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Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007) Activity Report And

Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) Projections

Social Sciences Division The Social Sciences Division (SSD) includes the following units: Economic Research Unit (ERU), Economic Analysis Unit (EAU), Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), Planning Unit (PU), Population Studies Unit (PSU), Psychology Research Unit (PRU) and Sociological Research Unit (SRU). EAU is situated at the Bangalore centre of ISI, PU is situated at the Delhi centre of ISI and the remaining five Units are located at the Headquarters in Kolkata with SRU having a branch in Giridih. Scientific Workers of this Division are engaged in research, Project work, teaching and training activities at various levels. Faculty members are also involved in supervision of doctoral research. The areas of research in various disciplines are chosen keeping in mind the social relevance of the problems studied as also the commitment to advancement of knowledge in these disciplines. In response to the indication given to the Institute by the Third Review Committee, the Units under the Social Sciences Division have tried to identify their focal themes of research in the respective disciplines and plan their Eleventh Plan research activities on these themes. The activities of different units during the Tenth Plan period and future plans for the Eleventh Plan period are given below.

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Economic Research Unit

I. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007) April 2002 - January 2006 1. TEACHING AND TRAINING : 1.1 Teaching : The scientific workers of ERU were involved in teaching various courses in

economics, econometrics, statistics for the B. Stat.(Hons), M. Stat., ISEC (regular and special courses) and M.S.(Q.E.) programme of the Institute. Members were also involved in teaching in other universities in India and abroad, when invited.

1.2 "Ph.D/D.Sc. Degrees".: Currently we have 12 research students working in our unit under the supervision of different faculty members. During first four years 5 research students have received their Ph.D. degrees.

2. REASEARCH and OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES: During the period under consideration, the scientists in the Unit undertook research, both theoretical and empirical, in diverse areas. The important topics were the following. Industrial Organization (R & D, Joint venture, Merger, Patent protection), Cooperative Game Theory (Voting game), Welfare Economics (Welfare orderings; Measurement of inequality, Deprivation, Polarization and Multidimensional poverty), International Trade (International trade under monopolistic competition; Trade and wage inequality), Mechanism Design Problems (Allotment problems, Scheduling problems, Regulation), Political Economy (Optimal Assembly size, Relation between economic condition and political decisions), Endogenous Growth Theory (Productive consumption and Endogenous growth; Human capital accumulation and dualism; Long run growth and Perceived theory, Growth in private and command economies, Technical progress; Uncertainty and economic growth), Macroeconomics (Issues on Indian economy: Economic liberalization, Macroeconomic policies, Income distribution and inflationary process; Trade-off between employment and output growth, Determinants of well-being), Econometric Methods (Effect of extreme observations and Errors in Variables in Frontier Production Function; Modeling of non sampling errors in survey), Environmental Economics (Economic instruments for pollution control, Solid waste management; Eco-tourism; Impact assessment, Water resource management, Forestry; Non-conventional energy source; Awareness about environmental pollution; Effect of growth and development on environment), Applied Welfare and Development Economics (Human development and human poverty; Socio-economic indicators, Standard of living and poverty; Women studies, Gender inequality and deprivation; Demographic studies, Child labour, Infrastructure and economic development, Literacy measurement, Food distribution and purchasing power with emphasis on North-East economy), Applied Financial Economics (Econometric and Time series analysis of Indian bond and money market), Financial Econometrics (Predictability of returns; Testing market efficiency and finding causes of market inefficiency; Non-linearities in financial data; Role of Central Bank in foreign exchange markets), Index Numbers (Regional consumer price indices from household level data; Nutrient prices from household level food expenditure data; Composite indices of well being/ standard of living), Industrial Economics (Measuring technical efficiency; Impact of liberalization on small scale industries, Input-output analysis),

3Agricultural Economics (Welfare aspects of agricultural growth in India; Agrarian institutions; Price formation in agricultural markets), Health Economics (Relationship between standard of living and health, Profile of hospitalization), Economics of Education (Incentives and investment in education), Public Finance (Tax performance, Taxable capacity and debt problems of states in India), Globalization (Convergence/ divergence of standard of living; Economic growth and productivity; Effect of globalization on inequality, poverty, growth and literacy; Asian economic cooperation: Trade and transaction cost).

The "Discussion papers" posted at http://www.isical.ac.in/~eru/ provide an overall view of the Unit's current research activities.

3. INTERNALLY/ EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS: 3.1 Internally Funded projects: Fifteen internally funded projects including 4 conferences

(annual) and 4 North-East workshops (annual) have been undertaken during the 10th Five Year Plan period. Details of the targets and achievements are given in the table below.

