MSc (Gauhati) MA (in Public Administration, IGNOU) MPhil (Gauhati) PhD (IIT Guwahati)
Public Finance, Statistical Methods, Development Economics
Department of Economics
Gauhati University, Guwahati, 781014
Email: bandana[at]gauhati[dot]ac[dot]in
Public Finance, Operations Research, Development Economics, Energy and Environment Economics, Statistical Methods
Presently pursuing her Ph.D at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in Indian Instituteof Technology Guwahati (IITG)
Completed M.Phil from Gauhati University.
Other Research Experience:
Research Assistant in the research team which was commissioned to prepare a report on “Evaluation of State Finances with respect to the State of Assam” by the Fourteenth Finance Commission, Government of India.
Research Associate in the research team which was commissioned to prepare a report on “Outcome Evaluation of State Finances in the context of recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission: Determination of a sustainable debt roadmap for 2020-25, taking into account impact of introduction of GST and other tax/non-tax trend forecasts” by the Fifteenth Finance Commission, Government of India.
i) Resource Person of Economics in the Coaching Programme held during January-April 2014, for UPSC Civil Services Examination 2014, held at the Pre-Examination Training Centre (PETC), Gauhati University, funded by University Grants Commission (UGC).
ii) Resource Person of Economics in the Coaching Programme held during October-November 2013, for APSC Combined Competitive Examination 2013, conducted by the Pre-Examination Training Centre (PETC), Gauhati University
iii) Academic Counselor of IGNOU at Handique Girls’ College Centre in 2013-14.
iv) Guest Faculty at the Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL), GU in 2014
v) Lecturer (on contractual basis) at the Department of Economics in Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati in 2013
vi) Teaching Assistant at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2014-2016)
vii) Resource Person of Economics at a course for participants of Institute Of Valuers (IOV), held at Institute of Engineers. Panbazar on 12th June, 2018.
Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder (2010-12) from University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi.
1. International Conference on “Recent Advances in Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications in Applied Sciences” organized by Department of Statistics, Gauhati University in collaboration with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata held on December 31, 2012-January 2, 2013
2. International Seminar on “Look East Policy: Perspectives from the South East – Asian Architecture” organized by the Department of Management, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, sponsored by ICSSR held during 26-27th June, 2015.
3. “Roots and Bridges: Practicing Interdisciplinarity in Research on Northeast India”-Annual Winter School on Research methodology organized by Tata Institute of social Sciences (Guwahati Campus) held on Dec 15-19, 2014
4. National Seminar organized by the Department of Economics, Gauhati University (UGC-SAP) held on 27-28 March 2015
5. National Seminar on “State, Social Movements and Democracy in Northeast India” jointly organized by Department of Political Science, Gauhati University(under UGC-SAP) & Indian Council of Historical Research-North East Regional Centre, with partial assistance from ICSSR, New Delhi & IDOL,GU held on 27 February-1 March 2013.
6. 18th Annual NEEA Conference at Department of Economics, Gauhati University held on December15-17 2016
7. National Seminar on “Ethnic Violence and Its Impacts on Demographics in North Eastern Region” sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi and organized by Department of Statistics, Gauhati University (UGC(SAP) DRS-1 and FIST (DST) sponsored Dept) held on February 16-18, 2013.
8. National Seminar on “Tourism and Development of Assam” sponsored by UGC organized by Kamakhya Ram Barooah Girls’ College, Fatasil, Guwahati in collaboration with The Directorate of Tourism, Govt. of Assam held on May 23-24, 2013.
9. Regional Seminar on “Empowering of Tribal youths of Assam for sustainable development” organized by District Research Office, Karbi-Anglong, Diphu under Assam Institute of Research for Tribals and Scheduled Castes, Govt. of Assam.(presented two papers) held on 11-12 December, 2012.
10. Regional Seminar on “Forest and Tribes of Assam” organized by Assam Institute of Research for Tribals and Scheduled Castes, Govt. of Assam, held on 4-5 December, 2012.
