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TISS Hyderabad Annual Report 2019-2020

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TISS Hyderabad Annual Report 2019-2020

CONTENTS

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE .......................................................................................................... 1

DEPUTY DIRECTOR’S REPORT ............................................................................................ 3

B.A. in SOCIAL SCIENCES .................................................................................................... 10

AZIM PREMJI SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ....................................................................... 16

SCHOOL OF GENDER STUDIES ........................................................................................ 33

SCHOOL OF LIVELIHOODS AND DEVELOPMENT .................................................... 47

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE .................................................... 64

STUDENT SUPPORT MECHANISMS ................................................................................ 83

Library and E-Resources Centre ................................................................................................................... 84

Office of Students’ Affairs .............................................................................................................................. 86

Doctoral Student Office .................................................................................................................................. 89

SC/ST and Equal Opportunity Cell ............................................................................................................ 90

English Language Cell ..................................................................................................................................... 92

Counselling Centre ........................................................................................................................................... 98

Internal Committee......................................................................................................................................... 103

International Relations Office ..................................................................................................................... 105

ANNEXURES ........................................................................................................................... 107

Management Committee ......................................................................................................... 108

School Chairpersons and Faculty Coordinators ..................................................................... 109

Facilitation and Support Cell for Students ............................................................................. 110

Faculty and Staff ..................................................................................................................... 111

Student Representatives in the Career Guidance and Placement Cell ................................... 115

Programme Wise Titles of Student Dissertations .................................................................. 116

TISS Hyderabad Annual Report 2019-2020 1

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), established in 1936,

is recognized as a premier institution for social sciences

education committed to the values of equity and social justice.

From its very inception TISS has gone beyond the mandate of a

conventional university by consistently working for the

promotion of sustainable, equitable and participatory

development of the society. The Institute has now grown into a

multi-campus public university that is today offering over 50

cutting-edge Masters, 3 Bachelors, 16 MPhil, 10 Doctoral and 28

Diploma and executive diploma from its campuses at Mumbai, Tuljapur, Guwahati and

Hyderabad and contextually engaging with prominent and topical issues at each of its

location.

Aligned with the overall vision of the Institute, the TISS off-campus at Hyderabad, set up

in 2011 produces socially aware human service professionals and creates socially-

relevant knowledge and action programmes. Its multi-pronged approach involves

teaching, research, engagement with the State and wide-ranging advocacy and action

work with various groups.

In the academic year 2019–20 TISS Hyderabad delivered 11 academic programmes, which

included one undergraduate, six graduate, four research programmes (three PhDs and

one MPhil). 208 students in all – 205 students from BA and MA programmes and 3

students from M.Phil. & Ph.D. programmes are graduating this year. A majority of them

have already been placed in some of the best organisations in the country. A good number

among the graduating students have also secured admission into reputed higher

educational institutes in the country and abroad. These are significant achievements for

a campus that had to begin its activities in new premises at the very start of the academic

year. The off-campus managed to complete the teaching requirements just before the

announcement of lockdown due to COVID-19. It was therefore successfully able to bring

the academic year to a close resulting in the timely graduation of students.

As in the previous years, during 2019-20 too faculty members at TISS Hyderabad worked

on various socially relevant research projects. These works have been disseminated

through publications, workshops, conferences and capacity building sessions with State

and non-State groups. A very significant aspect of the work this year has been the swift

response of the Hyderabad campus to the social crisis generated by COVID-19, which

has intensified the hardships and vulnerabilities of the poor, including the migrant


workers. Faculty from TISS Hyderabad partnered with state agencies to conduct a needs

assessment survey of migrants, and followed it up with sending recommendations to the

Government of Telangana, and simultaneously with assisting and tracking migrants as

they returned to their respective States. Furthermore, comprehensive documentation of

the responses at different levels of the Centre, States, Industry etc. too has been archived

through appropriate policy trackers. These efforts are detailed in the present report.

TISS has always been committed to contributing to the society through its knowledge

inputs. As the report of TISS Hyderabad for 2019 – 20 demonstrates, the Institution is

living up to this commitment through its off-campuses as well. Despite challenges of

different kinds, the community of faculty, staff and students at TISS Hyderabad are

actively engaged with interpreting, analysing and intervening in a range of social issues

that can benefit the wider society. I am confident that the off-campus of TISS at

Hyderabad will continue with these efforts. I congratulate the campus Deputy Director

and the faculty team for the successful academic year closing and wish them well in their

future endeavours.

Shalini Bharat

Director


DEPUTY DIRECTOR’S REPORT

The Annual Report, seen as a culmination of the year’s

achievements and progress made, would have been presented

and released during the Convocation for the graduating batch

in ‘normal’ times. The COVID-19 however put an abrupt halt to

these plans this year. We are however delighted to say that we

could complete the academic requirements for the year with the

declaration of results and the students receiving their

certificates well within the time, thus bringing the academic

year to a successful close.

Teaching and Research Activities

During the year 2019 - 20, eleven academic programmes were successfully delivered at

the TISS Hyderabad Off Campus through its four Schools, i.e. (i) Azim Premji School of

Education, (ii) School of Gender Studies, (iii) School of Livelihoods and Development and

(iv) School of Public Policy and Governance. The programmes offered included Ph.D. in

Social Sciences, Women’s Studies and Education, M.Phil. in Education, six Masters

programmes and the Bachelors in Social Sciences.

Currently, 441 students are on the rolls, with 65% of them being girls, and 35% boys. The

distribution by social categories shows that 246 students (56%) represented different

social and economic categories, while 195 (44%) were from the general category.

At the end of the present academic year, 208 students across all programmes graduated

this year, including two PhDs (one each in Education and in Women’s Studies) and one

M.Phil. in Education. In addition, 13 students of the MA in Organisation Development,

Change and Leadership (ODCL) programme, who completed three semesters in the

Hyderabad campus also took their degrees this year.

In terms of research, three major research projects were completed and three new ones

initiated during this academic year. Six research/field action projects are ongoing. The

details are provided below. In addition, faculty have been engaged in conducting

capacity building programmes, bringing out publications, participating in seminars and

conferences, and several other regular academic activities, details of which are presented

in the reports of the different Schools.


Completed Ongoing Initiated

1. Early Literacy Initiative anchored by the Azim Premji School of Education with Dr. Rekha Pappu as the Project Director. Project Duration: January 2017 – December 2019. Supported by Tata Trusts.

1. Sakhi-One Stop Centres anchored by the School of Gender Studies with Prof. U. Vindhya as the Project Director. Supported by Department of Women Development and Child Welfare, Government of Telangana.

1. Skill Gap and Unemployment among Educated India Youth: A Comparative Study of Job Market Entrants in Bihar and Telangana anchored by the School of Livelihoods and Development with Dr. Krithi S and Dr. Santosh Verma as the Project Directors Supported by Azim Premji Foundation.

2. Impact of MGNREGA Assets on the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Groups in Chhattisgarh anchored by School of Livelihoods and Development with Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak as the Principal Investigator. Supported by ICRG Chhattisgarh, IPE Global.

2. State Resource Centre for Women. Prof. U. Vindhya, Project

Director, supported by Department of Women Development and Child Welfare, Govt of Telangana.

2. Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers. Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak, School of Livelihoods and Development. Supported by The Norwegian Research Council.

3. Impact of Skill Training Schemes of NSFDC through CSR Initiative of REC for 6 States. Dr. Srinivas Surisetti and Dr. Shahul Ameen, Faculty, School of Livelihoods and Development. Supported by National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, Government of India.

3. Patterns of Innovation, Technological Competition and Firm Performance in Case of Indian Manufacturing Sector. Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya, School of Livelihoods and Development as Co-Project Director (in Collaboration with IIT Hyderabad). Supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research.

3. Gender & Safety Mapping: Initiatives to make Hyderabad Safe for Women and Girls, Project Directors: Lakshmi Lingam, Ipsita Sapra and Aseem Prakash. Supported by Hyderabad Police.

4. Moving towards Climate Resilient Agriculture: Understanding the Factors Influencing Adoption in India and Japan. Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak, School of Livelihoods and Development collaborating with NIT, Surathkal. Supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research.

5. Social Impact Assessment of Land Acquisition for expansion of CISF Academy. Dr. Srinivas Surisetti, School of Livelihoods and Development. Supported by Government of Telangana.


Completed Ongoing Initiated

6. Evaluation of the Plan Scheme on End- To- End Computerization of the TDPS Operation, Project Directors: Aseem Prakash and Bibhu Prasad Nayak. Supported by Govt of Maharashtra.

Student activities and placements

A full-fledged 22-member Students Council was elected this year and a note on their

cultural, literary, sports and other activities is detailed elsewhere in this report.

Despite the economic slowdown this year, the results of the student placement drive have

been fairly encouraging with 113 of the 124 students who appeared for the placement

having received offer letters. Some results have been kept on hold due to the lock down

and confirmation of these is awaited. A total of 45 organizations were contacted by the

Career Guidance and Placement Cell (CGPC); while representatives from 18

organizations personally visited the campus for recruitment, 27 conducted the interviews

online. The efforts of the CGPC are commendable, with the highly motivated student

representatives taking the initiative and an active interest in all the activities of the

Cell. The placement results are entirely due to their hard work. The sector-wise and

category-wise distribution of the placements are as follows:

Government, 21%

NGOs, 39%

Private, 25%

Corporate, 14%

SECTOR-WISE PLACEMENTS (%)


The Student Support mechanisms on the campus such as the English Language Cell and

the Student Counselling Centre continue to play a vital and key role in enabling students

with English language difficulties to overcome the linguistic barrier, and in engaging

with psychological well-being issues respectively. The Counselling Centre has been

active even during the lock down, providing mental health support to students through

telephonic and other means.

A total of five students cleared the UGC NET examination this year with three qualifying

for the JRF and NET, while two students qualified for the NET alone. Students have been

active in international student exchange programmes, with two BA students selected for

an exchange programme at Macquarie University, Australia, one at Sciences Po, Paris,

and two for the Birmingham International Summer School programme. Additionally,

students have been involved in the usual activities that make the campus an intellectually

stimulating and vibrant place -- organizing talks and discussions on topical themes,

bringing out newsletters, and showcasing art and dance activities.

COVID-19 Response Initiatives

The finale of the academic year was the various multi-pronged initiatives taken up by the

campus in response to the COVID-19 and the subsequent lock down. While some were

engaged in conducting webinars on COVID-related topics, others were involved in

organizing relief, arranging transport for migrant workers affected by the lock down,

tracking their return journeys home, and some in initiating action research studies. In

addition, some faculty have also prepared and submitted research proposals for

Livelihoods, 43%

Skill Development 17%

Education 20%

Research and Consultancy 13%

Advocacy 7%

CATEGORY-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF PLACEMENTS


sponsorship from funding agencies, results of which are awaited. Few details and links

of our work reported in the media are given below.

April 15, 2020

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/tiss-hyderabad-socio-economic-

survey-migrants-coronavirus-6364241/

May 22, 2020

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/76-guest-workers-did-not-get-

govt-aid/article31654090.ece

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/tiss-hyderabad-socio-economic-survey-migrants-coronavirus-6364241/

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/tiss-hyderabad-socio-economic-survey-migrants-coronavirus-6364241/

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/76-guest-workers-did-not-get-govt-aid/article31654090.ece

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/76-guest-workers-did-not-get-govt-aid/article31654090.ece


a. Webinar Series: Organized by the School of Public Policy and Governance, the focus of the webinars was on COVID related topics ranging from India’s health care systems, economic revival and restoration of work in the informal sector, the conditions of migrant workers’ lives to imagining a new social and economic order in a post-COVID world. Details are given in the section on the School. Organizers of this series: Prof Aseem Prakash and Dr Arvind Pandey.

b. Policy Tracking and Policy Briefs Series: Initiated by the School of Public Policy and Governance across multiple domains, the series covered the policy responses of the union and state governments, corporate sector, and international response. The Policy Briefs series included wide-ranging topics such as Transport Grid for Migrants' Mobility Concerns, A Responsive Lockdown Exit Strategy; Policing the Pandemic; and Mental Health in Wake of Covid-19: Existing Initiatives and Recommendations. Team: Aseem Prakash, Arvind Pandey, Ipsita Sapra, Srilatha Juvva, U. Vindhya and students of the School contributed to writing of these policy briefs.

c. Needs Assessment Survey of Migrant Workers in collaboration with the Rachakonda police commissionerate: The survey was done from April 15th to May 4th 2020, covering 10,672 migrant workers. Summary of the findings with recommendations have been shared with the Govt of Telangana. Faculty team across Schools: Murali Krishna M., Bibhu Prasad Nayak, Mohan Dharavath, U. Vindhya, Poulomi Bhattacharya, Sunayana Swain, Srinivas Surisetti, Sonia Sawhney.

d. Migrant Workers Tracking Project in collaboration with India Network for Basic Income (INBI), and other civil society organizations: Operating through a WhatsApp group, this project (from April to June 2020) aimed to provide migrant workers with concrete assistance in terms of transport, food and shelter on the way, and connecting them to key nodal officials so that they are able to safely reach home in their destination states.

e. Student internship certified by INBI for an ongoing research project. The internship involves preparing annotated bibliographies and collecting data through telephonic interviews on fallouts of the lock down on migrant workers who have returned home in various states from Telangana. Faculty mentors: Murali Krishna M., Bibhu Prasad Nayak, U. Vindhya.

f. Student internship certified by Infrastructure for Climate Resilient Growth (ICRG) program of DFID, UK, and implementation agency of UNDP, India for an ongoing project. The internship involves conducting telephonic interviews with migrant workers belonging to Chattisgarh. Students from both Mumbai and Hyderabad campuses are engaged with this project. Faculty mentors: Bibhu Prasad Nayak, Murali Krishna M.

g. Student projects such as study of the impact of the lock down on local retail business and livelihoods in Turkayamjal, conducted by eight students of the Development Studies programme, School of Livelihoods and Development. Faculty mentor: Poulomi Bhattacharya.


I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Prof Shalini Bharat, Director, for

her prompt attention and responsiveness to issues of the campus, and Prof Surinder

Jaswal and Prof Shajahan for their counsel in all academic matters. The timely and strong

support of Major General Anil Dere, OSD, and Mr Balamurugan and Ms Indira

Pasupathy in administrative matters is also gratefully acknowledged. I would like to

place on record here the excellent team work of the Management Committee of the

campus consisting of Drs Ritesh Khunyakari, Murali Krishna M, Bibhu Prasad Nayak,

Rekha Pappu, Aseem Prakash, Nilanjana Ray and Srinivas Surisetti whose cooperation

and thoughtful guidance contributed to the collective decision-making that is a hallmark

of the institutional ethos in our campus. Furthermore, I would also like to place on record

the contribution of the newly-set up Facilitation and Support Cell for Students

comprising Drs Karunakar P, Ipsita Sapra, Arjun Sengupta and Sowjanya T. for their

receptivity and deft handling of student issues on the campus, and for playing a

constructive role in resolving them. And finally, my sincere thanks and appreciation to

our M.A. Education student, Elsa Rose John for designing the cover page and to the

Annual Report Committee consisting of Rekha Pappu, Sonia Sawhney, Ujithra Ponniah,

Neetha Rani, Ipsita Sapra, Krithi S., and Amit Upadhyay for compiling the necessary

information on the various activities of the campus and putting it all together in order to

mark the year 2019-2020 in our institutional memory.

U. Vindhya

Deputy Director


B.A. in SOCIAL SCIENCES


B.A. in SOCIAL SCIENCES

I: Introduction

The BA programme at TISS Hyderabad is a three year undergraduate programme that

provides a well-rounded understanding of Social Sciences. The course was introduced in

2012 after a scoping study undertaken by the institute emphasised the need for social

sciences education in the southern part of the country, especially in the then undivided

state of Andhra Pradesh.

The vision of the programme is to provide high quality inter-disciplinary and trans-

disciplinary Social Sciences education. While reaching out to students across the country,

the programme especially caters to the students from southern states where the

opportunities for such education is limited. In addition, the course is also envisioned as

one that will prepare a pool of students with a strong foundation in social sciences. This,

it is expected, will prepare them for the Masters programmes offered by the institute,

enhancing their ability to further enrich these interdisciplinary programmes.

II: Academic Programme

There are four dimensions to the design of the programme:

Disciplinary foundations are offered through five key subjects – Sociology, Economics,

Political Science, History and Psychology.

Interdisciplinary perspectives are inculcated by providing opportunities for making

connections between Biological Sciences, Mathematics and the Social Sciences. Students

are also exposed to interdisciplinary subjects like Environment, Development and

Gender in the third year.

Liberal Arts foundations are strengthened through language and literature appreciation.

In addition to English, the students study Hindi or Telugu that build their understanding

of the relationship of Social Sciences with Literature and strengthen their ability to work

in the field.

Experiential learning and internships provide the space to link classroom learning with

grassroot realities.

Through this curriculum design, the students are provided arenas for reflective thinking,

recognition of diverse and often opposing points of view, sensitivity to different cultural

locations, and a commitment to social responsibilities. Multiple pedagogies of teaching

and learning with a strong emphasis on group learning, working on projects,

presentations and dissertations enrich the quality of classroom experience.


In the first year of the programme, the course provides classroom sessions that introduce

the basic concepts of Social and Natural sciences to the students. The students also

participate in Experiential Learning (EL) which essentially includes a week-long

engagement with a range of government and civil society organisations in the rural/

tribal areas. In the first year, the institute handholds the students and liaisons with the

host institutions.

In the second year, the students move to disciplinary orientations such as Economics,

History, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. The students are also required to

undertake a compulsory internship with developmental organisations to familiarise

themselves with the work of such organisations. In the year 2020, about 39 students are

participating in the research project being currently undertaken by the Institute in

collaboration with several civil society organizations on the impact of the COVID-19 lock

down on migrant workers. As part of the study, the students are undertaking telephonic

interviews of migrant workers s who have returned to the native states from Telangana.

Another task in the internship is also to prepare annotated bibliographies of existing

literature on migration. Other students who are not a part of the study are pursuing

internship with developmental organizations.

In the final year of the programme, in addition to the classroom courses that have a strong

inter-disciplinary orientation, the students also take up one of the three areas of

specialisation/ basket courses that are offered: 1) Understanding Education; 2) Post

Reform Transformations in India; and 3) Rural Development, Livelihood and Social

Policy. They also carry out a guided project work as part of these specialisations that

results in a research dissertation. The topics covered under the thematic areas of

specialisation in 2019-20 were:

Post Reform Transformation

• Economic and Cultural changes in India post reforms: Gated Communities, Gig

Economy, Labour and skills in the New Economy including the employees in the IT

industries; Madrasa and Islamic Education; Religious polarisation in Hyderabad;

Intercaste marriages in Bengal; Folk art and their gradual decline.

• Environment and ecology: Natural Disabsters; Green Clean Cities.

• Gender and intersectionalities: Gender and corporeality of Media, Masculinity and

cross dressing, Educational policies and challenges for the transgender communities,

women in governance


• Sectors and Vulnerabilities: Agrarian crisis and farmers suicide; Livelihoods and

associated challenges faced by the Safai Karmacharis, Pani puri sellers, Fishing

communities, Tea plantation workers, Transport Sector Workers, Inter-stte migrants.

• Identity studies: Changing identietes in the context of socio-economic

transformations: Jews of Cochin; Tamil Brahmins in the neoliberal world; Assamese

and citizenship debates.

Understanding Education

• Educational Choices and Policies for the Socio-culturally Marginalised groups:

Alternative approaches to tribal education; Higher education for women in

Telangana Social Welfare Institutions.

• Comparative study of government and private schools with regard to different

aspects of school education and career aspirations.

• School based studies that tried to explore the factors such as education and the

development of spiritual intellegince. Dissertations also explored reasons for faliure

of students in the Senior secondary School Examination in Telangana.

Rural Development, Livelihood and Social Policy

• Migration: Migration and Gender: Mobility of Women Students for Education;

Migration and Ideas of Hegemonic Masculinity; Migration and Identity: Case Study

of Migrants from North East. Migration and Educational Aspirations of Dalit

Students. Migration and Religious Identities: Sikhs in Hyderabad, Social aspects of

Religiosity.

• Urbanisation and Livelihoods: Dying professions of India: Ear Cleaning, Old Cloth

Market, Shoe Shine Workers, Patterns of Urbanisation in the slums in Dharavi, Folk

theatres of Bengal

III: Student Activities

Gender Sensitivity Workshop

In the year 2018-19, TISS BA students had engaged in a range of activities with the British

Deputy High Commission and the Chevening Scholars Association towards making

college campuses gender sensitive. In the second phase of the initiative in 2019-20, the

students collaborated with ‘Rubaroo’, an organisation working on gender in campuses to

consolidate its engagement with gender Sensitivity in the campus spaces of TISS and

across colleges of Hyderabad.


As a part of the programme the BA students:

• Participated in a gender sensitisation session by Rubaroo at TISS Hyderabad

• Participated in brain-storming exercise with the British Deputy High Commission

and Rubaroo, in the office of Rubaroo.

• Initiated the ‘un-gendering’ project at the TISS Hyderabad campusto create greater

awareness about gender in university spaces.

Cultural Activities

Kalaangan - Yard of art, a cultural club was formed by BA 2017-20 students to present

socially relevant issues through various art forms. Kalaangan presented its first

production, Manihara, a play based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore that was

followed by discussions. The event was attended by students and faculty members of

TISS, Hyderabad.

Choreography society - The society that was formed to promote the dance, as an art form,

organised several performances during the year. The event was attended by students and

members of the faculty at TISS, Hyderabad.

Representation in Manage - TT competition, Volleyball, Badminton, Basketball, Chess by

the students of TISS, Hyderabad

Paper Presentations

Rashad Ullah Khan presented a paper "Shrinking spaces:Impact of Hindutva Populism on the

Vulnerable" at the conference "Populism & Populist Politics in South Asia”, organised by

Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Rashad Ullah Khan presented a paper "Zameen He Apna Adhikaar: Unification of the Left

and Ambedkarite Forces in India through the question of Land and Labour" at the 11th Dr.

Ambedkar Memorial Lecture National conference at TISS Tuljapur.

IV: TISS BA Internship Cell

During this academic year, TISS students set up a student-led Internship Cell to facilitate

the process of internships, a compulsory part of the BA programme. As part of the

mandate of the cell, the students have approached faculty members to compile a list of

organisations that they could approach for the internship. The list specifies location of

the organisation and the nature of work offered by the organisations for internships in

order to support the students make informed decisions about applying for internship

opportunities available across the country.


V: Exchange Programme

Two students, Ms. Navya Mehta and Ms. Aditi Premkumar were selected for the

exchange programme at Macquaire University,

Sydney, Australia.

Ms. Aditi Premkumar participated in global

leadership program and international delegate

for Cabramatta cultural study from Macquarie

University. She was selected from a group of

twenty to understand transnational migration

patterns over a period of three decades by

Vietnamese, Polish and Syrian refugees living

in the suburban areas of Sydney. She also

participated and won pre-break rounds at

Australian national women's debating

championship 2019.


AZIM PREMJI SCHOOL OF EDUCATION


AZIM PREMJI SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

I: About the School

The Azim Premji School of Education (APSoE) has been consistently working towards its

goal of ensuring quality education in contextually responsive ways. The School has

sought to achieve its objectives through academic programmes offered at the institute

and also through initiatives and activities that enable direct engagement with the

different levels of school and higher education and the diverse stakeholders in the field.

Vision

Since its inception in 2011, the Azim Premji School of Education (APSoE) has been working

towards enriching the discipline and practice of education through a wide range of activities

that include teaching, research, capacity building and advocacy. APSoE is committed to

ensuring that its activities also resonate with the larger vision of TISS while striving for a

balance between academic excellence and critical engagement.

MA Education students: Batch of 2018 - 20


II: Academic Programmes

Teaching activities

The existing academic programmes offered by APSoE are spread across different

educational levels. The School offers M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Education, Master of Arts in

Education and a basket course in the last semester for students of B.A. in Social Sciences.