Physical Targets and Achievements of the Plan Projects during first four years of 10th Five

Year Plan (2002-03 to 2005-06)

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Name of the Scheme/Project Programme Tenth Plan Approved Target

Achievements and targets for 2005–06 as percentage of 10th Plan targets

General Remarks

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Economic Problems of Illiteracy 2001 - 2003 100% Completed 2. Conference on Models and Methods in

Economics (four annual projects)

2002 - 2003 2003 - 2004 2004 - 2005 2005 - 2006

80% One conference to be held in 2006-2007

3. A Fresh Look at the Agricultural Price Statistics with special reference to West Bengal

2002 - 2003 100% Completed

4. Workshop on Quantitative Analysis of North-East Indian Economy (four annual projects)

2002 - 2003 2003 - 2004 2004 - 2005 2005 - 2006

80% One workshop to be held in 2006-2007

5. Study on Some Health Economic Issues in the North-East

2003 - 2005 100% Completed

6. Political Economy of well-being in West Bengal

2003 - 2006 To be completed in March 2006

Seminar to be conducted in 2006-07 in ISI

7. Agricultural Growth in Assam since independence

2005 - 2007 40% To be completed in 2006-07

8. Valuation of Deeper Beel An Environmental Economics Approach

2005 - 2006 To be completed in March 2006

9. Poverty of Household Decisions – An Exploration of possible Inter-dependence

2005 - 2007 40% To be completed in 2006-07

3.2 Externally funded Projects: One externally funded project (funded by World Bank)

titled ‘Environmental Management Capacity Building Assistance project: Environmental Economics Component’ of five years’ duration was completed in 2003. Another project ‘Solid Waste Management in the Baranagar Municipal Area’ was undertaken as a part of the bigger project. The draft report of that has been completed. One of the faculty members was engaged in a project ‘Study About the Steel Sector (Medium and Small Scale) units’ with ASU which was funded by West Bengal Financial Corporation (WBFC). One new project ‘Valuation of Ecological Services of Wetlands in India’ (funded by Ministry of Forest and Environment) has been undertaken during 2005-06.

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44. CONFERENCE, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOP, LECTURES & SEMINARS 4.1 Conferences, Symposia, Workshops: During the period April, 2002 to January, 2006, 4

workshops on ‘Quantitative Analysis of North East Economy’ and 4 Conferences on ‘Models and Methods in Economics’ have already been conducted successfully. In addition a two-day workshop on ‘Industrial Organization and International Trade’ was organized during this period.

4.2 Lectures and Seminars: ERU organizes seminars and lectures regularly almost every week. The table below gives the account of the performance of the unit in this regard.

Years Number of Seminars / lectures 2002-03 26 2003-04 14 2004-05 21 2005-06* 26 Total 87

* Upto January, 2006.

5. SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS Number of Scientific Publications Year Book Paper in Journal Paper published in book

2002-03 4 19 4 2003-04 2 28 3 2004-05 1 23 11 2005-06** 5 28 11 Total 12 98 29

** Upto September, 2005 both published and accepted for publication.

6. VISITING SCIENTISTS HONOURS, AWARDS, and ASSIGNMENTS : Scientific Assignments Number

of Visiting Scientists

Honours and Award received

Editorial Visits Abroad

Visits in India

2002-03 2 - 2 2 4 2003-04 5 1* - 7 1 2004-05 6 1** 1 11 3 2005-06***

2 - - 2 -

Total 15 2 3 22 8 *Panchanan Chakraborty Memorial Award of Bangiya Arthaniti Parisad ** Fellow, International Society for Quality of Life Studies ***Up to September, 2005.

Focus of activities during the 11th Plan peirod: In addition to the usual research and teaching activities, the focus of research activities of the unit will be on new emerging areas in economics along with the existing areas of research during 11th Five Year Plan period. Efforts would be made to undertake quantitative and empirical researches. Some of the important research themes are: (1) Globalization and privatization; (2) Macro Economics; (3) Economic Theory; (4) Economic Development and Growth;

5(5) Game Theory and Applications; (6) Environmental economics; (7) Law and Economics; (8) Human Development, Proverty, Label of Living; (9) Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory; (10) Finance; (11) Industrial Organisation; (12) Theoretical and Applied Econometrics; (13) Time Series Analysis.

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Planning Unit II. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007)

1. Teaching and Training: The unit offers programmes that lead to PhD in Economics and Masters’ degrees in Quantitative Economics. At the post-graduate level, we teach a number of courses in the core areas of microeconomic theory, game theory, macroeconomics, statistics and probability, and econometrics. In addition, we also offer instruction in field courses such as agricultural economics, development economics, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international trade, mechanism design and social choice theory, public economics, and advanced econometrics. The unit also contributes to the training courses offered to the officers of the Indian Statistical Service of the Government of India. 2. Research Activities: The unit continues to distinguish itself in economics research. Based on publications in scientific journals, the unit is ranked third in Asia and the best in India (www.econphd.net). These rankings are based on aggregate publication counts and not controlled for the size of the department. As the PU is smaller than the average economics department, the unit would be ranked even higher if the rankings were based on per faculty output instead. The rankings by sub-field indicate that the unit’s research performance is particularly good in Trade & Development and in Public Economics.

