Appreciation for Teaching and Other Awards

Appreciation for Teaching:

Received letter of appreciation for exemplary performance in teaching, from the Director, IIT Kanpur (based on students’ course evaluation survey across the institute):  

During 2010-2011 (second semester) for teaching SOC479: Population, Economy and Society.

During 2009-2010 (first semester) for teaching SOC481: Society and Social Problems of India.

During 2007-2008 (second semester) for teaching SOC733: Population Processes.

During 2005- 2006 (second semester) for teaching SOC721: Sociological Theories.

During 2002- 2003 (second semester) for teaching SOC171: Introductory Sociology.

During 2002- 2003 (second semester) for tutorials in SOC171: Introductory Sociology.

During 1997- 98 (first semester) for teaching SOC171: Introductory Sociology.

Academic awards

Associate Editor, The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society, 2011-.

Member of the Executive Committee, The Indian Society for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation ISMMACS, 2011-12.

Advisor, Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh (JSK), National Population Stabilization Fund, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. 2009.

Nominated member of IIT Kanpur for population stabilization activities of JSK, 2008

Member of the editorial board of Journal of Social Sciences, 2008

Treasurer, The Indian Society for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (ISMMACS), 2008 – 2011.

Topic Editor by the Stewardship Committee of the Environmental Information Coalition for the Encyclopedia of Earth in the area of Environmental Sociology

Reviewer to national and international journals including Social Studies of Science, Demography India, Indian Institute of Management Review (IIMB) from IIM Bangalore, Studies of Tribes and the Tribals, and The Eastern Anthropologist

Member, Scientific Review Board, Population Review, an international, peer-reviewed journal of demography and population studies

Consulting Associate, Centre for Operations Research and Training, Vadodara, 2002

Member Executive Committee, Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, 2002- 2004

Consultant, WIZMIN Management Consultants, Kanpur, UP

Member Executive Committee, Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, 1992- 1994

Chandrasekaran Award of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), 1993

Elected member of the International Union of Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Belgium, 1991

IIT Bombay Research Fellowship for doing the doctoral work, IIT Bombay, 1977- 1980

Second position in CPS and first position in DPS, IIPS Bombay

Government of India fellowship to pursue DPS programme at IIPS Bombay, 1976-77

Government of India fellowship to pursue CPS programme at IIPS Bombay, 1975-76

Community Service

Invitee to Annual Meeting of Board of Management, Banwasi Seva Ashram, District Sonbhadra, UP (a NGO, applying Gandhian principles of Sarvodaya and Swaraj for rural and tribal development), 2006 -2007.

Member, Board of Governors, Child Labor Elimination and Rehabilitation Society, UP (with office in Kanpur), since 2003

Nominated member of IIT Kanpur on Kanpur Rail Consumers Consultation Committee, Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2003

Nominated member of IIT Kanpur on Uttar Pradesh Minimum Wages Consultation Board, 2002