Council for Social Development (CSD)

What's New:

ADDRESS BY GUEST OF HONOUR - MR. ANSHUMAN KAMILA IES, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DBT MISSION CABINET SECRETARIAT GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ON 'RELEVANCE OF LARGE DATASETS IN POLICY MAKING' - WORKSHOP ON LARGE DATA PROCESSING, 21 JULY 2023 | 19th C.D. DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE BY PROFESSOR S. MAHENDRA DEV, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL, HYDERABAD AND FORMER VICE CHANCELLOR, IGIDR, MUMBAI | CSD Bulletin No. 2, December 2022 - Statistical Bulletin on Incidence of Child Marriage in South India CSD Bulletin No. 1 - August 2022 | STATISTICAL COMPENDIUM-DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH STATUS IN TELANGANA AT A GLANCE Evidence from National Family Health Surveys

Events/Notifications

Recent Completed Studies

EVALUATION OF START-UP VILLAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME (SVEP) BLOCKS IN THE STATE OF TELANGANA
Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, Dept. of Rural Development, Govt. of Telangana
Covid-19 Induced Vulnerabilities and Coping Strategies of Small Producers: Two Case Studies from Gujarat and Telangana
ICSSR, New Delhi - Collaborative study with Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad
Baseline Survey of Aspirational Districts in Telangana
Dr. Marri Channa Reddy HRD Institute of Telangana, Government of Telangana
Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Employment and Migration: A Study in Andhra Pradesh
Department of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Assessing Multi-dimensional Poverty in India for the Sustainable Development Goals: Adaptation and Use of the Consensual Approach in South India
Cardiff University, UK
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Status Report on Child Related Indicators in Telangana State
Dr. Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development, Government of Telangana

Founders

Dr. (Smt.) Durgabai Deshmukh & Dr. C.D. Deshmukh

The Council for Social Development (CSD) was founded by the eminent social reformer Dr. (Smt.) Durgabai Deshmukh, with the active support of Dr. C.D. Deshmukh, a distinguished civil servant, economist, educationist and scholar, as an affiliate of the India International Centre in 1962. In 1970 the organisation was registered as an autonomous institution under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 in Delhi.

President

Prof. Muchkund Dubey

The current President of CSD is the distinguished former diplomat Prof. Muchkund Dubey.
He had an illustrious career in the Indian Foreign Service, serving, among others, as India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh and the Permanent Representative to U.N. Organizations in Geneva. He retired from the Indian Foreign Service after occupying the post of Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. He then joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University as Professor where he taught for close to eight years. As an international civil servant, he served at the headquarters of both the United Nations and the UNDP. He was the Indian Member on the Executive Board of UNESCO, Chairman of the Common School System Commission, Bihar, and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Sikkim. His areas of specialization have been international economic relations, India's social and economic development, international security and disarmament, international development cooperation and world order issues.

Chairperson

Prof. Shantha Sinha

The CSD-SRC enjoys functional autonomy through its own Managing / Finance Committee. Currently, Prof. Shanta Sinha is the Chairperson of the Managing Committee, a Retired Professor of Political Science, University of Hyderabad and Raman Magsaysay Awardee for her distinguished work on elimination of Child Labour.

Regional Director (In-charge)

Prof. Sujit Kumar Mishra

Prof. Sujit Kumar Mishra is currently the head of the institute as Regional Director (In-charge).
A skilled practitioner and teacher of research methods and skills include impact assessment, economic analysis and statistics. The other areas of his research interests include interrogating the equity aspects of development - access to education, health, livelihoods - along several axes of marginality - caste, tribes, gender and minorities.

EVENTS

Two Days National Seminar on Status of Health in Telangana Since 2014 (November 25-26, 2021)
Justice AlladiKuppuswami Centenary Seminar, Alladi Family and CSD, Hyderabad, 26-27 September 2019.
One-Day Brainstorming Session on 'Financial Inclusion Through PMJDY', 23 August 2017
National Seminar on Disability, Labour& Society (as part of 58th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics, IIT, Guwahati), Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, at IIT, Guwahati, 25 November 2016
National Seminar on 'Labour Market and Issues of Adivasis' (in collaboration with SR Sankaran Chair, NIRD, Hyderabad), 22-23 January 2015
National Consultation on Disabilities Legislation, 15-18 April 2014
National Seminar on "The Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Development" in collaboration with Government Degree College, Gajwel, Medak district, 6-7 September 2013
National Seminar on Law and Literature (In Honour of K.G. Kannabiran) in collaboration with ChityalaAilamma Centre for Interdisciplinary Research-Asmita, 12-14 February 2012
National Seminar on 'Regulatory Aspects of Financial Inclusion, 23-24 August 2012

International Conference on 'The Political Fate of Egalitarian Programmes: A Comparison between India and Brazil' In collaboration with International Centre of Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP), 19-20 March 2018.
National Conference on "Social Exclusion and Rights of Persons with Disabilities", 19-20 October 2012
National Conference on "Social Exclusion and Rights of Persons with Disabilities", 19-20 October 2012
Fourth National Bioethics Conference on "Ethical and Regulatory Challenges in Health Research", 6-8 December 2012
South India Consultation Towards Preparation of IV and V Periodic NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW (in association with National Alliance of Women and Asmita), Hyderabad, 12-13 July 2011
National Consultation on Women and Human Trafficking on 29 August 2011
Conference on "A Perspective Paper on Education: A Discussion on the Rama Murthy Committee Report on National Education Policy 1986" (Indian University Association for Continuing Education),1990

Researching Everyday Lives: Workshop on Ethnography, CSD, December 20-23, 2021
Workshop on Social Development in Telangana, CSD-Core, 4-13 February2019
National Workshop on FRA Case Study Documentation, CSD-SRC &Vasundhara, Bhubaneswar, 9-10 July2019
Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods and Advanced Writing for Doctoral Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, 22-31 March 2018.
Workshop on Quantitative Techniques and Basic Econometrics, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, May 16-30,2016
Workshop on Statistics and Basic Econometrics, Corpus Fund of Reserve Bank of India, 12-17 December2016
Workshop on Basic Quantitative Techniques for Research Scholars and Faculty Members in Social Sciences, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, June 01 ? 11,2015
One Day Workshop on Constitutional Law and Adivasi Rights forAdivasiLawyers,September 29 - October 9, 2015.
State Level Capacity Building Workshop for Adivasi Youth, January 18th2012