The ICSSR-Northern Regional Centre, New Delhi, in collaboration with Doon University, Dehradun, is organising the third northern region social science congress from February 26 to 28 at Doon University. The last date for submission of full length papers is January 31.The proposed themes of the congress are Caste, Social Structure and Village Communities, Environment, Climate Change and Natural Disasters; Political Parties and Electoral Politics, Citizen Activism and Social Movements, Social Rights and Public Policy: Education and Health, Understanding Regional Inequalities, Gender and Hierarchy, law, Justice and Social Conflict, Media, Politics and Pop-Culture, Employability, Mobility and Markets, Political Economy of Natural Resource Management and local Self Governance.
Scholars from Northern Region, National Capital Territory Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan will participate in the Congress. Only selected full length papers would be presented in the Congress. The Indian Council of Social Science Research(ICSSR) was set up by the Government of India in 1969 as an autonomous organisation in order to review ,promote, encourage ,assist and coordinate social science research in the country. From its inception, it was considered as one of the biggest achievements of Indian democracy and it was conceived as a premier national agency for expanding social science research,improving its quality and attempting to increase its utilisation in policy formulation.