National Economy Experiences in Socialist and developing countries, held in Berlin from June 25 to July 13, 1979. Dr. C. Kulshreshta of the Department of English, proceeded to the University of Chicago (USA) on a post-doctoral assignment awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies, for a period of Dine months from September, 1979 to May, 1980. Dr. (Miss) Sivakami, Lecturer in the School of Sciences, visited the University of Leeds (U.K.) on a Fellowship to carry-out further research in her field from October to December, 1979.

The developmental activities on the whole maintained the momentum of progress. Funds allocated by the U.G.C. for various purposes during the Fifth Five Year Plan, were almost fully utilised by the University.

During the year under report, the work on the staff quarters for Professors, Readers and Lecturers has either been completed or is in the final stage.

Prof. Gurbakhsh Singh, Vice-Chancellor, relinquished office on the 31st October, 1979 on the completion of 5-year tenure. Pending the appointment of a regular incumbent, Prof. Shiv K. Kumar has been appointed to discharge the functions of the Vice-chancellor.

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

: The number of students on the rolls of the University has gone up from 3,217 to 3,437 since the last report. This number includes the students in the Centre of Post-Graduate Studies, Imphal. Of the total number 1,084 students are studying for M. Phil./Ph. D. courses, 1,199 for M.A./M. Sc. courses and 854 students for Diploma/ Certificate courses in various languages, besides some other courses of study.

More than 70 per cent of the full-time students/scholars on rolls, received, during the year under report, financial assistance from the university/outside sources in the form of fellowships/ scholarships/freeships. In addition, a number of students received rants/loans from the Students Aid Fund and the Vice-Chancellor's Discretionary Fund.

There are at present 346 teachers on the faculty strength of the University.

About 11,500 volumes, including books and periodicals, were added to the central library of the university during the year, raising the total collection to 2,50,000. The current library membership stands at 3,750; this includes 2,700 new members added during the year.

Thirty sports and cultural clubs functioning in the university, provide opportunities to students to participate in these activities. The Badminton, Debating, Film, UNESCO, Cultural, Music and Dance, and Library Clubs were particularly active during the year under report.

The Employment Information and Guidance Bureau continued to maintain a well-equipped information bureau in which informative literature/material for different careers, occupational patterns, employment/training facilities, fellowships, competitions studies abroad, etc. was made available to the interested students. One hundred and ten students received individual guidance during the year, while about an equal number was given guidance at the time of registration of courses. In addition, the Bureau assisted over 225 students in finding suitable full-time/part-time placements.

During the year under report, work on about 25 research projects was completed and nearly 135 research projects sponsored by various national and international agencies are in progress. Nearly 30 books and over 150 research papers and articles were published by members of the faculty in Indian and foreign journals.

Participation in Seminars/Conferences etc.

About 20 eminent scholars from India and abroad were invited to deliver lectures, participate in seminars, etc. at the university. In addition, seven eminent scholars from India and abroad were offered visiting assignments for varying periods, ranging from one to six months, on the faculty of the various Schools. Over 25 faculty members availed of fellowships and visiting assignments in institutions in India and abroad. Over 30 faculty members attended seminars/conferences within India and abroad.

The following projects viz. (i) one hostel for 195 girls in Sector XIII; and (ii) two floors of Social Science School building in the Academic Complex were completed during the year.

The construction of another two floors of Social Science Academic Complex, married research scholars hostel, library building, 60 staff quarters (Type I and Type II) and 36 residential houses for faculty members is in progress.

North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong

: The North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) which was established as a Central University under an Act of Parliament, six years back, has at present 13 post- graduate teaching departments and two Centres of studies at its Headquarters in Shillong. It has also, started post-graduate teaching in English and Education at its Nagaland Campus. The university has also established a Campus in the Union Territory of Mizoram, where facilities for postgraduate teaching in English, Education and Economics have been provided. During the year under report, the university took over the Pachhunga Government College which is now a Constituent College of the North-Eastern Hill University.

The University is considering the question of taking over the Kohima Science College from the Government of Nagaland.

Visva Bharati, Santiniketan

: Dr. Umashankar Joshi succeed- ed Shri Morarji Desai as Chancellor (Acharya) of Visva Bharati with effect from September 23, 1979.

During the year, new Certificate Courses of Studies were intro- duced in Assamese, Tamil, Marathi, Italian and Russian.

The total number of students on roll in the university during this year was 3,033.

There were 400 members on the teaching staff of the university during the year under report.

