IGIDR Annual Report 2008-2009 - Indira Gandhi Institute of ...

Faculty ActivitiesPresented paper ―Agrarian Crisis and Farmers‘ Suicides in India,‖ at one-day international seminar on‗Environmental degradation and food crisis – Lessons for India,‘ Greenpeace India, India International Centre, NewDelhi, October 24, 2008Presented reports of two sub-committees: (i) Review the banking procedures in relation to credit flow to rural poorwith special reference to priority sector guidelines and SGSY; and (ii) Alternative Structure of Credit Deliveryincluding Re-structuring of Lead Bank Schemes, for the Committee on Credit Related Issues under SGSY(Chairman: R. Radhakrishna), Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi, November 28, 2008Presented paper ―Calculation of HDI: How Shortfalls in Health can remain Hidden,‖ Seminar on Health SystemsResearch and Policy, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, December 10, 2008Presented paper ―Farmers‘ Suicides in India: Some Trends and Patterns,‖ at an International Seminar on ‗MultiDisciplinary Perspectives on Suicide: The Experience of SAARC Countries,‘ Centre for Economic and SocialStudies, Hyderabad, January 9-10, 2009Presented paper ―Agrarian Crisis in India,‖ at an UGC sponsored National Seminar on Global Food Crisis & India,Smt. BM Ruia College, Mumbai, January 30-31, 2009Presented paper ―Famers‘ Suicides and Agrarian Crisis in India, High-powered economic convention on ‗IndianGrowth Miracle: Myth or Reality‘ Indian Merchants‘ Chamber, Mumbai, March 13, 2009Discussant for the papers (i) ‗NRHM – A brief critique and need for a new Health Policy‘ by Shyam Ashtekar and(ii) ‗Arogyabanks – A ‗Nano‘ Solution to Health Care at the Primary Level‘ by Dhruv Mankad in the seminar on‗Towards a New Health Policy - Some Tangible Solutions‘ organised by Project for Economic Education, NehruCentre, Mumbai, October 18, 2008Coordinated and organised a one-day seminar on ‗Women's Empowerment‘ at IGIDR, Mumbai in collaborationwith the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, on November 19, 2008Organised meeting of the two Sub-Committees, namely, (i) Sub-committee to Review the Banking Procedures inRelation to Credit Flow to the Rural Poor with Special Reference to Priority Sector Guidelines and SGSY, and (ii)Sub-Committee on Alternative Structure of Credit Delivery Including Re-structuring of the Lead Bank Scheme, aspart of the ‗Committee on Credit-Related Issues Under SGSY‘ (Chairman: R. Radhakrishna), Ministry of RuralDevelopment, Government of India, IGIDR, Mumbai, October 22-23, 2008Attended meetings of the Committee on Credit related Issues under SGSY (Chairman: R. Radhakrishna), Ministryof Rural Development, Government of India (i) November 28, 2008, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi, (ii) January 2,2009, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi, (iii) January 29-31, 2009, NIRD, HyderabadAttended meetings of the Drafting Committee for the Committee on Credit related Issues under SGSY (Chairman:R. Radhakrishna), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, (i) December 4-6, 2008, NIRD,Hyderabad, (ii)December 22-24, 2008, NIRD, Hyderabad, (iii) January 7-8, 2009, NIRD, Hyderabad, (iv) January15-18, 2009, NIRD, Hyderabad, (v) April 19-20, 2009Attended meetings of the project ‗Vulnerability and Inequalities in Health in South Asia: Analysis of World HealthSurvey‘ (Funded by Canadian Institute of Health Research), December 8-9, 2008, Institute of Development Studies,KolkataCo-ordinator: ‗Quantitative Approaches to Public Policy – Conference in Honour of Professor T Krishna Kumar‘[in conjunction with Fourth Annual Conference on Public Policy and Management], in collaboration with QueenIndira Gandhi Institute of Development Research 33