The teaching programmes introduce students to educational thought and practice across

the globe and in India. Internships and field experience components are an integral part

of all taught courses. The programmes seek to develop a deeper understanding of

contemporary educational discourses, socio-cultural influences, and alignment with

diverse perspectives on education. The mutual engagement of students and faculty finds

expression through systematic research that attempts to align conceptual thought with

practical realities.

The MA Education programme is spread over four semesters, i.e. across two years. The

breaks between the semesters are utilised for experiential learning through internships.

Internships allows students to visit a site of educational practice and immersion in the

settings to gain an understanding of what characterises an educational discourse in that

particualar setting. The presentations and reflections of these experiences by the students

contribute to creating a larger awareness of educational discourses in the country. It also

provides a basis for anchoring conceptual understanding in the taught courses. Students

also get an additional opportunity to explore and study an area of interest in depth

through their research dissertations. The dissertations are examined by external

reviewers, allowing for critical feedback and inputs.

The Integrated M.Phil.-Ph.D. programme offered by APSoE seeks to develop researchers

who can help strengthen the domain of education. The M.Phil. students are expected to

complete their coursework over two semesters and go on to the field for their research

and submit the dissertation in the next two semesters. The courses offered as part of the

M.Phil. programme seek to integrate learning from field and building a conceptual

understanding of educational content and discourse in regional settings.

During the year 2019-20 Faculty from APSoE has been involved, along with the Faculty

from the Centre for Educational Innovation and Research (CEIAR) at TISS Mumbai in

developing new programmes. The team has been working towards mapping resources

to the ITE programmes in the country. As part of this initiative Open Educational

Resources (OERs) are being mapped to courses of the NCTE approved B.Ed. curriculum

in an attempt to shape student teachers’ perspectives and practice in the context of each

course. These resources will be made available on the NCTE web-site for student teachers


and faculty to avail of. The team from APSoE includes Faculty members, Dr. Ritesh

Khunyakari and Dr. Sonia Sawhney along with students from the present batches and

alumni volunteers, Ms. Asmita Dabral, Mr. Ginsuanpau V, Mr. Manish Singh, Ms. Meenu

Talasila Chowdary, Ms. Navya Varshney, Ms. Niti Kalia, Ms. Rheeya K. Shreedharan,

Ms. Shikha Janwadkar, Ms. Shivani Pathak and Ms. Shobhana Bhushan.

Curricular Discourse, Pedagogy and Assessments

The curricular space for all the academic programmes affords a certain degree of

flexibility, allowing the course anchoring faculty to tailor the readings, resources and

flow of the course content to align with the contexts of teaching presented in each

academic year. Such a flexible curricular space allows scope for upgrading content and

also integrating knowledge from across disciplines. A variety of pedagogic strategies

inform the classroom practice which encourage collaborative learning, project-based

engagement and discussions. Within the norms laid by the University Grants

Commission, a variety of assessments modes which invite formative as well as

summative assessments is included. These include reflective writings, presentations of

projects, term papers, etc.

An example of pedagogic innovations in practice is the use of modelling-based teaching

practice at the higher education levels. An elective course on Design & Technology

Education in the MA Education programme encouraged an engagement-oriented

learning. Dr. Ritesh Khunyakari through his teaching highlighted important concepts

and principles that emphasize the salience of social concerns while designing and

making. The following two images capture some examples of student groups in action.

Designing and making a parachute that remains afloat in air

for 2 mins when dropped from the building terrace

Designing and making a shoe that is comfortable for a

diabetic patient


Internship/ Experiential Learning

The growing academic presence of APSoE can be ascertained from an overview of the

variety and number of organisations that are willing to offer internship opportunities for

its students. These include government organisations and institutions, non-governmental

organisations, agencies and Start-ups working in education and several non-profit

voluntary organisations.

Thematic Areas of Student Dissertation

The APSoE takes pride in mentioning that despite the unanticipated disruption in the

proceedings of the academic year due to the COVID 19 pandemic, this year has also seen

completion of course work and fruitful dissertation accomplishments from its graduating

students: 06 students from BA Education basket, 24 students from M.A.Ed. have

submitted their research dissertations. Because of the pandemic, we did not have an

opportunity for an open viva-voce, but student dissertations received inputs and

feedback from external examiners.

While research dissertations offer students opportunities to engage and study an area or

issue of interest in depth, it also opens up possibilities for expanding interest avenues or

strengthen their research interests. A glance at the topics provides a sense of the range of

educational issues being covered.

Understanding the Field of Education: Experiential Learning


Academic programmes Some research areas pursued

BA (Education basket) Tribal Education, Students failure in Senior Secondary schools, Education and spiritual intelligence, Gendered dimensions in learning, etc.

MA in Education English Education, Tribal Education, Privatisation of Education, Educational Administration, Language Education, Science Education, Math Education, Curricular studies, Emotional well-being, Inclusive Education, Environmental Education, Sports Education etc.

Ph.D. in Education Studying role of visualisation and modelling in learning human body systems, Visual practices in ‘School Art’, Understanding critical pedagogy, Studying Social Science curricula, Early childhood care and education, Exploring role of ICTs in meeting needs of visually impaired learners, Sustainability in Education, Inclusive Education etc.

III: Placements

APSoE has had a good track record of placements. Much in alignment with the past

record, this year too a good placement record was achieved. Out of total strength of 24

graduating students, 19 opted for the placement process. Of the 19, 14 (74%) got placed

in well-established schools, Government-run organisations, NGOs and Private

educational organisations. The positions acquired by students cover a wide range from

being Vice-Principals, Subject experts, Academic co-ordinators to Academic fellows.

Organisation kind Examples

Government Departments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State

Non-Governmental 3.2.1 Foundation, NIRMAAN, etc.

Private Companies Creya Learning, NEXT Education, etc.

Other sectors of Educational engagement (e.g. Schools)

Ripples School, Vignayan School, etc.


IV: Research Projects

The Faculty at the School engage and lend their expertise as researchers and consultants

in collaborative research projects involving educational issues. The details of Faculty

members and the research projects and consultancies they are involved in are as follows:

1. Early Literacy Initiative

The Early Literacy Initiative (ELI), which began in January 2017 with support from the

Tata Trusts, was completed in December 2019. The project was anchored by the Azim

Premji School of Education with Dr. Rekha Pappu as the Project Director. The project had

a three-fold objective.

1. Research: To conduct new research in early language and literacy in India; and to

disseminate knowledge that is already available.

2. Teaching: To create a cadre of knowledgeable and well-prepared professionals in

the area of early language and literacy.

3. Advocacy: To provide visibility and leadership to work in early language and

literacy by engaging in national level dialogues with scholars, policy-makers and

other professionals working in allied areas. To also provide networking support

for practitioners and scholars working in the domain through a variety of means,

such as, a visible and dynamic web presence, offering short-term workshops and

courses, collecting and disseminating relevant information, and so on.

The project has been successful in addressing all the objectives. Three major studies were

carried out as part of ELI: (1) Classroom intervention project in Hyderabad (2) Early

language and literacy education in India: A socio-historical study and (3) Community

literacy project carried out by Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) through a

Memorandum of Understanding signed between TISS and AUD.

The project has also resulted in creating a network of scholars and practitioners working

on early language and literacy at different locations within the country through the

organisation of Summer Schools as also the creation of a dynamic website eli.tiss.edu

The networking activities and the research studies from the project have led to

publications that will be of immense importance to all interested and involved in the

domain of early literacy.

i) Telugu Language Primer: The classroom intervention project in Hyderabad, which was

led by Dr. Maxine Berntsen, resulted in the development of a primer titled Pada

Chaduvukundam (Let’s Read) to help children achieve a mastery of the Telugu script so

that can begin learning to read and write with meaning in Class I itself. The central

http://eli.tiss.edu/


concept of this book is that learning to read and write Telugu requires mastering the

script in the context of meaningful words, phrases and sentences. The Primer draws on

the view that this mastery is best achieved when a number of emotionally charged words

are identified, and then the aksharas contained in these words are introduced. The whole

book is thus systematically built up in a series of seven lessons. Mr. Akhilesh Anki, Ms.

Anuradha Pachanooru, Ms. Roshni Choudhury and Ms. Sanghamitra Raiguru were

involved in the production of the Primer.

ii) ELI Resource Book Series: In its three years tenure, the ELI team created a set of resources

useful to practitioners working in the domain of early language, literacy and literature.

Five themes were created, on the basis of which, approximately 45 original blog pieces

were written by practitioners and scholars knowledgeable about that theme. An

annotated bibliography was also created for each theme, totalling nearly 145 annotations

across the five themes. In an effort to disseminate these materials, ELI collated the five

thematic resources in the form of Resource Books. While the online resources are openly

and freely available to practitioners on the ELI website eli.tiss.edu, Eklavya Publications

has published the print versions for further dissemination. The series editors are Shailaja

Menon, Shuchi Sinha, Harshita V. Das and Akhila Pydah. The following titles are part of

the series:

a) Multilingual Education in India

b) Children's Literature

c) Children's Writing

d) Teaching and Learning the Script

e) Reading Comprehension



iii) ELI Practitioner Briefs Series: The

Early Literacy Initiative’s Practitioner

Briefs (PB) are a collection of “how-tos”

for people working in the field.

Teachers, teacher educators and NGO

staff often struggle with

operationalising theoretical ideas that

they read about. The Practitioner Brief

series draws upon theoretical

perspectives to help individuals and

organisations to imagine relevant

practices in classrooms. A total of 21

briefs were compiled into seven

thematic booklets. As with the Resource

Books, while the online resources are

openly and freely available to

practitioners on the ELI website

eli.tiss.edu, Eklavya Publications has

published the print versions for further

dissemination.

The series editors are Shailaja Menon,

Shuchi Sinha, Harshita V. Das and Akhila Pydah. The following are the Practitioner

Briefs:

a) Early Language and Literacy: Introduction and Overview

b) Supporting Comprehension

c) Supporting Script Acquisition and Fluency

d) Supporting Multilingualism

e) Supporting Writing

f) Using Children’s Literature in the Classroom - Part I

g) Using Children’s Literature in the Classroom – Part II

2. Early Child Care and Education

Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Next Education Private Limited, an education

technology service provider, signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on

a project, the key component of which was to organise a national conference on early

Resource Books and Practitioner Briefs from the Early Literacy

Initiative Project



childhood care and education mainly involving Principals of pre-schools. Dr. Rekha

Pappu from the Azim Premji School of Education was the Director for the project.

Within a larger context wherein the importance of developing a national curriculum for

early child education is being recognised and emphasised, a national conference titled

“Early Childhood Care and Education: Principles and Practice” was organised between

21st and 23rd of November 2019. The conference focussed on the principles and

approaches that inform the process of formulating a curriculum for early education. The

conference sessions involved 50 participants and six resource persons from institutions

such as Ambedkar University Delhi; Azim Premji University, Bengaluru; Indira Gandhi

National Open University, Delhi and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The 3-day

conference engaged with both the challenges within the existing practices as well as

theoretical understanding of early education.

3. State of Inclusive Education in India

As part of the State of the Education Report for India initiative by UNESCO, a study was

undertaken to review and consolidate existing literature on inclusive education at both

the national and global levels. To develop this report consultations with key stakeholders

including disability experts, institutions, civil society organizations, parents, teachers and

educationists, and children with disabilities were carried out. The report titled N for Nose:

Status of the Education Report for India 2019; Children with Disabilities provides

comprehensive information on the current state of education for children with

disabilities. It also highlights achievements and success stories throughout India, and

provides accounts of challenges that need to be overcome. The study team included Dr.

Sonia Sawhney from APSoE, TISS, Hyderabad and colleagues Prof. Archana Mehendale,

Prof. Mythili Ramchand and Ms. Bhagyalaxmi Velugu from CEIAR, TISS Mumbai.

4. Social Emotional Learning in Schools

In collaboration with Learning Curve Life Skills Foundation Dr. Sonia Sawhney has

undertaken a study to understand the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) of students across

low income private schools in South India. The primary objective of the study is to

develop standardised data collection tools to ascertain the social emotional wellbeing and

learning od students across the target schools.


V: Conferences and Collaborative Outreach

• An international conference

was organized between 1st and

3rd of August 2019 to bring

together scholars from and

working on education in 10

countries that comprise South

Asia. The conference was

organised by Dr. Rekha Pappu

(TISS, Hyderabad), Dr. Padma

Sarangapani (TISS, Mumbai)

and Dr. Leena Wadia

(International Centre for

Theoretical Sciences (ICTS),

Bengaluru) with support from

ICTS Bengaluru. Scholars from

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,

Maldives, Mauritius,

Myanmar, Nepal and Sri

Lanka participated in the

conference, which was meant

to review and discuss cross

cutting issues and concerns in

relation to the education systems in these countries.

Overall, 22 presentations were made covering eight themes: (i) Indigenous Education

Systems, (ii) History of Education, (iii) School Education Systems and Policies, (iv)

Higher Education Systems and Policies, (v) Knowledge and Curriculum, (vi)

Teachers and Teacher Education, (vii) Political Economy of Education and (viii)

Learner Diversity and Marginality The conference helped consolidate ideas and the

processes that will result in the publication by Springer Nature in 2020 of a Handbook

on Education Systems in South Asia, edited by Padma Sarangapani and Rekha Pappu

Education Systems in South Asia: A Conference Poster


• One of the stated visions in the School document, concerns collaborative outreach

and extension of School activities. An orientation towards outreach enables dual

purpose of connecting with societal concerns and carves a niche of suitable networks,

opening avenues for student internships and placements. The School has been

working to strike one such collaboration in the academic year 2019 with SchoolCrop,

a start-up intending to take organic farming experience to schools and building

learning opportunities around it. The collaboration seeks to involve students in

developing resources and help conceptualise the benefits of learning through

agriculture. It is an ongoing activity and the terms of partnership are being discussed.

• Dr. Murali Krishna is an academic consultant for Higher Education Cell, TSWREIS,

Telangana State. He conducted two workshops (28th December 2019 and 17th

February 2020) for final year UG students to provide career guidance, academic skills,

and soft skills.

• Dr. Sonia Sawhney conducted a virtual workshop on developing teachers’ skills to

support students’ emotional well-being during the COVID pandemic. The workshop

was supported by Learning Curve Life Skill Foundation. 17 April, 2020.

Delegates attending the international conference on Education Systems in South Asia


VI: Publications

Books/Book Chapters

• Pappu R. (2020). Gender Equity in Education: Changes and Challenges in South Asia.

In P. M. Sarangapani, R. Pappu (eds.), Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia.

Global Education Systems. Singapore: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-

3309-5_35-1

• Pappu R., & Vasanta D. (2020). Child Labor and Education in South Asia. In

Sarangapani P., & Pappu R. (Eds) Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Global

Education Systems. Singapore: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-

5_73-1

Journal Articles

• Pappu R. (2019). Women’s Education and Social Reform in India: Creating ‘Angels’

in the House? Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators. 8 (1), 50 - 58.

Reports

• Mehendale, A., Velugu, B., Ramchand, M., & Sawhney, S. (2019). N for Nose: Status of

the Education Report for India 2019; Children with Disabilities. UNESCO, New Delhi.

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000368780

Conference Proceedings

• Khunyakari, R. (2019). Analysing ‘values’ in collaborative development of D&T

education units. In Sarah Pule & Marc de Vries (eds) Proceeding PATT 37: Developing

a knowledge economy through technology and engineering education. Dept. of Technology

and Entrepreneurship Education, University of Malta, Msida. [ISBN: 9789995 714796]

• Khunyakari, R. (2020). Modelling in design-and-make: Synthesis of biological cell

into a board game. In K. Mashood, T. Sengupta, C. Ursekar, H. Raval and S. Dutta

(eds.) Proceedings of epiSTEME-8: International Conference to Review Research in Science,

Technology and Mathematics Education, 475-483, HBCSE, Jan 03-06. India, Mumbai:

Gaurang Publishing Globalize Pvt. Ltd. [ISBN No: 9788194156796]

• Janwadkar, S. & Sawhney, S. (2019). Educational opportunities and access for persons

with intellectual and developmental disabilities In 10th International Comparative

Education Society of India (CESI) Conference, JNU, Delhi, Dec 09-11.

• Singh, G. & Khunyakari, R. (2019). A comparative analysis of content of human

reproductive system in the national and state textbooks. In 10th International

Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) Conference, JNU, Delhi, Dec 09-11.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_35-1

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_35-1

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_73-1

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_73-1

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000368780


VII: Engagement with Academic Institutions

Rekha Pappu

• External examiner for evaluating Thesis submitted for the award of Doctor of

Philosophy in Women and Gender Studies from Ambedkar University Delhi.

• Reviewed book proposal titled “Language Medium and Difference: Schools in South

Asia” for Routledge India.

• Reviewed articles for Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators, a journal published by

the National Council for Educational Research and Training.

Ritesh Khunyakari

• Reviewed manuscripts for International Journal of Technology and Design Education

(ITDE), a Springer publication.

• Reviewed manuscripts for Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science

Education, an Open Source Journal of Veritas.

• Reviewed manuscript for Education Research Journal, an OpenSource Journal.

• Reviewed manuscripts for the International Conference, epiSTEME 8: Biennial series

of International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology, and

Mathematics Education, held in Mumbai (2019).

• Part of the paper setting committee of the National Entrance Screening Test (NEST)

2019, a National Entrance Examination for entrance into the National Institutes of

Science Education and Research (NISERs) and Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences

(CBS).

• Member of the Board of Management, Laya, a NGO.

Sonia Sawhney

• Secretary, Standing Committee, Underrepresented Ethnic & Ability Groups

(UREAG), Comparative International Educational Society.

• Advisory Board Member, Learning Curve Life Skills Foundation, Hyderabad.

• Reviewer for SAGE Open

• Reviewer for Comparative International Education Society’s Annual Conference,

Education beyond the Human, 2020

VIII: Papers Presented/ Talks Delivered

• Murali Krishna, ‘Unorthodox Perspectives’ TEDx Talk at Vignan BoTree school,

Hyderabad on February 9, 2020.


• Rekha Pappu, ‘Learner diversity and marginality: The Educational Context of South

Asia.’ Presentation at the International Conference on “Education Systems in South

Asia: Present Status and Future Evolution.” Organised by TISS and International

Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru. August 02, 2019.

• Rekha Pappu, ‘Economic aims of education.’ Presentation at colloquium on

“Transformation and Sustainability in Higher Education.” Organised by Jadavpur

University, Kolkata. February 11, 2020.

• Sonia Sawhney, ‘Measurement of Social Emotional Learning: Can SEL be measured?’

at “Enabling Spaces 2020”. Organised by Learning Curve Life Skill Foundation,

Hyderabad. January 18, 2020.

IX: Public Lectures Organised

Like every year, this year too, the School had its edition of the “Conversations” talk series,

albeit in a low-key manner because of the campus shifting. The details of the talks are

provided below.

Topic Guest Resource Person & Affiliation Date & Day

Ethics in Education Mr. G. Shiv Kumar Reddy 5th September, Thursday

Language and Cognition Dr. Ramesh Kumar Mishra 12th September, Thursday

Education, To what end? Mr. N Amar 19th September, Thursday

There is a school in every garden

Mr. Krishna Reddy and Ms. Manvitha 26th December, Thursday

X: Student Accomplishments

APSoE is proud to note that its students draw upon ideas and learning from their

engagement in the Education programme to strengthen and enrich their own

professional trajectories. Two key markers of these accomplishments are evident in those

sets of students who qualify the UGC NET in Education, and those who opt for and

secure admissions to pursue higher education programmes in India and abroad.

The following students cleared the UGC NET examination:

1. Mr. Vishwamitra R. Prabhanjan (JRF)

2. Ms. Sujani Bokkey (NET)


Ms. Shikha Janwadkar secured admission in the MA dual degree in Intellectual

Disabilities, Autism and Childhood education (1-6 grades) at Teachers College,

University of Columbia.

XI: Obituary

Mr. Dinesh Jambhure, a student of the MA Education programme, passed away on Nov

11, 2019 in ICU, after a brief period of illness. He was at his village during the semester

break. Even as the students and Faculty mourned the loss of the student, some immediate

efforts were taken to help the family who were facing the tragic shock. With support from

the Deputy Director and the Office of Student Affairs, students initiated a fund-raising

drive to support his family. Also, a cricket tournament was organised by student council

in his memory.

Dinesh Jambure, student of MA Education who passed

away in 2019.

Cricket match organized in memory of Dinesh Jambure


XII. Campus Infrastructure Development

The academic courses of teaching blended with an experience of development of green

space in the institute. As part of a course called, Design and Technology Education,

offered to Semester II & IV students of MA Education, a collaborative class activity of

planning and developing green space in our campus was initiated. While students

actively participated, the activity was able to draw interest and investment of faculty and

staff alike. Students also developed digital herbarium as part of the effort. Some glimpses

of the activities are included below. It is hoped that the green space developed also

presents itself as a learning or educational resource for posteriority.

As part of the learning activity, students doing plantation at our campus to increase the green quotient of our immediate space.


SCHOOL OF GENDER STUDIES


SCHOOL OF GENDER STUDIES

I: About the School

The School of Gender Studies has been established (a) to serve as a catalyst for social

transformation, (b) to develop professional expertise to use gender as an analytical

category in research, teaching, social policy and planning and outreach programmes and

(c) to partner with Government, industry, and civil society in promoting gender

sensitivity, equality, and equity. The uniqueness of the school is that it draws upon a

broad range of disciplinary approaches to study issues of women and gender. It seeks to

synthesise feminist understanding and knowledge with the core commitment of TISS

towards the promotion of sustainable, equitable, and participatory development, and

social justice. To achieve these objectives, the School offers training and knowledge

support to police, legal and health institutions to strengthen response systems to gender

issues and conducts gender sensitivity workshops for organizations and industries.

Important Milestones

2012 – Launch of the Integrated M.Phil. – Ph.D. in Women’s Studies Programme

2014 – Launch of the M.A. in Women’s Studies Programme

2017 – Knowledge Partner of the Telangana Government to implement the Sakhi One-

Stop Centres

2018 – MOU with Telangana Government to expand the number of districts under the

One- Stop Centres

2018 – MOU with Telangana Government to set up the State Resource Centre for Women

II: Academic Programme

The M.A. in Women’s Studies is the flagship academic programme of the School of

Gender Studies. The rationale for this course is to make women’s perspectives visible and

central to understanding society and social structures. It emphasizes the need for

eliminating structures of oppression and exploitation that have subdued women as

individuals.

The four main features of the MA Women’s Studies programme are:

• Highlighting the linkages of Women’s Studies with the women’s movement

• Emphasising the significance of feminist theory to Women’s Studies

• Preparing students for working with women

• Fostering feminist research and organizational skills


The programme is a blend of developing the understanding of social, economic and

political institutions through the lens of gender on the one hand, and the imparting of

skills to challenge gender- based discrimination to bring about empowerment of women

on the other. On the one hand, issues such as identity, safety, legal rights, etc. engage

students, and on the other, development perspectives on health, education, migration,

nutrition, livelihoods, etc. give them a thorough training in development practice. This

foundation nurtures the desire for bringing about change that is channelized through our

Experiential Learning and Internship. Skill based courses such as Project Management

and Impact Evaluation, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods etc. gear the

students to the roles of development practitioners and policy researchers.

The pedagogy of the courses aims at imparting theoretical concepts as also promoting

critical thinking to apply those concepts to practical situations. Therefore, class lectures

and viewing films are supplemented by group discussions and group activities, which

are followed up by an experiential learning component that enables students to apply

theoretical knowledge to situations on the ground.

Internship/ Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning facilitates the students’ understanding of society and how social

structures and their inherent power dynamics impact the lives of women. Students are

exposed to both urban and rural sites.

During 2019-20, the students were part of

a research project that was funded by the

Department of Women Development and

Child Welfare, Govt of Telangana, on

Living Conditions in Working Women’s

Hostels in the city of Hyderabad. As part

of their rural immersion, students

conducted a needs assessment survey for

a non-governmental organization,

Ankuram in Bogaram village, Medchal-

Malkajgiri district and brought out a

report on livelihoods/employment

training and gender issues in the village.

