Advanced Researcher
Spatial Methods in Urban Sustainability (SMUS)
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
https://gcsmus.org/people/assoc-prof-binitha-v-thampi/

Visiting Senior Fellow (Honorary)
IMPRI – Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi

Visiting Professor
Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI)
Kaimanam, Pappanamkodu, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Expert Committee Member
NITI Aayog Expert Committee on Social Justice and  Empowerment, New Delhi

Member, Board of Studies
Department of Development Studies and Gandhian Thought
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.

• Gender and Development
• Gender, Labour and Informality
• State, Welfare and Citizenship
• Decentralised Planning and Governance
• Poverty, Social Exclusion and Marginalisation
• Climate Change and Multiple Marginalisations
• Technology and Social Transformation

 At IIT Madras

• Professor, IIT Madras since January 2024
• Associate Professor, IIT Madras, June 2016 – 2023
• Assistant Professor, IIT Madras, August 2010 – June 2016.

Outside IIT Madras

• Visiting Professor, School of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico, February–May 2026.
• Visiting Fellow, Technical University of Berlin, Germany, June–August 2022.
• Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Scholar, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 2016–2017.
• Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University, USA, April–June 2012.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK, 2008–2010.
• Project Associate, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 2006–2007.
• Research Affiliate, Population Research Centre, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, 2003–2004. A research fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to study Female Autonomy and Reproductive Health Status in Kerala.
• Faculty Member, Gender and Community Development, Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA), 2001–2002.
• Consultant, Kerala State Planning Board, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 1997–1998.

• Feminist Theory and Concepts (M.A. core course)
• Gender and Development (M.A. core course)
• Research Methods and Program Evaluation (M.A. core course)
• Mini Research: Summer Project (M.A. core course)
• Development Theory and Practice (M.A. core course)
• Contemporary Issues in Development (B. Tech. elective)

• A MOOC course produced in 2022 titled “Gender Inclusive Urban Spaces: Issues and Questions” for the SMUS centre, Technical University of Berlin (TUB), supported by DAAD, Germany during 2021- 2022. This course will be uploaded in the SWAYAM portal of MHRD (GoI). (https://gcsmus.org/moocs/mooc-1-gender-inclusive-urban-spaces-issues-and-questions/).
• Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN; an academic exchange initiative of Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Government of India) course titled “Gender Dimensions of Social and Economic Policies,” offered with Dr. Ajit Zacharias, Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Insitutute, New York, at IITM, during August 8-16, 2016.

• Devika J and Thampi BV. (2012). New Lamps for Old: Gender Paradoxes of Political Decentralization in Kerala. Zubaan, New Delhi.
  https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/new-lamps-for-old-gender-paradoxes-of-political-decentralisation-in-kerala/

