Designation: HOD of the Dept.
Qualification: MA, M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology from JNU, New Delhi
M.Sc. Information Science from BIT Mesra, Ranchi
B.Sc.(H) Mathematics from Ranchi University
Teaching Experience: Faculty in Dept. of Sociology, Sariya College, Suriya from Jan 2024 onwards.
Fellowships: Awarded the ‘Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)’ by the University Grant Commission, Government of India (June 2013).
Publications
- ‘Neo bondage in the age of Coronavirus pandemic: A crisis experienced by migrant informal labourers in India’. Published in ‘Akademos’ in 2021……
- ‘Assessing condition of Daily wage labourers through Decent Work Framework’. Published in International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research’ in 2020.
- ‘Status of rural migrant workers in Ranchi city’. A chapter in Denzil Fernandes & P.O. Martin (ed.) Labour migration in the post liberalization era. 2019.
Paper Presentations – Resource Person
1. Resource Person on the topic ‘Dialectical and Historical Materialism’ for ‘Lecture series of Sociology on Sociologically Theories and Concept’ held on 17th July 2023 in the Department of Sociology, Sri Aurobindo General Degree College, Agartala, Tripura
2. Presented a paper “Condition of the Labourers of Mazdur Bazar in Ranchi: Through Decent Work Framework” in PhD Research Scholars’ Seminar organized by CSSS, SSS, JNU on 26 – 27th April 2019
3. Presented a paper “Status of rural migrant workers in Ranchi City” in a seminar on “LabourMigration in the Post liberalization Era (1991)” held on 18-19 august 2018 jointly organized byIndian Social Institute Bangalore & Indian Social Institute, New Delhi.
4. Presented a paper “Revisiting the idea of capital and crime” in the Research Committee ‘RC3-Economy, Polity and Society’ of the conference on ‘Rethinking Sociological Traditions in India’hosted by the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University from 27th to 30th December 2016.
Research Projects
- Research Assistant of Dr. Radhika Krishnan, CEH at International Institute of InformationTechnology, Hyderabad from 2022 to 2023 in ‘Just Transition’ project.
- Conference Assistant of Dr. Prabhat Kumar (Assistant Professor, CSDS, Delhi), Coordinator,‘Timely History’ Conference from 12th – 14th October 2022 held at CSDS, Delhi.
- Research Assistant of Dr. Ravikant, Associate Professor, CSDS, Delhi for Digital Archiving Project in 2022
- Research Assistant of Dr. A. Bimol Akoijam (Associate Professor, CSSS, SSS, JNU) from 2016 to 2019.
- Research Investigator in the project “Mapping of Socio-cultural and economic determinants of Severe Acute Malnutrition in NRCs in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi” funded by UNICEF during Sept.-Dec. 2014.