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ANNUAL REPORTAND

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2014– 15

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGEDr. V K R V Rao Road, Nagarabhavi P.O., Bangalore 560 072

Phone: 23215468, 23215519, 23215592Fax: 91-080-23217008

C O N T E N T S

ISEC: An Overview v

1. ISEC Society 1

2. ISEC Faculty/Staff 3

3. Academic Centres 6

4. Research Activities

Research Projects Completed 18

Project Reports under Final Revision 54

Research Projects in Progress 55

5. Academic Activities

Seminars, Conferences, Workshops, Training Programmes and 59Refresher Courses Organised

Panel Discussions 69

Lectures 69

Seminars Presented by Visitors 70

Seminars Presented by Faculty 71

Seminars Presented by Students 71

Students’ Biannual Seminar Series 71

Ph D Programme 72

Ph D Degrees Awarded 72

Dr D M Nanjundappa Endowment Prizes 72

Academic Networks 72

SRTT Support Activities 73

6. Publications

Books Published/Edited 75

ISEC Journal of Social and Economic Development 76

ISEC Monograph Series 76

ISEC Working Papers 76

Articles Published in Journals and Edited Books 82

Working Papers Published outside ISEC 87

7. Participation in Seminars

Seminars Presented outside ISEC 88

Participation in Seminars, Conferences and

Workshops as Chairperson, Discussant and Rapporteur 97

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Seminars, Conferences, Workshops and Meetings Attended 99

Keynote and Presidential Addresses 103

Lectures, Talks and Media 104

Newspaper Articles 109

8. ISEC and Campus News in Brief

Fellowships and Awards 110

Miscellaneous 112

9. Meetings 116

10. Appointments, Retirements, Resignations etc. 117

11. Dr V K R V Rao Library 118

12. Data Bank 120

13. Acknowledgements 123

14. Statements of Accounts 2014-15 127

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It gives us all great pleasure and a sense ofachievement when we look at this year’s AnnualReport. ISEC continued its vibrant activities onall fronts encompassing research projects,academic publications, national andinternational seminars, conferences, workshops,lectures and other events that promoted theInstitute’s envisaged vision and objectives ofmulti-disciplinary research and training. Theresearch areas identified by the faculty are ofimmense significance for enhancing knowledgebase in Social Sciences and for national and sub-national policy formulations.

In addition, during the year the Institutehas also strengthened its nationally acclaimedPhD programme by ensuring continuity ofrigorous pre-PhD course activities, biannualseminars and the scholars’ support systems likedoctoral committees and awards for excellence.

All the achievements and goals weaccomplished during the year were possibleonly because of the untiring efforts of thefaculty, staff and students of the Institute. As inthe past, the encouragement extended by theBoard of Governors and Life Members of theInstitute and support given by the sponsors ofvarious projects and other well-wishers haveindeed played a crucial role.

During the year, 29 research projects werecompleted and the project reports of nine othersreached the stage of final revision. In additionto these, our faculty and students are currentlyhandling as many as 53 ongoing researchprojects.

The Sir Ratan Tata Trust funds have beenutilised to build capacity of both faculty andstudents by providing financial assistance forparticipation in national and internationalseminars and conferences. The Institute’slibrary, data bank, ICT and other infrastructurefacilities have been strengthened.

The ISEC Summer Internship Programmeand Social Science Talent Search Scheme are theongoing annual activities of the Institute, whichare partially supported by the SRTT funds forresearch capacity building. Every year, theProgramme has been attracting a large numberof applicants from all over India.

The Institute’s Journal of Social and EconomicDevelopment has attained its international statusover the years through publication of highquality research papers of scholars from Indiaand outside. From January 2015, our Journal isbeing co-published with Springer and the firstissue (January-June 2015) is already out. Thenew Editorial Board of the Journal comprises 26internationally renowned and distinguishedprofessors.

Our academic activities and institutionalgrowth in 2014-15 clearly demonstrate ourcontinued and determined efforts toprofessionally strengthen our contributions todevelopment through detailed study ofproblems and changes that are taking place insociety, economy and polity, especially inKarnataka and India.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that Iacknowledge the generous financial support

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being extended by the Government ofKarnataka, the Indian Council of Social ScienceResearch (ICSSR), the Union Ministry ofAgriculture, the Union Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare, Reserve Bank of India and SirRatan Tata Trust. Similarly, on the academicfront, we have close connection with severaluniversities and Institutions for affiliation in ourPhD Programme.

I am sure the sustained munificence andguidance of the President and members of ISECSociety, Board of Governors and the ungrudgingcooperation of all faculty members, staff andstudents will help us achieve greater success inevery activity of the Institute and accomplishour aims of global excellence in the near future.

Prof. K S JamesActing Director

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1. ISEC SOCIETY

PRESIDENT

His Excellency the Governor of Karnataka

Shri Hans Raj Bharadwaj – January 2013 to June 28, 2014Dr. K Rosaiah – June 29, 2014 to August 31, 2014

Shri Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala – from September 1, 2014

VICE-PRESIDENT

Prof. G Thimmaiah, Chairperson, Board of Governors (from January 09, 2013 to July 31, 2015)

Dr A Ravindra, IAS (Retd.) (since August 01, 2015)

Board of Governors 2013 - 15

ChairpersonProf. G Thimmaiah

(from January 09, 2013 to July 31, 2015)Dr. A. Ravindra IAS (Retd.)

(since August 1, 2015)

MembersProf. Abdul AzizProf. Sudarshan IyengarDr. Gopal K KadekodiProf. Kalpana KannabiranProf. K P KannanProf. C T KurienProf. S L RaoDr. A Ravindra, IAS (Retd.)Prof. S S Meenakshisundaram, IAS (Retd.)

Academic Staff RepresentativesProf. R MutharayappaDr. T N Bhat

Co-opted MembersProf. Anitha KurupProf. Sujata PatelDr. C Rammanohar ReddyProf. B Sheik Ali

ICSSR RepresentativeProf. Ramesh Dadhich,Member-Secretary, ICSSR

Ex-officio MembersSecretary/Additional Secretary/Joint SecretaryDepartment of Economic AffairsMinistry of Finance, GoI, New Delhi

Secretary/Additional Secretary/Joint SecretaryDepartment of EducationMinistry of Human Resource DevelopmentGoI, New Delhi

Shri I S N PrasadAdditional Chief Secretary to GovernmentFinance Department, Govt. of Karnataka

Dr. Rajnesh Goel, IAS (upto 26.1.2015)Shri Bharath Lal Meena, IAS (since 27.1.2015)Principal Secretary (Higher Education)Department of EducationGovernment of Karnataka

Smt. V ManjulaPrincipal SecretaryDepartment of Planning & Statistics,Government of Karnataka

Prof. B Thimme GowdaVice-ChancellorBangalore University

Prof. Binay Kumar PattnaikDirector(from August 21, 2013 to February 3, 2015)

Prof. M R Narayana, Director in Charge(from February 4, 2015 to August 16, 2015)

Prof. K S James, Acting Director(since August 17, 2015)Institute for Social and Economic Change

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2. ISEC Faculty / Staff

Prof. Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Director (from August 21, 2013 to February 3, 2015)

Prof. M R Narayana, Director in Charge (from February 4, 2015 to August 16, 2015)

Prof. K S James, Acting Director (since August 17, 2015)

Dr. I Maruthi, ADRTCDr. Veerasekharappa, CESPDr. Krishna Raj, CESPDr. M Devendra Babu, CDDDr. Elumalai Kannan, ADRTCDr. K S Umamani, CHRDDr. Padma Sarangapani, CHRD

(from 04.04.2013 to 18.07.2014)Dr. Ramappa K.B, ADRTCDr. S Manasi, CRUA

Adhoc Associate ProfessorDr. Anil Kumar .V, CPIGD

(from May 12, 2014 to April 11, 2015)

Assistant ProfessorsMs. B P Vani, CESPDr. T N Bhat, PRCDr. Anil Kumar .V, CPIGDDr. Lekha Subaiya, PRCDr. M Lingaraju, CHRDDr. Komol Singha, ADRTC (on EOL)Dr. Marchang Reimeingam, CSSCDDr. Sobin George, CSSCDDr. A V Manjunatha, ADRTCDr. Malini L Tantri, CESPDr. M Balasubramanian, CEENRDr. Barun Deb Pal, CESPDr. Indrajit Bairagya, CHRDDr. Qudsiya Contractor, CRUA

(from March 28, 2014 to June 17, 2014)Dr. K C Channamma, CWGS

ProfessorsDr. M R Narayana, CESPProf. S N Sangita, CPIGD (Retd)Dr. K V Raju, CEENR (on EOL)Dr. D Rajasekhar, CDDDr. K S James, PRCDr. Meenakshi Rajeev, CESPDr. S Madheswaran, CESPDr. Supriya RoyChowdhury, CPIGDDr. Parmod Kumar, ADRTCDr. Manohar S Yadav, CSSCDDr. R Mutharayappa, CWGSDr. Sunil Nautiyal, CEENRDr. Kala S Sridhar, CRUA

Sri R K Hegde Chair ProfessorProf. Siddharth Swaminathan

(from January 5, 2010 to June 23, 2014)

Adhoc ProfessorDr. K Gayithri, CESP

(since October 17, 2014)

Adjunct ProfessorDr. N Sivanna, CPIGDDr. M J Bhende, ADRTC (Retd)

Associate ProfessorsDr. Anand Inbanathan, CSSCDDr. K Gayithri, CESPDr. T S Syamala, PRCDr. C M Lakshmana, PRC

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V K R V Rao Chair ProfessorProf. David E Bloom (up to December 2014)

National Chair Professor, ICARProf. P G Chengappa

Honorary Visiting ProfessorsDr. P PadmanabhaProf. M S SwaminathanDr. R BharadwajProf. G ThimmaiahDr. P V ShenoiShri B K Bhattacharya, IAS (Retd)Prof. M V NadkarniProf. Ravi KanburProf. V R PanchamukhiProf. Abdul AzizProf. K SrinivasanProf. S S Meenakshisundaram, IAS (Retd)

DISTINGUISHED CHAIR PROFESSORS, VISITING PROFESSORS,NATIONAL AND SENIOR FELLOWS

NON-ACADEMIC STAFF

Prof. C S NagarajuDr. Maithreyi KrishnarajProf. Babu Nahata

Visiting ProfessorsDr. Giridhari Lal PanditShri K Jairaj, IAS (Retd.)Dr. S M Jamadar, IAS (Retd.)

ICSSR National FellowProf. R S Deshpande

ICSSR Senior FellowsDr. M Nageswara RaoDr. R G DesaiDr. M D Usha DeviDr. P J Dilip KumarDr. P Thippaiah

Administrative StaffGp. Capt. (Retd.) B K Das, RegistrarSmt. Sharadha K, Accounts OfficerMr. A N Ravi Shankar, Assistant RegistrarMr. B K Jagdish, Assistant RegistrarMr. M K Mohan Kumar, Assistant RegistrarMs. S Padmavathy, Assistant Registrar

PublicationsMr. E Vishnuvardhan Reddy, Associate Editor

Library StaffMr. B B Chand, Deputy LibrarianMs. K Leela, Sr. Assistant LibrarianMr. Pradeep V Hegde,

Assistant Librarian (Procurement)

Mr. Srinivasa K, DocumentalistMr. Shivakumar R M, Digital Library AnalystMr. Krishnappa S, Selection Grade AssistantMr. Siddaraju M S, Library Clerk

Technical StaffMr. A Sathish Kamath, System AnalystMr. P Prabhuswamy, Research AnalystMr. C Yogananda, Research AnalystMr. M Kusanna, Technical AssistantMr. R Krishna Chandran, Technical AssistantMr. Khalil M Shaha, Technical AssistantMr. Vinoth Chandra Rai, Senior Assistant (Sys.)

Estate ManagerMr. R G B P Naidu

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Senior Personal AssistantsMr. N S VasukiMr. V N VenkateshMr. S Arun KumarMs. B AkilaMr. B H ChandrashekaraMs. A Latha

Selection Grade AssistantsMs. M N Shantha KumariMr. T AmarnathMs. M HemalathaMs. R ShilpaMs. K SumaMs. J VimalaMs. Mohana Devi JMs. Shailaja Prabhakar

Sr. DTP AssistantMs. P M Arathi

Senior AssistantsMs. Sharmila K SMr. Vijay N MalaveMs. Sudha SMr. Karthik T M YMs. Sweatha MMs. Jyothi H RMs. Meghana B KesariMs. R RamyaMs. C G ChethanaMs. Archana Y

Assistants Grade IMr. T L N SwamyMs. M S NagavalliMr. N BoopathiMr S A Sudarshan

Despatch ClerkMr. B Suresha

SUPPORTING STAFF

DriversMr. G Srinivasa MurthyMr. Venkata HanumaiahMr. K S Prabhu

ElectricianMr. R Vasanth Kumar

AttendersMr. S RajannaMr. MallaiahMr. VenugopalMr. Rudresha HMr. Kumar L

Messengers / Gardeners / Sweepers / HelpersMr. V DevarajMr. Mahadeva MMr. NarasimhaiahMr. Srinivasa MMr. Renuka RMr. Shekhera K.C.Mr. MuthurajaMr. NatrajaMs. Ramamani M BMr. A RajaMs. Shobha TMr. Sudhakara P R

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3. ACADEMIC CENTRES

As envisaged in ISEC’s Vision 2010 document, eight ‘Centres’ have been carved out of the earlier‘Units’ by way of restructuring, strengthening multi-disciplinarity and enabling functional autonomy. Inaddition to these existing eight, two new Centres – Centre for Research in Urban Affairs (CRUA) andCentre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) – were set up last year (2013-14). A brief summary ofeach Centre’s thrust areas of research in terms of medium-term research perspective, and professionalachievements and activities during the year is given below. Details of their achievements and activitiesare listed at appropriate places in this report.

1. Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation Centre (ADRTC)

District Agricultural Planning: Capacity Buildingand Process Monitoring, sponsored by theKarnataka Government; Institutional Structure andPerformance of Agriculture in North-East India,funded by ICSSR, New Delhi; Assessment of Pre-and Post-Harvest Losses of Important Crops inIndia, and Impact Evaluation of Rashtriya KrishiVikas Yojana - Report 2 (Sectoral Report). TheCentre’s faculty actively participated in variousdialogues on the contemporary issues andorganised workshops and conferences at variouslevels. The faculty members also widelyparticipated and disseminated their knowledge inthe various seminars, workshops organised by theagricultural societies, universities and variousother government and non-government bodies.They are also widely involved in various trainingprogrammes, publications of books, monographs,journal articles, working papers and policy briefs.The Centre completed six projects during the year.

The important ongoing projects of the Centreare: Adoption of Recommended Doses of Fertilizeron Soil Test Basis by Farmers; Impact of NationalFood Security Mission on Input Use, Production,Productivity and Income; Documentation ofSuccess Stories of Food Processing Units inKarnataka; The Relationship between WholesalePrices, Retail Prices, Export Prices and PricesRealized by the Farmers. These projects are funded

Agricultural Development and RuralTransformation Centre (ADRTC) was establishedin 1972 with the objective of providing continuouspolicy feedback to the Ministry of Agriculture,Government of India, and hence adheres largelyto the research agenda of the Ministry. The Centreis a part of the scheme being implemented by theDirectorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry ofAgriculture, and is required to provide concurrentpolicy feedback to the Ministry on variousimportant policy issues. However, keeping in viewthe commitments of the Institute and the broadervision, the faculty of ADRTC have been able tofocus on several issues in agricultural developmentat the State and country levels. The Centre hasbeen expanding its research agenda towards thenational scale, while the commitment to Karnatakacontinues.

Achievements

During 2014-15, the ADRT Centre completeda number of studies covering a wide range ofthemes such as Evaluation Programme ofKarnataka State Literacy Mission Authority,funded by the Government of Karnataka; ImpactAssessment of Prime Minister’s RehabilitationPackage for Farmers in Suicide-Prone Districts ofKarnataka (PMRP), sponsored by the KarnatakaState Department of Agriculture; Comprehensive

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by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation.The other projects funded by various otheragencies include Changing Food ConsumptionPattern in India: Opportunities for Diversificationtowards High Value Commodities throughProduction and Marketing Linkages; Outlook onAgriculture, Value Chains for SustainableConservation, Integrated Development andLivelihood Promotion: An Application to ButterflyFarming in India; Socio-Economic ImpactAssessment of Living Micro Organisms (LMOs),Assessment of Socio-Economic Capabilities of DalitHouseholds in Karnataka, Impact Evaluation ofBhoochetana Programme in Karnataka and India-Canada Pulses Trade: Prospects and Challenges,funded by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI),Canada.

The Centre’s faculty members have writtenfour books during the year: Changing Face of IndianAgriculture (Edited), Routledge Taylor & FrancisGroup; Economic Growth, Trade and Poverty: AComparative Analysis of India and China (Edited),Konark Publishers, New Delhi; Socioeconomic andEnvironmental Implications of Agricultural ResidueBurning: A Case Study of Punjab, India, Springer;Identity, Contestation and Development in North-eastIndia, Routledge, New Delhi. In addition, thefaculty members published 18 quality papers in

various refereed journals of national andinternational repute, eight papers in edited booksand some popular papers in magazines and fourworking papers apart from delivering key-noteaddresses and invited lectures.

The Centre conducted an Inception workshopon ‘Impact Evaluation of Bhoochetana Programmein Karnataka’, organized a Policy Dialogue on theFuture of Coffee-Based Economy of Kodagu;organized a Brainstorming Session (BSS) onMonitoring and Evaluation of AgriculturalResearch, Education and Extension forDevelopment (AREE4D) in collaboration withNational Academy of Agricultural Sciences; and aworkshop on “Developing Guidelines andMethodologies for Socio-economic Assessment ofLMOs. The Centre is collaborating with Universityof Glasgow for developing proposal to undertakejoint studies. Our faculty has attended Symposiumon ‘Converging Policies and Programmes forSustainable and Climate Resilient Agriculture’ atHector Kobbedaduwa Agrarian Research andTanning Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, andanother faculty was nominated as India ChairProfessor at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China,on deputation by ICCR, New Delhi, for twomonths.

decentralised local governance, improvedresponsiveness and participation; the second setfocuses on the extent to which people, includingthe poor, seized the new opportunities providedand benefited from decentralisation efforts. TheCentre also takes up research studies onparticipation of people, voices of the poor, elitecapture, cooption, etc.

AchievementsDuring 2014-15, the following six research

projects were handled at the Centre: 1) Improving

2. Centre for Decentralisation and Development (CDD)

The Centre for Decentralisation andDevelopment undertakes multidisciplinaryresearch on issues relating to fiscal, political andadministrative decentralisation. The Centre’smission is to support and further thedecentralisation efforts of the government, donorsand civil society institutions and people throughpolicy-oriented research, dissemination andcapacity-building initiatives.

The research studies undertaken at the Centrefall into two broad categories: The first set ofstudies centres on reform of state agencies towards

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the Delivery of Social Security Benefits inKarnataka, 2) Improving Institutions for Pro-PoorGrowth, 3) Institutions, Governance andDevelopment: A Study of Selected GramaPanchayats in Karnataka, 4) District HumanDevelopment Report for Ramanagara, 5) DistrictHuman Development Report for Chikballapura,and 6) Decentralisation and Social Security: AStudy of Single-Window Service Centres forUnorganised Workers. Of these, the first one iscompleted, the next four (No. 2 to 5) are ongoingprojects and the last one was initiated during thisyear. Barring one project (No.3), all the projects areexternally sponsored projects.

The Centre has undertaken an evaluationstudy of the pilot project on ‘Single-windowservice centres and access to social security benefitsamong unorganised workers in Karnataka’ forKarnataka government and German InternationalCooperation (GIZ). The study found that single-window service centres, embedded in decentra-lised government, have significantly improved theknowledge on and access to social securityschemes among unorganised worker householdsin the villages where the centres were set up ascompared to the ones where they were not set up.The study influenced the Karnataka governmentto expand the project to one taluk in all theremaining districts in the state, and the expandedproject is now being implemented.

The faculty and staff members of the Centredisseminate their research findings as academicarticles and by making presentations in seminars/workshops. During the year 2014-15, two journalarticles [i) Rural Local Government Finance in SouthIndian States, and ii) Is There a Case to Extend SocialPension Schemes to all Unorganised Workers? Evidencefrom Karnataka] were published. Members of theCentre have participated/ presented papers in 8seminars.

During 2014-15, the Centre organised atraining programme for the Zilla Panchayatmembers from different districts of Karnataka

during August 20-21, 2014. The training topicscovered were: The need for decentralization,Leadership qualities, Governance — roles andresponsibilities, Management of finances, Planningand implementation of programmes/schemes.Another training programme on ‘InclusiveBanking for Rural and Agricultural Development’was organized by the CDD and Centre forEconomic Studies and Policy (CESP) together withCentre for International Cooperation and Trainingin Agricultural Banking (CICTAB), Pune, andNational Institute of Bank Management (NIBM),Pune, during January 5-8, 2015. In all, 18participants from SAARC countries such asBangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and India attendedthe training programme.

Current activitiesCurrently, the Centre is involved in five

research projects. As part of a research project onImproving Institutions for Pro-poor Growth, incollaboration with the University of Oxford andthe London School of Economics, the Centre hasundertaken a randomised experiment onInformation and Service Delivery in MGNREGS ina large number of villages in Karnataka. TheCentre is also involved in a research project on‘Decentralisation and Education’ in collaborationwith the University of Bristol, UK. The Centre isalso helping the Karnataka government in thepreparation of human development reports forRamanagara and Chikballapur districts. Anotherstudy on Decentralisation and Social Security: A Studyof Single-Window Service Centres for UnorganisedWorkers undertaken by the Centre seeks to find outthe the extent to which single-window servicecentres (set up in Karnataka by the Department ofLabour and German International Cooperation ona pilot basis) with GP secretaries as facilitatorsimprove awareness of and access to governmentsocial security schemes.

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AchievementsContinuing its focus on economic, sociological

and institutional aspects of management of naturalresources, the Centre has been participating inpublic dialogues and organizing workshops,seminars and conferences to disseminateknowledge and ideas. The faculty members havealso been actively involved in capacity building,training and publication of books, monographs,journal articles, working papers and policy briefs.

During the last year, CEENR completed sevenresearch projects sponsored by international andnational agencies and the Central and Stategovernments. CEENR organized two internationalconferences, one Field School Programme for theresearchers of the University of Sydney incoordination with Karnataka Forest Department.ISEC-NCI International Course on ‘Approachingthe Environment in India – Issues and Methods inthe Study of the Nature-Economy-SocietyInterface’ organized by CEENR at ISEC from July6, 2014 to August 2, 2014. Students from variousuniversities in Nordic countries, namely, Denmark,Sweden, Finland and Norway, participated in theinternational course. CEENR faculty/researchersalso presented papers and participated inInternational Conferences and meetings in Indiaand abroad. Besides, the CEENR faculty haveprepared and submitted research proposals ondiverse themes such as Economic value of urbanecosystems, Climate change and carbon budgeting,Resource conservation and local livelihood,Assessment of structural and functionalcharacteristics of vegetation etc.

Current ActivitiesThe CEENR has the following ongoing

projects: (a) Accounting for Urban EcosystemServices (b) Environmental Governance in India:An empirical study or urban landscape andregional levels (c) Ecology and Culture: AncientRoots and New Views; (d) Towards Improving

3. Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR)

ISEC was the first institute to establish aseparate Ecological Economics Unit in the country,now renamed Centre for Ecological Economics andNatural Resources (CEENR), as far back as in 1981which testifies to the vision of its founding fathers.The mandate of the Centre is to analyse theinterface between economics, ecology andinstitutions, the trade-off between growth and theenvironment, and to evolve an appropriatestrategy for the sustainable use and managementof natural resources.

Research AgendaWith ecological issues of development

coming to the fore, the Centre has emerged as animportant focal point to analyse and identifyvarious policy alternatives relating to sustainabledevelopment. The CEENR seeks to work towardsbuilding knowledge systems and capacities toinfluence policy and actions to improve rural andurban livelihoods and promote development in asustainable manner. Studies on sustainabledevelopment and the sustainable use andmanagement of natural resources have been amajor focus of the research activities of CEENR.Accordingly, the Centre strives to work onfrontline issues such as: (a) Natural resource useand management, (b) Biodiversity conservation, (c)Economics of biodiversity conservation andinstitutional alternatives, (d) Valuing ecosystemservices, (e) Green Accounting, Natural Resourceand Environmental Economics, (f) Economicgrowth, resource depletion and pollution, (g)Urban ecology, (h) Integrated water resourcesmanagement, and water quality issues, (i)Sustainable rural development, production systemanalysis, land use/land cover analysis (j) Climatechange and its impact on socio-ecological systems– mitigation and adaptation, (k) Protected areamanagement, (l) GIS and remote sensing inlandscape research and ecological modeling, (m)Medicinal plants cultivation and livelihooddevelopment (n) Capacity building and outreach.

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Rural Sanitation Management and Performance inKarnataka; (e) Eco-diversity study in and aroundthe BARC Project site at Challakere, ChitradurgaDistrict, Karnataka, (f) Livelihoods, Vulnerabilityand Adaptation Strategies to Climate Variabilityand Change (g) Conservation of Agro-biodiversityand ecosystem management: A study in Indianagroclimatic sub-zones.

4. Centre for Economic Studies and Policies (CESP)

The Centre for Economic Studies and Policycarries out not only teaching and policy research,but also conducts training programmes for officers,who are involved in policy decision. The Centre’sresearch is both theoretical and empirical in its coreresearch areas. The major thrust areas of the Centreinclude themes from Public Economics, bankingand finance, infrastructure, national incometransfer accounts for India, trade, services sector,labour and informal sector, public utilities andtheir pricing etc. The Centre’s research has for longrevolved around the themes of current importanceand are policy intense. This focus would continuein future too. The current research agenda of theCentre includes topical themes such as financialcommitment on universal old age pension andhealth insurance for the poor, an emerging area inthe context of rapid urbanization trends noted inIndia. In the international context, the issuesexamined include Regional Disparities, IndustrialDevelopment and Inclusive Growth in Indiafocusing on sub-theme such as role of servicessector in generating income and employment inIndia. A socio-economic analysis of increasingresilience of Coffee Production to Leaf Rust Diseaseis another area of study in the internationalcontext. On the policy front, financial sectorreforms have brought several changes to theIndian banking sector, money market and capitalmarket. Currently research activities are focusedon understanding the linkage between the farmand non-farm sectors in India and how to improvethe performance of the non-farm sector. In

addition, current research also involvesunderstanding the value chain in internationaltrade in selected commodities in India.

It has been examined that without financialinclusion there is no inclusive growth: in thiscontext livelihood security through financial accessis successfully implemented by variousorganisations. Special Economic zones are makingsignificant contribution in the development ofdifferent sectors across India. The special zoneshave making significant contribution in tradefacilitation and trade performance. Urbanindebtedness among the poor is increasing, due tolarge scale migration to urban areas from rural.The designed inclusive finance programme forurban poor is still insignificant.

Pricing of the public utilities are going to behigh priority. The cost involved in provision publicutilities involved very substantial. If not recoveringfull cost, state needs at least maintenance theservices. In recent years there many servicesprovided with public and private participationwith objective of recovering the investment madeon it. In the medium term, faculty have involvedin pricing of such utilities.

Current research activities on public financeinclude estimation of sustainability of fiscal policiesin the context of expected reforms on universal oldage pension and health coverage policies, acomprehensive evaluation of Karnataka statefinances for the state’s performance under the

The Centre has expanded its research horizonto new areas such as Climate change –development of vulnerability index, The greengross domestic product, Valuation of ecosystemservices, Mapping and monitoring of bio-resourcesetc.

Five scholars are pursuing PhD in the Centre.Last year the CEENR faculty members supervised3 intern students.

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5. Centre for Human Resource Development (CHRD)

revenue and expenditure heads. Estimation ofrevenue capacity and measures to improve taxrevenue and non-tax revenue formed a part of therevenue analysis. The research included analysisof usefulness of public expenditure that wasreviewed based on key categories such asdevelopment/non-development; plan/non-planetc. Analysis of state’s debt position, performanceof public sector enterprises, subsidies and theirgrowth in particular that of the power sector wasa part of the study. Public expenditure andfinancial management reforms, state’s transfers tourban and local bodies etc., were dealt with in theresearch.

Research on financing human development inKarnataka makes an attempt to study issuesrelated to state finances in Karnataka and thechallenges therein for human development andfinancing of plan. The study examines the humandevelopment achievements in Karnataka inrelation to other states. Analysis of trends inexpenditure on human development is beingundertaken to understand the state’s role inpromoting human development. Strategies forraising possible additional resources needed toachieve the targets set for the Twelfth Plan and theMillennium Development Goals will be proposed.

The Centre is involved extensively in ISEC’sPhD programme. The courses taught by the Centreare Economics and Basic Statistics for non-economics students, the curriculum being entirelydesigned and implemented by the Centre. TheCentre’s faculty have collaborated studies abroad

and visited universities across USA, Canada, SriLanka, China. They have also been serving asvisiting professors abroad as ICRR visitingprofessors.

The Centre’s academic pursuits during thelast academic year include conducting of around20 research projects largely sponsored by externalagencies. As on date about 30 projects arecompleted; a couple of reports are in the draft stageand six projects are just initiated. The Centre’sfaculty have published many working papers,several monographs and a couple of edited books.In addition, a number of articles were publishedin national and international journals.

The Centre has completed a study on BMRCL(Bangalore Metro) project entitled ‘Fare Fixation ofBangalore Metro Rail’ and the BBMP RestructuringCommittee has assigned a research study on‘Bangalore Region Finances: A Design forRestructuring’.

The Centre conducted a 10-day trainingcourse in Applied Econometrics for ISS Proba-tionary Officers during April 23- May 2, 2015, incollaboration with National Statistical SystemsTraining Academy (NSSTA/NASA), CentralStatistical Office, Government of India, New Delhi,at ISEC. Further, the Centre organized aSymposium on the ‘Recommendations of the 14th

Finance Commission’ on April 28, 2015. Every yeara training programme is organised by the Centre’sfaculty members for IAS and IPS probationers withthe sponsorship of DP&AR, Government ofKarnataka.

The Centre for Human ResourceDevelopment emerged as the newly titled unit in2006 with the idea of making it to be inter-disciplinary. Earlier, it functioned as ‘EducationUnit’. The primary objective of re-naming the unitwas not merely to make the unit inter-disciplinarybut to widen the range of its scope. The Centre

focuses on education and human resource throughresearch, extension, training and consultation in itsattempt to contribute towards knowledge creation,public policy, reform and revitalization of publicinstitutions and professionals.

The Centre is actively involved in the PhDprogramme of the institute. The faculty of the

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Centre are instrumental in designing andimparting of the pre-PhD courses for Part A andB curriculum of the Education discipline. A facultymember visited Germany to participate as anYoung Economist in the 5th Lindau Meeting of theWinners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize inEconomic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.The Centre’s faculty are actively involved indelivering lectures in ISECs training programmes,and guest lecturers in various colleges andinstitutions in Bangalore. All the faculty membershave presented papers at various places, bothwithin and outside the country. Among the notablepublications of the faculty are a book fromRoutledge-Taylor & Francis Group (London /New York), two edited volumes from NootanPublications, Varanasi (UP) and AnkanahalliPrakashana, Ramanagara. In addition, severalresearch papers have been published in reputedjournals and edited volumes.

The Centre continued the monitoring of theSarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Mid-Day Meal(MDM) Programme in 16 districts of Karnataka, asa nodal agency appointed by MHRD, New Delhi.A faculty member was nominated to State JointReview Mission for the Mid-Day Meal scheme. Thepurpose was to review the fund flow from Stateto Schools/Cooking agencies, to examine themanagement and to analyse monitoring of thescheme. Another aspect examined was the

working of School Health Programme to make itqualitatively distinct and beneficial to the children.

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre fundeda project, ‘Demographic and Health Survey aroundthe Proposed Site for Special Materials Facility atChallakere, Chitradurga, in Karnataka’. Theproject, completed in 2014, has brought out thebaseline data on fertility, mortality and migrationin the area. The documented health scenario of thearea in terms of common diseases prevalent, lifestyle habits etc. is likely to facilitate BARC informulating relevant programmes in the area forits future development.

The ongoing projects of the Centre include: (a)Educated Unemployment in India: Causes,Consequences and Remedies, and (b) Status ofEnvironmental Education at School Level: CaseStudy of Hebbal Cluster, Bangalore.

The Centre’s faculty coordinated the SocialScience Talent Search Scheme (SSTSS), which is anon-going programme initiated by ISEC in 2011, incollaboration with Bangalore University and ChristUniversity for pre-degree students. Theprogramme supports and sustains interest amongsocial science students to pursue higher educationin different disciplines of social science.

The Centre is keen to undertake work in thenewly emerging areas of education and humanresource enrichment.

6. Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development (CPIGD)

The Centre’s main focus has been on issuesof Governance (relating to public policies and theirimpact), and in this regard we have looked at bothdevelopmental and distributional governance. Theother important dimension of research in theCentre has been a sustained focus on the PoliticalEconomy of Development, looking particularly atissues of exclusion and inclusion in the context ofboth rural and urban development. Over the yearsthe Centre has also addressed issues concerning

the study of social and economic change from thepolitical and governance perspective, humandevelopment, empowerment of sociallydisadvantaged groups, planning, decentralisedgovernance, political and administrativeleadership, federalism and good governance. TheCentre’s perspective and research agenda hasalways been dynamic and seeks to orient itself tothe context in which political institutions function,whether this milieu is defined by globalisation,

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democratic decentralisation, new social andpolitical movements or technological revolution(information and communication technology).Such studies have placed emphasis on both theoryand empirics to ensure rigour in our research andto make it relevant to the policy makers andscholars.

AchievementsDuring the year (April 2014-March 2015), the

faculty of the Centre have worked on severalprojects covering a wide range of themes, havingboth theoretical, empirical and policy implications.The projects undertaken are: Globalisation,Democratic Politics and Inclusive Governance inIndia; Urban Governance Policy and Planning inKarnataka and Andhra Pradesh; GovernanceReforms in Infrastructure in India: Initiatives andOutcomes; Work and Workers in the New ServiceEconomy; Preparation of Human DevelopmentReport for Davanagere District, Urban Governanceand Local Democracy in Karnataka and AndhraPradesh; and A Philosophy of Action: HannahArendt and Modernity. Some of the above projectsare sponsored by different organisations andgovernments like the ILO, ICSSR, and theGovernment of Karnataka.

The faculty members have published severalresearch articles in refereed journals, monographsand working papers covering areas such asPolitical Regimes, Decentralised Governance andSocial Security in Southern States; WhitherDecentralisation in India: An interesting Story ofan Unwanted Child; Interface of Local and HigherGovernments: Nation Building and InclusiveGrowth in Theory and Practice in India; BringingClass Back in: Informality in Bangalore; Studies inIndian Politics Political Decentralisation andEconomic Reforms in South India: An unevenEquation?; Decentralised Governance and NationalIntegration in India; The Panchayat and WomenEmpowerment, Political Representation ofScheduled Castes in Karnataka; Politics ofExclusion: The Case of Scheduled Castes in thePanchayats of Karnataka; Urban Governance,

Urban Poverty and; a manuscript- DecentralisedDemocracy – Gandhi’s Vision and Indian Reality(published by Oxford University Press).

Apart from engaging actively in undertakingproject-related work and publishing researcharticles, the faculty have also presented papers inseminars and conferences, gave keynote andpresidential addresses, deliverered special lecturesand served as special discussants and panelists.The presentations made in national andinternational seminars and conferences related tothemes concerning new paradigms in labourstudies, human development and inclusivegrowth, urban informality and the politics ofwelfare, deliberative democracy and inclusivegovernance, emerging issues of urban politicaleconomy, new paradigms of labour relations, basicservices approach to urban poverty anddeliberative local democracy. It is significant tonote that some of these seminars, conferences,workshops and lectures were organised by UNDP,University of California and IGIDR, Mumbai;NIAS, Bangalore; Sydney University, Australia;Centre for South Asian Studies; NationalUniversity of Singapore; Azim Premzi University;Gandhigram University; the Government ofKarnataka; NLSUI, Bangalore; ISS, New Delhi;ICSSR and the University of Lausanne,Switzerland; the University of Goa and IRMA.

All the faculty members of the Centre havebeen involved in guiding PhD students, pre-PhDcoordination and teaching assignments. They alsoserve as doctoral committee members for a numberof students across centres in the institution and inother renowned universities of India as well. TheCentre’s faculty have the distinction of serving inmany high-powered committees of theGovernment of Karnataka and professional bodies.Added to this, currently, there are 10 doctoralstudents affiliated to the Centre who areresearching a wide range of issues for theirdoctoral theses.

The Centre is planning to undertake research,teaching and training activities in areas such as

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The Centre for Research in Urban Affairs wasset up in March 2014, keeping in view the growingglobal challenges in the urban arena, since morethan half of the world’s population has nowstarted living in urban areas, and this is a uniquepart of the social and economic change takingplace across globally. The CRUA has been createdat ISEC, recognizing the need for research onurban policy so that the results are translated intotangible urban reform outcomes, and the need forintegrated and interdisciplinary research to beconducted in the urban context with theforthcoming challenges.

The CRUA is uniquely positioned withinISEC and the country as a whole, to offer coursesin basic urban and regional economics, given theexpertise of the CRUA faculty. This is an upcomingarea of research in India and other emergingcountries, which has not been taught or researchedextensively in the context of India. The CRUAfaculty members have published extensively ininternationally renowned journals such asRegional Science and Urban Economics, UrbanStudies. The Centre thus enjoys the uniqueadvantage to offer courses as part of ISEC’s PhDprogramme in urban studies, and provide themguidance for their research on these issues.

The thrust areas of the Centre are land useregulations and their impacts on urban form andplanning, economic impacts of climate change inIndia’s cities, urban ecology focusing on access tosanitation, waste management and implications onenvironment, water resources management withfocus on water conservation and reuse, empiricaltests of the ‘Make in India’ policy campaign froma regional viewpoint, suburbanization of India’scities, and the innovative use of tools such as

development politics, globalisation, democraticdecentralisation, rights, labour, governance(political, administrative, rural urban, sectoral and

7. Centre for Research in Urban Affairs (CRUA)

geographic information systems to solve cities’pressing problems, be it with respect to finances,or the provision of basic public services.

The achievements of the newly createdCentre include its designing of four new PhD-levelcourses in urban and regional economic studiesduring the first year of its creation in 2014. TheCentre has a sincere and motivated full-time PhDstudent enrolled, who is well on his way towardsa dissertation proposal, after having completed hiscourse work.

Another unique accomplishment of the infantCentre is that it is about to complete a pilot projecton the Bangalore city surveys. The original studywas done by VLS Prakasha Rao and Tiwari in1979; the pilot study has been completed with seedmoney from ISEC’s Research ProgrammesCommittee, which the Centre hopes to leverage toget additional funding to scale up to the entiremetropolitan area. Another ongoing project at theCentre is on urban sanitation, focusing on its accessto the urban poor, taking the case of Bangalore,funded by the Human Settlements ResearchInstitute, Government of India.

In terms of publications, there are a largenumber of completed research monographs byCRUA faculty and publications in internationallyrenowned, peer-reviewed journals, and collabo-rating with internationally renowned researchersin the area. The Centre’s faculty members arereviewers for several reputed national andinternational urban journals. A highlight is thatCRUA has been quite prominent in the nationalmedia and financial dailies. The Centre’s facultymembers have a high reputation with peerorganizations such as the National Institute of

electronic) and ethics in public life in the ensuingmonths.

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Urban Affairs, National Institute of RuralDevelopment and Panchayati Raj, Centre for RuralUrban Dynamics, Institute of Rural Management,Centre for Urban Policy and Governance, TataInstitute of Social Sciences (TISS), Embarq India,and international organizations such as the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB) and the MetropolisWorld Congress, which have invited CRUA facultyto speak at various fora. Besides, there are alreadyinvitations to the infant Centre to collaborate fromorganizations and think-tanks which work onurban issues – such as the Chennai-based AthenaInfonomics, the Delhi-based Hazards Centre, andinternationally from the Institute of South AsianStudies, National University of Singapore, andUniversity of Eastern Piedmont, Italy.

The Centre’s faculty are constantlyendeavouring to take its research to a new level.Currently a large number of proposals – on urbansanitation, solid waste management, climatechange – are under review with various donors,funding agencies and the government for possiblefunding support. Given that this is an emergingand fertile area which has now received theattention it deserves, the Centre is hopeful ofbecoming a unique think-tank in the country,working and collaborating on cutting-edge urbanresearch, which would contribute to substantiveurban policy impact.

8. Centre for Study of Social Change and Development (CSSCD)

The CSSCD has been engaged in research ofdiverse subjects, keeping in view the researchinterests of the faculty of the Centre, as well as therequirements of ISEC and those of the sponsors ofstudies. In addition to the research activities, thefaculty members were engaged in teaching coursesin the PhD programme, giving a number oflectures in ISEC training programmes, and indelivering guest lectures in various institutions inBangalore and elsewhere in Karnataka and India.They also participated in and presented seminarsat several places both within the country andoutside.

The studies that have been taken up andcontinued during 2014-2015 include; i) Impact ofEducation and Employment on the Economy ofScheduled Tribes of North-East India; ii)Discrimination and Patterns of Health-SeekingBehaviour of Dalit and Muslim Communities inSelected Villages of Karnataka; iv) GramPanchayats in Karnataka: Reservation andParticipation of Representatives.

Completed StudiesTwo projects were completed during the year:

i) A Comprehensive Study on the Status ofScheduled Castes in Karnataka, and ii) Manipur’sAcculturation to Korean Culture.

Other Academic ActivitiesThe PhD programme is an important

component of the faculty’s activities. In additionto two courses in Sociology that have beenundertaken in each term, in Part A and Part B,there is also a common course (Methodology)coordinated by two of the faculty members of theCentre. The Centre has eight students who are invarious stages of work in their PhD research. Oneof the students presented pre-submission seminarand is on the verge of completing the PhD thesis.In addition, the Centre has selected four newstudents under the sociology course during theyear 2014-15. They have successfully completedtheir PhD course work and have started workingon the respective topics of their PhD.

