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J.P. Singh is presently a Reader in Sociology at Patna University, Patna and Chairman, Institute of Population and Integrated Development, Patna. He has been a UGC Teacher Fellow at the JNU, New Delhi; Research Scholar at the School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University, Canberra; Professioinal Associate at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii (USA); and Reader in Research Methodology at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay. Dr. Singh has got several research papers published in leading professional journals from India and abroad and authored Patterns of Rural-Urban Migration in India.

Dr. Manoj K. Dash is currently working as a Director with the SOS Children’s Villages of India. Prior to that he worked as a Consultant to the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) and as a Project Evaluators of the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART). Dr. Dash joined the RCI as a Research Fellow in 1999 and worked for two years. He was engaged in All India Assessment Exercise of the Integrated Education for the Disabled to RCI by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). In the last one and half years, he was involved sponsored by the UNDP, WHO and the DFID. CMDR is one of the fourteen major research institutes in India recognized and funded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR). Dr. Dash also worked as a freelance ‘research monitoring and evaluation’ consultant.