The Internship builds upon the earlier

experiential learning, advancing from

observation to skill building. Having been

introduced to various social issues Students conducting interviews in Rampally.


impacting the lives of women, the internship period is for the acquiring of skills that

organizations display for addressing these issues, assisting women in distress and

protecting women’s rights. The skills that the students acquire through this process are

(a) Research skills, (b) Community Practice skills, (c) Writing skills, (d) Interpersonal

skills, and (e) Organizational skills.

The following organizations have offered internships to the students of the M.A. in

Women’s Studies Programme:

Organisation kind Examples

Government World Bank, Delhi Commission for Women, Telangana Social Welfare, Kerala Mahila Samakhya Society

Non-Governmental World Vision India, Azad Foundation, Voice4Girls, Mahita, My Choices Foundation, Care India, Jagori Grameen, Yakshi Kudal

Other sectors of Educational engagement (e.g. Schools)

Centre for Development Studies

The First year MA WS students spent their experiential learning with Ankuram, a Non-

Governmental organisation founded in 1994. They work for women, child development

and welfare. They train school and college dropouts in skills such as computer operation,

beautician, tailoring, day

care and as health care

attendants. This training is

conducted in the Ankuram

School of Education and

Training (ASET). The

students conducted

interviews with women on

their educational,

employment needs and

experience of discrimination

and violence.

MA Women Studies (1 year) with NGO Ankuram Staff.


Thematic Areas of Student Dissertation

The Masters Dissertations submitted in 2020 focussed on varied issues such as:

Academic programme Some research areas pursued

MA in Gender Studies Rohingya migrants, Nationalism and Bollywood movies, Social entrepreneurship, Domestic workers, Forest resources and Adivasi Women, Reproductive health, Sex education, Witch hunting, Gender based violence, Transgender rights, etc.

III. Placements

Out of total strength of 24 graduating students, 21 opted for the placement process. Of

the 21, 19 (90%) got placed in Government organizations, INGOs, NGOs and

Foundations:

• Government: Kutumbashree, Karnataka Rural Livelihood Mission, TSWREIS

• INGO: Earth Day Network

• NGO: Care India, Voice4 Girls, FES, Pune City Connect, Pradaan

• Private Foundations: Naandi Foundation, Equal Community Foundation, Yuva

Advocacy Foundation, Poverty Learning Foundation, Maanas Foundation, Kotak

Foundation

IV: Publications

Journal Articles

• Sowjanya, T. (2019). Casting Honour: Reading Inter-caste Love in South Indian

Cinema. Scholar Critic. Vol 06, Issue 02, August 2019. Pp.67-84. ISSN 2348 – 6937,

E-ISSN- 2348 – 694.

• Vindhya, U., & Lingam, L. (2019). Social Action Committees: Community

intervention to reduce gender-based violence. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 26,

3: 263-287. DOI: 10:1177/0971521519861160.

Book chapters

• Brototi Dutta. (2019). Of keeps and concubines: Rights of cohabitees under the

Domestic Violence Act. In Indira Jaising and Pinki Mathur Anurag (eds.) Conflict in

the shared household: Domestic violence and the law in India. New Delhi: Oxford

University Press. ISBN-13: 9780199489954.

DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199489954.001.0001


• Nilanjana Ray. (2019). Indian Women as Nurses and Domestic Workers in the Middle

East: A feminist perspective. In S. Irudaya Rajan and Prem Saxena (eds.) India’s

Unskilled Migration to the Middle East: Policies, Politics and Challenges. Pp339-354.

New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-981-13-9223-8.

• Vindhya, U. (2019). Wanted a new conceptual framework for doing psychology in

India: Is a public psychology possible? In G. Misra (Ed.), ICSSR Research Surveys and

Explorations, Psychology: Vol.5, Explorations into Psyche and Psychology: Some

Emerging Perspectives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN-

13:9780199498833.

Reports

• Vindhya, U., Kumar, K., & Natu, S. (2020). Mental health and development:

Modelling community mental health program to influence national policy

[Evaluation Report]. Pune: Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse.

V: Papers Presented

Faculty

• Nilanjana Ray, ‘Gender Equality and Empowerment: Prioritizing Industries and

Prioritizing Themes’. Global Roundtable on Benchmarking Ethical Business

Practices. World Benchmarking Alliance and the Consulate of Netherlands. Mumbai,

March 7, 2019.

• Nilanjana Ray, ‘Women and Land Rights’. Consultative Group Meeting on Women’s

Economic Empowerment. World Bank Office, New Delhi, May 8, 2019.

• Nilanjana Ray, ‘Gender based violence and women’s labour force participation.’

Consultative Group Meeting on Women’s Economic Empowerment. World Bank

Office, New Delhi, October 25, 2019.

• Nilanjana Ray, ‘Use of Social Media in Child Trafficking’. Online Child Trafficking:

Mapping the Landscape. CyberPeace Foundation and K.T. Somaiyya College, Mumbai,

January 5, 2020.

• Nilanjana Ray, ‘Risk Prevention and Mitigation of Gender -Based Violence in World

Bank Projects’. Consultative Group Meeting on the Environmental and Social Impact

Assessment Framework. World Bank Office, New Delhi, January 29, 2020.

• Nilanjana Ray, ‘Offline to Online: Latest trend in human trafficking’. National

Conference on Perspectives on Trafficking. University of Hyderabad and Symbiosis

Law School Hyderabad, February 9, 2020.

• Sowjanya, T., ‘The Construction of Brahmin Capital in Telugu Cinema’ at MeToo

Moment in Our Film Industries, Anveshi, Hyderabad, 2019.


• Sowjanya, T., ‘Ambedkar on Education’ at University of Hyderabad, April, 2019.

• Sowjanya, T., a talk on ‘Rights of LGBTQIA+ Community’ at Salesforce, June, 2019.

• Sowjanya, T., Resource person for one day Bahujan Workshop on “Caste and

Gender” conducted by Kudali, Sangareddy. December 12, 2019

• Sowjanya, T., ‘Rape and Sexual Violence Against Women in India; Nirbhaya Chetna

Diwas, Invisible Scars, Phoenix Arena, Hyderabad. December 16, 2019.

• Sowjanya, T., ‘Contemporary Challenges to Social Sciences Education in India’ at

Diversity, Inclusion and Student Success in Higher Education, Jointly Organized by

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and Dept of Political Science, Osmania

University, Hyderabad. January 6, 2020.

• Sowjanya, T., ‘Andhra Pradesh Devdasi Prohibition Act, 1988’, at the Conference on

Tackling Caste Discrimination Through Law, conducted by Law and Policy Research,

Bangalore. (Guruswamy Centre, Hyderabad) January 27, 2020.

• Sowjanya, T., ‘Caste, Brahminical Femininity and Violence against Dalit Women’ at

IAWS conference, National Law University, Delhi. January 28-31, 2020.

• Sowjanya, T., ‘Bharata Rajyanga Parirakshana: Manu Smriti Vs. Constitution’ (by

Bahujana Jatara) at Osmania University, Hyderabad. February 2, 2020.

• Sowjanya, T., Panelist, “Effect of CAA and NRC on Queer and Allies” at Queer

Carnival, Lamakaan, Hyderabad. February 9, 2020.

• Sunayana, S., Panelist, National Conclave on Institutionalizing Gender-Responsive

Sanitation, Organized by Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)

New Delhi, June 27, 2019

• Sunayana, S., Resource person, Workshop on Strategies for Cross-Cultural

Adaptation, GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hyderabad Campus,

December 17, 2019

• Sunayana, S., ‘Work-Life Balance for Stress free Living: Gender Perspective,

Extension Education Institute, Hyderabad, January 30, 2020.

• Sunayana, S., Resource Person, Gender-based Violence – Forms & Consequences,

Gender-sensitive Counseling, Orientation and Training Workshop, SAKHI Centres,

Department of Women Development and Child Welfare, Government of Telangana,

March 12, 2020

• Sunayana, S., Virtual talk on ‘Mental Stress of Students during COVID-19’,

Organized by the Department of Education, Karim City College, Kolhan University,

Jamshedpur, May 28, 2020

• Ujithra, P., ‘Pragmatic Love’, South Asia Anthropology in London School of Economics

and Political Science (LSE), London Group (SAAG) Conference. September 18-21, 2019.


• Ujithra, P., ‘Devotional Love: Businessmen undertaking philanthropy”, Dialogue

and Liberation, Nairobi, Kenya, October 22-25, 2019.

• Ujithra, P., ‘Domesticating Desire: Implications for Women’s Work”, National

Conference on Challenges to Women’s Empowerment in the 21st Century,

National Commission for Women, Teju Indira Gandhi College, Arunachal

Pradesh, February 24-25, 2020.

• Vindhya, U., ‘Gender issues in disasters’, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State

Agriculture University, September 6, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., ‘Capacity building for women in the public sector’. Administrative

Staff College, September 11, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., ‘Child marriage and conditional cash transfer schemes: Insights from a

recent study. Cross-Sectoral Dialogue on Child Marriages. HAQ: Centre for Child Rights,

Delhi, September 27-28, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., ‘Why do people protest? The psychology of social movements’,

Indian Institute of Management Public Lecture, Shillong, November 4, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., Lecture Series on Gender perspective in Social Science research, Indian

Institute of Management, Shillong, November 3-10, 2019

• Vindhya, U., ‘Empowerment of women at the workplace’. Power Grid

Corporation, December 10, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., ‘Community-based interventions for domestic violence: Women’s

collectives’. Resilient Futures India Initiative: Partnership Summit, Queen Mary

University and TISS, December 16-17, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., ‘Sexual harassment of women in the workplace’, National Industrial

Security Academy, Hyderabad, December 18, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., Panel speaker in Webinar organized by United States India

Educational Foundation (Fulbright Commission in India) on Professional

Development of Psychology and Counselling Professionals for Pandemic

Situations, May 29, 2020.

• Vindhya, U., Invited Member, Editorial Board, Review of General Psychology

(Journal of The Society for General Psychology, American Psychological Association

(APA) Division 1). 2019.

• Vindhya, U., Consulting Editor, Psychological Studies (Springer), 2019.

• Vindhya, U., Invited Member, Institutional Ethics Committee, Indian Institute of

Technology, Hyderabad, 2019.

• Vindhya, U., Invited Member, Research Committee, National Police Academy,

Hyderabad, 2019.


• Vindhya, U., Invited Member, Program Development Committee, CEHAT, Mumbai,

2019.

Student

• Sangeeta, Roy, ‘The Bihari Bhadralok Divide, Pratichi Institute on Ethnic

Masculinities and Femininities in a Government School in Kolkata, January 4, 2020

VI: Seminars / Workshops Organized

A Workshop was organized for the senior

students of MA WS programme, with the

objective of imparting conceptual

knowledge and practical skills required for

Gender-Budgeting in policies and

programmes at macro level. The Workshop

was planned with the additional objective of

training the MA WS students in a specific

skill-set that would subsequently help the

students in their placements in various

governmental as well as non-governmental

organizations. The 2-day workshop was

facilitated by a national level expert

having extensive experience of working

with Union governments as well as State

governments in the past on Gender

Budgeting. Dr. Sunayana Swain

organised the Gender Budgeting

Workshop at TISS Hyderabad on the 4th &

5th October, 2019.

Gender Budgeting Workshop

Gender Budgeting Workshop


VII: Engagement with the State

1. Sakhi One Stop Centres [Project Leader: U. Vindhya]

Since 2017, the School of

Gender Studies has been

collaborating as a

knowledge partner with the

Department of Women

Development and Child

Welfare (WDCW), Govt. of

Telangana to establish Sakhi

Centres for the purpose of

rendering a range of services

– legal, psychosocial,

medical and shelter - to

women and girls affected by

gender-based violence. The

partnership along with non-

governmental organizations

as implementing agencies

saw the setting up of these centres in 9 districts of Telangana in 2017 and by 2019, these

centres became operational in all 33 districts of the

state. Our responsibilities include training and

capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation of

the centres through a designated Project

Management Unit (PMU). The one stop centres

provide the following services: legal: psycho social

counselling, medical assistance, temporary shelter,

referrals made to other shelter/Swadhar homes and

in addition, conduct outreach programmes on

awareness about gender-based violence. In the past

one year, six orientations/capacity building and

refresher workshops were organised for the staff of

the OSCs. In September, 2019 an external mid-term

evaluation of the Sakhi OSC was conducted. In

addition, we also did an analysis of the Domestic Incident Reports (DIR) filed by the legal

Release of Sakhi OSC Brochure by Hon’ble Minister for ST Welfare, Women & Child Welfare, Government of Telangana


counsellors on behalf of the survivors. A key finding was that dowry-related violence

was the highest type of violence registered in the DIRs.

Domestic violence during COVID 19 lock down

Following the outbreak of COVID 19 and the declaration of nation-wide lock down from

March 24 2020, the MWCD had issued a directive stating that the OSCs should remain

open. Accordingly, the staff worked on a roster system, ensuring that the services remain

available to those affected with the continuation of psychosocial counselling services, on-

call support, as well as referrals made for long term shelter to Swaadhar Grehs.

In addition, the PMU frequently conveyed guidelines to the district OSC staff regarding

keeping themselves safe by following the health advisories of maintaining physical

distancing, and ensuring the availability of masks, sanitisers, disinfectants and

medicines.

What is important to note is that in the month of April 2020 (the period of the lock

down) 89% of the total number of cases registered were that of domestic violence, that

is significantly higher than in earlier months.

2. State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW) [Project Leader: U.Vindhya]

Another project for which the School of Gender Studies, TISS Hyderabad is a knowledge

partner with the Department of Women and Child Development, Government of

Telangana is for establishing the SRCW, set up under the scheme of the National Mission

for Empowerment of Women (NMEW). The SCRW aims to prepare state action plans on

issues related to women, and to ensure implementation of gender sensitive programmes,

laws and schemes. It is mandated to work on inter-sectoral issues affecting women by

undertaking research, maintaining gender related data, and engaging in training and

capacity building programmes for enhanced understanding on women’s issues and

issues related to women from vulnerable and marginalized communities in particular.


As part of this mandate, the SRCW along with faculty

and students of semester 1 of the MA programme

collaborated to carry out a research project titled

Working Women’s Hostels in Hyderabad: Perceptions of

Hostel Residents and Owners on Living Conditions in

Hostels. While the students contributed to the project

by collecting the data, Dr. Sunayana Swain and Prof

U.Vindhya prepared the report. The key objectives of

the report were to study and analyze the socio-

demographic profile of the residents, and perceptions

of both the residents and hostel owners about the

physical infrastructure as well as the security and

safety aspects of the hostels. The sample included 31

hostel owners and 439 residents in 31 hostels across four clusters of the city -- Madhapur,

Gachibowli, Ameerpet/S.R.Nagar and Dilsukhnagar/Malakpet.

The study revealed a majority of the women in these hostels are from Andhra Pradesh

and are living here due to work or related purposes, contrary to the earlier perception of

marriage being the predominant reason for migration among women. While the physical

infrastructure of the hostels is perceived to be adequate, the security and safety features

leave a lot to be desired. Even though permissions of the local authorities are present,

informal management of the hostels, absence of legal contracts of rent agreements, lack

of security guards, lack of provisions for access for differently-abled women are some of

the striking drawbacks. A key recommendation made in the report is to establish and

implement standardized guidelines for the management and operations of private

hostels for working women.

VIII: Student Academic Activities

Student presentations

• Ishita Paul, presented paper titled ‘The 'Superwoman' Phenomenon: the case of urban

women in formal employment’ at the 16th National Conference of the Indian

Association for Women's Studies (IAWS), at National Law University, Delhi, January

28-31, 2020.

• Sangeeta Roy, presented paper titled ‘Negotiating Ethnic Masculinities within the

Space of a Government School: The Bihari / Bhadralok Divide’ at 16th National

Conference of the Indian Association of Women’s Studies Conference (IAWS), at

National Law University, Delhi, January 28-31, 2020.

• Sangeeta Roy, a virtual paper presentation on ‘Constructions of Ethnic Masculinity

and Femininity in the Experience of Schooling: the Bihari / Bhadralok Divide in


India’. at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference,

April 7, 2020.

Scholarships Awarded

• Manaswini Ghosh was awarded the APBS/DBT academic scholarship for a duration

of 6 months.

• Noshina Choudhary (MA, II year) has been awarded the York Graduate scholarship,

Sherrill Cheda Entry Scholarship and enhanced faculty funding to undertake her

Ph.D. at York University, Canada.

Papers Presented

• Piuli Basu (MA WS 1 year) - “Art or War? A feminist politics of tattooed women and

body politics in India”. Visual Cultures in Contexts- Affects, Subversion and

Resistance, Department of Media Studies, Christ University, Bangalore February

2020.

• Piuli Basu and Arshita Singh (MA WS 1 year) – “Who runs the world? An analysis of

hegemonic cis-gendered masculinity in low budget eating houses in Hyderabad”,

Chikitsa 2020- Culture Mein Hulchul: Troubling Heteronormativity/Mounting

Resistance, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, Pune, March 2020.

• Arshita, Singh (MA, WS I year)- “The plight of SC and ST in the Criminal Justice

System of India: An in-depth analysis”, National Conference on understanding

marginalities in neo-liberal regime” at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),

Tuljapur Campus, February 14-15, 2020.

• Ananya and Adwitiya (MA, WS II year) – “Heteronormative relationships in fairy

tales from Russia, France, Germany: Aleksandra Silkolavich Afansev, The Brothers

Grimm and Charles Perrault”, Heart of Queerness, Vivekananda College, New Delhi.

• Noshina Choudhury and Deepanita Mishra (MA, WS II year) - “Reclaiming our

history a hundred years later: gendering, memory, identity and knowledge

production through oral narratives of Jallianwala Bagh massacre,” Event, Memory

and Remembering, First Annual memory Studies Conference, IIT, Delhi, 2019

• Deepanita Mishra and Noshina Choudhury (MA, WS II year) - “Gender based

violence against transgender persons” at National Seminar conducted by Sharda

University, New Delhi

• Noshina Choudhury and Deepanita Mishra (MA, WS II year) - “Walking a tightrope

between modernity and traditional values: the Indian housewife depicted in Neeraj

Ghaywan’s “Juice” (2017), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.


• Manaswini Ghosh (MA, WS II year) – “Art or War? A feminist politics of tattooed

women and body politics in India”. Visual Cultures in Contexts- Affects, Subversion

and Resistance, Department of Media Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, 2020.

• Manaswini Ghosh (MA, WS II year), paper presented at – The Institute of Public

Advocacy and Governance, in New Delhi.

• Jhanvi Diwedi (MA, WS II year) – “Gendered Impacts of Manufactured Scarcity: A

critical analysis of national water policies”, National Policy Symposium, Tata

Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur.

Work Experience

• Piuli Basu (MA WS 1 year) volunteers at Human Rights Law Network, Hyderabad

Chapter.

• Harish Vadithya Naik, Yasmeen, Sapna Gangadhar, Swapna Alluri and Madhuri

Jonnada (MA, WS 1-year students) worked with Shaheen Women Research and

Welfare Association in Old City, Hyderabad

• Karishma Shafi, Tanya Jain, and Ananya Kundu (MA, WS 1-year students) are

working with Professor U. Vindhya on a project report on an NGO Ankuram.

• Deepanita Mishra and Mona (MA, WS II year) worked on a research project titled

‘Living Conditions in Working Women’s Hostels in Hyderabad City’ with Professor

U. Vindhya.

• Mona (MA, II year) attended a media workshop organised on ‘Reporting on

Refugees, Migrants and Other Vulnerable Groups’ organised by UNHCR India, Save

the Children India and Action Aid India in Delhi.

• Mona (MA, II year) presented a short duration intensive training program in ‘Social

Science and Public Health Research Ethics’ organised by Centre for Development

Studies, Bhubaneshwar, Mumbai.


SCHOOL OF LIVELIHOODS AND

DEVELOPMENT


SCHOOL OF LIVELIHOODS AND DEVELOPMENT

I: About the School

The School of Livelihoods and Development aims at building high quality human

resources for the development sector through its three academic programs i.e., Masters

in Rural Development and Governance (MA-RDG), Masters in Development Studies

(MA-DS) and Masters in Natural Resources and Governance (MA-NRG). These academic

programs endeavor to build human capital required for strengthening livelihood

promotion processes at different levels of policy making, planning and program

implementation. The Faculty of the School is engaged in research, publication and

commissioned research/reviews for development support. The School constantly strives

to expand the scope and breadth of its research through partnerships with state and non-

state actors, in pursuance of its vision.

Vision

The School is a pro-poor knowledge hub for Sustainable Development and for comprehending what

impacts, promotes, transforms livelihoods of a broad spectrum of groups across the economy. It

emphasizes in particular the livelihoods aspects of marginalized and hitherto excluded

communities adversely impacted by development, non-development and mal-development

Purpose

To realize its vision, the School engages in two key processes: one, knowledge building

through Faculty and student research, and through experiential learning; two, building

human capital required for strengthening livelihood promotion processes at different

levels-policy, planning and program implementation, through its three Masters

programs.

II: Evolution of the School

The School began with an MA program in Rural Development and Governance in 2012.

Two more programs were added later i.e., MA Development Studies in 2014 and MA

Natural Resource and Governance (MA-NRG) in 2015. The MA-NRG program is

implemented in partnership with the Foundation of Ecological Security (FES). Over the

last few years, the School has expanded its programs to include commissioned research

and capacity building of stakeholders.


The following are important milestones of the School:

Important Milestones

2012: Setting up of the Centre for Livelihoods Development

2012: MA Rural Development and Governance course offered with 30 students (First MA

program to be offered from TISS-Hyderabad) and Mr. EL Narasimhan, Governor of

(Undivided) Andhra Pradesh launched the program along with the BA-Social Sciences

Program

2014: First batch of MA-Rural Development and Governance students convocated

2014: Launch of MA-Development Studies Program

2015: Restructuring of the Centre for Livelihoods Development as the School of

Livelihoods and Development, with three MA programs

2015: Collaboration with FES in introducing MA in Natural Resources and Governance

2016: Commissioned studies: Social Impact Assessments in Andhra Pradesh and

Telangana

2018: Commissioned research studies on Livelihood Interventions

2019: Capacity building of Academia and Practitioners on Livelihoods and Development

III: Academic Programs

The MA in Rural Development and Governance Programme aims at building student’s

perspective on the theory and practice of Rural Development. It covers conceptualization

of the theme, programs and policies addressing developmental deficit in rural areas, the

measurable and non-measurable outcomes of the programs with the involvement of

various agencies like civil society/non-state actors to strengthen its backbone.


The emphasis of the MA in

Development Studies is to

bring to the students a

holistic understanding of the

concept of development: the

contemporary discourse of

the theory and practice of

development and the impact

of developmental activities

in the lives of the people in

both rural and urban areas.

The Course takes students

through multiple issues like

the role of the state in propelling development, urbanization and its impact on

development, nexus between natural resources and development, and understanding

development from the lens of human rights.

The MA in Natural Resources and Governance programme is being taught in

partnership with Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) and is designed to produce

professionals equipped with the knowledge to understand, analyze and come up with

creative and informed solutions in natural resource management and governance. With

a significant experiential component in the programme that involves fieldworks in

different FES work locations, students are exposed to both the theories and practices of

natural resources governance.

The curriculum of all academic programs is developed based on the building blocks

approach, wherein there is a horizontal and vertical linkage between the courses and their

progression. This ensures continuum between the courses taught and the progressing of

semesters. In other words, requisite themes and concepts are covered ahead of a given

course for ensuring logical understanding and meaningful engagement. A four-pronged

strategy of building perspectives, imparting analytical skills, equipping students with

relevant information and exposure to real world is adopted. The methods of teaching and

learning include lectures, use of audio-visuals, analysis of case studies, small group work

and group projects and workshops.

Choice based Credit System (CBCS)

Students can pick and choose from a basket of options from other programs for 4 credits

in the areas of their interest, beyond the coursework specific to a particular MA program.

