Seminars, Workshops and Cofereneces Attended

• Key note address to the Aligarh Muslim University (Alumni) Association, February 5, 2007, Washington DC
• Key note address to the Indian Muslims Association of America, February 3, 2007, Holiday Inn, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  Inaugural address ‘The Economics of Artisans, Craftsmen and Traders in India’ in a national seminar organized by Centre for Promotion of Educational and Cultural Advancement of Muslims of India (CEPECAMI), Aligarh Muslim University, UP on February 21, 2005.
• Discussant on the background paper on ‘Labor Market Policy in Low-income Countries’ organized by World Bank as a pre- Global Development Network Annual Meeting, Dakar, Senegal, January 23, 2005.
• Key Note Address on ‘Socio-Economic conditions of Muslims in Bihar’ September 23, 2004 Proceeded by the Railway Minister Sri Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar Chamber of Commerce, Patna.
• Chaired a Session ‘Gender and Patriarchy in India and Bangladesh in Population Association of America 2004 Annual Meeting Program, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1-3, 2004.
• Presided as a discussant during the ‘Technical Session Economic Access to Food – Some Issues’ under the theme ‘New Deal for the Self-Employed: Pathways to Economic Access to Food’ at National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), New Delhi during a National Food Security Summit from 3-5 February 2004 organised by M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and the United Nations World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and International Fund for Agricultural Development on February 4, 2004.
• Participated Signing in the ‘Ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding’ between the five partners-NCAER, ICMR and HIS at the Oberoi Hotel, Dr. Zakir Hussain Marg, New Delhi; September 16, 2003.
• Participated in the selection committee meeting in which I was nominated as a member for the post of Professor, Centre of West Asian Studies Faculty of Social Sciences of the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202 002, Uttar Pradesh; September 6, 2003.
• Participated in a book release function Readings in Human Development organised by Oxford University Press India and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the IIC Annexe, New Delhi; August 1, 2003.
• Participated in a consultation meeting to review of Asian Development Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy at Asian Development Bank Office, Chankyapuri; July 24, 2003.
• Participated in a Website review session organised by CII-UNDP India Partnership Forum on CSR and development in India at UNDP; July 23, 2003.
• Participated in the ‘Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, jointly organized by the World Bank and NCAER, May 21-23, 2003, Taj West End, Bangalore, India.
• Participated in the ‘India Policy Forum’ meeting at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, May 30, 2002.
• Chaired a session in an international seminar on 'Alternative Realities: Different Concepts of Poverty’ organized by International Development Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, The UK, 14th May 2002, held at Save the Children Fund Office, London.
  Participated in National Bureau of Economic Research, USA and -NCAER, India Conference on Reforms in India, held at Neemrana fort, Delhi- Jaipur road, December 13-15, 1999.
• Participated in a Planning Commission sponsored discussion on ‘Findings of Evaluation Study on Functioning of Community Health Centres (CHCs)’, at Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India, December 17, 1999.
• Participated in a WTO 2000: South Asia Workshop, World Bank - NCAER Seminar on World Trade Organization, held at La Merridian, New Delhi, December 21, 1999.
• Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population, 14-16 February, 2000; PHD Chambers, New Delhi, India.
• Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population, April 1999, Kalyani University, West Bengal, India.
  The NGO and Academics Consultation on the World Development Report-2000, sponsored by Oxfam-India, India Habitat Centre, February 10, 1999.
• INFRANET a seminar on Infrastructure Development in India, organized by Chamber of Indian Industry and held at Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, November 1998.
• India Poverty Consultation Workshop, jointly organized by the World Bank and UNDP, India Habitat Centre, February 5-6, 1999.
• Social Dimensions of Urban Poverty in India, jointly organized by the National Institute of Urban Affairs and the World Bank, India Habitat Centre, March 3-5, 1999.
• Seminar on Development Economics jointly organised by IRIS, University of Maryland and NIPFP, India December 1995.
• Seminar on Institutional Economics jointly organised by IRIS, University of Maryland and NIPFP, India February 1996.
• Second Development Economics Seminar, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India, 6-10 January 1996.
• All India Meeting on State Urban Development Strategy, Housing and Urban Development Programs, organized by the Planning Commission and Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, 15-16 July 1994, New Delhi, India.
• Conference on Data Base of Development Analysis, Yale University, USA, May `15-16, 1992, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
• Population Association of America, annual conference 29 April - 3 May 1992, Denver, USA.
• International Population conference of the IUSSP, 19-27 September 1989, New Delhi, India.
• Workshop on Maternal Education and Child Survival, organized by the Ford foundation and the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, 16-18, January 1989, Ahmedabad, India.
• Workshop on Evaluation of Family Planning Program at the District, sponsored by the International Institute for Population Sciences, 1-9 September, 1988, health at the CFTRI, Mysore, India.
• International Population Conference of the IUSSP, 5-12, June 1985, Florence, Italy.
• XI World Congress of Sociology (ISA), 18-22, August 1986, New Delhi.
• Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population, 19-22 December, 1993, Annamali University, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population, 21-24 May, 1985, Bangalore.
• Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population, March 1986, Varanasi.
• Workshop on Consequences of International Migration, sponsored by the committee on the Economic and Social Aspects of International Migration of the IUSSP, 16-19 July 1984, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• Workshop on Women In Asia, 22-24 July 1983, Monash University Melbourne, Australia.