Department of Economics

Historical Milestones :

Department of Economics with Rural Development started functioning in 1985 with the joining of two faculties and admission of students. It started offering post graduate courses and research from January 16, 1986 with adequate accent no the study of rural development. To fit itself  with the changing needs of the society and the requirements of technological development of the academic world with modified and modernized the syllabi through induction of courses on computer programming, decentralised planning and participatory rural development and environmental economics. In 1999 the University Grants Commission sanctioned the Department Special Assistance Programme ( SAP) and the Departmental Research Support (DRS) level for the period from 1999 to 2004. A number of major research projects have been sanctioned by the UGC and ICSSR in favour of faculty members of the department

 The department has included in its curriculum emerging issues in decentralization, rural industrialisation environmental economics, Topology, Dynamic Optimisation.

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS

Future plans:  :

(i) Introduction of M.Phil. Courses, (ii) Establishment of centre for rural development, (iii) Introduction of certificate course in rural development, decentralized planning and natural resource management.

Highlights:

(1)     Offering courses and conducting researches on industrial organization, environmental economics, decentralized planning and participatory development, rural development, industrial economics and theoretical econometrics

(2)     One of the research papers on theoretical econometrics has been published in “Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation”.

(3)     A number of research articles and books on microfinance, rural industrialization, decentralized planning and participatory development, rural development, industrial economics, environmental economics have been published by the faculty members in refereed journals and by publishers of repute.

(4)     A good number of scholars of the Department have been awarded Ph.D. degree.

(5)     Several major research projects sanctioned by UGC and ICSSR are being conducted by the faculty members.

(6)     Departmental Journal “Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics” is regularly published.

(7)     All the students of the Department are offered Dissertations at the final stage of their Masters Examination.

(8)     Semester System Examination has been introduced and the first batch of students under this system has got their results published.

Emphasis :

Continuous Modernization of syllabus Innovative Methods of teaching Feedback from Research to PG Teaching