CBCS provides space for expanding the horizons of learning, making students capable

Students interaction with Gram Panchayat members and staff as part of Experiential

learning


for the development sector, including courses on Education, Women Studies, Public

health and so on.

Themes of MA-Research, 2020

The dissertation is the final stage of the postgraduate programme for all three courses. It

provides an opportunity for students to exhibit that they have gained the essential skills

and knowledge to conduct a research project. In the academic year 2019-20, the students

worked on the following broad thematic areas: Sustainable agriculture, rural labour and

development covering topics ranging from organic farming and gender and land

ownership to sustainable development and development induced displacement;

Environment and development issues including climate change and its impact on tribal

communities, eco-tourism and livelihoods, conservation and restoration of water bodies

and other water related areas; Informal and unorganized sector based topics like MSME’s

and livelihoods, non-farm based livelihoods, women empowerment, labour issues in the

plantation sector, gig economy and labour organisations; rural and urban development

programmes such as poverty alleviation programmes.

In addition to these, other topics such as caste in higher educational institutions;

Citizenship, ethnicity, nationalism and statelessness, Community associations and caste

identity, Caste and modernity and Religious environmentalism have been undertaken

for research inquiries.

Experiential Learning & Internships

Rural Exposure: The

students of MA programs in

Development studies and

Rural Development and

Governance, as part of their

experiential learning,

studied economy, society

and polity of different

villages in Telangana and

AP. The field work focused

on mapping the means of

livelihoods of the primary

stakeholders. The students

identified existing rural

technologies and innovative Village Stay: Students with members of a rural household


agricultural practices and explored the role of such technologies in improving rural

livelihood. This initiative was taken up in collaboration with Palle Srujana, a civil society

organization, promoting and supporting rural innovations.

The experiential learning (EL)

for MA in Natural Resources

and Governance programme

was undertaken in

collaboration with

Foundation for Ecological

Security (FES). Students

conducted field work in 5

different field sites of FES

spread across 4 different

states and studied the pattern

dependence of local

communities on forests and

other commons for their

livelihood and the

community- based natural

resource management institutions. Subsequently students also had a more intensive field

engagement where they contributed to the database of the International Forestry

Research Institute (IFRI).

Organizational internships

Students as part of their month-long internship during May-June 2019 interned with

about 20 Government and Non-Government Organizations. The organizations included

various State Rural Livelihood Missions under the National Rural Livelihood Mission,

Government of India, the Department of Planning, Government of Andhra Pradesh;

Department of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship & Innovation programme

Government of Andhra Pradesh, Department of Environment, Government of West

Bengal; National Institute of Medium, Small and Micro enterprises (NIMSME-Thinktank)

Telengana State Forest Department; National Bank for Agriculture and Rural

Development (NABARD) and prominent civil society organizations such as PRADAN,

CARE India, Foundation for Ecological Security, and Wildlife Conservation Society of

India.

Understanding the challenges of farm producers


The students engaged in field

based programs with Research

organizations such as the

National Center for Coastal

Zone Management, Centre for

Equity Studies, Institute for

Social and Economic Change,

Azim Premji University,

Institute for Development

Studies, Ashoka Trust for

Research in Ecology and

Environment, (ATREE),

Keystone Foundation, MS

Swaminathan Research

Foundation, Pondycan, Tata Trusts, Eastern Coalfields Ltd., and Wildlife Institute of

India.

IV: Competency Development Workshops for Students

The school organized workshops and talks as part of the coursework enabling students

to develop a detailed understanding on the following topics:

• Workshop on Rural Development programs at National Institute of Rural

Development and Panchayat Raj (NIRD-PR), Hyderabad, 12-13th Feb 2020

• Workshop on Self Help groups and community-based organizations at APMAS,

Hyderabad, 3rd Oct 2019

• Workshop on Rural Innovation and Rural Technology Park at NIRD-PR, Hyderabad,

10th Oct 2019

• ‘Urban 101: A workshop to understand urban issues’, Two-day workshop conducted

by Hyderabad Urban Labs, 1-2nd Feb 2020

Appraisal of a Women Self Help Group in progress


• Demystifying Government Budget

- Budget Concepts, Processes and

Analysis, conducted by Centre for

Budget and Policy Studies,

Bangalore 27th Jan 2020

• ‘Monitoring and Evaluation of

Development Projects’ guest

lecture by Dr. Ranjit Kumar, Head,

Department of Agribusiness

Management,

NAARM Hyderabad, 11th Oct 2019

• Workshop on GIS Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management, 29th Jan - 1st

Feb 2020

• Workshop on People’s Biodiversity Register, 7-9th Jan 2020

V: Placements

Most of the students of the School of Livelihoods and Development are placed with the

government and non-government agencies, and are giving service to the most backward

Districts of the country. The students are absorbed in Government organizations like

Planning Department Government of Andhra Pradesh, various State Livelihood

Missions, and reputed Non-government organizations including Care India, PRADAN,

Reliance Foundation and Dr. Reddys Foundation, working in the sectors of Rural Health,

Education, Natural Resource Management and Livelihood Promotion.

The placement record of students is almost 100 per cent for this year i.e. for the batches

graduated in May 2020. It is mainly those who opted out of the campus recruitment

process aspiring to pursue higher studies who were left out, as may be seen in the table

below.

Program and batch size MA-RDG

(26)

MA-DS

(30)

MA-NRG

(22)

No of students opted for placement 24 23 14

Students opted out for pursuing higher studies

2 7 8

Successfully placed-got a job offer 24 22 14

Placement % 100 96 100

Small group Discussion: Understanding Budgets


VI: Engagement with the State

The School has been actively engaged with the Rural Development departments of

various states in the areas of research and training of personnel, especially in Andhra

Pradesh and Telangana. The faculty of the School this year made attempts to reach out to

go beyond these two states.

In the year 2019-20 it started working closely with the Government of Odisha on issues

related to climate smart agriculture in collaboration with NIT Surathkal.

VII: Research Projects

1. Impact of MGNREGA Assets on the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Groups in Chhattisgarh

(Study sponsored by DFID Funded Infrastructure for Climate Resilient Growth (ICRG),

Chhattisgarh Programme, IPE Global, New Delhi) Principal Investigator - Nayak. B.P.

(Completed July 2019).

The study assesses how MGNREGA have benefitted some of the vulnerable groups like

households belonging to the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG); Women

Headed Households; Disabled Households; Landless Households and Forest Right Act

Beneficiary Households. The study makes an attempt to explore the nature and extent of

benefits for these households from individual and community assets created under

MGNREGA. The study has drawn on both primary and secondary research and finds

that only 10 percent of the sample households got individual assets whereas 14 percent

of the sample households have reported to benefit from the community assets in some or

other ways. Some of the major reasons for such limited benefits for these vulnerable

groups are- lack of awareness about procedures for demanding or applying for the assets,

the kind of assets that are being created through MGNREGA are not suitable or useful

for their land and other livelihood choices, documentation requirements among others.

Along with other set of recommendations, the study also suggests a set of indicators that

can be integrated in the MIS for better targeting of these vulnerable groups.

2. Evaluation Study of Skill Training Schemes of NSFDC under CSR initiative of RECF

for 6 States. Investigators- Dr. Srinivas. S and Dr. Shahul. A. Sponsor: National Scheduled

Castes Finance and Development Corporation, A Govt of India Undertaking, New Delhi.

Duration: February-April 2020

The primary data was collected by interviewing a sample of 129 trainees and also other

key informants such as the trainers representing all states of program implementation

i.e., Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The

study concluded that this particular program had a coverage of the most needy youth

belonging to Scheduled Castes, equipped them with industry oriented skills and enable

them to secure jobs. Further it envisaged greater involvement of all the stakeholders


including NSFDC with its large networking abilities across the country towards step up

industry driven skills development and also self-employment opportunities for the

overall success of such initiatives in future.

3. Patterns of Innovation, Technological Competition and Firm Performance in Case of

Indian Manufacturing Sector, Responsibility: Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya as Co-Project

Director (in Collaboration with IIT Hyderabad). Sponsor: Indian Council of Social Science

Research (ICSSR) under ICSSR Research Programme.

This study addresses patterns of innovation and impact of innovation on firm

performance across manufacturing clusters for food processing, textile, automobile,

drugs and pharmaceuticals, chemicals and machinery industries. The study also explores

the opportunities and challenges of innovation in Indian manufacturing firms. This study

is based on PROWESS data base and a primary survey across industrial clusters of Pune,

Ludhiana, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

4. Moving towards Climate Resilient Agriculture: Understanding the Factors Influencing

Adoption in India and Japan, (Research Project in Collaboration with NITK, Surathkal

funded under ICSSR-JSPS Bilateral Joint Research Programme of Indian Council of Social

Science Research (ICSSR)), Collaborator: Nayak, B. P.

Climate smart agriculture (CSA) technologies/practices have been put forward as a

solution for the challenges for food production systems to increase productivity to meet

the rising food demand in the wake of climate change induced extreme events like

droughts and floods. CSA technologies are a bundle of practices that aim to achieve three

objectives simultaneously – increasing food production, adapting to climate change

effects and to mitigate the GHG emissions. Farmers have to prioritize among them as to

which options are feasible and profitable. This joint study by Indian and Japanese

researchers aims to examine farmers’ preferences for different CSA options and the key

determinants for adoption of these options in both India and Japan.

5. Social Impact Assessment of Land Acquisition for expansion of CISF Academy,

Sponsor: District Administration, Medchal-Malkajgiri district, Telangana State. Principal

Investigator Dr. Srinivas. S.

In Telangana State, the Medchal-Malkajgiri district administration planned for land

acquisition as requested by CISF-NISA academy, Hakimpet for expansion of the

academy. As per the preliminary enquiry by the concerned authorities the lands

proposed for acquisition are private agriculture properties in Kowkoor village of Alwal

Mandal and in Singaipally village of Shamirpet Mandal.

The study entrusted to TISS-Hyderabad aimed at estimating the number of affected

households/families-land owners and other dependents on the land proposed for

acquisition; conduct an overall social impact assessment of this project with reference to


the said locations and propose a social impact mitigation plan. So far, the study has been

completed for one village following all due processes of a social impact assessment.

6. Skill Gap and Unemployment among Educated Indian Youth – A Comparative Study

of Job Market Entrants in Bihar and Telangana. Approved by Azim Premji Foundation,

Investigators- Dr. Krithi. S and Dr. Santosh Verma. Grant period- 18 months

This study aims to identify the factors behind the current unemployment crisis among

the educated youth through a primary survey of 1200 graduating students across 3

mainstream educational qualification streams in the states of Telangana and

Bihar. Existing studies and their analysis of the skill gap have largely used secondary

(usually nation-level) data to support their claims on skill gap and lack of skills. This

research will use primary data for an in-depth examination of what the skill gap actually

means and its structural features. It will go beyond existing research, using primary data

with an alternate macro-framework of research, to help conceptualize the nature of

labour and work conditions among the growing section of educated Indian youth today.

VIII: Publications & Awards

Journal Articles

• Bhattacharya, P. Innovations and firm level labour productivity: A comparison of

Chinese and Indian Manufacturing based on enterprise surveys’, (with Rath. B. N.).,

Accepted for Publication in 2020 by Science, Technology and Society (Sage

Publications)

• Manoj P Samuel, Karim Maredia, R. Kalpana Sastry. 2019. Road Map for Agricultural

Technology Transfer and Commercialisation. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol.

54, Issue No. 43, 26 Oct. 2019 ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

• Monika Gupta, Manju Gerard, Subash Surendran Padmaja, and R. Kalpana Sastry.

2020. Trends of CRISPR technology development and deployment into Agricultural

Production-Consumption Systems. World Patent Information. Volume 60, March

2020, 101944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2019.101944

• Menon, Rahul. 2019. Short Term Contracts and their effects on wages in Indian

regular wage employment. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 30 (1).

• Menon, Rahul. Never Done, Poorly paid and Vanishing: Female Employment and

Labour Force Participation in India: Economic and Political Weekly, April 2019

• Nayak. B.P., Jena. P.R., and Chowdhury.S, Public Expenditure Effectiveness for Bio-

diversity Conservation: Understanding the Trends for Project Tiger in India, Journal

of Forest Economics, 2020, 35(2-3): 229-265

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2019.101944


• Rajesh, K.P., The Anti-Coca-Cola Movement in Plachimada, Kerala, Journal of

Development Societies, 2019, 35 940: 437-457

• Upadhyay. A (2019). Taking Liberties: Preliminary Debates on Political Violence and

Democracy (Vol. Sep pp48-52). London: The British Academy. URL-

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/knowledgefrontiers-violence-

and-democracy

Book Chapters & Book reviews

• Rajesh.K.P., Book Review: Jafar, K. 2018, Education, Migration and Development:

Kerala Experience. Review of Development and Change, 2019, 24 (2): 285-287

Awards

• Rajesh K.P., Faculty, along with two students Nabaneeta Goswami and Rajnandini

Barman, was awarded the second place for an article titled, ‘Contemporary Politics

in India and the Discourses on Citizenship, Statelessness and Identity: An Empirical

Inquiry into the Case of Assam’ in a national level article writing competition. The

competition was organised by The Birla School of Law, Birla Global University in

collaboration with 'Centre for Statelessness and Refugee Studies, TISS Mumbai.

IX: Papers Presented in Seminars and Conferences/Invited talks

• Bhattacharya, P., ‘Do Innovation Activities Enhance Labour Productivity? A

comparison of Chinese and Indian Manufacturing Firms’ 61st Labour Economics

Conference, Indian Society of Labour Economics on 7th-9th December 2019, Centre for

Economics and Innovation Studies (CDEIS) Panjabi University, Patiala

• Bhattacharya, P., ‘Role of Innovation in Enahancing Labour Productivity in Indian

and Chines Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Enterprise Survey Data’, in BITS

Pilani Goa Campus, 23-25 January 2020

• Bhattacharya, P., ‘Drivers of blue economy in Asia-Pacific island countries: An

empirical investigation of tourism and fisheries sectors’ Regional conference on “Blue

Economy, Ocean Toursim and Sustainable Blue Financing, Nadi, Fiji 25-27 February

(virtual presentation made on 26th February 2020)

• Krithi.S., ‘Equity and Sustainability in Forest based Livelihoods: A Study of the Latest

Forest Policy in India’ paper presented in the Young Scholars Initiative’s Asia

Convening 2019, in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 11-15, 2019

• Nayak, B.P., ‘Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods’,

Presented at Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) Regional Workshop


on Inclusive Green Economy for Western and Southern States of India, Goa

International Center, Goa, July 14-16, 201

• Nayak, B.P., Lecture on

‘Data and Field Research in

Social Sciences’; in ICSSR

Sponsored Two Week Capacity

Building Programme for Young

Social Sciences Faculty, NIT

Warangal, May 27 2019

• Nayak. B.P., ‘Deepening

Inclusion: Making MGNREGA

Work for the Most Marginalized

in Chhattisgarh’ presented at

National Workshop on Building

Climate Resilience in Central

India Drylands, in Raipur, Chhatishgarh, September 24, 2019

• Sastry, K. R., Role of Government in Developing Entrepreneurial skill among youth.

Invited Paper for Panel Discussion on Banana Export, Trade and Entrepreneurship.

Feb 24,2020, International Seminar on “Innovations for Sustainable Production and

Value Chain Management in Banana”. ICB-2020. Tiruchirappalli. India.

• Sastry, K. R., Innovation and Enterprise Building. Invited talk in Inaugural Session of

One day workshop on “Entrepreneurial Skills for Research Scholars”. February 11,

2020. University of Hyderabad.

• Sastry, K. R., Social Commitment by Organizations for food and nutritional security.

Invited Lecture in: “21 days training on “Achieving Food & Nutritional Security

through Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture in the context of changing climate.” Center

for Advanced Faculty Training (CAFT) in Community Science at Post Graduate and

Research Centre, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University,

Hyderabad. February 6,2020Srinivas. S. Promoting sustained, inclusive and

sustainable economic growth through Skill building for Livelihood Promotion,

Invited Lecture in: Conference on “Sustainable Development Goals - the Way Ahead”

(Dec 16th to 18th 2019) Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. December

18, 2019

• Srinivas. S., Livelihood Promotion Strategies in Disaster Prone areas. Invited Lecture

in: “Training Programme on Disaster Management and Mitigation Strategies for

Extension Professionals” (Sept 3rd to 7th, 2019). Extension Education Institute (EEI) of

Presentation in National Workshop on Building Climate Resilience in

Central India Drylands, in Raipur, Chhatishgarh, September 24, 2019


Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad. September 3,

2019

• Upadhyay, A., ‘Arguing about Protest Rights normativities informing the Indian

constitution’ Presented at The Irish and the Indian Constitutions in International

Comparative Perspective: from de Valeira to Modi, International Workshop at the

Asia Research Institute, University of Nottingham, June 2019.

X: Membership/Role in Other Universities and External Organizations

• Kalpana Sastry, R. Nominated as Chairperson, Research Project Advisory and

Overseeing Project Committee(LPAC) for the project of Department of Science and

Technology (DST), New Delhi, implemented by ICRISAT, entitled: ‘Mapping of IPRs

and its management in academic/research institutions: A study on agricultural

research sector in India’.

• Kalpana Sastry, R. Member, Central Review Mission (CRM) Ministry of Rural

Development, Govt of India Government New Delhi. 5th CRM, January 2020.

• Kalpana Sastry, R. Nominated Member, National Core Group ICAR Government

New Delhi. National Core Group for “Restructuring of master’s and Ph.D. Syllabi”.

by DG, ICAR.

• Kalpana Sastry, R. Member, Academic Council. Nominated Academic Council

PJTSAU Academic Hyderabad. [w.e.f. April 4, 2019 for 3 years].

• Kalpana Sastry, R. Nominated Member, (2018-21). Research Advisory Committee.

lCAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture (ICAR-CIWA), Bhubaneswar,

Odisha.

• Srinivas, S. Member, Board of Studies for Department of Development Studies,

Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, Telangana State

XI: Student Academic Activities

Student presentations

• Mahroz Afreen, presented a paper titled ‘Arresting Groundwater Depletion’ at One

Day National Seminar on Ground Water Management Law, organised by Symbiosis

Law School, Hyderabad, 15 February 2020

• Rohan Atrawalker, presented paper titled ‘Governance challenges in Small Scale

Fisheries - A study of Governance Efforts in a space of Patron Client Relationships’

at National Policy Symposium at TISS Tuljapur, December 2019


• Shruthy Harilal, presented paper titled ‘Gender and FRA’ at 5th Community Forest

Reserve (CFR) conference on Democracy, Land and Resource Management Rights of

Adivasis and Challenges Strengthening Adivasi Gram Sabha in Kerala and 5th

Community Forest Reserve (CFR) Conference at MES Asmabi Collge, Western Ghat

Hornbill Foundation on December 18, 2019

• Uzma Faiz, presented paper titled ‘An assessment of the ecological footprints of

commercial white water rafting and religious tourism affecting the water heath of

River Ganga’ at 2nd National Policy Symposium at TISS,Tuljapur Campus, 13-14

December 2019

Exchange Programme

• N.P. Tushar is selected under the student exchange program of the Birmingham

International Summer School (BISS) for the course 'Contemporary challenges in

World Politics'. This three-week long summer school aims at offering papers like

Challenges of addressing climate change, Global perspectives on social justice,

Populism & other contentious forms of politics, extremism and debates around

security, and international relations beyond the West.

• Shrutija Saxena is selected under the student exchange program of the Birmingham

International Summer School (BISS) for the course 'Contemporary challenges in

World Politics'. This three week long summer school aims at offering papers like

Global perspectives on social justice, challenges of addressing climate change,

populism & other contentious forms of politics, extremism and debates around

security, and international relations beyond the West.

Awards Received

• Rohan Atrawalker, won 'Young Policy Researcher Award' for his paper titled

‘Governance challenges in Small Scale Fisheries - A study of Governance Efforts in a

space of Patron Client Relationships’ at National Policy Symposium at TISS Tuljapur,

December 2019

• Rohit Solanki got selected for Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University for Class

of 2021

• Uzma Faiz was awarded the Centre for Urban Biodiversity Conservation &

Education (CUBE) Fellowship for her dissertation field work

Publications

• Chandy, S. K. (2019). Green Accounting in India. TERI Information Digest on Energy

and Environment, 18(2), 123-128.


• Chandy, S. K. (2020). Tapping Renewable Energy Sources in Contemporary India;

Issues and Challenges. Invertis Journal of Renewable Energy, 10(1), 1-6.

• Kumar, N., Singh, A., and Harriss-White, B., Urban waste and the human-animal

interface in Delhi, Economic and Political Weekly, 2019, 54(47): 42-47

Research Report

• Local Retail Business and Livelihood Challenges During Covid -19: A Study of

Turkyamjal, Rangareddy District, Telanagana (A report by students of MA in

Development Studies Programme, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad off-

campus): Authors : Sumit Chandra, Aparajita Singh, Natti Veera Vasavi, Suhitha

Rasala, Shrutija Saxena, Meghana Myadam, Athira Raj, Atul Bharti.

UGC Junior Research Fellowship and [JRF]/ NET

• Shruthy Harilal, qualified the National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship in

Women Studies conducted by the University Grants Commission

• Sumit Avasti, qualified the National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship in

History conducted by the University Grants Commission

Other Engagements

• Aparajita Singh is associated with the Black Kite Project, funded by Raptor Research

& Conservation Foundation (RRCF), Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradoon,

University of Oxford. She is working on "Contested urban spatiality" in Delhi

between animals and humans.

• Aparna Bhagat provided research assistance for All India Tiger Estimation Report

2018 at Wildlife Institute of India during April-June 2019 as a summer intern

• Aniket Kumar Shaw and Aparna Bhagat were invited by Kalinga Institute of

Industrial Technology (KIIT) to serve as the Executive Board Members (Substantive

Directors) at KIIT International Model United Nations (IUMN) 2019

XI. MA NRG Newsletter: Green Echo

The bi-annual newsletter of M. A. Natural Resources and Governance, “Green Echo”

aims primarily at fostering awareness amongst the readers and contributes to their

understanding on human-nature interactions.


Volume 1, Issue I: Water Crisis

Editors: Aniket Kumar Shaw,

Arunima Shandilya

Contributors: N P Tushar,Gargi

Unikrishnan,Reetoma Roy, Aparna

Bhagat, Jahnvi Kanabar, Aniket

Shaw, Tanaya Bhowal, Sunetra

Banerjee, Keshav Jamjam, Revant,

Mahrooz Afreen, Shimron Rao,

Naveen BV, Gayathri Bhonagiri,

Arunima Shandilya, Harshit Pathak

Weblink:

https://spark.adobe.com/page/y4PQNvvArUtwp/

Volume 1, Issue II: COVID-19 and

Environment

Editor: Aniket Kumar Shaw

Contributors: N P Tushar, Tanaya Bhowal,

Sunetra Banerjee, Aniket Shaw, Niharika

Sarmah, Kota Manasa, Reetoma Roy, Harshit

Pathak, Mahrooz Afreen

Weblink:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d6mrb2N- WmZdUrmPhAYgJgDsj1vMpHaF/view

https://spark.adobe.com/page/y4PQNvvArUtwp/

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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND

GOVERNANCE


SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE

I: About the School

Established in the year 2013, the School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG) has a

mandate to create a cadre of public policy professionals who, through their multi-

disciplinary training, respond to current challenges and incubate ideas to proactively

meet future demands. The School provides interdisciplinary foundational training in

Ethics and Policy, Economics (including econometrics), Law, Political Science, and

Sociology. It encourages students to be reflective in developing institutional designs that

can transform public services.