Despite the small size, the unit’s research activities span a wide range of topics as individual faculty are diverse in research interests. Some of the current topics of research are

• Environmental Issues and policy in India. • Mapping Water prices. • Financial Liberalization and Educational Investments. • Evolution of Financial Institutions and Economic Development. • Impact of Capital Income Taxation on Growth and Labour Supply. • Financial Markets and the Provision of Micro-credit • Economics of terrorism • Political economy of Implementation Inefficiency. • The Political Economy of Corruption • Regional Economic Growth in India. • Labour Earnings and Economic Development in India • Measuring Inequality: Analysis of Indian Districts. • The Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS Epidemic in India. • Commodity futures markets • Regulation of Biotechnology • Analysis of gender bias • Uncertainty and Arbitrage. • Procurement Auction under supplier uncertainty. • Design of ambiguous voting systems • Correlated types and Mechanism design

3. Visitors Program and Conferences: The unit enjoys an active visitors program. In the year 2005/06, about 30 visitors are expected for research collaboration and seminar visits. The Unit also organizes an annual conference on growth and development.

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Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore Centre) III. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007)

1. Research and Other Scientific Activities: The Economic Analysis Unit (EAU) is engaged in research in quantitative methods in economics. Application of these methods to different problems in agriculture, industry and monetary economics is being actively pursued. Topics in agricultural economics, growth & inflation and estimating the effects of the economic reforms are of current interest. Research in inventory-models under production smoothing hypotheses and variance-bound tests, intervention analysis & transfer function analysis and VAR and VECM models is being pursued by the faculty and research scholars of the Unit. Development of economy-wide macroeconomic simulation models to analyze policy impacts has been the major research interest. The Unit is also pursuing the estimation of impacts of capital and revenue expenditures by the Centre and the States on economic growth.

2. Teaching and Training: Two research fellows have been pursuing their research work for

Ph.D. The EAU has been conducting an annual 4-week workshop training the Indian Statistical Services (GOI) Officers on econometrics, time-series analysis and forecasting. This workshop involves both theoretical lectures and practical data modeling by well known experts in the field. This programme, sponsored by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO), New Delhi, trained: November – December, 2001: 24 officers, November – December, 2002: 27 officers, October – November, 2003: 8 officers, November- December, 2005: 13 officers.

The faculty is also involved in teaching research students and teachers in the programmes organized by other institutions such as Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore, the Indian Econometric Society; and training Reserve Bank of India Officers at RBI Academic Staff College, Chennai. The EAU has been conducting 8-week special programmes to teach economic planning, demand analysis and projects-appraisal techniques to the participants of the International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC).

The EAU has also provided summer training to some students from other places like the London School of Economics, University of Madras and I.I.Sc., Bangalore. The EAU has also provided some technical training in econometric software training to the employees of the AXA_ABS and Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL). The EAU had 11 visiting scholars during the period.

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Psychology Research Unit IV. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007)

The scientific members of the Psychology Research Unit were engaged in research in areas of psychometrics and various applied fields of Psychology during the tenth five-year plan. Apart from this, they also conducted teaching and training programmes at various institutions. The faculty members were involved in supervising Ph.D. students. Scientific members of the Unit were engaged in research activities in the following areas during the tenth five-year plan.

(i) Reading and Writing motivation of tribal Children, (ii) Entrepreneurial behaviour, (iii) Team effectiveness in work settings, (iv) Socialization and Cognitive-moral development of Children across cultures, (v) Social Axioms and individualism-collectivism, (vi) Analysis of the results of Madhyamik examination in West Bengal, (vii) A study on Short-time memory assessment under Successive decrease in stimulus

presentation time using computer aided digit span test, (viii) A study of Organizational health and job satisfaction in rural banks from

psychological perspective and (ix) Analysis of drawing of tribal children.

