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PLAN BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR 2013-2014
Revised as on 29 June 2012
Social Sciences Division
Indian Statistical Institute
203, Barrackpore Trunk Road Kolkata 700 108
Social Sciences Division, ISI
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Contents Name of the Project Project
Leader(s) Page
Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the
year 2010-2012 … … 3
1 Economic Research Unit
1.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 41
2 Linguistic Research Unit
2.2 Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. (General, New) … Probal Dasgupta … 5
2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form. (General, On-
going) … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 23
2.4 Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework. (NE, On-going) … Probal Dasgupta … 25
2.5 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 42
3 Population Studies Unit
3.3 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 44
4 Psychology Research Unit
4.1 Students’ temperament styles, parenting styles and academic achievement of school
students. (General, New)
… Rumki Gupta
… 8
4.2 Differential validity of Computer programming abilities (General, On-going) … Debdulal.Dutta Roy … 27
4.3 Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining academic
performance of school students of North- Eastern India. (NE, On-going)
… Anjali Ghosh … 30
4.4 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 45
5 Sociological Research Unit
5.2 A micro level study of childhood obesity and TV watching in Kolkata and its
periphery, West Bengal, India. (General, New) … Susmita Bharati … 13
5.3 Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of Jharkhand.
(General, New)
… Rabindranath Jana … 16
5.4 Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry. (General, On-going) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 34
5.5 Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings. (General, On-going) … V.K. Ramachandran … 36
5.6 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 47
6 Planning Unit, Delhi Centre
6.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 48
7 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre
7.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 50
8 Social Sciences Division Office
8.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 51
List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, ERU … … 52
List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, PRU … … 59
List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, SRU … … 62
List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, LRU … … 66
List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, PSU … … 68
List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, EAU, Bangalore Centre … … 70
Interim Report PRU … … 71
Divisional Projects Expenditure Statement 2013-14 … … 75
Divisional Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-14 … … 76
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Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the year 2010-2012
1. Professor Bimal Kr. Roy Director (Chairman)
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata 700 108
2. Professor Jayati Ghosh Centre for Economics Studies & Planning
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110 067
3. Professor Rajni Palriwala Department of Sociology
Delhi School of Economics
Delhi University
Delhi 110 007
4. Professor Sulabha Parasuraman Department of Population Policies & Programmes
I.I.P.S., Deonar, Mumbai 400088
5. Professor Ayesha Kidwai Centre for Linguistic Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110 067
6. Professor Minati Panda Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110 067
7. Professor Madhura Swaminathan, Professor-in-Charge (Convener),
Social Sciences Division,
Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata 700 108
New Projects
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LRU (General, New) Project No. 2.2
1. Title of the project: Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax.
2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The purpose of this project is to apply the
biaxial apparatus to the problem of delineating cranberry-compatible environments in Bangla.
Current work suggests that an idiom containing a bound word cannot cross a predicate boundary;
we need to sharpen our knowledge of predicate boundaries. The results of this project are not only
of computational and psycholinguistic interest but also overlap with the socio-cultural study of
common sense as it is encoded in idiomatic structures.
3. Date of Commencement: April 2013- March 2016
4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta, LRU, ISI
5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Niladri Sk. Dash (LRU, ISI)
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more
than half a page): The purpose of this project is to apply the biaxial apparatus to the problem of
distinguishing cranberry-compatible from cranberry-incompatible syntactic environments in
Bangla. Current work by the P.I. suggests that an idiom containing a bound word (usually called a
cranberry word) cannot cross a predicate boundary; we need to sharpen our knowledge of
predicate boundaries. In particular, the older proposals that the subject-predicate boundary within
the body of the clause is the relevant line of demarcation are incompatible with data highlighted
by Manaster-Ramer and Wasow; the P.I. is exploring the possibility that the topic-comment
boundary is the maximal outer boundary but that prototypical idioms are confined to the narrow
verb phrase. The results of this project are not only of computational and psycholinguistic interest
but also overlap with the socio-cultural study of common sense as it is encoded in the metaphoric
structure of idiomatic expressions. Idiom descriptions underwritten by the biaxial approach have
begun to, and are expected to continue to, illuminate the complex predicate domain of South
Asian lexical systems that need to be better understood for computational purposes. The
contrastive study of ethnic languages vis-a-vis the idiom-free and opacity-minimizing
Archimedean language Esperanto has yielded results reported in the P.I.’s (2011) book Inhabiting
Human Languages cited below; these results will underpin the proposed study.
7. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same
(not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 Total
Capital NIL NIL NIL NIL
Revenue
Salary of 1 Project Assistant
(20,000 X 36 = 7,20,000)
2,40,000 2,40,000 2,40,000 7,20,000
Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000
Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000
Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000
Total: 2,80,000 2,80,000 2,90,000 8,50,000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned.
In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost): Computer, photocopier, and antivirus software are to be procured.
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9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for
each, give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications:
No. of on-going projects : 1 (One)
Project No 6 : (Ongoing, Northeastern)
Title : Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework
Status : On-going
Money budgeted in 2012-2013: Rs. 2.20,000/-
Publications:
Dasgupta, P. The ubiquitous complementizer. In: Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages.
Ed. By Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, M.T. Hany Babu. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2007.
163-173.
Dasgupta, P. Concrete knowledge, the conversational turn, and translation. AI & Society 2007.
21:1-2.7-13.
Dasgupta, P. Advances in substantivist grammatical research. In Research Trends in
Lexicography, Sanskrit and Linguistics: Proceedings of the Professor S.M. Katre Birth Centenary
Seminar. Ed. By K.S. Nagaraja, V.P. Bhatta, Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi, P.M. Pingle. Deccan College
Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. 151-181. 2007.
Dasgupta, P. Names, writing and perspective. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 5. 2008.
Pp 126-34.
Dasgupta, P. Transparency and arbitrariness in natural language: some empirical issues. Rajendra
Singh (ed.) ARSALL 2008. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 3-19.
Dasgupta, P. Bangla vector verbs and their selectivities. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics
[U. of Kashmir, Srinagar] 2. 2009. Pp 41-68.
Dasgupta, P. After temples and templates: history’s claims on the translator. Ipshita Chanda,
Chandra Mohan, Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta (eds.) Travelling in Cultures: Comparative
Studies, Theory and Practice. Delhi: Worldview. 2009. 25-36.
Dasgupta, P. Characterizations in linguistic science. Amiya Dev (ed.) Science, Literature and
Aesthetics (History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Volume XV Part 3).
Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilization. 2009. 149-65.
Dasgupta, P. (with Madhavi Sardesai). Sociolinguistics in South Asia. Martin J. Ball (ed.) The
Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World. London/ New York: Routledge. 2009
81-8.
Dasgupta, P. Strategies and their shadows. Rajendra Singh (ed.) ARSALL 2009. Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter. 2010. 3-40.
Dasgupta, P. (with Josef Bayer.) 2010. Prosnobaakke nibedon-badol aar kriyaapader saakaankho
otit cehaaraa. Alochonachakro 28:9-25. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Baakke bibhoktir bandobosto. Alochonachakro 29:39-58. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Discourse and generative grammar: a substantivist approach. Rajat Mohanty,
Mythili Menon (eds.) Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VII 2009.
Hyderabad: EFL University Press. 21-61. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominal in a co- representation
analysis. K. Srikumar (ed.) Papers for Presentation at the 32nd
All-India Conference of Linguists.
Lucknow: Linguistic Society of India and University of Lucknow. 1-5. Dasgupta, P. 2010. La internacia lingvo kaj la universala gramatiko. [Introduction to Noam
Chomsky. 2010. Lingvo kaj Menso. Tr. Edmund Grimley Evans. Rotterdam: Universala
Esperanto-Asocio.] vii-x.
Dasgupta, P. 2010. The Hindi long vowel problem: a substantivist approach. S. Imtiaz Hasnain,
Shreesh Chaudhary (eds.) Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural Theoretical and Applied
Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Rama Kant Agnihotri. Delhi: Aakar. 286-291.
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Dasgupta, P. 2010. Issues in the description of Bangla’. Rajendra Singh (ed.) Annual Review of
South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2010. Berlin/ New York: De Gruyter Mouton. 137-42. Dasgupta, P. Retrieving the cognitive from the industrial: the translator as apprentice’.
Translation Today 6(1-2).72-96. De jure 2009, de facto 2011. Dasgupta, P. 2011. Nakshaar chhaayaa upopaaddo. Jiggasa 29:1-2.127-133. Dasgupta, P. 2011. Laaloner jabaan. Arshinagar 1:7-22. Dasgupta, P. Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla. Indian Linguistics. 72:103-
112. 2011. Dasgupta, P. Bhaasaar punorbibeconaa o Rabindranath. Parikatha 14(1):1-16. 2011. Dasgupta, P. Agreement and non-finite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach. Rajendra Singh,
Ghanshyam Sharma (eds) Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2011. Berlin/
Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 35-48. 2011.
Dasgupta, P. Inhabiting Human Languages: The Substantivist Visualization. New Delhi:
Samskriti, on behalf of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 2011./ Loghi en Homaj
Lingvoj: La Substancisma Perspektivo. New York: Mondial. 2011.
10. Expected date of Completion: March 2016
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2013-2014:
1st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Total
Rev
.
Cap
.
Tota
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Rev
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Cap
.
Tota
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Rev
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Cap
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Tota
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Rev
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Cap
.
Tota
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Rev
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Cap
.
Tota
l
25%
100%
25%
NIL
25%
NIL
25%
NIL
100%
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PRU (General, New) Project No. 4.1
1. Title of the Project: Parenting styles and academic achievement of the school students.
2. Brief objective and justification: Academic achievement of school students depends on a host of
factors including students’ parenting styles. Available questionnaires on parenting styles are
mostly developed in western countries. Need is felt to develop a parenting style questionnaire to
suit the local context.
The objective of the study is to
● develop a parenting style questionnaire in the 1st year considering local situation.
● to find relationship between parenting style and academic achievement (last annual examination
marks) in the 2nd
year.
The study will help to inform the teachers and parents in promoting a better understanding
parenting style differences in their students and how do teachers or parents help students to earn a
high/good grade in school.
3. Date of commencement : April, 2013.
4. Name of the proposing Scientist : Rumki Gupta, Psychology Research Unit, ISI.
5. Name of other associated scientist with their affiliation: Prof. S. N. Chakrabartty, Ex - Director
(R&D), Indian Maritime University, Kolkata Campus and Professor of Galgotia Business School,
Noida.
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work: Parents
have the main responsibility for socializing their children and thus parents can not avoid having
an impact on their children's personality and character. This study will discuss the
conceptualization of parenting in a new fashion. Till date we are concerned with the four different
parenting styles defined by Baumrind (1960) and Maccoby and Martin (1983) and the effects of
different parenting styles on children's behavioral adjustment and academic achievement. Studies
regarding above mentioned parenting style were conducted with a sample from the western
countries. On the other hand, very rare studies have been done which showed the relationship
between parenting styles and academic achievement in our country rather in our state also.
Therefore, it is not clear whether such relations would be consistent in our state. So the current
study is being undertaken.
In this connection works will be done in the 1st year:
---- Literature review (Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological aspects) of parenting
style.
---- Exploratory research will be undertaken through open ended questions to be administered
among the parents primarily to identify relevant factors of parenting style.
---- to explore the possibility of variation of such factors in terms of number and intensity, the
questionnaire for exploratory research will be different for male child and female child. It is
proposed to administer the questionnaire to both the parents. Separate questionnaire will also
be prepared for administration to the children to elicit children’s view about relevant factors
like parental authority, disciplinary practices, permissiveness, authoritative /flexible etc.
Three questionnaires(two parents and one for children) will be administered/interviewed to a
small sample of parents and children in one rural area and in one urban area.
---- Content analysis will be undertaken to identify the factors of parenting style and their
relative importance considering both point of views of parents and children.
Based on the above, a parenting style questionnaire will be developed with Likert
type items to suit the local condition.
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----- The items chosen (approximately 30 items) will be distributed to a group of experts
requesting them to
● indicate their preference for each pair of items (total nc2 no. of pairs in case of n items).
● suggest changes in wording of items, if any
----- based on the responses from the experts paired comparison test will be used to find scale
value of each finally selected items. These scale values will be used subsequently for scoring
parenting style questionnaire.
----- Reliability of Parenting style questionnaire will be measured through split half reliability or
Chronbach α
----- Validity through suitable method
In the 2nd
year impact of parenting style on academic achievement will be observed.
The objective of the study in the 2nd
year is to see the impact of students parenting style
on academic achievement.
The study will help to inform the teachers and parents in promoting a better
understanding personal and learning style differences in their students (Horton and Oakland,
1996) and how do teachers or parents help students to earn a high/good grade in school.
Sample: In the 1st year exploratory research will be done covering about 30 families. Around 25
experts will be selected to whom items will be given for their opinion. In the 2nd
year the study
will be conducted on about 320 class VIII students selected from two districts in West Bengal.
Multistage simple random sampling scheme without replacement (SRSWOR) method will be
followed in this study. In the first stage out of 19 districts, 2 districts will be chosen. In the next
stage, two regions i. e., rural and urban will be selected from each of the chosen districts. In the
next stage, four schools (2 boys and 2 girls) from each of the selected regions will be chosen by
SRSWOR. Finally, 20 students (chosen by SRSWOR) studying in class VIII from each of the
selected schools will be selected for this study.
Instruments: Few scales and inventories to be reviewed to find suitable instruments to measure
Parenting style questionnaire (through suitable questionnaire which will be developed in
the 1st year of the project duration)
Academic Achievement – Annual examination marks obtained by the students in Bengali,
English, Mathematics and Science).
Biographical questionnaire
After collecting data appropriate analysis will be undertaken.
Beneficiaries: Students, teachers and parents
References:
Baumrind, D. (1966). Effects of authoritative parental control on child behavior. Child
Development. 37. 887-907.
Dishion, T. J. (1990). The family ecology of boys' peer relations in middle childhood. Child
Development. 61. 874-892.
Maccoby, E. E., & Martin, J. A. (1983). Sociahzation in the context of the family: Parent child
interaction. In P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.) & E. M. Hetherington (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child
psvcholo^- Vol. 4. Socialization, personality, and social development (pp. 1-101). New York:
Wiley.
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7. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (2013-14) and justification for the same :
Total outlay for the project: 6.15 lakhs (for two years, 2013-14 & 2014-15)
Sr.
No
Item Amount
(Rs.)
Justification
1 Salary for one Project
Linked Person for 10
months
1,20,000.00 To perform various types of works of the
project, one project Assistant is required
2 Professional Services 30,000.00 For opinion from the specialized person
3 Travel 50,000.00 In and around Kolkata and visit to
Different districts in West Bengal
4 Transport 28,000.00 Charges for Car hire, bus, auto, rickshaw
etc. in Kolkata and outside Kolkata
5 Boarding / Lodging /
Field Trip
20,000.00 For outside Kolkata
6 Procurement of
Psychological Tests
30,000.00 Required for project work.
7 Printing, Xerox,
publication
10,000.00 For Printing of schedules, papers , reports
etc.
8
Stores and Stationary 3,000.00
For handling and keeping the records.
9 Telephone and postage 1,000.00 For communication with school
authorities, school education board etc.
10 Miscellaneous 3,000.00 Unforeseen
Total : 2,95,000.00 This amount will be increased due to 20%
increment towards price escalation
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from capital budget, should be mentioned.
In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned : Nil
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years:
Sr
No
Name of the project Status Money
budgeted
(Rs.)
Money
spent (Rs.)
publications
1 Self assessment and its
relationship with
academic achievement
and achievement
motivation among
Secondary level School
Students(2007-09)
Completed
2,25,000/-
1,73,000/-
(approx.)
Project report submitted.
One paper has been
published as a book
chapter and one paper has
been published in
Journal. One paper sent
for publication. One
lecture delivered in
Budapest, Hungary
2 Bullying in school and
its effect on the
behavioural aspects of
the school students
(2009-11)
Completed
2,92,000/- 2,80,000/-
(approx.)
Project Report submitted.
One paper presented in a
National conference.
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3
Personality profile,
stress and job
satisfaction of Indian
sea farers (2011-13)
Ongoing 2,50,000/- 1,56,000/-
(approx.)
Interim Report submitted.
List of important scientific papers published over the last five years: Rumki Gupta (2007-11)
1. Gupta Rumki (2007) - Deprivation of Food Items on Academic Achievement of Young Girls. Health
Psychology: Psychosocial Perspective, Sunita Malhotra, Promila Batra and Amrita Yadava (Eds.)
Common wealth Publishers. New Delhi, pp. 169 -173.
2. Gupta Rumki (2007) - Effectiveness of Training for Merchant Navy Personnel, Psychological
Assessment in Personnel selection, S Subramony and SB Raj (Eds.) DRDO Special Publication
Series, Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi.
3. Gupta Rumki (2007) - Special Education in India. The Encyclopedia of Special Education, 3rd
Edition, Vol.2, Reynolds, C.R. and Fletcher-Janzen, E. (Eds.) John Wiley and Sons: New York,
pp.1089-1091.
4. Gupta Rumki and Panja Sanghamitra (2008-2009) - Gender and Religion Bias on the Academic
Achievement of the students of Class X Level, Journal of Education and Psychology, 65, 1- 4, 17 -
29.
5. Gupta Rumki (2010) - Empowerment and Gender Difference in Education Status. Delhi Business
Review, 11, 1, 55 - 60.
6. Gupta Rumki (2010) - Opinion Survey on Curriculum, Performance in Madhyamik Vis-à-vis Higher
Secondary Level. Gorakhpur Social Scientist, 1, 2, 20 - 28.
7. Gupta Rumki and Dhara Jayeta (2010) - Dimensions of Self-Concept: A Factor Analytic Study.
Indian Journal of Social Science Researches, 7, 2, 92-99.
8. Gupta Rumki and Dhara Jayeta (2011) – Nature of Involvement of Self-concept, Academic
Achievement and Achievement Motivation of Girls in Comparison to Boys in Urban West Bengal.
Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of Women an Indian Perspective: Concepts, Issues and
Challenges, Utpal Kumar De and Bhola Nath Ghosh (Eds.). LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
GmbH & Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Deutschland, Germany.
10. Expected date of completion : March, 2015
11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2013-14:
1
st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Total
Rev. C
a
p
Total Rev. C
a
p
Total Rev. C
a
p
Total Rev. C
a
p
Total Rev. C
a
p
Total
60,000 - 60,000 80,000 - 80,000 1,000,00 - 1,000,00 55,000 - 55,000 2,95,000 - 2,95,000
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12. For General Projects Only (N.A.)
13. For General projects only ( New)
Total expected
budget
(A)
Proposed budget
for 2013-2014
(B)
Action Plan/Target in
terms of percentage (%) Financial target in terms of
percentage (%)
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 2013-
2014 2014-
2015 2015-
2016 2013-
2014 2014-
2015 2015-
2016
6.15 6.15 2.95 2.95 35% 65% - 40% 60% -
14. For North-East Projects only (On-going) : Not applicable
15. For North-East Projects only (New) : Not applicable
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SRU (General, New) Project No. 5.2
1. Title of the Project: A micro level study of childhood obesity and TV watching in Kolkata and its
periphery, West Bengal, India
2. Brief objective and justification: The main objectives of the study are
i. to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children aged 6-10 years,
ii. to see the relationship of obesity with socio-demographic variables and finally,
iii. to understand, how far TV watching is associated with childhood obesity after controlling other
confounding factors like food habit of children.