11. 19th Annual NEEA Conference at Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) held on 23-24 March, 2018
12. National Seminar on “Economic Development of Northeast India:Challenges and Opportunities” at Department of Economics Paschim Guwahati Mahavidyalaya held on 27-28 October, 2016
13. National Seminar on “Sub-Regional Connectivity, Trade and Growth: The Case for North-East India” at Department of Economics, Dakshin Kamrup College, Mirza held on 20-21 April 2018.
14. National Seminar on “Innovative Practices in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation in Higher Education” Department of Education, Pub Kamrup College held on 13-14 September 2017.
15. National Seminar on “Recent Trends in Higher Education in India: Issues and Challenges”, organized by Guwahati College Teachers’ Unit, Guwahati College on 25- 26 August, 2018.
16. National Seminar on “Rural Development: Opportunities and Challenges”, organized by Department of Commerce, Gauhati University on 9th October, 2018.
1. ASSAM ECONOMIC REVIEW (ISSN 2319-6254),(A Peer Reviewed Professional Journal of Economics) published in Volume 10, March 2017 titled “Estimation of Subsidies in Agriculture and Allied activities: A Case Study of Assam” 2. ASSAM ECONOMIC REVIEW (ISSN 2319-6254),(A Peer Reviewed Professional Journal of Economics) published in Volume 9, January 2016 titled “Examining Vertical Fiscal Imbalance: A Case Study of Assam” 3. INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH (ISSN – 2249-555X) published in Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2013 titled “Migration and Population Growth: A Case Study of Assam”. 4. GLOBAL RESEARCH ANALYSIS (ISSN No 2277 – 8160) published in Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2013 titled “Tourism and Economic Development: A Case Study of Assam”. 5. PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH (ISSN – 2250 -1991) published in Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2013 titled “Impact of Direct Cash Transfer in India”. 6. LOOK EAST POLICY: Perspectives from the South-Asian Architecture (ISBN: 978-93-84869-86-1) published as one of the chapters titled “India-ASEAN Engagements: Economic Benefits” in the book. 7. EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN INDIA: Challenges and the Task Ahead (ISBN: 978-93-8315-812-6) published as one of the chapters titled “Empowerment of Tribal Women in India” in the book. 8. TOURISM AND DEVELOPMENT OF ASSAM (ISBN: 978-81-927071-0-5) published as one of the chapters titled “Tourism and Economic Development: A case study of Assam” in the book. 1. ICSSR – sponsored Ten- Day Research Methodology Programme for Ph.D students in Social Sciences (RM 2016) held during March 14-23, 2016 at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. 2. “Time Series Econometrics” organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) with partial support from ICSSR (NERC), Shillong during 6-10 July, 2015. 3. “Training Programme on Econometric Applications” held from 18-21 March 2015 organized by the Department of Economics, Gauhati University (UGC-SAP). 4. “Statistical Data Analysis using SPSS” jointly organized by Computer and Statistical Service Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati. 5. “Econometric Analysis of Panel data” held in the Department of Economics at Gauhati University on 21-22 March, 2016. 6. “Research Methodology” organized by Department of Economics, Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati in collaboration with Research Activities Cell, Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati with assistance from UGC-CPE, New Delhi. 7. “Orientation Programme for Academic Counsellors” organized by IGNOU Regional Centre, Guwahati and Regional Services Division (RSD) Headquarters, New Delhi 8. “Developing and Teaching Literary Theory Courses in the 21st century Academia”-a short term course conducted by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati and Knowledge Incubation Cell under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme sponsored by MHRD, Government of India held during Jan 8-9, 2015. 9. Attended 28 days Orientation Programme (OP-115) at HRDC GU 10. Attended a two-week Refresher Course at NIPFP, New Delhi in December, 2018 (i) National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship June 2012 qualified. (ii) National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship December 2012 qualified. (iii) State Eligibility Test (SET) 2012 for Lectureship qualified.