Workshop and Research Paper Presentation Competition

WORKSHOP AND RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATION COMPETITION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN INDIA

 

There have been several perspectives on Indian federalism. For instance, it has been called quasi-federal, federalism with unitary features and so on.  However, whether one can bracket the functioning of Indian federalism under a static concept is questionable. Rather, it has proven to be a dynamic concept with tilts in favour of states and centre respectively, according to the nature of power relations that exists between them. For example, while coalition era governments increased the federal tendencies of Indian polity, one can argue that acts like GST have weakened them. Similarly, there have been variations in inter-state relationships. Depending on various political and economic contexts, these relationships have manifested as both acrimonious and friendly, resulting in certain instances xenophobic outbursts, and otherwise fraternal relations.

In this context, the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) in collaboration with Hanns Seidel Foundation India is organising workshop on intergovernmental relations and welcome research paper entries for research paper presentation competition on intergovernmental relations in India. The workshop and competition will offer students and young scholars an excellent opportunity to engage in writing authentic and critically analysed research papers on various themes of intergovernmental relations.

Details of the workshop

·         Workshop will be conducted in hybrid mode. Online session will be through Webex platform and simultaneous offline session will be held at Room No 911,9^th Floor, Central Block, Christ University, Bangalore Central Campus, Karnataka, India.

·         The resourse persons for the workshop are Professor Lazarus Samraj(Pondicherry University) and Professor KK Kailash(University of Hyderabad)

·         Date and Time: 26 November 2021, 2PM-4.30PM

Details and Submission Guidelines of Research Paper presentation competition

*Broad Topic: Intergovernmental relations in India. The competitors can choose any topic under the broad topic mentioned. 

 • Only those who are in their final year Under graduate or first year/second year post graduate course in any social science and law disciplines will be eligible for the competition. With regard to 5 years integrated programme students,3rd year,4th year and 5th year students are eligible.

• Co-authored research paper will not be considered. 

• Only one submission per participant is permitted. 

• All submissions will be subjected to strict plagiarism check. Only those research papers confirming to originality (Less than 10% similarity index) will be evaluated. Previously published research papers or that were submitted to other competitions are not permitted. 

• The research papers can follow any methodology of the author’s choice. The final length of the paper needs to be between 3000-4000 words (which is exclusive of citations/references).

• The reference style that needs to be followed is APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition (in-text as well as references). Plagiarism of up to 10 per cent is acceptable. 

• Entries are to be submitted online by email at researchpaper@isph.christuniversity.in 

·  The submissions shall be in MS Word format (Times New Roman; font size 12; 1.5 spacing) with the name, telephone number and addresses of the student and the institution clearly mentioned.

• ID proof of the institution to which the student is part of shall also be attached along with the submission. Those who are yet to receive the ID, can alternatively submit fee receipt/bonafide certificate or any other document proving the affiliation. 

• The last date of submission is 31 January 2022(11.59PM). Submission beyond this date will not be considered. 

 • Copyrights of all winning submissions will remain with the organising institutions viz., Hanns Seidel Foundation India and CHRIST (Deemed to be University). 

• Out of the total submissions received, top 5 entries will be selected for the final presentation, which will be notified by 15 February 2022. They will present the paper at the paper presentation competition which will be held at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)<If covid situation is normal). Date of the paper presentation competition will be 02 March 2021.The travel(reimbursement mode) and accommodation(in university guest house) of selected 5 competitors will be taken care by the organizing committee.

• The decision of panel of judges will be final and binding. No queries or correspondences in this regard will be entertained. 

• Following prizes will be given to top 3 paper presenters. 

*First Prize-International Journal Subscription, Opportunity for research publication with an honorarium, Fellowship by HSS and Letter of recommendation for 2022 HSS Young South Asia Network

*Second Prize-Fellowship by HSS and research publication with an honorarium 

*Third Prize-Research publication with an honorarium 

• There is no registration fee. 

*For queries please email at researchpaper@isph.christuniversity.in