Besides conducting various types of courses in Humanities, Fine Arts & Crafts and Music & Dance, Researches in respective fields of studies were carried on and published. The Visiting Fellowship and Visiting Professorship programmes initiated in 1977, continued.

Four important seminars/conferences/workshops were conducted by the different Faculties (Humanities and Sciences) in which distinguished educationists and scholars from the different parts of India participated and read out papers in their respective fields.

The Department of Social Work continued to Larry on the responsibilities of evaluating the National Social Service programme of the universities in the eastern region assigned to the Department by the Ministry of Education and Culture and also completed another assignment, viz. Study of Social

Welfare, Manpower requirements in West Bengal allotted by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Government of India.

The Granthana-Vibhaga (Department of Publication) of the university participated in various important book exhibitions held at Calcutta and other places in West Bengal. The Vibhaga also received award of distinction in these book exhibitions.

A Soviet Book Exhibition was held in the Central Library in March, 1979.

A seminar on 'Transformation in Indian Agriculture with special reference to Eastern states' was held in December, 1979 on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Agro-Economic Research Centre, Visva-Bharati.

Dr. Zakir Husain College, Delhi

The Dr. Zakir Husain Memorial College Trust was established by Government in 1973 inter-alia to take over the responsibility for the management and maintenance of the Delhi College since renamed as Dr. Zakir Husain College and to develop it as a memorial to the late President Dr. Zakir Husain. On of the major programmes to be implemented by the Trust is to shift the college from the present site to a new location on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg where further development is possible. Land for this purpose has already been acquired and new buildings have to be constructed. The plans and estimates for the construction programmes have been finalised and the construction is expected to start shortly.

Association of Indian Universities

The Association of Indian Universities is a voluntary organisat- ion of which all universities in the country are members. The Association is primarily a forum for universities to discuss their common problems, suggest solutions for consideration by official agencies like the Central and State Governments, University Grants Commission, etc. The Association brings out a number of publications, undertakes surveys and studies on areas of common interest to the universities and deals with questions like equivalence of qualifications, inter-university mobility of students, etc. In recognition of the useful functions performed by the Association. the Government has been sanctioning to them a token grant every year towards its maintenance expenditure.

During the Fifth Plan period, the Association was provided assistance by the Government to initiate a project relating to introduction of examination reforms in the universities. A major activity undertaken by the Association was the preparation of question banks in all the subjects covered by the first degree curricula. The Association has already prepared and published question banks in ten major subjects. In addition, several monographs on grading system, internal assessment, etc. have also been brought out.

Loan to Panjab University, Chandigarh for Development

With the re-organisation of the State of Punjab in 1966, the Panjab University, Chandigarh, was declared an 'Inter-State body corporate' under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966. Under the provisions of this Act, the successor States share the maintenance expenditure of the university. Since these States, do not contribute towards the developmental expenditure of the university, it was, decided that the Central Government might sanction loans to the university for meeting the expenditure on its development programmes, which include provision of matching share for the development grants sanctioned by the University Grants Commission and also funds for undertaking programmes which do not qualify for assistance from the Commission. The loan is sanctioned on the basis of requirements worked out on year-to-year basis.

C. SPECIALISM RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS

Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla

The Institute was set up in 1965 as an autonomous and residential institution to provide facilities for talented scholars to pursue advanced research in the humanities and social sciences. The institute has so far appointed 152 fellows for terms ranging between one year and three years. In addition, four fellows have been appointed for a period of five years. the fellowship renewable after every five years. Besides, the institute has been awarding Guest Fellowships for short duration upto four months inviting senior academics to deliver lectures and organising a large number of seminars. The institute has a collection of over 65 thousand volumes of books in its library and it has its own publication programme. It had brought out about 85 volumes consisting of research work by the fellows, monographs, proceedings of the seminars, etc.

In September, 1977, the Government appointed a Committee to review the functioning of the institute and to make recommendations in regard to its future policy, programmes and activities. The Committee which submitted its report in May, 1978, came to the conclusion that there was no justification for the institute to continue in its present form and that if the institute should continue, its character should be changed and the objective revised. According to the committee, there were certain disadvantages in the location of the institute at Simla.

The report was carefully considered by the Government and different proposals for restructuring the institute as well as its location at a more central place were examined. However, considering the past experience of the institute as revealed by the Review Committee and the cost involved in locating the institute at any other place, the Government decided in June, 1979 that the institute should be closed down with effect from September 1, 1979. This decision was later reviewed by the Government in August, 1979 and it was decided that the implementation of the earlier decision should be deferred till March, 31, 1980 and that in the meanwhile the question whether the institute should be wound up or its functioning improved through suitable measures should be examined. Various possibilities for restructuring the institute are at present under examination of the Government.

