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Prof. Sankar Majumder

Prof. Sankar Majumder

  • Professor
    Institute of Applied Sciences & Humanities
  • Department

    Department of Economics
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  • Experience

    37 Years

  • Qualifications

    • Ph.D:Awarded in 1986 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
    • M.A.:in Economics (1978) from Calcutta University.
    • B.A(Hons):B.A(Hons) in Economics (1976), Calcutta University..
  • Ph.D

    Thesis Supervised

  • Awarded/ Completed 10

    Working NIL

  • Postgraduate

    Thesis Supervised

  • Awarded/ Completed NIL

    Working NIL

Summary

  • 01 Published books, edited books, research papers in reputed journals and in edited books.
  • 02 Worked as Principal Investigator in 03 Research Projects.
  • 03 Worked as a Consultant to the Government of West Bengal.
  • 04 Member of the Team of Co-ordinators for preparation of ‘Report on District Human Development Index of West Medinipur District’.

Participation & Organization

  • 01 Presented Papers at International and National Conferences.
  • 02 Invited as Resource Person, Key note Speaker and Panelist.
  • 03 Trainer and Resource person in various Training programmes of different government departments.
  • 04 Organized workshops, training and research on Village level planning and technology dissemination (as Secretary of MPDS).
  • 01 Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
  • 02 Member, Advisory Committee on Participatory Planning under Community Convergent Action (CCA), Govt. of West Bengal.
  • 03 Economist, Midnapore Kharagpore Development Authority (MKDA), Govt. of West Bengal.
  • 04 Evaluator of projects sanctioned by CAPART, Govt. of India.
  • 05 Member, District Planning Committee, Midnapore (Appointed by Governor of WB).
  • 06 Former member of UG and PG BOS in Economics, Rural Studies, Social Work of different universities.
  • 07 Member, State Level Resource Persons for Universalisation of the CCA strategy (Govt of WB & UNICEF).

Academic & Administrative Experience

  • Professor and Head, Department of Economics, GLA University.
  • Former Dean, Faculty of Rural Reconstruction, Visva-Bharati.
  • Former Professor in Economics and Head, Dept of Rural Studies, Visva-Bharati.
  • Honorary Secretary of NGO, MPDS (1996-2016).

Ph.D. Supervision & Adjudication

  • 10 students were awarded Ph.D. Degree.
  • Worked as adjudicator to 35 Ph.D. theses from different universities.

Areas of Research Interest

  • Action research and field study-based research work in entrepreneurship development.
  • Rural and agricultural economics.
  • Decentralized participatory planning and public economics.

 

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