The Council of Social Development runs the Social Development Forum, a platform that seeks to bring together leading academicians, activists, policy makers, planners and renowned figures from the social sector to discuss and debate contemporary social, political and economic issues.

SDF invites you to talk on Indian Universities under Neoliberalism: Re-Examining issues of Autonomy and Accountability
Date: 12 March 2024
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SDF presents School Leadership in Improving the Public Schools SDF Case Study of Bihar & Tamil Nadu
Date: 15 February 2024
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Social Development Forum discussion on Ïmplications of COP28 for the Indian Economy
Date: 18th January 2024
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Quality of Drinking Water in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Delhi
Date: 14th December 2023
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Japanese Employment Practices in Japanese Manufacturing Firms in India: Results of the 2021 Questionnaire Survey
Date: 16th November 2023
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Can Universal Health Coverage achieve the goal of health for all in India: A theoretical and empirical exploration
Date: 2nd November 2023
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Agricultural Marketing in Africa and India: Some Reflections
Date: 11th October 2023
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Discussion on Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill 2023 and Biological Diversity Act 2002: A Comparison
Date: 18th August 2023
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Galvanising the Ship of the Indian State: An Agenda for Research and Dialogue
Date: 31st July 2023
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Academic Autonomy Needed a Holistic Societal Perspective
Date: 27 June 2023
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Minority Women’s Movements and Struggles against Gender Unjust Religious Personal Laws in India and Bangladesh
Date: 8 March 2023
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Decoding the Union Budget 2023-24
Date: 6 February 2023
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Women’s Labour and Welfare in the Extractive Industries: A Comparative Analysis of Coal and Iron Mining in India, 1941-2015
Date: January 30, 2023
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Dharavi: Dealing with the Spectre of Redevelopment in the Throes of a Pandemic
Date: 22 December 2022
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The Caste Question in Hindi Cinema: Where are Dalits in Bollywood?
Date: 25 November 2022
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Urban India
Date: 8 July, 2022
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Migration as an Agent of Rural Transformation
Date: 5 May, 2022
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Recent Development in Indian Agriculture: New Farm Laws, Protesting Farmers and Food security Concerns
Date: 28th October, 2021

Living Together but Separately – Everyday Lived Experiences of Foothill Villages and Towns in Assam – Nagaland Border
Date: 28th September, 2021
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The Missing ‘Welfare’ of Dalits and Adivasis in Welfare Measures of the Indian State
Date: 20th August 2021
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Dalits in Contemporary India: Examining through a Prism of Educational Inequality, Poverty Incidence and Entrepreneurship among them
Date: 24th June 2021
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COVID-19 and Climate Change induced Disasters: Impacts, challenges and prospects for Indian women farmers
Date: 27th May, 2021
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India’s Performance on the SDG 6 Index: Addressing the data gaps
Date: Apr 15, 2021
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Preparedness for reopening of schools amidst COVID-19 pandemic
Date: 28th January 2021
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Land Right Movement of Dalit Women in Marathwada: Combating Poverty, Hunger and Gender Inequality
Date: March 19, 2020
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Ambedkar’s Theory of the Social: The Universal Condition of Recognition
Date: February 13, 2020
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Witch-hunts in India… and elsewhere
Date: 30th August, 2019
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A Glimpse into the Minds of the Aged in terms of Guilt and Other Related Factors
Date: May 16, 2019
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is this Azaadi? Everyday Lives of Dalit Agricultural Labourers in a Bihar Village
Date: 12 March 2019
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Story of a Farmers’ Struggle in Rajasthan: Six Decades of Struggle and No Success
Date: January 31, 2019 (Thursday)
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Health beyond Medicine – Panel discussion
Date: May 17th 2018
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Agitation to Legislation: Negotiating Equity and Justice in India
Date: April 26, 2018
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Regulating the Medical Profession: Challenges and Possibilities in the National Medical Commission Bill 2017
Date: March 22, 2018 (Thursday)
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Constitutional and Social Democracy: An Ambedkar Perspective
Date: January 18, 2018
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Jagged Edges
Date: October 30, 2017
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Annual Discussion on Union Budget 2017-18
Date: February 23, 2017
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Total Literacy Campaign: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Dr L D Mishra
Chair: Professor J B Tilak, Distinguished Professor, CSD and Former Vice-Chancellor, NUEPA
Date: November 16, 2017 (Thursday)
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture Hall, CSD, Sangha Rachna, 53 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
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SDF Publications
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The Idea of Universal Basic Income

Date: April 06, 2017
Time: 3.00 pm to 5.30 pm
Venue: Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture Hall

Forthcoming Elections in UP: Promises and Possibilities
Speakers: Professor Sanjay Kumar & Professor Badri Narayan
Chair: Professor Manoranjan Mohanty
Date: January 25, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture Hall, CSD,Sangha Rachna, 53 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
About the Speakers



India’s Black Economy: Implications, Causes and Remedies

Date: December 22, 2016
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Interfaith Initiatives
‘Assessing the Effectiveness of Interfaith Initiatives’ is the first study to analyze the effectiveness of interfaith initiatives. Taking a primarily inductive approach to the research design, this project investigates if and how interfaith initiatives generate changes in the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of participants and the faith communities to which they belong in three cities: Doha, Delhi, and London. The choice these cities is specifically designed to enable us to analyze the impact of interfaith initiatives across three very distinctive political, demographic, and historical contexts with regard to interfaith relations. The distinctiveness will facilitate distinguishing generalizable versus context-specific impact generated by initiatives.


Discussion on Union Budget 2016-17
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Designation: Managing Editor-cum-Communication Advisor

(The appointment contract, initially for one year, will be subsequently renewable biennially)

Qualifications: A good academic record with a post graduate degree in a social science discipline, (b) command over English language, (c) editorial experience in publishing / media houses, and (d) a good network within the media world.

Job Profile: (a) Preparing and executing a quarterly publication plan for Social Change; communicating with the authors, reviewers and publishers; copyediting the manuscript if necessary, working as a channel between the publishers and the authors; and working with the publishers to proofread and finalise the journal volumes up to the printable stage, (b) preparing CSD’s Annual Report, and producing and circulating write-ups to publicise in the media CSD’s completed projects and events.

Applications (cover letter and CV) addressed to the Director, CSD should be emailed to director@csdindia.org latest by 8 August 2023.