CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL PROFILE NAME DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH CIVIL STATUS NATIONALITY EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION PRESENT POSITION PRESENT EMPLOYER PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Dr Prasenjit Maiti 1 January 1971 Kolkata, West Bengal, India Married Indian Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science) Senior Sociologist Consulting Engineering Services (India) Pvt Ltd Council for Political Studies Indian Institute of Public Administration Indian Political Science Association West Bengal Political Science Association KEY QUALIFICATIONS Has extensive professional experience of the Stakeholders Consultation Process as well as Benefit Monitoring and Evaluation Studies. Was engaged in major urban development projects funded by the Asian Development Bank and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom such as the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project and the Kolkata Urban Services for the Poor Program that were based on intensive participatory processes supported by community liaison and NGO / CBO / CSO networking. Can qualitatively analyze primary and secondary data to arrive at project findings. Can conceptualize Lessons Learnt and identify Best Practices while designing the Way Forward and Future Roadmaps for further project interventions. Has experience of Action Research core areas such as drug abuse, gender violence, poverty alleviation, livelihood enhancement, environmental awareness and education, public health, solid waste management, water supply and sanitation, community development, resettlement and rehabilitation, slum improvement, social uplift etc. Has worked with Policy Groups, Non-Government Organizations, Government Agencies, Statutory Institutions, Donor / Funding Agencies, Self-Help Groups and User Groups. Was member of the Resettlement Plan Implementation Working Group of the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project. Has specialized in Initial Social Assessment, Social Impact Assessment, Resettlement Action Plan, Risk Assessment, SWOT, Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation, Priority Ranking, Matrix Scoring, Social Capital, Problem Tree Analysis, Logical Framework Analysis, Participatory Poverty Assessment and Knowledge Attitude Perception Studies.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS Designation Research Associate Consultant Research Associate Consultant Project Manager Consultant Consultant Senior Sociologist Organization Council for Development Studies Shelter Promotion Council The Energy and Resources Institute West Bengal Pollution Control Board ActionAid India Consumer Unity and Trust Society The Energy and Resources Institute Consulting Engineering Services (India) Pvt Ltd EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Degree University Year Class Bachelor of Arts Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy University of Calcutta Jawaharlal Nehru University University of Burdwan 1992 1994 2001 First Class* First Class UGC MRG** *Received National Merit Certificates (1987 and 1989) and the National Merit Scholarship (1992) awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. **Doctoral Research was partially sponsored by a Minor Research Grant of the University Grants Commission and a Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Since 2005 2004-2005 2003-2004 1995-2002 1995 and 2002 Senior Sociologist [Consulting Engineering Services (India) Pvt Ltd] Consultancy Assignments (WBPCB, ActionAid, CUTS and TERI) Research Associate (The Energy and Resources Institute) Senior Lecturer in Political Science (University of Burdwan, India) Apprentice Journalist and Senior Sub-Editor (The Telegraph) INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE Worked as a Doctoral Fellow at the International Research and Consulting Centre of the Institute of Federalism (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) during 1999. Was invited by the Swiss Government to attend an international conference at the University of St Gallen (2002). LINGUISTIC PROFICIENCY LANGUAGE SPEAK READ WRITE ENGLISH Excellent Excellent Excellent BENGALI Excellent Excellent Excellent
SELECT PROJECTS The South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg sponsored the Governance in India project as a comparative study. Drafted the West Bengal Timeline for the project as Local Investigator. Was responsible for collection of secondary data and content analyses from print media sources (1997-98). The Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg awarded a Doctoral Fellowship to work on the Problems of Governance in India thesis. The tenure of this fellowship was partially spent working on Refugee Politics in West Bengal. An in-house seminar was presented on this topic at the International Research and Consulting Centre of the Institute (1999). Wrote the position paper for the Gender Violence in West Bengal project funded by UNIFEM while employed as Research Associate at the