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THE INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Members of the Executive Committee IEAIEA NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER President Association Dr.B.P. SarathChandran Dr. Nikhil ChandraJha Prof. SukhadeoThorat ShreeDamodarCollegeofCommerceand Principal, Madupur College, Madhupur,Jharkhand THE INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (IEA) Chairman, Economics, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Tansor,Comba, Margao, Dr.P.Anbalagan Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, NewDelhi Goa AssociateProfessorofEconomics Presidency College President Conference Dr.BharatiPandey Chennai 99th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Prof.R.Radhakrishna 2/348, VishwasKhand-2, Chairman, GomtiNagar, Lucknow,U.P Dr.Pradeep Kumar 27th-29th December, 2016 Center forEconomic andSocialStudies Dept.ofEconomics, Hyderabad, Telangana Dr.Bikrama Singh M.C.M.D.A.V. College, Former Professorand Head Kangra (H.P.) Vice President PG Dept.ofEconomics Prof.V.Loganathan MagadhUniversity Dr.Rachna Dixit Former Tagore ProfessorofEconomics AssociateProfessor University of Madras, Chennai Dr.C.A.Priyesh Department of Economics Asst.ProfessorofEconomics, D.A.V. (PG)College, Dehradun GeneralSecretary&Treasurer University College, Dr.Anil KumarThakur Trivandrum,Kerala Dr.Rahul S. Mhopare P.G. Department of Applied Economic and Deptt. of Economics(U.G. &P.G.), Commerce, Dr.Deepti Taneja Devchand College, Arjunnagar, (via Nipani), CollegeofCommerce, DelhiCollegeof Artsand Commerce Kolhapur, Maharashtra Kankarbagh,Patna DelhiUniversity Delhi Dr.S.K.V.S.Raju ChiefEditor,IEJ MIG B-44, Sector-9 Prof. SukhadeoThorat Prof.E.Revathi MVPcolony Chairman, Professor, Visakhapatnam, A.P. Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Center forEconomic andSocialStudies, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, NewDelhi Hyderabad, Telangana Dr.S.S. SinghChauhan Ravi Shyam, B-35, Inderpuri, LocalOrganising Secretary Prof. G.M.Bhat Agra-282005 (Uttar Pardesh) Prof.D.Krishnamoorthy, P.G. Dept.ofEconomics Dept.ofEconomics, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, (J&K) Dr. Sanjay P. Dhanwate SVUCollegeof Arts, Principal,Model Artsand CommerceCollege, Tirupati Dr.Geeta Pandya Karanja,Wardha, Maharashtra Phone:0877224944, 09440063023 Government ArtsCollege, Email: [email protected] Shri K.K.ShastriEducationalCampus Dr.Sebak KumarJana Maninagar,Ahmedabad,Gujarat Vidyasagar University,WestBengal JointSecretary(East) Dr. Nageshwar Sharma Dr.Gowhar Jahan Dr.Seepana Prakasam Former Principal,A.S. College, 19/9 Sixth CrossStreet, 276, Sector22-A, Chandigarh, 160022 Deoghar- 814112(Jharkhand) West Shenoy Nagar, Chennai Prof.Tapan Choure JointSecretary(North) Head Dr.DevendraAwasthi Dr.GyanendraDash School of Studies in Economics 37/17, The Mall, Kanpur-208 001 (U.P.) Department of Economics Vikram University,Ujjain,M.P. KendraparaCollege, Odisha JointSecretary(South) As member of the FinanceCommittee Dr.B.P.Chandramohan Dr.HanumantYadav Dr.S.H. Indurwade Department of Economics H-1-78,Deen UpdhyayNagar, Dept.ofEconomics Presidency College, Chennai Rajpur,Chattisgarh RTMNagpur University Chief Guest Sh. Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble University of Madras(T.N.) Nagpur, Maharashtra President of India, with the first copy of the Dr.K.A.Rasure conference issue of the Indian Economic JointSecretary(West) 126, Badepur First Phase,GDA, MembersInvited Dr.MohanPatel VeerendraPatil Nagar, Prof.RaviSrivastava Journal during the inaugural ceremony of Principal, N.S. Patel ArtsCollege, University Road, Professor, CSRD, 98th Annual Conference at Hyderabad Bhalej Road,Anand (Gujarat) Gulbarga,Karnataka Jawaharlal Nehru University NewDelhi JointSecretary(North East) Prof.Kamlesh KumarSrivastava Dr.BudhenKr. Saikia Vijaye Raje SindhiaGirls College Prof.UgraMohan Jha Moregaon College, Assam Morar, Gwalior Former Director MadhyaPradesh AgroEconomic Research Center, Sri Venkateswara University StateRepresentatives (In alphabetical order) TM Bhagalpur University, Dr.(Smt.)ArunPrabha Choudhary Dr.Krishna Chauhan Bihar University CollegeofSocialSciences&Humanities Lumkharkongor, Madanriting Block-D, Tirupathi Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Shillong,Meghalaya Dr.R.Balasubramanian Udaipur, Rajasthan D.G. VaishnavCollege, Chennai Dr.Krishna Nand Yadav Dr.Arvind KumarP.Myatra PG Dept.ofCommerce Prof.BiswajitChatterjee, Head,Dept. of Economics CollegeofCommerce Jadhavpur University,Kolkata All Correspondences to be Made to Bahauddin(Govt.) ArtsCollege, Patna, Bihar Junagadh, Gujarat Prof.S.Galab Prof.M.M.Goel Director, General Secretary and Treasurer Dr. AsimK.Karmakar FacultyofSocialSciences, Center forEconomic andSocialStudies, AssistantProfessor KurukshetraUniversity, Kurukshetra Hyderabad, Telangana DR. ANIL KUMAR THAKUR Department of Economics, Jadavpur University,Kolkata Dr.Mithilesh