With a firm grounding in these core courses, students are expected to choose and

specialise in specific Policy Area Concentrations (henceforth PACs). Concentration areas

offered for the 2018-20 & 2019-21 batch include:

• Regulation and Institutional Reform

• Urbanisation

• Social Conflict and Public Policy

Students from the Batch of 2018-20


II: Student-led Academic and Policy Research Pursuits

The student-led research programmes are

an off-shoot of the PACs offered by the

school. Having chosen their PACs based

on their interests in research and policy,

students wrote field-based research

dissertations on the following themes

PAC: Regulation and Institution

Reforms:

Theme: Governance of Online Food Delivery

Platforms and Cab Aggregators: The

Delivery/ Driver Partners’ Perspective

Faculty Coordinator: Aseem Prakash

Platform based economic services have

grown significantly in recent decades

aided by the rapid evolution of new digital technologies. The Platform Economy in India

has, thus, witnessed the emergence of new players, such as Uber, Ola, Swiggy, Zomato,

Uber Eats etc.

While these platforms have opened

new opportunities in the labor

market and expanded the

consumer base for restaurants and

cab services, the delivery and

driver partners associated with

them are facing challenges in terms

of employment status and their

relationship with the platforms.

Moreover, these new services

imperil the sustainability of small

restaurants and traditional cab-

drivers as well as of a fair

competitive market for them. The

regulatory and institutional

response, to the above concerns, A student had joined the workforce during his data collection period to

understand the working of the platform economy


has generally been seen on a case-to-case basis which has implications for the long-term

growth of the sector.

Against this backdrop, the research theme critically explored five interrelated themes:

Dataism and algorithm as the new regulatory tool, nature of contract between the

platforms/aggregators and workers, vulnerability mapping with a focus on caste, age,

gender and regional location of the driver/delivery partners, user experience with

specific focus on age and gender and framework of regulatory laws.

Team Members: Adya Behra, Bharat Sharma, Harshula, Nafisa Khatoon, Naveen

Kumar, Nishtha Relan, Prashant Singh, Shrishti Kumar, Sri Harsha Lakkimsetti,

Swyamsidha Sahoo, Vedant Kaul

PAC: Urbanisation

Theme: ‘Walled Cities’

Faculty Coordinator: Arvind Pandey

In India, several walled cities were built by Mughals in the medieval period. These cities

were sites of imperial grandeur with beautiful architecture and historical monuments.

They were also centres of political and

economic activities for long time period.

However, due to systemic neglect and apathy,

today, these cities are facing ‘urban decay’ with

a high level of congestion, increasing slum

population, and lack of adequate urban

infrastructure. In this context, the graduate

students framed their research questions and

conducted a detailed field survey in the walled

city of Delhi, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad. The

themes for the PAC covered a range of issues

faced by Indian walled cities which include

role of public participation in urban renewal

programmes, importance of traditional health

system (AYUSH) in well-being of citizens, municipal solid waste management, issue of

public transportation, and role of traditional markets in the economy of walled cities.

Team Members: Aarti Baghotiya, Madhur Sharma, Mohit Jane, Naveen Babu Isarapu,

Nikhil Minz, Rishitha Pinipe, Vikas Mannan

Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, a heritage structure at Kashmiri Gate, Old Delhi


PAC: Social Conflict and Public Policy

Theme: Stateless, Refugees and Citizenship in India: A History of Exclusion, A Present of

Uncertainty, and A Future of Resilience.

Faculty Coordinator: Ipsita Sapra

In International Law, a Stateless person is one who is not considered as a national by any

state under the operation of its laws. On the other hand, a refugee is someone who has

been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence. What

differentiates a refugee from a stateless person is that the refugees are still recognized as

citizens by the Country of Origin. Often the lines are blurred between refugees and

stateless person, as witnessed in the case of Rohingyas in India. Against this backdrop,

the research theme critically explored five interrelated themes: the emerging trend of

statelessness, children and statelessness, engagement of civil society institutions with

statelessness and refugees’ concerns, the intersection between gender and statelessness,

and construct of criminality amongst statelessness and refugees in India

Team Members: Abhilash S C, Anjitha S, Madana, Anubhav B, Sreetama B, Th

Joshibanta S

III: Internships/ Experiential Learning and Placements

Experiential Learning is an integral component of the Public Policy and Governance

programme. It has been designed to enrich the learning in classroom with the experience

of watching public policy in action on the ground. Critical insights gained from the field

give an opportunity for students to develop institutional designs which are located in the

Indian context.

This component is spread across the program and is scheduled at the end of each

semester. At the end of first semester, students go through a rural immersion program to

understand the various facets of rural societies and development. The students of 2018-

20 examined the rural development schemes at various Krishi Vigyan Kendras in the

state of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

By the end of second semester, students complete the first course in their selected Policy

Area Concentration and this is followed by an internship which allows them to explore

the chosen sector by interning at an organization involved in any stage of the policy cycle.

Majority of the students interned with government bodies, NGOs and Think Tanks and

prepared comprehensive reports capturing the role played by various stakeholders in

their policy domains.


The experience from these

internships informs the research

proposal for their Master’s

dissertation. After working on the

research proposal with their

respective supervisors for a

semester, they gain clarity on the

broad contours of their

dissertation. For the purpose of

primary data collection, students

undertook fieldwork at various

locations across India with the

support of Organisations ranging from local government bodies to NGOs working for

their respective target communities. Some students also undertook independent

fieldwork for their respective dissertation.

The following figure shows the distribution of category of organisations where students

interned as per the mandate of their course.

26%

17%

11%

23%

11%

11%

Internship: Types of Organisations

Rural Development Organisations Consulting and Advisory Groups

Reserach and Advocacy Groups Reserach Institutions


Placement Status

Total Students 28

Total Sitting for Placements 23

Pursuing Higher Education (UGC-NET) 5 (2)

Placed 20

Yet to be Placed 3

Placement % 87%

IV: Research Projects

1. Evaluation of the Plan Scheme on End- To- End Computerization of the TDPS

Operation

The research project aims to undertake impact assessment of the Target Public

Distribution system in the state of Maharashtra. It endeavours to examine the inter-

regional performance with the state and macro level and evaluate the impact of TDPS on

nutritional security of the family at the micro level. Project Directors: Aseem Prakash and

Bibhu Prasad Nayak

2. Gender & Safety Mapping: Initiatives to make Hyderabad Safe for Women and Girls

The project in collaboration with Hyderabad City Police is endeavouring to evolve

strategies to ensure women can confidently continue to exercise their rights with an

assurance of their safety and wellbeing. This would lay the foundation for a safe city and

a city that is safe for women which is automatically safe for other disadvantaged groups

such as the children, the elderly and those with disabilities. Project Directors: Lakshmi

Lingam, Ipsita Sapra and Aseem Prakash

V. Publications: Journals and Book Chapters

Journal Articles

• Kundu, Debolina & Pandey, Arvind (2020): Exploring Rural-Urban Inequality in

India in the Post Economic Reform Period, Environment and Urbanisation Asia, Vol. 11,

No. 1, April, 2020, pp. 102-122, ISSN- 0975-4253.

• Kundu, D., Lahiri, B, Pandey, Arvind, & Sharma, P. (2019): “City Profile: Madurai”,

Environment and Urbanisation Asia, Vol. 10, No. 2, September, 2019, pp.308-330,

ISSN- 0975-4253 Retrieved from

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0975425319867487

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0975425319867487


Books/Book Chapters

• Kundu, Debolina, Pandey, Arvind & Sharma,Pragya (2019). Making Cities Work:

Policies and Programmes in India. New Delhi: National Institute of Urban Affairs. ISBN

No. 978-81-9413-480-0.

• Pandey, Arvind & Jha, Ajit (2019): Occupational Mobility in Migrants, In Rajan, S. I.,

& M Sumeetha (Eds.): Handbook on Internal Migration in India, (New Delhi: Sage

Publication), pp.476-495, ISBN 978-93-5328-560-9.

• Sapra, I., (2019) Entitlements in relation to Conflict and Development in Prabhu SK

and Parasuraman S ed Making Development Happen: Transformational Change in Rural

India, Orient Blackswan

Reports

• Kundu, Debolina, Muller, Andre, Binot, Regine, Ghatak, Aparajita, Keil, Lukas,

Mondal, Biswajit, Pandey, Arvind, & Schmidt-Seiwert, Volker (2019). India and

Europe/Germany: Spatial Structures and Trends. Bonn: Federal Institute for

Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). ISBN No. 978-

3-87994-150-6. Retrieved from

https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/Publications/AnalysenKompakt/Issues/a

k-06-2019-dl.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4

VI: Engagement with the State and International Organisations

Engagement with the state is an important component in the School’s portfolio in order

to participate in the policy eco-system.

• The school initiated the Access Audit of Public Places in the state of Andhra Pradesh

with the Institute for Leadership, Excellence and Governance, Planning Department,

Government of Andhra Pradesh. The workshop “Beyond Access” was undertaken as

a part of this initiative.

• The school initiated an exercise of undertaking Police Well Being Study in the wake

of the COVID 19 situation in collaboration with Hyderabad Police

• The faculty members from the School are part of an exercise to undertake Safety

Audit in collaboration with Hyderabad Police

• The SPPG’s engagement in the year 2019-20 with civil society institutions through its

faculty members was in terms of collaboration with Amnesty International. The

School is presently proactively engaged in student-led initiative to understand the

implementation of the Prevention of Atrocities (PoA) Act across selected states of

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India in close collaboration with national and grassroots level partner organisations

working with the issue.

VII: Engagement with Academic Institutions

The SPPG’s engagement in the year 2019-20 with non-state institutions through its faculty

members were on two fronts:

• Participation in important bodies of public and private universities to strengthen the

discipline of public policy

• Participation in an Advisory capacity in various Social Science Departments of Public

Universities

Aseem Prakash

• Expert Member-Selection Committee, Karnataka State Rural Development and

Panchayat Raj University, Bengaluru.

• Member-Academic Advisory Council, Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi.

• Expert Member-Selection Committee, Department of Public Policy, Law and

Governance, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer.

• Board Member-Domain Expert, Society for Creation of Richer Human Opportunities,

Department of Social Welfare, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.

• Member, Digital Society Programme, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer.

• Advisory Board Member, AL Beruni Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and

Inclusive Policy, MANUU.

• External Member- Departmental Advisory Committee, Department of Political

Science, School of Social Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

• External Member- Departmental Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology,

School of Social Science, University of Hyderabad.

• Editor, Journal of Social Inclusion Studies (A Sage Journal), Indian Institute of Dalit

Studies

VIII. Student Presentations

• Swayamsiddha Sahoo & Prashant Singh presented The Irony of Packaged Drinking

Water Institution at the 2nd National Policy Symposium, TISS, Tuljapur, December 13-

14, 2019

• Naveen Babu Isarapu presented Addressing Informality through Inclusive Urban Design:

The case of Vandiyur tank, Madurai at Revival Design Workshop, The Dhan

Foundation, Madurai, January 7 -11, 2020


• K. Naveen presented Water Crisis in India: Bridging the gap between public and the policy

at 2nd National Policy Symposium, TISS, Tuljapur, December 13-14, 2019

• Debarati Choudhury presented "Coastal Regulation Zones and Economic Development:

Is Ecological Dilution the Cost of Progress?" a conference paper in the lNational Policy

Symposium, TISS Tuljapur, December 13-14, 2019

• Debarati Choudhury presented - "When the chhotolok write: Exploring the dalit

perspective of Bengal partition through literature” in Contextualizing Migration:

Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation, a National Conference at

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Central Institute of Indian

Languages, Mysuru, January 6-8, 2020:

• Sree Kavya Parasa presented a paper titled "Sustainable Coastal Tourism - A case study

in the Visakhapatnam District" at the World Ocean Science Congress 2019 organised

on February 27, 2019 at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and secured the second

prize in the best paper category and a cash award

• Krishna Vijay Pratap made a presentation on ‘The impact of Samsung's AI Assistance

Bixby on Cognitive Dissonance Reduction’ in the Megathon event held in IIIT

Hyderabad Campus

IX: Workshops, Lectures and Webinars

• Inclusion and Beyond? Andhra

Pradesh Accessibility Study 2019,

Organized by School of Public Policy

and Governance (SPPG), Tata Institute

of Social Sciences, Hyderabad

&Institute of Leadership Excellence and

Governance (ILEG), Andhra

Pradesh State Development Planning

Society, Government of Andhra

Pradesh, 18 September, 2019.


Resource Persons: Representatives of

Academia, Civil Society, Multilateral

Organisations and Government.

Coordinator:Ipsita Sapra, Aseem Prakash,

Tony Arnold

• Transgender Experiences, Transgender

Persons Act, Organised by School of Public

Policy and Governance (SPPG), Tata

Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, 31

January, 2020

Resource Persons: Meera Sanghamitra,

Rachna Mudraboyina, Samantha

Coordinator:Ipsita Sapra and Tony Arnold

• Data Analysis and GIS Mapping – Series

of Workshops, Organised by School of Public

Policy and Governance (SPPG), Tata

Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, July

– November, 2019.

Resource Persons: Rajeev Agur

Coordinator: Amit Sadhukhan, Aseem

Prakash and Tony Arnold

• 59th Perspective Lecture by Pankaj Sekhsaria, ‘At the Tri-junction of Fragility and

Vulnerability: The Story of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ 4th July, 2019


Invited Lectures

Aseem Prakash

• ‘The Idea of Unity in Indian Political Process’, Public Lecture, hosted by St. Ann’s

College, Hyderabad, December, 3, 2019

Book Discussion

Aseem Prakash

• ‘Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social’ by Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, OUP,

2020, Hosted by Department of Sociology, Hyderabad Central University, 03, March,

2020

Resource Persons

The school faculty delivered lectures and participated as Resource Person in several

training programmes organised by Universities and other institutions of the

governmental. In the year 2019-20, these included:

Aseem Prakash

• ‘Introduction to Public Policy’, Address to 94th Foundation Course for All India

Services and Central Services, hosted by Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Government of

Telangana, September, 6, 2019

• ‘Public Policy: Paradigms and Practices, Address to 94th Foundation Course for All

India Services and Central Services, hosted by Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Government

of Telangana, September, 9, 2019

• ‘Right to Information: Theory and Practice’ Address to 11th Batch PrePromotion

Course from the rank of DIG to IG, hosted by National Industrial Security Academy,

December, 4, 2019

• ‘Right to Information: Theory and Practice’ Address to 12th Batch Pre-Promotion


Janauary, 7, 2020

• ‘Contemporary Issues in Policy Formulation and Policy Implementation’ Address to

Special Foundation Course for All India Service & Central Civil Services, hosted by

Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Government of Telangana, February, 12, 2020

• ‘Ethics of Indian Constitution’, Address to 2nd Foundation Course for Group A

Officers (Probationers) of Military Engineering Service, hosted by Dr. MCR HRD

Institute, Government of Telangana, February, 17, 2020


• ‘Right to Information: Theory and Practice’ Address to 13th Batch Pre-Promotion


February, 12, 2020

• ‘Ethics and Public Action’, Address to 2nd Foundation Course for Group A Officers

(Probationers) of Military Engineering Services, hosted by Dr. MCR HRD Institute,

Government of Telangana, March, 24, 2020

• ‘Contemporary Issues in Governance of Policy Formulation and Policy

Implementation’ Address to Special Foundation Course for All India Service &

Central Civil Services, hosted by Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Government of Telangana,

March, 25, 2020

Ipsita Sapra

• ‘Equity Action Plan for Technical Universities at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological

University, Hyderabad, July 10, 2019

• “Women in Higher Education” at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,

Hyderabad, Aug 7, 2019

• “Social Entreprise: Ideas, Opportunities and Challenges” at Jawaharlal Nehru

Technological University, Hyderabad, Nov 8, 2019

• Resource Person for Prison Reform initiatives organised by the State Institute for

Correctional Administration (SICA), Telangana Prisons Department, Government of

Telangana

X. Student Achievements

International Fellowship

Shrishti Pallav was awarded a student fellowship for studying at Sciences-Po, Paris

under Student Exchange Programme. She was also awarded the Erasmus+ scholarship

for her semester at Sciences Po. She is currently also a part of a student initiative –

“DÉCLIC - Sciences Po Repense le Jour d’Après” under which students of Sciences Po are

drafting a policy brief to be sent to the French Government on June 1,2020 on how to

restore French public policies currently destabilised by the COVID-19 crisis.

Sukriti Sood was selected for the prestigious summer internship programme with

scholarship to study Global Environmental Issues for three weeks at the Birmingham

International Summer School 2020, University of Birmingham, UK


UGC Junior Research Fellowship and [JRF]/ NET

Anubhav Bishen qualified the National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship in

Political Science and was also awarded Junior Research Fellowship [JRF] by the

University Grants Commission.

Shashank SR qualified the National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship in

Political Science and was also awarded Junior Research Fellowship [JRF] by the

University Grants Commission

Prabakaran AK qualified the National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship in

Public Administration conducted by the University Grants Commission

Other contributions

Debarati Choudhury worked with the Andhra Pradesh Government in their flagship

project AP Janmabhoomi. Her responsibilities involved online and digital modes

education, reaching out to marginalized communities in remote areas; setting up a

primary school in a remote tribal hamlet 'Venam' in Visakhapatnam district and an eco-

friendly school suited to the climatic conditions of the hilly terrains and a curriculum best

placed in nature

XI. Newsletter

The newsletter of School of Public Policy and

Governance -Niti और Nyay- aims to report important

policy initiatives, publish policy analysis, and

policy/legislative briefs. It encourages the students of

SPPG to write commentaries on critical policy

developments. The SPPG newsletter is also mandated

to cover all the activities of the School including

research pursuits, seminar and workshop series,

experiential learnings, student and faculty

achievements. The last newsletter – Vol III – Issue I &

II were published in July, and October 2019

respectively.

Student Editors

Vol.III- Issue II: Shrishty Pallav, Swapnil Doke, Anubhuti Jaiswal, Shaivi Sen

Volume III- Issue I: Adya Behra, Harshula, Prashant Singh, Vikram Kumar

Faculty Mentor: Aseem Prakash


XII. Response to Covid

The School of Public Policy and Governance in collaboration with its alumni and students

constituted a Covid Response Group in order to engage with the public and policy

concerns on critical issues broght to the fore by the Covid Pandemic. The Covid Response

Group documeted the exiting initiative, sugested policy/intervnetion measures, collated

and analysed best practices from across the globe, and intellectully engaged withe ideas

and policy frameworks that can be instrunetnal in ushering better socio-economic

futures.

A. Field Studies

1. The Role of Frontline Police Personnel During Covid Lockdown

Front line police personnel are often the most visible part of the police force. In the

context of the COVID 19 situation, they are shouldering important responsibilities and

undertaking multiple roles (enforcement as well as welfare). The ongoing study

undertaken on behalf of Hyderabad Police seeks to understand range of concerns of

police personnel – physical health, impact on their professional and personal live while

also capturing the coping mechanism to deal with the mental health issues such as stress

and anxiety.

Team Members: Ipsita Sapra, Aseem Prakash, Rajeev Agur, Ganesh Maruvuda

After Covid: Imagining New Socio-

economic Orders

7 Webinars, 15 Reputed Scholars from

International and National Universities

spoke on diverse themes: Migration,

Monetary and Fiscal Policy, World

Economy, Public Health and Health

Systems, Solidarity and Society, Science

and Policy

• Navigating to Normal: A Responsive

Lockdown Exit Strategy

• Mental Health in the wake of covid-

19: Existing Initiatives &

Recommendations

• Transport Grid for Migrants’ Mobility

Concerns

• Policing in a Pandemic

• Responses of Union and

State Governments and

Reserve Bank of India

• Response of Corporate

Organizations

• International Policy

Responses

•

• The Role of Frontline

Police Personnel During

Covid Lockdown in

Hyderabad

• The ‘Long March’:

Tracking Return

Migrants to Jharkhand


2. The ‘Long March’: Tracking Return Migrants to Jharkhand

The ongoing study undertaken through detailed phone interviews of more than 100

migrant workers residing in quarantine centres in Ranchi aims to document and analyses

their return journey as well as the distress caused by the loss of livelihoods and their

future plans.

Team Members: Aseem Prakash, Swayamsiddha Sahoo, Prashant Singh, Vedant Kaul, Bharat

Sharma

B: Policy Tracker, Analysis and Briefs

The SPPG is documenting and analysing the

response to Covid-19 by the Union and State

Governments, business corporations and civil

society organisations. The analysis of

international policy repose was also undertaken

to learn from the best practices and briefs

suggesting institutional interventions were

prepared. These documents are available online

and have been hyper linked for easy access.

These initiatives can be classified into the

following four sub-heads.

1. Policy Tracker: Policy Response of Union and State governments, a series of three

reports documenting responses on 17th April. 6th April and 31st March 2020

i. Covid -19: Policy Response of Union and State Governments (As on 17th April, 2020)

ii. Covid-19: Policy Response of Union and State Governments (As on 06th April, 2020)

iii. Covid-19: Policy Response of Union and State Governments (As on 31 March, 2020)

Team Members: Aprajita Verma, Ganesh Maruvuda and Rajeev Agur


2. Policy Tracker II: Corporate Response

The SPPG Documented the response of the corporate sector. While the first report

covered 50 Organizations, the second report covered 100 corporate organizations.

i. Covid-19: Response of India Inc. (A Study of 100 Corporations as on 18 April, 2020)

ii. Covid-19: Response of India Inc (A study of 50 corporations as on 5 April, 2020)

Team Members: Sampriti Mukherjee, Souma Sekhar Gangopadhyay


https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Response_to_Covid19_Vol_3.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Response_to_Covid-19_Series_2_06_April.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Response_to_COVID-19_Series_1_cFJ6zl3.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/RESPONSE_OF_INDIA_IN_100.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/RESPONSE_OF_INDIA_INC..pdf


3. Policy Analysis

A policy analysis exercise was undertaken to document and analyse the best policy

response internationally in terms of fiscal and monetary designs and welfare

interventions to address distress caused by Covid in the economy and society.

Covid-19: International Policy Response (As on 14th April, 2020)

Team Members: Tannniya Sankhyan, Sarayu Nandakumar


4. Policy Briefs

The SPPG prepared four policy briefs outlining institutional interventions to address

various concerns caused by the pandemic.

i. Transport Grid for Migrants' Mobility Concerns

Team Members: Shruti Prasad, Arvind Pandey, Mayank Kumar, Aseem Prakash

ii. Navigating to Normal: A Responsive Lockdown

Exit Strategy

Team Members: Shruti Prasad, Pranathi Dholla


iii. Policing in Pandemic

Team Members: Abhishek Acharya, Ashwin

Jangalapalli

Faculty Mentor: Aseem Prakash, Ruchi Sinha and

Vijay Raghavan

Mental Health in Wake of Covid-19: Existing

Initiatives and Recommendations

Team Members: Ipsita Sapra, Meenal Rawat

Faculty Mentor: Bulbul, Srilatha Juvva & Vindhya Undurti,

C. Webinars

The SPPG organised series of Webinars on the theme ‘After Covid: Imagining New Socio-

economic Orders’. The lectures provided an intellectual framework for building a just

social order and provided an anchor to the vigorous debate going on in India and beyond

on the ways to seize this moment of crisis and mould it into a moment of opportunity.

The series hosted eminent international and national academics, development

practitioners and bureaucrats. All webinars are available on the SPPG web channel and

Podcast and can be accessed through the following links.

SPPG You Tube Channel

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/International_Policy_Response-FinalDoc_7u2Ux8k.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Transport_Grid_Report.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Lockdown_exit_strategy_IR7DE1i.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Lockdown_exit_strategy_IR7DE1i.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/POLICING_IN_PANDEMIC_SPPG__vz46lFZ.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/IS_Mental_Health_Advisory_final.pdf

https://tiss.edu/uploads/files/IS_Mental_Health_Advisory_final.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmUBS5kMpz_3tqlSq3CsxXg


PODCAST

The themes and the speakers of the webinar series are detailed below.

i. Science and Democracy: Some lessons of Covid-19: May, 26, 2020

Speaker: Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct

Professor of Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University

ii. Fostering Humaneness: Some Reflections, 21 May, 2020

Speaker: Sudhir Kakar, Psychoanalyst and Writer

iii. Reimagining Public Health, Rebuilding India's Healthcare Systems: May, 15, 2020

Speakers: Rama Baru, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Keshav Desiraju, Former Secretary Health & Family Welfare Government of

India

Nachiket More, Visiting Scientist, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in

Mental Health

iv. The World Economy After COVID-19, May 11, 2020

Speaker: Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the

Harvard Kennedy School

v: Economic Revival in the time of Covid-19: Fiscal and Monetary Challenges, 05 May, 2020.

