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The department had a modest beginning under the
stewardship of Prof. S.R. Dutta Gupta with a few teachers and a few
rooms in the ground floor of the present building. It has since then
gradually grown in size with both horizontal and vertical extension
as well as the enlargement of faculty with young and energetic
recruits, which permitted desired proliferation of its activities
from basically teaching fundamental courses in Economics in the
early years to include all the recent areas of this expanding
science within its course curriculum.
Among the Departments
of Economics in the eastern region, ours is the first to introduce a
special course in Population Economics. In recent years, a number of
innovative courses have been introduced in its Post-graduate
curriculum; viz., Natural Resources and Environmental Economics,
Input-Output Economics, Financial Economics, Comparative Economic
Systems and World Development, Industrial Organizations etc. These
courses have created scope for further inter-disciplinary research
and greater academic bonding with other departments in both Arts and
Science Faculties as well as with institutions outside. These
activities of the department have found resounding support in the
recent model curriculum of University Grants Commission (UGC). A
one-year Post-Graduate Diploma Course on Financial Economics has
been introduced from the Academic Year 2003-2004.
Head of the
Department
Prof. Dipti Prakas Pal
Departmental Phone
No.
091 033 2582 8750 / 8275 (Ext.
288, 289, 290)
Departmental E-mail
Address
Degrees and Courses
Offered
• M.A. in 'Economics' - a two-year
post-graduate degree
• M.Phil. in 'Economics' - one and a half
year post-masters degree
• PG Diploma in 'Financial Economics' -
an one year post-masters programme
Specialisations
•
Agricultural Economics
• Population Economics
•
International Economics
• Econometrics
• Planning,
Input-Output Economics and Industrial Organisaton
• Natural
Resources and Environmental Economics
• Financial Economics
•
Comparative Economic Systems
• Mathematics for Economics
•
Applied Econometrics
Intake Capacity
in
• M.A. : 70 students
• M. Phil : 10
students
• Diploma in Financial Economics : 20
students
UGC Refresher
Course
A refresher course in Economics was held in
February-March, 2004
Infrastructural
Facilities
• One Computer Lab
• One
Departmental Library
Research Interests of the
Department
• Number of Scholarships (URS) : 8
•
Total number of Ph.Ds awarded : 35
Ongoing Research
Project :
• Political Economy of Labour in a
Globalised Economy funded by Indo-Dutch Program
for Alternative Development
Project Director :
Dr. Byasdeb Dasgupta
Seminars / Conferences /
Workshops / Symposia organised in last 5 years
•
Economic Issues in Development, 1999
• 2 days seminar
on 'Economic and Statistical Issues in Development', in
collaboration with the Department of Statistics K.U., 2000
•
2 days seminar on 'Economic Issues in Development', 2001
•
2 days National conference on 'Trade related Intellectual
Property Rights', 2002
• 2 days seminar on 'Economic
Issues in Development', 2003
Faculty
Members
Professors
•
Dr.
Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya • Dr. Dipti
Prakas Pal
• Dr.
Madhusudan Datta • Dr.
Banhisikha Ghosh
Readers
•
Mr.
Jyoti Prakas Chakraborty • Mr.
Arunava Bhattacharya
• Mr. Alok
Kumar Acharya • Mr.
Dhruba Ranjan Mukherjee
• Dr.
Sutanu Bhattachariya
Selection-Grade
Lecturers
• Mr. Nitish
Datta • Mrs.
Arundhati Datta • Mr.
Supriya Bhattacharya
Senior
Lecturers
• Mr.
Jaganmoy Basu • Ms.
Bisakha Ghosh •
Dr.
Byasdeb Dasgupta
Lecturer
• Miss. Archita Ghosh
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