キ Research Fellow of Indian Statistical Institute , 1979-86
キ Visiting Research Fellow at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Japan, 1982
キ Postdoctoral Fellow at Netaji Institute of Asian Studies, 1988-90
キ Ashoka Fellow, 1991
キ Fellow of the Session 400 at Salzburg Seminar, Austria: “Trends and Innovations in Health Professions Education: Building Comprehensive and Sustainable Reforms, July, 2002
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
Designed CMIG in 1988 to promote research, training, service and academics in the field of gerontology. The organization is now recognized as the Regional Agency of the National Institute of Social Defense(NISD), Government of India & Regional Resource & Training Centre on Ageing under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment , Government of India.
Received National Award in 2006 for generating and spreading knowledge in the field of Ageing
IN THE POLICIES AND ACTION PLANNING
Actively involved as an expert in all policies, laws & action planning for elderly at the GOI & state government level
JOURNAL EDITORSHIP
Editor of AGEING & SOCIETY” The Indian Journal of Gerontology
PUBLICATIONS
Author of more than 25 contributions on the challenges of ageing. One of the contributors in the UNFPA initiatives for building the knowledgebase on the status of elderly in India
ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT
At the PG level of Calcutta University& Research Guide for Ph. D scholars