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Priyadarsan Amitav khuntia, Associate Fellow, is a first class
post graduate in Economics and Public Administration from the
Department of Analytical and Applied Economics and Dept. of
Public Administration (Utkal University) respectively and
M.Phil from the Dept. of Public Administration, Utkal
University. His M.Phil dissertation was “Organisation and
Functioning of ESI Scheme in Orissa”. He is having interest in
academics and experience in labour related research, training,
coordination and consultancy in the last seven years. His
association with VVGNLI goes back to the year 2004 as a
participant in “Course on Research Methods in Labour
Economics”. He was selected and joined the “Young Researcher
Fellowship, 2005-06 Programme” of V.V. Giri National Labour
Institute. During his fellowship period, he prepared a
research paper “Opportunities and challenges before the
construction workers in the globalised era: The Indian case”.
The paper was subsequently published in the NLI Research
Studies Series (NO.: 067/2005). He was associated with some of
the collaborative programmes of VVGNLI and State Labour
Institute, Bhubaneswar as resource person and also in
coordination.
He
was actively associated with a number of seminars of the Dept.
of Public Administration, Utkal University and Indian
Institute of Public Administration (Orissa Region). Mr Khuntia
has attended/presented papers in National/International
workshops, conferences and seminars such as : National level
self-development workshop, Dandely of ERC, New Delhi and Ford
Foundation (2003), The annual conference of Indian Society of
Labour Economics, Jaipur (2004),The National Seminar on
Regional Development U.G.C- DSA Dept. of Analytical and
Applied Economics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (2005)),
Ministry of Labour and Employment/ILO Roundtable on the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in India, Noida
(2005), International Tea Day, CEC, New Delhi (2005), National
conference on social security, Bhubaneswar (2007),
International Conference on Child Rights, New Delhi (2008).
Participated in the fourth National ‘Youth Parliament’
competition for Universities held in the year (2000-2001) and
got second prize for meritorious performance at the national
level. He was an associate member of Indian Institute of
Public Administration, New Delhi (2006). His current research
interests include Construction labour in the context of
globalisation, Skill, Social security. He is presently the
associate coordinator of NRCCL.
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