In developed countries, this type of study is very common but it is an emerging problem among the
urban Indian children. Also there have been a limited number of studies on this emerging issue.
Therefore, it is noteworthy to study television (TV) watching and childhood obesity in an urban
centre like Kolkata and its periphery.
3. Date of commencement: April, 2013
4. Name of the proposing scientist (Principal investigator): Dr. Susmita Bharati 5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation: Professor Manoranjan Pal (ERU),
Professor Premananda Bharati (BAU) and Suparna Shome (SRU).
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work: The terms
‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ have acquired great importance in public health community in recent
times. It is debatable whether obesity is a condition or a disease. It is the result of a sustained
imbalance between energy intake and expenditure when energy intake being substantially more
than energy expenditure. Obesity is responsible for many diseases like Type-2 diabetes,
hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problem, trouble in sleeping and depression (Styne,
2001). In recent years, this obesity is dramatically increasing throughout the world both in
developed and developing countries. In India, the prevalence of obesity has increased by 54 %
among 6-11 years old children (Suresh et al. 2011). This current rapid increase in the obesity
among children is largely due to socio-economic changes and nutrition transition. Along with it, a
great explosion has occurred in the world of media through the increase of use of TVs and
channels in the TV, Video games, computer activities and internet web sites. TV has emerged as
the primary vehicles for delivering commercial messages to the children.
One of the causes of increased obesity among TV addicted children may be changing food habits
due to influence of TV Advertisement. It is also seen that the middle school children who watch
TV more have more tendency to eat snacks and also other unhealthy food like candy, soda instead
of homemade food while sitting for watching TV (Giammattei et al. 2003).
The physiological process towards obesity due to more TV watching is that during TV watching,
children’s metabolic rate is reduced and it contributes to weight gain. As TV watching is more
prevalent in urban settings therefore the study is necessary to estimate the overall prevalence of
overweight and obesity among urban 6-10 years children like in Kolkata (West Bengal) to see the
difference of impact of socio-economy and TV watching on childhood obesity and how far the
food habit is changing with TV advertisement.
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Methodology
Study Design and Sample Size
This will be a micro level cross-sectional study using multistage stratified cluster sampling procedure.
Some schools will be selected taking into considerations of medium of instructions (Bengali, English and
Others) and type of sponsorship/management (Government, Semi-Government and Private). Heights and
weights will be measured and age and sex will be noted for all the students in the selected schools of 6-10
years children. For detailed study, a subset of students using Simple Random Sampling without
Replacement (SRSWOR) scheme will be drawn from the list of all students in the age group 6-10 years
from each selected school.
The subjects will be the children aged 6 to 10 years, who are generally studying in class I to IV at
the Kolkata city of West Bengal. The household socioeconomic and demographic data such as
community, literacy status, and occupation of father and mother will be collected from the
students, and the same may be verified from the school records and also their respective parents.
The date of birth of each pupil will be taken from the school records and will be cross checked from
their respective parents or guardian.
Information on the whole day activities of the last three days will be collected as well as food intakes of
last three days will be collected from the students or from their respective parents by re-call methods.
Information also will be collected about distance of school from the residence and the mode of transport
used to go to school. Besides this, height and weight of the children as well their mothers will be taken to
see the heridity of obesity through anthropometric rod and weighing machine. Duration of TV watching
will be collected indirectly from whole day activity and nature of TV watching also will be collected as
an accessaories of TV watching.
Statistical Analysis
Descriptive analysis will be done for the health, nutrition, duration of TV watching and socio-economic
parameters. Contingency χ2
tests will be done to understand association between health and nutritional
parameters and socio-economic variables with duration of TV watching. Linear and logistic multiple
regressions will be performed to identify the significant factors associated with overweight and obesity.
Age will be adjusted as and when necessary.
References:
1. Styne, DM. 2001. Childhood and adolescent obesity: Prevalence and significance. Pediatric clinics of
North America. 48: 823-854.
2. Suresh, V; Rupnath, K; amesh, V; Rajarani, M; Ramadevi, T and Sambasivarao, KRS. 2011.
Television watching and sleep promotes obesity inurban and semi-urban children in India. Journal of
Toxicology and environmental health sciences. 31: 001-007.
3. Giammattei, J; Blix, G; Marshak, HH; Wollitzer, AO and Pettitt, DJ. 2003. Television watching and
soft drink consumption: Association with obesity in 11-13 year old school children. Archives of
pediatrics and adolescent medicine. 157: 882-886.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same:
8. Item-wise break up of the budget proposal for 2013-2014
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9. Brief Particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned.
In case of replacement, Particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g. Year of Purchase, Cost).
(b) Capital (Anthropometric set, Skinfold Caliper and Weighing machine) 2.00
Height and Weight machine: 1.50 (approx.)
Machine to measure skinfold: .08 (approx.)
Other anthropoetric equipments: 0.36 (approx.)
10. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years : NIL
11. Expected date of completion: March 2015.
12. Quarterly projection of expenditures (in lakhs) during 2013-2014
1st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Total
Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot Rev Cap Tot
0.86 0.0 0.86 1.11 2.0 3.11 1.11 0.0 1.11 .86 0.0 0.86 3.94 2.0 5.94
13. For General Projects only (Ongoing): Does not arise
14. For General Projects (in lakhs) only (New)
Total expected
budget
(A)
Proposed budget
for 2013 – 2014
(B)
Acton Plan/Target
in
Terms of percentage
(%)
Financial target in
terms of percentage
(%)
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total 2013
-14
2014-
15
2015-
16
2013-
14
2014-
15
2015-
16
7.88 2.0 9.88 3.94 2.0 5.94
15. For North-East Projects only (On-going): Does not arise
16. For North-East Projects only (New): Does not arise
(a) Revenue
Rupees in lakhs
Fieldwork (TA, DA, Transport, field guide etc.) 2.00
One Project Assistant @12000 per month x 12 months 1.44
Data analysis, Report writing
Miscellaneous 0.50
TOTAL (Revenue) 3.94
(b) Capital (Anthropometric set, Skinfold Caliper and
Weighing machines)
2.00
GRAND TOTAL 5.94
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SRU (General, New) Project No. 5.3
1. Title of the project: Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of Jharkhand.
2. Brief objective and justification:
It has been observed in various studies that migration has brought both positive and negative
impacts on the socio-economic conditions in the village scenario. In one hand, migration helps (i) to
increase the standard of living of the migrants, (ii) to generate the possibility of investments and savings,
and (iii) to slacken the power grasped by the upper-caste land-owners (Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and
Jana, 2006). On the other hand, (i) the income from migration may not be sufficient to balance the
excessive expenditure in market products newly adopted through migration, like introducing of catering
and decoration in festivals, use of luxurious goods, etc. (Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana, 2006); (ii)
at peak period of cultivation, there is a shortage of labour due to out-migration and, as a result, it creates
negative labour impact on production (Taylor and Dyer, 2006); and (iii) migration contributes to increase
in the incidence and spread of different contagious diseases. There are broadly two kinds of migration, like
permanent and temporal. The present study will cover seasonal and other temporal out-migration from the
rural Jharkhand.
A social network is defined as an articulation of ties of a social relationship among social units, like
persons, households, organizations etc. which are called actors and the ties are links between the actors.
Different types of social relations identify different social networks, even when imposed on the same set of
social units. It may be cited examples on social networks like friendship network, kinship network,
marriage network, etc, (Moreno 1934, 1956; Barry Wellman 1997; Rao 1995). In a society, there exists, no
doubt, involuntary ties of relationship as for example, relationship by kinship, caste and religious or
community affiliation. But ties are also established voluntarily, and they may be identified empirically, such
as, ties of friendship or individuals spending leisure time together, making social visits, attending
invitations on the occasion of a family ceremony or household festival, extending help and support to a
household at the time of an urgent need, etc. (Bandyopadhyay, Rao and Sinha, 2010). The present study
will be opened to cover the both types of ties among the households in a village so that it can be studied
which type of ties facilitate what type of migration and vice-versa. Caste-based relations help in migration
of migrants (De Hann, 2003) and flow of migration is occurred through household level networks (Palloni
et al., 2001). Rao and Bandyopadhyay (1987) have studied the impact of migration on reciprocity of a
village social network. Besides migration through the networks of kinship, community affiliation and
friendship, migration may occur through other intermediaries having self-sustaining structures largely
created by migration processes themselves. These are travel agents, lawyers, bankers, labour recruiters,
brokers, interpreters, housing agents as well as human smugglers and traffickers (Castles 2004). All these
agents have an interest in continuing migration, and for many facilitating aspects migration is a major
business (Salt and Stein 1997).
In the context of seasonal and other temporal out migration in rural Jharkhand, the proposed
research project attempts
(i) to investigate how the migratory channel is opened, and how social network and
migration are affected by each other and
(ii) to study the positive and negative impacts of migration on the households and the pattern
of relational ties among them.
3. Date of commencement: 1April, 2013
4. Name of the Principal Investigator: Dr. Rabindranath Jana, SRU, Kolkata
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5. Name of other associated Scientists:
Prof. Debapriya Sengupta (ASU), Dr. Anil Kumar Chaudhuri (SRU, Giridih), Dr. Tirthankar Ghosh
(SRU), Shri Dipankar Sen (SRU), Shri Kamalaksha Das (SRU).
In addition, Dr. Prabir Ghosh Dostidar (Scientist / Director, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of
India, New Delhi) and Dr. R. Maruthakutti (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu) have kindly agreed to give their
expertise in the project context as and when required.
6. Scope, justification and proposed work:
Scope and Justification
There are several studies on migration in the literature. Caste identity plays an important role in the
personal ties that mediate the migration of the migrants (De Haan, 2003). Family ties and networks have a
positive impact on the flows of migration (Palloni et al., 2001; Ma, 2002; Poros, 2001). Social and cultural
changes of the migrant families are observed in anthropological studies on migration (Watkins, 2003;
Choudhuri, 1992, 2002; Rogaly, 2003 on West Bengal; Kabki and Appiah, 2003 on rural families of
Holland-based migrants in Ashanti Region of ghara). Migration can play innovative roles in introducing
new method of cultivation, such as double cropping (De Haan, 2001). The migration outcomes help to
improve education and health care (de Haan, 2000; Skeldon, 1997; Rogaly, 2003). De Neve (2003) and De
Haan(2003) have observed that migration may help to change the occupation of the migrants. There are
several studies on negative impact of migration on households with respect to different dimensions like
incurring excessive expenditure to household budget (Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana, 2006); facing
labour shortage at peak period of cultivation (Taylor and Dyer, 2006); increasing incidence and spread of
different contagious diseases; and so on.
Here, in case of rural Jharkhand, the present study will lead to investigate (i) how social network
and migration facilitate each other; (ii) how groups are formed among the migrants and whether there is
any link between the groups; (iii) to what extent migration has created extra income and how it is invested
in agriculture, health care of the family members and education for the children; and (iv) how new
social/cultural ideas are adopted through migration and whether they are diffused through social network
to some extent (Jana, 2011).
From the above study, it would be known how social networks contribute to generate migration in
rural Jharkhand. Also, it would be focused how and to what extent the migration helps to change the village
scenario with respect to socio-cultural as well as agro-economic aspects. As a result, the present conditions
of rural Jharkhand will be reflected to some extent. Besides, the study has an interdisciplinary relevance in
the sense that it comprises the disciplines statistics, mathematics and sociology and across these disciplines,
the study may also explore possible areas for further research.
Methodology
It has been observed earlier that the district of Giridih in Jharkhand suffers from economic
deterioration. Also, in 1960, Indian statistical Institute undertook an in-depth study on social
transformation in the villages within 20 mile radial distance around the town of Giridih as the nodal centre,
which may help in our proposed study (Bandyopadhyay et al. 1997). Because of these backdrops, the
district of Giridih has been chosen for our study. In this district, the blocks Giridih and Bengabad are
mainly based on agriculture and are less politically disturbed compared to the other blocks. In addition,
during the earlier study by Choudhuri, Bandyopadhyay and Jana (2006), some extent of rapport has
already been built up in the two blocks. That is why, Giridih and Bengabad blocks are selected for our
study. Two villages from each selected block will be selected on the basis of the following features: (i)
size of each village would be around 250 households of multi-castes having agriculture as principal source
of livelihood; and (ii) there will have larger number of migrant households to be collected from the local
resources.
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Since, in addition to relevant composite variables, social network data are also needed for the
present study, a complete enumeration method will be adopted here for household level study from each
selected village. There will have two phases of data collection. In the first phase, household listing with
basic information and collection of relevant village level information (like migration history, transport
communication, etc.) from knowledgeable persons will be made for each selected village. In the second
phase, main data through questionnaire schedule will be collected from all households of each selected
village and the respondent will be the most knowledgeable person/s of the household (Bandyopadhyay, Rao
and Sinha, 2010; NSSO Report-64th
Round; Hutman 2007; Carleto and Brauw 2009).
The schedule consists of the following information: (i). Demographic aspects of the family; (ii) Occupation
pattern of the family; (iii) Level of literacy; (iv) Landholding pattern; (v) Agricultural practice and
irrigation system; (vi) Total man-days of work done in the villages; (vii) why, when, how, and where the
member of the family has migrated out from the village during the last year ?; (viii) what is the nature of his
work, the duration of work, the amount of earnings etc.; (ix) remittances received during the last year and
nature of its uses; (x) (for measuring impact of migration as per households’ perception) ‘before and after
migration’ information on poverty (and financial assets), housing, health, education, etc. to be collected by
recall method (Hutman 2007; Casale and Posel 2006); (xi) who approaches whom for getting help at any
crisis during last 5 yrs.? (Rao and Bandyopadhyay, 1987), how many times in which year ?, what relation to
whom?, what purposes served?, etc. and so on. It is mentioned that few information items will not be
applicable to the non-migrant households. We would also gather relevant information through group
discussion.
First of all, both the qualitative and quantitative data, thus collected, will be converted into
electronic version. Then both qualitative and quantitative (statistical and graph theoretic techniques)
approaches will be undertaken to analyse the collected data for understanding the impact of migration on
the different socio-economic and cultural aspects (e.g., poverty, health, education etc.) on the basis of
relevant collected information before and after migration as per households’ perception; relation between
the patterns of migration and social network characteristics (e.g., reciprocity, reachability, fragmentation,
hierarchiness, assortativity) by using the correlation and regression analysis techniques; and so on.
Plan of work
In first year, the following works (i) literature review; (ii) collection of relevant official data from
local sources; (iii) relevant village level information; (iv) village selection; (v) listing of households of each
selected village with basic information; and (vi) preparation of main questionnaire schedule and its testing
will be done and in second year, (i) data collection on main questionnaire schedule and group discussion;
(ii) scrutiny of data and data computerisation; and (iii) analysis and report writing will be completed.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (only Revenue):
Financial requirement: Grand Total Outlay : Rs. 4,20,000.00
a) Proposed budget for 2013-2014 : Total outlay : Rs. 1,85,000.00
Revenue expenditure: i) TA, DA & local hired transport : Rs. 90,000.00*
for field visits and different offic
ii) Local field Investigators : Rs. 40,000.00*
(4 persons x 2 months
x Rs. 5000.00 = Rs.40,000.00)
iii) Data entry : Rs. 15,000.00
iv) Contingency (Stationary, printing, : Rs. 40,000.00
Xerox, computer consumables,
books, journals, etc)
Total : Rs.1,85,000.00
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Capital expenditure : Nil
b) Proposed budget for : 2014-2015 : Total outlay : Rs. 2,25,000.00
Revenue expenditure: i) TA, DA & local hired transport : Rs.1,00,000.00*
for field visits and different offices
ii) Local field Investigators : Rs. 60,000.00*
(4 persons x 3 months
x Rs. 5000.00 = Rs.60,000.00)
iii) Data entry : Rs. 25,000.00
iv) Contingency (Stationary, printing, : Rs. 50,000.00
Xerox, computer consumables,
books, journals, etc)
Total : Rs.2,35,000.00
Capital expenditure : Nil
Grand Total : Rs. 4,20,000.00
Revenue expenditure for 2013-2014 : Rs. 1,85,000.00
Revenue expenditure for 2014-2015 : Rs. 2,35,000.00
[* Out of the total budget, the maximum is incurred in connection with field works due to the following
reasons (i) remoteness of the selected villages; (ii) poor communication system and transportation
problems; and (iii) existence of political disturbance (though comparatively less).]
8. Assets: None
9. Projects in last five years: Not applicable
10. Expected date of completion: 31 March, 2015
11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2013-2014:
1st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Year
Rev. Total Rev. Total Rev. Total Rev. Total Rev. Total
35000/- 35000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 50000/- 185000/- 185000/-
12. For general projects only (on-going): Not applicable
13. For general projects only (New):
Total expected
budget (A)
Proposed budget for
2013-14 (B)
Action
Plan/Target in
terms of
percentage (%)
Financial target
in terms of
percentage (%)
Rev. Total Rev. Total 2013-
2014
2014-
2015
2013-
2014
2014-
2015
1,85,000/- 1,85,000/- 1,85,000/- 1,85,000/- 100.00
%
100.00
%
100.00
%
100.00
%
14. For North-East project only (on-going): Not applicable
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15. For North-East project only (New): Not applicable
Names of the three referees in the field
i) Dr. Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna
Senior Professor
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
E-mail: [email protected]
ii) Dr. Srijib B. Bagchi
Professor,
Dept. of Statistics,
Aliah University
E-mail: [email protected]
iii) Dr. Sudhanshu S. Maity
Associate Professor
Dept. of Statistics
Visva-Bharati University
E-mail: [email protected]
Research contributions of Dr. R. Jana in the field
Published /Accepted
R. JANA (2012). Lecture Note On Social Networks: formation, data and few analytic techniques. In
the ‘Workshop on Social Networks’, jointly organized by Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
Chennai and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, during 20-24 February, 2012. website DOI:
http://www.imsc.res.in/~sitabhra/meetings/socialnetwork0212/talks/Rabindranath_Jana.pdf
R. JANA (2011). Importance of weighted social networks in diffusion of agricultural innovations:
An empirical study. Sociology in the 21st century: The first decade. A book on Proceedings of the
UGC Sponsored National Level Conference held on December 2010. Published by Barrackpore
Rastraguru Surendranath College and Sociological Association of West Bengal, Barrackpore 2011,
pp. 93-101, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6.
R. JANA. (2011). Means and variances of some statistics in simple social network with given out-
degrees. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin. (Accepted).
R. JANA, S.B. Bagchi, A.R. Rao and Suraj Bandyopadhyay (2007). Multinomial-type probabilistic
models for weighted social networks. For publication in the Proceedings Volume of “International
Conference on Social Network Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications” by World Scientific.
(Accepted).
R. JANA, Suraj Bandyopadhyay and Anil K. Choudhuri (2007). Application of SNA in reciprocity
among farmers: farming system research. For publication in the Proceedings Volume of
“International Conference on Social Network Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications” by World
Scientific. (Accepted).
A.R. Rao, R. JANA and Suraj Bandyopadhyay (1996). A Markov chain Monte Carlo Method for
generating random (0-1) matrices with given marginals. Sankhy a , 1996, Vol. 58, Series A, Pt. 2, pp.
225-242.
