Placement Cell - Centre For Development Studies (JNU)

The Centre is, perhaps, one of the first educational institutions in the country to follow a democratically decentralized governing structure ensuring complete transparency in administrative and academic matters. The main activities of the Centre are research, teaching and training. Over the past 50 years, CDS has crossed several milestones. During the 1970s, although a large part of academic research conducted at CDS was devoted to issues pertaining to the national economy. In the mid-1970s, CDS became an institution affiliated to the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) .The Centre received prestigious endowment funds from different government agencies to set up dedicated research units in recent years to focus on specific areas like local government, migration and plantation development. CDS has been attracting sponsored project research funding from several national and international organizations for researching various dimensions of development.