Speakers: Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru

https://cccloud.tiss.edu/index.php/s/FjeBu2tkRdYmz9q


N R Bhanumurthy, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

vi: Restoration of Work in the Informal Sector of India, 21 April, 2020

Speakers: Amita Bhide, Professor and Dean, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of

Social Sciences

Darshini Mahadevia, Professor, Ahmedabad University

D.N. Ready, Formerly Professor, Hyderabad Central University

K.P. Kannan, Chairperson, Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies

Ravi Srivastava, Formerly Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

W.R. Reddy, Director General, National Institute of Rural Development and

Panchayati Raj

vii: Migrant Workers in the Time of Corona, 10 April, 2020

Speaker: Ravi Srivastava, Formerly Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Coordinators of the Webinar Series: Arvind Pandey, Devansh Verma and Debarati

Choudhury

D. Public Engagement through Popular Press and Newspapers

The SPPG fraternity also contributed to the public discourse through writing and

publishing in the popular press (newspapers). The same is detailed below with active

web-links.

i. Covid 19: Does India Need to Re-visit its Exit Strategy . Indian Express, April, 29, 2020

– T.M. Pranathi and Shruti Prasad

ii. Why don't we See Women: The Untold Story of Covid-19 Migration. Indian Express,

April, 25, 2020 - Ipsita Sapra

iii. Can the migrant crisis lead to a breakdown of the society as we know it? Indian

Express, April, 17, 2020 - Ipsita Sapra

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/india-lowdown-may-3-exit-strategy-6384513/

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/why-dont-we-see-the-women-the-untold-story-of-covid-19-migration-6378557/

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/web-edits/can-the-migrant-crisis-lead-to-a-breakdown-of-the-society-as-we-know-it-6367280/


STUDENT SUPPORT MECHANISMS


LIBRARY AND E-RESOURCES CENTRE

The library at TISS Hyderabad Campus has more than 5080 books and 18

journals/magazines subscriptions (hard copy) as part of its collection. The availability of

the books is linked to the teaching programmes being offered on Campus, as a result of

which the library collection includes books in the areas of History, Sociology, Economics,

Political Science, Psychology, Education, Women’s Studies, Mathematics, Science,

Language, Literature and Development. The Library has is a small collection of audio-

visual materials. Additionally, the library houses books and back volumes of journals

donated by individuals and institutions, and has a reading area as well as computer

browsing facilities. Access to the e-resources of the TISS Mumbai library is also available

to all students and faculty of TISS Hyderabad.

The TISS Hyderabad

Library is operational

since August 2012. The

Library facilities

include a space for

reading, photocopying,

e-resources, and issue &

return of books. The

Library is completely

automated from its

inception and KOHA

Integrated Library

system has been installed for better access to resources under networked library system.

This enables user community of TISS Hyderabad to access the catalogues of all campus

libraries through WebOpac (http:// opac.tiss.edu). There is an “Open Access System” to

save time of the users in accessing the books.

The IT Infrastructure of the library consists of a few Desktops, with high speed internet

and Wi-Fi connectivity to access 19 online Databases, E-resources and 200+ EBooks and

10298 e-Journals from TISS Mumbai using Remote Login (ezproxy). User IDs are

provided to all the users to access the e resources. The library has 2 heavy duty printers

cum scanners to facilitate the needs of faculty and students. Free limited

print/photocopying facility is provided for the students & faculty. The Library also has

online plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin.


In case of requirement and non-availability of a particular book at the Hyderabad campus

library, it is borrowed from the TISS Mumbai, Tuljapur & Guwahati libraries on Inter

Library Loan. The Library also has institutional library membership with other

institutions around Hyderabad to cater the needs of the users.

Library staff includes:

• Mr. Vamshi Bollarapu, Assistant Librarian

• Mr. Mohammed Awais, Library Attendant

• Mr. G. Sairam, Library Intern

• Mr. S. Subhash, Library Intern


OFFICE OF STUDENTS’ AFFAIRS

The Office of Students’ Affairs (OSA) works as a link between students and

administration in the campus and coordinates all student support activities. The main

purpose of the OSA is to ensure the security, rights and entitlements of each member of

the student community without compromising on the institutional goals, academic

environment and discipline. The office also works towards upholding the zero-tolerance

policy adopted by the Institute towards ragging and discrimination on the basis of caste,

region, religion, sexuality, language, nationality, etc. It works in close coordination with

OSA in Mumbai campus to mobilize financial support for students from economically

weaker background and facilitate medical insurance claims and related issues for

students. The OSA works closely with the Chairpersons of the Schools, Convener of SC,

ST and Equal Opportunity Cell, and Coordinator of Counseling/Health Center to

address different student issues in the campus. The OSA team included Dr. Bibhu Prasad

Nayak as the Chairperson, Dr. Sunayana Swain as the Campus Activity Coordinator and

Mr. Abhinav Pandey providing administrative assistance.

OSA organized a day long orientation for the freshers on 1st July 2019. The orientation

sessions aimed at making students familiar with all the campus facilities, rules and

processes. OSA facilitated single window support services to students with the help of

the administration. The student council elections for the year 2019-20 were held on 9th

September 2019. The election was conducted by the Election Committee 2019-20 duly

constituted by OSA with students from senior batches as its members. The election

committee successfully conducted elections for the Executive Committee, Student

Representatives for different committees and the Class Councilors as per the Student

Union constitution.

OSA and Student Council facilitated a range of recreational facilitating like setting up

Table Tennis and Board Games facilities in the Student Activity Center in the campus.

OSA and Student Council facilitated several events like quiz, dance, debates, film

screening, talks, celebration of different regional festivals, events to marks international

indigenous day, international wildlife day, international women day, blood donation

camp etc., organized by different student clubs in the campus. Some of most active

student clubs in the campus this year included the Choreography Club, Photography

Club, Film Club and the Nature Club that organized several events in the campus. Nature

Club initiated plantation in the campus and actively engaged in maintenance of these

plants.


OSA in Hyderabad campus with support from Dean, Office of Students Affairs has

supported several students with scholarships and financial aid that they required. The

Institute supported 78 students with Student Aid, 17 students were awarded with Allana

Foundation Scholarship and 4 students got Cognizant Foundation Scholarship from

Hyderabad campus.

Student Council 2019-20

The Student Council 2019-20 assumed its responsibility soon after election. The oath

taking ceremony was held on 11th September 2019. The Student Council has been active

in making the campus life rich by conducting a number of events such as cultural and

literary events, sports, film screening etc. in campus. The Student Council also organized

Fresher’s welcome for first year BA and MA students and Farewell for outgoing BA and

MA students with much fanfare. Student Council organized annual student festival

QuinTISSence 2020’ between 17th and 19th January 2020 and conducted a series of events

during these 3 days. QuinTISSence 2020 hosted a range of cultural, literary and sports

events this year that included quiz, debate, videography, photography, solo and group

dance of western, folk, fusion and traditional styles; singing, Rangoli, collage and Doodle

making, Badminton, Table Tennis, Football, Cricket, Chess, Carom, Volleyball,

Basketball, Tug of War, Pubg, Lemon and Spoon Race, Sack Race etc. Students across all

the programmes participated in this festival and showcased their talents and skills. The

tribal traditional dance by students from different states and Zarafet- a fusion of classical

and modern dance production by the Choreography Society and the photo exhibition by

Photography Club were some of the main attractions of the QuinTISSence this year.

Student Council also organized a stress buster event before the closing of the odd

semester (12th October 2018) and a musical night at the beginning of the even semester

to celebrate campus life. Student Council with the help of student volunteers and Arohi

Blood Bank organized a Blood Donation Camp on 27th August 2019 that has marked

participation of around 100 donors from the campus.

The Student Council facilitated participation of several students in different inter-

college/inter-university competitions organized by BITS Hyderabad, Symbiosis

University, ISB and other institutions. Several students brought glory to the institute by

winning medals in these events.

Student Council also initiated the Alumni Network for Hyderabad Campus and planned

the Alumni meet in April 2020 that got postponed due to COVID related advisories.


Students’ Council 2019-20

Executive Committee

Chairperson Bhagyashri Sadashiv Boywad H2018WS007

Vice-Chairperson Shaik Nafaaz H2019DS023

General Secretary Olek Kombo H2019DS014

Treasurer Mariyam Maqbool H2017BAMA030

Sports Secretary Praneeth H2018BA051

Cultural Secretary Gyana Ranjan Bidika H2019NRG004

Literary Secretary Annu Ralli H2019ED002

Gender Development Cell Representatives

Bachelors Programme Tanya Jessica Gladston H2017BAMA004

Masters Programmes Archana Prasad H2018WS004

Doctoral Programmes Sarika Shantaram Moon HP2017SS002

SC & ST Cell Representative Kapilash Naik H2019DS028

Equal Opportunity Cell Representative

Vaditya Ashok H2019RDG025

Class Councillors

M.A. Education 1st year Anjali Anil HM02019ED001

M.A. Education 2nd year Naveen Modem H2018ED010

M.A. PPG 1st year Mykala Manideep Kumar HM02019PPG006

M.A PPG 2nd year Vedant Kaul H2018PPG023

M.A./ M.Sc. ODCL 2nd year Rajeev Kumar H2018OD010

M.A. DS 2nd year Ravi Ankush H2018DS018

M.A. NRG 1st year Reetoma Roy H2019NRG016

M.A. NRG 2nd year Roht Bhupendra Solanki H2018NRG015

MA RDG 2nd year Shailendra Yadav H2018RG022

B.A. in Social Sciences 3rd year Harikrishnan M H2017BAMA003


DOCTORAL STUDENT OFFICE

The Doctoral Student Office (DSO) at TISS Hyderabad campus works under the overall

aegis of DSO, TISS Mumbai campus. Its primary objectives for TISS Hyderabad are as

follows:

• Facilitate admission to Full time M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes

• Facilitate Doctoral Advisory Committee meetings and Proposal Presentations of the

Ph.D. Scholars

• Conduct viva-voce examination of M.Phil. and Ph.D. Scholars

• Administrative interface between Deputy Director (Research) and M.Phil./Ph.D.

scholars for all student and scholarships related matters.

The following table summarises the status of academic activities facilitated by DSO in the

year 2019-20

Total Admission in 2019 Ph.D. in Social Sciences - 5

M.Phil. in Education – 2

Total DAC held in 2019-20 04

Synopsis Presentation in 2019-20 03

Proposal Presentation in 2019-20 04

Names of M.Phil. Scholars Graduating in 2020

Mr. Thomsong Mangminthang Singsit (Education)

Names of Ph.D. Scholars Graduating in 2020

Ms. Madhuri Yerra (Education)

Ms. Sangeeta Roy (Women’s Studies)

The DSO Hyderabad works through the joint efforts of the members of the Doctoral

Research Facilitation Committee (DRFC), which includes the following:

Nilanjana Ray, Assistant Professor and Chairperson, School of Gender Studies

Rekha Pappu, Associate Professor, Azim Premji School of Education

Aseem Prakash, Professor and Chairperson, School of Public Policy and Governance

Student Coordinator: Tony Arnold


SC/ST AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CELL

I. Overview of Student Support Activities

SC, ST and Equal Opportunities Cell (SC/ST&EOC), Hyderabad campus is an integrated

unit of SC, ST Cell and EO Cell of TISS Mumbai. Dr.Murali Krishna, Convenor of the

SC/ST & EO Cell creates the requisite mechanisms and facilitates the necessary academic

and financial support for SC, ST, OBC, Minority and PWD students’ academic and social

development. The Convenor is the point of contact and advisor for students who require

academic guidance and technical support to apply for central and state

scholarships/fellowships. The Convenor oversees all procedures for laptop allocation,

pre and post-admission orientation, financial aid, redressal of fee issues and hostel

waivers for eligible GoI students, etc.

The SC, ST and EO Cell sensitizes and orients students, faculty and admin staff regarding

the zero-tolerance policy of TISS towards discrimination and violation of dignity of

fellow students or other members of TISS community on the basis of caste, religion,

region, disability, gender, sexual orientation and race. As per the UGC circular,

D.O.F.No.1 -712011 (SCT) 1st March 2016, SC, ST and EO Cell took appropriate measures

to prevent caste based discrimination and provided grievance redressal for students from

SC, ST, OBC sections.

Pre-Admission Orientation Program

SC, ST and EO Cell, Hyderabad campus conducted one-day pre-admission orientation

program for 2020-21 MA applicants belonging to SC, ST, OBC, Minority sections. This

orientation was conducted for applicants who applied for various MA programs across

TISS campuses with specific focus on key components of the entrance exam so as to

prepare them for the processes involved in entrance exam and personal interviews. Dr.

Murali Krishna was invited by Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational

Institutions Society to conduct workshops and soft skills orientation for Degree college

women appearing for the national level entrance exams for MA programs across

universities in India.

Scholarships and Fellowships

SC, ST and EO Cell provided guidance and support to SC, ST, OBC and Minority students

of BA, MA and M.Phil-Ph.D. from Hyderabad campus to apply for the GoI Post-Matric

Scholarship (GoI-PMS) and fellowships schemes, other relevant scholarships offered by

the Government of India. Different states have different deadlines for online and offline

submission of applications and also have different norms for approval of scholarships.


The SC, ST and EO Cell followed up continuously with students to complete their

application submissions in time.

All the eligible ST students were encouraged to apply for the Top-Class Scholarships (the

Central Sector Scholarship Scheme) which are awarded to ST students on merit basis by

the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India. ST students who had applied for this scheme

have received their scholarships under Direct Beneficiary Transfers (DBT).

GoI-PMS Students of pre-2018 batches were given full waiver of hostel and DH charges.

Annual Student Aid

Chairperson, Office of Students’ Affairs and Convenor, SC, ST and EO Cell coordinated

the process of need-based annual student aid for SC, ST, OBC (NC) and other students

from low-income families across social groups. After the due process of scrutiny of

applications and one-on-one interviews, SC, ST GoI-PMS students were sanctioned

Rs.45,000/- each on priority basis and OBC (NC), EWS needy students across programs

were allocated financial aid as per the criteria set by the student-aid committee. A special

procedure has been set out to identify and allocate student aid to SC, ST GoI-PMS in the

beginning of academic session from 2020-21 as a special drive to assure a quantum of

financial support so as to enable them to plan their living arrangements accordingly.

Laptop Bank

TISS Hyderabad campus runs academic procedures through MOODLE platform which

makes use of laptops and computers inevitable for students of all programs. In this

regard, the institute created a Laptop Bank to provide laptops to economically weaker

section students. Convenor of the SC, ST and EO Cell conducts the process of laptop

allocations and laptop procurement as per the need. The need for institute laptops is

increasing every year. For the academic year 2019-20, EO Cell provided 60 laptops to both

fresh and senior batch students. Additional 25 laptops have been procured from Mumbai

campus in March 2020.

II. COVID-19 Student Relief Donation Drive

COVID-19 struck humanity in unprecedented manner and scale across the world. After

the national lockdown from 24th March 2020, some students were held up in Hyderabad

and 5 GoI-PMS students approached SC, ST, and EO Cell for financial support to

sustain their prolonged stay. The Cell Convenor collected funds to the tune of One Lakh

Five Hundred Rupees from Hyderabad campus faculty and provided immediate

financial relief to them to clear their hostel bills.


ENGLISH LANGUAGE CELL

I: Overview

The English Language Cell (ELC) was conceived and established in 2017 with the specific

aim and objective of providing continuous English language support for socially and

educationally marginalised students. ELC seeks to do this in a manner that draws on the

previous social and academic experiences of the students to strengthen and complement

their academic learning and social skills at the Institute. The ELC has a three-member

composition with Dr. Murali Krishna as the Coordinator and Dr. Sajida Sultana and Dr.

Mohan Dharavath as the Faculty Members.

ELC designs and delivers courses that engage students in classroom tasks that

systematically nurture and hone their academic, social communication and professional

skills in English. ELC adopts a multi-pronged approach to capacity building and

enhancement of students’ confidence and competencies through English language in

order for them to confidently handle academic and social demands based in classroom

and campus interactions as they are proven to be pivotal in determining marginalised

students’ success in academics.

With these objectives and vision set out clearly, ELC encourages and supports its

Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Research students with a range of language-related

programmes. Considering the diverse academic and social backgrounds of our students,

ELC started the academic year 2019-20 with activities that were aimed at building

English Language

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English Foundation

Course

English Language

Programme

Résumé Writing/CV

Writing Workshop

DissertationWriting

Workshop

One-on-One

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independent, competent individuals with enhanced linguistic and communicative

knowledge.

English Foundation Course

The English Foundation Course (EFC) began with the conduct of an Academic English

Language Proficiency Test for MA students. The Test was designed to ascertain the

language understanding of all students irrespective of the programme that they have

opted. The areas for testing at this stage were academic reading, reading comprehension,

academic writing, and sentence construction and organisation. In Reading, overall

comprehension skills of the students were measured and graded according to their score.

The question item on Writing analysed whether a student is able to logically arrive at the

information by looking at the situation given in the question.

For the EFC, important aspects of Academic Reading, Academic Writing, and

Referencing skills were focused in classroom interactions so that the students joining the

Masters programme are aware of the genres of reading and writing involved in their

academic programmes. For Reading skills, the main objective was that students should

be able to understand the given text and identify the main idea. They must have the

ability to make notes from the article/book chapter and must be able to draw inferences,

conclusions, reasoning, and critically raise issues from the text. For Writing skills,

students must be able to write in an organized manner with a deep engagement with the

content of the text in discussion. Paraphrasing, Quoting and Summarising, also form a

crucial component of the teaching learning activity.

EFC incorporates a range of topics. These topics are spread across 20 hours of teaching

where Introduction to Academic Reading and Writing, Reading Methods, Features of a

text, Note making, Reading abstracts, Critical Thinking/Reflecting, Features of Academic

writing, Academic Word List, Paragraph Writing, Paraphrasing, Summarising, Writing

introductions and conclusions, and Types of assignments/term papers are focused.

This academic year, i.e. 2019 – 20, ELC conducted a Test subsequent to EFC to understand

student’s assimilation of academic reading and academic writing aspects that were

discussed in the classroom sessions. The evaluation areas included academic reading,

comprehension, reflection, critical engagement with text, summarising, and

paraphrasing. Different scales to measure the proficiency of the students in reading,

writing and speaking skills respectively were arrived at for the assessment.

English Language Programme

The English Language Programme (ELP) is the next stage of ELC support programme.


Considering the heterogenous academic environment at TISS, we find each learner with

their own specific language need. The students that form the ELP batch are usually from

vernacular medium education background with a fair knowledge of concepts in Social

Work, Economics, and Commerce, to name a few. Further, students who have obtained

low marks in the Academic English Language Proficiency Test and less interaction in the

EFC sessions are also part of this programme.

ELC caters to nearly 30% of MA students from each programme run at TISS Hyderabad

Off Campus. It is observed that as the years progress, there is an increase in the number

of students that are part of ELP. The additional language support that is provided during

these programmes begins in a gradual manner i.e., with overall reading, writing, listening

and speaking in the first semester to reading and responding to texts in the next semester.

As part of the teaching strategy, apart from the topics of discussion like organisation of

paragraph, and components of the text, comprehension of the text, assignments were also

discussed in the classroom to ensure that the skills of academic writing are incorporated

in the academic activities of the students who participate in ELP. It is seen that some of

the students get exposed to texts i.e. journal articles and chapters from academic books

in English for the first time, and this is a challenge for the learner and for the language

faculty. Some of the students in the batch have basic understanding of the issues

discussed in class as they would have read it in their mother tongue, but could not express

in the English language. Considering all this, the classroom sessions are usually

conducted in English, Hindi, and Telugu. Hindi and Telugu languages are used for

explanations only, whereas the activities/worksheets are encouraged to be filled in

English. In some cases, a dry run of presentations also happened to make students

perform better in their classroom presentations. These dry runs were very helpful for the

students. This activity also informs the teacher of the performance growth in the students.

To streamline the activities further, from the academic year of 2019, ELC started the

process of giving a Performance Report at the end of each semester for students who are

part of the ELP. These records were given to the ELP students of Education, Women

Studies and Public Policy programme. A consolidated report will be provided to the

respective students at the time of their final degree.

Résumé Writing/Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter Writing Workshops

ELC conducted the Résumé/CV Writing and Cover letter writing workshops for all the

MA students at Hyderabad Off-Campus during September-October 2019. These

programmes were coordinated between the Career Guidance and Placement Council


(CGPC) team and the ELC faculty members. ELC faculty arrived at Résumé template in

discussion with the CGPC team who then circulated it among the students.

The workshop involved two phases. The first phase was classroom- based, and the

second phase was in-person discussion with the interested students. Feedback was

provided to the students and necessary changes were carried out by the them. Job

description of domain specific and general institutions or organisations were used in

these workshops for activities.

Dissertation Writing Workshop

The Dissertation Writing Workshop was held for all MA students during January-

February 2020. These workshops were mandatory for all Masters students. The sessions

happened in both classroom discussion mode (8 hours each programme) and individual

interaction mode (30 mins per student). The research proposal prepared by students in

consultation with their respective faculty guides was also used as an input for these

workshops.

The main areas of focus for the workshop were:

• Planning and structuring the dissertation

• Reviewing literature

o When to write a literature review

o Collect, evaluate and select literature

o Find connections and themes

o Plan your literature review's structure

o Write your literature review

• Drafting and editing

• Developing a bibliography (APA), appendices, and other aspects of a dissertation

During the workshop and the individual interactions, students would also discuss the

issues that they face in their writing.

An analysis of the language issues commonly faced by students during dissertation

writing shows refining research questions, arriving at research objectives, defining

concepts specific to their field of research, making credible statements, identifying themes

for literature review, connecting theory with the data, using linkers/connectors within

sentences and paragraphs, using appropriate tenses, presenting and analysis data, and

referencing appropriately as the key aspects that need to be addressed during language

sessions.


ELC Faculty Members provided all comments and corrections on the soft copy of the

draft chapters and emailed them to the student for incorporating the suggestions. This

approach acted as a learning input for the student and helped the faculty to record the

progress of the student.

One-on-One Sessions

Apart from the classroom sessions and workshops, ELC considers the One-on-One

sessions as the most crucial aspect of its language support programme. These sessions

are open for all students of BA, MA, and Research programmes. Each semester, ELC

caters to approximately 25-30 students across all programmes for such discussions. A

meeting on assignment review usually takes 30 to 45 minutes per student. Some of the

M.Phil. and Ph.D. students at TISS Hyderabad Off-Campus have interacted with the

language faculty on refining their language skills for writing their dissertation.

The individual meetings make a student communicate their specific language issue in

person and allows the language faculty to provide appropriate language solution. These

sessions also serve as a space for students to become comfortable with the academic

events. A lot of aspects such as discussion of assignments, making presentations,

confidence building, clarity on questions for exams/assignments, and social issues are

part of these sessions, which results in a positive learning environment.

II: Publications

• Dharavath, M. (2019). Democracy, Development and the Adivasi Question in

Telangana. New States and Policy Regimes. Eds. Naidu Ashok et al. Hyderabad: CAS-

Osmania University Press, 235-241.

• Dharavath, M. (July 01, 2019). ‘Mallesham’ Brings the Untold Story of Lower-Caste

Weavers to Light. The Wire.In. https://thewire.in/film/mallesham-movie-review-

andhra-weavers

III: Papers Presented/ Talks Delivered

Mohan Dharavath

• An in absentia presentation on “Re‘caste’ the self through Dalit Autobiography: A

Study of Caste, Gender and Religion,’ in the Fifth International Conference on Dalits

in Global Context: Rethinking Gender and Religion, The New School, New York,

October 24-26, 2019.