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Paper presented in Conference / Seminar and Technical Report
R. JANA, and Anil K. Choudhuri (2012). “Statistical and graph-theoretic approach to use social
networks for studying social transformation: An attempt”, presented in ‘National Conference on
Applications of Statistics in Industry and Planning’, organized by Department of Statistics of Visva-
Bharati in collaboration with Calcutta Statistical Association during 25-27 February, 2012.
R. JANA, Suraj Bandyopadhyay and S.B. Bagchi (2009). “Distributional aspects of some statistics in
weighted social networks”, presented in International Conference on Social Network Analysis,
organized by NISTADS, New Delhi, 28-29 January, 2009.
Anil Kumar Choudhuri, Suraj Bandyopadhyay and R. JANA (2006). Caste, Class and Social
Support: A Social Network Analysis on six villages of Jharkhand − Rarh region. A technical report
on projects (i) Pattern of Social Relations: An Exploratory Social Network Analysis in two villages in
Jharkhand, and (ii) Study of Social Network in some villages in Giridih area in Jharkhand and Md.
Bazar area of West Bengal. Submitted to SRU, ISI, 2006.
A.R. Rao, Suraj Bandyopadhyay, Bikas K. Sinha, Aditya Bagchi, R. JANA, D. Sen and A.K.
Choudhuri (1998). “Changing social relations : social network approach”, presented in SURDAC
Seminar, organized by Indian Statistical Institute, 1998.
R. JANA, A. R. Rao and Suraj Bandyopadhyay (1994). Switching pairs and determining arcs in a
network with given out-degrees and in-degrees. A technical report No. 14/94, dated 31.3.94,
Statistics-Mathematics Unit, ISI, Calcutta.
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Ongoing Projects
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LRU (General Ongoing) Project No. 2.3
1. Title of the project: Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form
2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The objective of this project is to develop a
Bengali pronunciation dictionary in electronic and printed form with lexical database obtained from a
corpus of modern Bengali texts. It will become a resource for research and application in applied
linguistics, speech technology, language technology, and language processing.
3. Date of Commencement and Completion: April 2012 – March 2015
4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Niladri Sk. Dash, LRU, ISI
5. Name of associated scientists with affiliation: Probal Dasgupta (LRU, ISI)
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than
half a page): The purpose of the project is to develop a pronunciation dictionary in printed and
electronic form in Bengali. Total number of twenty thousand entry words will be selected from a
large lexical database of frequently used lexical items collected from modern Bengali corpus. Entry
words (including tatsama, tadbhava, native, local and foreign words of different part-of-speech) will
be used in dictionary in their lemmatized and alphabetically sorted form. Spelling of entry words will
be fixed with the proposal of Bangla Akademi, Kolkata to avoid disputes. Entry word will be
transliterated in Indic Roman tagged with diacritics for end users. Accepted pronunciation of
Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB) will be adopted for entry words, and this will be presented in
standard Bengali script (for those people who know Bengali script but do not know IPA) and in IPA
(for those people who know IPA but do not know Bengali script). Meaning for entry word will be
provided for sense disambiguation. It will be particularly useful for those homographic and
homophonus homonyms (words having similar orthographic forms or pronunciation but different
meanings). The speech output of pronunciation of entry words will be available both in sentence-free
and sentence-bound contexts. This dictionary will be the first of its kind in Bengali. It will be corpus-
based and computer-assisted with a multimedia interface. It will be useful for language learning,
text-to-speech conversion, on-line language teaching, language recognition, word recognition,
machine learning, machine translation, E-Governance, Bengali-English parallel sentence generation,
computational lexicography, and word-sense disambiguation. It can also be useful for linguistically
impaired people to train them in Bengali speech production. The beneficiaries of the resource are
Bengali learners, foreign learners, language teachers, MT system developers, TTS system
developers, lexicographers, language planners, speech pathologists, and cognitive linguists.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same
(not more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 Total
Capital
2 Personal Computers
2 software for dictionary design
100,000
20,000
- - 1,00,000
20,000
Revenue
Salary of 2 Project Assistants
(15,000 X 2 X 36 = 10,80,000)
3,60,000 3,60,000 3,60,000 10,80,000
Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000
Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000
Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000
Total: 5,20,000 4,00,000 4,10,00 13,30,000
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Justifications: Two (2) computers are required for executing the project and two (2) Project Assistants
are required for carrying out the project work
8. Publications:
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Frequency-based analysis of words and morphemes in Bengali text
corpus. Indian Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 25. No. 26. Pp. 223-253.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Generating electronic lexical resources from text corpora in Bengali.
Indian Linguistics. Vol. 68. No. 3-4. Pp. 361-371.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) The art of lexicography. In, Vesna Muhvic-Dimanovski and Lelija
Sočanac (Eds.) (2007) Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems. Oxford: EOLSS Publishers. Pp.
225-276.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Toward lemmatization of Bengali words for building language
technology resources. South Asian Language Review. Vol. 17. No. 2. Pp. 1-15.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2007) Language Corpora and Applied Linguistics. Kolkata: Sahitya
Samsad [ISBN: 81-7955-122-9].
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Digital dictionary: a physical realization of virtual reality. In
Proceedings of the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI
2010), 23-24 December 2010, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research
(NITTTR), Kolkata, pp. 91-95.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Utilization of language corpora in compilation of digital dictionaries
for Indic languages. Presented in the International Seminar on Tamil Computing, 24th
-26th
February, 2010, Linguistic Studies Unit, Dept. of Tamil Language, Madras University, Chennai,
India.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2010) Modern Bengali Script: An Introduction. Kolkata: Daksha Bharati
[ISBN: 81-89803-07-7].
Dash, Niladri Sekhar (2011) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Bengali Script. Saarbrucken,
Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing [ISBN: 978-3-8383-4448-5].
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LRU (Northeast, Ongoing)
Project No. 2.4
1. Title of the project: Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework
2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The purpose of this project is to develop the
empirical base for electronic lexical resources for Asamiya. Electronic lexical resources are an
essential presupposition for other sectors in research within the domains of Language Technology
(LT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
3. Date of Commencement: April 2011-March 2014
4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta, LRU, ISI
5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Niladri Sk. Dash (LRU, ISI)
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than
half a page): The purpose of this project is to develop the empirical base for electronic lexical
resources for Asamiya. Electronic lexical resources are an essential presupposition for other sectors
in research within the domains of Language Technology (LT) and Natural Language Processing
(NLP). This type of resource is of use in machine translation, information extraction, word-sense
disambiguation, semantic net, ontology, etc. Also, it has direct academic relevance in electronic
dictionary and thesaurus development, language teaching (first and second language), discourse
analysis, lexical semantics, and language cognition. The proposed lexical resources will set a
precedent for Asamiya, and the enterprise may be extended to other Northeastern Indian languages
for which background descriptive material is available on a similar scale. The utility of the project is
further enhanced by the fact that it extends the advances in interlexical understanding attained in the
context of earlier research on Asamiya, Boro and Bengali.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not
more than 1/4 page):
Items Heads 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 Total
Capital NIL NIL NIL NIL
Revenue
Salary of 1 Project Assistant
(15,000 X 36 months = 5,40,000)
1,80,000 1,80,000 1,80,000 5,40,000
Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000
Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000
Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000
Total: 2,20,000 2,20,000 2,30,000 6,70,000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In
case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost): Nil.
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each,
give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any):
No. of on-going projects : 1 (One)
Project No 1 : (Ongoing general Project)
Title : Substantivist lexicological study of Bangla
Status : Ongoing
Money budgeted in 2010-2011 : Rs. 1,35,000/-
Money budgeted in 2011-2012 : Rs. 2,01,000/-
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10. Expected date of Completion: March 2014
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2012-2013:
1st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Total
Rev
.
Cap
.
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
.
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
.
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
.
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
.
Tota
l
25%
25%
25%
25%
100%
12. Report for 2011-12 of Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework (2011-2014)
In this first year of work in this project the focal findings are those reported in the Linguistic Research
Unit's Technical Report no. 03/2011, 'Agreement and nonfinite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach'. The
paper is attached. Its abstract reads as follows: "The class of acceptable sequences of nonfinite verbs in
Bangla becomes easier to characterize if we employ a notion of agreement that generalizes from its
prototypical morphological exponence. The present study of these and related issues proposes a
framework of syntactic analysis that develops substantivist assumptions in a biaxial direction – in the
sense of combining syntagmatic and paradigmatic devices in its descriptive apparatus."
The mention of Bangla rather than Asamiya in the title requires clarification. Earlier project work -- I
am attaching the most relevant paper by Dasgupta and Ghosh -- showed that South Asian languages
bifurcate into phi-prominent Hindi type languages and tau-prominent Asamiya-Bangla-type languages,
and that the study of the interlexical properties of agreement held the key to further understanding in this
domain. Such study in comparative formal syntax does not press every key in every paper. The Bangla
and Asamiya threads of the work, though formally reported under two distinct projects, are
interconnected. Serious advances in our understanding have been obtained during the research year
2011-12.
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PRU (General, On-going) Project No. 4.2
1. Title of the Project: Differential validity of Computer programming abilities 1.1 Short term: DVC
2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): Objective of the study is to examine differential
validity of computer programming abilities. Findings will help to (a) validate existing ability test battery,
and to (b) provide knowledge about differential pattern of computer programming abilities and validity
coefficients across demographic variables (sex, region, socio-economic status). The findings will be used
for career counselling and guidance for the students aspiring computer programming profession.
3. Date of Commencement: April,2012
4. Name of the Proposing Scientist or Principal Investigator : Debdulal Dutta Roy, Psychology
Research Unit, ISI., Kolkata
5. Name of other associated Scientists with & their affiliation:
5.1 Professor Manjula Mukerjee, Director, Indian Institute of Psychometry.
5.2 Professor Manas Mondal, Director, Defence Institute of Personnel Research, , Delhi.
5.3 Dr. Gurpreet Kaur, Scientist, Defence Institute of Personnel Research, Delhi.
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than
half a page): The study aims at examining differential validity of computer programming abilities. In
2013-14 session, data will be collected from 600 students (75 students X 2 areas X 2 achievement levels
X 2 genders) using computer programming ability test, introductory schedule and standard computer
programming achievement test.
2014-15: Rest of the data will be collected, analyzed as discussed and report will be submitted.
7. Item wise break up of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not
more than 1/4 page) :
Item Rs. Justification
1. Remuneration to Project linked personnel @ Rs. 12000
X 12 months.
144000 Assisting in overall activities.
2. Costs for car hire including local journey for
investigators.
70000 School sampling. Field work,
library visit.
3. Data scrutiny and entry 20000 It will be entered through
computer.
4.. Computer consumables, Stationary 20000 To print questionnaire and
communication.
5. Typing, Xeroxing 16000 Reporting.
6. Miscellaneous
10000 Emergency condition in field
work.
Total: Two lakhs eighty thousand only. 280000
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In
case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost) : NA
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each,
give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications (if any).
Title Status Money budgeted Money spent Publications
Workshop on
application of
reliability statistics in
Psychological
Completed 80000 70000 Nil
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Research (2011-12)
Self-efficacy of
Agricultural farmers
(2009-12)
Completed 597000 296742.5 2
Orientation training on
questionnaire design
for psychological and
educational
researches(2008-09)
Completed 2,15,000 35063 1
Attitude towards
school infrastructure in
rural areas (2007-08)
Completed 1,17,000 84446.22 2
Publications from various projects over the last 5 years:
Title of the
Scientific paper
Name of the Journal Year,Vol.,Issue No., Page
Nos. of publication
Dutta Roy, D.
Ghosh, S.K.
and Rahman,
F.H.
Perceived
environmental
uncertainty in crop
cultivation in West
Bengal: Agro
Psychological
counselling
perspective.
Indian Journal of
Psychology
2012, January
Dutta Roy, D. Assessing Validity
of Web-Based
Computer Adaptive
Training Modules.
Journal Of The
Indian Academy of
Applied Psychology.
2008, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 127-
136.
Dutta Roy, D. Self-efficacy of
Agricultural
farmers: A case
study.
Journal of the
Indian Academy of
Applied Psychology
2009, 35,2, 323-328.
Dutta Roy, D.
Construct validity of
writing motivation
questionnaire.
International
Journal of
Psychological
Research (published
from USA)
2010. 3,2, 6-11.
Ganguly,A. and
Dutta Roy,D.
Web Content
analysis to study
researches on
entrepreneurial
psychology.
PSYBER NEWS:
International
Psychology
Research
Publication.
2010, 1,2,27-31.
Dutta Roy,D.
and Mondal, A.
Information
organization errors
in backward digit
span task.
PSYBER NEWS:
International
Psychology
Research
Publication
2010, 1,3,43-49.
Dutta Roy,D. Construct validity of
Reading motivation.
Journal of the
Indian Academy of
Applied Psychology
2011, vol.37,No.1, 106-113
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Dutta Roy, D.
and Basu, K.
Autistic behaviour
analysis : Pre-post
and repeated
measure design.
PSYBER NEWS:
International
Psychology
Research
Publication.
2010, 1,4,39-46.
Roy,A. and
Dutta Roy,D.
Predicting cash flow
of Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan in West
Bengal : An
exploratory study of
public finance.
Journal of
Management
research in
Emerging
economics
2010, Vol.1.1. 60-69.
Dutta Roy,D.
Cluster Analysis for
Test-Retest
Reliability.
International
Journal of
Psychological
Research
,(published from
USA).
2010, 3,1,132-140.
10. Expected date of Completion: March, 2015
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2013-2014 :
1st 2
nd 3rd 4
th Total
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 100% 100%
12. For General Projects only (Ongoing)
Proposed budget for 2013-
14 Total budget
allocation till
31.03.2012
Amount
spent till
31.03.2012
Total outlay
(proposed) for
Twelfth Plan
(2012-2017)
Physical
progress in
terms of
percentage (%)
as on 31.03.2012
Financial
progress in
terms of
percentage (%)
as on 31.03.2012
Rev. Cap. Total
2.7 2.7 N.A. N.A. 9.0 N.A. N.A.
13. For General Projects only (New): Not applicable
14. For North-East Projects only (On-going): Not applicable
15. For North-East Projects only (New): Not applicable
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PRU (North-East, On-going) Project No. 4.3
1. Title of the Project: Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining academic
performance of school students of North- Eastern India.
2. Brief objective and justification: The objective of the project is to find out the role of planning,
attention, simultaneous and successive (PASS) processes of cognitive functioning in determining the
academic performance of different groups of school students of North-Eastern India. The study will help
us to know strengths and weaknesses of students in particular area of PASS and its relation with
academic achievement, and on that basis intervention programme like cognitive enhancement programme
(Das, 2004) and / or PASS remedial programme (Das, 1999) can be introduced to improve performance
of students.
3. Date of commencement: April, 2012
4. Name of the Proposing Scientist: Anjali Ghosh, PRU, ISI.
5. Name of other Associated Scientists with their affiliation: Professor Bikas K. Sinha, Honorary
Visiting Professor, B.I.R.U., I.S.I. , Kolkata.
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (Not more
than half a page): Planning, attention, simultaneous and successive ( PASS) processes are the essential
elements of cognitive functioning. Through this cognitive assessment system of PASS, it is possible to
know an individual’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses in each of the four processes of PASS. This
emphasis on processes rather than abilities makes it useful for differential diagnosis like learning
difficulties and attention deficit disorder and accordingly, intervention programme can be introduced to
improve performance. Cognitive process based training such as PASS remedial programme (PREP) and
cognitive enhancement training programme (COGENT) contain several training tasks which are aimed at
improving the information processing strategies and research studies have indicated the effectiveness of
the programme (Das, Mishra & Pool, 1995; Carlson & Das, 1997; Naglieri & Gottling, 1997; Naglieri &
Johnson, 2000).
No study is available on cognitive processing through PASS and its relation with academic
achievement on children of North- Eastern India, and also utility of the intervention strategies of
cognitive enhancement training has not been studied. Hence, the present study is being undertaken. The
study will be conducted on 200 class-VI students selected from two states of North- Eastern India.
Multistage simple random sampling without replacement (SRSWOR) method will be followed in this
study. In the first stage two states out of seven North-Eastern states of India will be chosen and then in
the second stage one district from each of the two states will be selected. In the next stage, four schools (2
boys and 2 girls) from each of the selected districts of the two states will be chosen through SRSWOR
after collecting the list of schools data from the respective School Education offices of the districts.
Finally, 50 students studying in class VI from each of the selected schools (100 boys & 100 girls from
each of the states) will be selected for the study.
In the next phase of the study, based on the performance of the students on achievement tests, nearly 20
low achievers will be identified from each school, and this groups of students will be divided into two
groups : experimental and control. On experimental group the intervention programme of PREP (Das,
1999) and COGENT (Das, 2004) will be introduced for several sessions, but the control group will not
receive any training. Then after a time gap of 4/5 months both the groups will be tested again on
achievement tests and PASS to find out the effectiveness of the intervention programme. Data will be
analysed by using correlation, regression, ANOVA and other statistical techniques.
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The study will help us to know how PASS cognitive processes are related with academic performance of
the students and how intervention programme help low achievers to improve their academic
performance. Literature review of the project has been started.
Beneficiaries: Students, parents, teachers, counselors and educational planners.
7. Item wise break-up of the budget ( 2013-14) proposed (Capital and Revenue) and justification for
the same :
Total outlay of the budget for three years: Rs. 9,50,000/-.(2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15)
Budget for 2013- 2014 :
Sr.
No
Item Amount
(Rs.)
Justification
1 Salary for one Project Linked
Personnel - (one year)
@ Rs.12,000/- per month
1,44,000/-
To assist in the project work
2 Wages to field investigators 5,000/- To help while collecting data from
the field
3 Professional services /
workshop
30,000/- For expert opinion / ideas
4 Travel (airfare to N.E.States) 60,000/-
For data collection from the field 5 Transport (Car hire charges) 10,000/-
6 Boarding /Lodging / Field Trip 60,000/-
8 Purchase of Psychological
Test /scale
20,000/- For developing / administering
tests/scales
9 Printing, Xerox, Publication 6,000/- For printing questionnaires / tests /
reports / papers etc. 10 Stores & Stationaries 2,000/-
11 Telephone, postage, courier
etc.
2,000/- To communicate with schools /
institutions
12 Miscellaneous 1,000/-
Total : 3,40,000 -
8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from capital budget, should be mentioned. In
case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned : N A
9.List of all projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last five years :
Sl.
No
Project / research
Undertaken
Status Money
budgeted
Money
spent
Publications
1 Ego-identity status during
Adolescence and Early
adulthood. (2006-08) P.I.
Completed
2,39,000/-
2,03,000/
-
Report submitted. One
paper published in a
journal & one paper
published in
Conference Proceeding.
2 Improvement upon
Management Entrance Test
using Item Response Theory
(IRT). (2006) P.I. With Prof.
Completed
(Externally
funded)
2,00,000/-
1,67,000/
-
(approx.)
Report submitted.
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A. Chowdhari, Dr. R. Gupta
&Mr. S.K. Mitra. Of ASRC
3 Emotional Display Rules &
Personality Pattern Across
Different Groups of
Individuals. (2008-11) P.I.
Completed 4,81,000/- 4,35,000/
-
(approx.)
Report submitted. Two
papers presented in
International
Conferences and one
paper published in an
International journal.
4
External Evaluation of Special
Adult Literacy Programme of
Tripura (2010-11) – P.I.