Several articles, authored by the Centre’sfaculty, have figured as publications in the journalsand edited books during the year. In addition tothese, faculty members have also contributed andparticipated in seminars and conferences held in

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various parts of the country. A Certificate Courseon Methods and Applications in Social ScienceResearch was also organized and coordinated bythe Centre’s faculty.

The Centre has collaboration with theDepartment of Sociology of Christ University,Bangalore, for Joint Research Projects, particularlyin intra-/inter-disciplinary areas in the field ofSocial Sciences and also for validation and deliveryof the doctoral programmes in the field of SocialSciences.

The Centre’s faculty members were alsoassociated with several colleges and universities inBangalore and in and outside Karnataka, as Boardof Studies members, Board of Examiners membersand one of the faculty has been serving as anExpert Committee member nominated by theministry of Social Welfare, Government ofKarnataka, to monitor and evaluate researchprojects/works carried out at the Tribal ResearchInstitute, Mysore, Government of Karnataka.

9. Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS)

Perspective

The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies,established at ISEC last year, is actively engagedin research relating to contemporary issues ofgender and health, and, women and work in India.The main objectives of the CWGS is to conduct andpromote research that will advance theunderstanding and knowledge of women andgender issues in relation to the social, economic,political and other changes that have a bearing ontheir lives. Secondly, the Centre strives to identifythe gaps in the existing knowledge of women andgender, and thereby contribute to the feministmethodology. The strength of the Centre is theavailability of expertise and research skillsgrounded in feminist theory and knowledge aswell as its capacity to provide training for variousstake-holders on gender issues.

The current research of the CWGS includes:i) consequences of adolescent child bearing, ii)

women’s work in informal sectors and iii)reproductive health of women.

Activities during the yearCWGS has completed two projects: one on

‘Women autonomy and fertility preferences’ andanother on ‘Consequences of adolescent childbearing’. The faculty of the Centre have publishedresearch papers in various refereed national andinternational journals and also brought out ISECWorking Papers. CWGS has organised a nationalseminar on ‘Women empowerment: A strategy fordevelopment’ and published a seminar volume asa book. More importantly, ICSSR has sanctioneda project on ‘Reproductive health of women’ forthe current year and the project is under progress.The Centre’s faculty delivered lectures on genderissues in the research methodology coursesconducted by various universities and researchinstitutes and also presented papers in seminarsand conferences.

10. Population Research Centre (PRC)

PerspectiveThe major objectives of the PRC are to

conduct and promote research in populationstudies and to assist the Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India,

New Delhi, as well as the Department of Healthand Family Welfare (DHFW), Government ofKarnataka, with policy inputs and feedback onpopulation, health and gender issues. The Centrealso conducts training including the doctoral

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particular. Research on the inter-linkages betweengender and health, population, development andenvironment are the important research areas offocus which was given attention at the Centre.

One of the main objectives of PRC is toprovide policy and programmatic inputs to theMinistry of Health and Family Welfare. In view ofthis, PRC has been actively involved in monitoringthe Programme Implementation Plan (PIP) underNational Rural Health Mission (NRHM). District-level implementation of PIPs in two districts ofKarnataka and 10 districts of Jharkhand have beencompleted during the year. At the same time, thePRC is also involved in ensuring the quality of thelarge-scale data collected in India under HealthManagement Information System (HMIS)sponsored by the Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare. The PRC regularly evaluates and reportson the quality of HMIS data in Karnataka to helpthe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, as wellas to the Department of Health and Family Welfare(DHFW), Government of Karnataka (GoK), inorder to strengthen quality and good data systemson various health issues in HMIS.

During the year, the Centre also provideddoctoral (PhD) training programme andemphasised research using demographic tools andtechniques grounded in population theory andknowledge. In addition, PRC conducts short-termtraining programmes on various demographicissues and techniques for students and early careerresearchers.

PRC maintains a strong relationship with theDepartment of Health and Family Welfare(DHFW), Government of Karnataka. Regularmeetings are held with the DHFW and RegionalDirector, MoHFW, Bangalore, to disseminateimportant findings from the studies undertaken atthe PRC. The findings of research conducted at thePRC are disseminated through publications byindividual faculty members in edited books,journal articles and working papers. In the last fewyears the PRC members regularly attended andpresented their research at national and

training programme in population and healthstudies. The PRC is actively engaged in researchrelating to contemporary issues of demographicchange, health and aging issues of India as well asthe linkages of population, development andenvironment with reference to India. Currently thecentre has continued with monitoring of PIP underNational Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and alsochecking the quality of HMIS data of Karnatakawhich has been uploading to the HMIS portal onmonthly basis.

Activities during the YearThe PRC is involved in a long-term collabora-

tion with the United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA), the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG),Delhi, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), Mumbai, on a research study entitled‘Building a Knowledge Base on Population Ageingin India (BKPAI)’. Three are four reports have beencompleted under this project highlighting elderlyissues with regard to social security and health.PRC is also involved in two other collaborativelong-term research studies on ageing. The firststudy is on ‘Ageing and Well-Being in a GlobalisedWorld’ as part of the Indo-European ResearchProject in collaboration with the University ofGroningen, the Netherlands; the University ofSouthampton, UK; and the Centre forDevelopment Studies (CDS), Trivandrum. Bycomparing the demographic scenarios of India, theUnited Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands, andlinking them to ageing and social policy, this studyaims to bring out comparable policy-relevantresearch papers.

PRC is also involved in the research study onassessing quality of civil registration systems (CRS)data at the district level on a regular basis forfacilitating updating exercise of National Popula-tion Register (NPR) in collaboration with UNFPAand JNU, New Delhi. As a part of this study, thefirst report has been completed during the year.PRC research work also investigates and highlightsthe recent trend of urbanization and its disparitiesacross the states in general and Karnataka state in

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international conferences including annualmeetings of the Indian Association for the Studyof Population (IASP), the Population Associationof America (PAA) and the International Union forthe Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), AsianPopulation Association (APA), and EuropeanAssociation of Population Studies (EAPS).

During the year 2014-2015, PRC alsoprovided the platform for the international

scholars to discuss the complex issues ofpopulation, development and environment inholding two-day international seminar on Globalissues of Population, Development andEnvironment. PRC also organized the CensusDissemination Seminar jointly with the Census ofIndia, Karnataka. This has provided theopportunity for young scholars to explore theircareers in research using 2011 census data.

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1. Baseline Data on Area, Production andProductivity of Horticulture Crops in NorthEast and Himalayan States (Dr Komol Singhand Dr P Thippaiah)

2. Problems and Prospects of SunflowerProduction in Karnataka (Dr Komol Singhaand Prof Parmod Kumar)

3. Improving Access to Social Security Benefitsamong Unorganized Workersin Karnataka (Prof D Rajasekhar)

4. Assessing the Environmental Burden ofdisease of air pollution: A Case Study ofTwo Metropolitan Cities – Bangalore andHyderabad (Dr Syed Ajmal Pasha)

5. Socio-Economic Vulnerability ProfileDevelopment at the District and Block(Taluk) Level for Karnataka (Prof K V Raju)

6. Socio-Economic Analysis of IncreasingResilience of Coffee Production to LRD(Prof M R Narayana)

7. Globalization and India: Issues on RegionalDisparity, Industrial Development, SectoralPerformance, Trade and Environment (ProfMeenakshi Rajeev, Prof R S Deshpande andDr Sunil Nautiyal)

8. Evaluation Study on Impact and Advantagesof Various Services with a Particular Focuson the Help Desk initiated by KSNDMC (DrAditya Chavali and Dr V Ramaswamy)

9. Third Party Evaluation Study of VGSTProgrammes (Dr Aditya Chavali)

10. Evaluation Study of Saakshar BharathProgramme in Karnataka (Dr AdityaChavali)

11. Livelihood Security through FinancialAccess (An Assessment of VIRF-IDF PovertyAlleviation) (Dr Veerashekharappa and MsB P Vani)

12. Monitoring of PIP on Monthly Basis in theDistricts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh(Dr C M Lakshmana and PRC Team)

13. Assessment of Pre- and Post-Harvest Lossesof Important Crops in India (Dr ElumalaiKannan, Prof Parmod Kumar)

14. Improving the Delivery of Social SecurityBenefits in Karnataka (Prof D Rajasekhar)

15. Land Policy and Administration (Dr ManasiS, Dr R G Nadadur, Prof P G Chengappa andProf N Sivanna)

16. Eco-diversity Study in and around theBARC Project Site at Challakere,Chitradurga District, Karnataka (Prof SunilNautiyal)

17. Manipur’s Acculturation to Korean Culture(Dr Marchang Reimeingam)

18. Enabling tribal communities to improveLivelihoods and Enhance BiodiversityConservation: Scientific and TechnologicalInterventions for Sustainable EcosystemDevelopment in BR Hills, Western Ghats(Prof Sunil Nautiyal)

19. Ecology and Scriptures – Water (Prof K VRaju and Dr S Manasi )

20. Environmental Governance in India: AnEmpirical Study of Urban Landscape andRegional Levels (Prof K V Raju and Dr SManasi)

4. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Research Projects Completed

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21. A Comprehensive Study on the Status ofScheduled Castes in Karnataka (Dr ManoharS Yadav)

22. Adolescent Child-Bearing and Its Effect onMaternal and Child Health in India (Prof RMutharayappa)

23. Evaluation of Karnataka State Finances (ProfK Gayithri, Prof Meenakshi Rajeev, DrDevendra Babu and Dr Barun Deb Pal)

24. Demography and Health Study in andaround the BARC Project Site at Challakere,Chitradurga (Dr K S Umamani) *Due toconfidentiality of data and analyses and as per therequirement of the sponsors, the Abatract of thisproject is not included in this report.

25. Comprehensive District AgriculturalPlanning: Capacity Building and Process

Monitoring (Dr M J Bhende, Prof N Sivanna,Dr M Devendra Babu)

26. Institutional Structure and Performance ofAgriculture in North-East India (Dr KomolSingha)

27. Impact Assessment of Prime Minister’sRehabilitation Package for Farmers inSuicide-Prone Districts of Karnataka(PMRP) (Dr M J Bhende)

28. Non-tariff Barriers in Trade Supply Chainbetween India and Sri Lanka (Dr Barun DebPal)

29. Monitoring of SSA in Karnataka (Dr K SUmamani, Dr M Lingaraju and Dr IndrajitBairagya)

Baseline Data on Area, Production and Productivity ofHorticulture Crops in North-East and Himalayan States

— Dr Komol Singh and Dr P Thippaiah

Food security, nutritional security,sustainability and profitability are the main issuesthat are being focused in the agriculturaldevelopment policy. The high-value agriculturaloutputs, particularly the horticultural crops, are thecatalysts for the next wave of growth in the farmsector, not only in the larger parts of the countrybut also in the hilly regions of North-east andHimalayas. In this light of discussion andinformation made in the previous sections, it isunderstood that the horticulture sector has gotgreater debate or attention, albeit is little late, forfurther development within the larger agriculturesector in the hilly regions of North-east andHimalayas. It has also been exemplified by thesector’s growth rate in the last few decades in theNorth-eastern and Himalayan States. Fruits,flowers, vegetables, spices, plantation andmedicinal crops have been grown mainly by

marginal farmers in these hilly States. Despite thenatural and man-made difficulties, the cultivationof cash crops is considered to be beneficial for thefarmers as it fetches them higher income andemployment throughout the year.

Despite the regions’ favourable geo-climaticconditions for different horticulture crops, thesector is often being encumbered from furtherdevelopment due to various factors. Dearth ofreliable data, lack of supervision, poorarrangement for storage of data record, lack oftimely track of data, inadequate financial support,lack of trained personnel along with lack ofawareness and training among farmers were foundto be some of the known reasons behind the lowproductivity of the sector. Based on the findings ofthe study and the problems identified at the grassroot level, we can draw conclusion that the hilly

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regions have high potential for horticulturedevelopment and can boost up the production andyield levels, provided proper attention andallocation of fund is given towards the sector.Availability of reliable data is crucial fordetermining the status of ongoing horticulturaldevelopment programmes, especially for taking upnew programmes and policies in the sector. Moreimportantly, the data comparison among the Statesis practically not possible for the horticulture sectoras a whole. Nevertheless, it is possible in the caseof individual crops for comparative analysisamong the States. For instance, area, productionand productivity of fruit or vegetables of one Statemay not be exactly comparable with the other, asthe individual crops included/covered under thesebroader crop category (fruit, vegetable, etc.) varyfrom one another. Also, the present studyencountered a wide difference of horticultural cropwith respect to yield level, between the secondarydata (data collected by the agencies) and thepresent study survey data. Most of the crops yielddata reported by the former was found to be over-estimated.

Despite these difficulties, it is essential toestimate the sector’s growth and structure in thecountry, States and districts, for further policyimplications. A detailed data base is needed for

district/cluster/component-wise, to monitor andevaluate the impact of various horticulturaldevelopment schemes such as NHM and otherGovernment sponsored schemes in the country. Inother words, creation of a comprehensivehorticulture database is a must for effectiveplanning and monitoring and new policypreparation to promote horticultural production.Availability of proper data will also enabledevising appropriate strategies to exploit hugeexport potential available in the field ofhorticulture in the States and the country at large.

In totality, based on the secondary data, thegrowth of area and production of horticulturecrops in all the States taken for the study wasfound to be increasing and statistically significant.But, the same did not hold true in the case of yieldof horticulture during the study period. Of thecrops, fruits, flowers, plantation and perennialcrops were found to be suitable in the states thathave been taken for the study. Motivating factorsfor cultivation of horticulture crop is concerned;remunerative price has been at the forefront. Asrevealed by the farmers, especially in Sikkim andUttarakhand, the support of government in thesector’s development initiative was very importantand influential for taking up horticulturecultivation.

Problems and Prospects of Sunflower Production in Karnataka

— Dr Komol Singha and Prof Parmod Kumar

Karnataka is known for its rich biodiversityin India. The State has been identified as one of the10 agro-climatic zones, suited for the majority ofagricultural and horticultural crops. Though theshare of agriculture to the State’s economy hasbeen declining, it still remains very large, lingersaround 14 per cent of the State’s Net StateDomestic Product (NSDP) in 2010-11. Thecontribution of agriculture to the State income(NSDP at 2004-05 constant prices) has declinedfrom 25 per cent in 1999-00 to 13.6 per cent in 2010-

11 compared to 14.4 per cent of all India level (for2010-11 at 2004-05 prices).

Within the agriculture sector, the share ofoilseeds to gross cropped area was about 12 percent during the early eighties, and went above 21per cent during the early nineties, where it stayedduring the decade. In the late 1990s, State’s shareof area under oilseed to all India total had gonedown to 8.2 per cent and production share of Statewas around 6 per cent of the all-India level (Shenoi2003). In the State, the area under oilseeds

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cultivation from 1992-93 to 2002-03 has gone downby almost 50 per cent. For instance, the share ofoilseed cultivation was 25.64 per cent of the netsown area and declined to 12.6 per cent in 2002-03. This situation was mainly attributed to shortageand ill distribution of rainfall in the State. Out ofthe land under major oilseeds in Karnataka,groundnut shared 50.42 per cent and ranked firstduring 2002-03. Sunflower comes in the secondrank, with a share of 34.47 per cent of the totalmajor oilseed cultivated during same period. Whenit comes to all India level, sunflower was mainlycontributed by Karnataka. Later on, the totaloilseed area in Karnataka was approximately 2.8thousand hectare from 2006-07 to 2010-11. Ofwhich, sunflower area was 43 per cent of the totaloilseed area, covering about 0.9 thousand hectare.

In the late 1990s, Karnataka’s share to allIndia level of area under sunflower cultivation wasabout 38.4 to 45.7 per cent and the productionshare was around 28 to 29 per cent only. However,in the 2000s, the State’s contribution has increaseddramatically above 50 per cent, even touched 61per cent in 2005-06. Similarly, the share ofproduction has also increased above 36 per cent,even touched 55 per cent in 2005-06. But the yieldrate was not at par with all India level. In 2005-06,the year which registered highest area andproduction of sunflower crop in the State, the yieldlevel was 552 kg/ha compared to 615 kg/ha ofnational level. Understandably, larger farmers of

sunflower crop accessed more effectively to marketinformation compared to small farmers. Irrigationand other technologies involved in sunflowercultivation were found to be accessed more or lessequally by all farmers. Albeit the large categoryfarmers enjoyed better market information, theywere found to be more exposed to greater incomerisk of sunflower cultivation. In nutshell, sunflowercultivation was found to be beneficial for theKarnataka farmers than that of national level.

Policy Implications

As of the policy implication, availability ofappropriate seed and variety of seeds at theaffordable price for the sunflower farmers wouldbe one of the most important initiatives for furtherdevelopment of the sunflower crop. It does notmean that sunflower cultivation in the State washeld up due to shortage of seed. Often, farmerswere charged exorbitant price of seed in the openmarket during the peak season. Same holds truefor the fertilizers. Therefore, government shouldmake available those most essential inputs offarmers at the affordable price with differentvarieties. Similarly, effective market regulation andremunerative price of the sunflower crop were alsobe streamlined, especially by the small farmers. Asfound the analysis above, the small and marginalfarmers were not equally accessible to appropriatemarket information and effective price mechanism.

Improving Access to Social Security Benefits amongUnorganised Workers in Karnataka

— Prof D Rajasekhar

Introduction

Single Window Service Centres (SWSCs) areemerging as important organisational forms toprovide social security in the context of fragmentedsocial security delivery system. In Karnataka,Worker Facilitation Centres (WFCs) have been setup as single window service centres on pilot basisin five districts by the Department of Labour and

German International Cooperation (GIZ) tofacilitate the access to social security amongunorganized workers. WFCs have been formed in250 grama panchayats and wards of urban localbodies to provide information on governmentsocial security schemes to unorganized workerhouseholds, and help them in the submission ofapplications for these schemes. A community

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facilitator was appointed for each WFC. The Centrefor Decentralisation and Development has takenup a study to evaluate the impact of WFCs onaccess to social security benefits amongunorganised workers in Karnataka together withthe University of Oxford.

Objective and MethodologyIn this study, the authors have examined the

extent to which WFCs have improved theawareness of and access to social security schemesamong unorganised workers with the help ofRandomised Controlled Trial. Information onawareness of and access to a number of socialsecurity schemes was collected from a largenumber of unorganized worker households from263 villages in 150 grama panchayats in fivedistricts. The analysis has focused on seventeencontributory and non-contributory social securityschemes. Two types of analysis have been carriedout: before and after the WFCs have been set up,and with and without WFCs.

Key FindingsAs far as the awareness among unorganised

workers is concerned, the study found that WFCshave been successful in improving the awarenesson social security schemes. Households in GPswith WFCs are aware of 0.37 more schemes; thisrepresents an increase in “awareness” of 13%.

They have also improved the access to theseschemes. Households in GPs with WFCs haveapplied for or obtained 0.26 more schemes onaverage; this represents an increase of 15%. Inother words, this has resulted in about 94,000additional scheme beneficiaries in the jurisdictionof 250 WFCs.

Importantly, WFCs have had significantimpact on awareness of and access to contributoryschemes, which are considered to be hard sell tounorganised worker households. Such an impactis particularly significant with membership inconstruction workers welfare board and accidentinsurance for commercial vehicle drivers. This is

the case in all the five districts including thebackward districts such as Gulbarga and Bellary.

Regarding non-contributory social securityschemes, positive and significant impact onawareness was seen. The impact on access to theseschemes has been, however, modest as several ofthese schemes are saturated, closed, rationed ordifficult to access even with the help of a trainedfacilitator.

The analysis of data on the awareness andaccess to social security schemes before and afterthe establishment of WFCs also corroborates theabove findings.

What factors influence the number ofapplications submitted through the WFC? Ouranalysis shows that the facilitation of socialsecurity benefits by the Community Facilitatortargeting appears to be neutral across a range ofsocial indicators (status of BPL, caste, housing andliteracy or size and irrigation status of the village).But, staff turnover is correlated with less numberof submissions, villages far from GP headquartershave worse results and female facilitators aresomewhat less effective.

Those households which have submittedapplications through the WFC have stated that‘they feel more secure about future’. They are alsolikely to state that “the government takes good careof poor people in the delivery of social securityschemes”.

Contribution by the research studyThis is a pioneering study. Although there are

studies comparing design features of SWSCs acrossdifferent countries, there are no rigorous studiesanalysing the impact of these centres ondevelopment outcomes. This study fills in thisresearch gap. Secondly, this is perhaps the onlystudy which evaluates the effectiveness of thesingle-window service centres in Karnataka.Finally, the study results have influenced theKarnataka government to expand the project toone taluk in all the remaining districts in the state.

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Assessing the Environmental Burden of Diseases of Air Pollution:A Case Study of Two Metropolitan Cities - Bangalore and Hyderabad

- Dr Syed Ajmal Pasha

During the last few decades, India hasundergone dramatic shifts and urbanization is oneof them. Associated with urbanization is acutedeterioration of air quality, primarily due toautomobile and industrial emissions in urbanareas, thus exposing a large segment of urbanpopulation to the harmful effects of the airpollution. Due to the inherent limitations inestablishing the direct cause and effect relationshipbetween exposure and health implications,economic implications of such exposure can bemeasured by proxy methods such as ComparativeRisk Assessment (USEPA), Environmental Burdenof Disease (WHO). This study is attempts toquantify the economic costs of urban air pollutionin two cities, viz., Bangalore and Hyderabad asboth cities are similar in lacking the efficient publictransportation system and private vehicles aresignificant.

The study attempted to adopt EnvironmentalBurden of Disease as developed by World HealthOrganization to measure the economic implica-tions of air pollution. Air quality data was collectedfrom Central Pollution Control Board, KarnatakaState Pollution Control Board and Andhra PradeshState Pollution Control Board for Bangalore andHyderabad. However, due to non-maintenance ofhealth data by State-run hospitals and unwilling-ness to share the health data by private hospitals,

primary survey was conducted to collect therelevant health data. For this purpose, the cities aredivided into zones depending on the air quality.Though the relationship between air pollution andhealth costs is not established mathematically, thisstudy found that there is direct relationshipbetween the exposure to air pollution and healthcosts of the households. This study was severelylimited by the extreme paucity of health data, butestablishes that households are spending a part oftheir income to offset the impact of bad air quality.Community exposed to higher air pollution inBangalore was found to spend more money thanthe community living in non-polluted area. Forinstance, subclinical household expenses inYeshwantpur, a polluted area, were Rs 811 andclinical medical expenses were Rs 17,536 whileonly Rs 364 and Rs 4,641 for subclinical and clinicalexpenses for community from non-polluted area.In Hyderabad, the household expenditure was Rs.839 in Taranaka area where pollution is highercompared to Rs 364 spent by the households fromZoo Park which was reported to be low in airpollution load. Further, for similar future studies,they should modify WHO methods to overcomeregion specific limitations and should explore the‘linkages between active drug units sold and airquality of that area’ to measure economic costs ofurban ambient air pollution.

Socio - Economic Vulnerability Profile Developmentat the District and Block (Taluk) Levels for Karnataka

— Prof K V Raju

IntroductionVulnerability to natural hazards varies widely

across communities, sectors and regions. The socio-economic vulnerability is determined by the

internal structure of any social system that decidessensitivity of societies and communities to theincidence of hazards. The internal structure alsohelps to cope with damages from external shocks.

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It poses the important research question as to whythere are different levels of vulnerability within aparticular society, even in the context of similarhazards. The possible answer may be that theindividuals and groups differ in terms of equality,entitlement capacity, institutions, political andcultural aspects that are responsible factors for thedifferential vulnerability. For example,marginalized communities are forced to live insusceptible regions that exposes them to floods/droughts and different diseases as compared toother people.

A growing body of literature over the pasttwo decades has identified climate change as theprime issue to global environmental degradation,and has analyzed the associated vulnerability andbiodiversity loss (IPCC 2007). According to Fussel(2007), climate-related vulnerability assessmentsare based on the characteristics of the vulnerablesystem spanning over physical, economic andsocial factors. The Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC), in its Second AssessmentReport (IPCC 1996), defines vulnerability as “theextent to which climate change may damage orharm a system.”

Climate Change (IPCC) defines vulnerabilityin terms of systems, as ‘the degree to which asystem is susceptible to, or unable to cope with,adverse effects of climate change, including climatevariability and extremes’ (IPCC 2007).Vulnerability is a function of the character,magnitude, and rate of climate variation to whicha system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptivecapacity (IPCC 2007).

There is an increasing need to developindicators of vulnerability and of adaptive capacityboth to determine the robustness of responsestrategies over time and to understand better theunderlying processes (Adger et al 2004). At thedistrict level, vulnerability assessments contributeto setting development priorities and monitoringprogress. Sectoral assessments provide details andtargets for strategic development plans. InKarnataka, agricultural farmers and agricultural

labourers form 56% of the total workforce (HumanDevelopment Report, Karnataka 2005) and this isconsidered as one of the driving forces indetermining the socio-economic vulnerabilities ofcommunities in Karnataka. In the present context,a district-wise socio-economic and agriculturalvulnerability profile of Karnataka was developed.

Objectives: The key objectives of thisassessment are:

1. To assess vulnerability of agricultural sectoracross the districts of Karnataka.

2. To estimate the socio-economic vulnerabilityof the districts of Karnataka.

Method and Sources of Data CollectionThe data pertaining to various socio-economic

and agricultural indicators were collected andcompiled from different sources such as Census ofIndia (2011) and Statistical Abstract of Karnataka(DES), 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11. Tounderstand the agricultural and socio-economicprofile, the study analyses important indicatorsacross the districts of Karnataka. This has beendone by consultation with experts and based onprevious studies.

In order to derive these indices, a PrincipalComponents Analysis (PCA) was run on a datasetof 10 carefully selected indicator variables torepresent socio-economic vulnerability and 7indicators for agricultural vulnerability across thedistricts of Karnataka. The PCA generated threecomponents for each index that broadlyrepresented the underlying themes of agricultureand socio-economic vulnerability present in thelarger dataset.

Discussions and Drivers of VulnerabilityKarnataka state is one of the fastest growing

economies in India Agriculture in Karnataka ispredominantly rainfed. In the present study 2vulnerability indices were developed at the districtlevel of Karnataka state, i.e., agriculturalvulnerability index and socio-economic

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vulnerability index, considering all the 30 districtsof Karnataka for the analysis.

The findings of study suggest:

❏ Agricultural vulnerability

● Kolar, Ramnagar, Chikballapur andBangalore R are the most agriculturallyvulnerable districts of Karnataka.

● Belgaum, Haveri and Gadag districts are theleast vulnerable as far as agriculture isconcerned.

❏ Socio-economic and livelihood vulnerability

● Yadgir, Chitradurga, Raichur, Chamaraja-nagar and Chikballapur districts are the mostvulnerable among all districts of Karnataka

● Bangalore (U), Dakshina Kannada, Udupi,Dharwad and Uttara Kannada are the leastvulnerable districts of Karnataka.

The result of agricultural vulnerability indexsuggests indicators like cropping intensity, grossarea irrigated and commercial crop area are themajor drives in determining the vulnerability ofdistricts. The livelihood vulnerability indexanalysis suggests Yadgir, Chitradurga, Raichur,Chamarajanagar and Chikballapur districts aremost vulnerable in Karnataka. The livelihoodindex depicts indicators like per capita income,population density, percentage of literacy rate, andlivestock unit/lakh population are the majordrivers and contribute to the overall livelihoodvulnerability of districts.

Socio-Economic Analysis of IncreasingResilience of Coffee Production to LRD

— Prof M R Narayana

This project focuses on socio-economicanalysis of coffee production to coffee leaf rust(CLR) disease and its management by householdcoffee farmers/growers with special reference tosmall farmers in India. The specific objectives areas follows: (a) Analyze the adoption and non-adoption of recommended practices by socio-economic background of the growers. (b) Estimatethe socio-economic determinants of adoption of therecommended practices by the growers. (c)Analyze the socio-economic reasons for non-adoption of recommended practices by thegrowers. (d) Estimate the financial costs andbenefits for the growers for adopting therecommended practices. (e) Assess the willingnessand capacity to pay and financing options foradoption of the recommended practices by thegrowers by their socio-economic status. (f) Derivepolicy implications for creation of awareness ofbenefits from and strategies for strengthening ofadoption.

The above objectives are accomplished basedon a newly collected primary data from samplesurvey of household coffee farmers andstakeholders’ responses in traditional coffee-growing regions of India. Stakeholders includedselect representatives of small growers and largegrowers in the Coffee Board, few growers’associations and distinguished individual growersand researchers. In total, primary data is collected,through structured questionnaires and canvassedby direct personal interviews of growers, from 575sample growers. Of this total, about 73 per cent (or417 farmers) belong to Karnataka, 18 per cent (or104 farmers) belong to Tamil Nadu and the rest 9per cent (or 54 farmers) belong to Kerala. Of the417 sample farmers in Karnataka, about 44 per cent(or 185 farmers) belong to Chikmagalur, 25 percent (or 104 farmers) belong to Hassan and 31 percent (or 128 farmers) belong to Kodagu district.

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profile, socio-economic background of farmers,nature of coffee and coffee farming, prevalenceand impact of CLR, control or managementmethods of CLR, farmers’ strategies to cope withCLR, farmers’ needs to cope with CLR and otherneeds of farmers. All descriptions are presented bystates (Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu) and forall states together (all India). In addition, thespecial descriptions are presented by districts inKarnataka (Chikmagalur, Hassan and Kodagu). Inaddition, primary data is used for technicalanalyses of estimation of cost and welfare gainsfrom adoption of chemical controls of CLR, socio-economic (including income and prices) andlocational determinants of adoption and non-adoption of CLR management practices, impact ofcoffee varieties, shade regulations and channels ofcommunication on management of CLR practices.Major conclusions and policy recommendationsfrom within these descriptions and analyses are asfollows:

1. Management of CLR by chemical sprays orfungicides, cultivation of resistant varietiesand shade regulation are most important forArabica coffee. At the same time, importanceof other cultural practices, such as,intercropping, weeding, pruning, topping, de-suckering, uses of fertilizers and nutrients areworth recognition. This implies that no singlemethod as such would totally manage thedisease. Notwithstanding the application ofthese diversified management practicesacross regions and farmers, however, CLRcontinues to be present and persisteverywhere. Thus, CLR does matter for coffeefarmers and farming.

2. Coffee farmers are diverse by manydescriptions: socio-economic backgroundcharacteristics; nature of coffee and coffeefarming; prevalence of CLR; managementpractices and impact of CLR; and strategiesand needs of farmers to cope with CLR. Onthe other hand, management of CLR isaffected by many locational and socio-

economic factors, such as, altitude, rainfall,age of household head, economic status andsize of bearing area, price of inputs andincome from coffee cultivation. Thesediversities may be considered for design of apublic promotional policy for recommendedpractices of CLR management.

3. Technically, application of types of fungicidesis conditioned by coffee seasons. Econo-mically, they are determined by the relativeprices of fungicides which give rise to theirsubstitutability and complementarity. Theseresults are of use for appropriate timing ofprice policy interventions to promote therecommended CLR management practices.

4. Of all the varieties, S 795 has the highest andpositive impact on adoption of allmanagement practices. Of the resistantvarieties, Selection 9 has the least impact onall the management practices. Selection 12and Chandragiri are other resistant varietieshaving lesser impact on the management ofCLR. Further, of all the types of shaderegulations, the mixed shade regulation hasa negligible or no impact on management ofCLR by all chemical sprays. These resultsprovide with empirical bases for promotionof the optimum mixed shade regulation andresistant varieties for the management ofCLR.

5. Under specified assumption, the evidence ofthis Report shows that the estimated cost ofmanagement is less than the benefit ofincreasing the coffee output for adopters ofCLR management by chemical sprays.

6. At present, price subsidization of chemicaland other non-labour inputs are not availablefor coffee farmers in India. Such asubsidization policy is considerable as apolicy priority during the 12th Five-Year Planof India. If permissible, such a policy may betargeted for small, poor and sociallydisadvantageous groups of farmers in orderto include inclusiveness.

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This project is awarded by the ResearchCouncil of Norway under the INDNORprogramme, through the Norwegian Institute ofInternational Affairs, which is the overall projectcoordinating agency. Several researchers across theglobe are involved in the project and contributedin terms of research papers on the abovementioned themes. The purpose of the project isto generate a number of research papers anddevelop collaborations across various institutes inIndia and abroad for developing future researchagenda. The Institute for Social and EconomicChange is a partner in this international projectand contributed five papers – three on the servicessector, one on environment-related issue bylooking at socio- economic consequences of bio-fuels and another is on trade-related issuesconcerning WTO and agriculture. Thus, thepresent report is a compilation of these five paperson different issues.

The research papersThe services sector has assumed considerable

importance since globalization of the economy asits share in total income of the economy increasedsubstantially during the past few decades. The firstthree papers in this collection broadly deal with theservices sector. The first paper, titled ‘India’sServices Sector: A Status Report’, is expository innature and provides an account of the status of thissector in terms of its contribution to GDP both atthe national and at the level of states consideringvarious subsectors within the services sector. Thesecond paper goes deeper into several aspects ofservices sector in India and analyses the role of thesector at the state level and also looks at causalityand linkages between different sectors of the stateeconomies in India. The third paper, titled ‘Accessto Financial Services: Are Poor Excluded?’examines whether access to finance is ensured forall sections of the society in globalized India.

The fourth paper in this collection, titled‘International Trade in Agriculture and WTONegotiations: A Study of Karnataka’, deals withthe issue of globalization and trade. The fifth paperis expository in nature and deals with bio-fuelsproduction and its pros and cons in India andelsewhere across the globe. With globalizationIndia is becoming increasingly concerned aboutenvironmental issues and issues of climate change.Given these concerns discussions on bio-fuels istimely and relevant as it can be used as a substitutefor fossil fuel-based energy; thus it minimizes theGHGs emissions, which result in global warming.

Findings/ContributionsThrough the studies on services sector, it is

found that the states with low per capita incomecontinue to have comparatively higher share ofagriculture sector in their GSDP. Causality testscarried out to understand the sectoral linkagesreveal that the comparatively poorer states alsohave weak linkage between the sectors and thecausality is seen to usually run frommanufacturing to services sector. Determinants ofper capita GSDP reveal that both agriculture andservices sectors have high contribution in terms ofelasticity; however, elasticity of primary sector hasdeclined in the post-reform period compared to thepre-reform era whereas several components ofservices sector show increase in elasticity in thepost- reform period. Focusing on the issue ofinclusive growth and access to financial resources,the third paper argues that access to financialresources is critical for the very survival of the self-employed poor in a developing country like India,especially after globalization. The paper brings tolight the challenges for the formal banking sectorin India in reaching the poor and sociallybackward and weaker sections of the society.

The fourth paper dealing with the issue of

Globalization and India: Issues on Regional Disparity, IndustrialDevelopment, Sectoral Performance, Trade and Environment

— Prof Meenakshi Rajeev, Prof R S Deshpande and Dr Sunil Nautiyal

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globalization and trade argues that the Hong Konground of the WTO negotiations sharpened thedebate on many trade issues and brought forthsubsidies and market access under sharp focus.Karnataka being one of the Indian States in theforefront as far as trade is concerned, a case studyof Karnataka is taken up to highlight the State-specific issues. Trade in agriculture is emerging asa strong growth buster in Karnataka. Theparticipation of Karnataka in international trade isproactive as also the preparations by the State inascertaining the impact of WTO on its agriculturalsector. The paper presents a SWOT analysis basedon the interviews of the stakeholders that bringsforth the future policy paradigm and discusses theimplications of WTO regime suggesting in-builtsolutions to the needs of the State’s short and long-term perspectives.

The fifth paper in this collection, ‘Socio-economic and Ecological Consequences of Bio-fuelDevelopment in India’, provides an overview ofbio-fuel production and its pros and cons in thecontext of India and elsewhere. The papermaintains that under current climate changeconditions the bio-fuel could be a good substitutefor fossil fuel-based energy as it minimizes theGHGs emissions which result in global warming.The paper argues that in India around 25 millionhectares of fallow land can be diverted for growingbio-fuel crops – thus promoting bio-fuels would beinnovative and low carbon pathway for ruraldevelopment. However, the diffusion of bio-fuelscultivation in India was not highly successful. Thepaper discusses the pro-innovation bias indiffusion of bio-fuels in India and addresses thechallenges like supply of water and food securityfor the growing population.

Evaluation Study on Impact and Advantages of Various Serviceswith Focus on the Help Desk Initiated by KSNDMC

— Dr Aditya Chavali and Dr V Ramaswamy

This evaluation study is formulated on thetwin objectives: to analyze the perception ofbeneficiaries and stakeholders who use the variousservices provided by the KSNDMC; to suggestappropriate and suitable measures to improve theexisting system.

An attempt was made to study the impact ofthe services of the Karnataka State Natural DisasterMonitoring Centre (KSNDMC) on variousbeneficiaries and stakeholders starting from the topgovernment officials to the farmers in the field. Thestudy was mainly based on telephonic interviewsand e-mails with the stakeholders by using astructured questionnaire to collect the quantitativedata.

The KSNDMC has provided about 122telephone numbers of farmers who approached theHelpdesk to seek the assistance of its services. Wetried to approach all the farmers and tried calling

the numbers provided by them. Out of the 122numbers called, we were able to get responsesfrom 91 farmers.

The main source of information for farmersand general public about the services of KSNDMCorganization was through media which includesnewspapers, television and the radio. Later on, theinformation was spread across the farmercommunity through their friendship network andrelatives, by the officials of the AgriculturalDepartment through neighbourhood gossips etc.For the officials and media, it was through e-mailsand SMSs sent by the KSNDMC.

About 90 per cent of farmers who contactedthe Helpdesk for information had called theHelpdesk for more than 5 times. A majority (89 percent) had discussions with the Helpdesk for 2minutes to 10 minutes. A large majority (90.11 percent) of respondents approached the KSNDMC

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Helpdesk to know about the possibility of rainduring the next two-three days.

About 38 per cent of respondents reportedthat they had used the information for taking adecision prior to sowing the seed. A few farmersreported that they had to postpone the sowingoperations due to rain and a few others haddecided to make preparations for sowing based onthe information provided by the Helpdesk.Similarly, 26.37 per cent of respondents used theinformation prior to irrigation decisions. Another26.37 per cent of respondents used the informationto make preparation for harvesting the crop andalso for threshing. A few farmers (13.19 per cent)used it prior to applying pesticides and fertilizers.

Prior to the availability of the services fromthe KSNDMC, several farmers reported that theyused to depend on traditional knowledge foragricultural operations. Several farmers reportedthat they had suffered total losses or low yieldseither because it rained after sowing the seed orimmediately after spraying pesticides orapplication of fertilizers. Therefore, the informationprovided by KSNDMC was quite useful.

The main problem reported by the officialswas that the information provided by the

KSNDMC was not related to their present place ofwork but pertains to the place of their immediatetransfer or of the earlier place of work. Thetelephone (mobile) numbers registered withKSNDMC – either official or personal – should bereported to the KSNDMC soon after the transferof staff in order to update the transfer details,especially the new place of work. Updating ofinformation about the change in the mobilenumbers is quintessential for the use ofinformation provided.

Some of the suggestions arising out of thediscussions with the farmers and officials are: Ifpossible, additional data on technological optionssuch as temperature and humidity along with thewind speed and cloud movement should beprovided as part of the daily SMSs; Like rainfalldata, information (forecast) regarding theprobability of occurrence of pests and diseases tocrops could be provided by the Department ofAgriculture; In addition to the hobli-levelinformation, it would be useful if the informationprovided pertains to an area which falls under aparticular problem, such as landslides, floods,drought, cyclone etc, by labeling the zones as‘Flood Zone’ or ‘Cyclone Zone’, which may covermore than one taluk or district and call them as‘Hot Spots’.

Third-Party Evaluation Study of VGST Programmes

— Dr Aditya Chavali

Based on the nature of resources allocationand on the orientation of their impact, VGSTprogrammes can be categorised as: a)Individualistic, b) Institutional and c)Infrastructural augmentation. But as the focus ofall programmes remains on enhancement ofinfrastructural base in the State, ISEC has adopteda multi-pronged methodology to qualitativelyanalyze the impact of VGST activities in the State.Evaluation of these programmes was carried attwo stages. In the first stage, perceptions ofbeneficiaries through a structured checklist/

questionnaire were collected. In the second stage,evaluation was carried out through personal andin-depth interaction with beneficiaries (sample of10-15%). Based on the information thus collected,following are major findings of these studies.

All the beneficiary institutions are able toutilize the funds for the activities they have beenearmarked with reasonable success. As for theprocess of research proposal submission, selectionand fund disbursal, the present format was foundto be effective. However, regarding E Procurement,

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it was opined by a majority of PrincipleInvestigators (PI) that the process is time-consuming with cascading effect on the progressof the research work. For instance, severalbeneficiaries have complained that procuring thedocket number is time-consuming. A majority ofthe beneficiaries opined that there are very fewvendors who are registered for participation in Etendering process. Instances of only one tendersubmitting the quotation are often encounteredduring the field work. Such instances call for re-tendering process etc. Though the objective ofprocuring instruments through E Procurement isreasonable, ground realities show that for amajority of beneficiaries, E Procurement has costthem much in terms of time and energy. Similarly,auditing aspects such as final approval from VGSTfor procuring the instruments, PIs suggested acentral procurement wing at VGST level that couldprocure instruments with specifications as givenby beneficiary institution. This could savesignificant research time and also help inmaintaining the time lines as prescribed by theVGST. Further, it was opined that the Third-PartyAuditing of accounts may be conducted atbeneficiary institutions. It would save time andresources of PIs.

The above suggestions led to the followingpolicy suggestions:

● E Procurement process may be modified toensure timely procurement of instruments.

For instance, after initial stages of E docketprocurement, the responsibility of actualprocuring the instruments may be entrustedto some agency, for example KIONICs.

● Comprehensive list of expertise of VGSTbeneficiaries, instruments procured underthis programme and the procedure to use theVGST-sponsored instruments should beplaced on VGST website for wider reach.

● The rationale of selection, expected benefits ofevery beneficiary should be placed on VGSTwebsite for a) transparency and b) readymadetool for future evaluation.

● Herfindahl-Hirschman Index was calculatedfor the concentration of beneficiaryinstitutions and it is clear that Bangaloredivision has occupied the lion’s sharefollowed by Belgaum and Mysore divisions,while Gulbarga division remained leastsupported by the VGST Programmes. Hence,it is suggested that VGST should consider thepreferential treatment to other regions aswell.

