PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
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Research Fellow of Indian
Statistical Institute , 1979-86
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Visiting Research Fellow at
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Japan,
1982
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Netaji
Institute of Asian Studies, 1988-90
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Ashoka Fellow,
1991
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Fellow
of the Session 400 at Salzburg
Seminar, Austria: “Trends and Innovations in Health
Professions Education: Building Comprehensive and
Sustainable Reforms, July, 2002
PROFESSIONAL
ACCOMPLISHMENT
Designed
CMIG in 1988 to promote research, training, service and
academics in the field of gerontology.
The organization is now recognized
as the Regional Agency of the National Institute of Social
Defense(NISD), Government of India & Regional Resource &
Training Centre on Ageing under the Ministry of Social
Justice & Empowerment , Government of India.
Received National Award in 2006
for generating and spreading knowledge in the field of
Ageing
IN THE POLICIES AND
ACTION PLANNING
Actively involved as an
expert in all policies, laws & action planning for elderly
at the GOI & state government level
JOURNAL EDITORSHIP
Editor of AGEING &
SOCIETY” The Indian Journal of Gerontology
PUBLICATIONS
Author of more than 25
contributions on the challenges of ageing. One of the
contributors in the UNFPA initiatives for building the
knowledgebase on the status of elderly in India
ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT
At the PG level of Calcutta
University& Research Guide for Ph. D scholars