Completed All the
expenditure
incurred by
the
Government
of Tripura
Report Submitted
Publications from various projects during 2007 - 2011
Ghosh, A. - Academic Self-Efficacy and Achievement in a Group of siblings of Primary Schools.
Psychological Studies, 2007, Vol.52, No.4, 364-371.
Karmakar, R. & Ghosh, A. – Moral Development of Female Students of North-Eastern Region of
India. In Gassah, L.S.(Ed.) Women Empowerment Movement In North-East India. Omsons
Publications, New Delhi, 2008, 228-244.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Ego-Identity Status and Its relationship with self-esteem in a Group of
Late Adolescents, Journal of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 2008, 34, 2, 337-344.
Ghosh,A. – Transactive Memory, Self-Construal and Subjective Well-Being in a Group of Indian
Couples,Interpersona,2008 ,2 (2) 173-192.
Karmakar,R.; Ghosh, A. & Dewanji, A.- On Some Determinants For distributive Justice in
Children : A Study Based on Three States of India, Calcutta Statistical Association
Bulletin,2008,60 (239-240),255-275.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Relation of Parental Education and Occupation with Mathematics Self-
efficacy and Achievement of Students, Journal of Education and Psychological Studies, 2010,
4(1), 1-7.
Ghosh, A. – Expressive Differences for Emotions In Visually Challenged and Normal
Individuals, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 2010, 3(15), 255-265.
Ghosh, A- Ego- identity Status in Different Groups of Late adolescents. In P.Singh, P. Bain,
Chan-Hoong. Leong, G. Misra,& Y. Ohtsubo (Eds.) Identity, Multiculturalism & Changing
Societies, Progress in Asian Social Psychology Series,2011, Vol.8, 95-108, Mac Milan
Publishers.
10. Expected date of completion : March, 2015
11. Quarterly projection of Expenditure during 2013-14
1st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Total
Rev
.
Cap
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
Tota
l
Rev
.
Cap
Tota
l
40,0
00
40,0
00
80,0
00
80,0
00
1,1
0,0
00
1,1
0,0
00
1,1
0,0
00
1,1
0,0
00
3,4
0,0
00
3,4
0,0
00
12. For General Projects only (ongoing) : N.A. 13. For General Projects only (New) : N.A.
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14. For North- East Projects only (ongoing):
Proposed budget for
2013-2014 ( in Lakhs) Total budget
allocation till
31.03.2012
Amount spent
till 31.03.2012 Total outlay
(proposed) for
Twelfth Plan
(2012-2017)
Physical
progress in
terms of
percentage
(%) as on
31.03.2012
Financial
progress in terms
of percentage
(%) as on
31.03.20012
Revenue Capital Total
3.40 3.40 N.A. N.A. 9.50 N.A. N.A.
15. For North- East Projects only (New ): N.A.
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SRU (General, On-going) Project No. 5.4
1. Title of the Project: Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry
2. Brief objective and justification: Data on number of miners in India is collected by population
censuses and National Sample Survey Organisation’s (NSSO) employment-unemployment surveys,
Annual Survey of Industries and Director General of Mines Safety among others. The purpose of this
project is to check anomalies in the official data relating to the strength of the miners and their wages.
This project seeks to evaluate gender gap in official statistics relating to the number of miners and wages
in India.
3. Date of commencement: April 2012.
4. Name of the proposing scientist or principal investigator: Molly Chattopadhyay
5. Name of other associated scientists with their affiliation. Prof. Madhura Swaminathan, SRU, ISI,
Kolkata; Sonali Chakraborty, Associate Scientist ‘A’, SRU, ISI, Kolkata, Sri Anupam Lahiri, Director,
NSSO, Giridih.
6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work:
Mineral wealth and its exploitation have substantially contributed to the growth of Indian national
economy. Mineral production has increased from 42 million ton in 1951 to 1078.19 million ton in 2008
(DGMS, 2010). Despite the increase in mineral production, there are discrepancies in the number of
mines reported and employment data. While Indian Bureau of Mines report number of operating mines as
2991 in 2008-09, DGMS reports it as 3150 for the same period. Though, Ministry of Labour portrays the
number of miners as 553.3 thousand (2006), DGMS shows 559.5 thousand, and Labour Bureau shows the
number of miners as 543 thousand. Moreover, MMSD shows the number of only artisanal miners as
around 33,000 (Chakraborty, 2001).
However, there is not much recorded involvement of women’s participation in the formal mining industry
in India. As per NSSO, male share has declined from 1.00% to 0.12% and female share declined from
1.13% to 0.43% from 1993-94 to 2004-05. Additionally, artisanal miners who are mostly women who
occupy a number of roles ranging from labour-intensive mining methods to the processing aspect of
artisanal mining, their size is not known. While DGMS, ASI, NSSO provide male-female distribution of
workers, IBM does not provide the break-up. Data from ministry of labour reveals that although average
wage for mine workers has increased in open caste and above ground mines, there is distinct difference in
the increase of wages for men and women (Mary Abraham). In 2002-03 wage ratio is 1.14, whereas in
2003-04 it is 0.42 (ASI, 2005-06); in one year the decrease in wage ratio is 0.72. The reasons behind
declining wage ratio between 2002-03 and 2003-04 for both male and female are perplexing.
The proposed project seeks to address the degree of differences in the data collected by different
agencies. Secondly, the project tries to find out gender gap in baseline statistics in the mining sector.
Lastly, the project intends to make gender statistics related to an approximation of employment size and
wage pattern in the mining sector.
References:
Abraham, Mary. Mining, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods. The Energy and Resources
Institute, India. 2008.
Chakraborty, S.L. 2001. Artisanal and small-scale Mining in India. Report No. 78. MMSD.
Director General of Mines Safety. 2006. Standard Note.1.1.2007. Dhanbad.
National Sample Survey Organisation, Employment and Unemployment Survey, 2004-05.
Statistical Pocket Book, India. Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and
Programme Implementation, Government of India, New Delhi, 2005, P.38.
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Statistical Profile on Women Labour. 2005-2006. Labour Bureau. Ministry of Labour and
Employment, New Delhi, 2007.Table 4.8.
7. Item wise break-up of the budget proposed (2012-15) and justification for the same:
Sr.No. Item/Description Year (2012- 2015) Justification
1. Two Project Linked Personnel Rs. 2,88,00 1.One project assistant to collect official
statistics from different Govt. offices, and
to enter data
2. Second project assistant for analysis of data
2. Purchase of data in CD-Rom Rs. 70,000 Procurement of official statistics to collect data
3. Travel grant for project leader Rs. 70,000/- and to attend conferences in Kolkata, Delhi and
mineral rich states
4. Printing, Photocopying & publications Rs. 26,000
5. Contingency Rs. 36,000/-
6. Total Rs. 4,90,000
8. Brief Particular of Assets, proposed to be acquired from capital budget, should be mentioned in case
of replacement, particulars of asset to be condemned: N.A.
9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the proposing scientist in the last 5 years: N.A.
10. Expected date of completion: March, 2015
11. Quarterly projection of expenditure during 2013-14:
1st 2
nd 3
rd 4
th Total
Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total Rev. Cap. Total
37,000 37,000 37,000 39,000 1,50,000
12. For General Projects Only (ongoing)
Proposed Budget
For 2013-14
Total Budget
allocation
till
31.3.12
Amount spent
till 31.3.12
Total outlay
proposed for
twelfth plan
2012-17
Physical
progress in
terms of % as
on
31.3.12
Financial
problem
in terms of %
as
on 31.3.12
Rev. Cap. Total
1,50,000
13. For general projects only (new)
14. For North-east projects only (on-going)
15. For North-east projects only (new)
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SRU (General, On-going) Project No. 5.5
1. Project Title: Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings
2. Brief Objective: In this Project, we propose to use our extensive experience with village data to
comment on and improve the scope and method of official data collection and the quality of
official data across a range of parameters associated with agriculture and rural development in
India. In the first instance, we wish to examine official data on land and livestock holdings of
rural households.
3. Date of Commencement: APRIL 1, 2012
4. Proposing Scientist: V. K. RAMACHANDRAN
5. Other Associated Scientists: Madhura Swaminathan (SRU), Niladri Sekhar Dhar (SRF),
Shamsher Singh (SRF), Kaustav Sarkar (JRF), Biplab Sarkar (JRF)
External: Professor Abhijit Sen (JNU and Planning Commission), Dr. Vikas Rawal (JNU), Dr. V.
Surjit (CIP), Dr. R. Ramakumar (TISS), Pallavi Chavan (RBI)
6. Scope and Objectives: Land is the primary prerequisite for production in agriculture. The
distribution of land between households is an important indicator of their position in the system of
agrarian production. Understanding changes in the distribution of land and changes in inequality
among rural households in the ownership and operation of this fundamental asset is of central
importance to an understanding of the rural economy.
Nevertheless, the economic size of a farm cannot be measured by its extent alone. First, a single
size category of land holding may conceal considerable variations in the physical characteristics
of land, such as in irrigation and drainage facilities available, type of soil and its fertility
(Ramachandran, 1980). Secondly, a single size category of land holding may group together
households that differ in respect of several essential characteristics (ibid.). Households with the
same extent of land may differ in terms of techniques of cultivation, in the possession of
machinery, and thus in the scale of production. Households with the same extent of cultivated
land may also differ with regard to the terms of possession (for example, with respect to tenurial
status). Given these variations in features of land holding of the same acreage, it is important to be
careful in the collection and processing of data on land holdings.
Animal resources maintained by a large proportion of households are an important source of
livelihood for these households. Animals are used for draught power, and for animal products like
milk, eggs, meat, wool and honey, and make an important contribution to incomes of a large
proportion of rural households. Animals are also an important component of the asset base of
rural households.
Despite the importance of reliable large-scale data bases on land holdings in India, the available
data on land holdings cannot be used to understand some important aspects of land relations. Data
on livestock holdings do not provide any information on lease and rental markets of animals, on
sale and purchase of animals, on how animals are maintained, or on what use they are put to.
There are gaps in terms of data collected in the large-scale surveys on land and livestock holdings,
there are definitional problems, and there are problems in terms of loss of information and
accuracy due to aggregation at the time of tabulation. In addition, there are problems of
comparability of data across surveys, regions, and time-periods.
This project proposes to prepare a revised survey schedule for collection of data on land and
livestock holdings, to test that schedule with data from selected villages, and to assess the quality
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of data generated through the village surveys. On the basis of this study, the project aims to
propose a revised schedule to be used in the NSSO’s Survey on Land and Livestock Holdings,
which is the most important current source of information on household ownership and
operational holdings of land in India
Specifically, this project proposes to
(a) evaluate the extent, nature and sources of discrepancies in available NSSO data on land
and livestock holdings, and
(b) design and test questionnaire blocks that will help improve the quality of data collection in
NSSO's surveys on land and livestock holdings, through primary surveys in selected
villages.
In relation to (a) the project will analyse existing NSS data from land and livestock surveys to
(a) identify important variables on which information is not available from these surveys, and
(b) evaluate the quality and consistency of information from the variables on which data are
available.
For evaluation of quality and consistency, NSSO data will be compared with other sources of
official statistics as well as data from primary surveys.
To undertake (b), it is noted that, the principal investigators and associated scientists have been
engaged in village surveys for several years. One of the objectives of these surveys was to analyse
village-level production, production systems and livelihoods and to characterise the socio-
economic features of different strata of the rural population. For this purpose, a census-type
survey that covers every household and individual has been conducted in selected villages. These
surveys used a revised prototype of a schedule for a survey on land holdings.
From this data base of village surveys, the module for data collection on land holdings and
associated variables will be cleaned and processed. This will allow us to verify the quality of data
collected, identify the new items of data and their uses, and present some findings on the uses of
such data. On the basis of these village surveys, the study will propose a modified survey
schedule for the NSSO Land and Livestock Survey.
7. Budget:
PROPOSED BUDGET: Rs Nine lakhs Forty thousand in 2013-14 and Rs Five lakhs Seventy
thousand in 2014-15
ITEM 2013-14 2014-15
REVENUE
Travel and Fieldwork (investigators) 2,00,000 2,00,000
JRF or Project linked personnel or data
processing charges
2,90,000 2,90,000
Stationary, printing, communication 20,000 30,000
Purchase of data and books, computer
consumables
20,000 30,000
Workshop/Seminar 4,00,000 -
Miscellaneous 10,000 20,000
GRAND TOTAL 9,40,000 5,70,000
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8. Assets: NIL
9. Projects in Last Five Years:
1. YEAR 2007-09:
Agrarian Relations in India
Status: Completed
2007-08
Money Budgeted: 3,06,000
Money Spent: 2,78,733.
2008-09
Money Budgeted: 2,25,000
Money Spent: 2,24,059
2. YEAR 2010-2011
Seminar on Dalit Households in Village Economies
Status: Completed: Seminar held on January 7-8, 2011, and book in press.
Money Budgeted: 1,28000
Money Spent: 1,28000
Relevant Publications (in last five years)
Books
Agrarian Studies 2: Financial Liberalisation and Rural Credit, edited by V. K. Ramachandran
and Madhura Swaminathan, was published in 2005.
Agrarian Studies 3: Dalits Households in Village Economies, edited by V. K. Ramachandran and
Madhura Swaminathan, is in press (due in summer 2011).
Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh: A Study of Agrarian Relations
(eds V. K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan), New Delhi: Tulika Books,
2010.
Selected Research Papers of Principal Investigator and Associated Scientists
See Ramachandran, V. K., Yoshifumi, Usami, and Sarkar, Biplab (2010), “Lessons from BPL
Censuses”, The Hindu, April 20, 2010 and Yoshifumi, Usami, Sarkar, Biplab, and Ramachandran,
V. K. (2010), "Are the Results of BPL Census 2002 Reliable?" (available at www.fas.org.in).
Madhura Swaminathan “Agriculture and Livelihoods: A Village Report Card”, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Eliminating Hunger and Poverty, M. S. Swaminathan Research
Foundation, August 7-9, 2010 (forthcoming).
Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan and Niladri S Dhar, “On Diversification of Rural Incomes:
A View from Three Villages”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 51, No. 2, April-June,
2008, pp 237-256.
Ramachandran, V. K., and Rawal, Vikas (2010), “The Impact of Liberalisation and Globalisation
on India’s Agrarian Economy”, in Harriss, John and Bowles, Paul (eds.), Globalization and
Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses, Palgrave Macmillan.
Rawal, Vikas (2010), “Tenancy Relations in Ananthavaram, 1974-2005-06”, paper presented at
the Second International Conference on Environment, Agriculture and Socio-economic Change in
India", Daegu (South Korea), March 29-30.
Ramakumar and K Raut “Agricultural Employment in a Vidarbha village: Results from a
Resurvey” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1 (2), June-December, 2011 (forthcoming).
Ramakumar and Pallavi Chavan, “Changes in the Number of Rural Bank Branches in India, 1991
to 2008” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1 (1), January-June, 2011.
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R. Ramakumar “India’s Agricultural Economy”, Chapter 5 in Contemporary Issues in Indian
Economy, Text Book Manuscript for undergraduates prepared by J. Mohan Rao, Jayan Jose
Thomas and R. Ramakumar, Instituto de Altos Estudios Universitarios, Spain, 2008.
Rawal, Vikas (2008a), “Estimates of Rural Household Incomes in India: Selected Methodological
Issues.”, paper presented at the Colloquium “Studying Village Economies in India: A Colloquium
On Methodology,” Chalsa.
(http://www.agrarianstudies.org/UserFiles/File/S5_Rawal_Estimation_of_Rural_Household_Inco
mes_in_India.pdf)
Rawal, Vikas (2008b), “Ownership Holdings of Land in Rural India: Putting the Record Straight”,
Economic and Political Weekly, March 8.
Rawal, Vikas (2008c), “Making Sense of Statistics on School Education in India”, presented at
the National Seminar on School Education Statistics, National University of Educational Planning
and Administration, New Delhi, March 3-4.
http://agrarianresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/vikas-nuepa.pdf
Rawal, Vikas (2006a), “Landlessness in Rural West Bengal”, a report submitted to the
Ddevelopment and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata.
Rawal, Vikas (2006b), “Indebtedness in Rural West Bengal”, a report submitted to the
Development and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata.
10. Expected Date of Completion: MARCH 31, 2015
11. Quarterly Projection of Expenditure during 2013-14:
REVENUE EXPENDITURE
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Total
1,30,000 1,30,000 550,000 130,000 9,40,000
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Economic Research Unit Budget Proposals for the Year 2013 – 2014
Items Amount (in lakh)
1. Visiting Scientists: 7.26
2. Seminar: 0 .61
3. Internal travel: 0 .66
4. Submission fee for publication in Journals: 1.65
5. Computer Consumables: 2.42
6. Repair and Maintenance: 1.82
7. Office Expenditures: 0 .48
8. Capital Expenditure: 5.45
TOTAL 20.35
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Linguistic Research Unit
LRU UNIT’S BUDGET PROPOSED FOR 2013 -2014
Items Heads Amount for the year
2013-2014
Remark
Capital 5,00,000 Essential
Computer, Photocopier, Software, Scanner, Printer,
Cupboard, Internet Hub, Furniture, Wi-Fi, etc.
5,00,000
Revenue 8,90,000
Fellowship for 1 (one) Existing JRF/SRF
(2012-2016)
3,00,000
Fellowship for 1 (one) New JRF/SRF
(2013-2017)
2,50,000
Visiting Scientists 50,000
Seminars (departmental, on regular basis) 30,000
Internal Travel 50,000
Computer Consumables 90,000
Maintenance 50,000
Office Expenditures (Stores and Stationeries) 70,000
Total 13,90,000
Justification for LRU Unit’s Plan Budget Proposal: 2013 -2014
(a) Visiting Scientists: During last few years at least ten scientists from home and abroad have visited
LRU – either in short or long term period. For providing honorarium and local hospitality to
visiting scientists LRU needs an amount of Rs. 50,000/-.
(b) Seminar/workshop: LRU organizes seminars on regular basis. During last one year some scholars
have presented their research works at LRU seminars. This gives us an opportunity to have
academic interactions with different researchers. We propose to pay an amount of Rs. 2000/- to
each non-ISI presenter as TA and honorarium. Also, we invite well-known scientists from different
parts of the country to give special lectures on specified topics. To meet TA and local hospitality,
etc. LRU needs an amount of Rs. 30,000/-.
(c) Internal Travel: Scientists of LRU attend conferences/seminars at various universities and
institutes within India. Also interactions become necessary with experts from outside (within India)
for research. This provides scope for better interaction with other scholars. To meet TA and DA for
attending and presenting papers in conferences and seminars by scientific workers LRU needs an
amount of Rs. 50,000/-.
(d) Computer Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers and related devices has
increased. This results in more utilization of computer consumables like Cartridges, Toners,
Floppies, CDs, computer papers, transparency sheets, etc. To meet such need LRU requires an
amount of Rs. 90,000/- for the Unit.
(e) Maintenance: Fund is also required for maintaining computers, UPS, aqua guards, anti-virus
software, etc. Maintenance also includes internal repair and patch works, internal painting of doors
and windows, of the Unit etc. LRU requires an amount of Rs. 50,000/- for this purpose.
(f) Office Expenditures: Quite often Central Store fails to meet requirement of office stationery goods
and items urgently needed in LRU. We need to have provision for procuring items like pad, note
sheets, pencils, ribbon, gems clips, envelopes, staplers, gum, cups, cover files, flat files, pens, etc.
