Center for Social Studies (Surat)

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  sadanjha (guest)

  It is highly opinionated piece. Very less information. The Centre for Social Studies (CSS) is an autonomous research institute devoted to social research. Founded as the Centre for Regional Development Studies by Prof. I.P. Desai in Surat in 1969, has been located on the campus of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University,Surat since 1980. Besides multi‑disciplinary research, the Centre has also been actively involved in guiding doctoral students, teaching, consultancy, training, as well as evaluation and monitoring of various development programmes. The Centre's faculty represents a variety of disciplines including Political Science, Sociology, Human Geography, Economics, Anthropology, History, Statistics, Social Work and Information Science. It includes recipients of prestigious academic awards and scholars with a wide range of interests whose writings continue to appear in a large number of Indian and foreign journals and books. The group possesses varied areas of specializations including scientific methods of enquiry, studies on tribals, dalits and minority groups, ethnographic enquiries, sects and religion, rural transformation, social conflicts, movements and riots, urbanization and development, urban and regional planning, literature and social consciousness, human resource development (education, health), coastal studies, environment and social impact assessment of projects etc. Some members of the faculty are on various governmental and non‑governmental advisory committees and boards at local, state and national levels. Apart from team work among themselves, the faculty also collaborates with scholars at other institutions and universities in India and abroad. Needed expertise in areas related to Engineering, Architecture, Medicine, Law, Ecology, etc. is also drawn from scholars associated with the Centre in various ways. The Centre for Social Studies is registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 (Registration No. Gujarat/314/SURAT) and Bombay Public Trust Act of 1950 (Registration No. F‑235/SURAT). The Centre is also a recognized research institution of the Government of India (the Ministry of Science and Technology). Contributions to the Centre are exempted from Income Tax (Section 35(i) (ii) of IT Act, 1961). Faculty 1.Akash Acharya Ph.D (Economics): Health, Nutrition & Population (HNP) issues, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 2.Arjun Patel Ph. D (Sociology): Coastal Communities, Displacement, Tribal development. 3.Biswaroop Das [Director]Ph. D. ( Social Sciences):Urbanization, Micro-Level Planning, Micro Finance 4. Gagan Bihari Sahu Ph.D (Economics):Rural Credit, Micro Finance, Money Remittance (Domestic), Agricultural Marketing, Rural-Urban Disparities 5.Jayshree Soni Ph. D (Political Science):Gender Issues, Rehabilitation 6.Kiran Desai Ph. D ( Sociology):Human Resource Management, Working Class, Urban Sociology 7. M Suresh MA (Anthropology):Development Studies, Anthropology of consumption, Tribal studies and forest conservation 8.Ratnawali Sinha Ph. D (Anthropology):Cultural studies, health and nutrition, population genetics , tribal and rural studies 9.Satyakam Joshi Ph. D ( Sociology ):Tribal and Rural Studies, Co-operatives, Environment, Governance and Civil Society 10. Sadan Jha M.Phil(History):Visuality, Memory, Belongingness and Urban experiences 11.Sthitapragyan Ray Ph.D. (Sociology):Decentralised Rural Governance & Service Delivery; Poverty Studies. 12.Vimal Trivedi M.sc.(Statistics ):Information Science, Higher Education, Solid Waste Management. www.css.ac.in

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