Council for Development Studies. Analyzed secondary data and source materials while drafting the position paper. Research findings were later published in Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2003). Was responsible for documentation, liaison, networking and outreach activities while working as Field Coordinator for the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project. Drafted the Benefit Monitoring and Evaluation Reports (Solid Waste Management and Resettlement & Rehabilitation) for the project funded by the Asian Development Bank as well as the Department for International Development, United Kingdom and implemented by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (2003-04). Drafted a volume on best practices and lessons learnt from school eco club activities commissioned by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, Government of West Bengal. Undertook an evaluation study of eco clubs as Consultant deployed by TERI under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India s National Green Corps project (2004-05). Drafted status papers for ActionAid India s Right to Information Feasibility Study in the Sunderbans. Focused on issues and concerns such as livelihood, gender, literacy, food security and information technology (2005). Prepared livelihood perception study reports on the agriculture and textile sectors of selected districts of West Bengal as Consultant to Consumer Unity and Trust Society. Reports were based on primary data and secondary sources as well as a review of literature (2005). Reviewed the Resettlement Action Plan of the Ranchi-Rargaon Road Project implemented by the National Highways Authority of India. Interacted with the project team to streamline the Feasibility Study Report and the Resettlement Action Plan. Analyzed the Public Awareness Campaign Report of the project. Prepared the Public Information and Consultation Report with regard to construction of underpasses along the Mainline and Ranchi Bypass (2005-06). Prepared the Resettlement & Rehabilitation Policy Framework of the Punjab State Road Sector Project funded by the World Bank. Interacted with the Punjab Roads and Bridges Development Board and the project team in order to accommodate policy inputs.
Reviewed the Entitlement Matrix for the Project Affected Persons under this project. Edited and reviewed the Final R&R Policy Framework of this project (2005-06). Was involved in the Initial Social Assessment of the Eastern Link Highway and NH II7 Upgradation projects. Interacted with government officials and project engineers in order to prepare the Feasibility Study Report of the project. Drafted the Social Screening Study under the Feasibility Study Report. Consulted local self-government bodies such as the panchayats in this process (2005-06). Was involved in drafting the Inception Report and the Initial Social Assessment Report of the Siliguri-Gairkatta Road Project implemented by the National Highways Authority of India. Interacted with the Client and the project team to identify best practices of Resettlement & Rehabilitation of the Project Affected Persons (2005-06). Was engaged in the Kolkata Urban Services for the Poor program funded by the Department for International Development, United Kingdom and implemented by the Change Management Unit in association with the State Urban Development Agency, Institute of Local Government and Urban Studies, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority as well as the Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Departments, Government of West Bengal. Coordinated project activities in the 40 designated Urban Local Bodies covered by KUSP in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. Was responsible for research and documentation as well as networking and outreach activities under the project (2006). Was responsible for preparing the Social Impact Assessment Report, Rehabilitation and Social Development Plan and Risk Assessment Study Report of the Greenfield International Airport Project implemented by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. Undertook stakeholder consultation in order to underpin site visits and report writing assignments (2006). Was also engaged in various other projects as a Social Scientist responsible for Social Studies and Social Impact Assessment. These projects included various roads, flyovers / interchanges, bridges, urban renewal / development and port facility / connectivity projects (2005-06). ACADEMIC RESEARCH Has written on gender, social capital, environment, civil society, globalization etc in edited volumes and peer-reviewed professional journals in India and abroad. Published his first book on Problems of Governance in 2002 while the next book on Development Discourses was published in 2005. Coordinated publication of the Urban Development Debates [Volume 1-4] book series and edited Development Studies (forthcoming). His Development Ethics is also forthcoming.