and the Poor in India and the Philippines, India Policy Forum, 2011/12,8: 95-138. Sen, Arunava, Gravel, Nicolas, Marchant, Thierry. “Uniform Expected Utility Criteria for Decision Making under Ignorance or Objective Ambiguity,” Journal of Mathematical Psychology 56, 297–315.(October 2012) Sen, Arunava, Chatterji, Shurojit& Roy, Souvik., The structure of strategy-proof random social choice functions over product domains and lexicographically separable preferences, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 353-366, December 2012, Sen, Arunava&Mishra, Debasis, Robertsʼ Theorem with neutrality: A social welfare ordering approach Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 75, Issue 1, pp.283-298.May 2012, Sen, Arunava., &Jérémy Picot, An extreme point characterization of random strategy- proof social choice functions: The two alternative cases. Economics Letters, Volume 115, Issue 1, Pages 49-52, April 2012,
2013-2014
Book published
Callaghan, Michael, Ghate, Chetan, Stephen Pickford (Chatham House), and Francis Rathinam (DFID) (Eds.) Global Cooperation Among G20 Countries: Responding to the Crisis and Restoring Growth. SpringerVerlag: India. January 2014.
Papers publihsed in Journals:
Afridi, Farzana., Iversen,Vegard., *eds. BarryBosworth, ArvindPanagariya and Shekhar Shah, Brookings - NCAER.Social audits and MGNREGA delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh, India Policy Forum, July 2013. Chaudhary, Prabal Ray., Guha, Brishti.Micro-finance competition: motivated micro- lenders, double-dipping and default, Journal of Development Economics, December, 2013. ChaudharyPrabal Ray, Land Acquisition: Political Intervention, Fragmentation and Voice, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 85, 63-78, 2013.
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ChaudharyPrabal Ray,Mukherjee, Arijit, Innovation and social desirability of merger, Economics Bulletin, 33, 248-260, 2013. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy and Das, Satya P, Deterrence, Pre-emption and Panic: A Common-Enemy Problem of Terrorism. Economic Inquiry. Vol. 52(1), pages 219-238, 01. Mishra Debasis andQuadir Abdul, Non-bossy Single Object Auctions, Economic Theory Bulletin, Volume 2, pp 93-110. 2014. Mishra, Debasis, Roy, Souvik.Implementation in Multidimensional, Dichotomous Domains. Theoretical Economics, Volume 8, 2013, pp 431-466. Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, AmparoCostellóCliment,Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Growth:the Case of India. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 106, Nov 2013. Ramaswami, Bharat., Bansal, S., Chakravarty, S.,The informational and signalling impacts of labels: experimental evidence from India on GM foods, Environment and Development Economics 18: 701–722, 2013. Somanathan E. Are embankments a good flood-control strategy? A case study on the Kosiriver.Water Policy. Vol. 15: 75-88.(2013), Somanathan E., Chakravarty, Sujoy., CarineSebi, and Theophilus, E., The Demographics of Cooperation: Evidence from a field experiment in the Himalayas.Journal of Economics and Management, 9(2):231-269. 2013. Sen, Arunava,Shurojit, Chatterji and SanverRemzi, On Domains that Admit Well- Behaved Strategy-Proof Social Choice Functions, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 148, pp. 1050-1073, 2013,
Papers published in Books :. Mike Callaghan,GhateChetan, Stephen Pickford, and Francis Rathinam.Introduction (Chapter 1).Global Cooperation Among G20 Countries: Responding to the Crisis and Restoring Growth. Springer Verlag: India.Pages 1 – 21, January 2014.
2014-2015
Papers publised in Journals:
Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Chowdhury, Shyamal and Sengupta, Kunal., Gradual repayment with sequential financing in micro-finance, Journal of Development Economics, 2014. Chowdhury, Prabal Roy,. Das,Satya P., Panic, pre-emption and deterrence: A common enemy problem of terrorism, Economic Enquiry, 2014. Mishra, Debasis., Marchant, Thierry., Mechanism Design with Two Alternatives in Quasi-linear Environments.Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 44, pp 433-455, 2015. Mishra Debasi, Deb, Rahul.,Implementation with Contingent Contracts, Econometrica, Volume 82, pp. 2371-2393. 2014. Mishra, Debasis.,PramanikAnupand., RoySouvik., Multidimensional Mechanism Design in Single Peaked Type Spacs, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 153, pp.103-116. 2014 Mishra, Debasis., Duives, Jelle., Birgit Heydenreich., Rudolf Muller., and Marc Uetz., Optimal Mechanism Design for a Sequencing Problem, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 18, pp. 45-59. 2015 Das, Samarjit., Ghate, Chetan, Robertson, Peter. Remoteness, Urbanization and India's Unbalanced Growth.World Development, Vol. 66, pages 572-587, February 2015.