• Lofts, K., Jodoin, S., Yücel, N., Ramanujam, N., Thampi, B. V., Lesnikowski, A., Lencucha, R., Mangat, S., Hunt, M., & Caivano, N. (2026). Human rights in the governance of climate adaptation and disasters in India: A systematic assessment of state and union territory policies. Climate and Development, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2026.2731177
• Lofts, K., Belal, F., Jodoin, S.,Thampi, B. V., Hunt, M., Lencucha, R., Lesnikowski, A., & Ramanujam, N.(2026). Understanding the climate vulnerability and resilience of people with disabilities: Insights from a case study in Kerala, India. Global
  Environmental Change, 99, 103183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2026.103183
• Williams, G., Mahadevia, D., Coelho, K., & Thampi, B. V. (2026). Governing COVID-19 in India’s cities:State capacity, legitimation and the reproduction of public authority. Territory,Politics, Governance, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2026.2618155
• Chandran, R., Thampi, B. V., & Krishnapillai, S. (2026). Cooperative ideals, precarious realities: Mechanisation, gendered informality, and livelihood insecurity in Kerala’s coir sector. IASSI-Quarterly, 45(2).
• Thampi, B. V., & Prasad, V.
  (2025). Consolidating feminist collectives: Gleaning from survivors’ responses.
  Economic & Political Weekly, 60(38). https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i38.32649
• Thampi, B. V., & Prasad, V.
  (2025). Labouring on the Margins: ASHA Workers’ Protests in Kerala and
  working-class solidarities. Economic & Political Weekly, 60(40),
  13–17. https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i40.44876
• Williams, G., Mahadevia, D.,
  Coelho, K., & Thampi, B. V. (2025). Urban governance in the pandemic and
  beyond: Framing the debate from cities of the South. International
  Development Planning Review, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2025.1
• Thampi, B. V. (2025). Book review:
  Unveiling Kudumbashree: Empowering women and combating poverty in Kerala. Economic
  & Political Weekly, 60(3). https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i3.40445
• Lieber, J., Clarke, L., Kinra, S.,
  Nadal, I. P., & Thampi, B. V. (2023). “Day and night people run after money
  … where is the time to spend chit-chatting with parents?”: Challenges of, and
  coping strategies for, supporting older relatives in adults of varied
  socioeconomic backgrounds in Tamil Nadu, India. SSM: Qualitative Research
  in Health, 3, 100262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100262
• Thampi, B. V. (2022). India in
  focus: Women, technology, and the future of work. In J. Parker, M. Baird, N.
  Donnelly, & R. Cooper (Eds.), Women and work in Asia and the Pacific:
  Experiences, challenges and ways forward. Massey University Press.
• Thampi, B. V. (2022). Book review:
  Anna Lindberg, Experience and identity: A historical account of class,
  caste and gender among the cashew workers of Kerala, 1930–2000. Review
  of Development and Change, 27(2), 284–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/09722661221101965
• Prasad, V., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2021). Gender ideology and gendered political dynamics shaping electoral
  fortunes of women politicians in Kerala, India. Women’s Studies
  International Forum, 84, 102437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102437
• Thampi, B. V., & Kawlra, A.
  (2019). An experiment in feminist technology in local governance: Revisiting
  the question of “invited spaces” of participation in Kerala. Review of
  Development and Change, 24(2), 205–223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0972266119886676
• Luke, N., Xu, H., & Thampi, B.
  V. (2014). Husbands’ participation in housework and child care in India. Journal
  of Marriage and Family, 76(3), 620–637. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12108
• Williams, G., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2013). Decentralisation and the changing geographies of political
  marginalisation in Kerala. Environment and Planning A, 45(6),
  1337–1357. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45218
• Devika, J., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2012). Beyond feminine public altruism: Women leaders in Kerala’s urban
  bodies. Economic & Political Weekly, 47(17), 76–83.
• Devika, J., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2012). Women leaders in Kerala’s urban local bodies. In T. R. Raghunandan
  (Ed.), Decentralisation and local governments: The Indian experience.
  Orient BlackSwan.
• Williams, G., Thampi, B. V.,
  Narayana, D., Nandigama, S., & Bhattacharyya, D. (2012). The politics of
  defining and alleviating poverty: State strategies and their impacts in rural
  Kerala. Geoforum, 43(5), 991–1001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.06.001
• Devika, J., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2011). Mobility towards work and politics for women in Kerala State, India: A
  view from the histories of gender and space. Modern Asian Studies, 45(5),
  1147–1175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X09000080
• Williams, G., Thampi, B. V.,
  Narayana, D., Nandigama, S., & Bhattacharyya, D. (2011). Performing
  participatory citizenship: Politics and power in Kerala’s Kudumbashree
  programme. Journal of Development Studies, 47(8), 1261–1280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2010.527949
• Devika, J., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2010). Empowerment or politicisation? The limits of gender inclusiveness of
  Kerala’s political decentralisation. In R. K. Raman (Ed.), Development,
  democracy and the state: Critiquing the Kerala model of development (pp.
  177–191). Routledge.
• Devika, J., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2007). Changing regimes of empowerment and inclusion in the public: Women and
  the Kudumbashree in contemporary Kerala. In M. A. Ommen (Ed.), A decade of
  decentralisation in Kerala: Issues, options and lessons. Har-Anand
  Publications.
• Devika, J., & Thampi, B. V.
  (2007). Between “empowerment” and “liberation”? The Kudumbashree in Kerala. Indian
  Journal of Gender Studies, 14(1), 33–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/097152150601400103
• Thampi, B. V. (2005). Understanding
  poverty eradication and empowerment of women: Evidence from a programme in
  Kerala State. In I. Guérin & J. Palier (Eds.), Microfinance challenges:
  Empowerment or disempowerment of the poor? (pp. 257–264). Collection
  Sciences Sociales, French Institute of Pondicherry.
• Thampi, B. V. (2004). Decentralised
  planning and economic empowerment of women. Labour and Development, 10(2),
  199–214.
• Thampi, B. V. Risk Society through a Gender Lens: Reflections from Kerala. Journal of Social Discourses, 2(2).

