Dayalbagh Educational Institute has been a cradle of the systems movement in India and a pioneer in application of systems approach to all fields. DEI has had a very long association with the premier systems body of the country – the Systems Society of India. DEI has over 80 Distance Education Centres all over the country and abroad, and at 11 of these centres, satellite chapters of Systems Society of India have been launched. This expansion has come about in a systemic way with activities being carried out at each Chapter on its own as well as in collaboration with DEI-Dayalbagh Chapter which is acting as a catalyst for furthering interdisciplinary research and cooperation in the University, and its constituents.

DEI organizes a Students Systems Conference (PARITANTRA) every year to encourage student members, who are the life blood of any Society, to come forward with their systemic ideas and presentations in large numbers. The Chapter has hosted its own web page on the DEI web site (www.dei.ac.in) with open access to all and the newsletter of the Chapter called as ‘Paritantrika’ is available electronically. Carrying forward the systemic endeavours at Dayalbagh, Department of English Studies of DEI has launched a journal, ‘Literary Paritantra (Systems)’, an International Journal on Literature and Theory. The journal has hosted its own website (www.literaryparitantra.com).

D.E.I. has already hosted National Systems Conference earlier in January 1995. Besides, members of the DEI-Dayalbagh and its Chapters have contributed papers in significant numbers to National Systems Conferences, wherever they have been held in India and this practice has increased after the DEI-Dayalbagh Chapter was organized in 2006.

In conclusion, the Joint International Conference on Applied Systems Research and XXXIII National Systems Conference (NSC 2009) will go a long way towards establishing a unifying theme and systemic cross fertilization of ideas between theory and practice and stimulation of interaction between various systems research entities.