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Sen, Arunava., Chatterji, Shurojit., and Zeng,Huaxia., Random Dictatorship Domains, Games and Economic Behavior,Vol 86, pp. 212-236. 2014. Sen, Arunava, Hans Peters., Roy Souvik.,and Storcken Ton, Probabilistic Strategy-Proof Rules over Single-Peaked Domains, Journal of Mathematical, Economics,Vol 52, 123- 127. 2014. Sen, Arunava,Kar,Anirban.The Shapley Value as the Maximizer of Expected Nash Welfare", International Journal of Game Theory, Vol 43, 619-627, 2014. Sen, Arunava, Goswami, MriduPrabal, and Mitra,Manipushpak. Strategy-Proofness and Pareto-Efficiency in Quasi-Linear Exchange Economies", Theoretical Economics, Vol. 9, 361-381. 2014. Sen, Arunava, On cost sharing in the provision of a binary and excludable public good, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 155, January 2015, Pages 30–49. Nath Swaprava, Sen Arunava, Affine Maximizers In Domains With Selfish Valuations To appear in Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC).
Papers published in Books :. Somanathan, Eswaran., National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions, Chapter 15, IPCC Report 3, Cambridge University Press, 2014 Kotwal, Ashok.,and Ramaswami, Bharat., Delivering Food Subsidy: The Stateand the Market in R. Herring (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Food,Politics and Society, 301- 326, Oxford University Press, 2015.
List of VISITORS for the year 2010-2011
SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months)
S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Yves Sprumont, University de Montreal, Canada August 2010 - June 2011 2 Amaresh Tiwari, Maastircht University, The Netherlands February – April 2010 3 Reetika Khera, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of April 01 - July 31, 2010. Economics, Delhi
4 Debraj Ray, New York University, USA April 01 - April 30, 2010 5 Farzana Afridi, Syracuse University, USA, April 01, 2010 - June 30, 2010
6 Gurbachan Singh, School of International Studies, JNU, India January 13 – May 13, 2010.
7 Shurojit Chatterjee, Singapore Management University, Singapore September 30 - October 9, 2010
8 Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia University, Montreal August 16 – 30, 2010 9 Manipushpak Mitra, ERU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, November 15- 24, 2009 10 Raj Mathur, New Delhi July - November 2010 11 Dr. Wilima Wadhwa, SERFA January 01 – March 31, 2011
12 Prof. Shalabh, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT, Kanpur November 11-12, 2010 13 Marcin Dziubinski, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, December 16-31, 2010 Warsaw University, Poland
14 Chiranjan Chatterjee, Carneci-Mellon University December 28-29, 2010
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15 Irasema Alonso, Yale University, USA December 21 - 28, 2010 16 Kanishka Dam, ITAM, Mexico January 6th – 9th 2011 17 Dinko Dmitrov, Saarland University, Germany March 01 - 19, 2011 18 Eve Ramaekers, CORE, University of Louvain, Belgium March 01 - 13, 2011 19 Stefan Ambec, Toulouse, France March 7 – 19, 2011 LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Bhaskar Dutta, Warwick University, U.K. July 01, 2010 - June 30, 2011
2 Kensuke Kubo, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, October 01, 2010 - March University of California. USA 31, 2011
