The Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture (DDML) is one of CSD’s annual flagship events, held every year on 15 July, the birth anniversary of Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh. The DDML is delivered by an eminent expert or renowned personality on any subject of his/her choice relating to social development.

This year, the DDML, titled ‘The Agrarian Economy: Perceptions versus Reality’, was delivered by renowned economist Prof. Madhura Swaminathan.

Topic: “The Agrarian Economy: Perceptions versus Reality”

Speaker: Prof. Madhura Swaminathan, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru

Date: 15 July, 2024

Time: 6.30 PM

Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC Main, Max Muller Marg, New Delhi

DDML 2023
“Decoding and Delivering Public Health”
by Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Founder (Past) President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and former head, Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
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DDML 2022
Migration, Informality, and the Growing Precarity of Work”
by Prof. Ravi Srivastava, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi & Former professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

DDML 2021
The Janus Face of Agricultural Policies- Kisan and Sethias: Local and Global
by Yoginder K. Alagh, PH.D., Former Minister of Power Planning and Science & Technology India

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DDML 2019
The Heritage And Prospects Of Democracy
by Prof. Hiren Gohain, Eminent Intellectual and Former Professor of English Gauhati University was held at 6.30 pm on 15th July 2019, at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi.
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DDML 2018
Human Insecurity in South Asia: Challenging Market Injustice
by Prof. Rehman Sobhan, Eminent Economist from Bangladesh was held at 6.00 pm on 15th July 2018, at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi.
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Event Highlights 2017

A collection of these lectures from 1992 to 2010 was published in the form of a book under the title: Towards Just and Equitable Development”.

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