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS A Human Ecological Analysis of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. Electronic Green Journal. Issue 14 [Idaho: University of Idaho Library (Spring 2001)]. A Letter from India: Problems and Prospects for the Modern Police. Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2001; Perpetuity Press, Leicester, United Kingdom), pp. 59-64. Clash of Civilizations? The Humanist. Association, November / December 2001]. [Washington DC: American Humanist Class Conflict Theory: The Wallerstein Critique and After. Socialist Perspective, Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2 (June-September 1997, Council for Political Studies, Calcutta), pp. 63-70. Communist Good Governance in a Postcolonial Democracy. Asian Studies, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-2 [2003]. Contemporary Federal Theory: A Comparative Analysis. Bipattaran Ghosh, Prasenjit Maiti et al (eds), Perspectives in Political Science (Burdwan: Academic Staff College, Burdwan University, 1997), Section 3, Ch. 14, pp. 142-50. CPM and Panchayats in West Bengal: A Discursive Analysis. Mainstream, Vol. 39, No. 17 (14 April 2001), pp. 21-4. Democracy versus Development: New Urban Debates. The International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (Duncow, Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire: Sapiens, August 2006), Vol. 13, No. 4, pp.289-294. Development Not As Freedom. The Journal of Human Values [Sage: New Delhi, 2004]. Food and Federal Politics in India. Federations, Vol. 3, No. 4 [Ottawa, Ontario: Forum of Federations, November 2003]. Gender Violence in West Bengal. Crime Prevention & Community Safety: An International Journal. Vol. 5, No. 4 [Leicester: Perpetuity Press, 2003]. Governance and the State. Subrata Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy (eds), Political Science Annual 1998-9: Focus on Theory (New Delhi: Deep & Deep, 2000), Part 3, Ch. 14, pp. 248-66. History and Counterhistory: Novels and Politics. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 35, No. 27 (1-7 July 2000, Mumbai), pp. 2382-5. India: Can a Constitution Change? Federations: Reports on Current Developments in the Practice of Federal Governance, Vol. 1, No. 4 (May 2001; Forum of Federations, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Translated into French. India's Monkey Man and the Politics of Mass Hysteria. Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 25, No. 5 (September / October 2001; Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) pp. 8-9.
Indo-Pak Relations: The Need for Hospitality. Asian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January- June 1999, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Calcutta), pp. 89-93. Interrogating Some Problem Areas of Indian Nationalism. Rama Kundu (ed), The Home and the World: Critical Perspectives (New Delhi: Asia Book Club, 2001), Section 3, pp. 168-84.* Neo-Institutionalism for Making Democracy Work. The West Bengal Political Science Review, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2 (January-December 1999, West Bengal Political Science Association, Calcutta), pp. 93-8. On Derrida, Marx and Hospitality. Socialist Perspective, Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (December 1997-March 1998), pp. 93-8.* On India's Governance and the Practical Reason of Globalisation: How Really to Cohere and Interface? Journal of Politics, Vol. 8 (Department of Political Science, Dibrugarh University, Assam; March 2001), pp. 30-53. On the Statements of Protest in Australian Aboriginal Writings. Amitava Roy et al (eds), Australian Studies: Themes and Issues (Calcutta: Australian Literature Study Centre, 2001), pp. 36-45. Point and Counterpoint: A Note on West Bengal Panchayat Polls 1998. Socialist Perspective, Vol. 26, Nos. 1-2 (June-September 1998), pp. 81-6.* Problems and Prospects for the Modern Police. Crime Prevention & Community Safety. Vol. 3, No. 3 [2001]. Rallying Round Postcolonial Aesthetics. The Atlantic Literary Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (April-June 2001; New Delhi), pp. 67-77. Ruling Secular India: Pretensions of a Humdrum Democracy. Samajtattva, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (December 1998, Association for Social Studies, Calcutta), pp. 1-8. Silenced Rivers. Seminar, No. 498 (February 2001), pp. 54-8. State Elections Foretell a Power Shift at India's Centre. Federations, Vol. 1, No. 5 (Summer 2001). Translated into French. The Sociology of Judicial Activism in India: Concern and Reality, Sekhar Ghosh (ed), Perspectives on Judicial Activism in India (Calcutta: Sribhumi, 1998), Ch. 13, pp. 134-44. Tagore's Sey: A Post-Modernist Analysis. West Bengal (Special Rabindranath Tagore Number), Vol. 40, Nos. 10-11 (16 May and 1 June 1998, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta), pp. 113-6. Through the Looking Glass: On the Political History of India's Governance. The Calcutta Historical Journal, Vols. 21-22 [1999-2000]. Tuning In, Tuning Out: On the Politics of Beatnik Idiosyncrasy. Bangla Journal, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2 (April & August 2000; North York, Ontario, Canada), pp. 151-61.