3 Monisankar Bishnu, Deparment of Economics, Iowa State University, USA August 2010 - March 31, 2011,
4 Indira Rajaraman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India February 01, 2011 - January 31, 2012.
5 Suchismita Tarafdar, Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of July 20, 2010 – March 31, Business, Arizona State University, USA., 2011
6 Vegard Iversen, University of East Anglia, U.K. September 01, 2010 - August 31, 2011
List of visitors for the year 2011-2012 SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Bakshi Soham, University of Winnipeg, Canada, November 01 - November 30, 2011 2 Chakraborty Shoibal, Princeton University January 04- January 16, 2012 3 Chattopadhyay Siddhartha, IIT Kharagpur January 19- January 21, 2012 4 Chetry K. Moon, DRDO, Delhi November 21 – December10, 2011 5 Deb Rahul, University of Toronto, Canada July 25 - August 11, 2011 6 Demange Gabrielle, Paris School of Economics, Paris October 18 – October 19, 2011 7 Dinko Dmitrov , University of Saarbrucken, Germany July 27 – August 06, 2011 8 Dipjyoti Majumdar, Concordia university, Montreal August 16 - August 29, 2011 9 Dutta Bhaskar , Warwick University December 12, 2011 - January 23, 2012 10 Gunay Hikmet , University Of Monitoba, Canada February 08 - February 19, 2012 11 Mathur Raj, New Delhi July 25 – November 30, 2011 12 Pachenko Valaentyn, University of NSW. Sydney (Australia) April 20 - 29 2011 13 Postl Peter, University of Birmingham, UK August 12 - September 20,2011 14 Roy Jaideep, University of Birmingham, UK, August 20 – September 15, 2011 15 Roy Souvik, University of CAEN, France July 22 – September 30,2011 16 Shankar Sriram, University of Western Sydney, Syndey December 19, 2011 – January
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31, 2012 17 Singh Gurbachan, ISI, Delhi January 01 – May 15, 2012 18 Ulku Levent, ITAM, Mexico January 01 – April 30, 2012 19 Wadhwa Wilima, SERFA July 25 – November 30, 2011 LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Bishnu Monishankar, Deparment of Economics, Iowa State July 25, 2011 – July 24, 2012 University, USA 2 Rajaraman Indira, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, July 25 – November 30, 2011 Delhi, 3 Rajaraman Indira , National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, February 2012 – December 31, Delhi 2012 4 Roy Souvik, University of CAEN, France October 01, 2011 to June 30, 2012 5 Sharma Tridib, ITAM, Mexico July 01 2011 – June 30, 2012 6 Tarafdar Suchismita ISI, Delhi July 19, 2011 – July 18,2012
List of visi-rs for the year 2012-2013 SHORT TERM VISI-RS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Auriel Gilardone, University of Gaen August 11-16, 2012. 2 Bhattacharya Anindya, University of York, August 06-10, 2012. United Kingdom 3 Bose Amitava, IIM Kolkata May 17-18, 2012. 4 Chakrabarti Rajesh July 23 - November 30, 2012. 5 Chakraborty Indranil, National University of May 6-9, 2012. Singapore 6 Chakraborty Shankha, University of Oregon December 20-25, 2012. 7 Chakravarty Shoibal, Prince-n University Oc-ber 4-10, 2012. 8 Chakravorty Ujjayant, TUFTS University July 9-13, 2012. 9 Chetry Moon, DRDO, Bangalore July 15- August 31, 2012. 10 Deb Rahul, University of -ron- July 23 - August 24, 2012. 11 Dmitrov Dinko, Saarland University, August 01- 16, 2012 and February 19 - March 08, 2013. Germany 12 Farmer Amy, University of Arkansas Oc-ber 27 - November 2, 2012. 13 Kjelsrud Anders, University of Oslo August 23 - September 11, 2012. 14 Kjelsrud Anders, University of Oslo September 22 - Oc-ber 18, 2012. 15 Leoni Peter, Euromed Management November 25-28, 2012. 16 Lychogin, Central European University, April 19-21, 2012. Budapest 17 Mallik Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School December 20, 2012 - January 20, 2013 and February 20 - March 31, 2013. 18 Maniquet, Core, Universite Catholique de August 25, 2012. Louvain 19 Mathur Raj July 23 - November 30, 2012. 20 Mukherjee Diganta, ISI Kolkata December 20, 2012 - January 20, 2013. 21 Murty Sushama, University of Exeter July 9-29, 2012. 22 Mu- Nozomu, Universidad Au-noma De August 09-16, 2012. Barcelona, Spain 23 Nitzen Shmuel, Bar Ilan University February 24-28, 2013. 24 Pattnayak, National University of Singapore May 19-21, 2012. 25 Postl Peter, University of Birmingham, August 30 - September 10, 2012.
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United Kingdom 26 Roy Debdatta Sinha, IISER, Mohali May 15 - July 20, 2012. 27 Roy Sanchari, University of Warwick, United July 17 – August 24, 2012. Kingdom 28 Sarkar Nityanand, Kolkata July 05-11, 2012. 29 Singh Gurbachan January 01 - April 30, 2013. 30 Sivadasan M.Jagadeesh, Trivandrom June 4-5, 2012. 31 Tarafdar Suchismita July 20 - November 30, 2012. 32 Wadhwa Willima July 23- November 30, 2012. 33 Wright Stephen, Bileck College, University of December 8-15, 2012. London LONG TERM VISI-RS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Majumdar Dipjyoti, Condordia University September 24 - Oc-ber 7, 2012, November 01 2012 - August 31, 2013.
List of visitors for the year 2013-2014 SHORT TERM VISITORS (Less then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Balakrishnan Pulapre,Centre for Development Studies, January - May 2014. Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 2 Barua Rashmi, Singapore Management University, Singapore March 1 – April 30, 2014.
