) 2015: Awarded one-month ICSSR-CASS Bilateral Programme to undertake a project on A Comparative Study on Chinese and Indian Urbanization.

2) 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’”.

3) June 1998-Sept. 2000: “Junior Research Fellowship” & National Eligibility Test (JRF-NET) for Lectureship in Chinese conducted by University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India.

4) 1998: Nehru Memorial Award for MA topper in Chinese, Nehru Memorial, New Delhi.

5) Sept.1995-July 1997: “India-China Bilateral Cultural Exchange Scholarship” granted by Ministry of HRD, Government of India for advance studies in China.