The unit was also involved in external projects:

(i) Evaluation work of State Resource Centre – Patna, (ii) Analysis of the Impact of Workers Education, and (iii) Audit Sampling – Phase II

During this period several distinguished scientists from different parts of the country and abroad visited the unit and delivered talks on different issues. Physical Targets and Achievements of the Plan Projects during first four years of 10th Five

Year Plan (2002-03 to 2005-06)

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Socialization & Cognitive moral

development of children across cultures

2003 - 2005 100%

2. A Study on Preferences to Different Reading & Writing Motives and Tribal Children in Primary Education of Tripura dn Manipur

2004 - 2006 100%

3. A Study on Preferences to Different Reading & Writing Motives and Tribal Children in Primary Education of Tripura dn Manipur

2005 - 2006 100%

4. Ego-identity status during adolescence and early adulthood

2006 - 2008 To start in April 2006

Research activities during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12): The focus of research of Psychology Research Unit during the 11th Five Year Plan will be in the following areas: (i) Self and Collective Efficacy and Self Regulating Strategy for effective

9functioing, (ii) Self assessment and Academic Achievement, (iii) Cognitive dissonance, personality and Academic Achievement, (iv) Computer Algorithm for Reading and Writing abilities, (v) Pedagogy development, (vi) Emotional Regulation, Cognition and Adjustment across cultures, (vii) Quality of working life and (viii) School Climate Assessment

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Population Studies Unit V. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007)

Research activities in this Plan period included (1) estimation of the volume of undocumented migrants from Bangladesh to North-eastern States and West Bengal, (2) investigation into the nature of illness and morbidity pattern of sex workers, their health seeking behaviour and awareness about HIV/AIDS, (3) determination of risk factors associated with maternal mortality, (4) finding out successes and failures of Indian population control programme in the north-east and setting directions for future research on population and formulation of appropriate population policies for the north-east, (5) development of techniques for analysis of fertility, mortality and morbidity data, (6) a socio-demographic study on minority groups, (7) finding out demographic implication of women empowerment and community development, (8) finding out factors associated with labour absorption in economic activities, (9) finding out causes of age reporting errors in Indian States, (10) a study on the differential in contraceptive use among non-tribes and tribes in Tripura, (11) a study on the pattern of household financing of expenses on reproductive health care for women in different economic categories in Kolkata slums, (12) a study on the knowledge, attitude and participation of elected Panchayat members in health and family welfare programmes in West Bengal, (13) a study on Nepali female migration and trafficking, (14) studies on migration and other problems in Assam, (15) finding out determinants of Indian population growth in recent decades, (16) baseline survey on reproductive health of women among urban poor in Kolkata metropolitan area, (17) problems of Indian old age population. The 10th Five Year Plan period will be ending with two more research studies---one on estimation of health care expenses in West Tripura by network sampling method and the other on finding out the impact of air pollution on transport operators, road-side hawkers and police personnel in Kolkata metropolitan area. Other than these research activities, the faculty members of the unit offered courses on Demography, Statistical Methods in Public Health, Life Contingencies, Actuarial Methods, etc. for the B.Stat.(Hons.), M.Stat. and ISEC students. The unit also organized two workshops on demographic techniques and application of computer softwares for eastern and north-eastern demographers, public health practitioners and researchers in the associated areas. The faculty members are also supervising Ph.D. dissertations. Physical Targets and Achievements of the Plan Projects during first four years of 10th Five

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. A Study of health care expenses in

West (N) Tripura Dist. of Tripura 2005 - 2006 100%

2. Workshop on technique of analysis of demographic and Health Statistics and application of computer software

2003 - 2006

100%

3. Impact of Air Polution on the lives of Selective Persons in Transport Operation and Road side Hawker in Kolkata


Focus of the Activities During 11th Five Year Plan Period: Other than on-going teaching activities and supervision of Ph.D. dissertations, the research activities will focus on (1) estimation of demographic parameters of inter-censal population by use of symptomatic data , (2) estimation of rare demographic events such as maternal mortality by using network sampling, (3) estimation of annual flow of Nepali migrants using structural grduation model, (4) infiltration

11problems in Assam and policy issues, (5) trend, pattern and problems of urbanization in India over last century, (6) analysis of trends in age-specific mortality rates by sex by major States, (3) correlates of child labour in India, (4) demographic features of tribal population in the north-east India, (5) socio-economic problems of children of sex workers, (6) ante-natal and post-natal care of mothers and children by Indian States and its temporal change, (7) comparison of immunization status of Indian States over time, (8) prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and a projection of it over time, (9) measures of maternal and child mortality and policy measures, (10) population aging and problems of the aged in India, (11) health insurance for the vulnerable, (12) estimation of various components of health care expenses and finding out effective means of paying for it, (13) demographic characteristics of labourforces and work forces by different categories of economic activities .

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Linguistic Research Unit VI. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007)

During the period Linguistic Research Unit continued its programme of research in the areas of Quantitative Linguistics and Computational Linguistics with special emphasis on Speech Pathology, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax and Text Analysis. The activities of the Unit also include Ph.D. supervision work.28 research papers have been published by members of the Unit and the Unit had two visiting scientists during this period.

Research Activities: There are seven main topics under which the Unit's research projects may be grouped, namely: I.Computational Linguistics: (a) Valency-based Natural Language Processing. (b) Fuzzy Logical Expressions in Bangla. (c) Problem of Conceptual Tense and Aspect vis-a-vis Grammatical tense in Bangla Discourse.

