Department of Economics

Brief Profile of the Department

The Department offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes.The teaching activities of the Department have acquired a wider perspective with the introduction of Honours course in Economics from the academic year 2010-11. At the post graduate level, the Department offers the following special papers: Economics of Rural Development and Planning, Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Econometrics and Statistics. The syllabus also incorporates the regional and local issues related to economic development of North East Region and the State. The first batch of students under the semester system, have completed their course in June 2010. After the introduction of Research Eligibility Test (RET) in 2008, and course work based Ph.d, all five scholars have successfully obtained the requisite credit. Different evaluation, monitoring and consultancy for both Central and State Government projects are also undertaken by the faculty members of the department. Tripura University is the Monitoring Agency for SSA and is also the institutional monitor for CAPART. The activities in this regard are performed by the faculty members of the department.

Year of Establishment

1978

Head of the Department

Prof. Subhrabaran Das