3 Bhattacharya Sourav, University of Pittsburg, USA August 1 – 3, 2013.
4 Chakrabarti Rajesh, ISB July 22 - November 30, 2013.
5 Dasgupta Aparajita , Population Council 29th November, 2013.
6 De Sankar, Shiv Nadar University 11th October, 2013
7 Deb Rahul, University of Toronto August 8 – September 4, 2013.
8 Dhasmana Anubha, IIM, Bangalore 13th September, 2013
9 Dhillon Amrita , Kings College London Aug 8 - 31, 2013.
10 Dimitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany 21st February 2014
11 Dubey Pradeep, Stony Brook University 25th October, 2013
12 Ghatak Maitreesh, London School of Economics, London, UK December 18 - 20, 2013.
13 Ghosh Parikshit, Delhi School of Economics 28th March, 2014
14 Guha Brishti, Singapore Management University 16th December, 2013
15 Hammer Jeffrey, Princeton University 17th January, 2014
16 Kapoor Mudit , Indian School of Business, Hyderabad 18th October, 2013
17 Khemani Stuti, World Bank 20th August, 2013
18 Kletzer Kenneth, University of California, Santa Cruz February 9 – 21, 2014.
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19 Lahkar Ratul IFMR Chennai 6th June, 2013
20 Libois Francois, University of Namur November 13-20, 2013.
21 Mace Antonin, Ecoe Polytechnique, Paria,France November 25 – December 22, 2013. 22 Majumdar Dipjyoti ,Concordia University 5th April, 2013
23 Moffatt Peter G, University of East Anglia April 15-18, 2014.
24 Paul Anand, Oxford University November 1 – December 23, 2013.
25 Prakash Nishith, University of Connecticut 02 August, 2013
26 Prakash Nishith, Fairfield Way University of Conn July 29 - August 11, 2013.
27 Ranjan Abhishek, Institut for Transport 27th September, 2013 Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 28 Raut Lakshmi K. , Social Security Administration 13th December, 2013
29 Saran Rene, Yale University, Singapore March 31- April 5, 2014.
30 Sen Ananya,University of Toulouse 27th August, 2013
31 Singh Gurbachan January 1 - April 30, 2014.
32 Somanathan Rohini , DSE 30th August, 2012
33 Sudarshan Anant , Harvard University 24th January, 2014
34 Vohra Rajeev, Brown University July 3 – Aug 9, 2013
35 Wadhwa Wilima, ASER July 22 – November 30, 2013.
36 Yamazaki Koji, Kobe University, Japan September 12, 2013 – February 10, 2014.
LONG TERM VISITORS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visitor with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Chand Srustidhar ,University of Venice September 1-30, 2013, October 1- 31, 2013, November 01, 2013 – March 31, 2014.
2 Nath Swaprava, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore September 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014.
3 Sane Renuka, IGIDR, Mumbai July 01, 2013 – June 30, 2014.
List of visi-rs for the year 2014-2015
SHORT TERM VISI-RS (Less then 6 months)
S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit
1 Bhargava Alok, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, 14th July, 2014.
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2 Anand Rahul and Volodymyr Tulin, International Monetary Fund, 25th April, 2014
