ISEC’s concern for the social and economic welfare of the poor and disadvantaged groups reflects strongly in the large number of studies it has undertaken to understand the various dimensions of poverty and human development.
In the honor of Dr.V K R V Rao, ISEC has instituted a visiting chair, presently held by Prof. Ashutosh Varshney, Professor of Political Science at Brown University.
ISEC has infrastructure that includes a library, data bank, digital sources of information, seminar halls, auditorium, students’ hostel, residential accommodation and guest house.
It is rightly recognized that policy-making in India requires a great deal of systematizing and active lobbying of scholarship.
In addition, ISEC has regularly contributed and assisted central, state and local governments by providing advice on important issues.
The campus has an academic and administrative complex, student hostels, a guesthouse for visiting scholars, residential facilities for 77 faculty members and staff, four seminar halls, two committee rooms, and a 300-seater auditorium.
Using a grant from Government of Karnataka ISEC has started a digital library and a large number of rare books and reports in social sciences have been digitised.
ISEC has entered into agreements with Mythic Society, Mysore University and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics to take ahead the process of digitisation.
This includes 650 applied and policy-related studies on various economic, social, political and administrative issues, 225 books, and over 2,500 technical articles published by the faculty.