• Thampi, B. V., Chandrika, C. S., Mani, V., &
  Aswathy P., A. (2025). Violence Against Women and Children in Kerala: A Scoping Study. Socially Relevant & Innovation Project (SRIP), Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
• Thampi B.V. (2019). The impact of technological change on women’s work. To prepare the WGDAW thematic report on ‘Women’s Human Rights in the Changing World of Work’ prepared by the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, OHCHR, Geneva and presented to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2020, a policy note was presented to the Asia Pacific consultation meeting held at Sydney University, Australia.
• Thampi B.V. and Kawlra Aarti. (2012). Empowering women leaders at the local level in Kerala – The Gramamukhya initiative. CITIGEN Policy Brief, published by IDRC, Canada and IT for Change, Bangalore.
• Thampi B.V. and Kawlra Aarti. (2011). Empowering Women Leaders at the Local Level: Translating Descriptive Representation to Substantive Representation through ICTs, Project Report, IDRC Canada and IT for Change Bangalore.
• J Devika, S Anitha, R Bharadwaj, R Krishnan, PR Nisha, KP Praveena, R Radhakrishnan, S Rayan, R Raj, AK Rajasree, S Santhy, Thampi B.V., Zacharias U (2008) Gendering governance or governing women? Politics, patriarchy, and democratic decentralisation in Kerala State, India. IDRC Grant Technical Report. Grant No.102927-005.
• Rajan A C and Thampi B.V. (2007). ‘Home Grown School Feeding: Midday Meals Programmeme in Kerala, India’ Research Report. Consultancy Study sponsored by World Food Programme and Cardiff University, UK.
• Thampi B. V. (2003). ‘Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation in Kerala: A Comparative Study of Four Panchayats’, Monograph, Research study sponsored by Kerala Institute for Labour and Employment (KILE), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 2003. The same has been published as a working paper of KILE.
• Issac Thomas TM, Chakraborty Pinaki, Williams Michelle and Thampi B.V. (2002). Women Neighbourhood Groups: Towards a New Perspective. Policy Brief, Published by Joint Committee of Panchayats Aryad & Kanjikkuzhi Blocks Kerala, India and International Labour Organisation (ILO).
• Thampi B.V. (1997). Community Development Society in Alleppey, Evaluation study Report, study sponsored by Kerala State Planning Board, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

• Dr. Banti Deori (HSS Department, IIT Madras)
  Thesis title: Migration, Labour And Gender: A Study Of Migrant Workers From Northeastern India To The Southern Cities of Bangalore and Chennai

• Dr. Sivaja K Nair (HSS Department, IIT Madras)
  Thesis title: Investigating Re-emergence of Infectious Diseases in Kerala: Vulnerabilities, Resilience And Health Governance

• Dr. Judith Leiber, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK).
  Thesis title: Changing family structures and their implications for support and health of the older population in India, with a focus on Tamil Nadu

• Dr. Shabeera K (HSS Department, IIT Madras)
  Thesis title: Marriage, Sexuality and Femininity: A Study of Mappila Muslim Women in Malabar

• Dr. Lini Jolly ((HSS Department, IIT Madras)
  Thesis title: Politics of Contemporary Environmental Mobilisations in Kerala, India

• Dr. Vani Prashamsa (HSS Department, IIT Madras)
  Thesis title: Widowhood, Patriarchy, and Agrarian Crisis: Navigating Vulnerabilities and Agency in Telangana, India

• Thampatty Madhusood
  Thesis title: Gender, Piety and Community: A Study of Ezhava Community in Kerala

• Varsha Prasad
  Thesis title: Gender Ideologies and Informal Political Practices: A Study of Women Politicians in Kerala

• Manimadan A
  Thesis title: The regional dynamics of Tamil Nadu’s development pattern: Sub-nationalism, populism and welfare politics

• Reshma Chandran (Interdisciplinary Research Programme (IDRP) scholar, co-supervising with Prof. Shankar Krishnapillai, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras) Thesis title: Technological Modernisation of Coir Industry in Kerala and its Challenges

• Senan R
  Thesis title: Identity, Aspiration, and Vulnerability: Dalit Youth in Urban Resettlement Colonies of Chennai, India

• Anju Joseph
  Thesis title: Situating Subjectivities, Negotiating Agency: Perspectives from Different Women’s Collectives in Kerala, India

