Indian Council of Social Science Research

The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is the national body overseeing research in the social sciences in India. It was established in New Delhi in 1969.

Indian Council of Social Science Research
Established1969; 57 years ago (1969)
Location
  • Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi
Chairman
Deepak Kumar Srivastava
Member Secretary
Dhananjay Singh
Websiteicssr.org

Council

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, and Madhu Purnima Kishwar.

Activities

It provides funding to scholars and to a network of twenty-nine research institutes, among them:

A large proportion of its budget is spent on its own administration; in 1996–1997, this amounted to 23% of total expenditure.: 3607  It has been described as an "oversized, unimaginative and inefficient bureaucrac[y]".: 3604 

See also

  • National Social Science Documentation Centre

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