To sum it up, the VGST presence has made atangible impact on the quality of teaching, researchin beneficiary institutions and it is expected thatthese positive impacts would expand to othereducational districts in the near future. Thus far,a total of 218 grantees across all regions in the statethat have received an average sum of Rs. 20 lakhsper program.

The executive committee of Karnataka StateLiteracy Mission Authority, under theChairmanship of the State Government ChiefSecretary, resolved to conduct an interimevaluation of Saakshar Bharath programme inorder to take mid-course corrections in theimplementation of the programme based on the

outcome of the evaluation. The function of AdultEducation Centres (AEC) at Gram Panchayat leveland the effectiveness of Learning Centres (LC) inimparting basic literacy along with thecommitment of functionaries at district, taluk andGram Panchayat levels are the main factorsfacilitating the success of the programme. In

Evaluation Study of Saakshar Bharath Programme in Karnataka

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addition, the supply of learning materials andother support like capacity building, training,effective fund flow are crucial for continuity of theprogramme. Similarly, involvement of PanchayathiRaj Institutions (PRIs) from district to GramPanchayat level and convergence of developmentprogrammes by various departments will alsocatalyze the effectiveness of the programme.

With this background, the followingobjectives were evolved for the study: 1) Toanalyze the functioning of AECs at GramPanchayat level and LCs at the village level; 2) Tounderstand the level of commitment among thefunctionaries at district, taluk and GramPanchayat level; 3) To document the availabilityand utilization of funds and materials; 4) Todetermine the extent to which convergence ofdifferent Government departments and NGOstakes place for smooth functioning of theprogramme; 5) To evaluate the effectiveness ofcapacity building for various functionaries; 6) Toassess the mode and effectiveness of awarenesscreation among different stakeholders; 7) Todocument the views of implementers andstakeholders apart from the general public aboutthe programme and elicit their views for suitablemid-course corrections; 8) To make policysuggestions.

The evaluation of the Saakshar Bharatprogramme is primarily based on primary datacollected from selected Gram Panchayats of thesample districts. Three sample districtsrepresenting one district each from NorthKarnataka, Central Karnataka and SouthernKarnataka were selected. Accordingly Bidar,Chitradurga and Bangalore Rural districts wereselected for the study. It was also decided to selecttwo taluks from each of the selected districts andthree Gram Panchayats from each taluk. From eachof these taluks an attempt was made to select theGram Panchayats\ AECs for the study in such away that one Gram Panchayat should be nearer tothe taluk headquarters, the second one shall be faraway from the taluk headquarters and the third

one should be between the two in terms of thedistance from the taluk headquarters. From eachGram Panchayat, based on the availability, aminimum of three villages were selected includingthe Gram Panchayat headquarters for the study.From these villages a total of 15 voluntary teachersand 30 learners (Kalikarthigalu) were selected. Inaddition, a few community leaders including thevillage head-master, members of the SchoolDevelopment and Management Committee(SDMC), Panchayat members, members of MahilaSangha, Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and others werealso consulted to assess functioning of the AdultEducation Centres at the Gram Panchayat and theLearning Centres at the village level.

Recommendations: 1) At present theSaakshar Bharat Programme seems to becontended with whatever data it gets as survey ofilliterates by the Preraks, but it needs stringentscrutiny of claims about the illiteracy identifiedthrough such surveys. A sample check by theofficials from the district and/or by the State canbring about better and reliable data. 2) The presentprocedure to enroll the non-literate adults in theage group from 15 to 80 years in the learningcentres seems to be non-productive. The SaaksharBharath Programme should concentrate on adultnon-literates in the age group of 15 to 60 years. 3)In addition to the learning materials, financialliteracy can be included in the curriculum torender them capable to make informed decisionsregarding finances. The training here can be in theform of opening a bank account andunderstanding the basics of transaction. 4) Thereis a need for sharing of experience of the successfulAECs at the district and State level. This is toenable AECs to learn and use the information toevolve strategies to overcome bottlenecks forsuccessful implementation of the programme andto achieve the targets. State and district officialsshould regularly monitor and conduct suchexchanges. 5) An appropriate methodology mustbe in place to insist upon timely and systematicreporting of the progress from the Preraks.

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India’s economic growth for the past sixdecades has been stymied by widespread povertyand financial exclusion. In order to overcome thesehindrances the Government of India and theReserve Bank of India have tried to roll out variouspoverty alleviation schemes and implemented thepolicy recommendation of numerous committeeson financial inclusion. Focusing our attention onwidespread financial exclusion in our country,recently the Nachiket Mor committee (2013) statedthat the access to formal credit in rural areas wasa mere 30 per cent and access to payment servicesand deposit products at reasonable charges was 3per cent.

With umpteen policies and provisionsimplemented and several committees formed tostudy the reason and extent of financial exclusionwe still have not been able to fix and come out witha panacea for it. The reports of C RangarajanCommittee on Financial Inclusion (2008) and theCommittee for Financial Sector Reforms(Chairman, Raghuram Rajan, 2009) haveprescribed many tools and techniques to overcomefinancial exclusion, but have their recommen-dations helped to do and more importantly howfar have these been implemented needs to bestudied. The paper tries to analyse the extent of

financial inclusion achieved in the recent yearswith more focus on the business correspondent/business facilitator model. It also tries to bring outwhich of the methods of financial inclusion be itBC/BF, opening of brick-mortar bank branches,Kiosk facilities, SHG-bank linkages, etc. aresuitable to cover larger sections of the populationunder the formal banking system. There is agreater need today to exploit technology to reachout to the needy and the excluded sections of oursociety.

The paper examines the model of Sujeevana,implemented by Intiatives for DevelopmentFoundation (IDF) and sponsored by Vattikuti IndiaRelief Foundation (VIRF) in the Kunigal Taluk ofTumkur District in Karnataka. The modelencompasses the provision of credit through theBC/BF model, use of kiosks for financial inclusion.This unique model which includes Self-HelpGroups (SHG) and Joint Liability Group (JLG)formation, provision of bank linkages, vocationaland agricultural training and the establishment ofa Community-Based organisation at Taluk levelhas been analysed to suggest that these models arescalable and replicable in many rural areas to fosterthe financial inclusion movement.

Livelihood Security through Financial Access(An Assessment of VIRF - IDF Poverty Alleviation)

— Dr Veerashekharappa and Ms B P Vani

Monitoring of PIP on Monthly Basis in theDistricts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

— Prof C M Lakshmana and PRC Team

PIP Monitoring Report for Nine Districts inKarnataka

Karnataka has made significant progress inmany demographic and health indicators in recentyears. Even though the performance of Karnatakais far above the national average, it lags behind

other southern states. The fertility level hasdeclined to replacement level and the infantmortality has shown drastic decline during theperiod of NRHM implementation. The PIPmonitoring was carried out in 9 districts ofKarnataka, viz., Bijapur, Bellary, Gadag, Gulbarga,Yadgir, Koppal, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga

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recorded below replacement level fertility in recenttimes, the infant mortality rate remains to be highand is almost same as the national average.However, the infant mortality has shown positivedecline during the period of NRHMimplementation. The PIP monitoring was carriedout in 4 districts of Andhra Pradesh, viz., Chittoor,Kadapa, Kurnool and Anantapur. Separate reportshave been prepared by each of these districts afteranalyzing the available data from the districthealth offices as well as based on the field visitsand discussions with the officials and thebeneficiaries.

Overall, the selected districts in the state hadadequate health facilities as per the norms laiddown and most of the health facilities arefunctioning in government buildings except in thecase of sub-centres. However, a serious shortage ofmanpower was observed, especially at thesecondary and tertiary hospitals. There areshortages for doctors, especially specialists, otherpara-medical staff and technicians. Severe staffshortages are observed in SNCU units.

HMIS coverage in the districts is satisfactory;however, MCTS coverage is comparatively lower.The service of 104 is found to be effective inconducting FDHS. Currently, attention is alsobeing given to the control of NCDs in thepopulation, with the setting up of NCD clinics atvarious facilities. The services of 104 MMUs arebeing utilised for screening patients for diabetes,hypertension and other NCDs at the village itself.

Biomedical waste management at FRUS hasbeen outsourced to private agencies. On the otherhand, in the case of PHCs, the waste managementis done at the premises itself. Several problemswere observed with respect to proper biomedicalmanagement.

Overall, the PIP monitoring brought outseveral issues that need attention as well as severalpositive aspects of the implementation of theNRHM programme in Andhra Pradesh.

and Kolar. Separate reports have been prepared foreach of these districts after analyzing the availabledata from the district health offices as well as basedon the field visits and discussions with the officialsand the beneficiaries.

Invariably, most districts experienced majorproblems with respect to the availability of healthpersonnel. This was particularly acute in the caseof secondary and tertiary hospitals as compared toprimary health facilities. The infrastructure level atthe PHC has improved after the implementationof the NRHM programme, but it was observed thatthe infrastructure at the sub-district hospital andthe district-level hospital is highly inadequateconsidering the patient load in each of thesehospitals. The working of JSSK programme hasbeen fairly satisfactory although there were a fewminor complaints of not receiving money on timeand on the quality of food supplied in the hospital.The transportation facility appears to be not widelyused in the State as most of the women did notindicate utilizing this facility for coming to thehospital. The ANC and PNC care has been goingon both at the sub-centre and PHC levels. Itappears from the data that both ANC care andinstitutional delivery has increased substantially inthe State in recent times. The quality of services hasimproved substantially at the lower level whilethere have been several complaints on the qualityat the higher level. The bio-medical wastemanagement system has been undertaken on thePPP model which was satisfactory.

Overall, the PIP monitoring provided a mixedpicture on the implementation of NRHMprogramme in the State. Several suggestions andrecommendations were provided for betterimplementation. It is expected that with the newinitiatives, there will be improvement both on theservice provision and quality.

PIP Monitoring Report for four districts ofAndhra Pradesh

The demographic situation of AndhraPradesh provides a varied picture. While the state

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Estimation of crop loss due to pests anddiseases is a complex subject. It is in fact, difficultto assess the loss caused by an individual pest asa particular crop may be infested by the pestcomplex in the farmers’ field conditions. Further,extent of pre harvest loss either physical orfinancial depends on the type of variety, stage ofcrop growth, pest population and weatherconditions. In the present study, pre harvest croploss caused by pests was estimated as thedifference between potential (attainable) yield andthe actual yield. The potential yield is the yield thatwould have been obtained in the absence of pestunder consideration. Post harvest losses werecaptured through harvesting, threshing, drying,storage, transportation, processing and marketing.In the field and during storage, the products aredamaged by insects, rodents, birds and other pests.The present study estimated the pre and postharvest losses, based on field survey, for fourreference crops viz., paddy, wheat, tur andsoybean grown in ten major states in India.

The level of pre harvest loss varied acrossstates and crops. The yield loss for paddy variedfrom 7.8 per cent in Assam to 16.2 per cent inKarnataka. West Bengal also registered the yieldloss of 15.1 per cent. Uttar Pradesh recorded thelowest level of yield loss at 2.9 per cent. In case ofwheat, crop loss was relatively high at 15.3 per centin West Bengal and low at 6.1 per cent in UttarPradesh. Madhya Pradesh and Punjab showed

yield loss of 8.9 per cent and 7.4 per cent,respectively. For tur, yield loss varied for local andhigh yielding varieties. Karnataka registered theyield loss of as high as 44.7 per cent for local and43.9 per cent for HYV. Yield loss of tur wasrelatively low in Maharashtra. In case of soybean,yield loss was the highest in Rajasthan with 20.7per cent for HYV and 23.6 per cent for localvarieties. Yield loss of soybean in Madhya Pradeshwas 11.4 per cent and in Maharashtra it was 10.5per cent.

The overall post harvest loss of paddy wasthe highest in Assam with 7.3 per cent followed byTamil Nadu and Karnataka with 6.9 per cent. Thepost harvest loss in Uttar Pradesh was 5.6 per centand in West Bengal it was 3.5 per cent. In case ofwheat, the post harvest loss was relatively high inAssam with 11.7 per cent followed by MadhyaPradesh (8.6 per cent) and West Bengal (7.2 percent). For tur, the post harvest loss was relativelyhigh in Karnataka (11.2 per cent). Maharashtra andGujarat registered the post harvest loss of 6.0 percent and 3.1 per cent, respectively. In case ofsoybean, the post harvest loss was the highest inMadhya Pradesh. Maharashtra and MadhyaPradesh registered the post harvest loss of 3.7 percent and 3.4 per cent, respectively. It is clear fromthe analysis that the largest producing states have,by and large, recorded a higher level of postharvest loss.

Assessment of Pre- and Post-Harvest Losses of Important Crops in India

— Dr Elumalai Kannan, Prof Parmod Kumar

Improving the Delivery of Social Security Benefits in Karnataka

— Prof D Rajasekhar

IntroductionThe Central and state governments have

initiated schemes to improve access to socialsecurity among unorganised worker households.Yet, they do not have sufficient and reliable access

to government social security schemes because ofseveral factors. First, social security schemes havebeen formulated for specific target groupsaddressing specific contingency. Unorganisedworkers, being illiterate, isolate and preoccupied

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with livelihood concerns, find it difficult to accessthese schemes. Second, the process of filling in anapplication form, obtaining support documentsfrom many offices located at different places,submission of application forms at offices locatedfar away from homes and follow-up the progressis usually long and cumbersome. This causesconsiderable hardship and stress to thehouseholds. Third, the long and cumbersomeprocess to access social security schemescontributes to high opportunity costs to the poor,and increased transaction costs. This will makethem either not to apply for social security schemesor depend on rent seeking middlemen. In eithercase, the welfare loss is considerable for the poor.

It is in this context a study is undertaken byISEC in collaboration with the Department ofLabour and German Development Cooperation(GIZ) to map and review the process adopted fromthe stage of application to submission of key socialsecurity schemes in Karnataka in order to identifythose aspects in the delivery process (applications,documents, submission and sanctioning) that affectthe access to social security schemes amongunorganised workers.

In this study, we have examined 28 socialsecurity schemes implemented by 10 governmentdepartments and corporations. These schemes canbe divided into four categories:

a) Pre- and post-metric scholarship for studentsbelonging to disadvantaged caste groups anddisabled;

b) Loan schemes for self-employment andeducation to persons belonging todisadvantaged groups;

c) Pensions to the elderly, widows, disabled andsingle women; and

d) Social security for construction workers,drivers of commercial vehicles, conditionalcash transfers to girl child, insurance tounorganised workers.

We have conducted interviews with officials

implementing these schemes in four districts ofBellary, Dakshina Kannada, Gulbarga and Mysore.In addition, primary data were collected from 440households benefiting from at least one schemefrom 44 villages in four districts on their experiencein accessing social security schemes andtransaction costs (amount and time spent) incurredby them in gaining access.

The main findings and recommendations ofthe study are the following.

● A review of application forms shows thatsome of the departments have workedtowards simplification and developingcommon application forms. There is,therefore, a need to remove the questions thatseek to collect superfluous information. But,several departments still insist on informationthat is not used in taking a decision tosanction a scheme or not.

● Another area where the reform is needed isthe online submission of applications. Thoughsome of the department has adopted onlinesubmission of applications, manydepartments follow the system of manualsubmission of application forms as it isperceived that the time for online submissionis not yet ripe on account of widespreadilliteracy and absence of internet facilities inrural areas. But, given that internet facilitiesare available in all hobli headquarter villages,there is need to think ways in which onlinesubmission of application forms can beencouraged to reduce the hardship to theunorganised worker households. The abovewould also reduce the need to travel a longdistance to submit application forms.

● There is also need to develop commonapplications for a group of schemes. This isbecause the critical information required fromthe applicants for taking the decision tosanction schemes like scholarship or micro-finance schemes are the same.

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● There is need to reduce or eliminateunnecessary support documents that areasked by the implementing departments.Because of the necessary support documents,the household has to run around and spendadditional amount to get the document.

can also develop common web portal forsubmission of applications for a group ofschemes. Such a reform is particularlysuitable for scholarship and self-employment(micro-finance) schemes mentioned above.This will become easy for applicants as theywill have to remember only one web portal.

Land Policy and Administration

— Dr Manasi S, Dr R G Nadadur, Prof P G Chengappa and Prof N Sivanna

As land rights are not well-defined in Indiathere have been implications in terms of conflicts,misuse and inequitable distribution of resources.Need and emphasis on well-defined land rightssystem has been stressed time and again byresearchers and policy makers. Hence, improvingthe record management has been a matter ofserious concern. Given this backdrop, the Stategovernment’s initiatives for making the landrecords of the state, both cadastral as well astextual data, accurate and making them reflectiveof the ground situation is laudable. One suchsuccessful e-governance initiative is the ‘BhoomiProject’. The processes have been further upgradedto integrate Bhoomi (computerization of landrecords), KAVERI (Registration of properties), andMojini (Measurement of properties) which are seenas one of the most promising approaches toaddress the problems of land records in India.However, to ensure that the system isimplemented in a proper way and in line withregulations, better feedback is needed on actualimplementation that can then help to establishproper mechanisms for supervision that areappropriately staffed.

Based on similar lines of Bhoomi Project, theKarnataka Government has taken up anotherinitiative on implementing Urban PropertyOwnership Record (UPOR) project and aims tocreate a comprehensive database of all properties.The project would be based on a city survey tolocate, identify, measure and map all urban real

estate properties besides collection of alldocuments describing the rights and transactionhistory on these properties and transferred intoproperty records cards. These property recordcards will be considered the only valid legaldocument to validate ownership henceforth. Theproject was initiated in five cities and planned toupscale to 10 cities and finally to all urban areasin Karnataka provided it is successful in the pilotcities (Mangalore, Bellary, Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad, Shimoga).

The overall objective of this study was to setthe framework for a sustainable expansion ofUPOR in issuing Property Cards (PCs) for all theeligible urban property owners and to enable theRevenue Department to monitor progress anddetect problems immediately. To do so, the studyreviewed UPOR implementation. We documentedprocesses, identified obstacles that affected thesystem, estimated costs compared to the benefitsaccrued in the light of expected income.Documentation of comprehensive typology of legalsituation and their economic implications and,developed a monitoring report inclusive of aformat for monitoring and track progress anddevelopment and update policy recommendationsand communicate with concerned authorities.With respect to BKM, the study reviewed usersatisfaction with land services and assessed thebenefits of computerisation, verification anddecentralised online delivery of rural land recordsand online integration across various processes,

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assess step wise impacts of Bhoomi, Kaveri,Nemmadi, Mojini and integration betweenBhoomi-Kaveri (both stages) implemented. Atempirical level the study used comprehensive datafrom secondary sources i.e. the implementingbodies in the Government and Service Providers

as well as primary fieldwork based data for BKMin the rural areas. The study is based on data fromfield surveys, secondary sources, and data receivedfrom the Department of Survey, Settlement andLand Records across the UPOR projects in the fivepilot study cities.

Eco-diversity Study in and around the BARC Project Siteat Challakere, Chitradurga District, Karnataka

— Prof Sunil Nautiyal

This report comprises authentic datacompiled through a field survey, rationalexplanation and scientific interpretation requiredto meet the objectives of the study. A baselinestudy of biodiversity is meant to provide areference point against which any future changesassociated with any anthropogenic activity can beassessed and also to offer information for asubsequent monitoring of biodiversityperformance. This research study seeks to exploresurveys, collect plant and animal specimens andto document species from aquatic and terrestrialecosystems. A phytosociological assessment and ananalysis of diversity indices of different vegetationstrata, i.e., trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers, treesaplings and seedlings across the study region,formed part of the objectives of the study. A studyincluding an analysis of the conservation status, i.e.identifying and documenting of floral and faunalspecies (including threatened and endemic), wastaken up as a research component. Thedocumentation of traditional knowledge related touse, conservation and management was alsointended to be part of the study. The examinationof land use/land cover class of the region for avegetation analysis was another objective of thisresearch study.

The study area is located in Chitradurgadistrict, Challakere taluk in Karnataka and spreadsover an area of 10 km radius from the site. The arealies within the Deccan Plateau, mostly covered bydry deciduous plants. The vegetation is sparselydistributed in this zone.

Extreme climatic (temperature) conditions arecharacteristic of Chitradurga. Challakere is boundby an arid region of southern India which is veryhot and the semi-arid and arid regions receive arelatively low rainfall with high temperatures. Inthis drought-prone area, the average temperaturesrange from 17oC (min) in winter and 43oC (max)in summer.

For the convenience of conducting the study,the entire area was divided into two zones: 0-5 km(Core Zone - called ‘CZ’ hereafter), 5-10 km (BufferZone - called ‘BZ’ hereafter), using the Survey ofIndia toposheet and Arc GIS software. In the CZ,there are 3 villages, namely Dodda ullarthi, Chikkaullarthi and Durgavara. In the CZ, we covered theentire area for conducting an extensive study. Thebuffer zone, (BZ) was divided into 16 sectors. Arandom sampling method was used foralternatively selecting one patch and two patchesfrom those sectors. In all the zones of the studyarea, for each of the patches, four transects werelaid starting from a base of the study area (patch)to the end of the zone. The study area was dividedinto habitat types and from each habitat, 30quadrats consisting of sub groups - trees, shrubs,climbers and herbs with sizes of quadrats being10m´10m, 5m´5m and 1m´1m were laidrespectively. While sampling trees and shrubs, thecircumference of species was recorded. A briefaccount of the seasonal appearance of plants likeflowering, fruiting and young leaves was alsorecorded under a phenological study.

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Changes in ecosystems or habitats are knownas beta diversity (â-diversity). Herbs show a highâ-diversity value 2.6 and trees show 2.1 in the CZ.For shrubs and climbers, the â-diversity values are2.3 and 2.1 respectively. In the BZ trees, shrubs,herbs and climbers show 1.9, 1.7, 1.6 and 1.8respectively. The Shannon-Wiener Index (H-) forboth the zones is derived to estimate the speciesdiversity within a given area. The H- values are inthe range of 0.009 to 2.24 for the species of CZ;0.001 to 3.14 for the BZ.

The faunal biodiversity study included classes– fishes, amphibians, reptiles, aves and mammalsunder vertebrates and arthropoda (Insects andSpiders) under invertebrates. Around Eighty-fourinsect species belonging to 23 families werecollected, identified and documented for threedifferent zones. Twenty-six spider species(individuals including males, females andjuveniles) were collected from different types ofhabitats. All these species belong to 13 families ofthe order Araneae in class Arachnida.

The total vertebrate species surveyed andlisted in the entire study area number 117belonging to different phyla – Amphibians (6),Reptiles (21), Aves (79) and Mammals (11). In viewof an adequate water presence during the studyperiod, we could not find any fish species from thestudy area. Six species were represented byamphibians, four of which belong to the familyRanidae. All of the 21 species of reptiles belong to

eight different families. Geckos show a gooddiversity spread and adaptive skills to this area.Aves, the most prevalent vertebrates in the region,comprise of 79 species, belonging to 79 families.The most abundant species belong to the familyAccipitridae represented by five species. The studyarea is a habitat for 11 species of mammalsbelonging to nine different families.

Remote-sensing technology and GeographicalInformation System (GIS) play an important rolein understanding the landscape dynamics.Landsat, LISS IV and LISS III data were used forthe current study to understand the changes inland-use and land cover across various zones ofthe study region. The toposheets D43K15, D43K11of 1:50,000 scales were procured from Survey ofIndia (SOI), Bangalore office, and registered in theUTM Zone-43N, WGS-84 Projection system.Precisely geo-referenced and radiometricallycalibrated (Level-1G products) satellite imageswere procured for the same season for the years1973, 1992, 2001 and 2012. The thematic layers ofwater bodies and road transportation wereprepared for CZ and BZ regions of the study area,by sub-setting the toposheets and digitising thevarious themes and creating a geo-database usingthe ERDAS and ARC-GIS software. We used acombined unsupervised and supervisedclassification method, popularly known as theHybrid Classification Method, successfully used bymany authors, in determining the extent of landcover.

Manipur’s Acculturation to Korean Culture

— Dr Marchang Reimeingam

Increase in media consumption hasstimulated an interest in acculturation processesand changes the psychosocial behaviour amongthe young people of Manipur. The study examinesthe nature and extent of acculturation to Koreanculture by them. It is based on field survey usingsnowball sampling technique in the capital ofManipur. Korean media consumption by them is

significant and acted as a catalyst to adopt Koreanculture, a blend of Western culture and SouthKorean culture, in the recent decade. Emergenceof Korean media is a corollary of the banning ofsatellite Hindi TV channels, exceptingDoordarshan, and screening of Hindi movies in thetheatres and at home in the state by the valley-based insurgents.

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The diverse inherent culture of Manipur iscompletely different from the Korean culture.However, the modern or western culture adoptedby the people of Manipur is common with theKorean practice. South Korean media, especiallymovies and dramas, is regarded as the maindrivers of acculturation to Korean culture. Theyouth are mostly involved in the Koreanacculturative process as they have lots ofenthusiasm, energy and time to imitate and followany activities although without understandingtheir real cultural values. A social, economic,cultural, behavioural and psychological life of thepeople of Manipur is associated with the adoptionof Korean culture. Liberalisation and globalisationhas largely contributed in terms of media accessand exposure.

Young people of Manipur are inclinedtowards Korean cultural orientation that isinfluenced by mass media and peer groups. Theyadopted certain Korean cultural component that issuited and fascinating to them. It signifies thatKorean culture is considered to be superior, moreattractive and appealing than their inherentculture. For them adopting Korean cultureincluding clothing, hairstyle etc is thrilling. Theentry point of acculturation to Korean culture isseen to begin at a teen age; however, they seem togradually relinquish it as they grow older.Adoption of Korean culture among the youngpeople does not really matter to whom they livewith. It suggests that in Manipur the society isliberal and ready to accept whichever is deem tobe best fit. They mostly adopt Korean culture withtheir free conscience; in some cases, superimposingagainst their parents will. They are crazy about theKorean culture; however, there are differences inthe degree of their interest.

Students, employed and unemployed youthsall adopt the culture as they are not only young butalso are style-driven by the peer pressure and

competitive behaviour. They adopt it irrespectiveof their family household income; however,affluent people are more likely to adopt it. Theyare mostly educated and have the ability to judgeand even influence others in appreciating themerits of Korean culture. Adoption of Koreanculture is prevalent in all the ethnic groups ofManipur. Surprisingly, all of them are not equallyproud about their own ethnic values, customs andtraditions.

Many of them do not know the country oforigin of the Korean wave or culture, i.e. SouthKorea; however, they have adopted it. A largenumber of people even feel some sort of pride inadopting it. It portrays that many of them are justadopting it for the sake of dressing, make-up orinteresting lifestyle that is good and attractive. Ithas no attribution to the Korean cultural values.They are relatively liberal and thus create space forfreedom of adopting and practising appreciableand attractive but socially acceptable ways of life.

The mass media has also contributed to thisprocess as the main motivating factor for adoptingthe Korean culture. Korean media consumers havea higher tendency to adopt Korean culture. Themotivation by the peer groups is not verysignificant. Koreanised people are really passionateand crazy about the Korean culture. Most of themprefer multiple items that relate and portray theKorean culture, such as their clothes, food,hairstyle, movies etc. They show their real passionfor it as more than half of them would never wantto abandon Korean culture in future perhapsbecause of their youthful and unmarriedcharacteristics that have liberalised their culturaland traditional values. The study concludes thatacculturation to Korean culture is prevalentirrespective of the youths’ household economicbackground, educational level, religion, occupationand ethnicity in Manipur.

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Enabling Tribal Communities to Improve Livelihoods and EnhanceBiodiversity Conservation: Scientific and Technological Interventions for

Sustainable Ecosystem Development in BR Hills, Western Ghats

— Prof Sunil Nautiyal

India is a country with rich biodiversity,unique physical and ethnic diversities, variedtraditional customs and expansive indigenousknowledge or the tribal wisdom. India is ladenwith biodiversity hotspots of which the two mostimportant biodiversity hotspots are the Himalayanand the Western Ghats. Both have their ownunique biodiversity which has been threatened inrecent times due to many economic and socialfactors. For the study, we are looking at theWestern Ghats whose unique biodiversity has beenthreatened by over-exploitation of naturalresources, unsustainable land use managementand other factors. This has lead to the degradedecosystem and to the insecurity of the people andbiodiversity of this hotspot. It is in this context thata study in the BR Hills has been proposed. Thestudy aims to understand the interactions betweenthe population residing in the region and theirsurrounding ecology, and to fathom the inter-linkages between the two. In a nutshell, the presentwork aims at exploring the appropriate livelihoodoptions for these socio-economically backwardtribal communities, and the economic valuation ofmedicinal plants and its importance for the localeconomy.

Medicinal plants are not only a majorresource for the traditional medicine and herbalindustry but also provide livelihood and healthsecurity to a large segment of Indian population.An extensive study on the medicinal and aromaticplants of BR Hills has been conducted and thedocumentation of the indigenous knowledgeregarding their use in the traditional healingsystem was carried out. With scientific interven-tions, cultivation methods of few prioritizedmedicinal and aromatic plants were developed.Awareness Workshops on the same was also

conducted for the tribal community to enhancetheir livelihood and socio economic status. A totalof 10 MAPs consisting of herbs, shrubs and treespossessing ecological and economical importancewere identified for the demonstration models. Thesame was also established in the farmers’ field.Herbal plants were selected for cultivation as maincrop in the agricultural field while shrubs and treeswere selected to grow in the margins of theagricultural land as an agro forestry model.

In demonstration models, various experi-ments on rural agro-biotechnology were bothdesigned and demonstrated keeping in view theemphasis for nursery development of theprioritized MAPs. In this innovation, participationof school children and teachers of the study regionwas ensured so that they would help in educatingtribal farmers in domesticating MAPs in their land.Both the traditional ecological knowledge of thetribal people and market potential of variousmedicinal and aromatic plants were taken intoconsideration for development of the suitable agro-technology for the improved livelihood of thetribal people of the study region.

Study on land use and land cover was donewith the help of empirical field survey and usingsatellite data and GIS to understand thedevelopment of socio-ecological system intemporal dimension and how it is influenced by avariety of driving forces such as policies, climate,socioeconomic change, national economy etc. Thepresent study was carried out in the biodiversityhotspot region contributed significantly to thepeople’s livelihood development and helped inpromoting innovative solutions to reduce threatsto biodiversity.

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Introduction and ObjectivesAcross the world, various cultures and their

practices have influenced, for thousands of years,the way people perceive and practice the use andabuse of natural resources. Culture and religionare often inter-linked, in that cultural views onwater resource management are largely based onthe main religious views of the region. Ancientscriptures, e.g., Bible, Quran, and Hinduscriptures- related literature have described thenature of these resources guiding people forcenturies, i.e., the way people should treat theseresources which are part of their daily life andrituals being practised. There are several studiesrelated to scriptures across religions and theirperceptions regarding ecological conservation.However, religious studies and their socio-economic and environmental relevance to society,more specifically to the current policy contexts, arelimited. This study attempts to bridge this gap, interms of understanding and learning lessons fromthe past to effectively address encounter thechallenges of the present and future. Given thissetting, the focus of this study was

i) To explore how water was conceptualized,conserved and managed

ii) To understand the historical, functional andfuturistic perspectives of water resourcesmanagement

iii) To draw lessons and evolve some policyguidelines

Main Findings and Outcome

Based on a detailed content framework alongwith sections/sub-sections developed andcirculated to paper writers, papers are written. The

content frame was developed based on an earlierpaper, ‘Water – A Heritage View’, where weworked at length on water perceived in its variouscultural forms and traditions and related aspects,in addition to reviewing the literature anddiscussions with experts and our currentexperiences in the arena of water resourcesmanagement. The content frame comprises severalsections like - reverence to water in ancient texts,benefits from water, conservation and promotionpractices, water purification practices, waterfestivals, technologies in water management, wateruse and management in ancient IndianCivilizations and so on. In the current context, itcovers the status and key concerns in watermanagement – use and abuse in view of culturalpractices, pollution, water access, inefficient use,water markets and as a futuristic context, thelessons to be drawn for sustainable practices inwater management. The highlights in the currentstudy is that it observes that culture has a greatinfluence – positive and negative on the practicesand challenges encountered in the current contextand that, analyses the cultural dimension and its,relevance and implications in terms of relating itto our current context to bring about the neededchange.

The report has a set of papers based on thedescription provided (i) Water and Scriptures – Anoverview (ii) Water and Hindu Scriptures (iii)Water and Biblical records (iv) Water and Islamicrecords (v) Water and Law (cuts across all threereligious scriptures) (vi) A critical review (vii)Lessons from the Past – A Review (viii) PolicyPerspectives of Water (ix) Ecology and Scriptures– A comparative overview.

Ecology and Scriptures - Water

— Prof K V Raju and Dr S Manasi

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Environmental Governance (EG) hasemerged as one of the most important dimensionsto address challenges of today’s world, includingIndia. It has become more complex andchallenging for the humanity and its governingstructure and organizations to address concernsrelating to natural resources management. Thismay be attributed to various types of implicationscaused by human activities across the landscape,both rural and urban. Decision making andgovernance can take place at different scales,starting from the global to the national and thento the local level. Depending on the problem athand, initiatives for governance may profitablybegin at one level and provide directions andlinkages for action at other levels. To begin with areview of policies and comparison of the same ismade to understand Environmental Governance inBangalore with respect to compliance, andinstitutional lacunas. The study has also reviewedglobal practices.

This study attempts to explain the status,methods, procedures, constraints faced, andidentifies critical issues for ecological governances.Also lists out both advantages and disadvantages.Role played by the local communities or and itsinadequacies, role played local NGOs, governmentagencies and how it is monitored and measured.This research is part of a larger study on ‘UrbanEnvironmental Governance in India: An EmpiricalStudy at Urban and Regional levels’.

Key FindingsReport on environmental governance – A case

study of Bangalore City

Report on environmental governance providea report inclusive of (i) review of literature onenvironmental governance, (ii) current status (iii)environmental governance policies (ii) analysis of

the current data and knowledge base and theknowledge gaps

Thematic areas

● Governance (history, organizations/agencies,elected bodies like City Corporation in respectof delivery of services).

● Spatial-Demographic dimensions (Populationgrowth, density patterns, spatial growth).

● Basic Amenities/Services (Water Supply,Sanitation, Solid Waste Management, UrbanLakes, Urban Transportation, Energy/PowerSupply etc).

● Urban Poverty (Slums and Access to BasicAmenities).

● Quality of Urban Life (Air quality, DrinkingWater Quality, Ground Water etc).

The study is largely based on extensivereview of literature and information, data anddiscussions with officials across departments inBangalore city. With the exception of institutionsand governance structures in the city, the rest ofthe data gathered was processed for analyzing thecritical and not so critical situations impactingenvironmental governance. The final output isspread across eight chapters based on thematicareas. In most cases, the available data used in thestudy relates to post-2000 and over the years.

The study examines different contextualissues such as urbanization, urban environmentalthreats, and crisis-like situations at both global anddomestic levels. The purpose is to explore how theprocess of urbanization and associatedenvironmental threats has contributed for theevolution of global and urban environmentalgovernance. Further, evidences regardingsustainable efforts, methods and approaches whichis followed and practiced across the global/world

Environmental Governance in India: An Empirical Studyof Urban Landscape and Regional Levels

— Prof K V Raju and Dr S Manasi

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implementation. Finally summary on how thegrowth patterns of both spatial and demographyhave carried with it enormous environmentalproblems inevitably leading to the verge ofenvironmental crisis like situation for the city arediscussed. Deliberations on the current trends andstatus of environmental resource use in BangaloreMetropolitan Area (BMA) and the dynamics oflocal institutions and governance structurestriangulate and interface affecting the managementof environmental resources which is crucial forregulating environmental governance is analyzed.Finally, summary of environmental governance inthe Bangalore metropolis is presented with actionplan for promoting effective environmentalgovernance for the city.

cities are discussed. Political settings in terms ofinstitutional regimes (rules, regulations, norms andstandards) and governance structures influence theenvironmental outcomes are dealt in detailfollowed with illustrations on how theseinstitutions and governance structure vary acrossnational and local levels, on various actors andscope. There exists now a strong consensus thatgovernance has strong effect on environmentalactions and outcomes. There is growing literatureon institutions and governing structures forsolving environmental challenges. Further, thelinkages between urban environment and theevolution of environmental legislations and legalframework are addressed. The legal frameworkenumerates the gap between legislation and actual

A Comprehensive Study on the Status of Scheduled Castes in Karnataka

— Dr Manohar S Yadav

This study was taken up at the instance of theDepartment of Planning, Government ofKarnataka, with a budget provision of Rs 24,00,000.Several scholars were engaged as expertcontributors for this project. The research reportemerging out of this project endeavour wassupposed to unearth the realities underlyingvarious domains of the life of the Scheduled Castes(SCs) in Karnataka. Accordingly the primary issuesinvolving health, education, literacy, livelihoodactivities, untouchability and atrocity relatedincidents were taken up for the probe. In addition,the SC representation in various political bodies,the issues relating to manual scavengers and SafaiKarmacharis, the existence of bonded labour andthe Devadasi systems and above all thefunctioning of the Scheduled Caste SpecialComponent Plan (SCSCP) were also taken up forthe overall situational analysis.

The draft report of the project, unfolding therealities with respect to the above issues, wassubmitted to the Planning Department,Government of Karnataka. The planning

department, in turn, gave its comments withsuggestions to incorporate few more issues and toeffect further improvements in the draft report.Consequently, all suggestions were incorporated inthe draft report and the final version of the reporthas been brought out.

Findings

Land and Employment Situation: TheScheduled Castes (SCs) in Karnataka arecontinuing to be left with precarious land base andhave no option but to go with floatingopportunities in field of withering agriculture.According to 2011 census, 52 per cent of the SCsin the state have been reported as landlessagricultural labourers. And, although their workparticipation as marginal and main cultivators isreported to be 26 per cent, the land that themajority of them cultivate actually gives out to beless than 5 guntas. Those of the SCs who migrateto the cities in search alternatives mostly take toinformal and toiling activities such as constructionworks and end up in slums for shelters.

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MGNRES and SCs: Because of theirlandlessness the SCs in Karnataka are enthusiasticto participate in MGNRES but are discriminated inwork allocations. When it comes to the number ofdays of work obtained under the programme, amajority of SCs obtain less than 20 days of workin a year.

Literacy and Education: The quality ofeducation that the SC students get from thevernacular medium of the government schoolslacks the essence to make them competent enoughto compete with their counterparts from English-medium private schools. The present educationsystem is also worthless on the count that it hardlygenerates creative, innovative, and self-makingabilities. As a result, the excellent zones ofeducation in science, medicine, mathematics,information technology, bio-technology, etc. eitherturn out to be beyond their reach or go out ofattraction.

Civic Amenities: The state of civic amenitiesof SCs in Karnataka is not so substantial as to makeone feel unperturbed. Extremely deficient andopen drainage system, very poor housingconditions, insufficient or near absence of toilets,lack of potable and adequate water supplycontinue to impede improvement in their healthand human situation in Karnataka.

Caste-Related Bondages: There exist variousforms of bondages that find basis in the structuralvalues of the caste system in Karnataka. Bonded

labour, Devadasi system, Manual scavenging arethree such crucial components that are directlyrelated to the caste slavery. While the incidence ofbonded labour still is very large in the state, thetotal number of bonded labourers, that has beenidentified, released and rehabilitated by theGovernment of Karnataka since October 25, 1976,from which date the 1976 Act on Bonded Labourwas sought to be implemented, is very small.

On the whole the report reveals many suchdark realities of the SC situation in Karnataka andrecommends multidimensional strategies toaddress those realities.

RecommendationsBased on the specific requirements of each of

the SC communities in Karnataka realistic policiesneed to be engineered to ensure their overalldevelopment. First of all, SCs have to beeducationally strengthened in terms of impartingquality education, may be with the support ofspecial and effective measures designed to meetthis purpose. A sustainable economic base, interms of encouraging them to take up decent andbeneficial occupational and business activities, hasto be created. Their delicate land position needs tobe improved. And, their housing and livingconditions with basic amenities need to beimproved also. In short, special efforts are requiredto be pressed in force so as to bring about theiroverall development.

Adolescent Child-Bearing and its Effect onMaternal and Child Health in India

— Prof R Mutharayappa

The main focus of the study is to understandthe extent of adolescent child-bearing and thefactors affecting adolescent child-bearing.Secondly, it aims to highlight the implications ofadolescent child-bearing on maternal and childhealth. To highlight these dimensions, the data

available from the National Family Health Surveys(NFHS) 1992-93, 1998-99 and 2005-06 were used.In all the NFHS surveys, women were asked abouttheir current age, age at marriage, age at first childbirth and number of children both living and dead.For the present study, the problems relating to the

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most recent births have been taken. In all thesurveys, the mother was asked if at any time ofpregnancy she experienced any pregnancy-relatedproblems. Women who had child births wereasked if they had massive vaginal bleeding or veryhigh fever at any time during the two months afterdelivery. Thirdly, in order to understand morbidityconditions during pregnancy, the survey askedwhether respondents had taken any antenatal careduring pregnancy, frequency of such care, place ofdelivery and problems during delivery. From thesedata, the extent of teenage pregnancies andproblems during pregnancy and delivery havebeen analysed. Also, the socio-economic anddemographic characteristics has been analysed toknow whether the socio-economic variables haveany affect on adolescent child-bearing and itsimpact on maternal and child healthcare.

Findings of the study show that marriage ofgirls at young ages is declining. Secondly, girlsgiven in marriage before 20 years are going down.This is because marriage of girls at young agesleads to teenage pregnancy and motherhood.Young women who become pregnant and havebirths experience a number of health problems as

well as social, economic and emotional problems.

It has been found that the women’seducational attainment, religion, standard ofliving, rural-urban differentials and caste groupdifferentials are not significant in relative risk ofbeing pregnant. However, among the socialgroups, Scheduled Caste women have been found18 per cent at higher risk of being pregnant.Educational attainment and standard of living arepositively linked with institutional delivery overthe periods from 1992-93 to 2005-06. Place ofresidence shows that although over the period theinstitutional deliveries have increased in ruralareas, the probability of use of institution to deliveris much less compared to urban areas. It may alsobe due to poor availability and accessibility ofdelivery facility in rural areas of the countrycompared to urban areas. Regional dynamics ofpregnancy-related complications show that exceptfor the western region, all regions were havinghigher risk of pregnancy-related complicationscompared to the southern region. On the otherhand, women from the eastern region experiencedfour times more complications during pregnancycompared to those from the southern region.

