Name                 : Dr. T. Rajendran Department       : Sociology Faculty               : Rural Social Sciences Designation       : Reader      Sex                     : Male

 Address  and Phone Number

Academic qualifications

 Total Teaching Service           :      24 Years

                                                           M.Phil -  20 Years

                                                           M.A.     -  24 Years         

 Own Research work                   

1. Project Report at UG level "A Study on the rituals connected with death ceremony among   The Paliyan.

2. Dissertation submitted at P.G. Level "Programme planning in non-formal education for a

    selected group of villages". 1+2 in partial fulfillment of requirements for the award of UG

    and PG Degrees.

3. Ph.D. Programme on Rural Development Programmes - Awarded at the XIX convocation   

     held at the Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram - 624302.

 Research Guidance                     :   1. Ph.D. - one Candidate completed

                                                                               And awarded

                                                               2. M.Phil. - 30 Completed

                                                               3. M.A. - 35 Completed

                                                               4. B.A. - 15 Completed

UGC-Major research project        :

 Projects undertaken: and completed:

Major Projects with details.

Books Published during the period of Reader in Sociology

Contribution to corporate life:

Services rendered in committees /Boards

Examination work carried out

 Other Academic activities

 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR M.A/M.PHIL / DISSERTATIONS

ü      Department of Sociology, Bharathidasn university, Trichy

 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PhD THESIS

 External examiner for a PhD thesis on Migrant child labour in Kerela.

In the Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam.

ü      External examiner for a PhD research committee in the Dept of sociology

Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli

Examination work carried out

One month Study Tour in the U.K

With the permission of the Authorities of GRU, Gandhigram, and under the sponsorship of Mr. Kevan Paul Bundell, former employee of the Christian Aid based in London and his wife Dr. Vasu Devi Reddy, Professor and Head, Dept. of Psychology, Portsmouth University, South Hampton, U.K, I visited the U.K. on one month study tour from 15-5-2005 to 16-2005 to study the work of Christian Aid, the leading UK relief and Development Charity and visit the University of Portsmouth to learn about the U.K.University Education system  and Teaching methods and a study of services for the elderly as provided in UK with the assistance of Hampshire Social Services, Help the Aged ( a national NGO/ Charity) and local private providers of services for the elderly.

 I visited Oakridge House, Jefferson Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 5qs UK, which is a residential home for the elderly mentally infirm people with nearly three acres of land around the home. The home is managed by a Unit Manager who has a management team to provide a twenty four hour on call service.

 .Also, I visited Hampshire County Council, Nursing Homes for Older People. Day to day activities reflect what the residents want and all the residents are encouraged to have a say in the way their home is run and what happens there.

There are over 5000,000 older people in the UK living in residential homes, nursing homes or NHS long stay wards or homes.

Study Team Member under NREGP

I have worked as a Study Team Member in preparing the Dindigul District Perspective Plan under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGP) from 15-05-2006 to 31-08-2006.

Details of Programmes attended/ conducted.

 EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

a)     Village based extension

Organised, stayed and worked in different villages along with students of Department of Sociology in Dindigul district under

        Village Placement Programme(VPP)/Value Social Responsibility(VSR)

b)    SUBJECT BASED EXTENSION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT

√    Selection of five families and concentration on their living and working    

      Conditions in the adopted villages of Dept. of Sociology   

√    putting into action the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – elimination     

      of poverty, maintenance health and environmental sanitation, gender equality,

      Teaching literacy, family welfare through individual group contacts.

√    Involvement in PURA- related activities of providing urban facilities in Rural   

      Ares

ü      Holding discussion with village youth Association members on the village development activities carried out

ü      Holding discussion with the Panchayat presidents and members and planting tree sapling on both sides of the village road leading to Gopinath Swami Temple.

ü      Conducting benchmark survey on the Socio-Economic and demographic aspects of the Authupatti village.

ü      Extending moral support (to Authupatti Villagers) to take up the construction of village community hall.

ü      Taking the university to the door steps of the villages

ü      Prayer and meditation with students in the villages.

ü      Survey on living and working conditions of the villagers, practice of Untouchability; dowry system, Educational and employment status, the extent of benefit accrued to the IRDP and JVVT beneficiaries.

ü      Doing Shramdan work like cleaning the wastewater channel for disposed of domestic wastewater as well as surplus rainwater for its easy flow to the field, involving the villagers in this effort.

ü      Holding discussion with village women on their social status and how to improve their position.

ü      Organizing and reviving village youth clubs with the help of village youth leaders.

ü      Collection of data and information on the socio-economic and political life of the peasant community.

ü      Discussing and sharing information regarding various developmental Programmes of government and non-government organizations.

ü      Organizing sports among the village boys and girls and distribution of prizes in a small level to the winners.

ü      Experimenting "Reverse Adoption" Scheme in K.Ellaipattia and Authupatti villages

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