3 Asturias Jose, Georgetown University, August 6-8, 2014.
4 Bag Parimal, National University of Singapore, Oc-ber 24- November 6, 2014.
5 Banerjee Abhijit, MIT, 24th Oc-ber, 2014.
6 Banerjee Prasenjit, University of Manchester, September 1 - November 30, 2014.
7 Barua Rashmi, Singapore Management University March 1 – April 30, 2015.
8 Bhattacharya Prasad, Deakin University, December 11- 22, 2014.
9 Bhattacharya Saurav, University of Pittsburgh, August 11-30, 2014.
10 Bloch Francis, Paris School of Economics, February 7-16, 2015.
11 Chakrabarti Anindya S., Boston University, 16th January 2015.
12 Chakraborty Rajesh, ISB August 1 - November 30, 2014.
13 Chakravarty Abhishek, University of Essex, 5th September, 2014.
14 Chakravarty Shoibal, Princeton Environmental Institute March 16-23, 2015.
15 Chowdhury Roy Sahana, January 1 – April 30, 2015.
16 Cremades Roger , Internationl max planck Research School, Oc-ber 20 - December 18, 2014.
17 Dean Spears, CDE, 4th April, 2014.
18 Deshmukh Jayeeta, Presidency University, Oc-ber 18- November 5, 2014.
19 Dhillon Amrita, King’s college London, August 11-30, 2014.
20 Dhingra Swati, LSE, 31st Oc-ber, 2014.
21 Dimitrov Dinko, Saarland University, Germany, 23 -28 February 2015.
22 Dreze Jacques, Université Catholique de Louvain, March 15-17, 2015.
23 Duflo Esther, MIT, 19 September, 2014.
24 Dutta Prajit, Columbia University. 12th August, 2014.
25 Gupta Ashmita, University of Hous-n, 22 December 2014.
26 Heraklis Polemarchakis, University of Warwick, 15 July, 2014.
27 Köhlin Gunnar, University of Gothenburg, 24th November, 2014.
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28 Kumar Rajnish, Queen’s University, Belfast, 1st December, 2014. 29 Lavy Vic-r, University of Warwick, December 15-20. 30 Mallick Debdulal, Deakin University, December 22, 2014 - January 15, 2015. 31 Namrata Kala, Yale University, 20th March 2015.
32 Nandeibam Shasikanta, University of Bath, 5th August, 2014.
33 Patil Sumeet. R, University of California, Berkeley , January 29-30, 2015.
34 Pattanayak Subhrendu K, Duke University, 11th September, 2014.
35 Prasenjit Banerjee, University of Manchester, 9th January 2015.
36 Ray Debraj, New York University, December 18-20, 2015
37 Ray Indrajit, University of Birmingham, August 21-22, 2014.
38 Rene Saran, Yale Univ- Singapore, 2 April, 2014.
39 Roy Jaideep, University of Surrey, July 1-8, 2014.
40 Roy Souvik , ISI Kolkata, March 9-17, 2015.
41 Saggi Kamal, Vanderbilt University, 20th Oc-ber, 2014.
42 Sahu Sohini, IIT Kanpur, Oc-ber 31 – November 1, 2014.
43 Sarin Rajiv, University of Exeter, 27th October, 2014.
44 Singh Gurbachan, January 1 – April 30, 2015.
45 Singh Ram, Delhi School of Economics, 21st November, 2014.
46 Tarroux Benoit, University of Rennes I, February 15 - March 5, 2015.
47 Thakurata Indrajit, IIM, Ahmedabad) 23rd July, 2014.
48 Vandewalle Lore, Graduate Institute of International and 3th February 2015. Development Studies, Geneva, 1 49 Wadhwa Wilima, ASER August 1 – November 30, 2014. 50 Zeng Huaxia, Singapore Management University, October 10 – November 10, 2014. LONG TERM VISI-RS (More then 6 months) S.NO Name of the visi-r with Affiliation Period Of Visit 1 Chand Srustidhar ,University of Venice April 1 - August 31 2015. 2 Nath Swaprava, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore September1, 2014 - August 31, 2015.
3 Sane Renuka, IGIDR, Mumbai July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015.
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PUBLICATIONS 2010-2015
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Dalit Households in Village Economies, edited by V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, New Delhi: Tulika Press, 2014. V. K. Ramachandran, Introduction, in in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books (2014). Madhura Swaminathan and Shamsher Singh “Exclusion in Access to Basic Civic Amenities” in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2014. Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal “Persistent Disadvantage: Incomes of Dalit Households in Eight Villages” in Dalit Households in Village Economies New Delhi: Tulika Books (2014). Madhura Swaminathan “Population and Food Security” in A. K. Shiva Kumar, Pradeep Panda and Rajani R. Ved (eds.) Handbook of Population and Development, Oxford University Press (2010), pp 50-56. Reprinted in paperback (2012). Madhura Swaminathan and Venkatesh Athreya, Economic Status and Child Deprivation: Findings from Village Surveys in A. K. Shiva Kumar, Preet Rustagi and Ramya Subrahmanian (eds.), India’s Children: Essays on Social Policy, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2015), pp 68-97.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
V. K. Ramachandran, Ägrarian Issues: Local and National” Review of Agrarian Studies, 4, 2, 2014. A. Bheemeshwar Reddy and Madhura Swaminathan, “Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Rural India: Evidence from Ten Villages” Review of Agrarian Studies, 4, 1, 2014. Madhura Swaminathan, “Dalit Workers in Rural India: Evidence from Village Studies,” Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 57, 1, 2014, pp 53-65. Biplab Sarkar, V. K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan, “Aspects of the Political Economy of Crop Incomes in India,” World Review of Political Economy, 5, 3, Fall 2014, pp 392-413. Shamsher Singh, Madhura Swaminathan and V. K. Ramachandran, 2013 "Housing Shortages in Rural India," Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, V. K. Ramachandran Introduction to "P. Sundarayya, 1913–1985 A Centenary Tribute," Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2013. Madhura Swaminathan, 2013, “Implementing the Food Security Act,” Yojana, vol 57, December, pp 22-24. V. K. Ramachandran “Classes and Class Differentiation in India’s Countryside,” World Review of Political Economy, vol. 2, no. 4, 2012.
