Indian Council of Social Science Research

**Indian Council of Social Science Research**
Established	1969
Location	Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,; New Delhi;
Chairman	Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan
Member Secretary	Prof. Virendra Kumar Malhotra
Website	icssr.org

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The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is the national body overseeing research in the social sciences in India. It was established in New Delhi in 1969.^[3]^:3606

Council[edit]

The Council is currently chaired by Bhushan Patwardhan. Current members include Deena Bandhu Pandey, P. Kanagasabapathi, Sanjay Kumar, H.S. Bedi, Harish Chandra Singh Rathore, Panchanan Mohanty, Amita Singh, Kshamadevi Shankarrao Khobragade, T. Subramanyam Naidu, Rakesh Sinha, Aswini Mohapatra, P.V. Krishna Bhatta, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, J.K. Bajaj, M.P. Bezbaruah, D.D. Pattanaik, and Madhu Purnima Kishwar.^[4]

Activities[edit]

It provides funding to scholars and to a network of twenty-seven research institutes, among them: ^[5]

Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research
Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi
Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad
Indian Institute Of Economics, Hyderabad
Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi
Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati

A large proportion of its budget is spent on its own administration; in 1996–1997, this amounted to 23% of total expenditure.^[3]^:3607 It has been described as an "oversized, unimaginative and inefficient bureaucrac[y]".^[3]^:3604

References[edit]

↑ http://icssr.org/chairman
↑ http://icssr.org/member-secretary
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Partha Chatterjee (2002). Institutional Context of Social Science Research in South Asia. Economic and Political Weekly 37 (35): 3604–3612. (subscription required).
↑ "ICSSR - Council Members". Indian Council of Social Science Research.
↑ https://www.icssr.org/research-institute

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[1] ttp://icssr.org/chairman

[2] ttp://icssr.org/member-secretary

[epw-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Partha Chatterjee (2002). Institutional Context of Social Science Research in South Asia. Economic and Political Weekly 37 (35): 3604–3612. (subscription required).

[4] "ICSSR - Council Members". Indian Council of Social Science Research.

[5] ttps://www.icssr.org/research-institute

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