CSS frequently conducts courses in research methodology and writing skills for research students, junior faculty members and SC/ST scholars. CSS also conducts training programmes on Panchayat Raj for local elected representatives. The Centre has been organizing an annual training programme on ‘Computer Applications in Social Sciences’ (CASS) supported by the ICSSR for thirty years. So far, more than 400 young researchers, college and university teachers from Gujarat as well as other States of India have benefited from this programme.