Kumar Sinha Secretariat Colony, Road No. 3, House No. B/6, Kankarbagh, Patna-800 020, Bihar (india) Dept.ofEconomics, Nagaland University Lumani, Nagaland Phone: 0612-2354084 ••Mobile: 09431017096 Fax : 0612-2354084; E-mail: [email protected] Special Invitees: Website: www.indianeconomicassociation.com Former Presidents of IEA and Cairman/ Managing Trustee, IEA Trust for R&D Our Conference President PROF. RADHAKRISHNA is the Chairman of Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad; Chairman, CommissiononInclusiveandSustainableAgricultureDevelopment ofAndhraPradeshand MemberofIndianCouncilof Social Science Research (ICSSR). He held several advisory positions in state, national and multinational institutions. He wasthe Chairmanof Madras Instituteof DevelopmentStudies and MemberoftheGoverning Councilsofseveral research institutes. Prof. R. Radhakrisna obtained M.A. Economics and M.Sc. statistics from Andhra University and Ph.D. from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Poona University). He is an eminent development economist, well known academician, astuteacademicadministratorandadedicatedteacher.Heguided25doctoralstudentsandmadepioneering contributions to poverty and wellbeing, agriculture and rural development and food security. He published 9 books and morethan100researchpapersinnationalandinternationaljournals, andcontributedimmenselytopublicpolicyresearch. His widely cited publications include:)i India',s Public Distribution System: A National and International Perspective World Bank 1998, ii),Empowering Rural Labour, 1998 iii))India Development Report, 2008, and iv Handbook of Poverty in India: Policy Perspective,:2005. He was the conference president of i) Asian Association of Social Science Research Councils,)1995, ii Indian Society of Agricultural Marketing 1996, iii) Indian society of Labour Economics 2002 and iv) Indian Econometric Society 2008. He was editorial board member of several reputed journals including Journal of Quantitative Economics, Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development and Journal of Asian Economics. He was awarded VKRV Rao Prize in Economics, 1985 and Telugu Atma Gaurva Puraskaram, 1998 for his eminent contribution in Social Sciences. Prof.Radhakrishna held severalimportant academic,–administrative positions Chairman, National Statistics Commission ()2009-12 ;/Director Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2001-07); Vice Chancellor, Andhra University (1998-2001); Member Secretary, ICSSR (1994-97); Director, CESS (1985-2004) and Professor and the Head, Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad (1980-85). He served as expert member in several international organizations - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research,;1997 UNESCO's Management of Social Transformation (MOST) 2004;,and UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific 2005. He was Consultant to several multinational institutions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, FAO, etc. During his directorship, CESS emergedasacentreofexcellenceinsocialsciencesandwasrecognized asanationalinstituteby ICSSR. HeintroducedseveralinnovativeprogrammesinIGIDRlikeSocialPolicyresearch,M.Sc. inEconomics,capacitybuilding in the emerging areas of Law, Economics and Asian Studies. He worked as Chairman of a number Review Committees appointed by UGC, ICSSR and Central and State Governments. As Chairman of National Statistics Commission (NSC), he caused to finalize the National Policy on Official Statistics, NSC Draft Bill, code of statistical practices and formulated guidelinesforoutsourcingstatisticalactivities. Prof. Radhakrishna chaired several GoI Committees/ Expert Groups. Of them, the Expert Group on Farmers Indebtedness (2006-07) and the Committee on Credit Related Issues under SGSY (2008-09) are well known. National RuralLivelihoodMissionwasconstitutedbased onthe recommendationsofthelatter.Hewasalsoamemberof3 Planning Commission Expert Groups:)i Task Force on Projections of Minimum Needs and Effective Consumption Demand, 1977-78, ii) Lakadawala Committee on Estimation of Proportion and Number of Poor,)1989-93 and iii Tendulkar Committee to Review the Methodologies on Estimation of Poor, 2006-08. Now he is working on the problems of AP agriculturetomakeitmoreinclusiveandsustainable. INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (ESTD:1917) ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Dr. Anil Kumar Thakur Dr. Anil Kumar Thakur M.A. M.Ed. Ph.D. General Secretary & Treasurer P.G. Department of Commerce Secretariat Colony, Road No.3, House No. B/6, College of Commerce, Patna Kankarbagh, Patna- 800 020, Bihar (India) Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya - 824234 E-mail: [email protected] Dear Friends, Greetings my dear friends! Another year, another report as the General Secretary and Treasurer of this august body! Call it God’s will or your love, I think a mixture of both, and destiny chose for me