After nearly four decades of dedicated services to the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), India, Prof. Tarun Kumar Roy, Director and Sr. Professor, IIPS, retired officially on 31 October.
Prof Roy excelled and immensely contributed to teaching and research in the areas of population policies, evaluation of family planning programmes, large-scale demographic surveys and population simulation models.
Prof Roy has been a visiting fellow and consultants to various international and national institutions. Besides producing 16 Ph.D graduates, he published a number of publications in various international and national journals of repute.
The demographic community, his students and colleagues would like to wish him a very peaceful, joyful, healthy and productive retirement.