Educationist Srijit Mishra has taken over charge of Director of the Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS) here.
The NCDS is an Indian Council of Social Science Research institute under the aegis of the State Government.
After taking over as the Director, Dr Mishra has chalked out a roadmap for the institute and soon would be presenting the detailed proposals to the State Government to scale up the activities, said official sources.
Dr Mishra was a Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research before assuming the present assignment. He has worked at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune. He had also worked at the NCDS earlier during 1997-2001.