II.Methods in Quantitative Linguistics. (a) Quantitative Constraints on case assignments in Bilingual discourse (b) Models of rank frequency distribution (c) Research design in applied linguistics (d) Text as a linguistic paradigm III. Sociolinguistics: (a) Study of Language attitudes, (b) Language maintenance and shift (c) measurement of bilingualism. (d) Linguistic sub-alternity and decentralized Language planning in a plural society. (e) Analysis of Folklore and Folklanguage. (f) Cultivation of Mother-tongue ; (g) Language Standardisation VI. Clinical Linguistics : (a) Aetological and Diagnostic approaches to Speech Pathological Problems. (b) Habilitation of hearing impaired children V. Psycholinguistics : (a) The relationship between "empty linguistic organism" and "social malleability" : Psi-Properties. (b) Second Language Acquisition

VI. Linguistics and Genetics: Linguistic Structure of DNA. This is an ongoing project in collaboration with Department of Theoretical Physics, Cultivation of Sciences, Calcutta. The project tries to find out the selectional restrictions of different triplets by deploying Linguistic methods.

Physical Targets and Achievements of the Plan Projects during first four years of 10th Five

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Methods in Quantitative Linguistics and

Cognitive Science 2002 - 2003 100%

2. Interference of L1 (Bangla) in the learning of L2 (English) An Item Response Theoretic Approach

2002 - 2003 100%

3. Conservation of Linguistic Ecology in the Indian Plurilingual Milieu

2002 - 2003 100%

4. The Glottopolitics of Linguistic Subalternity 2002 - 2003 100% 5. Quantification and Non-Quantification:

Searching for Convergence: 2003 - 2005 100%

6. Language Identification, Classification and Analysis in Children with Neuro-linguistic, Speech and Hearing Disorders:

2004 - 2006 100% Terminated in July 2005

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Focus of Research Activities during Eleventh Plan period There are Five main areas under which the Unit's future research programmes may be grouped, namely :

Methods in Quantitative Linguistics: (a) Research design in applied linguistics (b) Text as a linguistic paradigm; (c) Language Modeling Sociolinguistics: (a) Study of Language attitudes, (b) Language planning in a plural society; (c) Language and Mass Media Speech Pathology: Clinical Linguistics and Neurolinguistics: (a) Neurolinguistic perspectives in studying language disorders; (b) Development of Test Batteries (c) Habilitation of Speech disordered children Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology: (a)generation of speech and text corpora in Indian languages (b) processing of corpora for designing tools and techniques for language technology, (c) generation of multilingual lexical databases, and (d) the development of linguistic resources Micro-Linguistic /Core Linguistics: (a) Phonology, Morphology, (b) Syntax, (c) Semantics, (d)Pragmatics (e) morpho-phonemics, (f) morpho-semantics, (g) semantico-syntactics, (h) semantico-pragmatics and (i) stylistics.

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Sociological Research Unit

VII. ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE TENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN (2002-2007)

In tune with the recommendations of the Third ISI Review Committee (2002), SRU has been carrying out several internal and external research projects in the following themes which have relevance for understanding various processes of social transformation and comparative development in the country : i) agrarian relations and rural development, ii) decentralisation of planning process, iii) evaluation of socio-economic impact of literacy movement, iv) religious and ethnic problems, v) gender studies and empowerment of women, vi) problems of scheduled castes and tribes, and other backward communities vii) techno-economic adaptation with ecological changes, and viii) new methodological research for social network analysis by using probabilistic and graph theoretic techniques. These research themes, with empirical thrusts, have been taken up by SRU mostly at H.Q. in Kolkata covering West Bengal and partly at Giridih Branch in Jharkhand as well as in Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya. Physical Targets and Achievements of the Plan Projects during first four years of 10th Five

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 1. Occupations Segregation in the Factory Sector

in Indian Industries (1961-2001) 2003 - 2005 100%

2. Economic reforms and Indian Agriculture with Special Reference to the North East: A Focus Workshop in the North East.

2002 - 2005

100%

3. The role of Social connections in coping with the changing situation: An exploratory study on the villagers of West Bengal

