| Course Status : | Ongoing |
| Course Type : | Not Applicable |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 12 weeks |
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| Credit Points : | 4 |
| Level : | Postgraduate |
| Start Date : | 15 Jul 2025 |
| End Date : | 15 Nov 2025 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 15 Sep 2025 |
| Exam Date : | 11 Dec 2025 IST |
| Exam Shift : | Shift-II |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
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Kapur, D., & Mehta, P. B. (Eds.). (2011). Public institutions in India: Performance and design. Oxford University Press.
Kotwal, A., Ramaswami, B., &Wadhwa, W. (2011). Economic liberalization and Indian economic growth: What's the evidence?. Journal of Economic Literature, 49(4), 1152-1199.
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Bhaskar Sarmah is currently working as Assistant Professor in Economics in Krishna KantaHandiqui State Open University, Guwahati Assam. He completed his Ph D. from Dibrugarh University, Assam. He has more than 17 years of experience teaching experience in ODL. He has academic publications in Sage International Encyclopaedias in Economics and Society, Sage International Encyclopaedia in Mass Media and Society, Sage International Encyclopaedia in Online Learning. He has also published book chapters with Routledge and other reputed publishing houses. He also edited the Journal of Open Learning and Research Communication published by KKHSOU for five years. His research interests include issues in public health, public health, Indian economy, and open and distance learning.
JoydeepBaruah is currently a Professor and Director of Surya Kumar Bhuyan School of Social Sciences, Krishna KantaHandiqui State Open University, Guwahati. Earlier he was a faculty at OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati for about two decades. His broad academic and research interests include political economy of development in general; and issues related to poverty, inequality and human development in particular. His expertise in data analysis, especially in dealing with quantitative data is widely-recognised and he has been invited to numerous workshops, training programmes in research methodology and data analysis as resource person across the country. Professor Baruah is also well-known for designing and conducting several large scale surveys for government of Assam, government of India and other national and international agencies like UNDP, UNICEF, FHI etc. He was the principal coordinator and lead author of the Assam Human Development Report 2014, which was published by Government of Assam, NITI Aayog and UNDP. He was one of the key persons in developing Assam’s SDG Vision and Indicator Framework in 2015-16. He received a Summer Fellowship from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford in 2015. He is currently serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Human Development. He also served as one of the members of the High Level Committee constituted by the Government of Assam to revitalize the State's Economy in the aftermath of COVID 19 in 2020.Exam Registration URL: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
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