Rigid social hierarchies present in Indian society have impacted the country’s commitment to equality and social justice. Social justice is crucial for ending poverty and essential for fostering common goals and creating a shared sense of belonging and prosperity. By ensuring social justice, the poor get empowered and the marginalised can take advantage of opportunities. The principle of social justice ensures that everyone, regardless of community, caste, class, status or gender, has a voice in the decision-making process which affect their lives. Social justice also ensures that everyone enjoys equal access to basic amenities and to political, social, economic and physical spaces. An inequitable status excludes people from a range of processes and opportunities. CSD follows its commitment to social justice by upholding principles of equity and by supporting inclusive participation through constructing strategies for advocacy that promote the rights, interests and needs of the disempowered.
PROJECTS
2013 The Crisis of the Indian Left and Social Development
Sponsoring Organisation Indian Council For Social Science Research/ Council for Social Development
2013 Evaluation of the Scheme ‘Market Development of Tribal Development/Produce
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India
2012 Socio-economic Conditions of Muslims in India — A Study of Four States
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Study on the Aspirations and Perceptions of the People in Odisha on Displacement
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2008 Land Issues of Adivasis and Dalits in Kerala: Micro-level Evidence
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2006 Social Justice and Backward Castes in Bihar
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development