2015 Awarded one-month ICSSR-CASS Bilateral Programme to undertake a project on "A Comparative Study on Chinese and Indian Urbanization".
Sept. 2010-June 2011 Awarded nine-month long ASIA Fellows Award 2010-2011 under Asian Scholarship Foundation Fellowship
Programme to undertake research project on “Population Mobility in China: ‘Villages in Cities’”.
June 1998-Sept. 2000 “Junior Research Fellowship” & National Eligibility Test (JRF-NET) for Lectureship in Chinese conducted by
University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India.
1998 Nehru Memorial Award for MA topper in Chinese, Nehru Memorial, New Delhi.
Sept.1995-July 1997 “India-China Bilateral Cultural Exchange Scholarship” granted by Ministry of HRD, Government of India for advance studies in China.