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Ltd. | www.macrographics.com 2 COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 Auditor’s Report Auditor’s Organisational Structure andStaff Faculty Publications Right toEducation Forum Social DevelopmentForum Memorial Lectures Workshops/Training Seminars Research Desk Director’s From About CSD Contents ADVISASIS EQUITY SOCIAL JUSTICE EMPLOYMENT GENDER EMPOWERMENT RURAL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS TRIBALS MINORITIES DALITS HUMAN RIGHTS LABOUR LAND RIGHTS EDUCATION CHILDREN HEALTH RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT GRASSROOTS INCLUSION POVERTY EMPLOYMENT FOOD SECURITY NUTRITION LAND GOVERNANCE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING VILLAGES SOCIAL GROUPS INEQUALITY ECOLOGY WOMEN OPPORTUNITY ACCESS IMPACT SCHOOLS ADVOCACY RIGHTS CONTINUITY CHANGE FARMERS SCHEDULE CASTE SCHEDULE TRIBES2017 CLIMATE2016 CHANGE AGRARIAN CRISIS GLOBALISATION TRADE UNIONS MICRO-FINANCE DISPLACEMENT AND SETTLEMENT ADVOCACY SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION 1 10 RESEARCH 1 7 6 6 5 5 4 3 TRADE FACILITATION 3 9 7 5 4 5 9 3 7 3 1 5 DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT DISABILITY CAPACITY BUILDING DEMOCRACY 3 GOVERNANCE LEGISLATION ADVISASIS EQUITY SOCIAL JUSTICE EMPLOYMENT GENDER 4 COUN C IL FORSO C IAL DEVELOPMENT educationist andchildrightsexpert,astheChairperson. a managing committee, with Professor Shanta Sinha, an by governedeminent is SRC The Telangana. of Government the and (ICSSR) which is funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research Southern (CSD-SRC) in Regional Hyderabad Centre in 1967 CSD’s up set Deshmukh Durgabai Dr India, of states southern in processes social change. In order to study and monitor social development critical ideas, approaches, and strategies designed to bring about in shaping policy, programme implementation, and promotion of human rights, and social justice. Its pioneering efforts have helped governance, development, rural health, education, development, of regularly undertakes studies and advocacy activities in key areas policy discourses in social development. In pursuit of its vision, it capacity-building and publications, CSD actively participates Through its in programmes relating to research, seminars, lectures, President. Vice the as Mohanty Manoranjan Professor with Council, educationist, Professor Muchkund Dubey, is the President of the and Honorary Director. At present, Chairperson Executive as Deshmukh Durgabai Dr and President as Deshmukh distinguished C.D. Dr diplomat with Society a and as registered was it 1970, August In formal status as an affiliate of the India International Centre (IIC). Dr Durgabai Deshmukh. Two years later, the Council acquired and indefatigable social institution-builder, a worker, freedom fighter, legendary the of leadership the under scientists, social and workers in 1962 as an informal study group comprising prominent social focus on the welfare of the marginalised. CSD began its journey and advocacy institution on has social functioned as development a with non-profit,For non-partisan,over special five decades vibrant, the Council research for Social Development (CSD) About CSD ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT ADIVASIS EQUITY SOCIAL JUSTICE EMPLOYMENT GENDER EMPOWERMENT RURAL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS RESEARCH MINORITIES DALITS HUMAN RIGHTS LABOUR LAND RIGHTS EDUCATION CHILDREN HEALTH RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT GRASSROOTS INCLUSION POVERTY EMPLOYMENT FOOD SECURITY NUTRITION LAND GOVERNANCE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING VILLAGES SOCIAL GROUPS INEQUALITY ECOLOGY WOMEN OPPORTUNITY ACCESS IMPACT SCHOOLS ADVOCACY RIGHTS CONTINUITY CHANGE FARMERS SCHEDULE CASTE SCHEDULE TRIBES2017 CLIMATE2016 CHANGE AGRARIAN CRISIS GLOBALISATION TRADE UNIONS MICRO-FINANCE DISPLACEMENT AND SETTLEMENT ADVOCACY SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION RESEARCH TRADE FACILITATION DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT DISABILITY CAPACITY BUILDING DEMOCRACY GOVERNANCE LEGISLATION ADIVASIS EQUITY SOCIAL JUSTICE EMPLOYMENT GENDER Director’s Desk Director’s From regional regional disparities and widening further inequality, wealth and marginalisation income rising of of issues the to importance the of deal great a dispossessed attaches Council The sections of the society, for which it dietary allowances(RDA)forcalorieconsumption. therecommended reduced part of this study questions the methodology adopted by the Indian Council of Medical Research that has was still heavily dependent on food grains as the principal source of their calorie The requirements. second A study examined calorie consumption pattern across income groups. It found that lower income segment peopletomigrateurbanarea. forced that lackoflocalemploymentinruralarea showed migration on study a addition, In areas. urban to migration distress and security food for implications, cultivators have become the main buyers of land in rural areas for an speculative ongoing profit makingstudy within serious Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra shows a shift in of the their livelihood. nature But of unlike land in the markets. past, Non- when there was intra-village and inter-farmer transaction of land, Because of agrarian crisis and heavy indebtedness, several farmers sold off their land, the principal source particular. in sources, non-institutional from credit and general in conditions agrarian stressed to problem the share croppers, landless farmers and women farmers. Various studies on farmers’ suicides have attributed farmers, marginal and small of finance of sources non-institutional on dependence continued but disparities, regional wide only not showed credit institutional to access on study A areas. rural in employment and labour conducted on farmers’ access to institutional credit, changing land markets, tenancy rights, food security, In 2016-17, the Council took up a number of studies related to farmers and agriculture. Studies