Evaluation of Karnataka State Finances

— Prof K Gayithri, Prof Meenakshi Rajeev, Dr Devendra Babu and Dr Barun Deb Pal

The present study has been sponsored by the14th Finance Commission, Government of India,with an overall objective of evaluating Karnatakastate finances based on its revenue generation,expenditure pattern, deficit level and use of debt,implementation of fiscal rules, transfers to localbodies, performance of public sector enterprises,subsidy, power sector reforms and working of thepublic sector financial management reforms.

Methodology: Karnataka state finances areevaluated in the present study based on theperformance over time and also, whereverpossible, using an inter-state perspective. The

study used secondary data from budgetdocuments, Economic Survey, FinanceDepartment’s computerized database, reports andexisting studies. Time period covered for the studywas from 2002-03 till 2013-14 (BE). The study useddescriptive statistics and appropriate econometricmethods to analyze the data. Data relating toPublic Sector enterprises was difficult to obtain asthe latest issue of Public Enterprise Survey hadbeen published very recently (providing data upto 2009-10 only) and did not provide adequate datafor a meaningful economic analysis.

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state and has pioneered many fiscal reforminitiatives. There has been a sea change on thestate’s fiscal front from one of severe fiscal stressin the decade of ’nineties to that of fiscal prudencefollowing a series of reform initiatives. The fiscalconsolidation path was initiated by the Karnatakastate government with the framing of legislationssuch as Fiscal Responsibility Act helping the stateto adhere to the fiscal and revenue deficit targetsand help enhance outlays on the social sector andthe capital account. Notwithstanding the recoveryin the state finances, sustaining sound fiscal healthin the long run is a major challenge. Efficientutilization of the state’s resources for the state’ssocio-economic development is the need of thehour.

● State’s own tax performance is very good anda majority of state taxes have proved to bebuoyant and the tax effort in the state ishighly comparable with the major states.Performance of Non-tax revenue on thecontrary, has been slack over time and incomparison with other major states. A largeexplicit subsidy element in the economicservices category offers less scope for costrecovery from these services.

● Analysis of public expenditure by the broadaggregates of public expenditure such as Planand non-Plan; revenue and capital;development and non-development revealedthat Karnataka’s performance has been goodand the state has had the distinction of beingamong the top states in terms of per capitadevelopment and Plan expenditure.

● Analysis of state’s fiscal position in terms ofthe deficit indicators, Fiscal Responsibility Actand status of public debt reveal thatKarnataka has been able to achieve the fiscaltargets well within the timelines and hasadhered to all the debt norms suggested bythe Thirteenth Finance commission.

● Performance of state public sector enterprises(PSEs) based on major financial data revealsthat profits and losses performance of theenterprises improved in the recent decade(2001 onwards) vis-à-vis the previous decade(1990-2000) indicating easing of burden onthe states due to losses of the loss-makingcompanies. Further, examining turnover tocapital employed ratio, the paper observes anoverall declining trend but comparativelyfigures in the recent decade (2001 onwards)have increased substantially compared to thedecade prior to 2001; however, a substantialdecline has been observed of late.

● Public Expenditure and FinancialManagement Reforms adopted in Karnatakahave laid emphasis on expenditure reforms,stressing on the need to adopt a threefoldapproach of outcome linkage-programmeprioritization and designing andrationalization of schemes and programmeson the basis of a medium-term performanceevaluation. Karnataka has tried outframeworks such as Departmental Medium-Term Framework; Programme PerformanceBudgets (PPBs); Monthly ProgrammeImplementation Calendar; ResultsFramework Document. While the state hasbeen very quick in adopting new initiatives,four varied approaches are attempted in aspan of eight years, which are also put todisuse fast. There are also issues such as useof inappropriate outcome indicators, pooroutcome database, multiple reporting formatsand inadequate understanding of the newapproaches.

● The issue of sustaining the sound fiscal healthin the long run needs immediate attention.The revenue led recovery achieved by thestate in the present juncture may not continuefor long in the absence of buoyant economicgrowth.

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Comprehensive District Agricultural Planning (C-DAP) in Karnataka:Capacity Building and Process Monitoring

— Dr M J Bhende, Prof N Sivanna, Dr M Devendra Babu

Keeping in view the objectives of theComprehensive District Agricultural Plan (C-DAP), guidelines as prescribed in the C-DAPManual and expectations and directions of theDepartment of Agriculture, Government ofKarnataka, ISEC has been actively involved in thepreparation of C-DAPs and in the programme ofcapacity building and process monitoring. Theprime objective of the capacity building exercisehas been to equip the representatives of PRIs,officials of the agriculture and line departments aswell as other stakeholders at the district and taluklevel, for preparing participatory agricultureplanning during the ensuing XIIth Plan period. Setin this backdrop, the following activities have beencarried out and the same will be followed forremaining programmes.

In order to facilitate this participatory processof decentralized planning, there is need forinitiating capacity building strategies to equip therepresentatives of Panchayats, official functionariesand stakeholders, with the understanding, skillsand access to information, knowledge and trainingthat enables them to perform effectively. The stepsinvolved and progress achieved so far arepresented below:

As part of preparing training modules and tomake the programme a need-based one (trainingneeds of the stakeholders), we visited Mysore andChamarajnagar districts to discuss with themembers of panchayats, especially standingcommittee members, officials of agriculturedepartment and Zilla Panchayats to elicit theirexpectations from the training programmes andhow would they benefit from such programmes forpreparing and implementing comprehensivedistrict agricultural plan in general anddepartment /sector specific plans in particular.This exercise provided us an opportunity to firsthave hand information of the field level problems

confronted by the members and officials and tointernalize the same.

1. C-DAP manual prepared by the PlanningCommission was translated from English toKannada and printed to circulate the sameamong the officials of agriculture and allieddepartments and Zilla Panchayats. Inaddition to this we have also developed andprinted three flyers in Kannada highlightingcontents of the manual in brief and the sameis being distributed to the participants (GPmembers/ PDOs/Secretaries and RSK staff)at the time of training programmes.

2. A project team, comprising three experts, oneeach in the areas of agriculture, panchayatrajand decentralised planning, under theleadership of Director, ISEC, was in chargeof conducting the capacity buildingprogrammes.

3. The training programmes have beenconducted at ‘hobli’ level by invitingpanchayat members, particularly themembers of the ‘Production StandingCommittee’, the adhyakasha, upadhyakashaand panchyat development officer / secretaryof the GP and the agriculture officers attachedto RSK (Raita Samparka Kendra), agriculturalassistants and progressive farmers.

4. The above programmes have been conductedsuccessfully in eight districts, viz; Mysore,Chamarajnagar, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi,Kodagu, Chitradurga, Davangere and Haveri.The training programme for CapacityBuilding in the preparation of C-DAP will beextended to remaining districts of the state.

5. For conducting the training programmes wehave taken the help of ANSSIRD trainedresource persons who are working at thetaluk level. These selected resource persons

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have been provided orientation about thetraining module and their work is also beingmonitored by making surprise visits by themembers of the project team.

6. As regards progress, training programme, sofar we have covered all the 154 hoblis of theabove 8 districts. A total of 6,192 GP membersand farmers and 1,016 officials (mostlyPDOs/ Secretaries and RSK staff) participatedin the capacity-building trainingprogrammes.

7. The one day training programme includeslectures followed by discussions and handson exercise of filling the proformas whichgive information pertaining to generalcharacteristics of the Grama Panchayat,resources of the GP and activities related toagriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry,fisheries, etc.

8. We have conducted training programmes fordistrict- and taluk-level officials separately.The participants include chairman andmembers of the Standing Committee onagriculture of ZP, officials from agricultureand allied departments, chief planningofficer, representative from lead bank andNABARD, APMC, etc. The Taluk-levelofficials include Adhyaksha / Upadhyaksha,

Taluk Planning Officer, taluk planningcommittee members, and officials fromagriculture and allied departments. Theresource persons for the trainingprogrammes for district- and Taluk-levelofficials are drawn from ISEC as well asexperts hired from outside.

9. Training is conducted in participative /interactive mode by involving participants inthe discussions. Lectures cover need andgenesis of C-DAP, history of decentralizedplanning, SWOT analysis, Vision, objective ofC-DAP, Synergy among the on-goingprogrammes, inventory of resources, andessential points for good C-DAP. Lecturesalso cover areas such as institutionalframework for decentralize planning,constitutional amendments (73rd), rights andpowers of the Panchayats and methodologyfor decentralised plan preparation. Finally,time is provided for general discussion.

10. The number of participants for district andtaluk level programmes ranged between 40and 110 depending on the number of taluksin the concerned district as well as pre-occupation of the panchayat members andofficials.

Institutional Structure and Performance ofAgriculture in North-East India

— Dr Komol Singha

Despite rice being the staple crop andcommonly grown in the North-Eastern Region ofIndia (NER), the crop failed to provide requiredhousehold income-security in the region. Besides,the region’s extreme climatic diversities, thedemand for rice crop has increased constantly. Inthis present study, an attempt has been made toanalyse overall sustainability of rice farming inNER, especially in Assam and Manipur. How havethe institutions – social, economic, political,

technological and environmental – fared inmaking rice-crop farming sustainable in the regionwere also discussed.

The study was based on both primary andsecondary data. As the crop performed well in theplain areas, shifting cultivation was ruled out,albeit around 65 per cent of the region is coveredby hills and mountains of different altitudes. Forthe primary data, altogether 453 sample rice

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farmers were interviewed. Principal ComponentAnalysis (PCA) was applied and 23 indicatorshave been aggregated and weighted according tothe underlying theoretical framework.

Paddy (rice) cultivation in the region wasfound to be a subsistence kind and the fate of thecrop depends mainly on the winter crop season.Despite small land holding (1.92 ha on an average)with poor technology, 100 per cent of the real tiller(sample farmer) could meet their food croprequirement. But, on an average, only 9.2 per centof the paddy farmers could generate surplus overself consumption and manage family expensessufficiently by cultivating paddy, and theremaining 90.8 per cent farmers weresupplemented their livelihood by other subsidiarysectors. In short, whether it generates surplus ornot, paddy cultivation is considered as a cultureand livelihood practice of the rural populace ofDespite rice being the staple crop and commonlygrown in the North-Eastern Region of India NER.The main motivating factors for this cultivationwere: the self-consumption requirement and theage-old parental occupation. Electricity usage inthe paddy cultivation was found to be verynegligible in the region.

In terms of sustainability of the paddyfarmers, based on the index value classification(Mean ± SD), hardly 23 per cent of the farmers ofthe region were found to be vulnerable. Altogether21 per cent of the farmers were categorised assustainable and 56 per cent were identified asmoderately sustainable. When we analysedseparately, of the States, 20 per cent of Manipurand 15 per cent of Assam paddy farmers wereidentified as sustainable, and 64 percent and 67 percent of Manipur and Assam respectively werefound to be moderately sustainable. Hardly 16 percent of Manipur and 18 per cent of Assam werefound to be trapped under the vulnerable category.

As of the role of different institutions, socialinstitution was found to have influenced the most

in paddy farming sustainability. It was followed byeconomic institution in the second position. Of thefive institutions incorporated in the study, politicalinstitution influenced the least on the overallpaddy sustainability index. Mention may be madethat the environmental institution impactednegligibly while constructing paddy sustainabilityindex. This may probably be due to the fact thatmore emphasis was given by the farmers to thequantity of output.

To conclude, sustainability of paddy crop perse is not an issue. Food crop requirement wasfound to be met for the real tiller, if not generatedsurplus. Generation of surplus paddy crop aftermeeting their (farmers) self-consumption is verynecessary, primarily to meet the ever increasingfood crop demand in the region and country ingeneral. With these backgrounds and as theanalysis made in the study, the following probablerecommendations may be made:

1. As the cropping intensity was found to bevery low (130%), double-croppingmechanism should be encouraged in NER.For which, new varieties of seed (HYV) orimproved seeds, mechanisation, irrigationand fertilizer should be assured.

2. As the adoption of modern implements inpaddy cultivation was found to be verynegligible, for generation of surplus paddycrop, it should be enhanced. As the smallerStates (e.g. Manipur) experienced negativearea growth trend, vertical expansion isrecommended, while the larger State (e.g.Assam) has got still some room for horizontalexpansion.

3. As the average land holding size (1.92 ha)was found to be very small, joint farmingsystem may be introduced so as to maximiseeconomies of scale. Otherwise, modernimplements cannot be utilised optimally andunit cost of cultivation may be very high.

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providing assured irrigation facilities; Watershedmanagement including watershed development,check-dam construction and rain-water harvesting;Installation of drip and sprinkler irrigationsystems; Undertaking of a massive quality seedreplacement programme; Diversification of agri-activities into horticulture, livestock rearing,dairying and fisheries etc., for creating additionalsources of livelihood options in addition to farmingand Extension of support services.

The rehabilitation package envisagedcompletion of all irrigation schemes, major,medium and minor, across the identified districtswithin a time frame. Watershed managementincluded construction of 500 check dams and 1,000rainwater harvesting structures per district peryear besides bringing in 15,000 ha. per district peryear under Participatory Watershed ManagementProgramme. The rehabilitation package involveda total amount of Rs 16,978.69 crore of which Rs10,579.43 crore as subsidy/grants and Rs 6,399.26crore as loan.

The main objectives of the study are:

● To explore whether the benefits of thepackage reached the intended beneficiaries,

● To assess the overall social and economicimpact of the Rehabilitation Package, and

● To study the constraints involved in theimplementation of the package and farmersperceptions about rehabilitation the package.

All the six districts identified by thegovernment of India for implementation of PMRMare selected for the impact assessment study. Onetaluk from each district having the highest numberof suicide cases (cumulative) among the taluks wasselected for primary data collection (Table 1.2). Alist of beneficiary households for different

Impact Assessment of Prime Minister’s Rehabilitation Package forFarmers in Suicide-Prone Districts of Karnataka

— Dr M J Bhende

Concerned with the agrarian crisis and moreso with the farmers’ suicides in some parts of thecountry, the Prime Minister on July 1, 2006, afterhaving visited some parts of the Vidarbha regionin Maharashtra, announced a rehabilitationpackage with the main objective of mitigating thedistress of farmers in the identified districts. OnSeptember 29, 2006, the Union Cabinet approvedthe Rehabilitation Package for 31 identifieddistricts in the States of Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra. Therehabilitation package aimed at establishing asustainable and viable farming and livelihoodsupport system through debt relief measures forfarmers, complete institutional credit coverage,crop centric approach to agriculture, assuredirrigation facilities, effective watershedmanagement, better extension and farmingsupport services and subsidiary incomeopportunities through horticulture, livestock,dairying, fisheries and other subsidiary activities.In order to alleviate the hardships faced by thedebt driven families of farmers, ex-gratia assistancefrom Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund at Rs50 lakh per district was also provided.

Six districts namely, Belgaum, Hassan,Chitradurga, Chickmaglur, Kodagu and Shimoga,were identified by the Government of India forassistance under the special package. A set ofproposed interventions / package announced bythe Prime Minister mainly covers the following:Complete credit cover through institutional creditsources; Debt relief to farmers through waiver ofentire overdue interest and rescheduling ofoverdue loans as on June 30, 2006; Additionalcredit flow for providing complete credit cover forthe identified 6 districts. The fresh credit flow forthe year 2006-07 was estimated at Rs 3,217.08 crore;Completion of major, medium and minorirrigation projects in the identified districts for

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programmes implemented under Prime Minister’sRehabilitation Package was collected from all thedepartments and agencies implementing the PMpackage. Based on the list of beneficiaries, a clusterof contiguous villages was selected foridentification of beneficiaries and data collection.On some occasions we had to travel 15-20 km tointerview the farmers especially for beneficiaries offisheries development programme. The requireddata were collected using pre-tested questionnaireby the personal interview method. Data werecollected from a total of 541 beneficiary householdscovering 81 villages of six districts.

It was observed that most of the farmers inthe suicide-prone districts got benefit from one orthe other scheme / component under the PMpackage. There is no clear-cut association betweenthe land-holding and the benefits availed. Thepercentage of the farmers benefiting from 3 ormore programmes in Belgaum, Kodagu andShimoga districts have smaller land holdingswhereas it is vice versa in Chitradurga,Chickmaglur and Hassan districts.

The direct assistance provided to farmhouseholds under PM package, like supply ofcertified seeds resulted in 7 to 10 per cent increasein the yield levels. Supply of sprinkler and dripirrigation sets is also appreciated by the beneficiaryfarmers as it had helped augment the area underirrigation. The provision of subsidy for purchaseof milch animals, NHM programmes helped inaugmenting the household income.

Timely supply of required certified seeds,quick sanction of loans and disbursement ofsubsidy for purchase of milch animals,strengthening of extension services and betteraccess, provision of logistics and infrastructurefacilities for extension of area under high valuehorticultural crops would help improve theeconomic conditions of distressed farmers insuicide prone districts of Karnataka. Finally, asrecommended by Golait, a more pro-active role increating and maintaining reliable irrigation andother agriculture infrastructure is necessary toaddress farmer distress in India.

Non-Tariff Barriers in Trade Supply Chain between India and Sri Lanka

— Dr Barun Deb Pal

The Asia Foundation in April 2013 conveneda group of 10 partners from Bangladesh, India,Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for a three-dayworkshop to examine the constraints to tradewithin South Asia and develop a joint three-yearprogramme plan under the Challenge Fund.During the course of this meeting, the partnersdiscussed various Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs)affecting trade among members of the SAARCregion. Through this proposed fund, theFoundation challenged these groups to developand implement, individually or jointly, initiativesthat demonstrate concrete initial results inreducing or eliminating NTBs. In due course thestudy on ‘Non-Tariff Barriers under the Free TradeAgreement: A study of India and Sri Lanka’ wasassigned to the Centre for Economic Studies and

Policy at the Institute of Social and EconomicChange, Bangalore.

The resulting report has received guidancefrom stakeholders and external experts in bothIndia and Sri Lanka. It incorporates their feedbackand perspectives and presents the key findings andother deliverables. The study illustrates the existingimbalance in trade scenario between India and SriLanka under the Free Trade Agreement regimewith the help of secondary dataset. Subsequently,the report demonstrates the importance ofunderstanding the role of logistics support in trade.It asserts that poor logistics support may increasetransaction cost and hence strengthen NTBs. Itbegins with describing logistics processes and thenmoves on to discuss NTBs existing within the

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fabric of such processes. It is followed by theillustration of ongoing debates on how to identifyNTBs and presents case studies in a manner thatthrow light to the problem of NTBs. Finally, thestudy comes up with a set of recommendationsthat addresses both policy and process relatedbarriers.

The premise of the study was based on thewisdom that while move towards bilateralismbetween India and Sri Lanka began as early as 1975it was only after the signing of the Indo-Sri LankanFree Trade Agreement (ISFTA) – the first everbilateral FTA in South Asia — there wasimprovement in economic prosperity of both thecountries through better trade relationship. Whilethere have been positive developments in tradedue to the signing of the ISFTA; the full benefit ofit has not been realized. 65% of Sri Lankan exportsto India are under the FTA route while only 13%of Indian exports to Sri Lanka fall under this. Thisto due to the fact that while specific trade barriershave been lowered over the years, non- tariffbarriers are on the rise. This prevents seamlessand free trade from taking place among countries,in turn affecting the growth prospects. Hence, tofocus on NTBs arising between India and Sri Lankaand find out a scientific way forward to get betterbenefit from the decade-old ISFTA is a crucialpolicy issue for both the countries.

As a part of economic analysis of variousbilateral trade agreement policies, using structureddata from WITS as well as unstructured dataobtained through consultation with stakeholders invarious cities the study reveals how costs ofproducts traded increase from production to

distribution as they move through the supplychain. In order to understand the supply chain,cross border economic activities which involvelogistics support have been described both in termsof exports and import process. It illustrates howthe export and import logistics procedure takesplace in major ports of India. Gaps where NTBstake shelter and hence slow down the completionof a supply chain activity have also been focusedupon.

Through primary survey in India and SriLanka, an attempt is made to develop an inventoryof NTBs for each country. The methodologyfollowed included the following steps (i)Exploratory Research (ii) Expert Consultation (iii)Primary Survey including qualitative andquantitative interviews (iv) Main Field survey inIndia and Sri Lanka. The structure of the inventorythat the study team has developed is classifiedunder broad heads — Contingent Measures,Import Policy Barriers, Ethical Issues, GeneralBarriers that impede trade and NTBs notoriginating from NTMs – making it much easier tocomprehend for readers. Case studies highlightingeach NTB have also been included.

The major recommendations made by thestudy include harmonising TBT/SPS standards;creating a grievance cell for regular interactionsbetween the key government officials and tradebodies on NTM issues, standardizing operationprocedures, strengthening port infrastructure andtrading in INR or LRK at a commonly decided rateas a prerequisite for reaching regional economicintegration.

Monitoring of SSA in Karnataka

— Dr K S Umamani, Dr M Lingaraju and Dr Indrajit Bairagya

This monitoring work was carried out fromOctober 2013 to March 2015. The task began withthe selection and training of the personnel requiredto carry out data collection. Fifteen districts were

monitored during this period: Mandya, Mysore,Hassan, Raichur, Davanagere, Bidar, Kolar,Chikkaballapura, Gadaga, Dharwad, Kodagu,Tumkur, Belgaum, Shivamogga and Udupi. The

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survey was carried out in three rounds. A sampleof 40 schools from each of the district weremonitored. The analysis of the data was carried outfor all the 15 districts and the reports weresubmitted to the State office and MHRD. Thefollowing are the salient observations and findings:

Access: All the schools have good physicalaccess as a majority of the enrolled children belongto habitations where schools are located. Manyparents wish to admit their children to schoolsaway from their habitation as they consider thoseschools as academically successful and popular.Some children walk long distances of 3-5 km.

Most of the schools have sufficient number ofclass rooms. The average student-class room ratioin most of the sampled schools is favourablyinclined with a few exceptions. The text-books aresupplied prior to reopening of schools in mostcases with a few instances of delay and backlog.All the schools have blackboards but their qualityin some schools is either average or poor. Whilelibraries with newspapers and collection of booksprevail in most of the schools, only some schoolshave play grounds. Most of the schools have watersource on the premises. All the schools haveprovision for separate toilets for boys, girls andteachers.

Enabling condition: The quality of schooleducation primarily depends upon teachers, theirtraining and the required grants. Although theDepartment makes efforts to appoint teachers in allschools and for all subjects, there have been somevacancies in all districts. It is observed that thereare in-service and annual training programmes forteachers to achieve quality. All the schools getannual grants and special grants on the basis ofallotment.

The study also monitored the nature ofteaching and prevalence of constructive approachin the day-to-day teaching. It was found that amajority of the teachers are not conceptually clear

about constructive approach. However, most of theteachers consciously use child-centred approach.The class-room observation indicates that there areattempts to provide autonomy to the learners andto seek their participation.

Computer-Aided Learning: Teaching hasbeen modernized by equipping schools withcomputers and CAL resource material in a phasedmanner. One of the ways has been by providinggrants through SSA scheme and other sources. Itis found that many schools are acquiring and usingcomputers to support teaching–learning process.Many teachers have also been trained in usingCAL resources.

Girls’ Education: The task of promoting girlseducation has been one of the priority areas sinceIndependence. The SSA has pursued this goalrigorously. It is observed that all the districts haverecorded higher ratio of enrolment of girls thanthat of boys. This trend is partly due to the fact thata majority of the parents consider admitting boysto English medium schools and girls toGovernment Kannada medium schools which donot demand any financial commitment. Amongthe sampled schools, KGBVs have been monitoredto examine their contribution to improve girls’education.

Infrastructure: In order to improve thequality of Primary education, attempts have beenmade to strengthen infrastructure and developschool campuses. Funds have been allotted toselect schools to build class rooms, kitchen for mid-day meal, toilets and other requirements. All thedistricts have been availing this benefit.

The participation of SMC and its members isadvocated for the progress of schools. All theschools are officially expected to constitutecommittees of parents of the children. This isconsidered a crucial measure in ensuringcommunity participation and involvement of thecommunity.

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1. Tariff Fixation for the Bangalore MetroRail Project (Dr Barun Deb Pal andMs B P Vani)

2. Financial Exclusion in Urban Regions:A Few Case Studies of Karnataka(Prof Meenakshi Rajeev & Ms B P Vani)

3. District Human Development Report forDavanagere (Prof N Sivanna)

4. Status of Environmental Education (EE)at School Level – A Case Study of Schoolsin Ward 162, Girinagar, Bangalore City(Dr K S Umamani)

5. Educated Unemployment in India:Causes, Consequences and Remedies(Dr Indrajit Bairagya)

6. Governance Reforms in Infrastructurein India: Initiatives and Outcomes(Prof S N Sangita)

7. Governance: Theoretical and EmpiricalIssues (Prof Siddharth Swaminathan)

8. Evaluation Programme 2013-14 ofKarnataka State Literacy MissionAuthority (Dr I Maruthi)

9. Accounting for Urban Ecosystem Services:A Case Study of Bangalore(Dr M Balasubramanian)

Project Reports under Final Revision

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1. Changing Consumption Pattern in India:Opportunities for Diversification towardsHigh Value Commodities throughProduction and Marketing Linkages (Prof PG Chengappa)

Date of Commencement : May 2011Expected Date of Completion : NA

2. Agricultural Indicators (Dr A V Manjunathaand Prof M J Bhende)

Date of Commencement : April 2012Expected Date of Completion : NA

3. Value Chains for Sustainable Conservation,Integrated Development and LivelihoodsPromotion: An Application to ButterflyFarming in India (Prof P G Chengappa)

Date of Commencement : July 2012Expected Date of Completion : March 2016

4. Outlook on Agriculture (Prof ParmodKumar)

Date of Commencement : July 2012Expected Date of Completion : NA

5. Impact Evaluation Study of Rashtriya KrishiVikas Yojana in India (Prof Parmod KumarDr A V Manjunatha, Dr Elumalai Kannan, DrM J Bhende, Dr K B Ramappa, Dr KomolSingha)


6. Impact of National Food Security Mission(NFSM) on Input Use, Production,Productivity and Income: A Case Study in

Karnataka (Dr A V Manjunatha and ProfParmod Kumar)

Date of Commencement : Jan 2014Expected Date of Completion : May 2015

7. Adoption of Recommended Doses ofFertilizers on Soil Test Basis by Farmers inKarnataka (Dr K B Ramappa and DrElumalai Kannan)

Date of Commencement : Jan 2014Expected Date of Completion : April 2015

8. Documentation of Success Stories of FoodProcessing Units in Karnataka (Dr I Maruthi)

Date of Commencement : Jan 2014Expected Date of Completion : Aug 2015

9. Assessment of Socio-Economic Capabilitiesof Dalit Households in Karnataka (Dr IMaruthi)

Date of Commencement : Jan 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

10. The Relationship between Wholesale Prices,Retail Prices, Export Prices and PricesRealised by the Farmers (Dr Parmod Kumarand Dr K B Ramappa)

Date of Commencement : July 2014Expected Date of Completion : May 2015

11. Impact Evaluation of BhoochetanaProgramme in Karnataka (Dr ElumalaiKannan and Dr K B Ramappa)

Date of Commencement : July 2014Expected Date of Completion : April 2015

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12. India-Canada Pulses Trade: Prospects andChallenges (Dr Elumalai Kannan)

Date of Commencement : Oct. 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

13. Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth(Prof D Rajasekhar)

Date of Commencement : June 2007Expected Date of Completion : NA

14. Institutions, Governance and Development:A Study of Selected Grama Panchayats inKarnataka (Prof D Rajasekhar and Dr MDevendra Babu)

Date of Commencement : July 2012Expected Date of Completion : July 2015

15. District Human Development Report ofRamanagara (Dr M Devendra Babu)

Date of Commencement : Feb 2013Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

16. District Human Development Report ofChikballapura (Dr M Devendra Babu)

Date of Commencement : Jan. 2014Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

17. Decentralization and Social Security: AStudy of Single Window Service Centres forUnorganised Workers (Prof D Rajasekhar)

Date of Commencement : Dec. 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

18. Livelihoods, Vulnerability and AdaptationStrategies to Climate Variability andChange: A Bottom Up Approach to Simulatethe Climate Change Impacts in TwoSensitive Ecological Regions (BiodiversityHotpots of India) (Prof Sunil Nautiyal, Dr KS Rao, Botany Dept, Delhi Univ. and Prof KV Raju)

Date of Commencement : Jan. 2012Expected Date of Completion : NA

19. Towards Improving Urban SanitationManagement and Performance in Bangalore– Understanding the Performance andBenefits of Constructing Private Toiletsunder INFOSYS Foundation (Dr S Manasiand Prof Sunil Nautiyal)

Date of Commencement : May 2013Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

20. Conservation of Agro-biodiversity andEcosystem Management: A Study in IndianAgro-Climatic Sub-zones (Prof SunilNautiyal)


21. Trade Facilitation and Trade Performance:An Appraisal in the context of India’s selectSEZs (Dr Malini L Tantri)

Date of Commencement : March 2013Expected Date of Completion : NA

22. Universal Old Age Pension in India:Estimates of Economic Demand, Public Costand Financing Options (Prof M R Narayana)

Date of Commencement : Nov. 2013Expected Date of Completion : July 2015

23. Climate Change and Efficiency or UrbanWater Supply and Demand Management inBangalore and New York Cities: AComparative Study (Dr Krishna Raj)


24. Health Insurance for the Poor and Elderly:Is RSBY the Answer? (Prof Meenakshi Rajeevand Ms B P Vani)

Date of Commencement : Nov. 2013Expected Date of Completion : Dec. 2015

25. Mapping of Farm and Non-farm Linkage inRural India (Prof Meenakshi Rajeev)

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26. Financial Inclusion in Rural Area: Impact ofPolicies (A Case Study of Karnataka) (DrVeerashekharappa)

Date of Commencement : Oct 2014Expected Date of Completion : May 2015

27. Monitoring of SSA-RTE in KarnatakaPeriod: November 2014 to March 2015 (Dr KS Umamani, Dr M Lingaraju and Dr IndrajitBairagya)

Date of Commencement : Sept 2013Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

28. Urban Governance Policy and Planning inKarnataka and Andhra Pradesh (Dr V AnilKumar)

Date of Commencement : March 2013Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

29. Globalization, Democratic Politics andInclusive Governance: Experiences fromIndia (Prof S N Sangita)

Date of Commencement : June 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

30. Work and Workers in the New ServiceEconomy (Prof Supriya RoyChowdhury andMs B P Vani)

Date of Commencement : Oct 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

31. Urban Governance and Local Democracy inKarnataka and Andhra Pradesh (Dr V AnilKumar)


32. A Philosophy of Action: Hannah Arendt andModernity (Dr V Anil Kumar)


33. Discrimination and Patterns of Healthseeking Behavior of Dalit and MuslimCommunities in Selected Villages ofKarnataka (Dr Sobin George)

Date of Commencement : Dec 2012Expected Date of Completion : April 2015

34. Impact of Education and Employment on theEconomy of Scheduled Tribes of North-EastIndia (Dr Marchang Reimeingam)

Date of Commencement : June 2013Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

35. Gram Panchayats in Karnataka: Reservationand Participation of Representatives (DrAnand Inbanathan)

Date of Commencement : April 2014Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

36. Assessing Quality of Civil RegistrationSystem (CRS) data at the district level on aregular basis for facilitating updatingexercise of National Population Register(NPR) (Prof K S James, Dr P M Kulkarni ofJNU, New Delhi)

Date of Commencement : May 2012Expected Date of Completion : NA

37. Family Planning and Women’s workParticipation in India (Dr T N Bhat)

Date of Commencement : Oct 2012Expected Date of Completion : Aug 2015

38. Building Knowledge Base on Ageing inIndia – Increased Awareness, Access andQuality of Elderly Services (Prof K S James,Dr T S Syamala, Dr Lekha Subaiya and Dr TN Bhat)


39. Ageing and Well-being in a GlobalisedWorld (Prof K S James, Dr T S Syamala andDr Lekha Subaiya)

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40. Migrant’s Suitcase: Examining the Flow ofNorms, Identity and Social Capital betweenIndia and Netherlands (Prof K S James)

Date of Commencement : Jan 2013Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

41. Spatial Inequality of Urban Growth inKarnataka: Trends, Levels and Implications(Dr C M Lakshmana)

Date of Commencement : Feb 2014Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

42. PIP Monitoring is 12 Districts of Karnatakaand Jharkhand (K S James and All PRC Staff)


43. Bangalore City Surveys-2 (Prof Kala SSridhar and Dr S Manasi)

Date of Commencement : July 2014Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

44. Pathways to Sanitation: GrowingChallenges and Access to Urban Poor: AStudy of Bangalore City (Dr S Manasi)

Date of Commencement : Sept 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

45. A Study on Female Street Vendors inBangalore City (Prof R Mutharayappa and DrK C Channamma)

Date of Commencement : Aug 2014Expected Date of Completion : NA

46. Socio-Economic Impact Assessment ofLiving Micro Organisms (LMOs) (Dr A VManjunatha and Dr Elumalai Kannan)

Date of Commencement : March 2015Expected Date of Completion : Sept 2016(18 months)

47. Status Paper on Slum Governance inKarnataka: Trends, Issues and Roadmap(Prof S Madheswaran and Ms B P Vani)


48. Interest Subvention in Agriculture Credit:Does it serve the Purpose? (Prof MeenakshiRajeev and Ms B P Vani)

Date of Commencement : April 2015Expected Date of Completion : April 2016

49. Food Distribution in Emerging Markets: TheCase of Indian Seafood (Prof MeenakshiRajeev)

Date of Commencement : April 2015Expected Date of Completion : April 2018

50. Prioritizing Climate Smart Technologies inMadhya Pradesh (Dr Barun Deb Pal)

Date of Commencement : March 2015Expected Date of Completion : June 2015

51. Status of Transgenders in Karnataka (DrAnand Inbanathan, Dr Sobin George)


52. Gender and Life Vulnerability: Study ofWomen Health from Gender Perspective(Prof R Mutharayappa and Dr K CChannamma)

Date of Commencement : Jan 2015Expected Date of Completion : Jan 2016

53. WHO-Sage India Study on Global Ageingand Adult Health in India – Wave 2 2015 forthe State of Karnataka (Dr C M Lakshmana)

Date of Commencement : Feb 2015Expected Date of Completion : July 2015

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1. Certificate Course in Methods andApplications in Social Science ResearchThe Certificate Course in Methods and

Applications in Social Science Research(CCMASSR) is an inter-disciplinary social scienceresearch approach, being offered by ISEC. Thiscourse is partially supported by the SRTT fund ofISEC for capacity building and the remainingfinancial requirement is met by charging a nominalfee to the participants. This year, 22 participantstook part in the course conducted during May 12-23, 2014, at ISEC campus. They hailed from Indiaand abroad and belonged to different disciplines,like Geography, Social Work, Political Science,Sociology, Economics, Literature and Statistics.Resource persons from ISEC, Indian Institute ofScience, Karnataka State Planning Board, andChrist University, Bangalore, delivered lectures onpractical and theoretical approaches of socialscience research. The training classes includedtopics on various approaches to social scienceresearch, qualitative and quantitative methods andhands-on experience of SPSS and Stata software.The training course was coordinated by Dr SobinGeorge with support from Mr Khalil Musa Shah.

2. Orientation to IAS ProbationersThe Centre for Economic Studies and Policy

(CESP) of ISEC organized a two-day trainingprogramme on May 23-24, 2014 for the IASProbationers of the Karnataka Cadre. The themeof the training programme was, ‘Karnataka:Society, Economy and Polity’. The programmeaims to orient the fresh recruits to the IndianAdministrative Services to development concerns

of Karnataka. As a part of the training programme,eminent resource persons – both academics andformer civil servants – were invited to deliverlectures. In all there were eight technical sessionsdiscussing various important aspects ofKarnataka’s economy, society and polity inaddition to the inaugural and concluding sessions.This programme was sponsored by theDepartment of Personnel Administration andReforms (DP & AR), Government of Karnataka,and was coordinated by Dr K Gayithri of CESP.

3. 12th Prof L S Venkataramanan MemorialLecture

The 12th Prof Venkataramanan MemorialLecture was delivered by Prof Ramesh Chand,Director, National Centre for AgriculturalEconomics and Policy Research (NCAP) of ICAR,on the topic, ‘Agricultural Growth, Farmers’Income and Nutrition Security: Linkages andChallenges’, at ISEC on July 1, 2014.

Prof Chand stated that since the mid-1990s,Indian agriculture had moved through two distinctphases: the period from mid-1990s to mid-2000switnessed slowdown of agriculture growth fromabove 3.5 per cent to below 2 per cent; that trendwas followed by a sharp turnaround in 2005-06which took agriculture back to above 3.5% growth.He emphasized the fact that the most importantfactor for the improved performance of agriculturepost-2004-05, had been the increase in the pricesreceived by farmers. This was a result of hike givento MSP, increase in foodgrain procurement,increase in global agricultural prices and strongdomestic demand for food. The favourable prices

5. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

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induced farmers to use better seed, apply higherdoses of inputs, take better care of crops andlivestock, and adopt improved technology andmethods of production. This process was furtheraided by liberal supply of institutional credit andirrigation expansion. Slowdown of agriculturegrowth and its recovery in response to changes inprice and non-price factors clearly established thatIndian farmers responded rather strongly tovarious types of incentives. This recovery refutedto some extent the argument that the interest infarming was diminishing. He observed that theinterest of farmers in agriculture depended onprofitability from farming.

Prof Chand also pointed out that in spite ofhaving the same set of national policies and macroenvironment, some states achieved more than 5per cent growth while some could not grow evenat 3 per cent. Low growth states, particularly UttarPradesh and Odisha, could learn a lot from theexperience of states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Rajasthan, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, AndhraPradesh and Maharashtra. He emphasized that tomaintain the high growth tempo, ways and meanshad to be devised to sustain profitability incentive.He pointed out that agricultural marketing had notmoved to the next stage of development.Agricultural development strategy should beexpanded to bring marketing in its fold to improvecompetition, reduce inefficiency and harnessmarket innovations. This should enable famers toget better prices and higher share in prices paid byend users without adding to inflation. Withoutthis, it would be very difficult to sustain theagricultural achievements of the last decade in thecoming years. He also expressed concern thatgrowth in food production was not being reflectedin improvement in nutrition measured by dietaryenergy intake. He emphasized that to ensureadequate nutrition consistent with preference ofIndian consumers, the intake of livestock productslike dairy products, eggs and meat should beincreased and this may require change in strategyof agricultural production and distribution beingfollowed in the country.

4. ISEC-NCI International Post-GraduateCourse on ‘Approaching theEnvironment in India – Issues andMethods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface’The Centre for Ecological Economics and

Natural Resources (CEENR) and the Centre forResearch in Urban Affairs (CRUA) of ISEC inassociation with the Nordic Centre in India (NCI),Sweden, organised a four-week inter-disciplinarycourse on ‘Approaching the Environment in India:New Theories and Methods in the Study of theNature-Society Interface’ during July 6-August 2,2014, for post-graduate students from Nordiccountries – Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norwayand Iceland.

This year, 10 students participated in thecourse, which ISEC has been organizing since 2006.They were introduced to issues related toenvironment, environment-nature-economyinterface, human well-being, sustainabledevelopment, natural resource management,environmental movements, environmental law,urban environment and cultural perspective ofenvironmental conservation etc. Field trips wereorganized to Biligiriranga Hills in the WesternGhats, Jadigenahalli Grama Panchayat and Ward128 of Bangalore city for practical field experienceand exposure to various environmental concerns.

After successful completion of the course,certificates were distributed to the participantsduring the valedictory session. This course for theresearchers/students from Nordic countries isequivalent to 10 European Union Credits (ECTS).

Dr S Manasi of CRUA and Dr Sunil Nautiyalof CEENRcoordinated the course.

5. Training Programme for ISSProbationary Officers

A two-week training programme in AppliedEconometrics for the ISS probationers wasorganised by the Centre for Economic Studies andPolicy (CESP) of ISEC during August 4-14, 2014 at

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the Institute. The programme was sponsored bythe Ministry of Statistics and ProgrammeImplementation through National StatisticalSystems Training Academy, Delhi. It wasinaugurated by the then Director of ISEC, Prof BK Pattnaik, who also delivered the welcomeaddress. Prof S Madheswaran addressed thegathering and talked about the role of AppliedEconometrics in policy making.

A number of well-known econometriciansfrom various parts of India attended theprogramme. The Valedictory address wasdelivered by Prof. Nityananda Sarkar of IndianStatistical Institute, Kolkata. The trainingprogramme was organised by Ms B P Vani andProf Meenakshi Rajeev of CESP.

6. Training Programme for Members ofZilla Panchayats in KarnatakaBy paving the way for the third level political

structure in rural India, the 73rd Amendment Actbestowed various development and nondevelopment responsibilities to rural local politicalinstitutions at the district, taluk and village level.Although seats have been reserved for thosebelonging to SC/ST community, many are notaware of their governance and administrativeroles. A two-day training programme was,therefore, organized at ISEC for SC/ST membersof Zilla Panchayats of Karnataka during August20-21, 2014. The topics covered include the needfor decentralization, leadership qualities,governance, roles and responsibilities,management of finances, planning andimplementation of programmes/schemes.Participants have informed that they were able tounderstand issues relating to development andempowerment, and the need for active individualparticipation in various meetings and platforms.They felt that training should be organized soonafter the elections, and on continuous basis. Thisprogramme was coordinated by Prof D Rajasekharand Dr M Devendra Babu of CDD.

7. Orientation and ScholarshipDistribution Programme for SSTSSStudentsSocial Science Talent Search Scheme (SSTSS)

is an on-going programme of ISEC since January2011, undertaken in collaboration with BangaloreUniversity and the Christ University. While thetwo universities sponsor scholarships formeritorious students, the programme receivesfinancial support from Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT),as part of its support to academic and scholarlyinitiatives at ISEC. The Programme is an initiativeto address the dwindling interest among studentfraternity in social science subjects opted for degreecourses. It encourages talented boys and girlsstudying at second-year PUC level to write acompetitive exam passing which with high marks,qualifies the top 35 students every year (25 and 10students belong to both Bangalore University andChrist University) to avail Orientations on SocialScience Scope and Relevance and ScholarshipDistribution to these selected meritorious studentsof every batch two times a year-August andJanuary. Altogether there are 105 students arebenefiting by this novel programme.