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V. K. Ramachandran “P. Sundarayya on the Agrarian Question,” The Marxist, November 2012. V. K. Ramachandran “Agrarian Relations and Village Studies,” Ramkrishna Mukherji Memorial Lecture, Indian Society of Labour Economics, December 2010, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012 Madhura Swaminathan, 2012, “Who Has Access to Formal Credit in Rural India? Evidence from Four Villages,” Review of Agrarian Studies, 2, 1. V. K. Ramachandran “The State of Agrarian Relations in India Today,” The Marxist, XXVII 1–2, January–June 2011 Madhura Swaminathan “Is India a Country of Low Income Inequality” with Vikas Rawal, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 1, 2011 Madhura Swaminathan “Are there Benefits from the Cultivation of Bt Cotton? A Comment Based on Data from a Vidarbha Village” with Vikas Rawal, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 1, 2011 Madhura Swaminathan, “Income Inequality and Caste in Village India” with Vikas Rawal, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 2, 2011, pp 108-133 V. K. Ramachandran “Dungariya Village: A Report from A Tribal Village in South Rajasthan,” Critical Asian Studies, April 2010 V. K. Ramachandran "The Impact of Liberalization and Globalization on India’s Agrarian Economy," Global Labour Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, p. 56-91, January 2010, Available at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol1/iss1/5 (with Vikas Rawal). Madhura Swaminathan “The New Poverty Line: A Methodology Deeply Flawed”, Indian Journal of Human Development 4, 1, 2010, pp 121-125.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS Madhura Swaminathan and Arindam Das, 2014, “Differentiation of the Peasantry and Economies of Scale in Indian Agriculture: Evidence from Village Studies” Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23 to 25, 2014. V. K. Ramachandran and Aditi Dixit, 2014, “Proletarianisation of the Peasantry in India: A Note”, Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Forum of the World Association of Political Economy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23 to 25, 2014. Madhura Swaminathan, 2013, Gender Statistics in India: A Short Note with a Focus on the Rural Economy, paper prepared for the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, available at http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/Them_paper_Gender.pdf Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal, “Income Inequality in Village India: The Role of Caste”, with Vikas Rawal, ECINEQ Working Paper Series, 207, August 2011 (available at http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2011-207.pdf) Madhura Swaminathan, “Income Inequality in an Era of High Growth: The Indian Experience,” The Uno Newsletter: Rejuvenating Marxian Economics through Uno Theory, Vol. II, No. 13, Working Paper Series 2-13-3, 25 December 2013.
Long term Visitors at EAU from 2011 to 2015 Dr. Puja Guha joined as a Visiting Scientist from 30th August 2011. She was a Lecturer- cum-Post Doctoral Fellow from September 2012 to August 30, 2013. 2 Dr. Shalina Susan Mathew is a visiting scientist for the period October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014
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Short term visitors at EAU from 2010 to 2015 (April) Probal Ghosh, November-December 2010. Dr. Saumen Majumdar, IIM, Trichy, May 2 – 10, 2012. Prof. Jihei Kaneko, Kobe Univervsity, Japan, March 7 – 14, 2013. Okabe, Jun-ichi, Yokohama National University, Japan, November 1 – 9, 2013. R. Ramakumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Nov. 6-7, 2013 Dr. Aparajita Bakshi. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai November 6- 7, 2013 Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dhar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljhapuri Nov.6-8, 2013 Prof. Venkatesh Athreya, Nov. 7-8, 2013 Prof. K.N. Harilal, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, November 7, 2013 Dr. Thomas Isaac, Trivandrum, November 6-7, 2013 Dr. Abhijit Sen, Member Planning Commission, November 6-7, 2013. Dr. Pronab Sen, National Statistical Commission, November 6-7, 2013. Guo, Yanqing, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, January 12 – February 27, 2014 Shindo, Junko, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, China, March 21 29, 2014 Mori, Yuko, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, March 1 – 6, 2014. Motiram, Sripad, IGIDR, Mumbai, March 9 to 18, 2014. Dr. Kamal Murari, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai March 22-29, 2014 Prof. T. Jayaraman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai March 22-29, 2014 Prof. Kazuyasu Miyata, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan, August 19-25, 2014 Dr. Govinda Choudhury, North Bengal University, Kolkata, March 5 – 19, 2015. Dr. Sanchari Mukherjee, North Bengal University, Kolkata, March 5 – 13, 2015.
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Interim Report 2014-15
Interim report on ISI internal project ‘The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla’
P.I.: Probal Dasgupta (with Jyoti P. Tamuli, Linguistics, Guwahati U.)
