Indian Institute of Technology Indore


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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Sahu, H., & Pradhan, K. C. (2024). A Grave Concern: Water-Intensive Crops and Subsidized Electricity Amplifying Groundwater Depletion in India. Water Economics and Policy, 10(02), 2450001. Details
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Sahu, H., & Pradhan, K. C. (2024). The impact of agricultural practices on groundwater depletion: A spatiotemporal analysis of India. Environmental Quality Management. Details
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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Mandal, B., & Pradhan, K. C. (2024). A comparative study of health outcomes between elderly Migrant and non-migrant population in India: Exploring health disparities through propensity score matching. SSM-Population Health, 25, 101619. Details
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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Mandal, B., Pradhan, K. C., Mohanty, P., & Muhammad, T. (2023). Migration status, physical limitations and associated self-rated health: a study of older Indian adults. BMC geriatrics, 23(1), 316. Details
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Singh, P., & Pradhan, K. C. (2023). Do Remittances Stimulate Economic Growth In Nepal? Evidence From ARDL Approach. The Journal of Developing Areas, 57(4), 297-318 Details Read More
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Kumar, V., & Pradhan, K. C. (2025). Measurement and determinants of economic inequality between migrants and non-migrants: evidence from Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis of Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 1-31. Details
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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Vijay Kumar Presented a paper at the XXVIII IIPS National Seminar 2024 organized by Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University during 12-13th February 2024. Title of paper- Measuring Inequality Between Migrant and Non-migrant People and Its Determinants: Evidence from Sectoral decomposition analysis of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Kumar, S., & Pradhan, K. C. (2024). Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of financial inclusion in South Asia: Integrated policy for targeted groups of population. Journal of Policy Modeling, 46(3), 655-682. Details
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Pradhan, K. C., Kumar, S., & Sharma, R. (2024). Adopting Digital Financial Technology in Madhya Pradesh, Central India: Opportunities, Challenges, and Determinants. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 1-40 Details
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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Sumit Kumar Presented a paper at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI), held during October 25 to 27, 2024, at the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra." Title of paper- Determinants and Gender-related differential of financial inclusion in India: An Evidence from Decomposition Analysis
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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Meghna attended the Workshop series on “Building Evidence-Based Policies: Economic Evaluation and Systematic Review” , organized by the HTAIn Resource Centre at IIT Delhi in collaboration with the HTAIn Secretariat, DHR, MoHFW on September 11-12th.
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Meghna attended the Workshop Series on Data Science, IIT Kharagpur on 9th to 10th August, 2024.
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Migration and Development Research Lab Highlights

Kumar, G. D., & Pradhan, K. C. (2024). Assessing the district-level flood vulnerability in Bihar, eastern India: an integrated socioeconomic and environmental approach. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(9), 799. Details
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Pradhan, K. C., Kumar, G. D., & Sharma, B. (2024). Reassessment and Determinants of Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Cross-Country Analysis. International Journal of Empirical Economics, 2450014. Details
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Kumar, G. D., Pradhan, K. C., & Tyagi, S. (2024). Deep Learning Forecasting: An LSTM Neural Architecture based Approach to Rainfall and Flood Impact Predictions in Bihar. Procedia Computer Science, 235, 1455-1466. Details Read More

Student's Corner

  • Hariom Arora received the Second Best Award for his paper presentation at an international conference, organized by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade from 12-13 December 2024. Image

  • Vandana Govindani presented a paper titled "Digital Diaspora: Navigating Sindhi Cultural Preservation in the Age of New Media" at the SHSS Research Symposium IIT Indore.

  • Guru Dayal Kumar presented a paper at SHSS Research Symposium 2024, Indian Institute of Technology, 29th-30th April, 2024.

  • Meghna presented a paper “Mapping the Global Landscape: Trends, Determinants and Regional Dynamics of Female Labor Force Participation”, SHSS Research Symposium 2024, IIT, Indore Image

  • Meghna presented paper at the 64th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, University of Hyderabad, 30th March 2024.

  • Vijay Kumar presented a paper at the 64th The Indian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference organized by the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, 29-31st March 2024 Image

  • Vijay Kumar presented a paper at the XXVIII IIPS National Seminar 2024 organized by Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University during 12-13th February Image

  • Sumit Kumar presented a paper at the 58th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) organized by Tripura Central University during February 22-24th, 2024. Image

  • Sumit kumar participated in the two-day workshop on “Building Evidence-Based Policies: Economic Evaluation and Systematic Review” organized by HTAIn Resource Centre at IIT Delhi. Image

  • Pawan Singh presented a paper at National seminar on "Development Paradigm in India: A Study of Poverty, Inequality and Discrimination" from 22nd – 23rd March, 2024, held at BHU

  • Harish Sahu presented a paper at "International WASH conference- 8th Edition- Kolkata by the Ministry of Water Resources on 19th September 2024.