As part of this initiative and in continuationof the earlier such presentations, half-yearlyscholarship distribution ceremony was organizedat ISEC during August 23-24, 2014. Nodal officersfrom the colleges, parents of the students, visitingprofessors, faculty and members of ISEC attendedthe event. This programme was coordinated by DrM Lingaraju of the CHRD.

8. Dissemination Seminar of the Report on‘The Status of Elderly in Odisha’A one-day Dissemination Seminar of the

Report on ‘The Status of Elderly in Odisha’ washeld in collaboration with UNFPA state office,Bhubaneswar, on September 2, 2014. The seminarwas inaugurated by Minister for Women and ChildDevelopment, Government of Odisha. There werethree technical sessions in the final disseminationon the various aspects of the report. Around 150

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representatives of the government, NGOs, civilsociety organizations and academic staffparticipated in the seminar. The seminar wascoordinated by Dr T N Bhat of PRC.

9. Workshop on Impact Evaluation ofBhoochetana Programme in KarnatakaThe project inception workshop on ‘Impact

Evaluation of Bhoochetana Programme inKarnataka’ was organised at ISEC on September17, 2014. The inception workshop was organisedwith the purpose of seeking suggestions fromvarious stakeholders, subject experts and fundingagency on the proposed project activities. Morespecifically, it was expected to get useful feedbackon conceptualisation of Bhoochetana technologycomponents, sampling method, study area,reference crops and impact indicators. Theworkshop was attended by 52 participantscomprising eminent scientists from the Universityof Agricultural Sciences (Bangalore, Dharwad,Raichur), University of Agricultural andHorticultural Sciences, Shimoga, College ofHorticulture, Kolar, senior officers from theDepartment of Agriculture, Government ofKarnataka, ICRISAT scientists and socio-economists from ISEC.

The discussion in the inception workshop wasorganised in two technical sessions. In theinaugural session, a presentation about thestrategies and progress of the Bhoochetanaprogramme in Karnataka was made by theDepartment of Agriculture. The first technicalsession focused on the overview of the proposedstudy including the Terms of Reference andconceptualisation of the programme. The secondtechnical session focused on the sampling method,study area and selection of crops, and impactindicators. Suggestions on these aspects weresought from the participants while makingpresentation by the project team. This project isfunded by the ICRISAT, Hyderabad, and is carriedout by Dr Elumalai Kannan and Dr Ramappa K Bof the ADRTC.

10. Workshop on District HumanDevelopment Report of ChikkballapuraZilla PanchayatThe Karnataka Government has initiated

preparation of District Human DevelopmentReport (DHDR) for all the districts of the state. Themain objective of this exercise is to measure humandevelopment at the sub-district level. This initiativeat the taluk level is first of its kind in the entirecountry. In the light of this, the Zilla Panchayat ofChikkaballapur District earnestly startedpreparation of DHDR by co-opting ISEC as leadAgency. Of the various processes in thepreparation of DHDR conducting workshops atvarious levels is one. The Workshop on DistrictHuman Development Report - Chikkaballapur wasorganised on September 20, 2014 at ZillaPanchayat, Chikkaballapur. The main objective ofthe workshop was to disseminate the informationon the importance of measuring humandevelopment. Deliberations in the workshopcentred on various parameters, indicators adoptedfor measuring human development, the regionalvariations/problems in the human developmentissues, the selection of four small area studies etc.The participants included the President andmembers of Zilla Panchayat, district level officials,the citizens, media persons, members of non-governmental organisations and the students ofDegree Colleges. Dr M Devendra Babu of CDDcoordinated the workshop.

11. National Seminar on ‘WomenEmpowerment – A Strategy forDevelopment’Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies of

the Institute for Social and Economic Change hasorganized a two-day National Seminar on ‘WomenEmpowerment- A Strategy for Development’ atISEC in collaboration with ICSSR, New Delhi. Theseminar was conducted on October 13-14, 2014. Forthe seminar 33 research papers were selected forpresentation, of which 26 papers were presentedin five technical sessions. In addition, a plenarysession was also organized on October 13 when

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well-known gender experts in the countrypresented their views on the subject. The seminarwas coordinated by Prof. R Mutharayappa and Dr.K C Channamma of the CWGS.

12. International Seminar on Global Issuesof Population, Development andEnvironmentThe main objective of the seminar held during

October 27-28, 2014 was to bring togetherinternational scholars on a platform to discuss thecomplex issues of population, development andenvironment and offer solutions to the present-daychallenges. Out of the 120 papers received, about40 papers were considered for presentation in theseminar. The seminar comprised two plenarysessions and 9 technical sessions. The sub-themesof the seminar included: (i) Development versusEnvironment, (ii) Economic growth, Energy useand Environment (iii) Urbanisation, Migration andEnvironment (iv) Environment and Health (v)Population, Poverty and Environment and (vi)Environment Policy and Programmes. Dr VinodMishra, Chief, Policy, UN Population Division,New York, Dr Ranjan Piyadas from the Universityof Colombo, Sri Lanka, were the key speakers atthe seminar. Papers were presented by scholarsfrom International Institute for PopulationSciences, Mumbai, Tata Institute for SocialSciences, Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), New Delhi, Gujarat Institute ofDevelopment (GID), Ahmedabad, the Universityof Hyderabad, the Institute of Technology, Madras,and University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

Dr Vonod Mishra from UN PopulationDivision, New York; Prof. Bhangat, IIPS Mumbai;Dr T V Ramachandra, IISc, Bangalore; DrAparajita, Co-ordinator for Population andEnvironment, Ministry of Environment; Dr.Nellanjan Pandey from Population Council, NewDelhi; and Prof. Suman Kapur from Hyderabaddelivered lectures in the plenary session. Theseminar was coordinated by Dr C M Lakshmanaof the PRC.

13. Workshop on National InnovationSurvey Report 2014

A brain-storming workshop on NationalInnovation Survey Report 2014 was organized bythe Centre for Economic Studies and Policy onNovember 5, 2014. The workshop was sponsoredby the Department of Science and Technology,New Delhi. The objective of the workshop was todisseminate the methodology and findings of theNational Innovation Survey Report and obtainfeedback of key stake-holders. Industryrepresentatives, academicians from reputedinstitutions like Indian Institute of Science, IndianInstitute of Management and Central FoodTechnological Research Institute, representativesfrom industry/ trade associations, researchscholars and government representatives wereinvited to participate. The report presentation byDr Praveen Arora, Head, NSTMIS, Department ofScience and Technology, was followed byinformed discussion. The workshop wascoordinated by Prof K Gayithri of CESP.

14. International Seminar on GreenEconomy and Sustainable DevelopmentAn International Seminar on ‘Green Economy

and Sustainable Development’ was held at theInstitute for Social and Economic Change,Bangalore, during November 6-7, 2014 incollaboration with the Sichuan Academy of SocialSciences (SASS), Chengdu, China, and the IndianCouncil of Social Science Research (ICSSR), NewDelhi. The two-day seminar broadly focused onissues related to inclusive green growth,institutional innovations, environmental policyand implications for employment generation andpoverty reduction in India and China. Manyacademicians, government officials, internationalpolicy advisors, strategic analysts and researchscholars attended the seminar.

The discussion in the seminar was organisedunder six technical sessions: institutional aspectsof sustainable development; trade, environmentand sustainable development; employment,

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poverty and sustainable development; politicaleconomy and environmental governance; eco-system services; and environmental degradation.A noted political scientist and China specialistProfessor Manoranjan Mohanty delivered theinaugural address, while a well-known energyspecialist Dr. Sudha Mahalingam presented thekeynote address. Former Ambassador SaurabhKumar delivered the valedictory address. Nineteenpapers were presented in the technical sessions,which were chaired by eminent researchers andpolicy advisors. Chinese participants from SASSincluded Prof Yang Gang, Mr Chai Jianfeng, MrWu Jianqiang, Ms Ji Mengxue, Ms Jing Guangyi,Ms Zhang Ting, Ms Xing Xiaofeng and Ms GanTingyu.

15. Census Data Dissemination WorkshopA workshop to disseminate the data released

from the Census of India from time to time washeld at the Institute for Social and EconomicChange, Bangalore, on December 1, 2014. This wasa collaborative workshop between Directorate ofCensus Operations, Karnataka, and ISEC on theadvice of the Office of the Registrar-General ofIndia and Census Commissioner, Ministry ofHome Affairs, Government of India, with fundingfrom UNDP, Delhi. The workshop aimed atencouraging use of census data among youngscholars and researchers.

The inaugural session was chaired by Prof. GThimmaiah, Chairperson, Board of Governors,ISEC, and Prof G Giridhar, formerly with UNFPA,delivered the keynote address. Mr A K Samal fromthe Office of the Registrar-General of India andCensus Commissioner, explained the purpose ofthe seminar and shared the information on thecensus data released so far. Prof. Binay KumarPattnaik, the then Director of ISEC, welcomed thedelegates. Sri N Manjini, Joint Director, Directorateof Census Operations, Karnataka, delivered thevote of thanks. Altogether, there were 200participants from various walks of life, includingresearchers, senior bureaucrats, governmentofficials and young scholars and students. The

media also actively participated in the workshop.

The papers presented by young scholars andresearchers were evaluated by a team consisting ofProf. G Giridhar, Prof Padma Sarangapani andProf K N M Raju. Three best papers were selectedfor awards of ‘ 50,000, ‘ 40,000 and ‘ 30,000 each.The first prize was given to Nidhi Menon, NishaJoseph and Reshma K for the paper, ‘Associationof Literacy and Work Participation among Womenon Total Fertility in India: a Census DisseminationStudy’. The second prize was given to AnganSengupta for the paper, ‘Higher EducationalAttainment is going to Hold the Key for a BetterRealization of Demographic Dividend of India’.The third prize went to Medha Bhattacharjee forher paper, ‘The Contradictory Nature of PrenatalUltrasound Technology and its Effects on IndianChild Sex Ratio (0-6 years) in Rural and UrbanAreas’.

The valedictory session was chaired by Dr HSashidhar.

16. International Training Workshop onDemographic Computation Series -2:Multistate Population Projection inExcel and R

An eight-day International TrainingWorkshop on ‘Demographic Computation Series-2: Multistate Population Projection in Excel and R’was organised by PRC, ISEC, during November 24-December 2, 2014. This was a collaborativeworkshop between International Institute forApplied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, andTechnology Information, Forecasting andAssessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi. Thepurpose of the workshop was to enhance thedemographic computation skills among the PhDscholars and young researchers working in thearea of population studies. Around 20 participantswere selected for the workshop. The trainingworkshop included both theoretical and practicalsessions. Dr Samir K C, Mr Erich Striessnig of theWorld Population Program at IIASA and Prof. KS James of the PRC coordinated the workshop.Certificates were distributed to all the participants.

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17. Workshop on Socio-economicAssessment of Living ModifiedOrganisms (LMOs)As a part of the project on ‘Socio Economic

Assessment of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)in India’ undertaken by the ADRT Centre, ISEC, atwo-day workshop was organized in collaborationwith the Research and Information System (RIS)who are executing the project on behalf of theMinistry of Environment, Forests and ClimateChange, Government of India, during December11-12, 2014. Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol onBiosafety (CPB) relates to taking into account thesocio-economic considerations arising from thetrans-boundary movement and the impact ofLMOs on the conservation and sustainable use ofbiodiversity. This component will also allow thebiosafety regulatory system to address concernsraised from time-to-time by various stakeholderson socio-economic impact of LMOs for agriculture

In India, the guidelines and methodologiesfor socio-economic evaluation of LMOs for releasefor cultivation and entry into the food chain ofanimals / humans have not been developed andtested so far. Many countries have implementedincorporating socio-economic aspects in differentways for evaluation of LMO products frommodern scientific research and development. Inthis backdrop, the main objective of the workshopwas to develop a framework for socio-economicassessment of LMOs in the country. As such, thesocio-economic issues and methodologies forassessment of LMOs were deliberated at theworkshop.

Representatives from RIS, five partnerinstitutions, including the ISEC project team (Dr AV Manjunatha and Dr Elumalai Kannan) and otherexperts participated in the workshop.

18. International Training Programme on‘Inclusive Banking for Rural andAgricultural Development’Inclusive growth as a development strategy

has gained prominence as it allows all members of

a society to participate in and contribute to thegrowth process on an equal basis regardless oftheir individual circumstances. Banks and othersfinancial institutions are expected to mitigate thesupply-side factors that prevent poor anddisadvantaged social groups from gaining accessto the financial system. These factors include lackof awareness, unaffordable products, hightransaction costs, and inconvenient, inflexible, non-customized and of low-quality financial products.This training progamme, jointly organized withCICTAB and NIBM during January 5-8, 2015,aimed to discuss factors that come in the way offinancial inclusion and equip the participants fromSAARC countries to address these issues in theirbanking operations. The objectives of theprogramme are to: i) discuss the need for inclusivebanking in rural and agricultural development; ii)build awareness about the business potential andbanking innovations at the bottom of the pyramid;iii) appreciate and evaluate the need and use oftechnology in inclusive banking and development;and iv) provide the inputs for innovative lendingstrategies for rural and agricultural lending forinclusive banking. The training programme wasorganized by Prof D Rajasekhar of the CDD andDr Veerashekarappa of the CESP.

19. Founders’ DayThe Founders’ Day of ISEC was celebrated on

January 20, 2015. Prof G Thimmaiah, Chairperson,BoG, ISEC, and Prof Binay Kumar Pattnaik, thethen Director of ISEC, garlanded the Dr V K R VRao statue. Prof Pattnaik and Mr S Rajanna, theseniormost staff member working since inceptionof the Institute, jointly cut the Anniversary cake.The participants included, among others,distinguished Members of Board of Governors,Founder/Life Members of ISEC Society,academicians, administrators, ISEC residents, staffand students of the Institute.

The following activities were held on theoccasion:

a) Dr D M Nanjundappa Endowment Prizes

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were given away to : (i) Mr Dhananjaya K(Economics), (ii) Mr Vikas Maniar (Non-Economics[Education]); (b) As many as 11 books authored/co-authored by the faculty of ISEC were released;(c) Prizes were given away to the winners /runners-up in various sports events held to markthe occasion; (d) Some of the PhD students, thestaff of ISEC and their families performed variouscultural programmes during the day.

20. International Seminar on ‘NaturalResource and National Accounts inSouth Asia’The Centre for Ecological Economics and

Natural Resources (CEENR) organised a two-dayinternational seminar on ‘Natural Resource andNational Accounts in South Asia’ on February 5-6, 2015, funded by Indian Council of Social ScienceResearch (ICSSR) and State Planning Board,Government of Karnataka. Delegates fromBangladesh, Sri Lanka and India representing thenational and state governments, NGOs,universities and research institutions attended theseminar. In all, 35 papers were presented in theseminar. The seminar intended to share knowledgeon green accounting in the context of naturalresource and national well-being, and effectivedevelopment delivery and results.

After welcome remarks by the organisers anda government representative, a technicalpresentation was made by Prof M N Murty,Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, whichcovered the theories of economic growth,environment and well-being. There were parallelpresentations in the first theme of the seminar,which focused on ‘green accounting initiative inSouth Asia’. The paper by Dr Mahfuz Kabir triedto undertake green accounting of three subsoilresources for Bangladesh. Another paper byAthula Senaratne tried to review the experiencegained through the efforts put in by Ministry ofEnvironment and Renewable Energy (MERE) of SriLanka for initiating a green accounting system. DrSharachchandra Lele brought out the challenges inassessment of full value or contribution of

ecosystems to societal well-being; specificallymaintaining what can be monetised and what not.This paper illustrates these issues with the help ofempirical work from BR Hills of Karnataka andthree forest regimes in Odisha. An analysis wasattempted as to how monetization crept into andsecurity and well-being took a backseat inecosystem service evaluation.

The second theme of the seminar was‘economics of climate change’, having threeparallel sessions where 10 papers were presented.The first sub-theme was the impact of groundwater irrigation in the light of climate change. Thethird theme of the seminar was ‘economic valueof ecosystem and biodiversity’. Three importantpapers were presented in this session. The firstpaper has presented about recent ‘Inclusive WealthReport’ which highlights the importance of forestsas a major component of a nations’ total wealth bychapter contributors. The fourth theme of theseminar was ‘non-market valuation’. Three paperswere presented that dealt with the role ofEnvironmental Fiscal Instruments (EFIs) ininternalising externalities and economic valuationof non-market eco-services, such as canal waterirrigation and wastewater treatment and its reuseand willingness to pay (WTP) for them. The fifththeme of the seminar was ‘forest management,minerals, water and other resources service’. Aparallel session was chaired by Dr Mahfuz Kabir.The paper titled ‘Mangrove Forests – A TheoreticalApproach’ was an attempt to provide a theoreticalbackground to the economy-ecology linkages inthe mangrove forest area and tries to capture therole of these forests in terms of economic linkagesand the protection services they offer.

The Valedictory session was semi-technicalwhere concluding remarks were made by Prof GThimmaiah, BOG, ISEC; Prof M R Narayana,Director in Charge, ISEC; Prof S Madheswaran,Smt. Bidisha Choudhary, Member-Secretary, StatePlannning Board, Government of Karnataka, andDr Balasubramanian. Two technical presentationswere made. The first was by Smt Ritu Kakkar,

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system by itself is a major contributor of GreenHouse Gases, and hence, reforming the global foodsystem needs to be a major plank of climate changemitigation. The impact of climate change on foodsecurity will be felt at global, national and localscales. Vulnerable people and communities are atthe frontline of these threats, and India faces majorimpacts including potential changes to the timingand strength of monsoons, retreat of Himalayanglaciers and sea-level rise. India is also vulnerableto the way climate change may affect neighbouringcountries. Bangladesh is widely recognised as oneof the world’s most vulnerable nations to climatechange, and climate migrants/refugees may seekto relocate to India, which may aggravategeopolitical tensions. The aim of the internationalseminar was to enhance our information baseabout the threats India is facing and its adaptivepotential. The seminar especially focused onencouraging presentations from researchersengaged with vulnerable populations and howthey assess and respond to their rapidly changingclimate contexts. Prof Bill Pritchard from theUniversity of Sydney, Australia, delivered thekeynote address on ‘Global Context of ClimateChange and Food Security’.

During the seminar, 40 research papers werepresented in 6 technical sessions under variousthemes viz., Agriculture, food security and climatechange; Integrated approaches to food security;Impact of climate change on food security; Urbanfood security and climate change; Traditionalcrops: A solution to sustainable agriculture; Foodsecurity, Risk Management and Climate change;Building resilience in farmers to increaseagricultural productivity; Adaptive measures andstrategies to ensure food security; Land use changeand flow of ecosystem services; RS GIS inunderstanding landscape dynamics. Eminentresearchers from Australia, Germany, UnitedKingdom (UK) and India presented their researchfindings from micro and macro levels in theperspective of developing and developedcountries. There were researchers frominternational and national organizations and

Director of EMPRI, on valuation of environmentaland ecosystem services in Karnataka. However, theresults shown in the presentation were contestedby many on technical ground. The otherpresentation was made by Prof Gopal Kadekodi onthe environmentally adjusted national accountingand well-being.

The collected papers shall soon be publishedin a book form. Dr M Balasubramanian, AssistantProfessor of the CEENR, organised the seminar.

21. International Seminar on ‘ClimateChange and Food Security: The Globaland Indian Contexts’The Centre for Ecological Economics and

Natural Resources of ISEC, in association withSchool of Geosciences, the University of Sydney,organized an international seminar on ‘ClimateChange and Food Security – the Global and IndianContexts’ at ISEC, Bangalore, on February 18, 2015.Climate change is the largest environmental threatfacing the world today. There is incontrovertibleevidence that global temperatures have increasedduring the past century, and that the role ofhumans (anthropogenic forcing) is centrallyimplicated in this. The impacts of climate changeare many, including rises in average sea levels,localised variations in temperature and rainfall,and potentially increased propensity for weather-related disasters like hurricanes, droughts andfloods. The study of climate change is extensive innature, looking at each component individuallyand then as a complete unit. It involves specialistsfrom across the natural and social sciences. Inrecent years, considerable attention has been givento the implications of climate change for globalfood security. The 5th Assessment Report of theInternational Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),released in 2014, concluded that global foodsecurity would be dramatically affected by climatechange. In accordance with FAO definitions, theIPCC considers food security to include fourdimensions - food availability, food accessibility,food utilization and food systems stability. Also,it needs to be taken into account that the food

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diplomats from government agencies working onclimate change related issues who took part in theconference. In the long term, we expect toexchange the scientific and technical know-howbetween countries through the researchers tofacilitate advance studies on Climate Change andfood security. The financial support from theUniversity of Sydney in organizing theinternational seminar is thankfully acknowledged.Professor Sunil Nautial of the CEENR coordinatedthe Conference.

22. Two-Day Meeting of the Annual ActionPlan (AAP) of Population ResearchCentres (PRCs)The meeting of the Annual Action Plan of the

18 Population Research Centres from all over thecountry for 2015-2016 was held on March 16-17,2015 at the Institute for Social and EconomicChange (ISEC), Bangalore. The meeting was jointlyconducted by the Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare (MoHFW), Government of India, and thePopulation Research Centre (PRC) of ISEC. Twodelegates from each of the 18 PRCs; the MoHFWdignitaries Mr C R K Nair (Additional Director-General), Mr P C Cyriac (Deputy Director-General)Ms Navanita Gogoi (Director); and Prof M RNarayana, Director in Charge of ISEC, participatedin the meeting. The main objective of the meetingwas to review the progress of the approvedresearch studies of each PRC during 2014-2015 andto discuss their annual action plans for 2015-2016.

On the first day of the meeting, ProfNarayana delivered the welcome address. In thecontext of the meeting, he emphasized on thenational and global reputation of ISEC and itswidespread engagement in data, policy andprofessional research and training in socialsciences. The doctoral programme of ISECcurrently enlists about 100 scholars in 10 differentCentres of the institute. He whole-heartedlyappreciated the ministry’s constantencouragement. Mr Nair in his address expressedconcern about the performance of the PRCs saying“planning alone is not sufficient… we should alsoensure implementation of those plans”.

In his presentation, Mr Cyriac pointed outthat in 2014-2015, as many as 118 district reportsfor PIP monitoring (out of 213 allocated districts)were completed and 32 out of 114 outside studieswere completed but 13 studies were not eveninitiated. He also explained the details of norms forman-months. Later, Ms Navanita Gogoi gave herpresentation.

The meeting discussed the problems beingfaced and errors being committed by the PRCswhile submitting the final reports. The issues ofgratuity, release of the annual grants, issuing IDcards to PRC employees and development andupdating of PRC websites also figured in thediscussions. Dr C M Lakshmana of PRC was thelocal organizer of the meeting.

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Economic Challenges before the New NDAGovernment — The panelists were Dr Barun DebPal, Assistant Professor, CESP; Dr Malini L Tantri,Assistant Professor, CESP; Dr Indrajit Bairagya,Assistant Professor, CHRD; and DrBalasubramanian, Assistant Professor, CEENR,ISEC (July 25, 2014).

Inflation, Monetary Policy and FinancialSector: The Challenges Ahead — The panelistswere Prof Meenakshi Rajeev, CESP, ISEC, on‘Banking Sector and Financial Exclusion: TheChallenges Ahead’; Prof T N Prakash Kammaradi,Chairman, Karnataka Agriculture PriceCommission on ‘Food Price Inflation and StateInterventions’; and Prof Charan Singh, RBI ChairProfessor, IIM, Bangalore, on ‘Monetary Policy in

Fifth Raj Bhavan VKRV Rao MemorialLectureProfessor Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and

Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research (CPR),New Delhi, delivered the Fifth Raj Bhavan VKRVRao Memorial Lecture on ‘Two Ideas of India’ onMay 29, 2014, at the Raj Bhavan, Bangalore. ShriHans Raj Bhardwaj, the then Governor ofKarnataka and President of ISEC Society, presided.

Karnataka Rajyotsava Extension Lecture

Shri Chiranjiv Singh, IAS (Retd), formerAdditional Chief Secretary and formerDevelopment Commissioner of Karnataka,Government of Karnataka, delivered theKarnataka Rajyotsava Extension Lecture on‘Cultural Significance of the Rajyotsava and ItsGrowth over the Years’ on December 10, 2014, atthe Mahatma Gandhi Auditorium of the Institute.Prof G Thimmaiah, Chairperson, Board ofGovernors, ISEC, presided.

India – Some Contemporary Issues andChallenges’ (August 25, 2014).

Understanding the Indian Political System:A Tribute to Rajni Kothari (1928-2015) —Panelists were Prof Sandeep Shastri, NationalConvenor, Lokniti Network and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Jain University, on ‘Understanding thePolitical Experiment in New Democracies: RajniKothari’s Contribution to the Narrative’; ProfAparna Sundar, Faculty, Azim Premji University,on ‘The Non-party Political Process andEmancipatory Democrary in India Today: Somereflections’; and Prof Supriya RoyChowdhury,CPIGD, ISEC, on ‘When Does a Text become aClassic?’ (February 19, 2015).

Panel Discussions

Lectures

Prof V K R V Rao Memorial Lecture -11Professor Sukhadeo Thorat, Chairman, Indian

Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), NewDelhi, delivered the Dr VKRV Rao MemorialLecture, ‘On Inclusive Growth-Inequalities-PovertyInter-Linkages’ in commemoration of the 44th

Founders’ Day of the Institute on February 09,2015, at Mahatma Gandhi Auditorium of ISEC.

Prof Thorat also distributed the Best ThesesAwards on the occasion: Economics (Shri T RSatish Chandran Memorial Prize – Dr SabyasachiTripathi; Dr V K R V Rao Memorial Prize – DrAmrita Ghatak), Sociology (Prof M N SrinivasMemorial Prize – Dr Santhosh R) and PoliticalScience (Justice E S Venkataramaiah MemorialPrize in Public Administration – Dr K C Smitha).

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Two Examples from Classical GeneralEquilibrium Analysis and their Implication —Professor Anjan Mukherji, Professor Emeritus,JNU; Honorary Visiting Professor, NIPFP, NewDelhi; and Country Director, IGC India-Bihar,Patna (June 25, 2014).

Effects of Advertising on Consumer BuyingBehaviour — Mr Akwasi Ampofo, MA(Econometrics) student from the University ofMadras, Chennai; Undergraduate in Economicsfrom the Kwame Nkrumah University of Scienceand Technology in Kumasi, Ghana; currently anintern at the Centre for Research in Urban Affairs,ISEC (June 30, 2014).

Government Brahmin: Caste, the EducatedUnemployed and the Reproduction ofInequalities — Prof A R Vasavi, SocialAnthropologist based in Bangalore, currently aSenior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum andLibrary, New Delhi (July 11, 2014).

Global Flows in a Digital Age (Putting Indiainto Context) — Dr Susan Lund, Partner,McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey’sBusiness and Economics Research Arm,Washington, DC; Leads Research on GlobalFinancial Markets, Labour Markets and theMacroeconomic Outlook (July 22, 2014).

Informality: Comparing Chinese and IndianLabour Markets — Professor Jeemol Unni,Professor and Director, Institute of RuralManagement (IRMA), Anand (August 4, 2014).

Demand for Alcohol and Giffen Behaviour— Dr Arjunan Subramanian, Reader in Economics,Business School, Glasgow; and Prof ParmodKumar, Professor and Head, ADRTC, ISEC,Bangalore (August 12, 2014).

Why Behavioral Economics? — Dr LVenkatachalam, Associate Professor of Economics,Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS),Chennai (October 10, 2014).

A Quality of Growth Index: Evidence fromIndian States — Dr Saibal Ghosh, AssistantAdvisor, Department of Economic Policy Research,Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai (December 26,2014).

Strategic Network Formation involvingSocial Relations: Enmity and Friendship — DrMainak Mazumder, Assistant Professor, IndianInstitute of Technology, Jodhpur (January 9, 2015).

Team Work as an Approach to ReduceGroundwater Extraction — Professor Ernst-August Nuppenau, Chair of Agricultural andEnvironmental Policy, Justus Liebg University,Giessen, Germany (January 9, 2015).

Planning for Smart Cities — Dr SudhirKrishna, IAS, former Secretary, Ministry of UrbanDevelopment, Government of India (February 11,2015).

Critical Health Literacy of Older Adults inEurope — Dr Louise Meijering, AssistantProfessor, Department of Demography, PopulationResearch Centre, Faculty of Spatial Sciences,University of Groningen, Groningen, TheNetherlands (March 11, 2015).

Distance of Technology Frontier, HumanCapital & Economic Growth: A Theoretical &Cross-country Empirical Analysis — Ms SujataBasu, PhD Scholar, Centre for International Trade& Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University(March 19, 2015).

Stress and Our Brain — Dr R S Patil, MS(Surgery), SK Hospital, Bangalore (March 24, 2015).

Seminars Presented by Visitors

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Governance Reforms in Infrastructure inIndia: Initiatives and Outcomes — ProfSatyanarayana Sangita, Professor and Head,CPIGD, ISEC, Bangalore (October 9, 2014).

Democratic Decentralisation: Gandhi’sVision and Indian Reality — Prof M V Nadkarni,Honorary Visiting Professor; Prof N Sivanna,Adjunct Professor, R K Hegde Chair; and MsLavanya Suresh, Doctoral Scholar, CPIGD, ISEC,Bangalore (November 13, 2014).

Reservation Wages & Benefits from Jobs:The Case of India’s Mahatma Gandhi NationalRural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGS) — Prof Kala Seetharam Sridhar,Professor and Head, Centre for Research in UrbanAffairs, ISEC, Bangalore (December 8, 2014).

Challenging Modernity: On Not BeingEurope’s Other — Dr Anil Kumar Vaddiraju,Associate Professor, CPIGD, ISEC, Bangalore(December 26, 2014).

Seminars Presented by Faculty

Seminars by Students

Urban Air Pollution and EnvironmentalBurden of Disease with Special Reference toBangalore City — Mr D R Ravi, PhD scholar,CESP, ISEC (January 2, 2014).

Capital Structure of Indian ManufacturingSector: Nature, Determinants and RegulatoryChanges — Mr Kaushik Basu, CESP (June 9, 2014).

Healthcare Utilisation and FinancialProtection: The Role of Health Insurance — MrAmit Kumar Sahoo, CESP (June 11, 2014).

Double Burden of Malnutrition in India:The Macro and Micro Perspectives — Mr AnganSengupta, PRC (June 17, 2014).

Women’s Life and Experience in TeaPlantations: A Study in West Bengal — Ms

Priyanka Dutta, CSSCD (September 11, 2014).

An Empirical Study on Measurement ofEfficiency, Productivity and Competitiveness ofSmall-Scale Industries in India — Mr AvishekChanda, CESP (September 17, 2014).

Epidemiological Transition and State HealthExpenditure: A Study in Kerala, India — MrBenson Thomas, PRC (September 23, 2014).

Decentralisation, Governance and ForestResource Management: A Study in the State ofTamil Nadu, India — Ms Lavanya Suresh, CPIGD(December 11, 2014).

Sustainability of India’s Fiscal Policy: AnEmpirical Study — Mr Krishanu Pradhan, CESP(December 11, 2014)

Students` Biannual Seminar Series

The 30th Bi-annual Seminars were conductedduring June 9-18, 2014. In all, there were 62presentations comprising 3 pre-submissionseminars, 22 theme presentations and 37 progressseminars. Prof Jeevan Kumar, Prof R G Desai, ProfSomashekhar, Prof Bhargava, Prof M V Nadkarniand Prof M G Chandrakanth participated in theseminars as Special Discussants.

The 31st Bi-annual Seminars were conductedduring December 11-19, 2014. In all, there were 47presentations comprising 2 pre-submissionseminars, 29 progress seminars and 16 proposalseminars. Professors Abdul Aziz, M K Ramesh, MV Nadkarni and B S Bhargava participated in theseminars as Special Discussants.

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About 270 applications were received for the2014-15 PhD Programme, out of which 218 werecalled for the admission test. Of these, 125appeared for the test; among them, 92 qualified forthe Centre-level Interviews. Finally, 32 candidateswere selected for the PhD Programme 2014-15 bythe Selection Committee. The Inaugural ceremony

PhD Programme

of the 2014-15 batch PhD Programme course workwas organized on August 14, 2014 in which theChairperson, Board of Governors, ISEC, was thechief guest. He distributed the Pre-PhD CourseCertificates to the successful students of the 2013-14 batch. The Course work for the 2014-15 batchstudents commenced from August 18, 2014.

PhD Awarded

The following were awarded the PhD by theUniversity of Mysore for their theses mentionedafter their names. The names of the scholars’respective supervisors are given in parentheses:

Ms Kanchan Bharati: Sociology – ‘SurvivingSpouses: A Sociological Study of Old Widows in RuralHaryana’. (Dr K G Gayathri Devi)

Ms S Yogeshwari: Economics – ‘AgrarianChange and Credit Market Functioning in Tamil Naduand Karnataka’. (Prof R S Deshpande)

Mr Ravi D R: Development Studies –‘Environmental Burden of Disease due to Urban AirPollution with Special reference to Bangalore City’. (DrKrishna Raj)

Ms Baishali Goswami: Development Studies– ‘Marriage Patterns in India: A Demographic Inquiry’.(Prof K S James)

Mr Avishek Chanda: Economics – ‘AnEmpirical Study on Measurement of Efficiency,Productivity and Competitiveness of Small-ScaleIndustries in India’. (Prof M R Narayana)

Dr D M Nanjundappa Endowment Prizes

Dr D M Nanjundappa Endowment Prizeswere awarded to Mr Dhananjaya K (in Economics)and Mr Vikas Manir (in Education) for scoring

highest marks in the PhD course work during2013-14.

Academic Networks

ISEC has signed an MoU with Nordic Centrein India (a consortium of 23 Scandinavianuniversities) to network on research, training andexchange programmes.

Similar networks are continued on a project-by-project basis with several institutions andorganisations, such as NIRD, NHRC, ILO, UNDP,WB, IFPRI, IIPS, and with the state and Centralgovernments.

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Faculty/PhD students who participated inacademic activities with FinancialAssistance1. Ms Subhashree Banerjee, PhD student,

presented a paper on ‘Ecosystem Servicesand Livelihood Systems: A Case Study fromOdisha’, in the Training Programme onHuman Security and HumanitarianResponse: Increasing Effectiveness andAccountability in the Age of ComplexEmergence held at Brown University inProvidence, Rhode Island, USA during June7-21, 2014.

2. Ms Sumedha Bajar, PhD student, presented apaper on ‘Infrastructure-Output Nexus:Regional Experience from India’, in theWarwick Economic Growth SummerWorkshop held at the University of WarwickCoventry, UK, during July 6-12, 2014.

3. Ms Pooja Thapa, PhD student, presented apaper on ‘Tribal Development in Sikkim: AScoiological Study in Two Villages of theLepchas and the Bhutias’, in the SummerSchool on ‘Transformation of Religion andCulture in Contemporary India’ held atGroningen University, The Netherlands,during August 18-24, 2014.

4. Dr Indrajit Bairagya, Assistant Professor,participated in the 5th Lindau meeting of theWinners of the Svergies Riksbank Prize inEconomics Sciences in Memory of AlfredNobel at Lindau, Germany, during August19-23, 2014.

5. Mr Nagesha G, PhD student, presented apaper on ‘Performance Analysis of NationalHighway Public-Private Partnership (PPP)’,in the International Conference on Frontiersand Infrastructure Finance (ICFIF 2014) heldat the Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur, during November 13-15, 2014.

6. Dr Barun Deb Pal, Assistant Professor,participated in the Science Tour about‘Modelling the Future – UnderstandingGlobal Challenges through Computer-BasedModelling and Simulations’, in Germanyfrom November 30 to December 6, 2014.

SRTT Final Project Reports· Ms Moumita Mukherjee: ‘Exploring the

Contextual Determinants of Under-nutritionunder Climatic, Geographic andSocioeconomic Vulnerabilities: A Case Studyof the Sundarbans’.

· Dr Vighneswara Swamy: ‘Gender Dimensionin Financial Inclusion: A Study on the Impactof Women Participation on the EconomicUpliftment of Poor Households’.

Collaboration Programmes1. ‘Certificate Course in Methods and

Applications in Social Science Research’ washeld during May 12- 23, 2014. Dr SobinGeorge, Assistant Professor, CSSCD, ISEC,conducted the course.

2. Social Science Talent Search Scheme: ACollaborative Programme of ISEC, BangaloreUniversity and Christ University, Bangalore,was held during August 23-24, 2014. The on-going SSTSS programme is coordinated by DrM Lingaraju, Assistant Professor, CHRD,ISEC.

PhD Degree Award1. Mr Avinandan Taron (Economics, 2006)

worked on the thesis, ‘Economic Valuationand Efficiency of Canal Water Use for BoroCultivation: A Case Study of West Bengal’.He was awarded PhD degree in Economicsby the University of Mysore (vide NotificationNo. Ex 9.5/PhD/AT/2008-09 dated:11.03.2014). Prof K V Raju was his supervisor.

SRTT Support Activities

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Publications - Monograph SeriesMonograph 32: ‘Managing India’s Forests:

Village Communities, Panchayati Raj Institutions andthe State’ by Dilip Kumar P J.

Monograph 33: ‘Evaluation of Western GhatsDevelopment Programmes (WGDP) and Policy

Recommendations: A Case Study from Karnataka’ bySunil Nautiyal, S Manasi and M S Umesh Babu.

Monograph 34: ‘Government Subsidies inKarnataka’ by K Gayithri (ed).

Monograph 35: ‘Green Business for GreeningKarnataka: A Study of Coir Industry’ by Krishna Raj.

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‘Emerging Issues in Economic Development:A Contemporary Theoretical Perspective’. OxfordUniversity Press, ISBN: 0198099061,9780198099062, June 2014, by Meenakshi Rajeevand Sugata Marjit.

‘Population Ageing in India’. CambridgeUniversity Press, ISBN-13: 978-1107073326, July2014 by James K S, G Giridhar, K MSathyanarayana, Sanjay Kumar and Moneer Alam.

‘Liberalization and Economic Performance ofthe Informal Sector: A Study of Indian Economy’.London and New York: Routledge- Taylor &Francis Group, ISBN-10: 0415736277 | ISBN-13:978-0415736275, October 2014, by Indrajit Bairagya.

‘Women Empowerment – Then and Now: ASocial, Historical, Economic and PoliticalPerspective’ (National Seminar Proceedings).Ramanagara: Ankanahalli Prakashana, October,2014, by Mohan Das, M Lingaraju and R Nagesh.

‘GHG Emission and Economic Growth: AComputable General Equilibrium Model BasedAnalysis for India’. New Delhi: Springer, India,ISBN-13: 978-81-322-1942-2, November 2014, byBarun Deb Pal, Vijay P Ojha, Sanjib Pohit andJoyashree Roy.

‘Reforming Cooperative Credit Structure inIndia for Financial Inclusion’. Germany:University of Kassel, Germany in collaborationwith Reiner Hampp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86618-397-

1, December 2014, by Veerashekharappa,Meenakshi Rajeev and Soumitra Pramanik.

‘Women Empowerment: Challenges in the 21st

Century’. Varanasi (UP): Nootan Publications,January 2015, by M Lingaraju, Mohan Das andNagesh R.

‘Sabaleekaranada Haadiyalli Mahile’.Varanasi (UP): Nootan Publications, January 2015,by M Lingaraju, Mohan Das and Sudhakara H.(Kannada).

‘Globalization and Sericulture in India’.Mangalore: Mangalam Publications, January 2015,by Maruthi, I.

‘Socio-economic and EnvironmentalImplications of Agricultural Residue Burning: ACase Study of Punjab, India’. Springer, ISBN 978-81-322-2146-3, 2015, by Parmod Kumar, SurenderKumar and Laxmi Joshi.

‘Economic Growth, Trade and Poverty: AComparative Analysis of India and China’. KonarkPublishers, ISBN: 9789322008413, 2015, byElumalai Kannan, R S Deshpande, Guo Xiaomingand Yue Zhaomin.

‘Women’s Empowerment - A Strategy forDevelopment’. New Delhi: Bookwell Publishers,ISBN: 978-93-80574-75-2, 2015, by Binay KumarPattnaik, R Mutharayappa and K C Channamma.

6. PUBLICATIONS

Books Published/Edited

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The Journal of Social and Economic Developmentis published by ISEC biannually, normally inJanuary and July. It provides a forum for an in-depth analysis of problems of social, economic,political, institutional, cultural and environmentaltransformation taking place in the world today,particularly in developing countries.

During the year (April 2014-March 2015), twoissues of the Journal were brought out: Volume 15No. 2 (July-December 2013) and Vo.16 No. 1(January-June 2014). The issues together carried 8articles, one Research Note, one Review Article, 10book reviews and the ‘Books at a Glance’ feature(comprising 6 short reviews of books).

ISEC’s Journal of Social and Economic Development

ISEC Monographs Series

Dilip Kumar P J (April 2014). Managing India’sForests: Village Communities, Panchayati RajInstitutions and the State. Social and EconomicChange Monograph Series No. 32. Bangalore:Institute for Social and Economic Change

Sunil Nautiyal, S Manasi and M S UmeshBabu (May 2014). Evaluation of Western GhatsDevelopment Programmes (WGDP) and PolicyRecommendations: A Case Study from Karnataka.Social and Economic Change Monograph SeriesNo. 33. Bangalore: Institute for Social andEconomic Change

K Gayithri (October 2014). GovernmentSubsidies in Karnataka. Social and EconomicChange Monograph Series No. 34. Bangalore:Institute for Social and Economic Change

Krishna Raj (November 2014). Green Businessfor Greening Karnataka: A Study of Coir Industry.Social and Economic Change Monograph SeriesNo. 35. Bangalore: Institute for Social andEconomic Change

ISEC Working Papers

Title : Healthcare Utilisation Behaviour inIndia: Socio-Economic Disparitiesand the Effect of Health Insurance

Author : Amit Kumar Sahoo andS Madheswaran

No. : 317

The Working Paper examines issues such asinequality in healthcare utilisation,impoverishment due to increasing out-of-pocket(OOP) health expenditure, growing dependence oninformal sources of healthcare and strengtheningthe role of insurance in India. Using the IndianHuman Development Survey (IHDS) 2004-05 and

employing Logit, Tobit and Multinomial LogitModels, the paper argues that insurance increasesthe probability of healthcare seeking behaviour. Itis also found that insurance increases theprobability of healthcare either in the private or inthe public sector. However, people tend to use theprivate sector more than the public sector.However, in India the private sector is largelyunregulated and very often it leads to unnecessarycare and cost escalation. This calls for bringing inadequate regulatory mechanism to control theprivate sector to ensure the efficient functioning ofthe health insurance sector for the benefit of theinsured people

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Title : Integrated Child DevelopmentServices in India – A Sub-NationalReview

Author : Jonathan Gangbar, PavithraRajan and K Gayithri

No. : 318

The paper reveals that the financial provisionfor the ICDS programme by both Central and Stateauthorities is disproportionate to the norms of thepolicy. Poorer regions with higher levels ofmalnutrition have received less funding ascompared to the wealthier regions with betternutrition status over time. Although there havebeen marginal improvements in the nutritionalstatus of ICDS beneficiaries over time, there seemsto be an increasing gap in the nutrition statusbetween wealthier and less affluent regions of thecountry. There is a need to further examine howwell Central and State authorities are using theirresources to achieve intended programme outputsand outcomes

Title : The Infrastructure-Output Nexus:Regional Experience from India

Author : Sumedha Bajar

No. : 319

Sumedha Bajar in her paper highlights thedisparities in infrastructure availability existing inIndia in terms of per capita net State domesticproduct (PCNSDP) from 1981 to 2010. The paperargues that these disparities have increased overthe years even though the initially poorer Stateshave been growing at faster rate. Even though thepoor States had poorly developed infrastructure ascompared to the rich states there is evidence ofincrease in infrastructure growth in these statesafter the economic reforms of 1991. The panel dataestimation reveals that physical infrastructurevariables did not have a uniform influence onoutput. The relationship did not just differ foraggregate output and, secondary and tertiarysector outputs; there was a distinct difference in theimpact infrastructure on the same sector fordifferent time periods.

