Centre For Development Alternatives
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The HLF is more than just a literature festival. It is a germination bed for recognizing, capturing and telling of civilizational stories about INDIA. Do not miss out on being a part of this immersion into history.
Centre For Development Alternatives (CFDA), a well-known academic research Centre in India, started working in 1999. It has acquired credibility as a serious research centre in Development Studies in a short span of its life. The mission of CFDA is to work for promoting human centered development by exploring and communicating alternatives through research, dialogues, seminars and publications, and by undertaking policy advocacy as well as supporting efforts of like minded institutions.
India and in the world have experienced rapid changes during the last several decades. The term “development” has acquired now importance as well as multiple interpretations. Alternative development paradigms and strategies are discussed passionately at home and abroad. New problems and challenges have emerged and they have no clear answers. A need was therefore felt for setting up a Centre for promoting debates and dialogues as well as systematic research in critical areas related to multifarious issues in development.
Keeping in mind this need, CFDA was set up in 1999 under the chairmanship of Padma Bhushan Prof. M.L.Dantawala, National Professor and former Director of Department of Economics, University of Bombay, Mumbai.