The Institute organised a two-week online Capacity Building Programme from February 15–27, 2021 on “Industrialisation, Corporate Sector and Development” for the faculty of Indian universities and colleges. The programme objective was to familiarise and enable the participants with relevant theoretical and empirical literature around industrialisation and impart them with large-scale enterprises databases, advance techniques, and methods. It covered issues around (i) political economy of industrialisation, industrial policy, growth and market structure; (ii) industrial finance, corporate sector and FDI; (iii) trade, technology, innovation, global integration; (iv) developmental issues around agriculture, health and education, skill-mismatch and employability; (v) large datasets, statistical tools, techniques and methods. The well-established and eloquent speakers from various universities/institutions/organisations within and outside Delhi were invited to deliver lectures around these themes. In all, there were 36 sessions. The programme was sponsored by ICSSR. The programme was jointly organised by Prof M R Murty, Dr Shailender Kumar Hooda, and Dr Ramaa Arun Kumar.
The programme lectures can be accessed from the following table