Igidr.ac.in
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Home Page of IGIDR Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Contact
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- Mumbai Maharashtra
- IN 400065
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- +91.28400919
Description
Background
The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is an advanced research institute established by the Reserve Bank of India for carrying out research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary points of views.. After its registrations as an autonomous society on November 14, 1986 and as a public trust in January 15, 1987, the then Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi inaugurated the campus at Goregaon on December 28, 1987.
Subsequently, the Institute was recognized as a Deemed University under Section 3 of the UGC Act. Dr. R. Radhakrisna is the current director of the Institute. At present the Institute has about 120 employees and M.Phil/Ph.D students that include about 36 full time faculty members, 24 non-academic staff and about 60 M.Phil/Ph.D. students.
Starting as a purely research institution, the Institute quickly developed into a full-fledged teaching cum research organisation when in 1990 it launched a Ph.D. program in the field of development studies. The objective of the Ph.D. programme is to produce analysts with diverse disciplinary background who can address issues of economics, energy and environment policies. IN 1995 the M. Phil programme was also statrted.
