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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


3 Population Studies Unit


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


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


6 Planning Unit, Delhi Centre


7 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre


8 Social Sciences Division Office


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

Plan Budget Proposals 2013-14, SSD

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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


New Delhi 110 067

6. Professor Minati Panda Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies


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:

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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


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


iii) Dr. Sudhanshu S. Maity

Associate Professor

Dept. of Statistics

Visva-Bharati University


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.

mailto:[email protected]



http://www.imsc.res.in/~sitabhra/meetings/socialnetwork0212/talks/Rabindranath_Jana.pdf


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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):


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



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)


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):


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



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.


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


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.

http://www.fas.org.in/


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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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Non Project

Plan Proposals


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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


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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Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre

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.


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.


Debasis Mondal

Intellectual Property Rights

Protection and Unemployment

in a North-South Model: A

Theoretical Analysis


No. 3, Pp. 463-484.


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.


Debasis Mondal

Endogenous Imitation and

Endogenous Growth In a

North-South Model: A


Journal of Macroeconomics 2009, Vol. 31, No. 4


T. R. Barman

Fiscal Policies, Environmental

Pollution and Economic

Growth


No. 5,


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Manash Ranjan Gupta

T. R. Barman and

B. Chakraborty

Human Capital Inequality,

Endogenous Growth and

Educational Subsidy: A


Research in Economics 2009, Vol. 63,

No. 2.


T. R. Barman

Health Infrastructure,

Environment and Endogenous

Growth

Journal of Macroeconomics 2010, Vol. 32,

No. 2,


T. R. Barman

Public Expenditure

Environment and Economic

Growth

Journal of Public Economic

Theory

2010, Vol. 12,

No. 6,


P.B. Dutta

Skilled Unskilled Wage

Inequality, Non-traded Goods

and Endogenous Supply of

Skilled Labour: A Theoretical

Analysis


No. 5


P.B. Dutta


Inequality: A General

Equilibrium Analysis


No. 4,


P.B. Dutta


Inequality and Unemployment:

A General Equilibrium

Analysis

Economic Modelling Forthcoming


P.B. Dutta


Inequality and Imitation in a

Product Variety Model: A


Journal of International

Trade and Economic

Development

Forthcoming

Tarun Kabiraj On the Incentives for

Cooperative Research


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


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


Ideas in Social Sciences

2007, Vol. 3(2).

Priyadarshi Banerjee Collective Punishments:

Incentives and Examinations

in Organisations


Contributions to Theoretical

Economics

2007, Vol. 7(1), Article

37.

Priyadarshi Banerjee Conflict and Consensus: A

Theory of Control in

Organisations


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


2008, Vol. 4(2)

Priyadarshi Banerjee Team Incentive Contracts with

Interim Private Information Contemporary Issues and


2008, Vol. 4(3)

Priyadarshi Banerjee Hidden Action Principal-

Agent Problems with

Endogenous Signal Precision



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


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


Bhargav Maharaj

Measuring Ethnic Polarization Social Choice and Welfare

2011,Vol.37,pp.431-452


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-

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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.

References:

1. Carl Macrae (2009) Human Factors at Sea : Common patterns of error in grounding and

collisions, Maritime Policy Management, February, Vol 36, No. 1, p 21 – 38.

2. Hill, JMM (1972) The Seafaring Career. Tavistock Institute.

3. Kristiansen, S. (2005). Maritime transportation: Safety management and risk analysis.

Amsterdam: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.

4. Moore, W.H. and Bea, R.G. (1993) Management of human-error in operations of marine system.

Department of Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering Report. HOE – 93 – 1, University of

California, Barkley.

5. National Research Council 1976, Human Error in Merchant Marine Safety, Washington DC,

National Academy Press.

6. Reason, J.T. (1997) Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents (Aldershot: Ashgate).

7. Riggio, R.E. (2009). Introduction to industrial/organizational psychology (5th ed). London:

Pearson Education.

8. Spector, P.E. (1997). Job Satisfaction. Application, assessment, causes, and consequences. Ca:

Sage Publications.

9. Spector, P. E. (2003). Industrial and organizational psychology. Research and practice. NJ: John

Wiley & Sons, Inc.

10. Wall, M R (1980) Job Satisfaction and Personality of Merchant Navy Officers. Maritime Policy

Management, Vol 7, No. 3, p 155 – 174.


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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


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Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-14

Rupees in lakhs

Sl. No. Name of the Project


Economic Research Unit


2 Seminar 0.610 0.610

3 Internal travel 0.660 0.660

4 Submission fee for publication in Journals 1.650 1.650


6 Repair and Maintenance 1.820 1.820

7 Office Expenditures 0.480 0.480


Sub-total: 14.900 5.450 20.350

Linguistic Research Unit


2 Seminars (deparmental, on regular basis) 0.300 0.300



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


2 Research Fellows, PLP, Statistical Trainees etc.(1 JRF + 1 SRF) 3.500 3.500


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


Sub-total: 13.700 3.000 16.700

Psychology Research Unit

1 Visiting Scientists/Research Collaborator 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



9 Submission fee for publication in Journals 0.300 0.300


Sub-total: 10.750 5.000 15.750

Sociological Research Unit


2 Seminar 0.700 0.700


4 Research Fellow (two) 4.000 4.000


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)


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


10 Upgrading of Computers manuals software Furniture, fittings, equipment etc. 9.000 9.000

Sub-total: 43.500 9.000 52.500


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Economic Analysis Unit (Bangalore)


2 PC, & Printers 0.500 3.200 3.700


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




4 Travel for Academic Purpose 2.000 2.000



Sub-total: 15.400 5.000 20.400

Grand Total: 150.600 39.900 190.500

Total Budget of SSD= 227.440

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