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Also we need to have provision for procuring some electrical equipment. LRU needs an amount of
Rs. 70,000/- for this.
(g) Capital Items: With regard to capital items and resources LRU is poorly furnished. It suffers from
lack of a laboratory furnished with advanced systems and tools necessary for successful execution
of research and development works in the area of language and speech technology, applied
linguistics and cognitive linguistics. IT needs some good computers, printers, and photo-copiers to
carry out academic and research activities. Also, due to lack of computer facilities, visitors and
summer trainees who come to work at LRU face severe problems. It is imperative that we should
provide the basic infrastructural facilities to the scholars as well as scholars who visit LRU. At
present, there are 12 computers in LRU. At least 6 or more computers are urgently required for
carrying out research works and for Ph.D. scholar. We also need printers, scanners, and photo
copiers, chairs, tables, computer tables, cupboards, etc. for proper functioning and seamless
execution of research and administrative works of the unit. Therefore, LRU needs an amount of Rs.
5,00,000/- to meet such expenses.
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Population Studies Unit
NON-PROJECT PLAN PROPOSALS FOR 2013-14
Sr. No. Items Rs. (in lakhs)
1. Visiting scientists 7.00
2. Research fellows, PLP, Statistical trainees 3.50
3. Computer consumables 0.85
4. Seminars by invited experts 0.75
5. Office expenditure 0.80
6. Repair and maintenance 0.80
7. Capital expenditure 3.00
TOTAL 16.70
(Total Rupees Fifteen Lakhs and Ninety Five Thousand Only.)
Justification:
1. (Sr. No. 1) We like to have one Visiting Fellow for the whole year. Estimated cost of it will be
about Rs. 4 lakhs. Besides this we have plan to invite three Visiting Scientists, each of whom is
expected to work with us for about three months on an average. This will cost about Rs.1 lakh per
Visiting Scientist.
2. (Sr. No. 2) We like to recruit one JRFs and for that the estimated cost is Rs.2 lakhs. Additionally,
two Statistical Trainees will be taken for a period of six months. This will cost about Rs.1.5 lakhs.
3. (Sr. No. 4) Experts will be invited to deliver seminars. This will cost about Rs.2,500 per seminar
of two hour duration and there will be about 30 such seminars.
4. (Sr. No.7) Two old laser printers are to be replaced. Some soft wares for common and frequent
use are to be purchased. The two AC machines in the PSU Seminar Room are very old and make
lot of noise. These need immediate replacement. The Seminar Room is not appropriately equipped
and modernized. This needs major interior decoration and provision of modern facilities. The
Head’s Room needs modernization including provision of an AC machine. All these are possible
at a cost of Rs.3 lakhs.
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Psychology Research Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-2014
Sr. No. Name of the Project Rs. in lakhs Rs. in lakhs Rs. in lakhs
Revenue Capital Total
1 Computer Consumables 1.20 - 1.20
2 Research Fellow 2.85 2.85
3 Maintenance for Computer & Equipment 1.30 - 1.30
4 Seminar / Workshop / Training programme 1.20 - 1.20
5 Software 1.20 - 1.20
6 Office Expenditure 0.75 - 0.75
7 Visiting Scientist / Research Collaborator 1.20
-
1.20
8 Internal Travel 0.75 - 0.75
9 Submission fee for publication in journal 0.30 0.30
10 Capital Expenditure (Psychological Instrument, PC, Laptop, LCD Projector, Printer, Computer Table and Chair, Refrigerator, Xerox Machine, etc.)
5.00 5.00
The details of the Non- Project Budget Proposals for the year 2013- 14 .
1. Computer Consumables: This expenditure has increased tremendously . As a result, the use of
consumables like Cartridge, Toner, Floppy, CD-R & W, DVD, Papers, Transparency Sheets etc.,
are increasing day by day. This requires at least an amount of Rs. 1.20 lakhs.
2. Research Fellow: Rs.2.85 lakhs. (Self-explanatory)
3. Maintenance: It will be required for maintaining the PCs, UPS, Aqua guard, Anti- Virus
software, Printers, Scanners, Furniture etc. . Maintenance also include internal repair, patch
works, internal painting of doors and windows, renovation of Seminar Room etc. So we propose
an estimate of Rs. 1.30 lakhs
4. Seminar/ Workshop/ Training Programme: The unit is organizing different academic
seminars, workshops and training programmes to disseminate research output from time to time.
Several inside and outside speakers are also invited to disseminate the ideas related to specific
theme. This enables unit to make several academic exchange with the speakers as well as the
participants. The research scholars of the unit are benefited through this programme. This
requires a total amount of Rs. 1.20 lakhs .
5. Software: Different statistical software are regularly used in analysis of different multivariate
research data. In considering the regular up-date of software, we need to purchase most up-date
software. This requires a total amount of Rs.1.20 lakhs.
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6. Office Expenditure: Office stationary items are not available in time from the Central Stores.
These include writing pads, note sheets, pencils, pens, ribbon, gem clips, envelops, staplers, gum,
etc. and some other equipment. We propose an estimate of Rs.0.75lakhs.
7. Visiting Scientist: Unit is involved in different collaborative researches with Indian and Foreign
Universities and Research Organizations. In this connection, an estimate of honorarium,
hospitality (food and accommodation), train/air fares and local transport will be required. This
requires a total amount of Rs.1.20 lakhs.
8. Internal travel: To attend local seminar/conference/workshop or to visit experts for paper
presentation or for upgrading knowledge. An estimate of Rs. 0.75 lakh will be required.
1. Submission fee for publication in journal: Many Indian and foreign journals require submission
fee for reviewing the paper from the authors. Expert comment is important for upgrading
research.
An estimate of Rs.0.30 lakh will be required for this purpose.
10. Capital Expenditure:
Psychological instrument: Different psychological instruments are part and parcel of our
research.
Currently, scientists and research fellows are in difficulty to collect them. It is planned that we will
keep them in our Psychology lab where our research fellows and scientists can do experimental
research. So we want psychological instruments / scales for our psychology lab.
PC, Printer, LCD Projector, Xerox machine: Currently, we have 2 old PC. Spare parts are
not available. They are useless to analyze vast data structure. Current configuration is inadequate
to handle them. Therefore, we want to buy at least 1 PC with most upto date configuration. Our
printer has similar problem. Current printers are not adequate to satisfy work load. Therefore, we
want one printer. Unit is organizing seminar/workshop and training programs regularly. For this
reason, one LCD Projector will be required. There is no Xerox machine in our unit. It will be
required for Xeroxing official documents and project related materials.
Furniture, Refrigerator: Few computer tables and chairs in the computer lab. are broken and
not repairable. Some new computer tables and chairs, Book shelves etc. are also required for the
Lab. We need one refrigerator for our use.
An estimate of Rs. 5.00 lakhs will be required to purchase all the above mentioned Capital items.
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Sociological Research Unit Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-2014
Name of the Project
Revenue Rs. In Lakhs
Capital Rs. In Lakhs
Total Rs. In Lakhs
Visiting Scientists 2.500 2.500
Seminar 0.700 0.700
Internal travel 0.600 0.600
Research Fellow (two) 4.000 4.000
Computer Consumables 0.800 0.800
Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.750 0.750
Software 0.600 0.600
Capital Equipment: Upgrading furniture/computers A/C and other equipment 2.500 2.500
Total: 9.950 2.500 12.450
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Planning Unit, Delhi Centre Budget Proposals for the Year 2013-14
1. Plan Revenue (non-project): Rs. 20.0 lakhs
Project No. Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In lakhs
1.1 Visiting Scientists 14.0
1.2 Post-doctoral fellows-
cum-Lecturers
20.0
1.3 Travel of Scientists 1.0
1.4 Seminars 1.0
1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationery,
Consumables
1.5
1.6 Misc. including
communications & fax:
1.0
1.7 Journal Submission &
professional memberships
1.0
1.8 Maintenance 1.0
Plan Revenue (projects): Rs. 5.872 lakhs
Project No. Name of the Project Revenue Rs. In lakhs
1.9 Annual Conference 3.0
2. Plan Capital (non-projects): Rs. 6.0 lakhs
Project No. Name of the Project Capital Rs. In lakhs
2.1 Upgrading Computers,
manuals, software,
Furniture, fittings,
equipment
9.0
TOTAL (Revenue non-project + projects + Capital non-projects + projects) : Rs. 52.5 lakhs.
The details of the Budget Proposals 2013-14
1.1 Visiting Scientists: We have on an average twenty visitors (from home and foreign
universities/institutes) every year visiting our department. Out of them 5-6 are usually long-term
visitors (some of whom stay for 6 months or more), who not only contribute through collaborative
research with our faculty, but also take part in teaching in the MSQE program.
1.2 Postdoctoral Fellows-cum-Lecturers: We currently have three postdoctoral fellows-cum-lecturers
who are paid somewhat more than 50,000/month gross.
1.3 Travel of scientists: The scientists of the unit often present papers in conferences / seminars organized
by reputed universities, institutes within India, and even Delhi. Further, they travel within India for
discussions with colleagues interested in similar research issues. This provides scope for better
interaction without much involvement of time. If travel, and conference registration fee is provided
for the said activity, it would encourage scientific activity of the unit. We propose an estimate of Rs.
1,00,000/-.
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1.4 Seminar: Planning Unit (PU) organizes academic seminars on a weekly basis. Approximately, 50
non-ISI scientific persons present their research works in a year at PU. We propose to spend an
amount of Rs. 1000/- on each non-ISI seminar, that is to be spent on honorarium to the speaker, as
well as refreshments. Moreover, we sometimes invite well-known scientists from different parts of
the country to deliver special lectures, as well as organize one-day workshops on important topics.
For all these items we propose an estimate of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
1.5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables: Over the years our dependence on computers/photocopiers has
tremendously increased. This has resulted in an increase of the use of computer consumables like
Cartridge, Toner, Floppy CD, papers, transparency sheets etc. This is in addition to usual stationery
items likes pens, pads, white-board pens and dusters, staplers, gum, clips, envelopes, chalks, etc. This
requires at least an amount of Rs. 1.5 lakh.
1.6 Miscellaneous including communications and fax: In this globalized world quick communication is of
the essence. Even with e-mails, we often need to fax documents, or send original documents through
reliable couriers. STD/ISD phone-calls are also required. The amount marked for these items are: Rs.
1.0 lakhs.
1.7 Submission fee for publication in journal and professional memberships: In a number of top-ranked
international journals authors have to pay rather high submission fees. If a fee of maximum $100 per
paper is provided to the author(s) (subject to peer review of the paper before submission), good
quality papers may get chance to be published in top-ranked journals. Some journals waive the
admission fee for members of the respective societies, so society memberships serve the same
purpose. We propose an estimate of Rs. 1,00,000/- for this purpose.
1.8 Maintenance: This amount is meant for repairing work on some older cup-boards, as well as painting
and repairing of doors etc: Rs. 1.0 lakhs.
1.9 Annual Conference (project): The annual conference of the Planning Unit on Growth and
Development has become one of the well-known international conferences in the field of economic
development and attracts a number of distinguished researchers from all over the world. The most
recent 4th
annual conference held in December 2008 had 45 accepted papers and 2 plenary speakers
with a total of 72 participants from 14 countries.
2.1 Planning Unit finds the following items (capital goods) necessary to carry out its academic programs.
1) Computers and Laptop: We need to replace a number of computers because they have become
very old and slow. The proposed budget on this head is: Rs. 3.0 lakhs.
2) Chairs, Tables, Almirah: Many of the existing chairs, tables (including computer tables),
Almirahs have become very old and some of them have been damaged, repairing of which are not
economical and sometimes are not possible. These are needed to be replaced. The estimated
budget for these is Rs. 3.0 lakh.
3) Electronic Software, pen-drives, printers, etc.: For research work we urgently need the use of
newly developed multi-use electronic statistical software, word processing, and reference
software. We also budget for a possible replacement of a PU printer, if required. The estimated
budget for these is Rs. 3.0 lakh.
Therefore, total estimated cost on Project 2.1 is Rs. 9.0 lakh.
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Non Project Proposals for the year 2013-14 (Rs. in Lakhs)
2013 - 14 2013-14
Sl.No. Items Capital Revenue Total
A Salaries 109.80 109.80
B Visiting Scientists 30.00 30.00
C PCs & Printers 3.20 0.50 3.70
D Computer Consumables 0.75 0.75
E Econometric & Computer Software 1.00 1.00
F Repair & Maintenance 0.75 0.75
G Furniture 0.75 0.75
H Furnishing & Facelift 0.50 0.50
I Travel Grants 1.00 1.00
TOTAL 148.25
TOTAL excluding Salaries 38.45
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Social Sciences Division Office Non-project Plan proposal for the year 2013-14
Revenue
(Rs. in lakh) Capital
(Rs. in lakh) Total
(Rs. in lakh)
1 Visiting Scientists 10.500 10.500
2 Computer Consumables 0.500 0.500
3 Office Expenditure 1.500 1.500
4 Travel for Academic Purpose 2.000 2.000
5 Maintenance 0.900 0.900
6 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000
Sub-total: 15.400 5.000 20.400
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Economic Research Unit List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012
Scientific Papers published in journals over the last five years
Name of the Scientist(s) Title of the Scientific Paper Name of the Journal Year, Vol., Issue No.,
Page Nos. of
Publication
Snigdha Chakrabarti and Chaiti
Sharma Biswas
An Exploratory Analysis of
Women’s Empowerment in
India: A Structural Equation
Modelling Approach
Journal of Development
Studies
2012, Vol. 48.No. 1,
Pp.164-180
Chaiti Sharma Biswas
Can employment empower
women more at the household
level in India?
The International Journal of
Interdisciplinary Social
Sciences
2008, Vol. 3, No 7, Pp.
43-51
Brati Sankar Chakraborty Capital Inflow under
Voluntary Export Restraint
Metroeconomica
2008, Vol. 59,
No. 4, Pp. 633-655
Brati Sankar Chakraborty
Protection and Real Rewards:
Some Antinomies
Pacific Economic Review
2009, Vol. 14,
No. 1, Pp. 56-70
Manabendu Chattopadhyay,
Manoranjan Pal and
Atanu Sengupta
Non-frontier Profit Function:
An Application to Indian
Agriculture
Arthaniti (New Series) 2007, Vol. 6, Nos. 1 &
2, Pp.17-32.
Manabendu Chattopadhyay and
Utpal Kumar De
Crop Diversification by Poor
Peasants and Role of
Infrastructure: Evidence from
West Bengal
Development of Agricultural
Economics
2010, Vol. 2, No. 10 Pp.
340-350
Baidyanath Pal
Manabendu Chattopadhyay
Moumita Maiti
Barun Mukhopadhyay
and Ranjan Gupta
Income and Nutritional Status
of the Fishing Community
Residing in Coastal Bay of
Bengal: A Case study
Anthropologischer Anzeiger 2011, Vol. 68, No. 2 Pp.
195-208
Samarjit Das and
J. Breitung
Testing for Unit Roots in
Panels with a Factor Structure
Econometric Theory 2008, Vol. 24,
Pp. 88-108
Samarjit Das and
K. Bhattacharya
Price Convergence across
Regions in India
Empirical Economics 2008, Vol. 34,
Pp. 299-313
Samarjit Das and
Nityananda Sarkar
Is the Relative Risk Aversion
Parameter Constant Over
Time? A Multi-Country Study
Empirical Economics 2010, Vol. 38, Pp. 605-
617
Samarjit Das
T.K. Mitra and
G. Sinha
Regional Convergence of
Growth Inequality and Poverty
in India – An Empirical Study
Economic Modelling 2010, Vol. 27,
PP. 1054-1060
Saswati Das and
Diganta Mukherjee
Measuring Deprivation due to
Child Work and Child Labour:
A Study for Indian Children
Child Indicators
Research
2011, Vol. 4, No. 3, Pp.
435-466.
Diganta Mukherjee and
Saswati Das
Role of Parental
Education in Schooling and
Child Labour
Decision: Urban India in the
Last Decade
Social Indicators
Research
2008, Vol. 89,
No. 2, Pp. 305-322.
Saswati Das Human Well Being: A Decile
Group Analysis on Indian
Household Data
Social Indicators
Research
2008, Vol. 87,
No. 3, Pp. 461-472.
Saswati Das Income Distribution and
Social Welfare: A Temporal
Analysis of the Rural Indian
Experience
Social Development
Issues
2008, Vol. 30,
No. 2, Pp. 90-101.
Saswati Das and
Diganta Mukherjee
Role of Women in Schooling
and Child Labour Decision: Social Indicators
Research
2007, Vol.82, No. 3, Pp.
463-486
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The Case of Urban Boys in
India
Buddhadeb Ghosh Poverty, Education and
Governance: Horizontal Rift
versus Limited Vertical
Mobility
Economie & Humanisme
Review
2008
Buddhadeb Ghosh Working for Inclusive Growth
under Limited Vertical
Mobility of People Across
Economic Ladder in Indian
States: Limits of Government
Policy
Voices of Rural India 2008, Vol. 1, No. 3, Pp.
31-39.
Buddhadeb Ghosh Reassessing Transaction Costs
of Trade at the India-
Bangladesh Border
Economic & Political Weekly 2008, Vol. XLIII, No.
29, Pp. 69-79.
Buddhadeb Ghosh
P. De and J. Roy
Cross-Border Migration from
Bangladesh and India in
Recent Period: A Field Level
Survey
Economic & Political Weekly 2009,
Buddhadeb Ghosh
Ritanjan Das and
Swagata Das
Poverty, Disparity and
Development in Indian
Districts: Initial Finding from
Perception Survey
Oxford Journal Forthcoming
Buddhadeb Ghosh
Partha Dube
Technology, Urbanization and
Sustainable Future: A Spatial
Model for the World
Ecological Economics Forthcoming
Chandana Das and
Ambar Ghosh
Bank Deregulation and Bank
Solvency : A Macro View
Indian Economic Review 2007, Vol. 42.
No. 1, Pp.19-40.
Chandana Das and
Ambar Ghosh
Skill Acquisition in LDCs Macro Economic Annual,
CSSS
2008, Pp. 107-117
Chandana Ghosh and
Ambar Ghosh
Modern Theories of Growth:
A Critique The India Economy
Review
2009
Vol. 7.
Chandana Ghosh and
Ambar Ghosh
Technological Progress,
Ability
and Skill Acquisition in LDCs
Contemporary Issues
and Ideas in Social
Sciences
2009
Vol.5, No.1,
Pp.1-20
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
B. Chakraborty
Uniqueness and Indeterminacy
of the Equilibrium Growth
Path in the Uzawa-Lucas
Model with Sector Specific
Externalities
The Japanese Economic
Review
2007, Vol. 58, No. 3.
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
Debasis Mondal
Innovation, Imitation and
Intellectual Property Rights:
Introducing Migration into
Helpman’s Model
Japan and the World
Economy
2008, Vol. 20,
No. 3, Pp. 369-394.
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
Debasis Mondal
Intellectual Property Rights
Protection and Unemployment
in a North-South Model: A
Theoretical Analysis
Economic Modelling 2008, Vol. 25,
No. 3, Pp. 463-484.
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
Debasis Mondal
Innovation, Imitation and
Multinationalisation in a
North-South model: A
Theoretical note
Journal of Economics 2008, Vol. 94,
No. 1, Pp. 31-62.