Title : Uncertainty, Risk and RiskMitigation: Field Experiences fromFarm Sector in Karnataka

Author : Meenakshi Rajeev and B P Vani

No. : 320

This paper examines the risks related toproduction, input and price drawing from a fieldsurvey conducted in Mandya, Chamarajanagarand Haveri districts of Karnataka and the SituationAssessment Survey of farmers as part of the 59th

round of NSSO. The paper highlights that thefarmers of Karnataka in its entire agriculturalregions face all the three major risks and this is ascenario that holds for the country as well.Availability of irrigation facilities however is acritical element that determines the outcome of aweather related crisis; however providence of thisfacility is rather poor in the state in spite of it beinga dry region. Though risks are all pervasivemitigation strategies are rather weak for theagrarian community across the nation.Furthermore, risk mitigation strategies in terms ofcrop insurance are highly under developed acrossthe country in general and also in the state.

Title : Socio-Economic Disparities inHealth-Seeking Behaviour, HealthExpenditure and Sources ofFinance in Orissa: Evidence fromNSSO 2004-05

Author : Amit Kumar Sahoo andS Madheswaran

No. : 321

The paper notes that even though varioushealthcare plans and programmes have beenformulated and implemented by the Governmentof Orissa, the State’s health indicators have notimproved substantially. Using the NSSO data, thepaper examines issues such as healthcare-seekingbehaviour, healthcare burden and, mostimportantly, the sources of finance for healthcareexpenditure across socio-economic groups inOrissa. It shows that the health-seeking behaviourof the people has been affected due to the

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increasing cost of healthcare. Healthcare is not freeany more due to the introduction of user fees,increasing privatisation of healthcare delivery andtechnological innovations in the diagnosis andtreatment of ailments. As a result, out-of-pocketexpenditure has increased enormously. It hasaffected the socially and economically dis-advantaged groups the most. They have to borrowmoney, liquidate savings, sell valuable assets andeven curtail expenditure on the education of theirchildren in order to pay for expensive medicaltreatment.

Title : Does Living Longer Mean LivingHealthier? Exploring Disability-Free Life Expectancy in India

Author : M Benson Thomas, K S James andS Sulaja

No. : 322

The Working Paper examines the quality oflife of the elderly population in India, based onDisability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) rates.Drawing from the SRS mortality data andmorbidity data given by NSSO, the paperhighlights the higher rates of decline in DFLE indeveloped states of India with high life expectancy,indicating a considerable decline in the quality oflife with improvement in life expectancy. Suchreduction is much higher in the older ages. Femalesand urbanites experienced considerable decline inthe quality of life as compared to males and ruralpeople respectively, which leads to more years inmorbidity in old age. The paper also highlights thatchronic/degenerative diseases cause major lossesin DFLE. Based on these findings the paper arguesthat mere increase in longevity does not mean abetter life, especially in the older ages.

Title : Child and Maternal Health andNutrition in South Asia - Lessonfor India

Author : Pavithra Rajan, Jonathan Gangbarand K Gayithri

No. : 323

This paper highlights that South Asia hasbeen characterized by its minimal progress in theareas of child and maternal health and nutritionin comparison to other regions in the world. Thecase of India is especially enigmatic as there hasbeen a lack of improvement in its performance inthis area since the 1990s. Furthermore, comparedto other countries in South Asia such as Sri Lanka,Bangladesh and Nepal, India’s progress towardsthe achievement of its Millennium DevelopmentGoals (1, 4 and 5 specifically) is quite concerning.Despite having their own “local” problems,Bangladesh and Nepal have achieved or nearlyachieved many of their MDG targets of optimalmaternal and child health and nutrition and SriLanka is already in its post-MDG phase. However,as far as India is concerned, the achievement ofMDGs seems way off target. A major reason for thelack of progress in India could be attributed toissues of poor governance – lack of political will,divergence of effort, and the lack of a transparentdedicated health system that is pro-child andmaternal health and nutrition.

Title : Reflecting on the Role of Institutions in the Everyday Lives ofDisplaced Women: The Case ofGanga-Erosion in Malda, WestBengal

Author : Priyanka Dutta

No. : 324

The paper by Priyanka Dutta offers adiscussion on the role that local institutions canplay to accommodate the gender concerns inprocesses like rehabilitation. Based on anethnographic study of the women displaced byGanga erosion in Malda district of West Bengal, thepaper examines the role of local institutions in theeveryday lives of these women. The main findingis that the degree of vulnerability of displacedwomen depends upon their institutionalaffiliations and hence any rehabilitation andresettlement policy should take into considerationthe vitality of these institutions in its policyformulation. The paper highlights that the

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importance given to various local institutions inthe rehabilitation policies at present is inadequate.

Title : Access of Bank Credit toVulnerable Sections: A Case Studyof Karnataka

Author : Veerashekharappa

No. : 325

The paper maintains that during the lastcouple of decades, the credit from formal bankinginstitutions has shown tremendous growth involume and complexity, yet, a large segment of thepopulation, especially the poor, is still excludedfrom the formal banking services, which led toincome inequity. In India, in spite of the expansionof formal credit, large segments of the population,especially the poor, are excluded from the formalbanking services. The performance of the entitiescreated to support the excluded segments also notimpressive, though many people have differentopinions on this. Therefore, there is need toestablish the relationship empirically and examinewhether such institutions indeed provide creditsupport for improving household economy ofexcluded group as well as poor households ofother groups.

Title : Neighbourhood Development andCaste Distribution in Rural India

Author : Rajesh Raushan and RMutharayappa

No. : 326

This paper examines the level ofneighbourhood development and their linkageswith caste group disparity in rural India usingIHDS: 2004-05 data. Employing factor analysistechniques, composite index of neighbourhooddevelopment, the paper shows that 27 per centvillages or neighbourhoods are highly developed,52 per cent moderately and rest are poorlydeveloped. Considering different components,respectively 27 percent, 19 per cent and 31 per centvillages have been found highly developed oncommunication & services, education and health

institutions. Caste group domination shows that ahigher proportion of ST followed by SC people livein poorly developed neighbourhoods as against ahigher proportion of other caste group people wholive in highly developed neighbourhoods; andsame has been the case for educational institutionsbut not so for health institutions. The Studysupports the view that poor infrastructuraldevelopment and lack of opportunity lead toinequality of outcomes in terms of humandevelopment. Hence, the prime focus of microlevel planning and policy formulation centred onrural India should be concerned withneighbourhoods where concentration of poorpeople is more.

Title : Assessment of India’s Fiscal andExternal Sector Vulnerability: ABalance Sheet Approach

Author : Krishanu Pradhan

No. : 327

The paper assesses India’s fiscal and externalsector vulnerability in the context of deteriorationof major macroeconomic indicators in recent years.The analysis is based on the Balance SheetApproach developed mainly by the IMF studies inanalyzing the episodes of major fiscal, financialand external payment crisis in developingcountries since late 1990s to early 2000. The presentwork assesses the vulnerability in India’s fiscal andexternal sector by descriptive and comparativeanalyses of relevant indicators, and developing acomposite vulnerability index consisting of theindicators under study. If the inability to smoothfinanceability of public debts, budgetary deficitsand external sector financing needs as theindicators of fiscal and external sectorvulnerability, India does not face risk of such threatat present and hence signify an absence of overallmacroeconomic vulnerability than generallyperceived.

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Title : Public-Private Partnership’sGrowth Empirics in India’sInfrastructure Development

Author : Nagesha G and K Gayithri

No. : 328

The paper analyses the trends and patterns ofvarious infrastructure sectors and regionaldistribution of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)at global, national and sub-national levels toidentify to what extent PPPs have been able to curbinfrastructure deficit. The growth data reveals thatthere has been a sharp increase in the number ofPPP projects, and that these have contributedimmensely to enhance regional and sectoralinfrastructure availability. The paper observes thatthe PPP projects under the national highwaycategory are way ahead in time and cost-efficiencyas compared to the non-PPP projects. However,these projects have tended to concentrate in certainsectors and regions. The reasons for this unevengrowth of projects based on PPP in India relatelargely to factors like differences in political willacross national and sub-national governments inpromotion of infrastructure PPP policies and lackof effective functioning of governments’ variousinfrastructure executive departments includingPPP nodal agencies for identifying, executing,coordinating various departments and inpromotion of policies for hassle free and quickimplementation and to redress the variousdifferences.

Title : Identifying the High-LinkedSectors for India: An Applicationof Import Adjusted Domestic Input-Output Matrix

Author : Tulika Bhattacharya andMeenakshi Rajeev

No. : 329

In their paper, Tulika Bhattacharya andMeenakshi Rajeev attempt to identify the key high-linkage sectors in India through measuring thelinkage effect (both backward and forwardlinkages) of each sector separately for the entire

economy in a comprehensive manner. The paperconstructs an input-output matrix that takes intoaccount import of inputs for each sector. By usingthis (import-adjusted) domestically producedinput based matrix for the latest year 2007-08, theexercise next identifies the high linked sectors —development of which can generate substantialimpact within the domestic economy through theirforward and backward linkage effects withoutcreating a strain on foreign exchange reserves.Policy emphasis should, therefore, be more on thedevelopment of such sectors so as to ensure rapidgrowth of the overall economy.

Title : Out-Of-Pocket (OOP) FinancialRisk Protection: The Role ofHealth Insurance

Author : Amit Kumar Sahoo and SMadheswaran

No. : 330

The paper attempts to estimate the effect ofinsurance on out-of-pocket health expenditures,using Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS,2004-05) and appropriate econometric techniqueslike, two-part and logit model. The results showthat health insurance reduces the degree of OOPhealth expenditure, probability of catastrophicexpenditure and impoverishment. The paperargues that health insurance should beuniversalised rather than targeted to the BPLfamilies alone since catastrophic expenditure isfaced not only by poor households but also byhigher percentage of HHs from rich incomequintiles. The logic behind targeting of BPLfamilies and their selection is evidently flawed asit excludes the genuinely needy beneficiaries fromthe ambit of insurance cover. The paper also foundthat the probability of incurring catastrophicexpenditure and impoverishment increases almostequally on account of both outpatient and inpatientexpenditure. Hence, there is need of rethinking onthe design of health insurance, which covers onlyinpatient treatment at present.

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Title : Promises and Paradoxes of SEZsExpansion in India

Author : Malini L Tantri

No. : 331

The paper attempts to evaluate the trajectoriesof Indian Special Economic Zones (SEZs) policyand its performance. The results of the study revealthat, Indian SEZs have failed not only in the ideabehind its formulation but also with regard toexecution of the policy. Performance analysis ofthese enclaves reveals a very ambiguous picture.Although in absolute terms, its performance seemsquite promising, it is found quite ineffective indiversifying exports basket and also in promotinga strong industrial base.

Title : Fiscal Sustainability of NationalFood Security Act, 2013 in India


No. : 332

The paper attempts to assess the future fiscalimplication of National Food Security Act (NFSA),2013 in India. The results, under baseline scenariobased on projected debt/GDP ratio shows modestincrease in it till 2021-22, and then declinestowards the current level of 70% in 2012-13 andhence signify fiscal sustainability. The dynamics ofprojected baseline debt/GDP ratio is largelyshaped by the provisions in the Act andunderlying demographic factors to be experiencedby India during the projection horizon. Thesensitivity analysis under different assumptionsabout productivity growth, interest rate ongovernment borrowing and primary deficits/GDPratio show mixed results and hence providenecessary policy implication to restore fiscalsustainability under the Act. Keeping the primarydeficits/GDP ratio below 1.5% by way of periodicupward revision of issue price of food grains, asenvisaged in the Act, coupled with higherproductivity growth and lower interest ongovernment debt would ensure long-term fiscalsustainability of the Act.

Title : Integrated Child DevelopmentServices in Karnataka

Author : Pavithra Rajan, Jonathan Gangbarand K Gayithri

No. : 333

This paper investigates the funding patterns,physical infrastructure and human capitalcomponents of the ICDS programme and analyzesthem in relation to malnutrition levels. Using theData Envelopment Analyses, it finds that certaindistricts in the State are better performing than theothers over a period of time. In 2007-08, thetechnically efficient districts were Chickmagalur,Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Kodagu,Kolar, Mysore and Tumkur; while in 2012-13,Bagalkot, Bangalore Urban, Belgaum, Bellary,Bidar, Gadag, Haveri, Kodagu, Koppal, Mandya,Raichur and Udipi were the most technicallyefficient districts. The paper suggests that furtherresearch needs to be undertaken to examine thetechnical efficiency of SNP component of ICDS atthe sub-district level and the implications of theWHO Child Growth Monitoring Standards on thetechnical efficiency of the districts.

Title : Performance-Based BudgetingSubnational Initiatives in Indiaand China

Author : K Gayithri

No. : 334

The paper discusses the challenges involvedin performance-based budgeting of sub-nationalgovernments in India and China, which haveextensive responsibilities in delivering publicservices and are also closer to the grassroots. Thepaper tries to understand the performance-budgeting initiatives, processes and theachievements in a comparative perspective andidentifies some of the common challenges thatthese bodies in the two countries face. Theseinclude the need to strengthen expenditureplanning and management through use ofperformance information, the need to establish asound performance measurement system and the

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need for a programmatic approach and perfor-mance evaluation system among others.

Title : Ricardian Approach to FiscalSustainability in India


No. : 335

This paper is an attempt to discuss andanalyze the fiscal sustainability of India in thecontext of Ricardian Equivalence (RE). The paperderives different forms of empirically testableequations for testing RE based on studies by Buiterand Tobin (1978), Kormendi (1983) and Kormendiand Meguire (1990). Based on availability of data,the empirical evidences are against the REhypothesis, and hence the fiscal policy pursuedduring the study period (1974-2011) had beendetrimental to generational welfare neutrality. Thepaper notes that one of the key aspects of fiscalsustainability is to ensure generational equity asreflected in the Fiscal Responsibility and BudgetManagement (FRBM) Act, 2003 in India. However,the empirical findings convey that fiscal policy hadbeen unsustainable in terms of generational equityin India.

Title : Performance Analysis of NationalHighway Public-PrivatePartnerships (PPPs) in India

Author : Nagesha G and K Gayithri

No. : 336

The authors of this paper attempt to assessthe performance of four National Highway (NH)PPP projects in the State of Karnataka. Theframework for evaluation of the projects underreview includes, time overrun analysis, riskresponsibility matrix, and estimation of bothquantitative and qualitative accrual of value formoney (VfM); i.e. the financial savings to thegovernment and road users. The paper notes thatin three out of four projects under review, thepositive VfM to government (financial savings) isin the tune of Rs 1,040 crore. VfM has also beenobserved to be positive to the road users in termsof average reduction in travel time, saving of fuel,constancy in reaching the destination on time, etc.Further the paper finds that average time overrunin PPPs is less as compared to non-PPP projects.The paper also provides suggestions to tone up thePPP policy of India.

‘On Civil Society, Again: Civil Society, Stateand Public Policy in South India’. Studies in IndianPolitics (Sage), 2 (1), June 2014 - Anil Kumar V.

‘Political Decentralisation and EconomicReforms in South India: An Uneven Equation?’.Man and Development, 2014 - Anil Kumar V.

‘State, New Developmentalism and PoliticalProcesses’. My Society: Bi-Annual Refereed ArtsJournal of the University of Mysore, VII (1-2), March-August/ September-February, 2013-14 (September)- Anil Kumar V.

‘Whither Decentralization in India? TheInteresting Story of a Nobody’s Child’. In LancyLobo, Mrutuyanjaya Sahu and Jayesh Shah (eds),

Federalism in India: Towards a Fresh Balance of Power.Jaipur: Rawat, 2014 - Anil Kumar V.

‘Environmentally Extended SocialAccounting Matrix for Climate Change PolicyAnalysis for India’. Journal of Regional Developmentand Planning, 3 (1), 2014 - Barun Deb Pal andSanjib Pohit.

‘Diversification towards High Value Agri-cultural Commodities in India’. In Prem Nath (ed),Food, Agriculture and Humanity, Vol.III. Jodhpur,Rajasthan: Dr P N Agricultural ScienceFoundation, Bangalore and Scientific Publishers(India), 2014 – Chengappa P G, Yadava, C G, Arun,M and H M Prasanna Kumar.

Articles Published in Journals/Edited Books

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‘How Peri-Urban Agriculture can Supportwith Food to the Growing Urban Population-RoleExpectations and Parameters for Economic Growthin Developing Countries’. In Prem Nath (ed), TheBasics of Human Civilization: Food, Agriculture andHumanity, Vol.III: Agriculture. Dr. P.N. AgriculturalScience Foundation (PNASF), Bangalore andScientific Publishers, India, 2014 – Chengappa P G,Yadava, C G, Arun, M and M K Gana Shruthy.

‘Rural Local Government Finance in SouthIndian States’. In G Palanithurai (ed),Decentralisation in South Indian States. Chennai: MJPPublishers, 2014 – Devendra Babu M.

(with Soumya Manjunath) ‘Tank Irrigation:Prospects for Development in Karnataka’. KisanWorld: A Journal of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, 41 (7), July 2014 - Elumalai Kannan.

‘Subsidies in Food, Agriculture and AlliedSectors of Karnataka’. In K Gayithri (ed),Government Subsidies in Karnataka (Monograph 34).Bangalore: ISEC, 2014 – Elumalai Kannan.

‘Trends in Agricultural Incomes: An Analysisat the Select Crops and State Levels in India’.Journal of Agrarian Change, 15 (2), 2015 – ElumalaiKannan.

‘Public Expenditure in Karnataka: A SectoralAnalysis’. In Budget for Inclusive Development: ACritical Analysis of Recent Budgets in Karnataka.Bangalore: NLSIU, 2014 – Gayithri K.

‘Public-Private Partnerships of India’sInfrastructure Development’ (Research Note).Journal of Infrastructure Development, 6 (2): 111-129,2014 - Gayithri K and Nagesha G.

Book Review: ‘Development and PublicFinance: Essays in Honour of Raja Chellaih’ by DKShrivatsava and U Sankar, Sage publications.Journal of Social and Economic Development, 16 (2),2014 - Gayithri K and Anatharamu.

‘Women and Child Development: BudgetAllocations and Impacts. In Seminar Proceedings

Budgets and Marginalized Sections: Some Reflectionson Last Two Budgets of Karnataka. Bangalore:National Law School of India University, 2015 -Gayithri K.

‘Performance Analysis of National HighwaysPublic-Private Partnerships in India’. Public WorksManagement and Policy, 20 (3): 264-85, 2015 -Gayithri K and Nagesha G.

‘Fiscal Developments and State Finances’.Economic Survey, Planning Department,Government of Karnataka, 2015 – Gayithri K.

‘Abuse against Elderly in India – The Role ofEducation’. BMC Public Health, 14: 336, April 2014- James K S and Skirbekk, Vegard.

‘Changes in Mortality and Human Longevityin Kerala: Are they Leading to the AdvancedStage?’. Global Health Action, May 7, 2014 - JamesK S and Benson Thomas.

‘Does Living Longer Mean Living Healthier?Exploring Disability Free Life Expectancy in India’.Indian Journal of Gerontology, 28 (3), 2014 - James KS, Benson Thomas and S Sulaja.

‘Golden Cage: The stability of marriage inIndia’. Economic and Political Weekly, L (13),March 2015 – James K S and K Srinivasan.

‘Understanding Female Migration Pattern inIndia: Exploring the Driving Forces’. In S IrudayaRajan (ed), India Migration Report 2015: Gender andMigration. New Delhi: Routledge, 2015 – James KS and Sandhya Rani Mahapatro.

‘View from a Fast Growing Nation: Whatdemographic change means for India?’. In KatinkaBarysch (ed), Our Wold and Us: How ourEnvironment and our Societies Change. Germany:Allianz SE, 2015 – James K S and N Kavitha.

‘The Efficiency of India’s Cities: Is there aCase to Finance them?’. International Journal ofApplied Behavioral Economics, 3 (1) January-March2014 - Kala Seetharam Sridhar.

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‘Dynamics of Urban Growth, ResourceDegradation and Environmental Pollution inMillion Plus Cities of India’. Journal of Environmentand Urbanisation Asia, Sage Publication, 5 (1): March2014 - Lakshmana C M.

‘Demographic Change and the Environment’.Economic and Political Weekly, L (8): 15-17, February2015 – Lakshmana C M.

‘Demographics of Population Ageing inIndia’. In G Giridhar, K M Sathyanarayana, SanjayKumar, K S James and Moneer Alam (eds),Population Ageing in India. Cambridge UniversityPress, 2014 - Lekha Subaiya and Dhananjay WBansod.

‘Socio-economic Disparities in Health CareSeeking Behavior, Health Expenditure & Its Sourceof Financing in Orissa’. Journal of HealthManagement, Sage Publication, 16 (3): 397-414, 2014– Madheswaran S and Amit Kumar Sahoo.

‘Impact of Health on Labour Supply andWages: A Case of Agricultural Workers in WestBengal’. Journal of Health Management, SagePublication, 16 (3): 441-457, 2014 – MadheswaranS and Amrita Ghatak.

‘Elderly Workforce in India: Labour MarketParticipation, Wage differentials, and theirContribution to Household Income’. In G Giridhar,K M Sathyanarayana, Sanjay Kumar, K S Jamesand Moneer Alam (eds), Ageing in India: Challengesin Policies and Programmes. Cambridge UniversityPress, 2014 – Madheswaran S, Sakthivel and AnupKarana.

‘Shenzhen Special Economic Zone toShanghai Free Trade Zone: Approach to Reform inChina’. India-China People’s View Quarterly, 8 (2),March-June 2014 - Malini L Tantri.

‘Replacing Conventional Fuels throughBiogas for Mitigating the Threats Related toClimate Change in India: A State Wise Assessment

for Emission Reduction’. In N J Raju et al (eds),Management of Water, Energy and Bioresources in theEra of Climate Change: Emerging Issues andChallenges. Springer with Capital Publishing Co.,2014 –Manasi S, Nautiyal S, Mrinalini Goswami,K Bhaskar and Y D Imran Khan.

‘Small Conflict Uncovers Big Issues: Conflictbetween the Manual Scavenging Community andSavanur Town’. In Joy et al, (eds), Water Aid andWater Conflicts in India, 2014 – Manasi S and UmeshBabu M S.

‘Enabling Poor through InstitutionalAlternatives to Access Drinking Water Supplies inRural India: A Field Review of Some BestPractices’. In Habib Ayeb and Thierry Ruf (eds),Eaux, pauvreté et crises socials: Water, Poverty andSocial Crisis. Montpellier: IRD Editions, 2009 (généréle 23 avril 2014). http://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/4818. ISBN: 9782709917667 – ManasiS and K V Raju.

‘Eco-labeling for environmental friendlyproduction in agriculture sector: an internationaland Indian perspective’. Ecology, Environment andConservation, 21 (2), March 2015 – Manjunatha AV, Y Nagaraju and Sudarshan Sampath.

‘Educated Unemployment in Sikkim: AnOutcome of Educational Development’. Journal ofNorth-East India Studies, 4 (1), 2014 - MarchangReimeingam.

‘Korean Wave and Korean MediaConsumption in Manipur’. Journal of North-EastIndia Studies, 4 (2), 2014 - Marchang Reimeingam.

‘Social and Economic Emancipation in theContext of Tangkhul Nagas’. In Vashum, R, et al,Encountering Modernity: Situating the TangkhulNagas in Perspective. New Delhi and Chicago:Chicken Neck, an Imprint of Bibliophile SouthAsia, 2014 - Marchang Reimeingam.

‘Gender Gap in Labour Participation inIndia’. In Kumar, B P, R Mutharayapa and K CChannamma (eds), Women’s Empowerment: A

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Strategy for Development. New Delhi: Bookwell,2015 – Marchang Reimeingam.

‘Implementation and Impact of RevivalPackage on Cooperative Credit Societies: A Studyof Selected Districts of Madhya Pradesh’. NafscobJournal, April-May 2014 - Meenakshi Rajeev,Veerashekharappa and Manojit Bhattacharjee.

‘Nature and Dimensions of Farmers’Indebtedness in India’. In P K Shetty (ed),Innovations in Rice Production, NIAS Publications -Meenakshi Rajeev and B P Vani.

‘Banking Sector in India: Reforms andBeyond’. In Jakub Zajaczkowski et al (eds), India inthe Contemporary World: Polity, Economy andInternational Relations. Routledge, 2014 - MeenakshiRajeev.

‘Input-Output Linkage across Sectors andEmployment Challenges in Indian Economy’.Arthavijnana, LVI (1), March 2014 - MeenakshiRajeev and Tulika Bhattacharya.

‘Identifying Employment Creating Sectors inIndia: An Analysis of Input-Output Linkages’.Kassel University, Germany, published paper, 2014 -Meenakshi Rajeev and Tulika Bhattacharya.

‘Accessibility to Credit and Its Determinants,Margin’. Journal of Applied Economic Research, 8 (3):285-300, August 2014 - Meenakshi Rajeev andManojit Bhattacharya.

‘Childhood Morbidities: Analysing CasteGroup Differentials in Rural India’. Asian Journalof Social Science Review, 5 (1), March 2014 –Mutharayappa R and Rajesh Raushan.

‘Neighbourhood Development and IllnessDifferential in Rural India: Are they Interlinked?’Journal of Development Management andCommunication, 1 (3), July-September 2014 –Mutharayappa R and Rajesh Raushan.

‘Does Women’s Autonomy Influence FertilityPreference’. Man and Development, XXXVI (3),September, 2014 – Mutharayappa R.

‘Impact of population ageing on sustainabilityof India’s current fiscal policies: A GenerationalAccounting approach’, The Journal of the Economicsof Ageing, 3, 2014 –Narayana, M R.

‘Is Low Fertility Really a Problem? PopulationAgeing, Dependency and Consumption’. Science,347 (10): 229-34, October 2014 – Ronald Lee,Andrew Mason, Narayana, M R et al.

‘What Does India Need to Extend theDemographic Dividend?’. Policy in Focus(published by International Policy Centre forInclusive Growth at Brasillia DF (Brazil), jointlysupported by UNDP and the Government ofBrazil). 30: 23-26, 2014 – Narayana, M R.

‘Are Subsidies for Coffee Farmers Inclusive inIndia: Evidence and Implications from aHousehold Survey’. Agrarian South: Journal ofPolitical Economy, 3 (2): 239-73, August 2014 –Narayana, M R.

‘Management of Coffee Leaf Rust Disease inIndia: Estimation of Cost, Returns and WelfareGains’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics”. 69,2014 – Narayana, M R.

‘What does India need to extend theDemographic Dividend?’, Policy in Focus(published by International Policy Centre forInclusive Growth at Brasillia DF (Brazil), jointlysupported by UNDP and Government of Brazil).2014 – Narayana, M R.

‘Growth Effects of Industrial Clusters:Evidence and Implications for India’. South AsiaEconomic Journal, 15: 71-92, 2014 – Narayana M R.

‘Production, Employment, Marketing andOn-Farm Processing: A Case of SelectedHorticultural Crops in Karnataka’. AgricultureSituation in India, LXX (9), December 2013 - ParmodKumar.

‘Food Retail Chain as an Alternate MarketingChannel in India’. Indian Journal of AgriculturalMarketing, 28 (3), 2014 - Parmod Kumar and KedarVishnu.

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‘Is There a Case to Extend Social PensionSchemes to All Unorganised Workers? Evidencefrom Karnataka’. The Grassroots Governance Journal,12 (2), July-December 2014 – Rajasekhar D, GSreedhar, R Manjula, R R Biradar and N LNarasimha Reddy.

‘Impact of an Innovative Market InformationSystem for Pulses in Northern Karnataka’. IndianJournal of Marketing, June 4, 2014 – Ramappa K B,B S Reddy, B N Rajeshwari and Suresh, S Patil.

‘Interface of Local and Higher Governments:Nation Building and Inclusive Growth in Theoryand Practice in India’. In Lancy Lobo,Mrutuyanjaya Sahu and Jayesh Shah (eds),Federalism in India: Towards a Fresh Balance of Power.Jaipur: Rawat, 2014 – Sangita S N.

‘Political Regimes, Decentralised Governanceand Social Security in Southern States’. InPalanithurai (ed), Panchayat Raj in Southern States.2014 – Sangita S N and Anil Kumar V.

‘The Panchayat and Women Empowerment’,Geography and You, November and December 2014– Sivanna N.

‘Two-Decades of Panchayati Raj inKarnataka’. In G Palanithurai (ed), Decentralisationin South India. New Delhi: MJP Publications, 2014– Sivanna N.

‘Lockout at Toyota Kirloskar: The FutureSpace of Labour’. Economic and Political Weekly,XLIX (18), April 26, 2014 - Sobin George.

‘Deregulation and the Fading Labour Agenda:Evidence from Transnational AutomobileCompanies in India’. Economic and Political Weekly,XLIX (46), November 15, 2014 - Sobin George.

‘India’s Retail Trade Revolution: Socio-Religious Dimensions of Employment Loss andNew Forms of Urban Exclusion’. Journal ofExclusion Studies, 4 (2), August 2014 - Sobin George

‘A Transition from Wood Fuel to LPG and ItsImpact on Energy Conservation and Health in the

Central Himalayas, India’. Journal of MountainScience, 10 (5): 898-912, 2013 - Sunil Nautiyal.

‘Potential of Manure Based Biogas to ReplaceConventional and Non-Conventional Fuels inIndia: Environmental Assessment for EmissionReduction’. Management of Environmental Quality:An International Journal, 26 (1): 3-2, 2015 – SunilNautiyal, Goswami, M, Manasi, S, Bhaskar K andKhan Y D.

‘Cross-Cultural Ecological KnowledgeRelated to the Use of Plant Biodiversity in theTraditional Health Care Systems in Biligiriranga-Swamy Temple Tiger Reserve, Karnataka Medi-cinal Plants’. International Journal of Phytomedicinesand Related Industries, 6 (4): 254-271, 2014 – SunilNautiyal, Rajasekaran, C, Varsha, N P.

‘Replacing Conventional Fuels throughBiogas for Mitigating the Threats related to ClimateChange in India: A State-wise Assessment forEmission Reduction’. In N J Raju et al, Managementof Water, Energy and Bio-resources in the Era ofClimate Change: Emerging Issues and Challenges. TheNetherlands: Springer, 2015 – Sunil Nautiyal,Goswami M, Manasi S, Bez P, Bhaskar K andKhan Y D.

‘Bringing Class Back In: Informality inBangalore’. Socialist Register, 51, 2015 – SupriyaRoyChowdhury.

‘State-wise Dynamics of the Double Burdenof Malnutrition among 15-49 year-old Women inIndia: How Much Does the Scenario ChangeConsidering Asian Population-specific BMI Cut-offValues?’. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 53 (6): 618-38, November 2014 – Syamala T S, AnganSengupta, Federica Angeli, ThelakkatSankaranarayanan Syamala, C P Van Schayck andPieter Dagnelie.

‘Access of Bank Credit to Scheduled Castes:A Case Study of Karnataka’. Indian Journal ofInclusive Growth, 2 (Special Issue), 2014 -Veerashekharappa.

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Working Papers Published outside ISEC

‘Farmers’ Preference for Climate SmartTechnologies – An Assessment in Indo-GangeticPlain’, 2014 - Barun Deb Pal, Garima Taneja,Pramod K Joshi, Pramod K Aggarawal and N KTyagi.

‘Health Status, Care Giving and Receivingamong Elderly with Migrant Children’. Series II,Working Paper 4, Building Knowledge Base on

Population Ageing in India, December 2014 –James K S, Ajay Bailey and Jyoti S Hallard.

‘Identifying the High Linked Sectors forIndia: An Application of Import-adjusted DomesticC111Input-Output Matrix’. The International Centrefor Development and Decent Work, Working papers No.12, Kassel University, Germany, May 2014 –Meenakshi Rajeev

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Kumar, Parmod

‘Demand for Alcohol and Giffen Behaviour’, atInstitute for Social and Economic Change, August12, 2014.

‘Agricultural Scenario in India: Policy Challenges’,at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for ContemporaryStudies, Jawar Bhawan, New Delhi, December 10,2014.

‘Food Security in India: Past, Present and Future’,at World Trade Centre, Indian Institute of ForeignTrade (IIFT), New Delhi, December 11-12, 2014.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

‘Effectiveness of Interest Subvention Policy’, at RBI,September 17, 2014.

Product Patent and Availability of Drugs: ATheoretical Modelling, at RBI, Mumbai, December2014.

RoyChowdhury, Supriya

New Paradigms of Labour Relations: How MuchDo They Explain?, at IGIDR, Mumbai, November,2014.

Papers Presented in Seminars, Conferences andWorkshops

Babu, M Devendra

Inclusive Human Development: Issues concerningScheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; at theSeminar on Human Development: Issues andChallenges in Inclusive Growth, organized bySchool of Social Sciences, Solapur University,December 1-2, 2014, at Solapur, Maharashtra.

Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development: AReview of HKADB’s Role; at the Seminar onStrategies for the Development of HyderabadKarnataka Backward Region, organized byDepartment of Economics, R K Government FirstGrade College, March 13-14, 2015, at Chittapur,Kalaburagi District, Karnataka.

Inclusive Human Development: The Case ofScheduled Tribes in Karnataka; at the Seminar onTribal Development in Karnataka: Issues andChallenges, organized by CMDR, March 26-27,2015, at Dharwad, Karnataka.

Bairagya, Indrajit

(with Radhika Saraf) Elementary Education inIndia: A Study of Accessibility and Quality; at theWorkshop on Policies for Sustaining High GrowthRates in India, organized by Institute of EconomicGrowth, August 19-20, 2014, at Delhi.

Data Challenges for Indian Economy; at theNational Seminar on Official Stastistical SystemsIdentifying Research Gaps, Bridging them throughPrimary Investigation and Untapped SecondarySources Data to Improve the Official Statistics,organized by Gokhale Institute of Politics andEconomics (GIPE), November 15, 2014, at GIPE,Pune.

Determinants of Educated Unemployment inIndia; at the National Seminar on YouthEmployment in India: Trends, Challenges andPolicy Responses, organized by School ofDevelopment Practice (SDP) of RGNIYD, January30-31, 2015, at RGNIYD, Tamil Nadu.

7. PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS

Seminars Presented outside ISEC

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Balasubramanian, M

Concept Note on Payment for Ecosystem Servicesin Protected Areas; at the Summer School onEnvironment and Resource Economics, organizedby South Asian Development and EnvironmentalEconomics, Asian Institute of Technology,Bangkok, Thailand, May 6-22, 2014.

Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth inIndia; at the National Seminar on Economics ofClimate Change: Understanding the Linkagebetween Economy and Ecology, organized byDepartment of Economics Nehru Arts and ScienceCollege, Kerala, September 23-24, 2014.

The Value of Natural Capital; at the InternationalSeminar on Green Economy and SustainableDevelopment, organized by AgricultureDevelopment and Rural Transformation Centre(ADRTC) ISEC, Bangalore, November 6-7, 2014.

Urbanization, Poverty and Climate Change:Empirical Evidence from India; at the Workshopon Internal Migration, Urbanization, Poverty andInequality in Asia, November 7-8, 2014, atPhilippines.

Bhat, T N

Poverty and Ageing: Evidence from BKBAI Surveyin Odisha; at the 12th IFA Global Conference onAgeing, organized by International Federation onAgeing, June 11-13, 2014, at Hyderabad.

Chengappa, P G

Technology Evaluations, Targeting and PolicyOptions for Enhanced Impact of Rice; at the 49th

Annual Rice Research Group Meeting, organizedby the Directorate of Rice Research, Rajendranagar,Hyderabad, April 6-8, 2014, at Hyderabad.

(with A V Manjunath) Competitiveness of OnionMarkets in India; at the Workshop on MediumTerm Outlook for India’s Food Sector, organizedby National Council of Applied EconomicsResearch, June 26, 2014, at Delhi.

(with Devika M) Indian Agriculture in the Face ofClimate Change - The Way forward; at theNational Seminar on Climate change and AgrarianEconomy: an Indian perspective, organized byUAS, Dharwad, January 22-23, 2015, at Dharwad.

Trimester System of Education-Past Experience inFarm Universities; at the Seminar on Trimestersystem of Education in Farm Universities,organized by UAS, January 29, 2015, at Dharwad.

(with A V Manjunath, N C Mamatha, M Devika)Valuation of Ecotourism in Kodagu district ofKarnataka; at the International Seminar on NaturalResource and National Accounts in South Asia,organized by ISEC, Bangalore, February 6, 2015, atBangalore.

Channamma, K C

FDI in Retail: Plight of Vegetable Vendors; at the56th Annual Conference of Indian Society of LabourEconomics, Ranchi, organized by BIT, Mesra,December 18-20, 2014, at Mesra, Ranchi.

Deb Pal, Barun

Technology Transfer, Economic Development andCarbon Emissions – An Input-Output Analysis forIndia; at the International IO Conference,organised by the University of Lisbon, Portugal,July 14-18, 2014, at Portugal.

Identifying Key Sector for Green Growth in India- An ESAM Multiplier; at the International IOConference, organised by the University of Lisbon,Portugal, July 14-18, 2014, at Portugal.

Gayithri, K

(with Jonathan Gangbar and Pavithra Rajan)Financing Integrated Child Development Services- A Sub-National Review; at the InternationalConference on Health systems strengthening:Country experiences; organized by Institute ofPublic Enterprises, Hyderabad, and Institute forSocial and Economic Change, Bangalore,November 12-14, 2014, at Hyderabad.

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(with Nagesha, G) Value for Money Analysis ofNational Highway Public-Private Partnerships; atthe International conference on Frontiers ofInfrastructure Finance-2014, organized by IndianInstitute of Technology, November 13-15, 2014, atKharagpur.

Impact of Industrial Incentives and Concessions:Some Insights from Karnataka; at the NationalSeminar on New Industrial Policy of TelanganaState: A Critical Look, organised by Centre forEconomic and Social Studies and the Governmentof Telangana, Hyderabad, January 30-31, 2015, atHyderabad.

Women and Child Development: BudgetAllocations and Impacts; at the Seminar, organizedby the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion andInclusive Policy, National Law school of IndiaUniversity, Bangalore, March 3, 2015, at VikasaSoudha, Bangalore.

George, Sobin

Does Social Profile of Healthcare Providers Matter?Continuing Challenges of Inclusion in the HealthDelivery System in India; at the InternationalSeminar on Health System Strengthening:Experience from some Countries, organized byInstitute for Public Enterprises (IPE), Hyderabad,November 7, 2014, Hyderabad.

James, K S

India’s Support System for Elderly, Myths andRealities; at the Faculty Seminar at the School ofSpatial Sciences, organized by University ofGroningen, May 22, 2014, at The Netherlands.

The Economic Support System for Senior Citizensin India: Restating the Obvious; at the InternationalFederation of Ageing Global Conference onAgeing, organized by International Federation ofAgeing, June 11-13, 2014, at Hyderabad.

Highlights of the Survey Findings on Status ofElderly in India; at the Seminar on Status of Elderlyin Tamil Nadu, organized by PRC Gandhigram,June 30, 2014, at Chennai.

Work, Income and Living Arrangement of theElderly in Odisha; at the Dissemination Seminar onthe Status of Eldelry in Odisha, organized byUNFPA, Odisha, September 2, 2014, atBhubaneswar.

Health Status and Health Care Utilisation amongIndian Elders; at the Workshop on National HealthMission: Achievement and Challenges, organizedby Institute of Economic Growth, September 9-10,2014, at Delhi.

An Assessment of the Quality of Birth Data in CRS;at the One-Day Dissemination Seminar on theQuality of CRS in Odisha, organized by UNFPA,Bhubaneswar and ISEC, Bangalore, October 21,2014, at Bubaneshwar.

Effective Monitoring of Maternal and Child HealthProgrammes in India: The Role of HealthManagement Information System; at the IndianAssociation for the Study of Population AnnualConference, organized by Department ofDemography, University of Kerala,Thiruvanantha-puram, November 7-9, 2014, atThiruvanantha-puram.

Disability and Use of Aids in India: Evidence fromCensus and Surveys; at the Workshop onAffordable Assisted Living Technologies for theElderly, organized by British Council, November19, 2014, at IISc, Bangalore.

Women and Ageing in India: Pathways ofVulnerability; at the Indian Association for SocialSciences and Health Annual Conference, organsiedby GL Gupta Institute of Public Health, Universityof Lucknow, November 21-23, 2014, at Lucknow.

Natoinal Programme for the Health Care of Elderlyand its Role in Addressing NCD Burden in India;at the Conference on India’s Elderly: Dignity,Health and Security, organized by UNFPA, India,December 4-5, 2014, at New Delhi.

