Indian Council of Social Science Research

The Council is currently chaired by Bhushan Patwardhan. Current members include Deena Bandhu Pandey, P. Kanagasabapathi, Sanjay Kumar, H.S. Bedi, Harish Chandra Singh Rathore, Panchanan Mohanty, Amita Singh, Kshamadevi Shankarrao Khobragade, T. Subramanyam Naidu, Rakesh Sinha, Aswini Mohapatra, P.V. Krishna Bhatta, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, J.K. Bajaj, M.P. Bezbaruah, D.D. Pattanaik, and Madhu Purnima Kishwar.[4]

It provides funding to scholars and to a network of twenty-seven research institutes,[3]^:3606 among them:

• the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
• the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
• the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
• the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
• the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
• the Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research
• the Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi
• the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad
• the Indian Institute Of Economics, Hyderabad
• the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad
• the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
• the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi
• the Madras Institute of Development Studies.
• the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati

A large proportion of its budget is spent on its own administration; in 1996–1997, this amounted to 23% of total expenditure.[3]^:3607 It has been described as an "oversized, unimaginative and inefficient bureaucrac[y]".[3]^:3604

• National Social Science Documentation Centre