In recent years, India’s economy has been showing a high rate of growth. But in spite of a high growth rate, the country is lagging in terms of virtually all indices of social development. Some of the issues facing India are, the share of its poorest people has gone up from 25% in 1980 to 39% in 2010; farmers’ suicides have become a norm; marginalised communities are being dispossessed of their lands and common property resources by forcible land acquisitions for mining, industrialisation, big dams and SEZs.

The government is presenting a bleaker picture, by underplaying and diluting unpleasant facts and practicing ‘developmental terrorism’ on its own people. This is resulting in both non-violent and equally determined armed resistance by the victims...Read more

CSD

The Council for Social Development came into existence in the year 1962 as an informal study group of social workers and social scientists having a common interest in working towards a just social order in India. Between 1963 and 1969, a number of consultations and seminars on pressing social and developmental issues were organised by this group of eminent scholars under the chairmanship of Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh, the eminent sociologist and social worker... Read more

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It is an interactional platform for intellectual discussion. We will be posting a question once in two weeks in this forum. Do contribute actively to give it a vibrant essence. This week we would want you to comment on the latest remark made by our H’ble Prime Minister, Shri Manmohan Singh. So give your comments on “I am not that big a culprit as being made out to be”...View

1. Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru (CSD, New Delhi)(Jointly with National Archives, Government of India)
2. Special Initiatives by India, China and Russia in the World Order (CSD, New Delhi)
3. Status of Higher Education (CSD, New Delhi)
4. Food Security – Approaches and Issues (CSD, Hyderabad)
5. People and Energy : Initiatives and Issues Relating to the Remote Village Electrification (Sponsored by the Ministry of Renewable Energy, GOI) at CSD, Hyderabad
6. The State and the Livelihood Security: Role of NREGA and Local Self Governments (Sponsored by Govt. of AP at CSD, Hyderabad)