(with Ajay Bailey, Jyoti Hallad, SandhyaMahapatro and Inge Hutter) They had to do’:

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Indian older adult’s experiences of living awayfrom their migrant children; at the WOTROClosing Conference on Migration, Developmentand Conflict, organized by University of theWitswatersrand, March 22-26,2015, atJohannesburg, South Africa.

Kannan, Elumalai

Assessment of Pre and Post Harvest Losses ofImportant Crops in India; at the NationalWorkshop on Improvement of AgriculturalStatistics, organized by DES, Ministry ofAgriculture, Government of India, September 30-October 1, 2014, at New Delhi.

Farm Input Subsidies in India: Access, Efficiencyand Equity; at the Inter-Conference Symposium ofInternational Association of AgriculturalEconomists (IAAE) on Re-visiting AgriculturePolicies in the Light of Globalisation Experience:The Indian Context, organized by MANAGE,October 12-13, 2014, at Hyderabad.

Agrarian Changes in India: Some Reflections of Dr.Ambedkar’s Thoughts; at the National Seminar onPerspectives and Relevance of Dr. Ambedkar’sEconomic Philosophy in the Current GlobalScenario, organized by Dr. Ambedkar StudiesCentre, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Scienceand Higher Education for Women University,Coimbatore, January 21-22, 2015, at Coimbatore,Tamil Nadu.

(with Ramappa K B) Impact Evaluation ofBhoochetana Program in Karnataka: SomeObservations from the Field; at the GoK-ICRISATInitiatives Annual Review and Planning Workshopon Bhoochetana and Bhoochetana Plus, organizedby ICRISAT, Hyderabad, February 23-26, 2015, atHyderabad.

Kumar, Parmod

Agriculture Outlook in Medium Term Future; atthe One Day Workshop on Medium Term Outlookfor India’s Food Sector, organised by NCAER New

Delhi under the Project Incorporating InternationalBest Practices in the Preparation of AgriculturalOutlook and Situation Analysis Reports for India,Supported by FAO, June 26, 2014, at New Delhi.

Impact Evaluation of Rashtriya Krishi VikasYojana; at the Senior Officers Meeting headed bySecretary, MoA, GOI, organized by DirectorRKVY, January 5, 2015, at Krishi Bhawan, NewDelhi.

Food Security and Right to Food: Ending HungerWithin a Generation - Challenges and Priorities; atthe Seminar, organized by Priorities’ Jyoti NiwasCollege (Autonomous) Bangalore, January 20,2015, at Bangalore.

Production and Consumption Trends inAgricultural Commodities; at the InternationalSeminar on Development and Modernization:Inclusion and Exclusion, organized by DAVCollege for Girls, Yamunanagar, KurukshetraUniversity, February 7-8, 2015, at Yamunanagar,Haryana.

Food Security in India: Past, Present and Future;at the International Seminar on Climate Changeand Food Security: The Global and IndianContexts, organized by CEENR, Institute for Socialand Economic Change, February 15, 2015, atBangalore.

Employment Generation under MGNAREGA: ASpatial and Temporal Analysis; at the InternationalSeminar on Poverty and Deprivation in SouthAsia, organized by Department of Economics andCentre for Study of Nepal, March 9-11, 2015, atBanaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi.

Kumar, V Anil

Can Indian State Ensure Social Cohesion?, at theSeminar on Social Dynamics: Indian and Swissapproaches, jointly organized by ICSSR-UNIL-ISEC (International Relations of the University ofLausanne), Switzerland, Bangalore, September 9-10, 2014.

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Lakshmana, C M

Urbanisation, Migration and Sustainable Environ-ment; at the International Seminar on ClimateChange and Food Security: The Global and IndianContext, organized by CEENR, ISEC and NaturalResources and School of Geosciences, University ofSydney, Australia, February 18, 2015, at ISEC,Bengaluru.

Lingaraju, M

21ne Shatamanada Mahile Abaleyalla SabaleMattu Prabale; at the Two Days National Seminaron Women Empowerment – Then and Now: ASocial, Historical, Economic and PoliticalPerspective, Technical Session – VI A under theSub Theme of Working Women and Challenges,organized by Govt. First Grade College,Ramanagara, October 14–15, 2014, at Ramanagara.

Health, Food System and Beliefs among IruligaTribal Community (in Kannada); at the TechnicalSession – I under the Sub Theme of Food Systemand Beliefs” in a Two Days National Seminar on“Indian Traditional Food Systems, organized bythe Department of Anthropology, KannadaUniversity, Hampi in Collaboration with Anthro-pological Survey of India, Kolkata, December 22–23, 2014.

Manjunatha, A V

(with H S Sadhana, V Karthick and M GChandrakanth) Estimation of farm profitabilityand marginal productivity of groundwater inEastern Dry Zone of Karnataka; at the InternationalSeminar on Natural Resource and NationalAccounts in South Asia, organized by ISEC andPlanning Department, GoK, February 5-6, 2015, atBangalore.

Mutharayappa, R

Women’s Education and Empowerment; at theSymposium on Gender, ICT and Education,organised by the Learning Links Foundation,Bangalore and US Consulate General, Chennai,October 17, 2014, Bangalore.

Gender Differentials of Morbidity and DiseasePattern; at the International Conference on HealthSystem Strengthening: Country Experience,organized by the Institute of Public Enterprises,Hyderabad, November 12-14, 2014, at Hyderabad.

Narayana, M R

Application of IHDS Data for Construction andAnalysis of India’s National Transfer Accounts; atthe Conference on Human Development in India:Evidence from IHDS, organized by NationalCouncil of Applied Economic Research andUniversity of Maryland, India International Centre,New Delhi, July 18-19, 2014.

India’s Proposed Universal Health CoveragePolicy: Evidence and Implications for AgeStructure Transition Effects and FiscalSustainability; at the International Conference onDemographic Change and Policy Response,organized by Peking University and ChineseAcademy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China,November 13-14, 2014.

Universal Old Age Pension for India: Estimates ofPublic Cost and Fiscal Sustainability, at theUNFPA Conference on India’s Elderly: Dignity,Health and Security, New Delhi, December 4-5,2014.

Nautiyal, Sunil

(with Umesh Babu M S) Theoretical and PracticalApproaches for Resource Conservation andManagement in Ancient India: A HistoricalPerspective; at the International InterdisciplinaryResearch Workshop on South Asia: Culture,Technology and Development, Organized bySwedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET)and Lund University, Lund, Sweden, June 13-15,2014, at Falsterbo, Sweden.

(with Umesh Babu M S) Variations inMeteorological Measures Leading to ClimateChange Vulnerability: A Case Study from SouthIndia; at the International Conference on Our

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Climate – Our Future; Regional Perspectives on aGlobal Challenge, organized by Alfred WegenerInstitute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and MarineResearch, Bremerhaven, Germany, October 6-9,2014, at Berlin, Germany.

(with Umesh Babu M S) Eco-Energy Analysis ofLand Use Systems in the Tropical Region: A CaseStudy from Karnataka; at the InternationalConference on Tropical Ecosystem in ChangingWorld, organized by International Society forTropical Ecology, December 2014.

(with Y D Imran Khan and M G Venkatesha)Status of House-Sparrow (Passer Domesticus) inDeveloping Rural and Urban Areas in View ofChanging Climate: A Study from ChitradurgaDistrict, Karnataka; at the National Seminar onIndian Biodiversity Congress, organized by SRMUniversity, December 18-20, 2014, at Chennai.

(with K Bhaskar and L Rajanna) Weed Biodiversityin Crop Fields of South Costal Andhra Pradesh,India; at the National Seminar on IndianBiodiversity Congress, organized by SRMUniversity, December 18-20, 2014, at Chennai.

(with Chaya Ravishankar and S Manasi) FoodSecurity and Climate Change in Protected Areas:Complexities and Challenges for IntegratedModeling; at the International Seminar on ClimateChange and Food Security: The Global and IndianContexts, organized by ISEC in association withUniversity of Sydney, Australia, February 18, 2015,at Bangalore.

(with Mrinalini Goswami and S Manasi) IntegratedDevelopment of Peri-Urban Areas in North-EastIndia: Issues and Strategies for LandscapePlanning; at the International Seminar on ClimateChange and Food Security: The Global and IndianContexts, organized by ISEC in association withUniversity of Sydney, Australia, February 18, 2015,at Bangalore.

(with K Bhaskar and Y D Imran Khan) Plant-Biodiversity of Central Semi Arid Zone ofKarnataka, India; at the International Seminar onClimate Change and Food Security: The Globaland Indian Contexts, organized by ISEC inassociation with University of Sydney, Australia,February 18, 2015, at Bangalore.

(with Umesh Babu M S) Changing Change andVulnerability Assessment: A Case Study fromKarnataka; at the International Seminar on ClimateChange and Food Security: The Global and IndianContexts, organized by ISEC in association withUniversity of Sydney, Australia, February 18, 2015,at Bangalore.

Rajasekhar, D

(with Mahima Upadhyay) Decentralisation andPeople’s Participation in Educational Governance:A Review of Some Experiences; at the NationalPolicy Seminar on People’s Participation andDecentralised Educational Governance: PolicyReforms and Programme Practices, organized byNUEPA, February 16-17, 2015, at New Delhi.

(with Manjula R) NREGS, Grama Panchayats andInclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture: Evidencefrom Karnataka; at the International Seminar onClimate Change and Food Security: The Globaland Indian Context, organized by University ofSydney and ISEC, February 18, 2015 at ISEC,Bangalore.

Raj, Krishna

Where All the Water Has Gone? An Analysis ofUrban Water Supply in Bangalore City; at theAnnual Conference and Exhibition of AmericanWater Works Association, organized by AmericanWater Works Association, June 8-12, 2014, atBoston.

Climate Change, Efficiency of Water Supply andDemand Management in New York and BangaloreCities; at the Colloquium on Urban Resilience,organized by Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore,September 27, 2014, at Bangalore.

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FDI and Indian Economy: Prosperity or Inequality;at the Seminar on Focus Discussion on New Dawnof FDI in India, organized by PES University,Bangalore, October 28, 2014, at Bangalore.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

Financial Exclusion in India; at the 9th GlobalLabour University Conference on Inequality withinand among Nations: Causes, Effects, andResponses, organized by The Global LabourUniversity, Berlin, Germany, May 15-17, 2014, atBerlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin,Germany.

Agrarian Distress and Role of Non Farm Sector; atthe Conference on Agrarian Distress in India,organized by Centre for Social Development,November 11-12, 2014, at New Delhi.

Change in Patent Regime in PharmaceuticalIndustry: A Theoretical Analysis, at theInternational Conference on Public Finance, PublicEconomics and Public Policy, December 10-11,2014, at the Centre for Studies in Social SciencesKolkata.

Reimeingam, Marchang

Gender Gap in Labour Participation in India; at theNational Seminar on Women Empowerment-AStrategy for Development, organized by Centre forWomen and Gender Studies, ISEC, October 13-14,2014, at Bangalore.

Level and Trend of Migration from North EasternRegion to Bangalore; at the International Seminaron Global Issues of Population, Development andEnvironment, organized by PRC, ISEC, October 27-28, 2014, at Bangalore.

BCIM: India’s Perspective; at the 2014 Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor(Chengdu) Development Forum, organized byChengdu Municipal People’s Government/Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Commerce, October30-November 1, 2014, at Chengdu, China.

MGNREGA Employment, Sustainability andPoverty in Sikkim; at the International Seminar onGreen Economy and Sustainable Development,organized by ISEC, Bangalore, India and SASS,Chengdu, China, November 6-7, 2014, atBangalore.

Social and Age Specific Worker Status in India; atthe Workshop on Census Data Dissemination –2014, organized by Directorate of CensusOperation, Karnataka and Institute for Social andEconomic Change, Bangalore, December 1, 2014,Bangalore.

Shifting Cultivation, Labour and EnvironmentalIssues in the Hills of Manipur; at the InternationalSeminar on Natural Resource and NationalAccounts in South Asia, organized by CEENR,ISEC, February 5-6, 2015, at Bangalore.


Self-Employment: Domain of Exclusion orInclusion; at the Conference on Right to Work,organized by Centre for Legal Philosophy andJustice Education, NALSAR, Hyderabad, August16, 2014.

State, Capital and Labour in the Garments Sectorin India; at the International Workshop on TheGarment and Construction Industries in India andChina: Aspects of Labour, Employment andStructural Change, organized by Centre forRegional Development Studies, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, September 12-13, 2014, at the ICSSR,New Delhi.

New Paradigms in Labour Studies: How Much DoThey Explain?; at the International Conference onPolitical Economy of India, Mumbai, jointlyorganised by IGIDR, Mumbai, and the Universityof California, Berkeley, November 24, 2014.

When Does a Text Become a Classic?; at the PanelDiscussion on Understanding the Indian PoliticalSystem: Rajni Kothari (1928-2015), organized byInstitute for Social and Economic Change,February 19, 2015, at Bangalore.

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(with Suhasini Singh) Study on Labour Shortageand Labour Turnover in Garment Industry; at theFinal Report Workshop on Joint Fact FindingInitiation of the Garment Sector Roundtable,organized by ILO and Meta-Culture, March 10,2015, at Bangalore.

Sivanna, N

Preparation of District Human DevelopmentReport: Process and Implications; at the NationalSeminar on Human Development: Issues andChallenges in Inclusive Growth, organised byUNDP, Planning Department, Government ofMaharashtra, Eyeshade, Pane and School of SocialSciences, Sholapur University, Solapur, December1-2, 2014.

Self-Governance Under PESA: A Critique; at theSeminar on Tribal Development in Karnataka:Issues and Challenges, organized by Centre forMulti-Disciplinary Development Research(CMDR), March 26 - 27, 2015, at Dharwad.

Sridhar, Kala Seetharam

India’s MGNREGS: Has It Impacted Poverty?; atthe Workshop on Interrogating Rural-UrbanTransitions: Dominant and AlternativeConceptualizations, organized by Centre for RuralUrban Dynamics (CRUD), IRMA, and Centre forUrban Policy and Governance, Tata Institute ofSocial Sciences (TISS), IRMA, Anand, August 28,2014.

Indian Urbanization: Benefits and Costs; at theADB Workshop on Comparative Study onUrbanization in PRC and India, organized byZhongnan University of Economics and Law,Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, September 20,2014.

Urban Governance in India: The State of PublicServices and Fiscal Health; at the Cities for All: 11th

Metropolis World Congress, organised by Sessionon Urban Governance, Centre for GoodGovernance, and Greater Hyderabad MunicipalCorporation, Hyderabad, October 9, 2014.

Achieving Inclusive Urban Prosperity: PolicyPerspectives; at the Sustainable Chennai Forum onInclusive Urban Prosperity, organsied by MadrasChamber of Commerce & Industry, Chennai,November 10, 2014, at Chennai.

Use of Census Data on Work Status in Urban andRegional Research; at the Census DataDissemination Seminar, organized by RegistrarGeneral of India, Directorate of Census Operations,Karnataka and Institute for Social and EconomicChange, Bangalore, December 1, 2014, atBangalore.

Reservation Wages and Net Benefits from Jobs: TheCase of India’s Mahatma Gandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS); atthe Seminar, organized by Institute for Social andEconomic Change, Bengaluru, December 8, 2014,at Bangalore.

Regional Policies and Inclusive Growth; at theICSSR National Seminar on Sustainable RegionalDevelopment in India-Challenges andOpportunities, organized by R. A. Podar Collegeof Commerce and Economics, January 10, 2015, atMumbai.

Economic Impacts of Climate Change in India’sCities; at the International Seminar on ClimateChange and Food Security: The Global and IndianContexts, organized by ISEC and the University ofSydney, February 18, 2015, at Bangalore.

Subaiya, Lekha

(with G Giridhar and Supriya Verma) Aging andWomen: The Current Knowledge Base; at theInternational Seminar on Migration, Care Economyand Development, organized by Centre forDevelpment Studies, Thiruvananthapuram,September 17-19, 2014, Thiruvananthapuram.

(with G Giridhar) Women and Aging: A BaselinePresentation; at the National Conference on India’sElderly: Dignity, Health and Security, organized byInstitute of Economic Growth, New Delhi and

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TISS, Mumbai and UNFPA, December 4-5, 2014, atNew Delhi.

Syamala, T S

Older Workers in India, Myths and Realities; at theIFA 12th Global Conference on Ageing, organisedby International Federation on Ageing, June 11-13,2014, at Hyderabad.

Health and Wellbeing of the Elderly in TamilNadu; at the Dissemination Seminar of the Reporton the Status of Elderly in Tamil Nadu, organizedby Population Research Centre, Gandhigram, June30, 2014, at Gandhigram.

Economic Progress and Mental Health: AnAnalysis among Indian Elderly; at the XXXVIAnnual Conference of Indian Associate for theStudy of Population, organized by IndianAssociate for the Study of Population, November7-9, 2014 , at University of Kerala, Trivandrum.

Tantri, Malini L

(with C Nalin Kumar) Looking BeyondConventional Parameters in Bilateral TradePartnership – A Case of India and Canada; at theConference on Engaging Canada: EmergingPriorities for Sustainable Partnerships, organizedby SICI, May 30, 2014, at New Delhi.

Yadav, Manohar

Karnatakaddalliya Talasamudayagalu: BadukuMattu Bhavishya; at the Workshop, organized byNational Law School of India University,Bangalore, April 10, 2014, at Bangalore.

Atrophy in Dalit Movement in Karnataka; at theSeminar on Dalit Movement in Karnataka: Past,Present & Future, organized by Karnataka DalitActivists and Writers Forum, May 3, 2014, atYavanika.

Methods and Approaches in Social Survey: Microand Macro Perspectives; at the State Level Seminaron Survey of Backward Classes in Karnataka:Methods and Approaches, organized by BackwardClasses Commission, Government of Karnataka,

Devraj Urs Bhavan, Bangalore, July 22, 2014, atBangalore.

Persisting Bonded Labour and Policy Concerns inKarnataka; at the Seminar on Bonded Labour inKarnataka, jointly organized by Babasaheb Dr B RAmbedkar Study and Research Centre, BangaloreUniversity Bangalore and Jeeta VimuktiKarnataka, (JEEVIKA) Bangalore at BangaloreUniversity, Bangalore, September 12, 2014, atBangalore.

Instrumental Education for Tribal Empowermentin Karnataka; at the Seminar on Tribal Educationin India: A Special Focus on Fifty TribalCommunities in Karnataka, organized byKarnataka State Tribal Research Institute, Mysore,November 28-29, 2014.

Two Years of Siddarammaiah Government and theScheduled Castes in Karnataka; at the Seminar onTwo Years of Siddaramaiah Government andMarginalized Groups in Karnataka, organized byCentre for Study of Social Exclusion and InclusivePolicy, NLSIU, January 21, 2015, at NLSIU,Bangalore.

The Policy of Reservation: A View fromPerspective of Social Change; at the Seminar onThe Policy of Reservation and Its AchievementsSince its Inception, jointly organized by Platformfor Ambedkar Thoughts and Actions andAmbedkar Yuva Sene, Karnataka, February 28,2015, at Senate Hall, Central College, Bangalore.

Budgetary Allocations, Expenditures andImplications for Scheduled Castes in Karnataka: ACritical Reflection; at the Seminar on Budgets andMarginalized Groups: Some Reflections on the LastTwo Budgets of Karnataka, organized by SocialWelfare Department, Government of Karnatakaand Centre for Study of Social Exclusion andInclusive Policy, National Law School of IndiaUniversity, March 3, 2015, at Vikas Soudha,Bangalore.

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Participation in Seminars, Conferences andWorkshops as Chairperson/Discussant/Rapporteur

Chengappa, P G

Participated as a Chairman Peer Review TeamAccreditation of Acharya NG Ranga University,Hyderabad, organised by the Indian Council ofAgricultural Research, May 12-14, 2014.

Deb Pal, Barun

Participated as a Panel Expert in the conference onThe Role of Consumption – based Emissions inClimate Policy, organized by CambridgeUniversity, October 7-9, 2014, at London, UK.

Gayithri, K

Participated as a Discussant for five papers, in theSeminar on Women Empowerment - A Strategyfor Development, organized by Institute for Socialand Economic Change, October 13-14, 2014, atBangalore.

Participated as a Panelist in the discussion onRelevance of Planning Commission, organized byCentre for Socialist Studies, October 19, 2014, atGandhi Bhawan, Bangalore.

Participated as a Discussant in the Round TableDiscussion on Making Sense of Budget Data,organized by Omidyar Network, November 10,2014, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Participated as a Discussant in the Brain StormingSession on Two years of SiddaramaiahGovernment on Marginalized Groups inKarnataka, organised by Centre for Study of SocialExclusion and Inclusive Policy, National LawSchool of India University, January 22, 2015.

Chaired a session in the National Seminar on TheInformal Economy in India: Trends andPerspectives in Growth, Inclusion and SocialProtection, organized by Christ University, March7, 2015.

George, Sobin

Participated as a Discussant in the NationalSeminar on Women Empowerment - A Strategyfor Development, organized by Centre for Womenand Gender Studies, ISEC, Bangalore, October 14,2014.

Participated as a Resource Person in the Workshopon Organising ICT workers to expand south-southpartnership in ICTS sector, organized by UNINepal Laison Council at Kathmandu, February 16-19, 2015, at Kathmandu, Nepal.

James, K S

Participated as a Panel Member in the HumanDevelopment in Global South: EmergingPerspectives in the Era of Post-MillenniumDevelopment Goals, organized by Institute ofHuman Development, April 28-29, 201, at NewDelhi.

Kannan, Elumalai

Participated as a Chairman in the BrainstormingSession (BSS) on Monitoring and Evaluation ofAgricultural Research, Education and Extensionfor Development (AREED), organized by NationalAcademy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) andISEC, June 28, 2014, at Bangalore.

Participated as a Panelist in the 22nd Annual AERAConference on Leveraging InstitutionalInnovations for Agricultural Development,organized by University of Agricultural Sciences(UAS), Raichur, November 18-20, 2014, at Raichur.

Participated as a Rapporteur in the 22nd AnnualAERA Conference on Leveraging InstitutionalInnovations for Agricultural Development,organized by University of Agricultural Sciences(UAS), Raichur, November 18-20, 2014, at Raichur.

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Kumar, Parmod

Participated as a Discussant in the One DayWorkshop on Medium Term Outlook for India’sFood Sector, organised by NCAER New Delhiunder the Project Incorporating International BestPractices in the Preparation of AgriculturalOutlook and Situation Analysis Reports for India,Supported by FAO, June 26, 2014.

Lingaraju, M

Participated as a Chairperson in Technical Session– VI (B) under the sub theme of Working Womenand Challenges, in the Two Days National Seminaron Women Empowerment – Then and Now: ASocial, Historical, Economic and PoliticalPerspective, organised by Govt. First GradeCollege, Ramanagara, October 14-15, 2014.

Participated as a Chairperson in Technical Session– VII (B) under the sub theme of Food System andHealth Protection, in the Two-Day NationalSeminar on Indian Traditional Food Systems,organised by the Department of Anthropology,Kannada University, Hampi in Collaboration withAnthropological Survey of India, Kolkata,December 22-23, 2014.

Madheswaran, S

Participated as a Panelist in the Round TableDiscussion on MGNREGA, organized by NCAER,December 8, 2014.

Narayana, M R

Chaired the Workshop on NTBs in Trade SupplyChain between India and Sri Lanka, organised bythe Asian Foundation (TAP), New Delhi, April 30,2014, at ISEC, Bangalore.

Nautiyal, Sunil

Co-chaired a session in the International Workshopon Bridging BRIDGES 2015 Bridging DevelopmentDivide for Inclusive Growth through Science,Technology and Innovation, organized by BBAULucknow and DST Govt. of India, January 16-17,2015.

Raj, Krishna

Participates as Expert in One Workshop on Public-Private Partnership in Urban Water SupplyProjects, organized by Fiscal Policy Institute,Bangalore, September 1, 2014.

Participated as Expert in the Workshop on LowCarbon Policies: Formulation and ImplementationIssues, organised by World Resources Institute[WRI] and STEM, August 23, 2014, at Bangalore.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

Participated as a Session Discussant NationalSeminar on Women Empowerment - A Strategyfor Development, organised by Institute for Socialand Economic Change, October 13-14, 2014, atBangalore.


Participated as a Discussant in the Workshop onHigher Education and Employability, organized byNUEPA, March 12-14, 2015, at Delhi.


Participated as a Discussant for the session on SkillDevelopment and Employment Policy Perspective,in the National Level Consultation on SkillDevelopment, Employment and Mobility in India,organised by National Institute of AdvancedStudies, Bangalore, December 22, 2014.

Sivanna, N

Participated as a Discussant for Technical Session-1, in the Seminar on Karnataka Panchayat RajReview Committee Report, organised by ISS, NewDelhi and Department of RDPR, Government ofKarnataka, November 12, 2014.

Participated as a Discussant for a TechnicalSessions on Population, Poverty and Unemploy-ment, in the Two–Day International Seminar onGlobal Issues of Population, Development andEnvironment, organised by PRC, ISEC, October 27-28, 2014.

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Participated as a Discussant for a TechnicalSessions of the National Seminar on WomenEmpowerment: A Strategy for Development,organised by CWGS, ISEC, October 13-14, 2014.

Participated as a Chairperson in the NationalConference on Issues and Challenges forSustainable Rural Development, organized byAlva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology,Febrauary 14, 2015, at Moodabhidri, Karnataka.


Invited Expert Speaker in the 11th MetropolisWorld Congress 2014, organized by Centre forGood Governance and Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation, Hyderabad, October 9,2014.

Participated as a Discussant of session onUrbanization, Migration and the Environment, inthe International Seminar on Global Issues ofPopulation, Development and Environment,organised by Indian Council for Social ScienceResearch, Karnataka State Pollution Control Boardand Institute for Social and Economic Change(ISEC), Bangalore, October 28, 2014.

Invited speaker, in the Sustainable Chennai Forumon Inclusive Urban Prosperity, organised byMadras Chamber of Commerce & Industry,Chennai, November 10, 2014.

Participated as Chairperson in the NationalSeminar on Flagship Programs: Impacts, Problems

and Challenges Ahead, organised by NationalInstitute of Rural Development and PanchayatiRaj, Hyderabad, November 20, 2014, atHyderabad.

Resource Person in the Workshop on UrbanGovernance, State Institute of Urban Development,Administrative Training Institute, Government ofKarnataka, Mysore, November 22, 2014.

Invited Speaker in the ADB Workshop onComparative Study on Urbanization in PRC andIndia, organised by Zhongnan University ofEconomics and Law, Wuhan, People’s Republic ofChina, September 20-21, 2014.

Participated as Invited Subject Expert, in theInfrastructure Assessment of Gulbarga City,organized by Central University of Karnataka,Gulbarga, February 19, 2015.

Syamala, T S

Participated as a Discussant in the XXXVI AnnualConference of Indian Associate for the Study ofPopulation, organised by Indian Associate for theStudy of Population and Department ofDemography and University of Kerala,Trivandrum, November 7-9, 2014.

Yadav, Manohar

Chairperson for a session in the Seminar onChallenges of Tribal Education, organised byTribal Education in India: A Special Focus on FiftyTribal Communities in Karnataka.

Seminars, Workshops and Training Programmes Organised/Coordinated

Babu, M Devendra

Workshop on ‘District Human DevelopmentReport of Chikkballapura Zilla Panchayat’,September 20, 2014.

Bhat, T N

A one-day Dissemination Seminar of the Report on‘The Status of Elderly in Odisha’, in collaboration

with UNFPA state office, Bhubaneswar, September2, 2014.

Chengappa, PG

Conducted a Policy Dialogue on Future of Coffeebased Economy of Kodagu jointly with theNational Research Program on PlantationDevelopment at Centre for Development Studies,

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Agricultural Scientists Forum of Kodagu (ASFK)and Coorg Planters’ Association, sponsored byISEC and CDS Trivandrum, June 7, 2014.

Brainstorming Session jointly with NationalAcademy of Agricultural Sciences New Delhi onMonitoring and Evaluation of AgriculturalResearch, Education and Extension forDevelopment (AREE4D), Sponsored by NationalAcademy of Agricultural Sciences, June 28, 2014.

Deb Pal, Barun

Workshop on ‘Stakeholder Consultation on NonTariff Barriers between India and Sri Lanka’ (SriLankan perspective), sponsored by The AsiaFoundation, November 17, 2014.

Dissemination Workshop on ‘Non Tariff BarrierBetween India and Sri Lanka’, sponsored by TheAsia Foundation, February 20, 2015, at Colombo,Sri Lanka.

Gayithri, K

‘Orientation to IAS Probationers’, sponsored byDepartment of Personnel Administration andReforms (DP & AR), Govt. of Karnataka, May 23-24, 2014.

Workshop on ‘National Innovation Survey Report2014’, sponsored by Department of Science andTechnology, Government of India, November 5,2014.

George, Sobin

Organised a ‘Certificate Course on Methods andApplications in Social Science Research(CCMASSR)’, May 12-23, 2014, at ISEC, Bangalore.

‘ISEC Internship Programme’, sponsored by ISECSRTT Fund, July-September 2014.

Co-convenor, Seminar on ‘Health SystemStrengthening: Experience from some countries’,sponsored by Indian Council of Social ScienceResearch, New Delhi and Indian Council ofMedical Research, New Delhi, November 6-7, 2014.

James, K S

‘Use of Mixed Methods in Ageing Research’,sponsored by Indo-European Research Project &ICSSR, New Delhi, June 2-6, 2014.

‘Demographic Computation Series-2: MultistatePopulation Projection’, sponsored by IIASA,Austria and TIFAC, New Delhi, November 24-December 2, 2014.

‘Census Dissemination Seminar’, sponsored byDirectorate of Census Operations, Karnataka andUNDP, New Delhi, December 1, 2014.

Kannan, Elumalai

(with Ramappa K B) Inception Workshop on‘Impact Evaluation of Bhoochetana Program inKarnataka’, sponsored by ICRISAT, Hyderabad,September 17, 2014.

International Seminar on ‘Green Economy andSustainable Development’, sponsored by ICSSRand Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences,Chengdu, China, November 6-7, 2014.

Lakshmana, C M

Organised International Seminar on ‘Global Issuesof Population, Development and Environment’during October 27-28, 2014, at ISEC, Bangalore.

Annual Action Plan Meeting of PopulationResearch Centres (PRCs), sponsored by Ministry ofHealth and Family Welfare, Government of India,New Delhi, March 16-17, 2015.

Lingaraju, M

Two-day Orientation and Scholarship DistributionProgramme to the Selected Students under SocialScience Talent Search Scheme (SSTSS), a jointventure programme of the Institute for Social andEconomic Change, Bangalore University andChrist University, Bangalore, August 23-24, 2014,at ISEC, Bangalore.

Organized two-day Orientation and ScholarshipDistribution Programme to the Selected Studentsunder Social Science Talent Search Scheme

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(SSTSS), a joint venture programme of the Institutefor Social and Economic Change, BangaloreUniversity and Christ University Bangalore atISEC, Bangalore, January 10-11, 2015.

Organized and conducted the SSTSS Examinationin 20 Centres of Bangalore Division as a jointundertaking of ISEC, Bangalore University andChrist University, on February 1, 2015.

Mutharayappa, R

(with K C Channamma) Two days NationalSeminar on ‘Women Empowerment - A Strategyfor Development’, October 13-14, 2014.

Nautiyal, Sunil

(with S Manasi) ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course on ‘Approaching theEnvironment in India – Issues and Methods in theStudy of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface’, inassociation with the Nordic Centre in India (NCI),Sweden, July 6-August 2, 2014.

Field school programme for the researchers ofUniversity of Sydney, sponsored by ISEC inAssociation with University of Sydney, Australiaand Karnataka Forest Department, Madikeri,February 12-17, 2015.

International Seminar on “Climate Change andFood Security: The Global and Indian Contexts,sponsored by ISEC in Association with Universityof Sydney, Australia, February 18, 2015.

Rajasekhar, D

Training programme for the electedrepresentatives of Zilla Panchayats in Karnataka,sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi, August 20-21,2014.

International Training Programme on ‘InclusiveBanking for Rural and Agricultural Development’,sponsored by Centre for International Cooperationand Training in Agricultural Banking (CICTAB),Pune, January 5-8, 2015.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

(with B P Vani) Training Programme for ISSProbationary Officers, August 4-14, 2014, at ISEC,Bangalore.

Organized Panel discussion on ‘Inflation,Monetary Policy and Financial Sector: TheChallenges Ahead’, sponsored by RBI, August 25,2014.

Seminars, Conferences, Workshops and Meetings Attended

Chengappa, P G

Attended DPC Meeting of a Senior Scientist in theDiscipline of Agricultural Economics, February 23,2015, at ICAR – Directorate of Seed Research, Mau.

Attended Selection Committee Meeting forconsidering the cases of promotion of Scientist atICAR – National Institute of AgriculturalEconomics and Policy Research (NIAP), March 23,2015.

Deb Pal, Barun

Training Programme on Computer basedmodeling for future simulations, organised by

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service),November 30 – December 6, 2014.

Gayithri, K

RFD Meeting of Commercial Taxes and ExciseDepartments, organized by Commercial Taxes andExcise Departments, April 26, 2014, at Bangalore.

RFD Meeting of Treasury and State Accounts,April 30, 2014, at Bangalore.

Indian Member Council Meeting of the ShastriIndo Canadian Institute, New Delhi, May 31 – June1, 2014, at New Delhi.

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RFD Meetings of Finance Department, organisedby Finance Department, Govt. of Karnataka, onJune 18-19, 2014; February 28, 2015 and March 2,2015, at Bangalore.

Examination Scrutiny Board Meetings, organisedby Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning,Prasanthi Nilayam, September 17, 2014, andFebruary 24, 2015, at Prashanthinilayam, AndhraPradesh.

Round-Table Meeting on Status of Social ScienceResearch in India, organized by ICSSR and IDRC,February 27, 2015, at New Delhi.

RFD Meeting of the Planning Department,organised by Planning Department, Govt. ofKarnataka, March 10, 2015, at Vikasa Soudha,Bangalore.

George, Sobin

International Seminar on Social Dynamics andWell Being: Indian and Swiss Approaches,organised by ICSSR- UNIL (International Relationsof the University of Lausanne, Switzerland),September 9, 2014, at Bangalore.

James, K S

Seminar on Migration, Ageing and Care Economy,organised by Centre for Development Studies,Trivandrum, September 17-19, 2014.

Lakshmana, C M

Dissemination Seminar ‘DLHS-4 findings for fivestates Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Goaand Maharashtra’, organized by IIPS, Mumbai,February 26, 2015, at Ahmedabad ManagementAssociation, Ahmedabad.

Training of Trainers (ToT), organized by IIPS,Mumbai, February 2-14, 2015, at Mumbai.

Manjunatha, A V

Exit Conference of RKVY Performing Audit for theState of Karnataka, organised by the Departmentof Agriculture, Government of Karnataka atBangalore, May 8, 2014.

Mutharayappa, R

Attended Steering committee meeting on “ManavaVishwakhosa”, organised by the KannadaUniversity at Mysore, September 26, 2014.

Attended Board of Studies Meeting as Member,Department of Studies in Anthropology, in theKarnataka State Open University, June 30-July 1,2014.

Nautiyal, Sunil

Participated in National Children’s ScienceCongress, December 27-31, 2014.

Attended Research Advisory Committee Meetingat IPIRTI, Bangalore April 2014.

Rajasekhar, D

Workshop on Operational Plan and Result-BasedMonitoring of IGSSP (K), organised by GiZ,November 18-21, 2014, at Bangalore.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

State Credit Seminar, organized by NABARD,2014, at Vidhana Soudha.


International Conference Cities of Migration 2014,organised by The Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin,Germany, June 4-6, 2014, at Germany.

International Consultation on TransportGovernance Initiative, organised by Parisar, WorldResources Institute (WRI) and Embarq India, NewDelhi, July 12, 2014.

Workshop on Interrogating Rural-UrbanTransitions: Dominant and AlternativeConceptualizations, organised by Centre for RuralUrban Dynamics (CRUD), IRMA, and Centre forUrban Policy and Governance, Tata Institute ofSocial Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, IRMA, Anand,August 27-28, 2014.

National Stakeholders’ Consultation to FinalizeVision and Mission of the National Centre forGood Governance, organised by Department of

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Personnel and Training, Government of India,New Delhi, December 20, 2014.

Subaiya, Lekha

Roundtable Discussion Caring for the Elderly inIndia: Challenges for a Society in Transition,organised by NCAER, New Delhi, April 2, 2014,at New Delhi.

Workshop on Approaching Data Sources: AGender Lens, organised by Centre for Women’sDevelopment Studies, Delhi April 3, 2014, at Delhi.

Seminar on Status of Elderly in Tamil Nadu,organised by PRC, ISEC and PRC, Gandhigram,June 30, 2014, at Chennai.

Dissemination Workshop on Approaching DataSources: A Gender Lens, organised by Centre forWomen’s Development Studies, New Delhi,December 9, 2014, at New Delhi.

Umamani, K S

Attended State Level meeting of on reviewCommittee of MDM, at Vidhanasoudha,Bangalore, November 11, 2014.

Keynote/Presidential Addresses

Chengappa, P G

‘Technology evaluations, targeting and policyoptions for enhanced impact in rice in India’, in theWorkshop on Annual Rice Research GroupMeeting, organized by Directorate of RiceResearch, April 6, 2014, at Hyderabad.

‘Linking farmers to Markets’, Brainstormingsession on Marketing of Agricultural Commodities,organized by University of Agricultural Sciences,GKVK, May 24, 2014, at GKVK, Bangalore.

‘Food Security and Right to Food Ending Hungerwithin a Generation-Challenges and Priorities’, inthe One-day Convention, organized by JyothiNivas College Autonomous, January 20, 2015, atBangalore.

‘Food Security: Experiences in India’, in the 2nd

International Conference on Rural Development(ICRD 2015), organized by Mashhad InternationalExhibition, February 18-19, 2015, at Iran.

Gayithri, K

‘Union Budget 2014-15’, in the Seminar, organizedby Government First Grade College, Rajajinagar,Bangalore, August 6, 2014.

Kannan, Elumalai

‘Agricultural Development in India: Role ofPlanning Commission’, in the State Level Seminaron Relevance of Planning Commission in thePresent Scenario, organized by Department ofEconomics, Government Arts College, October 29,2014, at Chitradurga.

Lakshmana, C M

‘Emerging Issues of Population, Development andEnvironment in India’, in the UGC-sponsored two-day National Seminar on ‘Population,Environment and Sustainable Development; Issuesand Challenges,’ organized by South KonkanEducation Society’s Rani Parvati Devi College ofArts and Commerce, Belgaum, Karnataka,September 12-13, 2014.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

‘Financial Inclusion – From Obligation toOpportunity’, in the International conference,orgnised by Department of Management ProgramCMR Institute of Management Studies(Autonomous), CMR University, Bangalore, April30, 2014, at CMR University, Bangalore.

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‘Issues on Financial Exclusion and Non PerformingAssets’, in the Conference on Issues on FinancialExclusion and Non Performing Assets, organizedby ISEC, Bangalore, August 2014.

‘Banking Sector and Financial Exclusion: TheChallenges Ahead’, in the Panel Discussion onInflation, Monetary Policy and Financial Sector:The Challenges Ahead, organized by ISEC,Bangalore, August 25, 2014.

‘All-India Seminar on Statistical Databases inGram Panchayats’, in the Panel Discussion onStatistical Databases in Gram Panchayats,organized by Economic Analysis Unit IndianStatistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, 2014.

‘Fiscal Issues and Monetary Policy interventions,Budgetary Suggestions for the next FinanceMinister, workshop organized by the BangaloreInternational Centre’, in the Workshop on FiscalIssues and Monetary Policy interventions,

Budgetary Suggestions for the next FinanceMinister, organized by Bangalore InternationalCentre, 2014.


Key-note address on ‘Urban Development’, in theInternational Conference on Globalization,organized by Indian Institute of Management,Bangalore, August 12, 2014.

Yadav, Manohar

‘Doing Field Research: Challenges of CapturingSubtle Realities’, organised by Department ofAnthropology, Kannada University, Hampi,November 21, 2014.

‘Contextualizing Dalit Art Forms in a SocialMovement’, in the state-level Seminar on DalitMusical Arts and Dalit Movements in Karnataka,jointly organized by Vimukti Trust and JeetaVimukti Karnataka at Pre-University College,Chintamani, December 12, 2014.

Lectures, Talks and Media

Balasubramanian, M

Delivered a lecture on ‘Natural ResourcesAccounting in India – Current Status andConcerns’, in the ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course on Approaching theEnvironment in India – Issues and Methods in theStudy of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface,July 14, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘FDI in Services Sector:Implication for Sustainable Development in India’,in the National Seminar on FDI in Service Sector,organised by the Department of Economics, Centrefor Research in Economics, Madura College,Madurai Kamaraj University Madurai, TamilNadu, September 1, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Sustainable DevelopmentPractices in India’, at Kristujayanti College,Bangalore, September 22, 2014.

Chengappa, P G

Delivered a talk on ‘Theme technology evaluations,targeting and policy options for enhanced impactin rice in India’, at Directorate of Rice Research,Hyderabad, April 8, 2014.

Deb Pal, Barun

Delivered a lecture on ‘Fiscal Policy Reforms’, inthe Environmental Conservation, organised byJUGCP and MAC, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata,November 1, 2014.

Delivered two lectures on ‘CGE Modeling’, in theInternational Training Workshop, at GIDR,AHMEDABAD, November 5-6, 2014.

Gayithri, K

Delivered a lecture on ‘Secondary Data fromGovernment Sources: Issues and Concerns’, in theCertificate Course in Methods and Applications in

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Social Science Research, organized by ISEC, May21, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on Approach to Results ofGovernment Programmes’, in the Orientation onKarnataka Society, Economy and Polity to IASProbationers, organized by the DP & AR,Government of Karnataka, May 24, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Budget Processes andReforms’, at Academic Staff College, BangaloreUniversity, September 9, 2014.

Delivered two lectures on ‘Public Expenditure inIndia: Recent Issues and Concerns’, at AcademicStaff College, Bangalore University, September 9,2014.

Delivered special talk on ‘Union Budget of India’,at Bangalore Social Science Forum, NationalCollege, August 18, 2014.

Discussion on ‘Karnataka Budget 2015-16’,Chandana Doordarshan, March 12, 2015.

George, Sobin

Delivered two lecture on ‘Changing KarnatakaVillages: Caste, Religion and its Re-organisations’,at Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies,University of Groningen, The Netherlands, August20, 2014.

