Question

Write short notes ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research)

Answer 1

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.[:3606 It provides funding to scholars and to a network of twenty-seven research institutes, ]:3606 among them:

the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram

the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

the Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research

the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi

the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad

the Indian Institute Of Economics, Hyderabad

the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad

the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi

the Madras Institute of Development Studies.

Indian Council of Social Science ResearchEstablished1969Location

Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,
New Delhi

Chairman

Dr. Braj Bihari Kumar

Member Secretary

Prof. Virendra Kumar Malhotra

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