After Joining IIT Madras

• Role: PI (sponsored research project); conducting a study titled “Health Equity-Focused Solutions for Urban Heat Resilience in India” under the sponsorship of IIT Madras–TU Delft partnership programme from November 2025 to December 2026.
• Role: PI (sponsored research project); Conducting a five-year sponsored research project titled “Disability Rights and Climate Resilience: Lessons from India” in collaboration with McGill University, Canada, sponsored by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from January 2022 to May 2027.
• Role: PI (sponsored research project); completed a study titled “Violence Against Women and Children in Kerala: A Scoping Study”, sponsored by IITM’s Socially Relevant Projects, from October 2024 to December 2025.
• Role: PI (sponsored research project); Completed a two-year research project titled “Managing Covid-19 in India’s Cities: Reshaping people’s everyday lives in poorer urban neighbourhoods” in collaboration with the University of Sheffield (UoS), UK, sponsored by the British Academy’s GCRF from April 2021 to April 2023.
• Role: PI (sponsored research project); a MOOC course titled “Gender Inclusive Urban Spaces: Issues and Questions” produced for the SMUS centre, Technical University of Berlin (TUB), supported by DAAD, Germany, and developed thematic areas and questions for future collaborative research from October 2020 to December 2021.
• Role: PI (consultancy); Completed a consultancy project funded by the National Institute of Health, USA titled “Gender ideology, father involvement and gender discrimination” at Penn State University with Prof. Nancy as the PI and served as the project advisor from June 2019 to December 2021.
• Role: PI (Retainer consultancy) as “Panelist: Kudumbashree NRO, Government of Kerala” to provide research training in formulating and conducting short-term studies for a team of young professionals over a period of one year, 2020–2021.
• Role: PI (sponsored research project); Completed two-year sponsored research project titled “Changing Contours of State Welfarism and Emerging Citizenship: A Comparative Study of Tamil Nadu and Kerala” sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) from 2014 to 2016.
• Role: Consultancy (short-term consultancy providing fieldwork support to the research team in order to frame locally meaningful and culturally specific questions); Involved in field-level data collection for a project of two weeks in 2015 titled “The Economic Consequences of Marriage- Market Inefficiency: Gender Inequality and Human Capital Accumulation in a Transition Economy,” through the Keynes Fund, University of Cambridge grant with Prof. Kaivan Munshi and Prof. Nancy Luke (PIs).
• Role: PI (sponsored research project); Conducted a one-year sponsored action research in December 2011 titled ‘Empowering Women Leaders at the Local Level: Translating Descriptive Representation to Substantive Representation through ICTs’ supported by IDRC, Canada, through its programme ‘Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society in Asia’ coordinated by IT for Change, Bangalore, India.

Before Joining IIT Madras

• Role: PI (consultancy); Conducted a case study on ‘Home Grown Agriculture and School Feeding Programme– Case of Kerala’ for the World Food Programme, Rome. It was a consultancy work offered by Cardiff University, UK, in 2007.
• Role: PI (consultancy); Carried out a research study titled ‘Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation in Kerala: A Comparative Study of Four Panchayats’, sponsored by Kerala Institute for Labour and Employment (KILE), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in 2003. The same has been published as a KILE working paper.
• Role: PI (consultancy project); Conducted a funded evaluation study for Kerala State Planning Board on ‘Community Development Society in Alleppey’ (a confederation of self-help groups) in 2000 as part of their evaluation studies series.

• Seminar talk, Rethinking State Responses to Gender-Based Violence: Evidence from Kerala, India, 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Cali, Colombia, July 9-11, 2026.

• Invited lecture, “Women Workers and the Politics of Precarity: A Study of Three Contemporary Labour Protests,” Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, February 19, 2026.

• Invited talk, “Women at the Margins of Labour: Precarity, Resistance and the Politics of Rights,” Regional Panel of the Indian History Congress, “Landscapes of Kerala History: Continuities and Ruptures,” December 29–30, 2025.

• Invited lecture, “Intersecting Pathways: Gender, Labour, Technology and Governance,” organised by the Critical Computing Initiative, Yale University, New Haven, USA, October 5, 2025.

• Seminar talk, “Feminist Labour Politics in the Neoliberal Era: Tea Plantation Labour Struggle in Munnar, India,” presented at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, July 6–11, 2025.

• Seminar talk “Gender Mainstreaming in Kerala: A Critical Examination,” presented at the conference on Public Policy in India and the Global South, organised by the Public Policy Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, May 15–16, 2025.

• Seminar talk, “Examining the Intersections of Marginalisation through Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards in Kerala, India,” presented at the 16th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development (ICERD), Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, March 13–16, 2025.

• Invited conversation, “Feminist Politics and Kerala’s Public Sphere,” with Prof. Meena Pillai, Institute of English, Thiruvananthapuram, held at the Kalady Centre of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Tirur, Kerala, January 6, 2024.

• Invited lecture, “Interdisciplinarity and Intersectionality in Feminist Scholarship,” organised by the International Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Department of English, Stella Maris College, June 30, 2023.

• Invited speaker, panel discussion “Women Entrepreneurs: The Catalyst for Social Change,” at the public event marking the Silver Jubilee of the Kudumbashree Mission, Government of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, May 16.

