Indian Institute of Dalit Studies

NGO Details:

Name : Indian Institute of Dalit Studies

Chief Functionary : Sukhadeo Thorat

Chairman : Martin Macwan

Secretary : Pramod dabral

Treasurer : Pradeep parida

First Registration Details :

Unique Id of VO/NGO : DL/2010/0030986

Registered With : Charity Commissioner

Type of NGO : Trust

Registration No : E/15896

City of Registration : Ahmedabad

State of Registration : Gujarat

Date of Registration : 20-01-2003

FCRA details :

FCRA Registration no. : 231660773

Sector/ Key Issues :

Key Issues : Dalit Upliftment, Minority Issues, Tribal Affairs, Women’s Development & Empowerment

Operational Area-States :

Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

Details of Achievements :

Major Activities/Achievements : The Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) was established in 2003 as a non-profit autonomous institute to undertake research and promote informed debate on the issues of social exclusion, discrimination, their consequences, policies against social exclusion and collective actions by civil society organisations and others, and inclusive polices. IIDS is amongst the first research organisations in India that focuses specifically on the development concerns of marginalised and socially excluded groups who suffered from social exclusion due to their group identity associated with their social origin like caste, ethnicity, gender, religion, colour, physical handicap, regional identity and other forms of social identities. These groups include former untouchables or Dalits, Tribes, Religious Minorities like Muslim and Christian, Women (particularly belonging to excluded groups), Nomadic and de-Notified Tribes and other. The Institute is registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and is eligible to receive foreign contributions for its research.

Vision and Mission

IIDS recognised that Indian society is characterised by processes of social exclusion and discrimination in varying degree which involved denial of equal rights and entitlements for a number of excluded groups resulting in high deprivation and poverty among these groups. The Vision of IIDS is to help develop “inclusive society”, with equal right and entitlement to excluded and discriminated groups. The mission is to develop a ‘body of knowledge’ to understand exclusion induced problems of poverty, human deprivation and human rights and suggest evidence based policies for making a socially, economically and politically inclusive society with equal rights and entitlements to excluded and discriminated groups.

Objectives

• To undertake interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical and application-based research on exclusion and discrimination in social, economic, cultural and political spheres faced by Dalits, Tribes, Religious Minorities and Women belonging to excluded groups and other similar groups.
• To undertake theoretical and empirical research on consequences of exclusion in multiple spheres on the denial of rights and entitlements with particular focus on consequences on economic growth and development, inter social group inequalities, poverty, deprivation and marginalisation.
• To study the dynamics of institution of social exclusion and the process causing change.
• To provide evidence base policies to overcome consequences of social exclusion to government, civil society organisations and donor agencies for developing, formulating, assessing and evaluating policies and provisions for marginalised social groups.
• To study the collective actions of discriminated groups—political activism, NGO movements, literary and arts movement, discriminated women’s movements
• To provide knowledge support to civil society organisations engaged at local, regional, national and international levels in ‘advocacy works’ for the empowerment of discriminated and excluded communities
• To develop an extensive database on social groups in India and serve as a Resource Centre for academicians, researchers, activists and others alike
• To strengthen networking with similar institutions, both in India and abroad, for greater sharing of information and ideas through joint collaboration and partnerships
• To organise seminars, workshops and lectures of academic and policy interests with contemporary relevance

Contact Details :

Address : Indian Institute of Dalit Studies D-II/1 Road No.4 Andrews Ganj New Delhi-110049 [codepeople-post-map]

City : New Delhi

State : Delhi

Telephone : 011-26252082

E-mail : rajkkampa@dalitstudies.org.in

Website Url : http://www.dalitstudies.org.in

Fax : 011-26252808