Prof. Reetika Khera, wins Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2021
Prof. Reetika Khera, Humanities and Social Sciences, IITD, has been selected for the Malcolm Adiseshiah award 2021. The Malcolm Adiseshiah Award & the Elizabeth Adiseshiah Award for distinguished contributions to Development Studies were instituted by Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust in 2000 and are presented to social scientists for their outstanding contributions to the society.
The Malcolm Adiseshiah Award was first given to Abhijit V. Banerjee in 2000. Since then, Ram Guha, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jayati Ghosh, Nandini Sundar, Amita Baviskar, Yogendra Yadav, among others, have received it. Prof. Khera would receive a citation and prize money of ₹1 lakh. She will be sharing the award with Professor Avijit Pathak of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences.
The award panel also named V. Kalyan Shankar, Associate Professor of Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune, for the award given in memory of Elizabeth Adiseshiah to a social scientist below the age of 45 years.