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
Debasis Mondal
Endogenous Imitation and
Endogenous Growth In a
North-South Model: A
Theoretical Analysis
Journal of Macroeconomics 2009, Vol. 31, No. 4
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
T. R. Barman
Fiscal Policies, Environmental
Pollution and Economic
Growth
Economic Modelling 2009, Vol. 26,
No. 5,
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Manash Ranjan Gupta
T. R. Barman and
B. Chakraborty
Human Capital Inequality,
Endogenous Growth and
Educational Subsidy: A
Theoretical Analysis
Research in Economics 2009, Vol. 63,
No. 2.
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
T. R. Barman
Health Infrastructure,
Environment and Endogenous
Growth
Journal of Macroeconomics 2010, Vol. 32,
No. 2,
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
T. R. Barman
Public Expenditure
Environment and Economic
Growth
Journal of Public Economic
Theory
2010, Vol. 12,
No. 6,
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
P.B. Dutta
Skilled Unskilled Wage
Inequality, Non-traded Goods
and Endogenous Supply of
Skilled Labour: A Theoretical
Analysis
Economic Modelling 2010, Vol. 27,
No. 5
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
P.B. Dutta
Skilled Unskilled Wage
Inequality: A General
Equilibrium Analysis
Research in Economics 2010, Vol. 64,
No. 4,
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
P.B. Dutta
Skilled Unskilled Wage
Inequality and Unemployment:
A General Equilibrium
Analysis
Economic Modelling Forthcoming
Manash Ranjan Gupta and
P.B. Dutta
Skilled Unskilled Wage
Inequality and Imitation in a
Product Variety Model: A
Theoretical Analysis
Journal of International
Trade and Economic
Development
Forthcoming
Tarun Kabiraj On the Incentives for
Cooperative Research
Research in Economics 2007, Vol. 61,
No. 1, pp. 17-23
Tarun Kabiraj,
S. Marjit and H. Beladi
Brand Name Collaboration
and Optimal Tariff Economic Modelling 2007, Vol. 24, No.4,
Pp. 636-647
Tarun Kabiraj and
P. Roy Chowdhury
Adoption of New Technology
and Joint Venture Instability Research in International
Business and Finance
2008, Vol. 22, No.2,
Pp. 108-123
Tarun Kabiraj and
S. Marjit
Foreign-owned New
Subsidiary and Existing Joint
Venture: Competition Policy
and National Welfare
India Macroeconomics
Annual
2008, Pp. 119-143
Tarun Kabiraj and
M. Chaudhuri
Preemptive merger in a
composite good framework Indian Growth and
Development Review
2009, Vol. 2, No. 2, Pp.
141-154.
Tarun Kabiraj and
C. C. Lee
Licensing contracts in
Hotelling Structure Theoretical Economics Letters 2011, Vol. 1, No.3, Pp.
57-62.
Tarun Kabiraj and
C. C. Lee
Technology transfer in a
duopoly with horizontal and
vertical product differentiation
Trade and Development
Review
2011, Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp.
19-40.
Tarun Kabiraj and
S. Banerjee
Optimal Patent Length in a
north-south framework: A
comment
Singapore Economic Review,
Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 51-59, 2011
2011, Vol. 56, No. 1,
Pp. 51-59.
Amita Majumder,
Satya R. Chakravarty and Sonali
Roy
A Treatment of Absolute
Indices of Polarization Japanese Economic Review 2007, Vol. 58, No.2,
Pp. 273–293.
Amita Majumder and
Satya R. Chakravarty
Measuring Human Poverty by
Population and Factor
Decomposable Indices
Indian Economic Journal 2007, Vol. 55,
No. 1, Pp. 68-78.
Amita Majumder and
Satya R. Chakravarty
Millennium Development
Goals: Measuring Progress
towards their
Achievements
Journal of Human
Development
2008, Vol. 9, No.1,
Pp.109-129.
Amita Majumder,
Dipankor Coondoo,
Geoffrey Lancaster and Ranjan
Ray
Alternative Approaches to
Measuring Temporal Changes
in Poverty with Application to
India
Contemporary Issues and
Ideas in Social Sciences, [Web
Journal]
2008, Vol.4, No.1,
April.
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Amita Majumder,
Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and
Dipankor Coondoo
Demand Threshold, Zero
Expenditure and Hierarchical
Model of Consumer Demand
Metroeconomica 2009, Vol. 60, No.1, Pp.
91-118.
Amita Majumder,
Snigdha Chakrabarti and
Subhendu Chakrabarti
Public -Community
Participation in Household
Waste Management in India:
An Operational Approach
Habitat International 2009, Vol. 33, No.1
Pp. 125-130.
Amita Majumder A Characterization of the
Composite Price Variable to
Approximate a Price
Aggregator Function in the
Quadratic Almost Ideal
Demand System
Economics Bulletin 2009, Vol. 29,
No. 3,
Pp. 2051-2055
Amita Majumder
Dipankor Coondoo and Somnath
Chattopadhyay
Estimating Spatial Consumer
Price Indices Through Engel
Curve Analysis
Review of Income and Wealth 2011, Vol. 57,
No. 1, Pp. 138-155.
Amita Majumder
Dipankor Coondoo and Somnath
Chattopadhyay
District-Level Poverty
Estimation: A Proposed
Method
Journal of Applied Statistics 2011, Vol.38.
No. 10,
Pp. 2327-2343
Manipushpak Mitra and
Axel Gautier
Regulation of an openaccess
essential facility Economica 2008, Vol. 75, Pp. 662 –
682.
Manipushpak Mitra, Anirban Kar
and
Suresh Mutuswami
On the coincidence of the
prenucleolus and the Shapley
Value
Mathematical Social Sciences 2009, Vol. 57,
No. 1, pp. 16-25
Manipushpak Mitra, Anindya
Sundar Chakrabarti,
Bikas K. Chakrabarti and
Arnab Chatterjee
The Kolkata Paise Restaurant
Problem and Resource
Utilization
Physica A 2009, Vol.388,
No. 1
pp. 2420 - 2426
Manipushpak Mitra,
Asim Ghosh,
Arnab Chatterjee and Bikas K.
Chakrabarti
Statistics of the Kolkata Paise
Restaurant Problem New Journal of Physics4 2010, Vol. 12 (075033)
Manipushpak Mitra and
Arunava Sen
Efficient allocation of
heterogenous commodities
with balanced transfers
Social Choice and Welfare 2010, Vol. 35,
No. 1, pp. 29-48
Manipushpak Mitra and Arghya
Ghosh
Comparing Bertrand and
Cournot in mixed markets
Economic Letters 2010, Vol. 109,
Pp. 72-74.
Manipushpak Mitra and Suresh Mutuswami
Group strategyproofness in
queueing models Game and Economic Behavior 2011, Vol. 72,
No. 1, Pp. 242-254.
Chiranjib Neogi
Kamal Ray and
Ramesh Chandra Das
Economics of Summer Paddy-
Jute Substitution: A Profile of
Environmental Cost
Asian Journal of Research in
Social Sciences and Humanities
2012, Vol. 2,
No. 3.
Samarjit Das and
Nityananda Sarkar
Is the Relative Risk Aversion
Parameter Constant Over
Time? A Multi-Country Study
Empirical Economics 2010, Vol. 38, Pp. 605-
617
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay and
Nityananda Sarkar Long-Run Predictability
in the Indian Stock
Market
Finance India 2011, Vol. 25,
No. 3, Pp. 817-834
Priyadarshi Banerjee Price Interventions in Cournot
Oligopoly with a Dominant
Firm
Berkely Electronic Journal:
Topics in Theoretical
Economics
2007, Vol.1,
Article 20
Priyadarshi Banerjee Information Acquisition and
Market Power in Credit
Markets
Contemporary Issues and
Ideas in Social Sciences
2007, Vol. 3(2).
Priyadarshi Banerjee Collective Punishments:
Incentives and Examinations
in Organisations
Berkely Electronic Journal:
Contributions to Theoretical
Economics
2007, Vol. 7(1), Article
37.
Priyadarshi Banerjee Conflict and Consensus: A
Theory of Control in
Organisations
Berkely Electronic Journal:
Topics in Theoretical
Economics
2008, Vol. 8(1), Article
4.
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Priyadarshi Banerjee Delegating Authority to a
Dishonest Agent Contemporary Issues and
Ideas in Social Sciences
2008, Vol. 4(2)
Priyadarshi Banerjee Team Incentive Contracts with
Interim Private Information Contemporary Issues and
Ideas in Social Sciences
2008, Vol. 4(3)
Priyadarshi Banerjee Hidden Action Principal-
Agent Problems with
Endogenous Signal Precision
Contemporary Issues and
Ideas in Social Sciences
2009, Vol. 5(1)
Utpal Kumar De
and Manoranjan Pal
Willingness to Pay for
Domestic Water Use: A Study
of Hilly Urban Area in North-
East India
Asian-African Journal of
Economics and Econometrics
2011, Vol. 11, No. 2,
Pp. 333-350.
Pronab Sen, Susmita Bharati,
Suparna Som, Manoranjan Pal
and Premananda Bharati
Growth and Nutritional Status
of Pre-school Children in
India: A Comparison of Two
Recent Time Periods
Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2011, Vol. 32(2), Pp.
84-93.
Susmita Bharati, Suparna Shome,
Manoranjan Pal, Prabir
Chaudhury and Premananda
Bharati
Is Son Preference Pervasive in
India? Journal of Gender Studies
2011, Vol. 20(3), Pp.
291-298.
Jadab Kumar Pal, Manoranjan Pal
Hare Ram Tiwari and Premananda
Bharati
Risk Factors Associated with
Morbidity Pattern of Working
Children
Journal of Life Science 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pp.
147-156.
Pal Manoranjan, Pal Jadab K,
Tiwari Hare Ram and Bharati
Premananda
What Makes Child Labour Go
to School? International Labour Review 2011, Vol. 150, No. 3–
4, Pp. 375-386.
Bharati S, Pal M, Chakrabarty S
and
Bharati P.
Trends in Socio-Economic and
Nutritional Status of Under Six
Children in India.
Asia Pacific Journal of Public
Health.
2011, Vol. 23(3), Pp.
324–340.
Utpal Kumar De and Manoranjan
Pal.
Dimensions of Globalization
and their Effects on Economic
Growth and Human
Development Index.
Asian Economic and Financial
Review.
2011, Vol.1, No.1, Pp.
1-13.
Susmita Bharati, Dipak Mukherji,
Manoranjan Pal, Suparna Som,
Dipak Kumar Adak, TS. Vasulu
and Premananda Bharati.
Influence of Ethnicity,
Geography and Climate on the
Variation of Stature among
Indian Populations.
Coll. Anthropol. 2010, Vol. 34-4, Pp.
1207-1213.
Suparna Som, Manoranjan Pal
and Premananda Bharati.
Do Socio-economic
Development and
Improvement of Health Go
Together? A Comparison
among Indian States
Social Change. 2010, 40(4),
Pp. 525-543.
S. Bharati, M. Pal and P. Bharati Height and weight of pre-
school children: A comparison
between two National Family
Health Surveys in India.
Journal of Empirical
Research in Social Science.
2010, 5(1-2),
Pp. 15-27.
S. Bharati, S. Chakrabarty, S.
Som, M. Pal and P. Bharati
Socio-economic Determinants
of Underweight Children in
West Bengal,
Asian Pacific Journal of
Tropical Medicine.
2010, Vol. 3, Issue 4,
Pp. 322-327.
M. Bandyopadhyay, A. Bhakta, S.
Chakrabarty, M. Pal and P.
Bharati.
Clinical and bacteriological
correlates of whole blood
interferon gamma (IFN-γ) in
newly detected cases of
pulmonary TB.
Asian Pacific Journal of
Tropical Medicine.
2010, Vol.3, Issue 3, Pp.
224-231.
S. Som, M. Pal M, S. Chakrabarty
and P. Bharati.
Socioeconomic impact on
child immunisation in the
districts of West Bengal, India.
Singapore Med. J. 2010, Vol. 51(5), Pp.
406-412.
Premananda Bharati, Susmita
Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Suman
Chakrabarty, Suparna Som and
Ranjan Gupta
Growth and Nutritional Status
of Pre-School Children in
India: Rural-Urban and
Gender Differences
Collegium Anthropologicum 2009, 33, 1,
Pp. 7–21.
Premananda Bharati, Suparna
Shome, Suman Chakrabarty,
Burden of anemia and its
socioeconomic determinants Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2009, vol. 30, no. 3, Pp.
217-226.
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Susmita Bharati, and Manoranjan
Pal
among adolescent girls in
India
Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal
and Premananda Bharati
Determinants of Nutritional
Status of Pre-School Children
In India.
Journal of Biosoc. Sci. 2008, Vol. 40,
Pp. 801–814.
Premananda Bharati, Manoranjan
Pal and Susmita Bharati
How Parents’ Education and
Working Status Affect the
nutrition and Immunization
Status of Preschool Children in
India.
Asian Pac. J. of Trop. Med. 2008, Vol. 1, No. 4, Pp.
49-60.
Bharati, P., Suparna Som, Suman
Chakrabarty, Susmita Bharati and
Manoranjan Pal.
Prevalence of Anemia and Its
Determinants Among Non-
pregnant and Pregnant Women
in India.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Public
Health.
2008, Vol. 20, No. 4,
Pp. 347-359.
S. Chakrabarty, M. Pal, S. Bharati
and P. Bharati.
Body form and Nutritional
Status among Adult Males of
Different Social Groups in
Orissa and Bihar States in
India.
Journal of Comparative
Human Biology.
2008, Vol. 59,
Pp. 235–251.
P. Bharati, S. Bharati, M. Pal, S.
Chakraborty and R. Gupta
Chronic Energy Deficiency
Among Indian Women by
Residential Status.
Ecology of Food and
Nutrition.
2008, Vol. 47,
Pp. 170–187.
M. Chattopadhyay, M. Pal & A.
Sengupta.
Non-Frontier Profit Function:
An Application to Indian
Agriculture.
Arthaniti. 2007, Vol. 6, No. 1-2,
Pp. 17-32.
S. Som, M. Pal, & P. Bharati. Role of individual and
household level factors on
stunting: A comparative study
in three Indian states.
Annals of Human Biology. 2007, Vol. 34, No. 6,
Pp. 632–646.
S. Bharati, M. Pal and P. Bharati. Obstetric care practice in
Birbhum District, West
Bengal, India.
International Journal for
Quality in Health Care.
2007, Vol. 19, No. 4
Pp. 244–249,
S. Bharati, M. Pal, B. N.
Bhattacharya, and P. Bharati
Prevalence and Causes of
Chronic Energy Deficiency
and Obesity in Women of
India.
Human Biology.
2007, Vol. 79, No. 4,
pp. 395-412.
Abhirup Sarkar On the Political Economy of a
Backward Region
Indian Growth and
Development Review
2010, Vol.3, No. 2,
Abhirup Sarkar,
P. Bardhan, D. Mookherjee
and Sandip Mitra
Political Stability, Local
Democracy and Clientelism in
Rural West Bengal
Economic and Political Weekly 2009, Vol. 44, No. 9
Abhirup Sarkar Anatomy of the Recent
Financial Crisis and the
Consequent Economic
Recession
India Macroeconomics Annual 2009
Abhirup Sarkar Redistribution and Trade in
Agriculture: Are They
Complementary?
Metroeconomica 2008, Vol. 59, No. 2
Abhirup Sarkar Development and
Displacement: Land
Acquisition in West Bengal
Economic and Political Weekly 2007
Satya R. Chakravarty A Deprivation-based
Axiomatic Characterization of
the Bonferroni Index of
Absolute Inequality
Journal of Economic
Inequality,
2007, Vol.5, pp. 339-
351.
Satya R. Chakravarty and Jacques
Silber
A Generalized Index of
Employment Segregation
Mathematical Social Sciences
2007, Vol.53, pp. 185-
195
Satya R. Chakravarty, Amita.
Majumder and Sonali Roy
A Treatment of Absolute
Indices of Polarization
Japanese Economic Review 2007, Vol. 58, pp.127-
203
Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita.
Majumder
Measuring Human Poverty by
Population and Factor
Indian Economic Journal
2007, Vol.55,pp.67-77
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Decomposable Indices
Satya R. Chakravarty, Jacques
Silber and Joseph Deutsch
On the Watts
Multidimensional Poverty
Index and its Decomposition
World Development
2008, Vol.36, pp.1067-
1077
Satya R. Chakravarty and Amita.
Majumder
Millennium Development
Goals: Measuring Progress
towards Their Achievements
Journal of Human Development
2008, Vol.9, pp. 109-
127
Rana Barua, Satya R. Chakravarty
and Palash Sarkar
Minimal-Axiom
Characterization of the
Coleman and Banzhaf Indices
of Voting Power
Mathematical Social Sciences
2009, Vol.58,pp. 367-
375
Satya R. Chakravarty Equity and Efficiency as
Components of a Social
Welfare Function’
International Journal of
Economic Theory
2009, Vol.5, pp.181-199
Rana Barua, Satya R. Chakravarty
and Sonali Roy
A Note on the Carreras-
Coleman Decisiveness Index
International Game Theory
Review
2009, Vol. 11, pp 237-
245
Satya R. Chakravarty Deprivation, Inequality and
Welfare
Japanese Economic Review
2009, Vol. 60, pp.172-
190.
Satya R. Chakravarty and Swami
Tayagarupananda
Subgroup Decomposable
Intermediate Indices of
Inequality
Spanish Economic Review
2009. Vol. 11, pp. 83-97
Satya R. Chakravarty and
Conchita D’Ambrosio
Polarization Ordering of
Income Distributions
Review of Income and Wealth
2010, Vol.56, pp.47-64
Satya R. Chakravarty
A Reconsideration of the
Tradeoffs in the New Human
Development Index
Journal of Economic Inequality
2011, Vol.9, pp.471-474
Satya R. Chakravarty On Tradeoffs in the Human
Development Indices
Indian Journal of Human
Development
2011, Vol.5, pp.517-525
Satya R. Chakravarty and
Bhargav Maharaj
Measuring Ethnic Polarization Social Choice and Welfare
2011,Vol.37,pp.431-452
Satya R. Chakravarty and
Bhargav Maharaj
Subgroup
Decomposable Inequality
Indices and Reduced-Form
Indices of Polarization
Keio Economic Studies
2011,Vol. 47, pp.57-83
R. Barua, Satya R. Chakravarty
and P.Sarkar
Measuring P-Power of Voting Journal of Economic Theory
and Social Development
2011, Vol.1, pp.81-91
Satya R. Chakravarty, W. Bossert
and C. D’Ambrosio
Poverty and Time Journal of Economic Inequality Forthcoming
Satya R. Chakravarty and C. Zoli Stochastic Dominance elations
for Integer Variables
Journal of Economic Theory Forthcoming
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Psychological Research Unit
List Of Publications (2007 – 2011)
D. Dutta Roy (Assistant Professor)
Dutta Roy,D.(2009) - Construct validity of writing motivation questionnaire.International Journal of
Psychological Research , (published from USA) 3,2,(in print)
Dutta Roy, D. and Basu, K. (2010). Autistic behaviour analysis : Pre-post and repeated measure design.
PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication, 1,4,39-46.
Roy,A. and Dutta Roy,D.(2010). Predicting cash flow of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal : An
exploratory study of public finance. Journal of Management research in Emerging economics. Vol.1.1.