2004 - 2006 100%

4. Process of empowerment of women in rural areas Case studies in two North Eastern States

2004 - 2006 100%

5. Forms of Market and Non-Market Discrimination: The Case of Rural Dalit House holds.

2005 - 2006 100%

6. Constraints of development of scheduled cases and other backward castes/communities in rural areas

2005 - 2006 100%

7. Techno economic adaptation of the Mizos of hill forest ecology of Mizoram

2005 - 2007 50%

8. Spread of literacy among the Muslim Women in Bihar Causative factors


9. Social Discrimination and the Rural Labour Market


Projection for 11th five year plan: The research activities envisaged for 11th five year plan will include the themes emanating from the on-going projects as well as those emerging from new academic activities of Sociological Research Unit (SRU) The emerging research activities will take into consideration the following new themes which will also try to maintain some amount of continuity with the on-going projects: i) impact of economic reforms on production and human development, ii) development studies and comparative development in eastern and north-eastern states, iii) industrial and urban development, iv) issues on living standards, v) labour employment and labour problems, vi) gender studies: aspects of social mobilization and movements, vii) issues on literacy and education, viii) environmental sociology, ix) influence of geographical proximity of habitat on genetic affinities and ethnic proximity, x) ethnic and religious problems, and language movements, xi) social network, xii) socio-economic conditions of the Dalits and scheduled tribes, xii) social aspects of ageing population.

15The above themes of research, covering 11th five- year plan period, will have inter-disciplinary thrusts, with more active discourse with the application of statistics. In Sociological Research Unit, interaction with statistics has already increased over the years through the extension of various statistical methods and techniques at the stages of study design, data collection and analysis, such as, panel data analysis, logistic regression analysis, application of Rao-Hartley-Cochran method of PPSWOR sampling and estimating regression coefficients from data collected by the same method of sampling. Fresh dimensions have been explored in evolving deep stratification for sample survey design formulated in course of implementation of several internal and external projects. The development of probabilistic and graph theoretic methods in respect of social network analysis is being extended further, involving new dimensions, such as, obtaining measures of important characteristics of a society.

Project proposals for 2007 – 2008: Keeping the above perspective in mind for the 11th five-year plan period, the three project proposals from Sociological Research Unit are enclosed for 2007-2008 for consideration of DCSW/ TAC meeting of SSD to be held in April/May 2006.

Preamble for research activities in the 11th five-year plan

It has been already indicated earlier that the research activities envisaged for 11th five year plan will include the themes emanating from the on-going projects as well as those emerging from new academic activities of Sociological Research Unit (SRU). There will be some amount of interlacing between the on-going projects and the emerging new academic research activities which will take into consideration the following new themes: i) impact of economic reforms on production and human development, ii) development studies and comparative development in eastern and north-eastern states, iii) industrial and urban development, iv) issues on living standards, v) labour employment and labour problems, vi) gender studies: aspects of social mobilization and movements, vii) issues on literacy and education, viii) environmental sociology, ix) influence of geographical proximity of habitat on genetic affinities and ethnic proximity, x) ethnic and religious problems, and language movements, xi) socio-economic conditions of the Dalits and scheduled tribes, and xii) new methodological research for social network analysis by using probabilistic and graph theoretic techniques

Project proposals for the 11th five-year plan: Keeping the above perspective in mind, at least three project proposals will be submitted from SRU in each financial year of the 11th five-year plan period, covering the relevant themes as delineated above, for consideration of DCSW/ TAC meeting of SSD.

Proposed budget estimate: For each financial year of the 11th five-year plan period, budget for the project and non-project components of the proposed estimate may be submitted in the following way:

Total Social Sciences Divisional Budget

(Rs. In Lacs) 2007-08 2008-09 - 2011-12 Total

Revenue 101.17 684.64 785.81

Capital 26.95 120.20 147.15

Total 128.12 804.84 932.96

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Social Sciences DivisionTentative Plan Project Proposals for the 11 th Five Year Plan (2007-08 to 20011-12)

Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total

ERU 9.18 5.25 14.43 41.05 3.35 44.40 46.75 5.20 51.95 51.90 5.55 57.45 57.55 5.90 63.45 206.43 25.25 231.68

LRU 0.50 0.60 1.10 5.50 1.50 7.00 5.50 2.00 7.50 5.50 2.50 8.00 5.50 3.00 8.50 22.50 9.60 32.10

PSU 14.45 3.00 17.45 17.10 3.00 20.10 21.10 3.00 24.10 25.10 3.00 28.10 30.80 3.00 33.80 108.55 15.00 123.55

PRU 15.01 0.60 15.61 10.82 0.70 11.52 12.09 0.75 12.84 12.03 0.85 12.88 13.60 0.90 14.50 63.54 3.80 67.34

SRU 16.54 3.00 19.54 17.00 3.00 20.00 17.00 3.00 20.00 17.00 3.00 20.00 17.00 3.00 20.00 84.54 15.00 99.54

PU (DELHI)

19.00 3.50 22.50 22.00 3.50 25.50 24.50 3.50 28.00 27.50 3.50 31.00 31.00 3.50 34.50 124.00 17.50 141.50

EAU (BANGALORE)

16.50 4.00 20.50 19.75 4.00 23.75 23.25 4.00 27.25 26.50 4.00 30.50 29.75 4.00 33.75 115.75 20.00 135.75

