Welcome to OKDISCD



Call for Working Papers

OMEO KUMAR DAS INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENTis a vision turned reality for some of the most eminent academics of the entire Northeast. The Institute was established after a prolonged and strenuous effort of the academicians on March 30, 1989 under the joint initiative of the Government of Assam and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. OKDISCD is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. Formerly known as the Institute for Social Change and Development, the Government of Assam renamed it after the first Education Minister of Assam, Omeo Kumar Das in 1995 as a mark of respect towards him on his birth centenary.The Chief Minister of Assam, Sri Tarun Gogoi, laid the foundation stone of the Institute on April 13, 2005 and inaugurated the building on February 20, 2009.More...


Ongoing Research

Annual Reports

Annual Report 2016-17 Annual Report 2015-16 Annual Report 2014-15 Annual Report 2013-14

  • Journal

    (UGC CARE LISTED) ISSN:0975-4016

    The Institute's journal Social Change and Development intends to provide an academic platform to scholars belonging to the the northeastern region of India as well as outside to project issues focused particularly on the region, express their views and analyse the issues putting them in proper perspective, both historically and as guidelines for the future. However, issues cutting across the region are also welcome. More...

  • Digital Archive

    Brochure

    The Institute's Digital Archive is a repository of documents pertaining to the social movements of the region. Presently the archive has about thousand policy documents besides about 3000 original texts produced by the groups spearheading political movements, newspapers and magazines with ideological tilts, little-magazines which are not to be found easily and newspaper clippings collected by organizations and individuals. More...