Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development is an autonomous Institute situated in

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. It was established in 1989 under the joint initiative of

Government of Assam The Government of Assam is the subnational government of Assam, a state of India. It consists of the Governor appointed by the President of India as the head of the state, currently Jagdish Mukhi. The head of government is the Chief Minister, ...

and

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(ICSSR),

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. It promotes and coordinates research on problems and processes of social transformation and development of Assam and other States of the North Eastern region of India.

History

Formerly the instruction was known as the Institute for Social Change and Development, the Government of Assam renamed it after the first Education Minister of Assam,

Omeo Kumar Das Omeo Kumar Das (21 May 1895 – 23 January 1975), popularly addressed as Lok Nayak, was an Indian social worker, Gandhian, educationist, writer and a former minister at the Government of Assam. He held various ministerial portfolios such as Educ ...

in 1995 as a mark of respect towards him on his birth centenary. The Chief Minister of Assam, Sri

Tarun Gogoi Tarun Gogoi (11 October 1936 – 23 November 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and led the party to a record three consecutive electoral vi ...

, laid the foundation stone of the Institute on 13 April 2005 and inaugurated the building on 20 February 2009.

Programmes

*PhD Programme *Post Graduate Certificate Course on North East India Studies *Research Methodology Course *Computer Application Course *Ph.D. Fellowship Programme *Visiting Fellows Programme *Training programmes *Data Consultancy *Lectures Seminars and Workshops

References

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