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| Established | 1969; 56 years ago (1969) |
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| Deepak Kumar Srivastava[1] | |
Member Secretary | Dhananjay Singh[2] |
| Website | icssr |
TheIndian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is the national body overseeing research in thesocial sciences in India. It was established inNew Delhi in 1969.[3]: 3606
The Council is currently chaired by Prof. Deepak Kumar Srivastava. Current members include Deena Bandhu Pandey,P. Kanagasabapathi,Sanjay Kumar,H.S. Bedi, Harish Chandra Singh Rathore, Panchanan Mohanty,Amita Singh, Kshamadevi Shankarrao Khobragade, T. Subramanyam Naidu, Rakesh Sinha, Aswini Mohapatra, P.V. Krishna Bhatta,Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, J.K. Bajaj, M.P. Bezbaruah, D.D. Pattanaik, andMadhu Purnima Kishwar.[4]
It provides funding to scholars and to a network of twenty-nineresearch institutes, among them:[5]
A large proportion of its budget is spent on its own administration; in 1996–1997, this amounted to 23% of total expenditure.[3]: 3607 It has been described as an "oversized, unimaginative and inefficient bureaucrac[y]".[3]: 3604
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