SSD 10.00 7.00 17.00 11.25 8.00 19.25 12.20 8.00 20.20 13.00 9.00 22.00 14.05 9.00 23.05 60.50 41.00 101.50

Grand Total 101.17 26.95 128.12 144.47 27.05 171.52 162.39 29.45 191.84 178.53 31.40 209.93 199.25 32.30 231.55 785.81 147.15 932.96

2007-08 2008-09 - 2011-12 Total

Revenue 101.17 684.64 785.81

Capital 26.95 120.20 147.15

Total 128.12 804.84 932.96

Total (Rs. in Lacs)

Rs. In Lacs)

2010-11 2011-12 11th Five Year PlanUnits

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre

Tentative Plan Project Proposals for the 11th Five Year Plan

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12Sl. No. Items Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total

1 Salaries 12 12 15 15 18 18 21 21 24 24 90 0 90

2Visiting Scientists 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 15 0 15

3Computer Consumables 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.75 1 1 1 1 1.25 1.25 4.75 0 4.75

4 Computers, Projectors etc. 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 15 15

6 Econometric Software 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 5

7Repair, Maintenance & Facelift

0.75 0.75 1 1 1.25 1.25 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 6 0 6

Sub-Total 16.5 4 20.5 19.75 4 23.75 23.25 4 27.25 26.5 4 30.5 29.75 4 33.75 115.75 20 135.75

11th Five Year PlanTotal (Rs. in Lacs)

Plan Non-Project Expenditure

Economic Research Unit Tentative Plan Project Proposals for the 11th Five Year Plan

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12Sl. No. Items Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total

1 Plan Project expenditure

3.275 03.28

35 035.00

40 040.00

45 045.00

50 050.00 173.28 0.00 173.28

2 Visiting Scientists 1.45 0 1.45 1.5 0 1.50 1.55 0 1.55 1.6 0 1.60 1.65 0 1.65 7.75 0.00 7.75

3 Computer Consumables 1.45 0 1.45 1.5 0 1.50 1.55 0 1.55 1.6 0 1.60 1.65 0 1.65 7.75 0.00 7.75

4 Computers, printers and LCD projector

0 1.5 1.50 0 1.5 1.50 0 2 2.00 0 2 2.00 0 2.5 2.50 0.00 9.50 9.50

5Econometric Software 0 1 1.00 0 1 1.00 0 1 1.00 0 1 1.00 0 1 1.00 0.00 5.00 5.00

6 Repair, Maintenance & Facelift

1.5 0 1.50 1.5 0 1.50 2 0 2.00 2 0 2.00 2.5 0 2.50 9.50 0.00 9.50

7Xerox machine, Fax, Scanner

0 0.75 0.75 0 0.25 0.25 0 0 0.00 0 0.25 0.25 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.25 1.25

8Air condition machine 0 1.5 1.50 0 0 0.00 0 1.5 1.50 0 1.5 1.50 0 1.5 1.50 0.00 6.00 6.00

9Chairs, tables, Almirah etc.

0 0.5 0.50 0 0.6 0.60 0 0.7 0.70 0 0.8 0.80 0 0.9 0.90 0.00 3.50 3.50

10Office expenditure 0.75 0 0.75 0.8 0 0.80 0.85 0 0.85 0.9 0 0.90 0.9 0 0.90 4.20 0.00 4.20

11 Seminars 0.75 0 0.75 0.75 0 0.75 0.8 0 0.80 0.8 0 0.80 0.85 0 0.85 3.95 0.00 3.95

Sub-Total 9.18 5.25 14.43 41.05 3.35 44.40 46.75 5.20 51.95 51.90 5.55 57.45 57.55 5.90 63.45 206.43 25.25 231.68

11th Five Year PlanTotal (Rs. in Lacs)


Linguistic Research Unit


Sl. No. Items Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total

1 Plan Project expenditure 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 20.00 0.00 20.00

2 Computer Consumables 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 2.50 0.00 2.50

3 Capital Expenditure 0.60 0.60 1.50 1.50 2.00 2.00 2.50 2.50 3.00 3.00 0.00 9.60 9.60

Sub-Total 0.50 0.60 1.10 5.50 1.50 7.00 5.50 2.00 7.50 5.50 2.50 8.00 5.50 3.00 8.50 22.50 9.60 32.10

Total (Rs. in Lacs)