All-India Institutions; of Higher Learning

Certain voluntary organisations are offering programmes of higher education outside the university system. To encourage such institutions and to provide them with necessary financial support, the Ministry had formulated a scheme during the Third Plan period. Assistance under this scheme is made available only to those institutions which are offering programmes different from the normal and established pattern of education and are innovative in character. At present four institutions, namely, Shri Aurobindo International Centre for Education, Pondicherry the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Pune, Lok Bharati, Sanosara and Kanya Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Dehradun, are receiving assistance under this scheme.

The Government decided that the performance of all these institutions should be assessed with the help of small committees and that the assistance to be provided to them during 1979-80 and subsequent years should be decided on the recommendations, of those committees. All these institutions except the Tilak

Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune have since been visited and the reports are under consideration of the Government.

Indian Council of Social Science Research

The Indian Council of Social Science Research, which was established during 1969-70 with the primary objective of promoting and coordinating social Science research in the country, pursued its objectives during the year under report.

Out of 150 projects proposed for the year, 73 have been sanctioned upto November, 1979.

The council organised six training courses in research metho- dology during the year and trained 140 research scholars.

One hundred and eight fellowships, including National Fellowships, Senior Fellowships, Post-doctoral Fellowships, Short-term Fellowships, Institutional Fellowships and contingency Grants, have been awarded during the year under report.

Grants-in-aid were sanctioned to four Indian social scientists for visiting foreign countries. One scholar from Bangladesh was awarded fellowship to do research in India. Five foreign academics visited India under the various cultural Exchange Programmes. Three delegations were also sent abroad.

(i) Under Indo-Soviet Cultural Exchange Programme, the Third Plenary Meeting of the Indo-Soviet Joint Commission for Cooperation in Social Sciences was held in Moscow from August 12 to 18, 1979. Prof. Rajni Kothari, Co-chairman, Prof. T. N. Madan, Deputy Co-chairman and five other Indian social scientists attended the meeting.

(ii) The Third Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC), held at Manila from September 12 to 17, 1979, was attended by Professor Rajni Kothari, Chairman ICSSR and Dr. V. A. Pai Panandikar. The Country Report on behalf of the ICSSR was presented in the Conference. The delegation participated in the discussions in connection with improvement of cooperation among the Asian countries in the field of social science research.

(iii) An 8-member Indian delegation attended a workshop held in Amsterdam from November 12 to 16, 1979 under the ICSSR-IMWOO (Netherlands) Collaborative Research Programme.

During the year seven data sets have been acquired (i) "Social Mobility Among the Scheduled Castes", (ii) 'Age, Sex and Social Class differences in the development of Moral Judgement in Indian Children Aged 10-15 years : Occupational Values and Projections'. (iii) A Nurturant-Task Master : A Model of Effective Executive', (iv) Attitudes of Social Groups to Uniform Civil Code with Special Reference to Marriage, (v) 'A Probe into the Factors That Make for Drop-outs Among Scheduled Caste and other Backward Caste Students Enrolled for Higher Education', (vi) 'Citizen Participation in Rural Development and Urban Administration' and (vii) 'Decision Making and Organizational Effectiveness'.

In order to provide more extensive data collection facilities to social scientists in their research programmes, the Data Archives has been linked to the National Information Centre.

The Data Archives has completed the compilation of the Register which is proposed to be published.

Study grants were sanctioned to about 200 scholars from different universities to enable them to pursue research material available in various libraries/research institutes in the country. The Inter- Library Resources Centre, set up in 1975 as a cooperative venture of 25 local social science libraries in Delhi, was visited by 8,294 readers. About 120 theses and 100 research reports were added to the library. A Union list of periodicals received by the libraries in Delhi was brought out and distributed to participating libraries. A bibliography of theses in English and Hindi in the collection of Social Sciences Documentation Centre Library was brought out. During the year under report, the Council brought out seven books, 29 issues of journals and three non-priced publications while financial assistance was provided for the publication of 18 Ph. D. theses/research reports,

Under the Women's Studies Programme, three projects were sanctioned upto the end of November. 1979. The Women's section assisted the Department of Social Welfare in the preparation of documents for the Non-Aligned Conference on "Role of Women in Development" held at Baghdad in May, 1979. In this connection, 13 project reports, a few summaries of completed projects and eight review papers were prepared.

One more research institute, viz: the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Social Sciences, Allahabad, is being financially assisted by the Council, bringing the total number of such institutions to 17.