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The intellectual ambience of
openness to ideas and
plurality of perspectives have
to be continued and
strengthened.
As a think-tank in public policy, IGIDR’s vision is to become the premier nodal centre for development
research in India over the next 10 years for promoting cooperative endeavours with other Indian and
International scholars and institutions; to organize courses, capacity building programs, conferences, and
workshops on subjects of theoretical or practical relevance for development and policy formulation; to
publish journals, reports, pamphlets, books, research papers in furtherance of these objectives; and to
provide consultancy to national and international institutions on issues linked to these objectives. The
vision of IGIDR in the next decade is to further develop it as an Institute of high international standing and
join the league of world class centres of excellence in theoretically informed applied research and teaching
in development studies. It can be done by strengthening the present areas of research and diversifying its
research and teaching to new areas to address the development challenges in tune with the changes in
development paradigms, economy and society. The intellectual ambience of openness to ideas and plurality
of perspectives have to be continued and strengthened.
S. MAHENDRA DEV
Director
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