Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR) is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization founded in 2020 by Siddhesh Zadey, Surabhi Dharmadhikari, and Sweta Dubey.
ASAR aims to create and communicate evidence for informing better policies and influencing meaningful public discourse. It also aims to impart research training to motivated individuals from diverse disciplines. They believe that citizen-researchers from different backgrounds with shared goals can best solve India’s social problems.