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About 3000 students and professionals such as teachers, journalists and activists use the reference facilities about 9000 times a year.  We also have over 600 library members who borrow books through the year.

The number of users among students is more than activists. This is explained by the fact that the total student population is much larger than those of activists, and the fact that students are given specific assignments which they have perforce to work on. Statistics however don't tell the whole story, especially when it comes to NGO users, who may be around five percent of users, but are significant in absolute and relevance terms.

To give an idea the following are some of the users in Bombay:

A library member Nancy Adajania used the documentation on Tribals for her video film on the Korku tribe in the Melghat area of Maharashtra.

An activist/researcher used the centre extensively for her research on Voluntary Retirement Schemes and its effect on the working people.

A researcher associated with AIDWA collected large amount of information on Gujarat and her articles have recently appeared in The Hindu.

Sharmila Joshi, editor of an NGO magazine called ANUBHAV, used the resources of CED to bring out a special issue on biodiversity. Multiply such uses 650 times!