MAKAIAS, Kolkata & ICSSR, Shillong

The North Eastern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of SocialScience Research (NEHU-ICSSR) was established in the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong on 4th March 1977. NERC is a collaborative venture of the ICSSR and the NEHU. It meet orative venture of the ICSSR and the NEHU. It meets the academic need of all the eight states in the North Eastern Region, viz., Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Aims & Objectives The establishment of regional centres of the ICSSR is part of a process of evolving a policy and action frame for social science research in the country. In the initial phase of the establishment of ICSSR (1965-73), the ICSSR Headquarters played a crucial role in promoting and coordinating research and the dissemination of its results. As the ICSSR’s activities expanded, it was felt that some of its promotional and information gathering and disseminating activities should be decentralized so that the ICSSR could be brought closer to the social scientists of this region. The aims and objectives of the ICSSR Regional Centres are, therefore, congruent with those of the ICSSR headquarters, namely: (a) promotion of social science research; (b) formulating its major thrusts in relation to the needs of the country and the impelling demands of the inter disciplinary developments; (c) training and assisting social scientists in conducting research and (d) developing basic infrastructure facilities for researchers. The following objectives of the North-Eastern Regional Centre emerge from the above-mentioned aims of the ICSSR organization as a whole: Training of young social scientists in Research Methodology; Providing assistance to social scientists in doing their research; Sponsoring research projects relevant to the existing social, political, economic problems of the North Eastern region; Providing basic infrastructure facilities for social scientists interested in research; Dissemination of information about the programmes of the ICSSR; Sponsoring research in regional languages; Acting as a link between the ICSSR Headquarters and the social scientists within the region; ...view more