60-69.
Dutta Roy,D.(2010).Cluster Analysis for Test-Retest Reliability. International Journal of Psychological
Research ,(published from USA). 3,1,132-140.
Dutta Roy,D.(2011).Construct validity of Reading motivation. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied
Psychology, vol.37,No.1, 106-113.
Dutta Roy,D. and Mondal,A. (2010). Information organization errors in backward digit span task.
PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,3,43-49.
Ganguly,A. and Dutta Roy,D. (2010). Web Content analysis to study researches on entrepreneurial
psychology. PSYBER NEWS: International Psychology Research Publication,1,2,27-31.
Dutta Roy,D.(2009). Self-efficacy of Agricultural farmers: A case study. Journal of the Indian Academy
of Applied Psychology, 35,2,323-328.
Dutta Roy, D. (2008). Assessing Validity of Web-Based Computer Adaptive Training Modules, Journal
Of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 127-136.
Dutta Roy,D.(2006). Clusturing academic profiles of tribal and non-tribal school students of Manipur.
Journal of Psychometry, 20,2, 1-12.
Dutta Roy,D. (2006). Managing Incentive for Innovation, Effective Executive, 8,11,87-90.
Dutta Roy, D.(2006). Managing school infrastructure for indigenous people in hills of Manipur, The
Vision, Journal of Management and Allied Sciences, 2,1, 27-32.
Dutta Roy, D. (2006).Psychological distress and body weight in Antarctic expedition,Indian Journal of
Applied Psychology, 43, April, 63-69.
Dutta Roy,D.(2006). Development of picture drawing test to assess consciousness layers of tribal
children of Tripura, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology,Vol. 32, No. 1, 20-25
Anjali Ghosh (Professor)
Ghosh, A. - Academic Self-Efficacy and Achievement in a Group of siblings of Primary Schools.
Psychological Studies, 2007, Vol.52, No.4, 364-371.
Sharma, M. & Ghosh, A. - Does Team size matter ? A study of the Impact of Team size on the
Transactive Memory System and Performance of IT Sector Teams. Accepted for publication in South
Asian Journal of Management, 2007, Vol.14, 4.
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Ghosh, A. – Impact of Technological Advances on Education at the Grassroots. In B. Patnaik (Ed.)
Proceedings of the National Conference of Technological Advances and Emerging Societal Implications,
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, (2007) 1-5.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Ego-Identity Status and Its relationship with self-esteem in a Group of Late
Adolescents, Journal of The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 2008, 34, 2, 337-344.
Ghosh, A. (with Shaikh F.A) – Perceived Social Support and Recovery from Substance Abuse : A
Qualitative Enquiry, Indian Journal of Community Psychology, 2008, 4, 2, 131-143.
Ghosh, A. (with Matsumoto, D. et al.) – Mapping Expressive Differences Around the World : The
Relationship Between Emotional Display Rules and Individualism Versus Collectivism, Journal of
Cross-Cultural Psychology, Sage USA, 2008, 39, 55-74.
Ghosh, A. – Transactive Memory self-construal and subjective well-being in a group of Indian couples.
Interpersona, 2008 , 2 (2) , 173-192.
Ghosh,A.- Social Axioms and Individualistic- Collectivist orientations in Indian College Students, In K.
Leung & M.H. Bond ( Eds.) Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms: Understanding Global Belief
System, 2009, 283-292, New York: Springer.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Relation of Parental Education and Occupation with Mathematics Self-efficacy
and Achievement of Students, Journal of Education and Psychological Studies, 2010, 4(1), 1-7.
Ghosh, A. – Expressive Differences for Emotions In Visually Challenged and Normal Individuals,
International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 2010, 3(15), 255-265.
Ghosh, A. – (with Sinha, J.B.P. and others) – An Exploration of the Indian Mindset, Psychological
Studies, 2010, 55(1), 3-17.
Shaikh, F.A. & Ghosh, A. – Exploring Life Meaningfulness and Its Psychosocial Correlates Among
Recovering Substance Users – An Indian Perspective. World Academy of Science, Engineering and
Technology, 2010, 66, 1012-1017.
Basak, R. & Ghosh, A. – Self-efficacy, Locus of Control and Job Satisfaction of School Teachers. Indian
Journal of Health & Well-being, 2010, 1, 1-2, 34-35.
Shaikh, F.A., Ghosh, A. & Azam, A.A.S. – Determinants of Perceived Social Support among Recovering
Substance Users in Kolkata. Journal of Health & Well-being, 2010, 1, 1-2, 65-69.
Basak,R. & Ghosh, A.-Do Personality Traits have Influence on Self-Efficacy Belief of School Teachers ?
Indian Journal of Positive Psychology,2010,2 (1),43-45.
Shaikh, F.A.,& Ghosh, A.- Measuring Meaning Beyond Substance Use : Emperical Understanding of the
Concept among Kolkata Substance Absuers. IndianJournal of Positive Psychology,2010,2(1), 39-42.
Ghosh, A- Ego- identity Status in Different Groups of Late adolescents. In P.Singh,P. Bain, Chan-
Hoong. Leong, G. Misra,& Y. Ohtsubo (Eds.) Identity, Multiculturalism & Changing Societies, Progress
in Asian Social Psychology Series,2011, Vol.8, 95-108, Mac Milan Publishers.
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Basak, R. & Ghosh, A.- School Environment and Locus of Control in Relation to Job Satisfaction Among
School Teachers – A study from Indian Perspective, Procedia-Social & Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier
Ltd, 2011, 29,1199-1208.
Shaikh, F.A.,& Ghosh, A.—Effect of Social Support and Self-efficacy on Depression among recovering
Substance Users. Journal of Psychosocial Research,2011, 6(2),211-219.
Rumki Gupta (Associate Scientist ‘C’)
Rumki Gupta (2010) - Empowerment and Gender Difference in Education Status. Delhi Business
Review, 11, 1, 55 - 60.
Rumki Gupta and Sanghamitra Panja (2008-2009) - Gender and Religion Bias on the Academic
Achievement of the students of Class X Level, Journal of Education and Psychology, 65, 1- 4, 17 - 29.
Rumki Gupta (2007) – Effectiveness of Training for Merchant Navy Personnel, Psychological
Assessment in Personnel selection, S Subramony and SB Raj (Eds.) DRDO Special Publication Series,
Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Delhi.
Rumki Gupta (2007) - Special Education in India. The Encyclopedia of Special Education, 3rd
Edition,
Vol.2, Reynolds, C.R. and Fletcher-Janzen, E. (Eds.) John Wiley and Sons: New York, pp.1089-1091.
Rumki Gupta (2007) - Deprivation of Food Items on Academic Achievement of Young Girls. Health
Psychology: Psychosocial Perspective, Sunita Malhotra, Promila Batra and Amrita Yadava (Eds.)
Common wealth Publishers. New Delhi, pp. 169 -173.
S. N. Chakrabartty and Rumki Gupta (2006) - Quality Index in Education, Productivity, 47, 3, 273 - 282.
Rumki Gupta (2006) - Factors underlying Marks in Madhyamik Examination of West Bengal, Journal of
the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 32, 2 135 -141.
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Sociological Research Unit (SRU)
Papers published in Journals, 2008-12
V. K. Ramachandran
V. K. Ramachandran, 2011, “Agrarian Relations and Village Studies”, Indian Journal of Labour
Economics, vol 54, No. 2, 2011.
V. K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan, 2010, Land, Assets, Income and
Employment in Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh, The Marxist, 26, 2, April-June, pp 51-76.
V. K. Ramachandran, 2010, “Dungariya Village, Southern Rajasthan”, Critical Asian Studies, 42, 2, pp
273-288.
V. K. Ramachandran and V. Rawal, 2010, “Globalisation and Indian Agriculture”, Global Labour Journal , 1, 1, 56-91, Special Issue on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India.
Madhura Swaminathan
Madhura Swaminathan, 2010, “The New Poverty Line: A Methodology Deeply Flawed”, Indian Journal
of Human Development 4, 1, 2010, pp 121-125.
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal, 2011, “Is India a Country of Low Income Inequality” Review of
Agrarian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, available at http://www.ras.org.in/index.php?Article=6512bd43d9caa6e02c990b0a82652dca
Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal, 2011 “Are there Benefits from the Cultivation of Bt Cotton? A Comment Based on Data from a Vidarbha Village” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 1, 2011, pp 101-124.
Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan, 2011 “Income Inequality and Caste in Village India” Review of Agrarian Studies, 1, 2, 2011, pp 108-133.
Madhura Swaminathan: Food and Nutrition Insecurity, Yojana, Vol. 51, May 2007, pp.15-17.
Madhura Swaminathan, “Programmes to Protect the Hungry: Lessons from India”, UN Chronicle, December 2008. Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan and Niladri S. Dhar, “On Diversification of Rural Incomes: A View from Three Villages”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 51, No. 2, April-June, 2008, pp 237-256.
Molly Chattopadhyay
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty, 2011, “Decline of Mica Industry, Informalization,
Unionisation and Consequences for Women Workers”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 18:1, January-
April .
Molly Chattopadhyay: Sub-Contracting System and Women Workers: A Study of Mica Manufacturing
Industry of Jharkhand, Sociological Bulletin,. Vol. 56, No.2, May-August 2007, 289-307.
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Chattopadhyay, Molly and Sanyal, Siddhartha: Incidence of Occupational Disease among Mica-workers
of Jharkhand, Journal of Human Ecology, 21(1) 59.
Chattopadhyay, Molly and Suparna Charkraborty "Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the pattern of segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01"; Critical Issues, No. 2, February 2009.
Bholanath Ghosh
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010, “Democratic Centralism., Party Hegemony and Decentralization in West
Bengal”, (with Partha Nath mukherji), Sociological Bulletin, 59 (2), May- August, pp.1-17.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010 “Empowerment of Women: A study in Tripura & Meghalaya” in South Asian
Anthropologist, Volume 10, Number 1, pp 11-28, March.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010 “Gender Empowerment, Deprivation and Poverty in Rural Jharkhand: A Case
Study”, (with N.Sen,& U.K.De), in International Journal of Current Research, Vol. II, Page 107-116,
December, available online at http:// www.journalcra.com.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2011 “Women in Information Communication Technology” (with Asmita
Bhattacharyya), Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Page 006- 014, March.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2010 “Creation in Rural Areas”, in Samaj-Tattya, Vol.16, Issue -2, December 2010,
Page 60-67, A bi-lingual Half-yearly Journal of Sociology, Kolkata.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2011 “Industrialization Efforts in Singur and its Consequences”, South Asian
Anthropologist, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2011,“Helpless Women: In the context of the present Fundamentalism &
Globalization”, in Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Jadavpur University, Vol. 4, number 4, June
2011, pp 86-97.
Bholanath Ghosh, 2009, “Milk-co-operatives and Rural Development in West Bengal: A few issues” South Asian Anthropologist”, 9, 2, pp 167-76 S.C. Roy Institute of Anthropological Studies, Ranchi, Bihar.
Suparna Som
Som S, Pal M , Chakrabarty S, Bharati P., 2010, Socio-Economic Impact on Child Immunization in the
Districts of West Bengal, India. Singapore Medical Journal, 51(5), pp: 406-412.
Suparna Som S, Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati (2010). Do Socio-economic Development and
Improvement of Health Go Together? A Comparison among Indian States. Social Change, 40 (4) pp.
525-543.
Suparna Som: Role of individual and household level factors on Stunting: A comparative study in three
Indian States, Annals of Human Biology, Vol. 34, No.6, December 2007, pp. 632-646.
Suparna Som, Bharati, S and Chatterjee AK: The role of women in weavers’ family: A case study in a
West Bengal Village, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Vol. 42, No.1, 2007, 23-30.
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Prevalence of Anaemia and Its Determinants among Non-Pregnant and Pregnant Women in India”. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 20:4, 347-359, 2008. Bharati, P, Som,S, Chakrabarty, S, Bharati, S and Pal, M.
Sushmita Bharati
Bharati, S., Pal, M and Bharati, P.2010. Height and weight of pre-school children: A comparison between
two National Family Health Surveys in India. Journal of Empirical Research in Social Science. 5: 15-27
Bharati, S., Adak, DK., Som, S., Mukherji, D., Pal, M., Vasulu, TS and Bharati, P. 2010. Variation of
Stature in Indian Populations: Influence of Ethnicity, Geography and Climate. Collegium
anthrpopologicum. 34:1207-1213.
Bharati, Susmita., Pal, Manoranjan [ERU]., Chakrabarty,Suman and Bharati, Premananda [BAU].
:Trends in socio-economic and nutritional status of children younger than 6 years in India, Asia-Pacific
Journal of Public Health, 23, 324- 340, 2011.
Sen,Pronab, Bharati, Susmita., Som, Suparna., Pal, Manoranjan [ERU] and Bharati, Premananda [BAU].
:Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in India: A study of two recent time periods, Food
and Nutrition Bulletin, 32, 84-93, 2011.
Bharati, Susmita., Shome, Suparna., Pal, Manoranjan [ERU], Chaudhury,Prabir and Bharati, Premananda
[BAU]. : Is son preference pervasive in India? Journal of Gender Studies, 20, 291-298, 2011.
Bharati, S,. Pal, M. [ERU], Bandyopadhyay,M., Bhakta,A., Chakrabarty,S and Bharati, P [BAU]. :
Prevalence and causes of low birth weight in India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301- 313, 2011.
Bharati, P, Bharati, S, Pal, M, Chakrabarty, S, Som, S and Gupta, R 2009, “Growth and Nutritional Status of Pre-School Children in India: Rural-Urban and Gender Differences” Collegium Antropologicum 33, 1, 7–21
Bharati, P, Shome,S, Chakrabarty, S, Bharati, S and Pal, M. 2009, “Burden of anemia and its socioeconomic determinants among adolescent girls in India” Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 30, 3, 217-226.
Bharati, P, Chakrabarty, S, Som, S. and M.Pal 2009. “Socio-economic Determinants of Underweight Children in ‘West Bengal, India: A District-wise Analysis” Asia Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 1-6
Susmita Bharati, Bharati, P, Pal, M, Chakroborty, S and Gupta, R.: Chronic energy deficiency among the
Indian women by residential status, Ecology Food and Nutrition, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2008, pp. 170-187.
Chakrabarty, S, Pal, M, Bharati, S and Bharati, P. 2008, “Body Mass Index and Nutritional Status of Adult Males of Orissa and Bihar States in India”. Homo Journal of Comparative Biology. 59: 3, 235-251.
Sonali Chakraborty
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty, 2011, “Decline of Mica Industry, Informalization,
Unionisation and Consequences for Women Workers”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 18:1, January-
April .
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P. Pathak and Sonali Chakraborty, 2009, “Statistical Models for Job Potentiality in different categories of labour in three north Indian States”, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol 41, 91-102.
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty "Liberalization and Segregation: Changes in the pattern of segregation in the Factory Sector from 1989-90 to 2000-01"; Critical Issues, No. 2, February 2009.
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Linguistic Research Unit List of Publications from April 2007- March 2012
Probal Dasgupta
Dasgupta, Probal “Concrete knowledge, the conversational turn, and translation”, AI and Society, 2007,
vol. 21, No. 1-2, Pp. 7-13.
Dasgupta, Probal “The athletics of English in India”, Annual Review of South Asian Languages and
Linguistics, 2007, Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 73-85,
Dasgupta, Probal “Mother tongue vitality: translation as cultivation”, Sraboni, 2007. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp.
29-36.
Dasgupta, Probal and Ghosh, Rajat “The nominal left periphery in Bangla and Asamiya”, Annual Review
of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2007. Vol. 1. No. 1. Pp. 3-29.
Dasgupta, Probal “A dependency syntax of Bangla”, Indian Journal of Linguistics, 2007. Vo. 25-26. No.
1. Pp. 15-97.
Dasgupta, Probal “Names, writing and perspective”. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2008.
Vol. 5. No. 1. Pp. 126-34.
Dasgupta, Probal “Bangla vector verbs and their selectivities”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics.
2009. Vol. 2. No. 1. Pp. 41-68.
Dasgupta, Probal “Recontextualizing Lakshmiswar Sinha. Language Problems and Language Planning,
2010. Vol. 34. No. 3. Pp. 259-266.
Dasgupta, Probal “Translating fiction for children: pedagogy and the post-national imaginary”. Jadavpur
Journal of Comparative Literature, 2010. Vol. 47. No. 1. Pp. 13-26.
Dasgupta, Probal “Retrieving the cognitive from the industrial: the translator as apprentice”. Translation
Today, 2011. Vol. 6. No. 1-2. Pp. 72-96.
Dasgupta, Probal “Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla”. Indian Linguistics. 2011. Vol.
72. No. 1-4. Pp. 103-112.
Dasgupta, Probal “Fear and beauty in Tagore’s Naibedya”. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature.
2011. Vol. 48. No. 1. Pp. 93-114.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “The Morphodynamics of Bengali compounds: decomposing them for lexical
processing”, Language in India, 2007, Vol. 6, No. 7, Pp. 1-25.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Speech corpora Vs. Text Corpora: Need for Separate Development”, Indian
Linguistics, 2007, Vol. 67, No. 1-4, Pp. 65-82.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Frequency-based analysis of words and morphemes in Bengali text corpus”, Indian
Journal of Linguistics, 2007, Vol. 25-26. No. 1, Pp. 223-253.
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Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Generating electronic lexical resources from text corpora in Bengali”, Indian
Linguistics, 2007. Vol. 68. No. 3-4. Pp. 361-371.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Some techniques used for processing Bengali corpus to meet new demands of
linguistics and language technology”, SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2007. Vol. 4. No. 2. Pp.
12-31.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Toward Lemmatization of Bengali Words for Building Language Technology
Resources”. South Asian Language Review. 2008. Vol. 17. No. 2. Pp. 1-15.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Context and Contextual Word Meaning”. SKASE Journal of Theoretical
Linguistics. 2008. Vol. 5. No. 2. Pp. 21-31.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Corpus Linguistics: An Empirical Approach for Studying a Natural Language”.
Language Forum. 2008. Vol. 34. No. 2. Pp. 1-21.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Linguistic works in Bengali (2001-2007): a brief review”. Annual Review of South
Asian Languages and Linguistics. 2008. Vol. 15. No. 1. Pp. 217-235.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Payel Dutta Chowdhury and Abhisek Sarkar. “Naturalization of English words in
modern Bengali: a corpus-based empirical study”. Language Forum. 2009. Vol. 35. No. 2. Pp. 127-142.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Payel Dutta Chowdhury “Bengali matrimonial classifieds: some sociolinguistic
cues to marital orientation”, Language Forum. 2009. Vol. 35. No. 2. Pp. 34 -52.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Corpus linguistics: a time-tested strategy for studying a natural language”.
Language Forum. 2009. Vol. 35. No. 2. July-Dec. Pp. 5-18.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Relevance of electronically developed dialect corpora in dialectology”. Indian
Linguistics. 2009. Vol. 70. No, 1-4. Pp. 91-101.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Linguistic tasks on translation corpora for developing resources for manual and
machine translation”, SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2010. Vol. 7. No. 2. Pp. 2-18.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Translation Corpora and Machine Aided Translation”, Translation Today, 2010.
Vol. 6. No. 1-2. Pp. 134-153.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Use of English corpora as a primary resource to teach English to the Bengali
learners”. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2011. Vol. 37. No. 1. Pp. 7-18.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “The Bengali Script and the Unicode”. Print Out. Vol. 2. No. 8. Pp. 1-16.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar “Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary”. Indian Linguistics. 2011.
