The Department of Economics is one of the premier departments of this University in the Faculty of Arts & Commerce. The Department of Economics forms the core of first few departments with which the university started imparting quality education in tranquil sylvan surroundings to the students of a relatively backward rural area, a little more than a decade after independence.
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, World Development, Industrial Organizations, Computer Applications 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).

Head of the Department
Dr.Archita Ghosh

Departmental Phone No.
(033) 2582 8750 / 8275 (Ext. 288, 289, 290)

Departmental E-mail Address

Degree and Course Offered

• M.A. in 'Economics' - a two-year post-graduate degree.
• M.Phil. in 'Economics' - one and a half year post-masters degree.
• Ph.D in Economics
  

Specialisations

• Agricultural Economics
• Population Economics
• International Economics
• Econometrics
• Natural Resources and Environmental Economics
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Mathematics for Economics
• Applied Econometrics
  

Intake Capacity:

• M.A. : 70 students
• M. Phil : 08 students
  

UGC Refresher Course

A refresher course in Economics was held in February-March, 2004.

Infrastructural Facilities

• One Computer Laboratory.
• Departmental Library facility.

Research Interests of the Department

• Total Number of Scholarships Available (URS) : 10
• Total Number of Ph.Ds Awarded : 40

Ongoing Research Project :

ICSSR-sponsored project titled ‘Final Demand, Technical Structure and Reallocation of Value-added: Effects on the Shares of Major Sectors of the Indian Economy’, Project Director – Prof. Madhusudan Datta

Seminars / Conferences / Workshops / Symposia organised in last 5 years

1. Two-day National level Conference on ‘Emerging Issues in Development’, March 03-04, 2011.
2. One-day State level Conference on ‘Global Capital Flows and Economic Development’, February 04, 2011.
3. Three-day Workshop on ‘New UG Syllabus in Economics’, July 12-14, 2010.
4. State Level Workshop on ‘Theories and Empirics on Economics’, March 17, 2010.
5. International Conference on ‘Globalisation, Development and Emerging Market Economies’, December 17-18, 2009.
6. Symposium on ‘Global Financial Crisis’, April 01, 2009.
7. National Workshop on ‘Course Curriculum in Commerce and Economics’, April 01-02, 2009.
8. National Workshop on ‘Issues in Development’, March 30-31, 2009.
9. National Workshop on ‘Global Financial Crisis’, November 27, 2008.
10. International Conference on ‘Globalisation, Foreign Capital and Development’, January 29-30, 2008.
11. One-day State Level Conference on ‘Globalisation, FDI and Development’, November 27, 2007.

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Professors

• Dr. Bahnisikha Ghosh
• Dr. Madhusudan Datta
• Dr. Sutanu Bhattacharyya

Associate Professors

• Mr. Supriyo Bhattacharyya
• Dr. Nitish Dutta
• Mrs. Arundhati Datta
• Dr. Byasdeb Dasgupta
• Mr. Jaganmoy Basu
• Mrs. Bishakha Ghosh
• Dr. Archita Ghosh

Assistant Professor

• Dr. Prasenjit Sarkhel

UGC Emeritus Fellow

• Dr. Dipti Prakash Pal

Course Material UGBS