Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at NCAER-NDIC, was invited to speak on gender statistics at the “Gender Statistics and Women-led Development” panel, moderated by Dr. Pankaj Srivastava, Statistical Advisor to the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
The Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring Frameworks of SDGs, Environment Accounts, and Gender Statistics, held on March 18 was organized by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the Government of Bihar, with technical support from UNDP.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at NCAER-NDIC, served as a panelist in a session titled, “Women at Work: Understanding Barriers, Advancing Equality” at the second National Convention on Women in India (NCWI) organised on March 9, 2026 at the O. P. Jindal Global University campus. Organised as a part of the inaugural Jindal Interdisciplinary Arts and Literature Festival, the event was held on Day 2 of the festival spanning 8 to 10 March.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at NCAER-NDIC, was invited by Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) on 12 March 2026 to deliver a Public Lecture at the National Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research. Dr Choudhuri examined non-sampling biases in household surveys during her discourse and highlighted the use of longitudinal panel data for multivariate analysis, including addressing endogeneity in empirical research.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow (NCAER-NDIC), served as a panellist at the Inception Workshop of the Gender Responsive Cell, organized by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment, Government of Odisha, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in a technical session on “Gender-Responsive Agricultural Transformation: Frameworks, Evidence and Research Priorities”, hosted at the Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on February 13, 2026.
Chaired by Professor C.S.C. Shankar (Institute of Economic Growth), the panel also included Dr Devesh Roy (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), Dr Arun Kumar Panda (Principal Scientist and Head of GFCS Division, Central Institute for Women in Agriculture-ICAR), Dr Somabha Mohanty (National Lead- Gender Resilience and DRR, UN-Women), Dr Manjula Menon (Teaching Faculty at School of Development, Azim Premji University) and Professor Vijay Lakshmi Pandey (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research).
The panel highlighted the need for disaggregated data driven insights, deliberating on the gender-responsive planning, implementation, and monitoring within Odisha’s agricultural sector.
Dr Debasis Barik, Senior Fellow at NCAER, served as a resource person at a 3-day workshop, “Decoding Large-Scale Public Health Data: Structure and Evaluation Strategies,” organised by the Population Studies Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, from 10 to 12 February 2026.
The workshop convened undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD scholars, researchers, early-career professionals, and faculty from across India to strengthen capacities in the use of secondary datasets for public health and demography research. Sessions covered epidemiological measures, sampling procedures and weights, statistical models, and introduced key datasets including the National Family Health Survey, the National Sample Survey, and the India Human Development Survey.
Dr Barik’s lecture focused on using multiple waves of the India Human Development Survey panel for demography and health research, with emphasis on leveraging the panel structure for longitudinal analysis.
