About IIDS – Research Faculty

Mr. Motilal Mahamallik
Associate Fellow (IIDS – UNICEF Programme on Children & Social Exclusion)

E-mail
: moti_m13@rediffmail.com, mmahamallik@hotmail.com

Area of Interest: Land, livelihood, development, environment, human development, caste, discrimination, poverty and social exclusion.

 
Projects - Ongoing
 
•    Children Discrimination and Exclusion Programme for Social Inclusion in Multiple Spheres

IIDS & UNICEF, India

 
•    Financing Human Development: A social Group Perspectives
 
•    An Assessment of IKP Land Purchase scheme in Andhra Pradesh

IIDS, Andhra Pradesh Government & World Bank

 
Projects - Completed
 
•    Persistence of poverty - Why SC/STs are chronically Poor (1983-2000-NSS Data)

A Report submitted to Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK (2005)

 
•    Dalit Human Development Report-India
 
•    Caste, Occupation and Labour Market Discrimination: A study of Forms, Nature and Consequences in
Rural India

 A Report submitted to International Labour Organization, New Delhi

 
•    Development of Marginalized Social Groups in Gujarat: With particular focus on Scheduled Castes,
Tribes and other similar Groups

A background Paper for the preparation of state Development Report of Gujarat. Submitted to Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad

 
•    Disadvantage Groups and their Livelihood Pattern in Maharashtra

Submitted to YASODA, Maharashtra

 
Publications
 
Books - Under Publication
 
•    Dalits in India

Sukhadeo Thorat assisted by Prashant Negi, Chittaranjan Senapati, ________, and Vijay Kumar Baraik
Sage Publications, India

 
Books - Forthcoming
 
•    A Case Study - Caste, Occupation, and Labour Market Discrimination

___________, Sukhadeo Thorat and Ananth Panth

 
 

Working Papers – Published

 
•    Human Development and the Status of Social Groups in Gujarat

___________ and Sukhadeo Thorat

Volume I Number 06, 2006

 

Working Papers – Forthcoming

 
•    Human Poverty Among Socially Disadvantaged Groups

Sukhdeo Thorat,                and Sreelan Venkatesan

 
•    Development of Marginalized Social Groups in Gujarat

Sukhdeo Thorat and                

 
•    A Study of Impact and Land Purchase Component of Indira Kranthi Patham',

________ and Ananth Panth.

 

Articles
 
•  Kailas Sarap and _______ (2001), “Food Insecurity, Coping Strategy and Livelihood Pattern among Households in Tribal Areas of Orissa” in Asthana M.D and Pedro Medrano (eds.), Towards Hunger Free India: Agenda and Imperatives.
   
•  Kailas Sarap and _______, “Food Security System and its Operation in Orissa: Evidence from Some Villages in Semi Arid Area”, in Prof. K.P. Kannan, Prof. S. Mahendradev and Dr. Neera Ramachandran (ed), Food Security in Indian Perspective.
   
•  _______, “Why do the Rural Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Stay Chronically Poor: An Analysis of Magnitude, Disparity and Determinants”, Working Paper in Chronic Poverty Research Center: United Kingdom.
   
•  _______, Sunil Kumar Mishra & Minarva Dash (2006), “Health-Disease-Poverty Nexus in Sealipader Village of Kalahandi, Orissa”,  in Dr. Govinda Chandra Rath (ed), Tribal Development in India: The Contemporary Debate, Sage Publications: New Delhi.
   
Papers Presented
   
•  Financing Human Development – Social Groups Perspective
 

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

 

9-10 March 2006, New Delhi

   
•  Indebted among Agriculture and Other Labour Households in Rural India - Some Preliminary Analysis
 

Sambhalpur University

  25-26 March 2006, Orissa
   
•  Food Insecurity, Coping Strategy and Livelihood Pattern among Households in Tribal Area: Orissa
 

____ and Kailas Sarap

  Seminar on 'Towards Hunger Free India organized by the Planning Commission, Government of India, the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation; World Food Programme of United Nations and the Institute for Human Development
 

24-26 April, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi

   
•  Food Security System and its Operation in Orissa: Evidence from Some Villages in Semiarid Area
 

____ and Kailas Sarap

 

National Seminar on ‘Food Security in India: The Emerging Challenges in the Context of Economic Liberalization’, organized by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad & Institute for Human Development

 

25-27 March 2000

   
•  Implementation of Land Reforms in Backward Regions: A Case Study
 

____ and Ashish Dash

 

‘Orissa in The Eve of 21st Century,’ organized by P.G Department of Economics

 

15-16 March 1999, Sambalpur University.

   
•  Towards Understanding the Health Equation in Orissa: An Analysis of a Tribal village
  ____, Sunil Kumar Mishra and Minarva Dash
 

‘Tribal Development: Political, Economic and Cultural Discourse’, organized by G.B Pant Social Science Institute

 

18-20 January 2002, Allahabad

   
•  Common Property Resources and Rural Livelihood- A Case Study of a Tribal Village
 

World Bank funded Workshop on ‘Environmental and Resource Economics for Ph.D Scholars’, Organized by Institute of Economic Growth

 

11-16 February 2002, New Delhi.

   
•  Understanding Change in Poverty in Orissa: A Social Groups Analysis
 

____ and Prof Sukhadeo Thorat

 

‘Economic Development of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes since Independence: A State Level Scenario’, organized by Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Social and Economic Change

 

March 26-27 2004, Mumbai

   
•  Indebtedness Among Agriculture and Other Labour Households in Rural India: Some Preliminary Analysis
 

‘Rural Credit in Orissa’, organized by Sambalpur University

 

25-26 February 2006, Orissa

   
•  Financing Human Development: Social Groups Perspective
 

____ and A S Panth

 

Organized by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

 

9-10 March 2006, New Delhi

   
•  Persistent Poverty – Why do Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Stay Chronically Poor?
 

____ and S. K. Thorat

 

‘Chronic Poverty in India: Emerging Policy Options and Issues’, organized by Indian Institute of Public Administration and Chronic Poverty Research Centre

 

29-30 September 2005, New Delhi

 
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