Indian Economy - I

By Prof. Pinaki Das | Vidyasagar University, Midnapore

Learners enrolled: 784

This course highlights the main features and challenges of India's economic development since independence, using various analytical tools and frameworks. It covers topics such as growth, structural change, savings, investment, population, human development, poverty, inequality, unemployment and international comparison. The course aims to provide a comprehensive and critical understanding of India's economic trajectory and policy debates in a changing global context.

This is a 55-module course with 4 different units covering the different issues of Indian economy after independent.

The 55 modules of this course will be delivered over a period of 15 weeks roughly covering the working days of a semester. This course is designed by experts in the field of Indian Economy and delivered by eminent Economists and Professors from reputed Universities and Colleges.

Each module has the following four quadrants:

·         A video of the lecture of roughly 25 minutes duration delivered by the faculty.
·         An in depth write up of the same topic [Academic Script],
·         References for further study.
·         MCQs for self -assessment, exploratory exercises for discussion in blogs and assignments for evaluation by faculty.

Students are also provided with FAQ, Glossary, Assignments to master the subject. In order to assimilate the topic in a perfect manner, the student is expected to devote two hours and will adhere to the submission deadline of the assignment provided by the faculty.

Thus like all other MOOCs, this particular MOOC is a self-learning module and the students are expected to devote 10 hours approximately per week, which will include thorough understanding of the module, participation in the discussion with the subject expert and also going through the list of papers and other references.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	15 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	5
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	31 Jul 2023
End Date :	12 Nov 2023
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2023
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Core Papers	Final Module No	Lectures Included
Unit 1: 20 Modules		Unit 1 : Economic Development since Independence
	1	Major Features of Indian Economy at Independence
	2	Planning: Development Goals
	3	Planning: Development Strategies
	4	Gandhian and Nehruvian Models of Development: Comparison and Contrast
	5	Models of Economic Development-LPG and Macroeconomic Implications
	6	Agricultural Development in India since Independence: An Overview
	7	Planning and Industrial Policy
	8	Industrial Development during Plan Period
	9	Planning: Evolution of India’s development goals and strategies
	10	Performance of Public Sector
	11	Privatization and Economic Reforms
	12	Structural constraints and Indian development strategy
	13	Import substitution vs. Export promotion
	14	Growth and development under different policy regimes
	15	Regional Imbalances in India
	16	India's Performance on Sustainable Development Goals of India
	17	Structural changes in Indian Economy
	18	Savings and investment
	19	Impact of COVID-19 on India's GDP and recovery
	20	India: The Next Economic Superpower?
		Unit 2 : Population and Human Development
Unit 2: 13 Modules	21	Three Stages of Demographic Transition
	22	Demographic Trends in India
	23	Causes of Rapid of Growth of Population
	24	Population and Economic Development
	25	India’s Population Policy
	26	Education Policy
	27	Education and Development of Human Resource
	28	National Health Policy
	29	Health and Family Welfare
	30	Development of health infrastructure
	31	Status of Nutritional Insecurity
	32	State Hunger Index in India
	33	ICDS and Its Impact on Child Nutritional Status
		Unit 3 : Growth and Distribution
Unit 3: 13 Modules	34	Approaches to measure poverty
	35	Estimates of Poverty
	36	Trends of poverty
	37	Multidimensional poverty in India: patterns of reduction across population subgroups
	38	Inequality and it’s measurement
	39	Trend of Inequality
	40	Evolution of PDS
	41	Policies and Programmes to Reduce Poverty and Inequality
	42	Growth and poverty
	43	Growth in Employment, GDP and Employment Elasticity
	44	Unemployment and its Trend
	45	MGNREGA
	46	Schemes to reduce unemployment
		Unit 4 : International Comparisons
Unit 4: 9 Modules	47	Human Development Index (HDI): India vis-à-vis other countries
	48	Global Hunger Index (GHI): India vis-à-vis other countries
	49	Inequality: India vis-à-vis other countries
	50	Multidimensional Poverty: India vis-a-vis developing countries
	51	Women Empowerment: A Comparative Study among the SAARC Countries
	52	Social Protection of India Compared to other Countries
	53	India and China
	54	International Comparison Program (ICP): India vis-à-vis other countries
	55	Towards achieving SDGs: India vis-à-vis other countries

Instructor bio

Prof. Pinaki Das

Vidyasagar University, Midnapore

Pinaki Das is a Professor, Department of Economics, Vidyasagar University. He obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics and awarded with the Gold Medal for the first position in M.Sc. in Economics. He has 15 years of teaching experience at UG and PG levels. He acted as the Project Director of Major Research Projects funded by DST, UGC and ICSSR. He has presented his papers in more than 80 national and international Seminars and Conferences and got over 60 research papers published in internationally reputed journals. He has guided 14 Research Scholars and published 6 books. He has expertise in econometric analysis with STATA and Eviews. His thrust areas of research include food security, multidimensional poverty, social protection, lobour economics, women empowerment, unorganised sector