Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
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.
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