11th Five Year Plan2007-08 2008-09 2010-11 2011-122009-10

Psychology Research Unit


2009-10


1 Plan Project expenditure9.08 9.08 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 29.08 0.00 29.08


3 Research Fellow 2.73 2.73 2.97 2.97 3.24 3.24 3.53 3.53 3.85 3.85 16.31 0.00 16.31

4 Maintenance for Computer & Equipment 0.65 0.65 0.70 0.70 0.75 0.75 0.80 0.80 1.00 1.00 3.90 0.00 3.90

5 Seminar / Workshop 0.60 0.60 0.65 0.65 0.75 0.75 0.85 0.85 0.90 0.90 3.75 0.00 3.75

6 Software 0.60 0.60 0.00 0.70 0.70 0.00 0.80 0.80 2.10 0.00 2.10

7 Office Expenditure 0.20 0.20 0.25 0.25 0.30 0.30 0.35 0.35 0.40 0.40 1.50 0.00 1.50

8 Visiting Scientist 0.50 0.50 0.55 0.55 0.60 0.60 0.70 0.70 0.75 0.75 3.10 0.00 3.10

9 Capital Expenditure 0.60 0.60 0.70 0.70 0.75 0.75 0.85 0.85 0.90 0.90 0.00 3.80 3.80

Sub-Total 15.01 0.60 15.61 10.82 0.70 11.52 12.09 0.75 12.84 12.03 0.85 12.88 13.60 0.90 14.50 63.54 3.80 67.34


Total (Rs. in Lacs)

11th Five Year Plan2007-08 2008-09 2010-11 2011-12

Population Studies UnitTentative Plan Project Proposals for the 11th Five Year Plan

2009-10Sl. No. Items Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total Revenue Capital Total

1 Plan Project expenditure

1.651.65

2.002.00

2.502.50

3.003.00

3.503.50 12.65 0.00 12.65

2

Payment to Research Scholars, Project Assistants, Statistical trainees etc.

8.00 8.00 10.00 10.00 12.50 12.50 15.50 15.50 19.50 19.50 65.50 0.00 65.50

3 Visiting Scientists 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 10.00 0.00 10.00

4 Computer consumables 0.80 0.80 0.80 0.80 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.20 1.20 4.80 0.00 4.80

5 Computers, projectors, etc 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 0.00 10.00 10.00

6 Demographic/ Statistical Software 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 5.00 5.00

7

Publication of Technical Reports, Discussion papers etc

0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.80 0.80 3.00 0.00 3.00

8Repair, Maintenance, etc 1.50 1.50 1.80 1.80 2.50 2.50 3.00 3.00 3.80 3.80 12.60 0.00 12.60

Sub-Total 14.45 3.00 17.45 17.10 3.00 20.10 21.10 3.00 24.10 25.10 3.00 28.10 30.80 3.00 33.80 108.55 15.00 123.55

Total (Rs. in Lacs)


11th Five Year Plan2007-08 2008-09 2010-11 2011-12

Planning Unit, Delhi Centre



1

Plan Project and Non-Project

expenditure19.00 3.50 22.50 22.00 3.50 25.50 24.50 3.50 28.00 27.50 3.50 31.00 31.00 3.50 34.50 124.00 17.50 141.50

Sub-Total 19.00 3.50 22.50 22.00 3.50 25.50 24.50 3.50 28.00 27.50 3.50 31.00 31.00 3.50 34.50 124.00 17.50 141.50

Total (Rs. in Lacs)11th Five Year Plan2007-08 2008-09 2010-11 2011-12

Sociological Research UnitTentative Plan Project Proposals for the 11th Five Year Plan


1 Plan Project expenditure 8.54 8.54 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 44.54 0.00 44.54

2Plan Non-Project expenditure

8.00 3.00 11.00 8.00 3.00 11.00 8.00 3.00 11.00 8.00 3.00 11.00 8.00 3.00 11.00 40.00 15.00 55.00

Sub-Total 16.54 3.00 19.54 17.00 3.00 20.00 17.00 3.00 20.00 17.00 3.00 20.00 17.00 3.00 20.00 84.54 15.00 99.54

Total (Rs. in Lacs)


11th Five Year Plan2007-08 2008-09 2010-11 2011-12

Soocial Sciences Divisional Office

Tentative Plan Project Proposals for the 11 th Five Year Plan

2009-10


1Visiting Scientists (Kolkata Unuts only)

8.00 8.00 8.40 8.40 8.80 8.80 9.00 9.00 9.40 9.40 43.60 0.00 43.60


3 Office Expenditure 0.20 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.20

4

Capital Expenditure (Kolkata Unuts only)

7.00 7.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 0.00 41.00 41.00

5 Travel for Academic Purpose 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 2.50 2.50 3.00 3.00 3.50 3.50 12.00 0.00 12.00

6 Maintenance 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.75 0.75 0.80 0.80 0.90 0.90 3.85 0.00 3.85

Sub-Total 10.00 7.00 17.00 11.25 8.00 19.25 12.20 8.00 20.20 13.00 9.00 22.00 14.05 9.00 23.05 60.50 41.00 101.50

Total (Rs. in Lacs)


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