Understanding West Bengal's Refugee Crises as an Informant of Federal Tension in India. Indian Journal of Federal Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Centre for Federal Studies, Hamdard University, New Delhi 2001), pp. 125-35. Underscoring Peace as Hospitality in Indo-Pak Relations: Toward Alternatives of Conflict Resolution in South Asia. Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2 (January-April 2001; Delhi), pp. 39-46. Violence of Politics and the Politics of Violence. Seminar: The Monthly Symposium, No. 493 (September 2000, New Delhi), pp. 67-9. Women and War. International Humanist News. July 2002. BOOK PROJECTS *Joint Publications. Problems of Governance in India since Independence (New Delhi: Vedams, 2002). Development Discourses (New Delhi: Atlantic, 2005). Urban Development Debates, Volumes I-IV (New Delhi: Atlantic, 2004-05). Development Studies (forthcoming). Development Ethics (forthcoming). BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Dr Prasenjit Maiti is a Political Sociologist. He joined the Development Sector in 2003 after teaching and researching at the MA and MPhil Levels of the University of Burdwan (1995-2002) as Lecturer in Political Science. Dr Maiti was associated with the Asian Development Bank-funded Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project as NGO Representative and Member of the Resettlement Plan Implementation Working Group (2003-04). Dr Maiti earlier worked at the Council for Development Studies as Research Associate and also served as Consultant to the Shelter Promotion Council [2003]. He edited a volume on the National Green Corps Program sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (Government of India) commissioned by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (2004) and worked briefly for ActionAid on a Right to Information Project (2005). He served as Consultant to the Consumer Unity & Trust Society on a Perception Assessment Study focused on livelihoods in the agriculture and textile sectors (2005). He also served as Evaluation Consultant for The Energy & Resources Institute (2005). He is presently employed by Consulting Engineering Services (India) Pvt Ltd as Senior Sociologist. Dr Maiti was on secondment as Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg while teaching at the University of Burdwan [1999]. He taught Tourism Administration at Burdwan University and served as Resource Person for Distance Education Programs and Teachers' Training Courses sponsored by the University Grants Commission. He served as Academic Counsellor for the Netaji Subhas Open University. Prasenjit Maiti also worked briefly as Senior Sub-Editor for The Telegraph. He was the Director of North Africa, Middle East and the Indian Sub- Continent on the Inaugural Technical Committee of Fed-Net, a website hosted by
Forum of Federations: An International Network on Federalism (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Dr Maiti's maiden publication based on his doctoral thesis developed from a German Research Council project under the auspices of the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. He was invited to the International Conference on Federalism 2002 organized by the Swiss Government at the University of St Gallen. Prasenjit Maiti served as Reviewer (2001) for Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management (College of Education, Division of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati). He is also Referee for Environment & Development Economics (University of York, Heslington, York) published by the Cambridge University Press and Crime Prevention & Community Safety [Perpetuity Press, Leicester] as well as Reviewer for Globalization and Health. Dr Maiti holds First Class Graduate and Postgraduate Degrees in Political Science from Presidency College, University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University [Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences] respectively. He received the National Merit Scholarship of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Prasenjit Maiti is Life Member of the Indian Political Science Association, West Bengal Political Science Association, Council for Political Studies and Indian Institute of Public Administration. He coordinated the Urban Development Debates series published by Atlantic while his second book (Development Discourses) was published in 2005. BOOKS GALLERY DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSES PROBLEMS OF GOVERNANCE IN INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEBATES VOLS. I-IV PROFESSIONAL REFEREES Professor Maria A Jankowska, University of Idaho, United States of America <majanko@uidaho.edu> Professor Michael A Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA <mpet001@uiuc.edu> Professor Timothy McGettigan, Colorado State University-Pueblo, USA <Timothy.McGettigan@colostate-pueblo.edu>
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