Vol. 71. No. 1-4. Pp. 93-102.
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Population Studies Unit List of Publications from April 2007- March 2012
Prasanta Pathak
Kumar, Santosh, Pathak, Prasanta and Gupta, S.D. (2008) Assessment of Sustainable Health Care
Quality: A Study of State Owned Tertiary Care Hospital ,Journal of Cooperation among
University, Research and Industrial Enterprises, Vol.1, No.3, p 1-41.
Pathak, Prasanta and Chakraborty, Sonali (2009) “Statistical Models for Finding out
Determinants of Potentiality to Get Absorbed in Jobs for Different Categories of Labour in Three
North Indian States” , Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. XXXXI, No.1, p.91-102.
Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao and Pathak Prasanta (2010) “Special form of Gompertz model and its
application”, Genus, Vol. LXVI, No.2, p. 95-125.
Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao and Pathak, Prasanta (2010) “Spatial and Temporal Changes in
Fertility Behavior of Indian Women Cohorts”, Genus, Vol. LXVI, No.3, p. 69-92.
Pranati Datta
Datta Pranati (2007) “Urbanisation in India”, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. XXXIX,
No 1, p.124-133.
Datta Pranati (2007) “Tribal Women in India”, Indian Journal of Human Rights and the Law,
Vol. 4, No 1&2, p 299 – 322.
Datta Pranati, Sadhu Swati, Bhattacharya B.N and Majumdar P.K.(2008) “Demographic Effects
of Forced Illegal Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal : A Qualitative Study”, Dialogue,
Vol. 10, No 2, p 144 – 156.
Datta Pranati (2009) “Tribal Fertility by Parity Progression Ratio in India and Madhya
Pradesh”, The Oriental Anthropologist, A Bi-Annual International Journal of the Science of
Man, Vol. 9, No. 1, p 23-36.
Datta Pranati (2010) “Urbanisation and Environment”, Geography and You, Vol.10, No 60, p 6-
10.
Datta Pranati (2010) “Evaluation of Indian Census Data”, International Journal of Human
Development and Information System,Vol.3, No 1&2, 2010, p 27-36.
Datta Pranati (2011 ) “Female Trafficking and Illegal Migration from Bangladesh to India”,
Pakistan Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 18, no 1, p 47-62.
Datta Pranati (2011) “Trafficking and Illegal Female Nepali Migration in India”, International
Journal of Afro Asian Studies, Vol. 2, No 1, pp 34-44.
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Datta, Pranati (2011) “Immigration from Bangladesh to India : Causes,Consequences and
Policy”, International Journal of Mainstream Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No 2, p 11-22.
Subhash Barman
Barman, Subhash (2008) “Role of gram panchayat members in improving child immunisation
and maternal-child health programmes”, Bharatiya Samajik Bichintan, Vol.7, No.1, p 63-72.
Barman, Subhash (2009) “Role of the elected panchayat samity members in national health and
family welfare programs- A Case Study”, The Qualitative Report, Vol.14, No.1, p 20-41.
Barman, Subhash (2009) “Socio-economic status of the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and
other backward classes in India”, Voice of Dalit, Vol.2, No.1, p 99-126.
Barman, Subhash (2010) “Parental education, parental death, poverty and socio-economic
impact on school attendance status of children in India”, Academic Leadership, Vol.8, No.4.
Barman, Subhash (2011) “Socio-economic and demographic impact on child labour in India”,
Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Vol.3, No.2, p 376-403.
Partha De
Partha De , Arpita Dhar , B.N. Bhattacharya (2012) “Efficiency of Health Care System in India:
An Inter-State Analysis using DEA Approach, Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 27, No. 4, p
325-4.
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Research Publications by N.S.S.Narayana, EAU, ISI Bangalore Centre
during 2008 - 2012.
N.S.S.Narayana: “Social Value System in India – Looking back to go ahead”. Paper prepared for the
project “Identifying the Elements of Heritage of Development Thinking in India” - ISEC, and the
Development Foundation, Bangalore, January 2012. Under processing to be published as a monograph.
N.S.S.Narayana: “Ancient Hindu Principles of Social and Economic Management – Are they against
globalization?” Published in Journal of Social and Economic Development, pages: 1- 44, Vol.13, No.1,
January-June 2011.
N.S.S.Narayana: Who is Not a Statistician! ISI Karnataka Branch Lecture. Paper presented at Mount
Carmel College, Bangalore, 13 January 2010.
N.S.S.Narayana: A Book-review article on “Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research”
edited by Francois Bourguignon, Yehuda Elkana and Boris Pleskovic, published by The World Bank,
Washington, D.C., 2007; published in Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, NIEPA,
New Delhi, Vol. XXIII, No.2, April 2009, pages: 205-207.
N.S.S.Narayana and Probal P Ghosh: Macroeconomic Simulations based on VEC Models, Chapter 3 in
Macro-Modeling for the Eleventh Five Year Plan of India, Edited by Kirit S. Parikh, Planning
Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, published by Academic Foundation, New Delhi, May 2009,
pgs: 37 - 118.
N.S.S.Narayana, Majumdar Rumki and Ghosh Probal: Growth Effects of Public Expenditure in India; in
the journal Finance India (Indian Institute of Finance), December 2008 (Vol. XXII No. 4), pgs:1249-79.
N.S.S.Narayana: A Book Review article on ““International Handbook on Privatization” edited by
David Parker and David Saal published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA;
in Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol.10, No.2, July-December 2008, pgs:302-308
N.S.S.Narayana: A Book-review article on “Imbibing Value Education – Various Perspectives”, edited by
Rameshwari Pandya and Anuradha Mathu, published by Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, published in
Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, NIEPA, New Delhi, pages: 243-245, Vol. XXII,
No.2, April 2008.
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Personality Profile, Stress and Job Satisfaction of
Indian Sea Farers
Interim Report
Rumki Gupta (Principal Investigator)
Jayeta Dhara (Project Linked Personnel)
Prof. S. N. Chakrabartty- Associated Scientist
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT
INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
203, B. T. ROAD, KOLKATA – 700108
31.3.12
Introduction:
In the profession of seafarers, both physical and mental load are considered high. The work
conditions and content of the work contains many potential stress factors. Maneuvering a ship has many
mental stressing phases for both the deck and engine room officers and crews. Shipping technology is
changing continuously putting more stress to the seafarers and possibly resulting in greater number of
accidents. Good numbers of Seafarers are choosing shore jobs after a short period at sea.
Seafarers spend more time on board ship with few visits ashore during their duties on board the
vessel. The seafarers work in an environment of multiple cultures, multiple languages with demand for
higher skills. They are required to be ready for 24 hours either for normal operations or for catering to the
requirements of contingencies. Thus, team work, stress tolerance, job satisfaction etc. appear to be
relevant to the working life of sea. The study on behavioral profile of seafarers and their effect on
accidents are likely to throw light in the common endeavor to minimize accidents, wastages and improve
Risk Management Process. Remedial actions may help to reduce such accidents and wastage and may
add to the quality of life of sea farers in particular and Indian Maritime Sector in general.
Due to the isolated work environment aboard ships, it is of paramount importance for seafarers to
be in optimum condition at all times, such that they can respond to any emergencies on board; after all,
the ship is their home. However, rules governing the way of life aboard merchant ships, such as work
scheduling are less stringent than those of naval vessels, resulting in a possible neglect of the welfare of
merchant seamen. This may lead to decreased job satisfaction and mental and physical wellbeing, thus
contributing to the onset of stress which further exacerbates the problem of poor performance of duties.
There are certain unique characteristics of the seafarer’s occupation that have to be considered when
studying the psychological work environment on board ships. The occupations of seafarers and the crews
on ships as a whole differ a lot from land based workplaces (Kristiansen, 2005).
Since seafarers work in shifts, the results are tough working hours and often time pressure
connected to travelling time, and operations as unloading and loading of the cargo. There are many
psychological stressors as result of the tough working hours. Fatigue, inadequate rest between watches
and sleep loss by being woken unexpectedly often are seen as such stressors.
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Another important stress factor for all crew groups is separation from home (Kristiansen, 2005).
Missing the family and lack of contact during periods of illness at home are both typical situations which
are also known from studies within the offshore industry (Kristiansen, 2005). Factors such as worry about
family, lack of support from home and absence of stability in home life are mentioned as contributors to
stress.
All the stated traits specifically apply for seafarers working on different type of ships. The unique
functioning of crews has to be considered when studying factors that shape the psychological and the
physical work environment on board ships. As variables these can be considered as an indicator of
emotional well-being or psychological health.
Understanding human factors underlying major shipping accidents appears to be a topic of key
importance for maritime policy and management. Studies show that around 80% of causes of marine
accidents are attributable to human errors (Moore, 1993; National Research Council 1976)
Human error has traditionally been viewed as an individual cognitive, behavioural caused by
carelessness or ignorance. However, there is a growing recognition of the influence of situational factors
in provoking and shaping errors. (Carl, 2009) Situational factors such as inappropriate planning, wrong
interpretation, poor communication, team support etc. can provide error traps for people to fall into.
Reason (1997) observed that to understand and manage human error, we need to focus on human
condition and also on conditions in which people work.
Hill (1972) found that fewer men remain in the Merchant Navy for longer periods and look upon
to sea as a short term career. This may be categorized as “wastage” since producing a Nautical Officer or
a Marine Engineer cost to the society.
Learning from past accident is challenging. The sequence of events leading to an accident is in
fact a case study and often appears to be unique to each such case. To learn from past accidents in a
generalized form, drawing systematic, general and widely applicable factors into their causes and
mapping casual patterns across several level of analysis was proposed by Carl in 2009.
Wall (1980) found that job-satisfaction and personality of shipmates are linked. He also found that
personality profile of Sea-farers differs with the same for people working ashore. Hill (1972) found that
quality of relationship on board becomes extremely important both horizontally and vertically between
shipmates.
From the review of literature it has been observed that various studies have highlighted in finding
factors which cause accidents on sea. The present study aims at empirical investigation of personality
profile of sea-farers with emphasis on stress, team work, job satisfaction and related aspects and their
roles in shipping. The study also proposes to assess job satisfaction level of Indian Sea-farers and their
effects.
METHOD
Sample:
In this project, data are being collected on the Indian Sea-farers in the officers’ category (both
Nautical and Marine Engineers). Due to difficulty of access to personnel in port and the time delays
involved in using the post, it was decided to approach those officers who were registered in Indian
Maritime University, Kolkata Campus. To facilitate collections of data in a short time period, relevant
data have been collected from the participants to various post-sea courses being conducted by Indian
Maritime University, Kolkata Campus. Participants to those post-sea courses are being drawn from sea-
farers working in various Shipping Lines (both Indian Flag vessels and Foreign Flag vessels). All
participants were informed that participation was voluntary and about the confidentiality treatment of
their reply.
Measures used:
The following measures have been used depending upon the purpose of the study.
1. The job satisfaction questionnaire consisted of 20 items as listed below.
i) Leave, ii) salary, iii) Catering, iv) Mail facilities, v) Interesting work, vi) Promotion prospects,
vii) Training, viii) working conditions, ix) Accommodation, x) Family welfare, xi) Job status, xii)
Job security xiii) Participation in management, xiv) type of trade xv) company developments, xvi)
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Provision of uniform, xvii) Individuality to shore staff, xviii) Size of crew, xix) Ship type and xx)
Continuity of ships
2. The stress questionnaire was designed for the evaluation of subjective perception of work and the
individual feeling of work-related stress. The questionnaire consisted of 10 items as listed below:
i) Mental strain related to the complexity of work
ii) Lack of rewards for service
iii) Lack of self- confidence related to the organization of work
iv) Social relations
v) Feeling of threat
vi) Physical onerousness
vii) Unpleasant work conditions
viii) Lack of control
ix) Lack of support
x) Sense of responsibility
3. In the present study personality factors were considered in two ways i. e., individual factors and work-
related factors. The individual factors comprised age, ego strength, extroversion-introversion, pessimism-
optimism. On the other hand the work-related factors consisted of
i) rough seas vs. other disturbing factors
ii) rough seas causing problems
iii) Noise disturbing
iv) Climate conditions disturbing
v) Sequence of work-leisure on board
vi) Work place
vii) Variability-monotony
viii) Possibility to use skills and knowledge
ix) Control over work
x) Distribution of work
xi) Insecurity in one’s employment
xii) Social climate between shipmates
xiii) Appreciation.
Procedure:
The measures have been administered along with some socio economic information on the Nautical
Officers as well as Marine Engineers. After collecting the data, these were scrutinized carefully and
scoring was done accordingly. The data so far analyzed have been presented in the result section.
Results:
Table – 1
Mean and Standard Deviation of the participants on
Job Satisfaction and stress score
Variables N Mean SD
Job Satisfaction 56 42.88 10.641
Stress 56 23.27 4.097
Table – 2
Correlation between Job Satisfaction and stress ( N = 56)
Job Satisfaction Stress
Job Satisfaction 1 -.044
Stress total -.044 1
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Table – 3
Comparison of Mean, SD and t values between two groups
Nautical (N= 47) Engineer (N=9) t
value
Mean SD Mean SD
Job Satisfaction 42.68 11.245 43.89 7.079 .420
Stress 23.64 3.881 21.33 4.873 1.340
Discussion:
The concept of job satisfaction consists of the feelings and attitudes one has about one’s job. It
can be considered as the global feeling about the job, or as related constellation of attitudes about various
aspects of the job (Riggio, 2009). There are two approaches to conceptualizing job satisfaction (Spector,
1997). One approach is global approach, which considers overall job satisfaction. This approach is used
when the overall bottom line attitude is of interest. Overall satisfaction may be composite of numerous
factors as satisfaction with pay, the type of work itself, working conditions, the type of supervision,
company policies and procedures, relations with co-workers, and opportunities for promotion and
advancement.
Stress plays a role in many environments. It is a determinant of functioning, health or
performance. Job satisfaction may be the amount of perceived stress on board a ship. In the present study,
job satisfaction and stress are negatively related. Spector (2003) revealed that there are many different
conditions at job that might serve as job stressors. Comparison was done between two groups and result
is presented in Table 3. t value is not significant in case of job satisfaction and stress between the
Nautical Officers and Marine Engineers.
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Plan Budget Proposals 2013-14, SSD
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Rupees in lakhs
Units Name of the Project Revenue Capital Total
New Project
General
2 LRU 2.2 Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. 2.800 2.800
4 PRU 4.1 Students’ temperament styles, parenting styles and academic achievement
of school students. 2.950 2.950
5 SRU
5.2 A micro level study of childhood obesity in Kolkata and its periphery,
West Bengal, India. 3.940 2.000 5.940
5.3 Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of
Jharkhand. 1.850 1.850
Sub-total: 11.540 2.000 13.540
On-Going Project
North East
2 LRU 2.4 Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework. 2.300 2.300
4 PRU 4.3 Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining
academic performance of school students of North- Eastern India. 3.400
3.400
Sub-total: 5.700 0.000 5.700
General
2 LRU 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form. 4.000 4.000
4 PRU 4.2 Differential validity of Computer programming abilities. 2.800 2.800
5 SRU 5.4 Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry. 1.500 1.500
5.5 Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings. 9.400 9.400
Sub-total: 17.700 0.000 17.700
Grand Total : 34.940 2.000 36.940
Social Sciences Division, ISI
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Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-14
Rupees in lakhs
Sl. No. Name of the Project
Revenue Capital Total
Economic Research Unit
1 Visiting Scientists 7.260 7.260
2 Seminar 0.610 0.610
3 Internal travel 0.660 0.660
4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 1.650 1.650
5 Computer Consumables 2.420 2.420
6 Repair and Maintenance 1.820 1.820
7 Office Expenditures 0.480 0.480
8 Capital Expenditure 5.450 5.450
Sub-total: 14.900 5.450 20.350
Linguistic Research Unit
1 Visiting Scientists 0.500 0.500
2 Seminars (deparmental, on regular basis) 0.300 0.300
3 Internal travel 0.500 0.500
4 Computer Consumables 0.900 0.900
5 Maintenance for Computer & Equipment 0.500 0.500
6 Office Expenditures 0.700 0.700
7 Capital (Computer, Software, Scanner, Printer, Furniture, etc.) 5.000 5.000
8 Fellowship for one JRF/SRF (two) 5.500 5.500
Sub-total: 8.900 5.000 13.900
Population Studies Unit
1 Visiting Scientists 7.000 7.000
2 Research Fellows, PLP, Statistical Trainees etc.(1 JRF + 1 SRF) 3.500 3.500
3 Computer Consumables 0.850 0.850
4 Seminars by invited external experts 0.750 0.750
5 Office expenses 0.800 0.800
6 Repair, Maintenance, etc. 0.800 0.800
7 Capital Expenditure 3.000 3.000
Sub-total: 13.700 3.000 16.700
Psychology Research Unit
1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 1.200 1.200
2 Computer Consumables 1.200 1.200
3 Research Fellow 2.850 2.850
4 Maintenance for computer & equipment 1.300 1.300
5 Seminar/Workshop/Training programme 1.200 1.200
6 Software 1.200 1.200
7 Office Expenditure 0.750 0.750
8 Internal travel 0.750 0.750
9 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300
10 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000
Sub-total: 10.750 5.000 15.750
Sociological Research Unit
1 Visiting Scientists 2.500 2.500
2 Seminar 0.700 0.700
3 Internal travel 0.600 0.600
4 Research Fellow (two) 4.000 4.000
5 Computer Consumables 0.800 0.800
6 Maintenance / Office expenditure 0.750 0.750
7 Software 0.600 0.600
8 Capital Equipment: Upgrading furniture/computers A/C and other equipment 2.500 2.500
Sub-total: 9.950 2.500 12.450
Planning Unit (Dellhi)
1 Visiting Scientists 14.000 14.000
2 Post-doctoral fellows-cum-Lecturers 20.000 20.000
3 Travel of Scientists 1.000 1.000
4 Seminar Series 1.000 1.000
5 PC, Xerox, Stationery, Consumables 1.500 1.500
6 Misc. Including Communications & fax 1.000 1.000
7 Annual Conference 3.000 3.000
8 Journal Submission & professional memberships 1.000 1.000
9 Maintenance 1.000 1.000
10 Upgrading of Computers manuals software Furniture, fittings, equipment etc. 9.000 9.000
Sub-total: 43.500 9.000 52.500
Plan Budget Proposals 2013-14, SSD
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Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore)
1 Visiting Scientists 30.000 30.000
2 PC, & Printers 0.500 3.200 3.700
3 Computer Consumables 0.750 0.750
4 Econometric & Computer Software 1.000 1.000
5 Repair & Maintenance 0.750 0.750
6 Furniture 0.750 0.750
7 Furnishing & Facelift 0.500 0.500
8 Travel Grants 1.000 1.000
Sub-total: 33.500 4.950 38.450
Social Sciences Division Office
1 Visiting Scientists 10.500 10.500
2 Computer Consumables 0.500 0.500
3 Office Expenditure 1.500 1.500
4 Travel for Academic Purpose 2.000 2.000
5 Maintenance 0.900 0.900
6 Capital Expenditure 5.000 5.000
Sub-total: 15.400 5.000 20.400
Grand Total: 150.600 39.900 190.500
Total Budget of SSD= 227.440