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Department of Economics

Here we all-faculties and students-together try to make the learning enjoyable. Economics is a social science and here we try to realize this. To learn economics we break the boundary of class room, traveled through villages' mud lane, have day long chat with the villagers, traveled hills to catch the true economics within which the hill people are struggling, through the lanes of village huts to understand market. We also take quantitative data through those travels, try to depict picture how those people make two square meal, how they earn a nominal for having a smile from his/her children at the end of the day. we all learn to love the subject and also the people, society and .....

Dr. Tapasi Biswas
Associate Professor
Ph No.: 09432124972
Research Interests:
Informal Sector, Manufacturing Industry, Economics of disability

Pampa Sen Gupta
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph. No. (033)2469-9062 (land) 09830981779 (mobile)
Research Interests :
• Labour and Demographic Economics (Emphasis on Gender
Discrimination in Indian Labour Market)

• Mathematical and Quantitative Methods (Emphasis on
Econometric Methods)

• Health, Education and Welfare (Emphasis on Gender)

• Globalisation and Inclusive Growth ( Emphasis on Indian Economy)

Dr. Atanu Thakur
Head and Assistant Professor
Ph. No : 033-24003972 (R) ; 9830888837 (M)

Research Interests :

Livelihoods and Sustainable development, Gender Economics, Microfinance and System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
Publications

• Making and Unmaking of (In)formal Sector—A paper co-authored with Dr. Anjan Chakrabarty, Economics Department, Calcutta University is forthcoming in Critical Sociology.

• Microfinance: Ekti anno pat (Microfinance: An Alternative Reading) (in vernacular), Tepantar, Vol 7, January 2009, Kolkata.

• Scaling Sri – Integrated Triad Services Holds The Key To Success—A paper jointly authored with Mr. Nabarun Sengupta, Senior faculty, The Livelihood School, Hyderabad was presented in the Technical Session at Third National Symposium on SRI held at Coimbatore on 1-3 December 2008. An Excutive summary was also published in the Symposium proceeding.

• Experimenting Method of Intensification in Paddy—Hopes Belied—A paper co-authored with Mr. Nabarun Sengupta, Senior faculty, The Livelihood School, Hyderabad, published in Agriculture based Livelihood Promotion, published by The Livelihood School, Hyderabad.

• ILO and its discourse around Informal Sector , Bodhi Artham, Vol. 1, No. 1; 2007, Kolkata.

• Bidhir Bandhan Katbe Tumi, Tumi Ki Emon Saktiman (in vernacular), Tepantar, Vol 4, July 2006, Kolkata.

• A Post-Modernist Enquiry into Women’s Workforce Participation published in The Indian Journal of Lobour Economics, Vol. 42,No.4, 1999.