Period: April 2014-March 2016
Biaxial syntax, the syntactic wing of substantivist generative grammar, focuses on incidence differentials and other effects that involve both the syntagmatic axis and the paradigmatic axis. A major breakthrough was made in the year 2014-15 in the study of the type of non-finite clause known as infinitivals, a breakthrough with not only biaxial but bimodal implications. This new work was presented in the context of Bangla data at the P.I.’s March 2015 talk at the University of Hyderabad and will be written up in the academic year 2015-16. The remainder of the output of research that was done in connection with this project, itemized below, is to be construed as supplementary to the main line of inquiry represented by this breakthrough, whose occurrence in the very first year of the project makes us optimistic. We have good reason to believe that these results can be replicated for Assamese.
Publications:
Dasgupta, Probal: Goedel ar goddo. Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Soma Datta, Namita Chaudhuri (eds.) Proshonggo ‘Goedeler Ashampurnotaatatto’. Kolkata: Nandimukh Sansad. 50-75. 2014.
Dasgupta, Probal. Shangshkriter phashol aar warishder shattaashatto. Bwakalam 4 (2): 69-95, 2014.
Dasgupta, Probal. Bhashatattwer karmopoddhotite ‘bedag’ banam ‘dagi’ proshongge jatkincit montobbo. Charvaak 2(2): 167-176, 2014.
Seminar Presentations:
‘Catalyticity and introduction in naturalist linguistics’ at Dept. of HSS and ‘Lingchai’ [a linguistics discussion forum], IIT Delhi, 8 January 2015.
‘Getting the identical infinitives filter in Bangla under control’, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, 2 March 2015.
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Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Projects (2016-17) Social Sciences Division
Rupees in lakhs Units Name of the Project Revenue Capital Total New Project North East 2.1 Advanced Academic Programs for North Eastern States (Northeast, 2 LRU New) (2016-2017) 9.000 9.000 6 SOSU 6.1 North-East Training Programme (Northeast, New) (2016-2019) 4.700 4.700 Sub-total: 13.700 0.000 13.700 General 1.1 Bayesian Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design (General, New) 1 ERU (2016-2019) 9.100 9.100 4.1 Safe school survey. (General, New) (2016-2019) 4.200 4.200 4 PRU 4.2 Orientation training program on Psychological Data Analytics : Summer/Winter school (General, New) (2016-2017) 5.094 5.094 5.1 Small-marginal landholders Farming and Livelihood Issues: A 5 SRU Study in Jharkhand (General, New) (2016-2018) 5.660 5.660 6.2 Measuring the Untapped Human Resource Potential of the 60+ 6 SOSU Population in India 4.400 4.400 (General, New) (2015-2018) Sub-total: 28.454 0.000 28.454 On-Going Project North East 2.2 The Biaxial Syntax of Inflected Clauses in Assamese and Bangla 2 LRU (Northeast, On-Going) (2014-2017) 2.750 2.750 6.3 North East Official Statistics Workshop 6 SOSU 6.350 6.350
8.1 Livelihoods, homestead farming and human development in 9.600 9.600 8 EAU Tripura (Northeast, On-going) (2015-2017) Sub-total: 18.700 0.000 18.700 General 1.2 Annual Research Workshop for Doctoral Students in Economics in 1 ERU Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research 2.000 2.000 (IGIDR): Supplementary Proposal (General, On-Going) 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary (General, On-Going) (2015- 2 LRU 2018) 7.000 7.000 5.2 Gender and Labour: A Study of Coffee Industry of Karnataka (General, On-going) (2015-2018) 3.500 3.500 5 SRU 5.3 The contribution of unpaid family workers in the handloom sector of textile industry. (General, On-going) (2015-2017) 1.000 1.000
7 EPU 7.1 Annual Conference (General, On-going) 4.000 4.000 Sub-total: 17.500 0.000 17.500 Grand Total : 78.354 0.000 78.354
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Divisional Plan Budget Proposal for Non-Projects (2016-17) Social Sciences Division
