User:Balendushekhar Mangalmurty

Balendushekhar Mangalmurty is Director, Centre for Inclusive Society, Patna. It is a social science research institute, created in March 2014. Its focus is Development Economics and Subaltern History.

Balendushekhar Mangalmurty is a social science researcher based in Patna, Bihar, India. He has had his education from Patna University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indira Gandhi National Open University. His academic interests are wide ranging from History to International Business to Economics. He has been CRY's National Child Rights Research Fellow. He was selected for course on Minority Rights from Asia by Minority Rights International. He was awarded certficate in Child Rights from UNICEF.

He has had the oppportunity to work with scholars of international repute such as Dr Dennis Rodgers from Manchester University on the multinational project on conflict and violence, Sri Navin Chandra, Senior Research Fellow, National Labour Institute, Noida, a premier research institute on labour economics, and Dr Gerry Rodgers, former Director, International Labour Research Institute, Geneva on his project inclusive development in Bihar. Besides it, he also led a team of researchers on BRGF evaluation in Bihar, a project of Planning Commission.

He has attended several seminars, workshops and conferences. Presently, he is Director, Centre for Inclusive Society, a Social Science Research Organisation based in Patna and also chief Editor, Inclusive Society, a journal of CIS, Patna.

His two books on NGO and Economy of Bihar are under publication.