• Presentation on ‘Forbidden Text: Adivasi Women, Exploitation and Agency,’ at the

XVI National Conference on Women’s Studies, Constitutional Principles in 21st

https://thewire.in/film/mallesham-movie-review-andhra-weavers

https://thewire.in/film/mallesham-movie-review-andhra-weavers


Century India: Visions for Emancipation, National Law University, Delhi, January

28-31, 2020.

Sajida Sultana

• ‘Post-methods Prism: Perspectives from Minority Schools’ at a two-day National

Conference on ELT: Issues and Challenges. Organized by the School of Distance

Education, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. January 6-7,

2020.

• ‘Language Teaching in a Social Science Framework’ at the 5th All India Network of

English Teachers (AINET) International Conference. Organised by AINET, British

Council and RELO, American Embassy, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad.

January 10-11, 2020.

• ‘English Language Teaching Practices: A Social Science Context’ at a three-day

National Seminar cum Workshop on Showcasing Best and Unique Practices in

Teacher Education. Organised by Inter University Centre for Teacher Education,

Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru. January 22-24, 2020

• ‘Mainstream Education Policies and the Minorities’ at a three-day National Seminar

on Public Policy Education. Organised by the Department of Education, School of

English Language Education at The English and Foreign Languages University,

Hyderabad. August 16-18, 2019.

• Expert for consultative workshop on ‘Arriving at the e-content and print form for the

development of a handbook on reading and reflecting on texts for B.Ed. course for

teacher educators and student teachers.’ Organized by Inter University Centre for

Teacher Education, Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru, August 28-30, 2019

• Resource person for workshop on ‘Foundations of Curriculum for UG and PG faculty

on Introducing Education as an optional subject both at UG and PG levels of higher

education.’ Organised by Inter University Centre for Teacher Education, Regional

Institute of Education, Mysuru, July 10-12, 2019.

• Expert for a two-day workshop on the Development of a handbook on reading and

reflecting on texts for B.Ed. conducted by Inter University Centre for Teacher

Education, Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru, June 25-26, 2019.

III: Engagement with Academic Institutions

Sajida Sultana

• Sajida Sultana, Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of English Language Teachers'

Interaction Forum (ELTIF), 2019-2020.


COUNSELLING CENTRE

I: About the Counselling Centre

The counselling centre at TISS, Hyderabad provides support to students and staff to cope

with varied psychological concerns. In the multicultural academic context of the campus,

the Counselling Centre seeks to develop healthy coping strategies and creating a safe

environment for the students. Through the various activities it has initiated on the

campus, the Centre has focussed on reducing the stigma around mental health concerns.

The Counselling Team

Counsellors: Ms. Ruchi Sethia, Ms. Samatha Kandepu, Ms. Surabhi Dayama

Centre Coordinator: Dr. Sunayana Swain

II. Major Therapeutic Approaches

Key principles and techniques from Person-centred approach (empathy, unconditional

positive regard, congruence), Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, Rational Emotive Behaviour

Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Art Therapy, and Mindfulness

among others are used.

Therapeutic approach often involved integration of different techniques tailored to suit

the needs of those who approached the Counselling Centre.

III. Overview of the Counselling Process

Primary

Orientation about the centre’s activities by counsellors for all classes

Scheduling an individual session with clients over phone call/text/email or walk-in clients

Briefing clients about confidentiality of the counselling process and situations in which the same may be breached

Maintenance of confidential case histories

Monthly meetings of counsellors and Centre coordinator


Secondary

• Spreading information about the Centre’s activities with the help of class

representatives, buddies, and by putting up flyers across the campus. The objective

here has been twofold: to invite students to use the counselling centre as a safe space

and also to target any stigma/ stereotypes attached to mental health.

• Inviting student suggestions on any initiatives for the Centre to take up.

• Using the Instagram account of TISS Hyderabad as a platform to interact with larger

groups of TISS students and spread awareness about mental well-being.

• Liasoning with parents, faculty members, and friends of a client wherever necessary

(with client consent).

• Provision of emergency services whenever necessary, like in the wake of COVID-19.

IV. Outreach activities

Orientation about Counselling Centre:

The students across all programmes were given an orientation, especially the newly-

admitted students to get acquainted with the newly-appointed Counselors, and with the

Centre, the nature and process, and services available to the students. A major effort in

Activity cards placed on the entrance wall of the Institute Activity cards placed on the entrance wall of the Institute


the Academic year 2019-20, was the appointment of three Counselors to provide

psychological counseling to students on all the working days of the week.

Stress-buster activities: Putting up a, “Do It. Spread the Joy” chart near the entrance during

December 2019; encouraging students to pick any activity from the chart such as

complimenting someone, helping someone, etc. The objective was to spread love,

compassion, empathy etc., among the students.

Group sessions:

- Art therapy session for a group of 5 students to understand and explore their

definitions of “support”.

- Interaction with M.A. 2nd year students to help them prepare for their placements.

Key topics addressed included how to stay calm, maintain a positive body language,

communicate assertively and with confidence during the placement interview.

- Workshop on “Behaviour Change” for M.A (DS and RDG) students by Ms. Samatha

Readiness Programme:

Ms. Samatha, Counsellor of TISS Hyderabad conducted a webinar on May, 27, 2020 for

the MA students on essential skills required for the future readiness at work. Main

objective of the webinar is to empower students with self-discovery, growth and

empower them to be their best selves.

Life skills, Soft skills, Resume writing, preparedness for the interviews in terms of Body

language, Formal wear, introducing students to different questioning patterns are

covered. Soft Skills trainer Ms. Sumita was invited as a Guest speaker.

Panel Discussion

Ms. Surabhi was invited by a group of students for a panel discussion on the topic,

“Relationships in University Spaces” on the occasion of Women’s Day.


V. Report of Individual Counselling Sessions

Total number of individuals who approached the Counselling Centre: 83

Total number of sessions: 230

Monthly break-up of sessions

Issues Addressed

Students and staff members approached the centre with wide-ranging concerns including

strained relationships with family members, intimate partners, friends, and roommates,


academic issues, identity-related questions, rifts due to ideological differences, and

managing physical and/ or mental illness among others. While symptom management

and alleviation were the primary focus, efforts to assist our clients in developing healthy

coping strategies was equally important.

The COVID-19 situation disturbed many students who found themselves dealing with

its various consequences; the abrupt ending of their journey with their peers being one

among them. We are glad to report that despite the lock down, the Counselling Centre is

continuing to offer its services to students via text, telephone call, or email.

For the coming academic year 2020-2021, the Centre is determined to enhance the scope

and quality of its services. It remains committed to supporting the mental well-being of

the growing community and collaborate to help create safer, healthier, and supportive

spaces for all.


INTERNAL COMMITTEE

Constituted under section 4 of the UGC regulations (2013), the Internal Committee (IC)

against sexual harassment has two primary functions – remedial and preventive, and

aims to:

a) Serve as a Grievance Redressal Mechanism for addressing complaints of sexual

harassment by women students, employees and all other staff in the campus and

work for the resolution of the same

b) Prevent or deter the commission of acts of sexual harassment

With the tenure of the previous Internal Committee (IC) at TISS Hyderabad campus

coming to an end, a new IC was constituted for a 3-year period beginning from 2019-20

with the following members:

• Dr. Rekha Pappu (Convenor)

• Dr. Nilanjana Ray (Faculty Representative)

• Dr. K.P Rajesh (Faculty Representative)

• Ms. Swetha Shenoy (Admin. Representative) and

• Ms. Kameshwari Jandhyala (External Member)

The student representatives Ms. Sarika Moon, Ms. Archanna Prasad and Ms. Tanya

Jessica Gladston in their capacity as elected members of the Women and Gender

Development Cell (WGDC) for the academic year 2019-20 were also a part of the IC.

While the IC specifically addresses

complaints of sexual harassment,

the mandate of the WGDC is

wider. One of the objectives of

WGDC is conducting outreach

work for gender awareness and

also to identify those who are

facing discrimination, providing

support and creating an enabling

environment for sharing anxieties,

problems and difficulties faced by

women and persons with gender

non-normative behaviours. The

student representatives of WGDC were active in taking up these responsibilities. They

Panel members speaking on the topic of relationships in university

spaces


organised a gender sensitisation session in the campus, which was facilitated by Rubaroo,

a non-governmental organisation working on issues of gender equity among the youth.

WGDC members also organised a panel discussion on “Relationships in University

Spaces.” The discussion was facilitated by the Campus Counsellor, Ms. Surabhi Dayama

and the Faculty members Dr. Rahul Menon & Dr. Sowjanya Tamalapakula. A large

number of students participated in the discussion.

Discussion on relationships in university spaces


INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE

The International Relations Office (IRO) at the Hyderabad campus works under the aegis

of IRO at Mumbai campus. Its primary objectives are as follows.

• Facilitate admission of international students to full time Degree Programs (B.A./

M.A./ Integrated M.Phil.-Ph.D./ Direct Ph.D.)

• Manage and facilitate the Incoming and Outgoing Student Exchange Programmes for

the Hyderabad Campus

• Host workshops for preparing students to appear for Exchange Programme

interviews

In the academic year 2019-20, the following students were selected for various

international exchange programmes

Outgoing Student Exchange Programme:

Name of the Student Name of Programme Name of the Institution visited at Exchange

Programme

Mr. N. P. Tushar MA in Natural Resources and Governance, School of Livelihoods and Development

Birmingham International Summer School 2020, University of Birmingham, UK

Ms. Shrishty Pallav MA in Public Policy and Governance, School of Public Policy and Governance

Sciences PO, Paris, France

Ms. Shrutija Saxena MA-Development Studies, School of Livelihoods and Development

Birmingham International Summer School 2020, University of Birmingham, UK

Ms. Sukriti Sood MA in Public Policy and

Governance, School of Public

Policy and Governance

Birmingham International

Summer School 2020, University

of Birmingham, UK


Incoming Student Exchange Programme:

Name of the Student Country Name of the Institution visited at Exchange Programme

Mr. Ashwini Wankhede

USA Ph.D. in Social Sciences, TISS Hyderabad Off Campus

Coordinator: Professor Aseem Prakash, Chairperson, School of Public Policy and

Governance

Student Coordinator: Tony Arnold


ANNEXURES

I: Management Committee

II: School Chairpersons and Faculty Coordinators

III: Facilitation and Support Cell for Students

IV: Faculty & Staff Cell

V: Student Representatives in the Career Guidance and Placement Cell

VI: Programme Wise Titles of Student Dissertations


MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Vindhya Undurti, Professor and Deputy Director, TISS Hyderabad

Kalpana Sastry, Professor, School of Livelihoods and Development

Aseem Prakash, Professor and Chairperson, School of Public Policy Governance

Ritesh Khunyakari, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Azim Premji School of

Education

Bibhu Prasad Nayak, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Office of Students' Affairs

Srinivas Surisetti, Assistant Professor and Chairperson, School of Livelihoods and

Development and Academic Programmes

Nilanjana Ray, Assistant Professor and Chairperson, School of Gender Studies

Murali Krishna Mallepaku, Assistant Professor and Convenor, SC, ST & Equal

Opportunity Cell

Rekha Pappu, Convenor, Internal Committee, TISS Hyderabad


SCHOOL CHAIRPERSONS AND FACULTY COORDINATORS

I. CHAIRPERSONS

1. Azim Premji School of Education (APSoE) - Ritesh Khunyakari

2. School of Gender Studies (SGS) – Nilanjana Ray

3. School of Livelihood and Development (SoLD) - Srinivas Surisetti

4. School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG) - Aseem Prakash

II. COORDINATORS

1. B.A. in Social Sciences - Ipsita Sapra

2. M.A. in Education (APSoE) - Ritesh Khunyakari

3. M.A. in Development Studies (SoLD) - Poulomi Bhattacharya

4. M.A. in Natural Resource and Governance (SoLD) - Bibhu Prasad Nayak

5. M.A. in Public Policy and Governance (SPPG) - Aseem Prakash

6. M.A. in Rural Development and Governance (SoLD) - Srinivas Surisetti

7. M.A. in Women’s Studies (SGS) - Nilanjana Ray

8. Integrated M.Phil./ Ph.D. in Education (APSoE) - Rekha Pappu


FACILITATION AND SUPPORT CELL FOR STUDENTS

Convener - Karunakar P

Member - Ipsita Sapra

Member - Sowjanya T

Member - Arjun Sengupta


FACULTY AND STAFF

Deputy Director

• Prof. Vindhya Undurti, Professor & Deputy Director, M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology

(Andhra University)

Azim Premji School of Education

• Dr. Ritesh Khunyakari, Associate Professor & Chairperson, M.Sc. in Botany, Ph.D. in

Science Education (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

• Dr. Murali Krishna Mallepaku, Assistant Professor, M.A., M.Phil. in English (CIEFL),

Ph.D. in English (University of Hyderabad)

• Dr. Rekha Pappu, Associate Professor, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in English (University of

Hyderabad)

• Dr. Sonia Sawhney, Assistant Professor, B.Ed. (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha

University [GGSIPU]), M.A. in English Literature (IGNOU), M.Ed. (Osmania

University), M.Phil. in Education Research (University of Cambridge), Ph.D. in

Education (Osmania University)

School of Gender Studies

• Dr. Nilanjana Ray, Assistant Professor & Chairperson, M.A. (University of

Allahabad), Ph.D. in Modern History (University of Allahabad), Ph.D. in Social Work

(Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

• Dr. Neetha Rani P, Assistant Professor, M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D. in History (University of

Hyderabad)

• Dr. Sowjanya Tamalapakula, Assistant Professor, M.A. in English Literature

(Nagarjuna University), M.Phil, Ph.D. in English Literature (EFLU, Hyderabad)

• Dr. Sunayana Swain, Assistant Professor, M.A. in Psychology (Ravenshaw

University), Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Hyderabad)

• Dr. Ujithra Ponniah, Assistant Professor, M.A. in Development Studies (Tata Institute

of Social Sciences, Mumbai), M.Phil and Ph.D. in Sociology (Jawaharlal Nehru

University) (Left in May, 2020).

• Dr. Vindhya Undurti, Professor, M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology (Andhra University)

School of Livelihoods and Development

• Dr. Srinivas Surisetti, Assistant Professor & Chairperson, M.S.W. (Nagarjuna

University), Ph.D. (Andhra University)


• Dr. Amit Upadhyay, Assistant Professor, M.A. in Sociology (University of

Hyderabad), M.Phil. in Evidence Based Social Intervention (University of Oxford),

Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Hyderabad)

• Mr. Arjun Sengupta, Assistant Professor, M.A. in Development Studies (Tata

Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), M.Phil., (Centre for Study of Social Systems,

Jawaharlal Nehru University)

• Dr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak, Associate Professor, M.A., M.Phil. (University of

Hyderabad) Ph.D. in Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University),

• Dr. R. Kalpana Sastry, Professor, B.Sc. (Botany Hons.), M.Sc. in Myc. & Pl. Path.

(IARI), Ph.D. in IMyc. & Pl. Path. (IARI), PGDIP (NALSAR) (Left in May, 2020).

• Dr. Karunakar Peda, Assistant Professor, M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D., in Political Science

(University of Hyderabad)

• Dr. Krithi. S, Assistant Professor, M.Phil., Ph.D. in Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru

University)

• Dr. Poulomi Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Economics (Institute for

Social and Economic Change)

• Dr. Rahul Menon, Assistant Professor, M.A. (Gokhale Institute of Politics and

Economics) M.Phil. & Ph.D. Economics (Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,

Jawaharlal Nehru University)

• Dr. Rajesh K. P., Assistant Professor, M.S.W. (Sree Sankaracharya University of

Sanskrit, Kalady) M.Phil. in Research and Development (Gandhigram Rural

University) Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Hyderabad)

• Dr. Santosh Kumar Verma, Assistant Professor, M.A. (VBS Purvanchal University),

M.Phil. (School of Economics, Indore), Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Post-

Doctorate (University of Kassel, Germany), (Left in February, 2020).

• Dr. Shahul Ameen K. T, Assistant Professor M.A. in Sociology (Christ University),

M.Phil. in Sociology (University of Hyderabad), Ph.D. in Sociology (IIT, Kanpur).

School of Public Policy and Governance

• Dr. Aseem Prakash, Professor & Chairperson M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in Political Science

(Jawaharlal Nehru University)

• Dr. Amit Sadhukhan, Assistant Professor, M.Sc. in Economics (University of

Calcutta), M.Phil. & Ph.D. in Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

• Dr. Arvind Pandey, Assistant Professor, M.A. in Geography, (DDU Gorakhpur

University), M.Phil. & Ph.D. in Population Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Post-Doctorate (National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi)


• Dr. Gayatri Nair, Assistant Professor, M.A, in Sociology (University of Pune), M. Phil.

& Ph.D. in Sociology (Jawaharlal Nehru University) (Left in September, 2019)

• Dr. Ipsita Sapra, Associate Professor, M.A. (Sociology), University of Calcutta, M.A.

in Sustainable Development (Staffordshire), Ph.D. in Social Sciences, (Tata Institute

of Social Sciences, Mumbai)

Organisational Development Change and Leadership

• Dr. Dimple Grover, Associate Professor & Chairperson, M.A. (University of

Allahabad) M.Phil. in Organisational Behaviour (DU), Ph.D. in Humanities (IIT,

Delhi) (Left in March, 2020)

• Dr. Shobitha Poulose, Assistant Professor, M.B.A. in Human Resource Management

and Marketing (Mahatma Gandhi University), Ph.D. in Human Resource

Management (NIT, Calicut), Social Sciences, Mumbai) (Left in March, 2020).

English Language Cell

• Dr. Murali Krishna Mallepaku, Assistant Professor & Coordinator, M.A., M.Phil. in

English, (CIEFL), Ph.D. in English, University of Hyderabad

• Dr. Mohan Daravath, Assistant Professor, M.A., B.Ed. Ph.D. in English (EFLU)

• Dr. Sajida Sultana, M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language (CIEFL), M.Phil.

& Ph.D. in English Language Education (EFLU)

Counselling Centre

• Dr. Sunayana Swain, Assistant Professor & Coordinator, M.A. in Psychology

(Ravenshaw University), Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Hyderabad)

• Ms. Ruchi Sethia, Student Counsellor, M.Sc. in Applied Psychology [Counselling

Skills] (St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad), PGDM in Liberal Arts and

Leadership Studies (Young India Fellowship).

• Ms. Samatha Kandepu, Student Counsellor, M.Sc. in Psychology (Madras

University), M.Sc. in Psychotherapy and Counselling (IPMS)

• Ms. Surabhi Dayama, Student Counsellor, M.Sc in Applied Psychology [Counseling

Skills] (St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad)

Library

• Mr. Vamshi Bollarapu, Assistant Librarian, M.LI.Sc.

• Mr. Mohammed Awais, Library Attendant

• Mr. G. Sairam, Library Intern, M.LI.Sc.

• Mr. S. Subhash, Library Intern, M.LI.Sc.


Finance and Administrative Staff

• Mr. R. Ramesh, Assistant Registrar (Administration), M.S. (Econometrics), PGDCA

• Mr. Abhinav Pandey, Administrative Assistant, B.Com. & CA IPCC

• Mr. Ajay Birajdar, UDC (Accounts), M.Com.

• Ms. Amrita R, Student Coordinator, M.B.A. - Human Resources

• Mr. Ananda Sandeep, Administrative Assistant

• Mr. Devansh Varma, System Administrator, B.Tech.

• Mr. G. Chandra Kumar, Office Attendant

• Mr. Madhava Rao, Placement Officer, M.B.A., PGDHRM

• Mr. Md. Siddiq, Administrative Assistant, M.B.A. (Finance)

• Mr. Shaik Mohammed Jahangeer, System Administrator, M.B.A.

• Mr. Shaik Nayeem, Student Coordinator, M.B.A. (Finance)

• Ms. Swetha Shenoy, Student Coordinator, M.B.A. (HR)

• Mr. Tony Arnold Geddam, Administrative Assistant, M.Sc. (CS), MHRM

Hostel Caretakers

• Ms. Mamatha

• Mr. Srinivasulu. S

Drivers

• Mr. D. Ashok

• Mr. Mohammad Kaleem

• Mr. Ravi Kiran


STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CAREER GUIDANCE AND PLACEMENT

CELL

Career Guidance and Placement Cell

Team lead: Student Relations and Communication

Aparna Bhagat H2018NRG2018

Representative (NRG) Uzma Faiz H2018NRG022

Representative (DS) Swastika Swain H2018DSM031

Team Coordinator (Resigned from the post on 4/02/2020)

Pratikshita Chowdhury

H2018DS017

Team lead: Corporate Relations and Outreach

Sreetama Basu H2018PPG020

Team lead: Content Management Naveen Isarapu H2018PPGM034

Representative (RDG) Harshitha Adusumalli

H2018RDGM030

Team Member: CRO Pranav Kumar H2018RDG017

Team lead: Alumni Relations and Communication

Pooja Dubey H2018ED025

Representative (Education) Ms. Palak Shah H2018ED014

Representative (WS) MONA H2018WS013

Team Member: CRO Avni Arora H2018WS009

Team lead: Finance and Logistics Sunny Suman H2018RDG023

Team Member: CM Bibhuti Bhushan Behera

H2018DS006

Representative (NRG) Mithilesh Kherwar H2018NRG011

Team Member: F&L Nishita Toppo H2018WS014


PROGRAMME WISE TITLES OF STUDENT DISSERTATIONS

B. A in Social Sciences (2017 -2020 batch)

S. No. Name of the Student Dissertation Title

1. Palak Sabherwal Workers in the time of the Gig Economy: An Analytical Study on Uber and Ola Drivers

2. Harikrishnan M Egalitarianism and Worker Perception of the Decision-Making System in the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society in Kerala

3. Tanya Jessica Gladston

Gated Communities in India post the 1990s Reformation: A Case Study of a Gated Community in Mumbai

4. Pooja Narayan ‘Who’s Afraid of the F Word’? Medical Sciences, Gendered Media and Corporeality in Post Reform India

5. Amratha Lekshmi A J Rethinking Locality, Identity and Community: A Study of the Jews of Cochin, Kerala

6. Natta Habravysh Labour Under Neo-Liberalism: A Study on the Safai Karamcharis of Hyderabad

7. Disha Srivastava Reconciling the Muslim BJP Vote Bank Puzzle

8. Palani Rajan A Tackling the Rising number of Vulnerabilities in the IT/ITES Sector: A Study focused upon the IT/ITES Employees in Chennai

9. Rahul Kothekar Cleaning the ‘pollutants’ for green-clean city: A case of Madan Mahal Hills, Jabalpur

10. Alok Reon Baiju Impact of the Floods and Landslides of 2018: A study focused on the victims of the landslide in Puthumala Village

11. Oormila Js Masculinity in Disguise A study on Chamayavilakku, the Religious Cross-dressing Ritual of Kottankulangara Temple in Kerala

12. Febi D A Additional Skill Acquisition Programme: A Boon or A Bane for the Underprivileged

13. Prabhu Aravind Upward Mobility and Assimilation of Inter-State Migrant Labourers – A Study of the Tiruppur Garment Industry

14. Hameeda Begum Shah

Women's Madrasa Education

15. Suman Shikha Informal and Formal Sector Linkages: A Case Study of Financial and Social Life of Panipuri Sellers in the IT Sector of Hyderabad

16. Deba Sankar S An Overview of The Educational Policies for Transgender Community in Kerala: A Study on the State Transgender policy and ‘Samanwaya’

17. SidharthA The Misery of “People’s Army” A study on the Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities of the Fishing Community due to Coastal Erosion in Valiyathura, Thiruvananthapuram

18. Sneha Sabitha Najeeb Deconstructing development in Kerala: A Voyage through various Discourses and Debates


19. Mariyam Maqbool ‘Deen’ and ‘Duniya’: An Exploratory Study of Parents’ Choice and Islamic Schools

20. Ajay Kumar Impact of Privatisation on the Public Transport Sector Workers: A Study of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Workers

21. Tharanjali Rajeev Tracing Tamil Brahmins journey in the Neoliberal present: A Study of Agraharamsand Tamill Brahmins of Kerala in the 21st Century

