DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

SSR PART-II
DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
Dr. S. S. Mohanty was awarded a Research Project worth Rs. 20 Lakhs
through Sponsored Research Project Award Competition 2014-15 by Indian
Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) in the year 2015 amounting to
Rs. 20 Lakhs to conduct research study titled “Economic Loss in Disasters and
the Differentiated Impact on the Well-being of Social Groups: Developing a
Methodological Tool for Loss and Impact Assessment in the context of
Uttarakhand-2013 Natural Disaster”
30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of
funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants,
if any.
1. A Seminar was jointly organised by Department of Economics in
collaboration with School of Management, Doon University on India:
Two Decades of Economic Liberalisation-Growth and Governance on
18-19 November, 2011 at Doon University sponsored by ICSSR, New
Delhi and supported by GIZ, Germany.
Source of funding: Major funding sources were ICSSR and GIZ and other
small agencies.
Outstanding participants:
Lead Speakers: Prof T. S. Papola (Institute for Studies in Industrial
Development, New Delhi), Prof. R. S Tolia (Former Chief Information
Commissioner), Prof S.P. Singh (FNA, Former VC, Advisor, State
Planning Commission, Govt. Of Uttarakhand), Dr. S. Farooq (President,
Himalaya Drug Company), Mr. Pankaj Gupta (Industries Association of
Uttarakhand), Dr. B.K. Joshi (Former VC, Kumaun University), Prof P.K.
Chaubey (IIPA, New Delhi), Dr. Alok Pandey (Director, ICWA), Prayag
Singh Rawat and Himanshu Joshi (RBI, Mumbai), Prof, Sripad Motiram
(IGIDR)
2. The Third Northern Regional Social Science Congress was organised
by the School of Social Sciences with support from Northern Regional
Centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on 26-
28 February 2015
Source of Funding: ICSSR, Northern Regional Centre
Lead Speakers: Prof. APS Chauhan, Prof. Dhruv Raina, Prof. Yatinder S.
Sisodia, Prof. Anita Dighe, Prof. Kusum Arunachalam, Prof. B.P.
Maithani, Dr. R. S. Tolia
3. One Week Training Cum Refresher Course on Official Statistics for
ADSOs of Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of
Uttarakhand, on 11 th -16 th May 2015
Sources of Funding: DES, Government of Uttarakhand
Lead Trainers: Shri Y. S. Pangtey, Dr. Manoj Pant, Dr. Brajendra Singh
Miyan, Dr. S. S. Mohanty, Smt. Nalini Dhyani
4. Orientation Workshop on “Policy Making & Environment Statistics for
Sustainable Development” on 16 th -17 th October 2015.
School of Social Sciences
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