• Invited lecture, “Mixed Methods Research,” delivered as part of the Online Faculty Development Programme on Qualitative Research, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, March 25, 2023.

• Invited lecture, “Intersectionality and Interdisciplinary Studies,” delivered as part of the Ten-Day Short-Term Course on Intersectionality Studies, Dakshayani Velayudhan Centre, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, March 23, 2023.

• Invited lecture, “Digitalisation and Political Participation: Methodological Challenges of Decoding Digital Progress and the Gender Divide,” delivered in the session “Analysing Hidden Forms of Violence and their Spatialities: The Methodological Challenges of Research on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexualized Violence,” SMUS Global Conference, IIT Roorkee, February 25, 2023.

• Inaugural address, national seminar on “Development of Kerala: Possibilities and Challenges,” organised by Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Tirur, Kerala, December 19, 2022.

• Invited lecture, “Public Policy Making: State Welfare Programmes for Poverty Reduction,” delivered for the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Fellowship Programme (TNCMFP), Anna Administrative Staff College, Chennai, India, October 18, 2022.

• Brown Bag Lecture, “Rethinking Development in the Global South: Issues and Questions,” organised by SMUS, Technical University of Berlin, July 13, 2022.

• Web policy talk, “Critical Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming Efforts by the State,” organised by the Centre for Human Dignity and Development (CHDD), Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi, May 18, 2022.

• Expert Group Meeting participant and panel speaker, “Women’s Human Rights in the Changing World of Work,” organised by the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls; participated in “Panel Discussion 3: Technological Change and Women’s Human Rights at Work,” University of Sydney, Australia, September 12–13, 2019.

• Seminar talk, “Migration, Aesthetic Labour and Citizenship,” presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), panel on “Migration, Inequality and Resistance,” State University of New Paltz, New York, June 19–21.

• Invited keynote lecture, “Gender and Labour: Feminist Debates,” delivered at the Summer School on Labour Studies, organised by the French Institute of Pondicherry, December 5, 2018.

• Invited talk, “Gender, Labour and Migration: A Case of India,” jointly organised by the Asia Studies Centre and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, May 17.

• Annual Faculty and Staff Forum Lecture, “Engendering Development: Debates and Issues in the Context of the Global South,” Bonaventure University, New York, April 6, 2017.

• 2017 Mary Devereux Lecture, “Migration, Aesthetic Labour and Citizenship: A Case of Northeastern Migrant Women to Southern Cities of India,” Bonaventure University, New York, April 5, 2017.

• The Pandemic and Urban Governance: Changing State-Society Relationships and Learning from COVID-19 (jointly organised with three research collaborators), Project Dissemination International Conference held at Ahmedabad University, April 19-20, 2023.
• Gender and Collective action: Joint IITM-workshop (organised with another faculty colleague),  IITM – French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) joint workshop, July 16-17, 2018.
• New Social Movements: Mapping Conceptual and Theoretical Terrains. Joint IITM-Purdue Collaboration Workshop, Burton Morgan Entrepreneurship Centre, Purdue University, US, June 10-11, 2013.
• State and Social Movements: Violence, Heath and Food Security. Symposia (organised with two colleagues), HSS Department jointly with Purdue University, March 12-14, 2013.
• Digital spaces and Communities: Two hours Workshop conducted for graduate students at Watson Institute for International Studies under Graduate Development Program, 10^th April, 2012.

• Peer reviewed for the following journals, and was an examiner for around 15 PhD dissertations from several universities within and outside India.

  • Journal of Development Studies
  • Critical Asian Studies
  • Oxford Development Studies
  • Development and Change
  • Development in Practice
  • Indian Journal of Gender Studies
  • Review of Development and Change

• Development Studies Stream Head since March 2024 (ongoing)
• Chair, PhD admissions committee of the department for two years.
• Chair, PhD seminar I & II of students in Development Studies stream for two years.
• Chair, curriculum drafting committee for 2 year MA program in Development Studies.
• Member, department level course allocation committee for an year.
• Member of Board of Academic Courses (BAC) representing the department for two and a half years.
• Member of the department level examinations committee for three years.
• Curriculum revision committee member for the Integrated MA Program in Development Studies.
• Member of the Post-doctoral selection committee for three rounds.
• Coordinator, MA dissertations in the Development Studies stream, for a period of three years.
• Member of the department level Vision Document (2021-2027) drafting committee.
• Institute representative for JEE, GATE and HSEE examinations for several years.
• Vetting HSEE question paper for three years.
• HSEE essay correction team member for three years.