22. Avani Binish From ‘Ghar to the Ghat’: Is Hyderabad the New Ayodhya? Examining the Construction of Bhagya Lakshmi Temple and the Religious Polarization between Hindus and Muslims in the Old City of Hyderabad

23. Theertha Shabu Pombilai Orumai- The Tea Plantation Workers Movement, Munnar

24. Megha Malakar Inter-Caste Marriages and the contestation of identities: Case study on the Namashudra Community of Bengal

25. Rajnandini Barman “Who are the ‘Assamese’ and the question of Citizenship”: A Study on Understanding the Intertwined Concept of defining the ‘Assamese’ and ‘Citizenship’ in Assam

26. Chau Virasi Mungyak Decline of Indigenous Folk art Forms: A Study of the Nomadic Folk Theatre of Bengal- Jatra

27. Rahul Anil Khare Vulnerability of Farmer's lives and Livelihoods to Extreme Weather Events: A Study Focusing on Farmers of Nashik District

28. Gulvi Srikanth Role of Women in Panchayat Raj Institutions: A Case Study of Villages under Kandukur Mandal in Ranga Reddy District of Telangana State

29. Rashad Ullah Khan The Fallacy of Indian Democracy: Land Reforms and the Entrenchment of Caste and Class Inequalities

30. Bibin Sam Thomas Agrarian Crisis, Farmer Suicide Epidemic, and Peasant Mobilisations

31. Shaurya Srivastava The Comparative Analysis of Decent Work Indicators of Seven Countries based on UN SDG (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Framework)

32. Aditi Vasudevan Nature and Effect of Water, Sanitation and Hygeine in the Slums of Hyderabad

33. Annie P Steephen The Vulnerability in the Informal Labour Market: A Study on the Calligraphy market of Hyderabad

34. Devikrishna N B Social Identity of the Marginalized Sikhs: The Sikligars of Hyderabad

35. Soorya U R Social Aspects of Religiosity among the Migrant Students of Hyderabad

36. Molagra Anand Dying Professions: Study of Ear Cleaning as Profession in Hyderabad

37. Akhila M Sivan Dying Markets: - A Case Study on the Vulnerable Shoe Shine Workers in Hyderabad


38. Aparnajyothi Gangarapu

Dying Markets: A Study on Old Cloth Market

39. Chau Virasi Mungyak Migration, the Elites and Role of Inner Line Permit: Study focused on the Non-Tribal Government Drivers of Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh

40. Adarsh Kumar Bodra Impact of Migration on tribals: A Comparative Study of Migrant and Non-Migrant Tribal households in Chakradharpur, Jharkhand

41. Imsuren Kichu Migration and the Role of Religious Institutions: A study on Identity Formation of North East Migrants in Hyderabad

42. Hrishikesh Sanjay Garud

Status of Water and Sanitation Provisions in Urban Slums in India: A Case Study on Dharavi

43. Amritha V Healing Concerns: Physical and Psychological well-being of Migrant Women in Higher Educational Institutions in Migrant Women in Higher Educational Institutions in Hyderabad

44. Baindla Vamshi Krishna

Migration and Educational Aspirations – Experiences of Dalit Students in Hostels of Hyderabad

45. Lakumalla Madhusha Caste Based Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: A Case Study of Agapally village of Ranga Reddy District, Telangana

46. Anirudh Shastri Dying Informal Labour Markets: A Study on Steel Vessels Vendors in Hyderabad

47. Bhawesh Culture and Performance of Masculinity: A Study of Migration in Sukhpar, Kutch

48. Geetika Nadakuditi An Alternate Approach in Tribal Education: Narratives of Kondha Tribe in Vishakapatnam District

49. Drishti The Relationship between Education and Development of Spiritual Intelligence

50. Gaddakrindhi Prathyusha

A Comparative Study between Private School and Government School

51. Pulu Vinaya Empowerment of Young Women in Telangana Social Welfare Residential Degree Colleges through Innovative Programmes in Higher Education

52. Bakka Roshini A Study on Reasons for Children Failure in Senior Secondary School (SSC) Examinations in Telangana State

53. Shivam Dhar An Exploratory Study of Career Aspirations of Secondary School Children in Delhi: A Comparative Study of Two Private and Public Schools


Azim Premji School of Education

M. A in Education (2018-2020 Batch)

S. No. Name of Student Dissertation title

1. Aniket Yadav Exploring comparative contexts to identify challenges in learning English among elementary students

2. Annu Ralli Exploring Reflective Teaching Practices of Middle school English Teachers for Understanding their agentic role in teaching learning processes

3. Asmita Sahu Understanding Socio-cultural Variations in Learning English in Private Schools: A Case Study of High-Fee and Low-Fee English Medium Schools from Bilaspur District of Chhattisgarh

4. Lebaku Varalakshmi Exploring Grade VIII Students’ Understanding of Force in a Guided Inquiry Context

5. Mandar Maruti Mali How Grade III Students Comprehend and Represent Familiar Sequence of Event Actions

6. Nabajyoti Das Becoming a Teacher - A Study of the Practicum Component in a Teacher Education Program

7. Narendra Namaji Bansod

Understanding teaching and learning of Marathi language at primary school at Z.P. school of Maharashtra

8. Naveen Modem The relationship between the state official language & Koya tribe language: Case study Bhadradri Kothagudem district

9. Niyaj Mukhtar Mulani

Understanding students' geometric reasoning in transition from 2D geometry to 3D geometry at grade six

10. Nymisha Yadati Curricular and Textbook Revisions: A Case Study of Social Science Textbooks of Telangana

11. Palak Shah Uncovering how teachers help students to develop interpersonal relationships in primary school: A case study

12. Parbati Murmu The experience of tribal girls in Higher Education Institutions

13. Poorna K K Exploratory study on teachers’ Emotional well-being in schools

14. Samadrita Chakraborty

ELT teachers’ perceptions about the selection and use of E-resources in classroom teaching to enhance student learning

15. Satya Singh Environmental issues: perspective and practices of secondary school students

16. Shekhar Verma Studying of Students’ responses to Short Stories through Questioning and Reflection

17. Shobhana Bhushan Participation Patterns of students, in team sports in Indian Secondary Schools

18. Asmita Dabral Understanding Montessori Method: Case study of a Pre- Primary School

19. Badavath Narendar Impact of E plus club Activity in English language Development in study of Telangana Social Welfare Residential School


20. Pooja Dubey Perspective of teacher's on Inclusive Education

21. Sujani Bokkey Study on the implications of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation in a Government high school in Andhra Pradesh

22. Shikha Janwadkar Teachers construct of personhood of children with disabilities and its influence on their inclusive practices: A case study

23. Rheeya K Sreedharan

Understanding the objectives and outcomes of military academy: A study of students’ perspectives

24. Viswa Mitra R Prabhanjan

A case-study on the perception of Anomie and its cause-effect trends w.r.t. Success Orientation & Socio-political dynamism among the Master's level students of TISS


School of Gender Studies

M. A in Women’s Studies (2018-2020 Batch)

S. No. Student Name Dissertation Title

1. Adwitiya Ghosh

Finding Home far Away from Home: Rohingya Women in Hyderabad and their Sense of Home and Belonging

2. Afreen Ashraf

Is Nationalism Gendered? Portrayal of Masculinity and Femininity in Nationalistic Bollywood Movies

3. Ananya Sarkar Perceptions about Abortion in the Context of Class and Religion in Hyderabad

4. Archanna Prasad Lived Experience of women and Impacts of a Social Enterprise in an Urban slum: A Study of the Project “Sewing Hope‟ in Karimadom Colony

5. Arshita Singh Domestic Workers and Labour Legislation in India

6. Avni Arora

Aren’t Forests Gendered? Gauging Gond Adivasi women’s Awareness and access to the Forest Rights Act 2006 in villages of Komaram Bheem Asifabad District of Telangana

7. Bhagyashri Sadashiv

Love, Caste and Gender: A study of romantic relationships in Higher Education

8. Deepannita Misra

Women’s Experiences with Mental Illness: Understanding the Relationship between Culture, Gender and Mental Health

9. Gitanjaly Sabu

Representation of Female Friendships in Malayalam Cinema.

10. Joel Thomas Mathews

A Gendered Analysis of Forest Rights Act, 2006

11. Lopamudra Nayak

Women Migrants in Hyderabad: Their rights and Opportunities

12. Manjulika Chellappan

Menstrual and Reproductive health in the Rural Communities of Gujrat: A Comparative Study of Two Villages

13. Mona Understanding Refugee Protection: A study on Rohingya Women’s Vulnerability to sexual & Gender-based Violence in Delhi, India

14. Nishita Toppo Witch Hunting in Jharkhand: Perceptions and Reality

15. Rushika Banerji Erasure of Women’s Bodily Integrity and Reproductive Autonomy in Gynaecology: A Question

16. Sathi Mazumder

Political and Structural Conflicts of Para-Teachers in West Bengal

17. Satya Sowmya Chilukuri

Effectiveness of Sex Education Programmes in Schools of India

18. Shivangi Adatia

Women's meaning-making of Environment (s): a study of gender, caste and forests in Jardhargaon, Uttarakand

19. Shubholaxmi Roy

Sex Worker's Access to Institutional Structures and Public Places


20. Sruthi Pk

Margins of the Marginalized: A Study on gendered barriers for tribal girls to access education in Attappady, Kerala

21. Aishwarya Tripathy

Reflection of Gender Norms and the idea of Marriage by the Hindi cinema in the Contemporary Times

22. Jahnvi Dwivedi

Conceptualising ‘scarcity’: A study of intersectionality of Caste and Gender in terms of Access to Water in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh.

23. Noshina Choudhary

Voices of Muslim Women in India: Identity and Appearance

24. Manaswini Ghosh

Transgender Identity and Inability to Access Entitlements through Policy View, Court View, Citizen's View and View of oneself


School of Livelihoods and Development:

M.A in Rural Development & Governance (2018-2020 Batch)

S. No. Name of the Student

Dissertation Topic

1 Aditya Lakshmi How does the identity of an Adivasi Community, biases surrounding it and their pre-existing vulnerabilities aggravate the effects of climate risk on the community members?: A study based in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu

2 Afseena V Gendered Impacts of Natural Disasters on Livelihoods: A Case Study of two recent Kerala floods

3 Akanksha Ojha Interplay of Discrimination, Accountability and Governance in Determining Maternal Health Inequities: A Study of Tribal Women in Ranchi District, Jharkhand

4 Akanksha Sinha Nature of Groundwater Economy and Role of Groundwater Markets in bringing about Equity, Sustainability and Efficiency

5 Archana Biswal Climate Change and Livelihoods: The Effect of Coastal Erosion on the Lives and Livelihoods in Ganjam District, Odisha

6 Ishita Bhave Rohingya Muslims in India: A Case Study on Questions of Statelessness, Citizenship, and National Identity

7 Keesara Satya Nanda Vyshnavi

Unmasking the Food Security Realities of the Below Poverty Line Families - the Case of Andhra Pradesh

8 Kunjulekshmi Performance of MSME’s and its Livelihood Implications: A Study of the Weaving Cluster in Balaramapuram

9 Loknath Sahu Role of Self-help Groups in Empowering the Women of Tribal Area- a Study in Kandhamal District of Odisha

10 Navaneeth R Kudumbashree: Fostering Inclusion and Empowerment - A Study of the Kudumbashree Members in Mananthavady Sub- District

11 Parnandi Sharvani

Drought, Vulnerability and Adaptation: Understanding the Interplay of Caste and Class - A Case Study on Puttaparthi, Anatapur.

12 Pithona The Impact of Climate Change on the Traditional Livelihoods of Sundarbans and the Adaptation Strategies

13 Pooja Jhorar Sabhya Sanskari Khandaan: Gender, Family Honour and Inter-Caste Marriages in Haryana

14 Pranav Kumar Condition and Quality of Elementary Education in Bihar: A Study in Sonbarsa Block

15 Ranjith Kumar Tarala

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan impact assessment of village developmental activities taken up by IIT Hyderabad under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan scheme.

16 Revathy V R Understanding the street vending set up in a temple economy: A comparative study in the Guruvayur temple, Thrissur, Kerala

17 Salona Oreya Development Induced Displacement and its Impacts on Tribal Women: a study of Kalinganagar Tata Steel Plant in Odisha


18 S Gauri Gopal Understanding Economic Empowerment, Decision Making and Gender Gap in the Attainment of Financial Literacy

19 Shailendra Yadav

Multilayer Organic Farming and its implications on Livelihood of Small and Marginal Farmers in India: A Study of Multilayer Organic Farming and Farmers who implemented the Model

20 Sunny Suman Sustainable Livelihood Approaches and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of the Project Sustainable Livelihood and Adaptation to Climate Change (SLACC) implemented in Madhubani, Bihar

21 Verangi Sai Koushik

Farmer Producer Organization and Women Farmers: A Study of Yadari District, Telangana

22 Alphonse Tirkey

A Study on School Dropout of Tribal Students in Ranchi, Jharkhand

23 Debarati Mondal

Adaptation to the Changing Trends: Effect of Globalized Urbanisation on the Traditional Art Form of Chhau as a Livelihood Activity in Purulia, West Bengal

24 Nikhil Kumar Analysing the Sustainability and Financial Viability of ZBNF: A Study in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh

25 Koyel Sarkar Looking into the Green Room of ‘Oorvi’ and Developing New Pathways for Sustenance

26 A. Harshitha Study on Agriculture Production and Asset Holding in Diviseema Area, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh


M.A in Development Studies (2018-2020 Batch)

S.No Name of the Student

Dissertation Title

1 Akanksha Sen Intra-Household Gendered Undernourishment in Rural West Bengal: The Role of Religious Fasting Practices & Food Taboos

2 Akhil Paraseth A Comprehensive Study of Odisha Millet Mission in the Tribal Areas of Kandhamal District, Odisha

3 Anand S Pillay Livelihood Impacts of Kerala Floods in the Districts of Wayanad and Malappuram

4 Ananya Sharma Manufacturing Industry in Post-Reform India

5 Arnav Shahi Extent of Financial Inclusion among the Service Based Informal Sector Workers: A Study in Pratapgarh District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh

6 Bibhuti Bhushan Behera

Financial Inclusion of SHG Members in the Tribal Areas- A Study on Keonjhar District of Odisha

7 Dipika Deepak Impact of Thermal Power Plant Wastes on Health and Livelihood of Surrounding Areas.

8 Disha Sharma Consumerism in Health Seeking Behaviour among the Urban Middle Class: The Case of Kolkata

9 Jasmine Tiru Seasonal Migration for Livelihood: A Study of Simdega, Jharkhand

10 Mahendra Koduru Enhancing Livelihood through Skilling (A Study of Handicraft Cluster in Kondapalli)

11 Nabaneeta Goswami

Identity Politics and Deepening of Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry into the Case of Assam

12 N. Arvind Karthick Tamil Cinema’s ‘New’ Wave: History, Viewing Practices, and the Cultural Sphere in Tamilnadu

13 Nirupama Kumar Does Gender End When Development Begins? – A Critique of the Women’s Component Plan in Kerala

14 Pratikshita Chowdhury

Citizens’ Perspectives on E-Government Services an Exploratory Study about the Facilitative Role of Citizen Service Centers and the effectiveness of Government Websites in Public Service Delivery.

15 Ravi Understanding Caste Segregation and Spatial Inequalities: A Ward-Level Study In The City Of Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

16 Regina Gurung The Political Sociological Psycological Aspect of Suicide: A Study on Suicide among Youths in Sikkim

17 Rohan Atrawalkar Organized Informality: A Study of Manned Guards in Private Security Agencies in Pune District of Maharashtra

18 Saakshi S Sarpotdar

Religious Environmentalism: A Case Study of Matri Sadan’s Movement for Aviral Nirmal Ganga Haridwar, Uttarakhand

19 Sanagani Varshitha Institutional Structures, Incentives and Government Interventions in The Handloom Industry: A Study of Uppada Handloom Cluster of Andhra Pradesh


20 Shiva Prasad Nemmadi

Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana An Analysis of Personal Development, Sanitation, Basic Amenities and Community Participation: A Case Study of Dwarapudi Village, Vizianagaram District, Andhra Pradesh

21 Shiva Singh Upper Caste Identity, Community Associations and Political Assertion in Contemporary India: A Case Study of Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha

22 Sushmita Kumari A Study on Impact of Flood on Tribal Women Health & Rehabilitation Program in the Area of Done in West Champaran District of Bihar

23 Vangala Srinivasa Sreya

Water Governance, Institutions and Access A Case Study of Goplapur, Vidyanagar and Injapur-Telangana

24 Ayana Krishna D Save Alappad’ Movement: An Analysis of the Nuanced Perspectives (A Study in Alappad Village of Kerala)

25 Kapilash Naik Agriculture Innovation and its Livelihood Implication on Small Tribal Farmers - A Study of Jharigaon Village, Nabarangapur District in the State of Odisha

26 Vikas Wamanrao Shahare

Transforming Livelihood through Innovative Horticulture (Hydroponic Agriculture): A Case of Mumbai City”

27 Shruthy Harilal Caste, Modernity and the State: Understanding the Discourses Around Theyyam as a Ritualistic Performance and Art in Kerala

28 Swastika Swain Understanding Employment of Male Tamil Eelam Refugees from the Camps and Settlements in Chennai and how these drivers shape their Livelihoods

29 Karishma Understanding Caste Perceptions in Engineering Colleges of Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh.

30 S Pravalika Between Church and State: Negotiating Community Resources for Velama’s in Visakhapatnam

31 Krishna Nath Communalism in Neoliberal India: A Study of Growing Communalism among the Nair Community in Kerala.


M.A in Natural Resources & Governance (2018-2020 Batch)

S.No. Name of the Student

Dissertation Topic

1 Amit Kumar Mishra

Water Management in Jamshedpur: Understanding the Institutional Mechanisms and Consumer Satisfaction

2 Ananth S Quantification of Agrochemicals used in Cardamom Plantations and its Effect on Health and Ecology A Case Study of Vandanmedu and Chakkupallam Villages of Idukki District, Kerala

3 Aparna Bhagat Human-Elephant Conflict in the Tea-Gardens of North Bengal

4 Arunima Shandilya

Restoration of River Yamuna- Understanding the Governance Challenges

5 B V Naveen Sai Kumar Sighakolli

Watershed Management: A Case Study of Antharaganga Village in Ananthpur District of Andhra Pradesh

6 Gargi Unnikrishnan.K

Governing the Lakes for Sustainability: A Case of Kolleru Lake in Andhra Pradesh

7 Gayathri Bhonagiri

Water Accessibility and Role of State in Water Provisioning (A Study in Two Slums of Musheerabad and Kapra in Hyderabad)

8 Jahnvi Climate Change and Maldharis

9 Mithlesh Kherwar

Governing River Restoration Programmes in India: A Study of the Implementation of Integrated Harmu River Restoration Programme in Ranchi

10 Rohit Bhupendra Solanki

Mainstreaming Conservation in the Community Based Planning (A Case of Kadana Block in Mahisagar District, Gujarat)

11 Shyantani Chakraborty

Religious Environmentalism and Pollution of the Ganga River: A Critical Assessment

12 Smrithi K Chandy

Effects of Environmental Changes like Sea-Level Rise and Land Subsidence on the Lives and Livelihoods of Island Communities: A Study on Munroe Islands, Kerala

13 Tanima Pal Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture; A Case Study of Nadia District, West Bengal

14 Taxashila Kamble

Drought Risk, Tribal Communities and their livelihood in Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra

15 Uzma Faiz Socio- Economic and Environmental Impact of Eco-Tourism. A Case Study of White-Water Rafting and Camping Tourism in Uttarakhand, India

16 Abhilash Sam A Study on the Impact of Kisan Credit Card on the Lives of Farmers in Ratlam of M.P.

17 Jebit Islary A Study on Understanding the Effects of Flood on the Livelihood of the Bodo Tribe in Chirang District, Assam

18 M. Shimron Rao Changing Forest Laws and Tribal Rights A Case Study from Chodavaram Range, Andhra Pradesh


19 Roger Binita Kujur

Labour Exploitation in Plantation Sector: An Empirical Study of the Tea Estates of Uttar Dinajpur District, West Bengal

20 Santosh Jani Impact of Industrial Waste Disposal on Local Ecosystem: A Case Study of Koraput District Odisha


School of Public Policy and Governance

M.A in Public Policy and Governance (2018-2020 Batch)

S. No. Name of the

Student Dissertation Title

1. Aarti Institutional Apparatus of Municipal Solid Waste Management

in Walled City: A Case Study of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi)

2. Adya Behera The Road to Loss-Making Era – An analysis of the restaurant

partners of the food delivery platforms

3. Anubhav Bishen Civil society engagement with Mental Health and Psychosocial

Support programme of the refugees under the aegis of UNHCR,

Delhi

4. Bharat Sharma A Comprehensive Assessment of Vulnerabilities Experienced by

Delivery and Driver Partners in Platform Economy

5. Harshula Experience of migrant workers in the gig economy Examining

the level of precariousness of migrant gig workers (A case study

of Hyderabad)

6. Mohit Sureshrao

Jane

Status of State Road Transport Undertakings in Indian States

7. Nafisa Khatoon Can Ride-Hailing Driver Partners Fulfill their Aspiration? A

Case Study of Kolkata

8. Nikhil Vinay

Minz

People, Politics and Planning: A study of urban planning and

policymaking for the redevelopment of Shahjahanabad

9. Nishtha Relan Aspirations in The Times of Platform Economy: Dynamics of

Gender in Swiggy, Zomato and Urban Company Service

Delivery

10. Prabakaran A K Institutional Marginalization, Students Movements, and Higher

Education in India: An Exploratory Study

11. Prashant Singh Nature of Contract in the Platform Economy Locating the Driver

Partner on the Employee-Independent Contractor continuum

12. Shashank S R Status of College System in India: Institutional Perspectives and

Financial Sustainability

13. Shrishti Kumari Impact of Incentives on the Drivers of Ride-Hailing Platforms in

India

14. Sreetama Basu The State of Being Stateless: Examining and evaluating the

grounds of exclusion in Assam’s NRC Exercise through class

and gender

15. Th Joshibanta

Singh

Effect of Stereotype on Statelessness: Studying the Chakma

Community in Tripura


16. Vedant Kaul Regulating Algorithmic Management for Fair Participation in

Platform Economy

17. Vikas Mannan Markets as a vital Socio – Economic component of Walled City:

A Case Study of Khari Baoli Market of Shahjahanabad, Delhi

18. Vikram Kumar The Pandora’s Box of Platform Economy in India (A Study on

Entry and Sustenance of Cab Driver and Food Delivery

Partners)

19. Abhilash S C Comparative Studies on Citizenship Based on Historical,

Philosophical, Religious and Economical Aspect

20. Anjitha S

Madanan

Statelessness and Childhood: A study on shaping of Aspirations

within Rohingya Children settled across Delhi, Jaipur and

Hyderabad

21. Bitoo Kumar

Ram

The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy and Its

regulatory challenges

22. Madhur Sharma Local Health Traditions and their importance in the walled city

of Shahjahanabad: A case study of Ayurveda and Unani systems

of medicine

23. Naveen Babu

Isarapu

Public Spaces, Urban Renewal and Community Participation in

the walled city of Shahjahanabad

24. Swayamsiddha

Sahoo

Dataism and the Platform Economy: Opportunities, Challenges

and Regulations

25. Naveen Kumar Understanding user’s perception towards determining motivational factors and usage patterns: A small-scale study on Indian consumers utilizing on-demand cab services

26. Mayank Singh Devak

Challenges for Governance at the Age of Market Society: Case Study on Death Market at Crematoriums of Hyderabad and Aarogya Sri Health Scheme

27. Rishitha Pinipe Nature and Characteristics of Walled City of Hyderabad

28. Sri Harsha Lakkimsetti

Understanding the Platform Economy: A Socio-economic Study and a Comparative Analysis of the Migrant Driver Partners of Platform Economies

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