  • Harish Sahu presented a paper at IAH2024 World Groundwater Congress, Davos, Switzerland held from 8th sept to 13th September, 2024.

  • Dibya Prakash Pandab, has been awarded the prestigious PROF. VENNELAKANTI PRAKASAM Award-2024 for the best research paper on Systematic Functional Linguistics. Image

  • Jyothi J. won the IIT Indore Best Research Paper Award in SHSS 2024 for “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre”.

  • Sonal Pandey attended the Comics Conclave 2.0 on March 16-17, 2024, hosted by Art@IITGN and the Curiosity Lab of IIT Gandhinagar.

  • Vandana Govindani got an opportunity to work as a main researcher for the Sindhi Partition Gallery (Museum), the Lost Homeland of Sindh with CAMP.

  • Kaviarasu P. won the best paper title for his presentation on "A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends on Translation Studies in India" at the SHSS Research Symposium 2024.

  • Jyothi Justin presented paper "Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre"at UNED-LINHD i Conference as part of CLS INFRA Fellowship.

  • Mr. Hariom Arora visited the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and presented his doctoral work at the International Schumpeter Society Conference (ISS) 2024.

  • Jitamitra Behera has been awarded the Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degree/Cotutelle 2024/25 research grant by the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service.

  • Mr. Manivendra Kumar, a Ph.D. student has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Scholarship. He will be working on ‘Changing Paradigms of Reform (1950 to 1990)

  • Ms Monika got selected for Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations organizing by Harvard University from 9-11 February 2024 with partially funded scholarship. Acceptance Letter

  • Ms Monika attended 21st Harvard India Conference theme "India's Rising" jointly organized by Harvard Business School & Kennedy School of Harvard University on 17-18 Feb 2024. Image

  • Ms Monika delivered a lecture on 17 November 2023, titled "The Story of Indian Civilization" to undergraduate students during her research visit to Boston University USA. Lecture Image

  • Vandana Govindani received the 'Sahitya Akademi Travel Grant', she visited various Sindhi writers and scholars across the state of Gujarat.

  • Nihal Singh Khangar presented a paper at the 8th Asian Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ACESD) in Sapporo, Japan from November 3 to 5, 2023.

  • Ms. Sadaf Khan received the Best Paper Presentation Award in the Research Scholars Category for presenting our paper on Impact of Medium of Instruction on Professional Trajectories

  • Bittu Mandal presented a paper on "Migration & Health" at the Population Association of Singapore 2023 Annual Meeting held at the National University of Singapore.

  • Mahima Singh presented a paper at the 27th European Conference for South Asian Studies, held at the University of Turin, Italy.

  • Tinto D. attended an International Summer School (fully-funded), organised by Greek Studies on Site in Athens, Greece from June 26 to July 25, 2022. Image

  • Jyothi Justin attended "Summer School for Literary Studies & Digital Humanities" by Leiden University and KU Leuven held from 20-23 June 2022 (online).

  • Kavitha K. presented a paper at the RC14 International conference entitled “Gender and Media: Representations, discourses and Practices”, in Melbourne, Australia, (Online).

  • Kavitha K. presented the paper titled, “First-generation Indian Digital Humanities Scholar and Minimal Computing” at the DHSI Conference, University of Victoria, Canada,(online).

  • Ms. Monika got the "Supervisor Service Fellowship" and appointed as a Visiting PhD Student at Dept of Sociology, Boston University USA for One year from 1 Oct 2023-30 Sept 2024.

  • Ms. Jyothi Justin received Computational Literary Studies (CLS) INFRA Transnational Access Fellowship (TNA) FELLOWSHIP funded by EU at UNED, Madrid, Spain for 9 weeks.

  • Mr. Manivendra Kumar, Ms. Meghna Gangadharan and Mr. Shyam Sunder Pal attended the webinar titled 'Mapping Digital Humanities' Read More

  • Ms. Kavitha K attended the Webinar on "The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" held on May 07, 2020. Read More

  • Mr. Kaviarasu P and Ms.Justy Joseph were the Participant for the event at Winter Institute of digital Humanities - An International School. Read More

  • Ms. Muhsina K K was Participant in the workshop on 'Contemporary Indian Cinemas during 28-29 February 2020. Read More


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