Rupees in lakhs Sl. Revenue Capital Total No. Name of the Project Economic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 15.000 15.000 2 Seminar 4.000 4.000 3 Internal travel 3.000 3.000 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 1.000 1.000 5 Computer Consumables 4.000 4.000 6 Repair and Maintenance 5.000 5.000 7 Office Expenditures 3.000 3.000 8 Capital Expenditure 10.000 10.000 Sub-total: 35.000 10.000 45.000 Linguistic Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 1.000 1.000 2 Seminars (deparmental, on regular basis) 1.000 1.000 3 Internal travel 1.500 1.500 4 Computer Consumables 1.500 1.500 5 Maintenance (Stores and Stationaries) 1.500 1.500 6 Office Expenditures 1.500 1.500 7 Capital (Computer, Software, Scanner, Printer etc.) 3.000 3.000 8 Fellowship for (one) New JRF/SRF (2016-17) 4.500 4.500 Sub-total: 12.500 3.000 15.500 Population Studies Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 2.000 2.000 2 Research Fellows/Statistical Trainees etc. 1.500 1.500 3 Seminars by invited experts 1.000 1.000 4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.500 0.500 5 Internal Travel 0.500 0.500 6 Computer Consumables 1.100 1.100 7 Office Expenditure 1.200 1.200 8 Repair, Maintenance, etc. 3.000 3.000 9 AC machines for Computer & seminar rooms 2.000 2.000 10 Software (Ddemographic, Statistical, Virus Guard) 2.500 2.500 11 Purchase of Desktop compters and Printers 2.000 2.000 Sub-total: 10.800 6.500 17.300 Psychology Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 2.000 2.000 2 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 3 Research Fellow 4.100 4.100 4 Maintenance for computer & equipment 1.800 1.800 5 Seminar/Workshop/Training programme 1.700 1.700 6 Software 1.000 1.000 7 Office Expenditure 1.200 1.200 8 Internal travel 1.500 1.500 9 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.700 0.700 Capital Expenditure (Psychological Instrument,PC,Laptop,chair,Xerox 10 Machine, Book, Self, Sofa etc) 4.000 4.000 Sub-total: 16.000 4.000 20.000
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Sociological Research Unit 1 Visiting Scientists 3.000 3.000 2 Seminar 2.000 2.000 3 Internal travel 3.000 3.000 4 Research Fellow 6.000 6.000 5 Software 3.000 3.000 6 Processing fees for publication 1.000 1.000 7 Computer Consumables 3.000 3.000 8 Maintenance / Office expenditure 2.000 2.000 Capital Equipment: Upgrading computers/AC/furniture and other related 9 equipment 6.000 6.000 Sub-total: 20.000 9.000 29.000 Sampling & Official Statistics Unit 1 Honorary Visiting Professor/Visiting Scientist/Research Collaborators 5.000 5.000 2 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 3 External Hard Disk for Storage of Office Material and project data 2.000 2.000 4 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, fittings, equipment etc. 3.000 5.000 8.000 Purchase new Desktop Computer, Laptop, Laser Printer, Photocopier, Air- 5 condition machine, Projector machine 4.000 4.000 6 Research Fellow/Statistical trainee 12.000 12.000 7 Office Expenses 5.000 5.000 Repair & Maintenane for Computer, Printer, Scanner, Xerox and 8 otherequipent's in the the unit including AMC etc. 2.000 2.000 9 Conference/Seminar/Workshop Training Programme etc. 8.000 8.000 10 Internal Travel of Scientists and Researchers 4.000 4.000 11 Office Furniture and others 5.000 5.000 12 Workshop on Officeial Statistics in the North-East India 8.000 6.000 Sub-total: 51.000 14.000 63.000 Economics & Planning Unit (Delhi) 1 Visiting Scientists 6.000 6.000 2 Post-doctoral fellows-cum-Lecturers 43.000 43.000 3 Travel of Scientists 0.800 0.800 4 Seminar Series 1.500 1.500 5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables 1.200 1.200 6 Misc. Including Communications & fax 0.500 0.500 7 Journal Submission & professional memberships 0.500 0.500 8 Maintenance 1.000 1.000 9 Students Interns 1.000 1.000 10 Students Research Funds 1.000 1.000 Upgrading of Computers manuals software, furniture, fittings, equipment 11 etc. 5.000 5.000 Sub-total: 56.500 5.000 61.500 Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore) 1 Visiting Scientists 5.000 5.000 2 PCs & Printers 2.500 2.500 3 Furniture 1.000 1.000 4 Computer Consumables 0.800 0.800 5 Travel Grants 1.250 1.250 6 Seminar/Workshop 1.250 1.250 7 Stationery 0.500 0.500 8 Micllaneous 0.500 0.500 9 JRF 12.000 12.000 Sub-total: 21.300 3.500 24.800
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Social Sciences Division Office 1 Visiting Scientists 10.000 10.000 2 Computer Consumables 2.000 2.000 3 Office Expenditure 3.000 3.000 4 Travel for Academic Purpose 4.000 4.000 5 Maintenance 2.000 2.000 6 Capital Expenditure 3.000 3.000 Sub-total: 21.000 3.000 24.000 Grand Total (Plan Non-Projects): 244.100 58.000 300.100 Plan Projects= 78.354 Total Budget of Social Sciences Division (Plan Projects + Plan Non-Projects) = 378.454
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