Inbanathan, Anand

Delivered a lecture on ‘Approaches to SocialScience Research’, in the Certificate Course onMethods and Applications in Social ScienceResearch (A Multi-Disciplinary TrainingProgramme), organised by ISEC, Bangalore, May13, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Research Methods:Participant Observation’, in the Certificate Courseon Methods and Applications in Social ScienceResearch (A Multi-Disciplinary TrainingProgramme), organised by ISEC, Bangalore, May16, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Case study Method inSocial Science Research’, in the Certificate Courseon Methods and Applications in Social ScienceResearch (A Multi-Disciplinary TrainingProgramme), organised by ISEC, Bangalore, May19, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Panchayats in Karnataka’,for a Course organised by Department ofSociology, Bangalore University, July 11, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Research Methods’, atMount Carmel College, August 04, 2014.

James, K S

Delivered two lectures on ‘Population Policy andDemographic Dividend in India’, at AcademicStaff College, University of Mysore, June 19, 2014.

Kannan, Elumalai

Delivered Invited lecture on ‘RestructuringEconomics Curriculum in the Context of ChangingBusiness Scenario’, in the Faculty DevelopmentProgramme on Teaching and Research inEconomics in the Context of Changing BusinessScenario, PG Department of Economics,Vivekananda Degree College, Bangalore, April 24,2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Methods of ImpactAssessment’, in the Certificate Course on Methodsand Applications in Social Science Research, ISEC,Bangalore, May 19, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Sustainability Issues inIndian Agriculture’, at SWISSNEX, Consulate ofSwitzerland, Bangalore, August 18, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Importance of Agriculturein Economic Development of India’, at AcademicStaff College, Bangalore University, Bangalore,September 2, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Research Sampling:Probability and Non-probability Sampling’, atCouncil for Social Development (CSD),Hyderabad, November 10, 2014.

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Delivered five lectures on ‘Application of Econo-metrics to Labour Economics’, in the SARNETTraning Programme for Young LabourEconomists, ILO, New Delhi, December 4-6, 2014.

Delivered two lectures on ‘Results based M & E’,to the ISS probationary officers, ASCI, Hyderabad,December 17, 2014.

Manjunatha, A V

Delivered invited lecture on ‘Application ofQualitative Response Models using STATA’, in theCertificate Course on Methods and Applications inSocial Science Research, ISEC, Bangalore, May 23,2014.

Mutharayappa, R

Delivered a lecture on ‘Introduction to Non-probability Sampling’, in the Certificate Course onMethods and Applications in Social ScienceResearch, organized by the Institute for Social andEconomic Change, Bangalore, May 22, 2014.

Delivered four lectures on ‘Sampling Methods andQualitative and Quantitative Research’, in theResearch Methodology Course, organised by theDepartment of Anthropology, Kannada University,January 2-3, 2015, at Hampi.

Narayana, M R

Delivered special lecture on ‘Karnataka EconomicPolicies in Global Context’, for Orientation onKarnataka Society, Economy and Polity for the IASProbationers sponsored by the DP & AR,Government of Karnataka, May 23, 2014, at ISEC,Bangalore.

Nautiyal, Sunil

Delivered a lecture on ‘Approaches to Environ-mental Management – India’s Experiences’, in theISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course onApproaching the Environment in India – Issuesand Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July 14, 2014.

Delivered two lecturers on (1) ‘Semi-Arid Regionsof India and Biodiversity Conservation’ and (2)‘Natural Disasters – Uttarakhand Case Study’, inthe ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Courseon Approaching the Environment in India – Issuesand Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July 15, 2014.

Delivered two lecturers on (1) ‘Governing ClimateChange Debates and Policies in Indian Context’and (2) ‘Community and Climate ChangeGovernance – Case Study from HimalayanRegion’, in the ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course on Approaching the Environ-ment in India – Issues and Methods in the Studyof the Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July 25,2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Eco-diversity of Semi aridlandscape: Conservation and managementperspective under changing scenario’, at BARCMysore, December 3, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Eco-Energy analysis of landuse systems in the tropical region: A case studyfrom Karnataka’, at International Tropical EcologyCongress 2014 coordinated by Jawaharlal NehruUniversity New Delhi with ISTE (InternationalSociety for Tropical Ecology) focusing on TropicalEcology in the face of global change, December 10-12, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Micro level Impact ofClimate Change and Assessment of vulnerability:A case study from Biligiriranga Swamy TempleTiger Reserve (BRTTR)’, at the Internationalworkshop on Bridging BRIDGES 2015 BridgingDevelopment Divide for Inclusive Growth throughScience, Technology and Innovation, January 16-17, 2015.

Raj, Krishna

Delivered two Special lectures on ‘Economics ofGlobalization and Green GDP’, at UGC sponsoredRefresh Course in Economics, organised by the

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Department of Economics, Bangalore University,Bangalore, September 8, 2014.

Rajasekhar, D

Delivered a lecture on ‘Single Window ServiceCentres and Access to Social Security Benefitsamong Unorganised Workers: Evidence fromKarnataka’, at Central University of Karnataka,Gulbarga, August 8, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Social Security forUnorganised Workers in India’, at BangaloreUniversity, August 27, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Micro-Finance in India’, atChrist University, March 16, 2015.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

Delivered a lecture on ‘Quantitative data forresearch’, in the Certificate Course on Methods andApplications in Social Science Research (A Multi-Disciplinary Training Programme), organized byISEC, Bangalore, May15, 2014.

Delivered a special lectures on ‘Banking and issuesof Financial Inclusion’, at the Faculty DevelopmentProgram, organized by FLAIR, the Government ofKerala.

Delivered ten lectures on ‘Macroeconomic Issues’,at National Law School, January 2015.

Delivered three lectures on ‘Game Theory’, atChrist University, March 2015.

Delivered three lectures on ‘Game Theory’, atMount Carmel College, March 2015.

Raju, K V

Delivered a lecture on ‘State of India’sEnvironment: Problems and Impacts’, in the ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course onApproaching the Environment in India – Issuesand Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July 08, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Integrated Water ResourcesManagement: Case Study – Karnataka’, in the

ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course onApproaching the Environment in India – Issuesand Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July 14, 2014.

Delivered two lectures: (1) ‘Science-based Large-scale initiative for Rural Livelihoods – A CaseStudy of Bhuchetana Project’ and (2)‘Environmental Governance in Bangalore – CaseStudies’, in the ISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course on Approaching theEnvironment in India – Issues and Methods in theStudy of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface,July 24, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Financing Climate ChangeAdaptation and Sustainable Development’, in theISEC-NCI International Post-Graduate Course onApproaching the Environment in India – Issuesand Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July 25, 2014.


Delivered a lecture on ‘Sampling Methods’, for theCertificate Course on Methods and Applications inSocial Science Research (A Multi-DisciplinaryTraining Programme), organised by ISEC,Bangalore, May15, 2014.

Sangita, S N

Delivered two lectures on 1) ‘Governance Issuesand Reforms in Infrastructure in India: CaseStudies of Telecom & Railways’ and 2) ‘PoliticalRegimes, Governance and Provisioning of SocialSecurity – Experiences from South Indian States’to the Senior Officers of Sri Lanka AdministrativeService, at Administrative Staff College of India,Hyderabad, June 16, 2014.

Sivanna, N

Delivered two special lectures on ‘Panchayat RajInstitutions: Structural and Functional Aspects’, tothe IAS trainees, organised by the Government ofKarnataka, April 9, 2014.

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Delivered two lectures on ‘Seventy ThirdAmendment Constitutional Amendment andKarnataka Panchayat Raj System’, to the IAStrainees, organised by Time Line, Bangalore, May11 and 25, 2014.

Delivered a Special Lecture on ‘ParticipatoryPlanning in Local Governance: Experience fromKarnataka’, to the participants of TechnicalDiscussion on Participatory Planning and CapacityBuilding Initiatives in Local Governance, organisedby ISS, New Delhi, December 4, 2014

Delivered a lecture on ‘Results Analysis andDiscussions’, to the participants of ResearchMethodology Course, organised by the Krishna-devaraya University, Bellary, December 5, 2014.

Delivered two lectures on ‘73rd ConstitutionalAmendment and Karnataka Panchayat Raj System’for members of Grama Panchayats, at Centre forMulti-Disciplinary Development Research(CMDR), Dharwad, February 26, 2015.

Delivered two lectures on ‘Panchayat Raj Systemin India and Karnataka’ to college lecturers, atBangalore University, Bangalore, March 10, 2015.


Delivered a lecture on ‘Land Use, BuildingRegulations and Their Impacts: Local, Nationaland International Evidence’, in the Workshop onUrban governance, organised by State Institute ofUrban Development, Administrative TrainingInstitute, Government of Karnataka, Mysore,November 22, 2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘India’s Urban Environ-mental Challenges’, in the ISEC-Nordic Course inIndia (NCI) Course on Approaching theenvironment in India – Issues and Methods in theStudy of Nature-Economy-Society Interface, July21, 2014.

Subaiya, Lekha

Delivered a lecture on ‘Principles of Monitoringand Evaluation’, at ROHFW, Bangalore, August 26,2014.

Veerashekharappa

Delivered a lecture on ‘FDI – Retail Rates’, atBasaveshwara College, Bagalkot, September 26,2014.

Yadav, Manohar

Delivered a special talk on ‘Navayana Buddhism:Philosophy & Pragmatism’, at Ambedkar ResearchCentre, Bangalore University, Bangalore, May 14,2014.

Delivered a lecture on ‘Understanding Gender inIndian Context’, in the Methodology Courseorganised by Department of Sociology, BangaloreUniversity Bangalore, July 12, 2014

Delivered a lecture on ‘The Politics of DalitLeadership in Panchayats in Karnataka’, in theTraining Programme for SC/ST Zilla PanchayatMembers, organised by Centre for Decentralisationand Development (CDD), ISEC, August 21, 2014.

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Newspaper Articles

Gayithri, K

‘Another Lost Opportunity to Address RegionalDisparities, Infrastructure Inadequacies’, The NewIndian Express, March 15, 2015

‘State Stays the Fiscal Course: Lags Behind in HDI’,The New Indian Express, March 12, 2015.


‘Nuisance of Educated Unemployment inManipur’, Sangai Express, Imphal, February 21,2015

‘Excerpt of Shifting Cultivation in Manipur:Labour and Environment’, Sangai Express, Imphal,February 23, 2015

‘Water Scarcity in Manipur: Choice or Chance’,Sangai Express, Imphal, March 28 and 30, 2015


‘Creating a More Equal India’, The FinancialExpress, July 18, 2014.

‘How Free is Your City?’ The Economic Times,August 14, 2014.

‘How to Make Our Cities More Productive?’ TheFinancial Express, September 10, 2014.

(with Sridhar, V) ‘This Nobel Laureate Can HelpTelecom’, The Economic Times, October 22, 2014.

‘The Hudhud Lessons: Ensuring a HealthyInsurance Business’, The Financial Express, October31, 2014.

‘Make in India: What to Make and Where?’ TheFinancial Express, December 11, 2014.

‘NITI Aayog Reflects Modi’s TransformativeThinking’, The Financial Express, January 8, 2015.

‘Smart Cities: Is the Policy Smart Enough?’ TheFinancial Express, January 20, 2015.

‘Walk (and pedal) the Talk’, The Economic Times,March 31, 2015.

Umamani, K S

(with Manasi S) ‘Benefits of RWH Lost on the Old’,Bangalore Mirror, May 4, 2014.

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Bairagya, Indrajit

Participated as Young Economist in the 5th LindauMeeting of the Winners of the Sveriges RiksbankPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of AlfredNobel, August 19-23, 2014, in Lindau, Germany.

Deb Pal, Barun

Visiting Researcher, Griffith University, Brisbane,Australia, June 12-23, 2014.

George, Sobin

Visiting Faculty at Summer School on IndianCultural Transformation, Faculty of Theology andReligious Studies, University of Groningen, TheNetherlands.

James, K S

Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton, UK,May 8-17, 2014.

Visiting Fellow, University of Groningen, TheNetherlands, May 18-23, 2014.

Madheswaran, S

Received Kempe Gowda Award in Contributing toState’s Policy through Economics and StatisticsKnowledge, July 27, 2014.

Nautiyal, Sunil

Awarded as Best Reviewer for Biomass andBioenergy (Elsevier)

Honoured as ZALF Fellow, Leibniz Centre forAgricultural Landscape Research for three years(2014-2017).

Raj, Krishna

Visited University of San Francisco on Invitationfrom the Department of Environmental Studiesand Sustainability Director, USF, USA May-June2014.

Rajasekhar, D

Abdul Nazir Sab Chair Professor, CMDR,Dharwad, 2014.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

Visiting Fellow, Norgegwian Institute ofInternational Affairs, December 2014-January 2015.

Acted as a Jury on paper selection for the topic“Financial Inclusion” at CMR institute ofManagement Studies, Bangalore.

Offices Held in Academic, Professional andAdministrative Bodies

Babu, M Devendra

Member, Board of Studies, Post-Graduate Studiesin Economics, for three years from 10-1-2014,Kuvempu University, Karnataka

Chengappa, P G

Served as Chairman, Peer Review Team ofAccreditation of Acharya NG Ranga AgriculturalUniversity, Hyderabad, constituted by the IndianCouncil of Agricultural Research.

Member of Judging Committee, for Lal BahadurShastri Outstanding Young Scientists Award 2013of ICAR, Pusa, New Delhi, June 9, 2014.

8. ISEC AND CAMPUS NEWS IN BRIEF

Fellowships and Awards

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Member, Academic Council, Prof JayashankarTelangana State Agricultural University, andattended the first meeting on February 28, 2015.

Gayithri, K

Chairperson, Women’s Cell, ISEC

George, Sobin

Editor, ISEC Newsletter.

Coordinator, ISEC Internship programme 2014.

Coordinator, Certificate Course on Methods andApplication in Social Science Research, 2014

Member Board of Studies, Department ofSociology, Christ University, Bangalore.

Member, General Body, Centre of Education andCommunication, New Delhi.

Inbanathan, Anand

Member, Board of Studies at Department ofSociology, Christ University.

Series Editor, Social and Economic ChangeMonograph Series, ISEC, Bangalore.

James, K S

Member, Technical Advisory Committee, DistrictHuman Development Report, Government ofKarnataka.

Member, Board of Studies, Institute ofDevelopment Studies, University of Mysore.

Kumar, Parmod

Member, Selection Committee for the Post ofAssistant Professor in the Agriculture EconomicUnit in the Institute of Economic Growth Delhi,January 23, 2014.

Member, Selection Committee (Subject Expert) forthe Selection of Faculty under CAS for the RuralDevelopment Division in the National Institute ofTeachers Training and Research, Ministry ofHuman Resource Development Government ofIndia, Chandigarh, June 20, 2014.

Kumar, V Anil

Seminar Coordinator, ISEC, from June 6, 2014.

Member of International Political ScienceAssociation (IPSA) 2012-14.

Manjunatha, A V

Member, Research and Extension Cell ofKarnataka Sujala Watershed - III, a World Bank-sponsored Project (2014-2016).

Member of committee constituted by KarnatakaAgriculture Price Commission for standardizingmethodology on cost of cultivation.

Nautiyal, Sunil

Member, Editorial Board, Wudpecker Journal ofAgricultural Research, June 2014

Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue of theInternational Journal of Forestry Research

Member, Expert committee for UGC SET Exam,February 1-3, 2015

Raj, Krishna

Member, American Water Works Association, USA

Rajeev, Meenakshi

Member, IGIDR Mumbai

Nominee of Governor of West Bengal for theselection of Professor in the West Bengal StateUniversity

Member, Board of Studies, St Josephs College PGProgramme

Selection committee member for faculty selection,Burdhawan University, West Bengal

Member of Academic Senate, Apex University(Arunachal Pradesh and Karnataka)

Nominee of Governor of West Bengal for theselection of Professor in the West Bengal StateUniversity.

Advisor to the project Non-Tariff Barriers betweenIndia and Sri Lanka, directed by Barun Deb Paland funded by The Asia Foundation

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Member, Board of Studies, Mount Carmel College

Resource person for Industries Department, UdyogMitra, GoK

Resource person for RBI for their Occasional Paperseries

Resource person for Burdhawan University

Resource person for Kolkata University

Resource person for West Bengal State University

Resource person for National Law School of IndiaUniversity

Raju, K V

Chairman, Perspective Plan for Suvarna ArogyaSuraksha Trust, Government of Karnataka, fromMarch 2014.


Member, RPC, ISEC, Bangalore.

Library Committee Member, ISEC, Bangalore.


Member, Board of Studies, Political ScienceDepartment, St. Josephs College, Bangalore.


India Expert and County Economist, TheUrbanization-Poverty-Inequality Triangle in Asiaand the Pacific, Asian Development Bank.

India Expert and Country Economist, Project onAddressing Knowledge and Statistical Gaps inRelation to Poverty Reduction, Inequality andInclusive Growth, Asian Development Bank.

Resource Person, Knowledge Product on InclusiveUrban Development for South Asia, AsianDevelopment Bank.

Reviewer for International Journal of UrbanSustainable Development (Taylor & Francis), January2015.

Yadav, Manohar

Member, Board of Studies, Dr B R AmbedkarResearch Institute, Bangalore University,Bangalore.

Member, Board of Studies, Department ofAnthropology, Karnataka Open University,Mysore.

Miscellaneous

Babu M Devendra

Attended Quality Enhancement Review Meetingfor India ‘Strengthening Governance andInclusiveness in Karnataka Panchayats’, WorldBank, India, New Delhi, March 20, 2015.

Bairagya, Indrajit

Reviewed the manuscripts for InternationalReview of Applied Economics, Routledge-Taylor &Francis.

Participated as a speaker in the Panel Discussionon Economic Challenges before the New NDAGovernment, at Institute for Social and EconomicChange, Bangalore, July 25, 2014.

Trained Field Investigators for SSA project at ISEC,December 2-4, 2014 (with M Lingaraju and K SUmamani)

Balasubramanian, M

Participated in Summer School ‘Environment andResource Economics’, organized by United NationsEnvironment Programme (UNEP) with SANDEE,May 6-22, 2014, at Asian Institute of Technology,Bangkok, Thailand.

Submitted a book chapter on ‘Measurement ofSustainable Development in India’ to theRebalancing the Economy, Green EconomicsInstitute, London.

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Evaluated three MPhil Economics Dissertations ofAyya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, MaduraiKamaraj Univeristy, July 8, 2014.

Bhende, M J

Nominated by ICCR, New Delhi, as India ChairProfessor at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China,on deputation for a period of 60 days from May 8,2014.

Chengappa, P G

Evaluated the thesis, ‘Managing Buyer-SellerRelationships in Contract Farming’ submitted byMr Sudarshan Naidu, in partial fulfillment ofFellow of the Institute of Rural Management,Anand, and conducted the viva voce on April 14,2014, at IRMA.

Attended meeting of Selection Committee meetingto interview the candidates for the post ofAssociate Professor on Direct Recruitment atNationlal Institute of Rural Development,Hyderabad, June 20 and 21, 2014, at Hyderabad.

Acted as a Panelist in the brainstorming session onFood Safety Regulations, organized by KarnatakaVeterinary Animal and Fisheries SciencesUniversity, Bidar, February 10, 2015, at Bangalore.

Deb Pal, Barun

Name was cited for his work on ‘Non Tariff Barrierbarriers between India and Sri Lanka’, BusinnesLine, February 25, 2015.

Name was cited for his work on ‘Non Tariff Barrierbarriers between India and Sri Lanka’, in CeylonToday, February 25, 2015.

Gayithri, K

‘Financing India’s Development: Challenges beforethe Narendra Modi Government’. DauntingChallenges and High Opportunities: India after theElections (FES News Letter), 2014.

Attended a meeting as Member, ExaminationScrutiny Board, Department of Economics, Sri

Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning,Prasanthinilayam, September 17, 2014.

Attended meetings as Member, Action Task Force,Results Framework Document, Government ofKarnataka.

PhD Evaluation, University of Mumbai.

George, Sobin

Co-convener of the International Seminar on“Health System Strengthening: Experience fromSome Countries”, at Institute for PublicEnterprises, Hyderabad, November 6-7, 2014.

Inbanathan, Anand

Co-ordinated course in Sociology - “Debates onSociology of India”.

Attended 9 Doctoral Committee meetings.

Supervised one intern student.

Coordinating two courses: a) Methodology (alongwith Dr Sobin George); and b) SociologicalTheories.

Attended 3 Doctoral Colloquiums prior toregistration in the University of Mysore.

Kannan, Elumalai

Participated as an expert in the Minister-levelmeeting organised on ‘Karnataka AgriculturalPrice Commission’ held at Vikas Soudha,Bangalore, February 27 and March 2, 2015.

Kumar, Parmod

(with OECD_FAO Team) ‘Feeding India: Prospectsand Challenges in the Next Decade’. In OECDFAO Outlook 2014-2023, 2014.

Kumar, V Anil

Peasantry, Capitalism and State (reviewed byProfessor B B Mohanty), Sociological Bulletin, 2014.

Teaching the Pre-PhD course on Perspectives inSocial and Economic Change, Modern PoliticalTheory.

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Madheswaran, S

Affirmative Action in India, Indo-SwissCollaborative Seminar, ICSSR, Bangalore,September 2014.

Nautiyal, Sunil

Participated as National Evaluator in SecondNational Children’s Science Congress, organizedby the Department of Science and Technology,Government of India, December 27-31, 2014, atSJPIT, Bangalore.

Presentation at interaction meeting, MoEF, NewDelhi with regard to new research proposal,January 3, 2015.

Interaction meeting at DST with regard to newresearch proposal, January 4, 2015.

Meeting at TIFAC New Delhi regarding ongoingresearch project, January 5, 2015.

Reviewed ten papers and submitted to variousinternational journals

Conducted final Viva-Voice of a PhD Student ofVIT University May 2014

Member Academic and Research CollaborationCommittee (ARCC), ISEC. Initiated signing MoUbetween AUS and ISEC (in final stage) and theBabasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University,Lucknow

National evaluator at 22nd National Children’sScience Congress (NCSC), Department of Scienceand Technology, Govt. of India.

Participated in the launching of the UNEP GEFMoEF ABS Project Strengthening the implimen-tation of the Biological Diversity Act and Ruleswith focus on its Access and Benefit SharingProvisions by Hon’ble Minister for Forest, Ecologyand Environment, Govt. of Karnataka, Organizedby Biodiversity Board, Bangalore, March 12, 2015.

Supervision of Intern Students: 1) Ms. AyushiChaturvedi, IP University Delhi for her MScdissertation titled “Urbanisation and its Impact on

Socio-ecology of Peri-urban and Rural Landscapes: ACase Study” (Dissertation Submitted June 2014); 2)Ms. Varsha N P, M.Tech student from VITUniversity, Vellore for her M.Tech thesis titled“Identification, Cultivation and Conservation ofIndigenous Traditional Medicinal Plant Species throughScientific and Technological Interventions at BR Hills,Western Ghats” (Submitted August 2014); 3) MsGeetanjali Vashistha, worked on”Assessment ofClimate Change Vulnerability in Developing CountryPerspective: A Review” (June 2014-August 2014 fromIP University, Delhi.); and 4) Ms Nidhi Rawat,worked on “Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: AnAssessment” (June 2014-August 2014 from IPUniversity, Delhi)

Rajasekhar, D

Visits to Cambodia to assist the Royal Governmentof Cambodia in initiating a research study onDecentralisation and Social Protection.

Rajeev, Meenakshi

Organised a panel discussion on ‘Inflation,Monetary Policy and Financial Sector: TheChallenges Ahead’, August 25, 2014, alsoparticipated as a panelist and discussed the topic‘Banking Sector and Financial Exclusion: TheChallenges Ahead’ along with Prof. T N PrakashKammaradi, Chairman of Agriculture PricesCommission, on ‘Food Price Inflation and StateInterventions’ and Prof. Charan Singh, RBI ChairProfessor, IIM, Bangalore, on ‘Monetary Policy inIndia - Some Contemporary Issues andChallenges’.

Sivanna, N

Co-coordinating Pre-PhD Part –A Paper on‘Institutions and Development’

Delivered Inaugural address, at the NationalSeminar on Strategies for the Development ofHyderabad-Karnataka Backward Region,organized by R K Government First Grade College,March 13, 2015, at Chittapur, Gulbarga.

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Urbanization and Human Development,Presentation to the Government of Karnataka’sPlanning Department, Meeting to review theprogress of the State Human Development Report,Bangalore, July 19, 2014.

(with Paul, Samuel, A Venugopala Reddy andPavan Srinath) ‘The State of Cities: Evidence fromKarnataka’ (Review), New Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress, 2012.

Syamala, T S

Attended the Dissemination Seminar of the project“Increased Awareness, Access and Quality ofElderly Services: Building Knowledge Base onAgeing in India”, New Delhi, December 4-5, 2014.

Attended Management Committee Meeting andBoard Meeting of Praxis India at Bangalore,September 9, 2014.

Umamani, K S

Presented a proposal for funding Population andHealth Status around Kaiga Nuclear Plant atKarwar, Karnataka, to BARC Mumbai, July 3, 2014.

Review of Book Proposal on Family Planning inIndia, by Dr Aruna Bhattacharya of IndianInstitute of Public Health, Delhi, for SpringerInternational Publishing, Switzerland.

Trained Field Investigators for SSA project atMysore, July 24-26, 2014.

Monitoring SSA Field Work, Mysore and Hassan,July-August 2014.

Presented findings of the project “Demographyand Health Study around the Proposed Site for

Special Materials Facility at Challakere,Chitradurga, Karnataka”, at RMP, BARC Mysore,on September 26, 2014.

(with M Lingaraju and Indrajit Bairagya) Presentedthe draft report of SSA and MDM for 8 districts-Mandya, Raichur, Kodagu, Udupi, Mysore,Hassan, Tumkur and Chikballapur, in the stateoffice at Nrupatunga Road, Bangalore (DDPI, DietPrincipal and DYPCs and MDM officials of theconcerned district and state officials attended), onNovember 17, 2014.

Attended a meeting with DDPI and DYPCs ofDavangere, Bidar, Gadag, Shimoga and Dharwadto plan field visit to the districts in connection withthe third and final round of SSA and MDM fieldwork, November 18, 2014.

Attended 40th EC meeting of SSA on November 22,2014, at Vidhana Soudha.

Yadav, Manohar

Attended the Board of Studies meeting as amember at Department of Studies in Anthropologyin Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, fromJune 30 to July 1, 2014.

Supervised one intern student.

Coordinating a PhD course on ‘CulturalContradictions and Development Dilemmas’.

Attended Board of Studies Meeting at IDS, MysoreUniversity, Mysore, November 26, 2014.

Attended PhD Viva-voce Meeting at theDepartment of Anthropology, Kannada University,Hampi.

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9. MEETINGS

Academic Programme Committee

The Academic Programme Committee (APC)of ISEC met on July 25, 2014 and January 29, 2015.

Research Programme Committee

Research Programme Committee (RPC) ofISEC met on June 27, September 26, 2014, January5 and March 27, 2015.

Annual General Body

The 42nd Annual General Body Meeting ofISEC Society was held on January 8, 2015.

Board of Governors

The Board of Governors (2013-2015) of ISECSociety met on:

August 20, 2014,

November 25, 2014,

January 8, 2015 and

February 14, 2015.

Finance Committee

The Finance Committee of ISEC met onAugust 12 and December 23, 2014.

Gratuity Trust

The Board of Trustees of the Gratuity Trustof ISEC met on October 17, 2014.

Provident Fund Trust

The Board of Trustees of the Provident FundTrust of ISEC met on October 16, 2014.

Investment Committee

The Investment Committee of ISEC met onMay 30, 2014.

Building Committee

The Building Committee of ISEC met on July8, 2014 and April 16, 2015.

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10. APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS, RESIGNATIONS ETC.

Appointments

1. Ms Shobha T Messenger 09.05.2014

2. Mr Sudhakara P R Messenger 09.05.2014

3. Dr Sunil Nautiyal Professor 15.05.2014

4. Dr Kala S Sridhar Professor 11.06.2014

5. Ms. Jyothi H R Senior Assistant 31.07.2014

6. Gp.Capt. (Retd.) B K Das Registrar 01.08.2014

7. Ms. Meghana B Kesari Senior Assistant 01.08.2014

8. Ms. Ramya R Senior Assistant 18.08.2014

9. Ms. C G Chethana Senior Assistant 21.08.2014

10. Ms. Archana Y Senior Assistant 25.08.2014

11. Ms. Sharadha Kannan Accounts Officer 20.01.2015

Retirements

1. Dr Syed Ajmal Pasha Associate Professor 31.05.2014

2. Mr S A Prakash Attender 30.06.2014

3. Dr S N Sangita Professor 30.11.2014

4. Dr M J Bhende Adjunct Professor 28.02.2015

Resignations

1. Dr Qudsia Contractor Assistant Professor 17.06.2014

2. Prof Siddharth Swaminathan RK Hegde Chair Professor 23.06.2014

3. Dr Padma Sarangapani Associate Professor 18.07.2014

4. Prof Binay Kumar Pattnaik Director 03.02.2015

Obituaries

1. Dr Anantha Murthy U R Life Member 22.08.2014

2. Shri Harendra Kumar Majumdar Life Member 28.08.2014

3. Dr V M Rao Life Member and 30.04.2015

Hon. Visiting Professor

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11. DR V K R V RAO LIBRARY

Dr VKRV Rao Library is one of India’spremier research libraries in social sciences. Sinceits inception in 1972, the library has been anintegral part of the institution, providing efficientand timely support to the institutes faculties,researchers, PhD scholars as well as to policymakers, administrators, consultants, students fromall over the country. Library is fully automatedusing “LIBSYS” software. Library database isaccessible online through the institute website. Anotable treasure of the library is the collection ofvaluable books as a bequest from Sir MVisveswaraya and Dr V K R V Rao Collections.

Library Collection

The Library collection has grown to1,33,795 with addition of 1870 documents duringthe year. 602 books 653 reports and 585 otherdocuments were added to the library collection.Besides this the library receives 293 print journalsand magazines through subscription andexchange. Library also subscribes to 10 dailynewspapers.

LibrarLibrarLibrarLibrarLibrary Sery Sery Sery Sery Servicesvicesvicesvicesvices

Borrowing privileges are provided to thefaculties, visiting faculties, Board members, lifemembers, research scholars and administrativestaff. Institutional membership and specialmembership are also facilitated to extend thelibrary services to interested members. Readingroom and photocopy services are provided to thevisiting research scholars.

Reference Service: The library providespersonalized reference services for its users alongwith normal reference services. The library hasgood collection of reference sources to providetimely and accurate reference service.

Current Awareness Services: Library offerscurrent awareness services like new additions,current journal list, current contents and monthlyindex of articles every month.

Article Index: The Library maintains an articleindex database containing about 77000 journalarticles indexed from the journals that it subscribes.Value addition such as subject and keywords areprovided for better discovery.

Press Clippings Index: This monthly informationservice aims at creating awareness and providingaccess to the latest topical press informationpublished in the newspapers in which the ISECuser community is interested.

Inter-Library Loan and Document DeliveryServices: The Institute s Library offers inter-libraryloan services to the users, with the cooperation ofwell-established libraries in Bangalore such asIndian Institute of Management, Indian Institute ofScience, National Law School of India Universityand other institutions. Institute is also member ofDELNET, JCCC@UGC-INFONET so as to facilitatewider access to resources.

Databases

The Library subscribes to a number ofdatabases and e-journals related to social sciencesand allied subjects. For providing efficient service,extensive users assistance is facilitated.

Following are the databases available in theLibrary;

1. EconLit is an American Economic Associa-tion’s electronic database, which is theworld‘s foremost source of references to

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economic literature. The database containsmore than a million records covering 1969-present. Updated monthly. Includes subjectindexing and abstracts to over 1000 journalsin economics and allied areas.

2. IMF E-library and Data offers the entirecatalogue of over 10,400 publications inseveral digital formats in one integratedenvironment. All text is fully searchable,making it easier to find information.

3. Indiastat.com is India’s comprehensiveinformation portal that provides recent,authentic and exhaustive socio-economicdata/information.

4. India Time Series-EPWRFITS is distinctiveonline database that provides downloadableaccess to time series data covering around25,000 variables across 13 sectors of theeconomy relating to a wide range ofmacroeconomic variables from the real andfinancial sectors in a convenient and user-friendly manner for analytical and empiricalresearch.

5. J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. Launched in 2001 byInformatics India Limited, J-Gate providesseamless access to millions of journal articlesavailable online offered by 12,356 Publishers.It presently has a massive database of journalliterature, indexed from 41,125 e-journalswith links to full text at publisher sites.

6. JSTOR is an online database of scholarlyliterature in social sciences. Collections onJSTOR include the complete archival recordof each journal. Coverage begins at the firstvolume and issue of the journal everpublished, and extends up to a publicationdate usually set in the past three to five years.

7. Political Science Complete (PSC) providesfull text for more than 520 journals, andindexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles,(including top-ranked scholarly journals),many of which are unique to the product.PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting theglobalization of contemporary politicaldiscourse. The database also features over 340full-text reference books and monographs,and over 36,000 full-text conference papers,including those of the International PoliticalScience Association.

8. Prowess from Centre for Monitoring IndianEconomy (CMIE) is a database of large andmedium Indian firms. It contains detailedinformation on over 20,000 firms. Prowessprovides detailed financial information oneach company along with production, sales,consumption of raw material and energy etc.over a period of time. The database isavailable in the Library on single user licenseand it is available for access in the referencesection.

Digitization Programme

The digital library software and resourceswere upgraded during the year to provide easieraccess and better discovery. The digital librarycurrently has more than 9000 documents in itscollection. Digitization of rare books and valuabledocuments from Gokhale Institute of Politics andEconomics, Pune; The Mythic Society of India;Karnataka University, UAS-Dharwad is in over.Discussion with institutions such as GokhleInstitute of Public Affairs, Bangalore, and StateCentral Library, Bangalore, are on for partnershipfor digitization of rare and valuable collectionsespecially in the social sciences.

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12. DATA BANK

A Data Bank in simple terms is the database.It involves three major activities- collection ofinformation, its organization and classificationaccording to types of content. The content could bebibliographic, full-text and numeric. The mainpurpose of any databank is to organize informationin a way that can be easily accessed, managed andupdated.

ISEC produces a significant amount ofpublications in the form of projects, articles,research papers, monographs and working papersevery year. During these activities, large amountof statistical information both on primary (likeindividual, household surveys etc) and secondarysources (governmental and non-governmentaldatabases) are collected. But, very small proportionof the collected information is used. In addition, italso appeared to us a good number of scholars finddifficulty in discovering the data sources requiredfor their research/project endeavors. In other cases,scholars who have already collected the databaseduring their previous research/projectassignments hardly keep the track in terms ofproper compilation, organization and update ofinformation. In this process, they spend significantamount of time on searching and retrieving thedata already with them. Similarly, research at ISECconducts good number of studies regularly onassessment of progress or impact evaluation ofdevelopmental schemes, status of developmentalprocess or their dimensions in some time intervalsor across the larger space. During the projects, ahuge amount of household level information iscollected but finally very little comes up in projectreports after the treatment of statistical tools.Moreover, once projects are finalized and reportsare submitted to the concerned agencies, nothingis done to preserve and use the household

information for other/new studies concerningfurther development in the same/new issues. Toavoid or reduce such loss of information andsearch time, ISEC has taken an initiative formaintaining such data in its Data Bank.

The Vision

❏ The Data Bank will establish itself as afacilitating centre for the researchers in ISEC.

❏ It will assemble and collate the useful datafrom researches carried out in Institute fromvarious sources wherever possible.

❏ It will regularly collect primary field surveydata of completed projects both in soft andhard copies from faculty and students ofISEC. Such information, however, will bemade accessible to the potential users onconsent of the project director or the Directorof ISEC.

❏ It will regularly collect secondary data in softcopies from the Centres and if necessaryupdate them.

❏ It will share available data and informationwith the faculty and students.

❏ It will also offer information regardingavailability of statistical data and theirsources and if information available willprovide to its members through email.

Data Bank provides access to the availabledata to the researchers, preferably to those workingin ISEC and jointly with ISEC, Members of theBoard of Governors and the Founder-Members ofthe Institute. Researchers other than these, ifinterested in obtaining the data, are asked to seekpermission from the Registrar, ISEC, for use ofsuch data, which is provided keeping in view the

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prevailing copy right etc. We do not charge for thesupply of data. However, the data provided by usis limited to the soft-copy form. The Data Bank ismade to create an access to the data and users arerequested not to treat it as centre for researchassistance as it will require a lot of efforts on thepart of the staff of the Data Bank. We expect anacknowledgement on the use of data.

Primary Data in the form of Hard Copies(Filled Project Schedules)

The following Centre-wise printed data is availablein databank and is arranged in a systematic order:

ADRTC

❏ Prospects for Coarse Cereals in Drought-Prone Regions: An Exploratory Study inKarnataka

❏ Evaluation of Oilseed Production Programmein Karnataka

❏ Likely Impact of Liberalized Imports andLow Tariff on Edible Oil Sector in theCountry

❏ The Evaluation of Prime Ministers RozgarYojana in the State of Karnataka

❏ An Analysis of the Results of Crop CuttingExperiments

❏ Output and Impact Monitoring Study ofKAWAD Project

❏ Evaluation of Feed and Fodder Developmentunder the Centrally Sponsored Schemes inKarnataka

❏ Micro Initiatives for Macro Policy (IOWA/UAS/ISEC Study)

❏ Rating Assessment of Water UserAssociations in Kurnool-Cuddapah CanalModernisation Project (JBIC Project)

❏ Rural Bio-Resource Complex Project

❏ Contract Farming in Karnataka: A Boon orBane?

❏ Sustainable Agricultural Developmentthrough Organic Farming in Karnataka

❏ Concurrent Evaluation of IRDP BeneficiaryHousehold Schedule in Karnataka

❏ Evaluation of Post-Harvest Losses in Tomatoin Selected Areas of Karnataka

❏ Sustainability of Watershed DevelopmentProgramme (WDPs): A Study of FarmHouseholds of Karnataka

❏ Evaluation of Employment AssuranceScheme (EAS): Case Studies of Two Districtsof Karnataka

CEENR

❏ Strategic Environmental and SocialAssessment of the Karnataka Community-based Tank Improvement and ManagementProject

CESP

❏ The New Economic Context and ChangingMigration Pattern in India

CDD❏ Role of Local Institutions in Rural

Development Programmes

❏ Evaluation of Manebelaku and UdyoginiSchemes in Karnataka

❏ Assistant Line Women in the KarnatakaPower Transmission Corporations Limited

❏ IMS Project information related to Revenueand Expenditure of all the Grama Panchayatsin Karnataka (1999-00 to 2002-03; 27 districts)

CSSCD

❏ Evaluation of National Child Labour Project(2007)

❏ Kaniyan kanyan of Karnataka: AnEthnographic Study

❏ District Information System for EducationSpecial DCF for 5% Post-Enumerative Survey

❏ Evaluation of Devadasi Rehabilitation Study

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CHRD

❏ MHRD- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan EducationalProject

❏ Teachers College Survey: Students teachersProfile

❏ Demography of Schooling in Karnataka:Gulbarga, Yadgir, Bangalore Rural, BangaloreUrban, and Udupi Districts (School ReportCards Project)

❏ SSA/MHRD/Government of IndiaMonitoring in Karnataka Projects [SSA &MDM] Phase I, II, III and IV.

❏ Akshaya Patra Foundation School MealProgramme

❏ Migration from the North Eastern Region: AStudy of Educated Youth from NER inBangalore and Delhi

❏ Management Development Programme(MDP Project)

Demography and Health Survey around theProposed Site for Special Materials Facilityat Challakere, Chitradurga, Karnatka (BARCFunded)

CPIGD

● Child Labour Survey in Haveri District inKarnataka

Data Available on Online/Computer System (forinternal access only):

● www.indiastat.com

Data on CD-ROMs:

● National Sample Survey (NSS)

● The NSS Data CDs are available but onlyto tables prepared by ISEC researcherscould be made available.

● Census Dataset

● The Census Data CDs are available butonly for internal use.

● National Family Health Survey (NFHS)Dataset

● The NFHS Data CDs are available butonly for internal use.

● Socio-economic Dataset

● The Socio-economic Data CDs areavailable but only for internal use.

Data Available in Digital Form

● Data is available on daily list of exportand imports from Cochin Port since 2006to till date.

Foreign Trade Statistics of India

● Monthly Statistics of Foreign TradeStatistics of India - Principal commodities& Countries 2003- 2008

Journal of Economic Literature

Data Available in Microfiche Form:

● Census of India data from 1871-1951 isavailable in microfiche form.

Other Documents in Microfiche Form:

● India Gazetteers

Links to Major Database Websites:

● ISEC website homepage KarnatakaDevelopment

● For more information please visitdatabank at our website.

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13. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Our grateful thanks to:

● The Government of Karnataka and the IndianCouncil of Social Science Research (ICSSR) forgrants.

● Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India,for supporting the Agricultural Developmentand Rural Transformation Centre (ADRTC).

● Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

● Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,Government of India, for supporting thePopulation Research Centre (PRC).

● Reserve Bank of India for supporting the RBIEndowment Unit.

● Sir Ratan Tata Trust for creation of SRTDeferred Endowment Fund.

● University of Mysore, Bangalore University,Karnatak University, Mangalore University,and Osmania University for their kind co-operation in the PhD Programme.

● Sponsors of Research Projects: FordFoundation, World Bank, ADB, ILO, IFPRI,UNFPA, NIRD, Planning Commission,Government of India, Cornell University,NABARD, ISRO, Iowa State University, GTZand the Ministry of Industry.

● Sponsors of Training Courses.

● Our Founder/Life Members and thePresident of the ISEC Society.

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Shri Chiranjiv Singh, IAS (Retd),former Additional Chief Secretaryand former DevelopmentCommissioner of Karnataka,delivering the KarnatakaRajyotsava Extension Lecture on‘Cultural Significance of theRajyotsava and Its Growth overthe Years’ on December 10, 2014,at ISEC.

Professor Sukhadeo Thorat,Chairman, Indian Council of

Social Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, delivered

Dr VKRV Rao MemorialLecture, ‘On Inclusive Growth

– Inequality-Poverty Inter-Linkages’ in commemorationof the 44th Founders’ Day of

ISEC on February 09, 2015.

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