Project: "Implications of Global Production Network, Garment Industry on Child Labour in India"

Aim of the project: 
            1) Primary Data Collection: Preparation of Questionnaire and Field Survey
            2) Filtering unit level data (5th Indian Economic Survey) to secondary data and its analysis ( SAS 9.1, Stata10 )
            3) Literature Survey on GPN, Child Labour in Indian Garment Industry, legislatures prohibiting Child Labour.

Given a presentation on survey and findings, prepared report and submitted for reference.

May-July 2009 (10 Weeks)                                    Prof. Piero Manfredi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy                                           

Project: "Basic demographical techniques and their applications in economic growth models"

Aim of the project:

1)       Getting acquainted with basic demographic tools.

2)       Study the parameters of the life tables and its uses in population projection

3)        To study the age structure of a population and its application in predicting optimal population growth rate 

A report was prepared and kept for reference for my master’s dissertation.

December 2008 (4 Weeks)                                   ICICI, Belgaum, India                                                 

Project: "Presence of non profit-motive entities in north Karnataka: A demographical survey” 

Aim of the project:

1)       To collect the data on number of non profit entities in north Karnataka.

2)       Building a demographical division of these entities in different category based on given parameters.

3)       Statistically analysis the data and produce the relative presence report.

A report was prepared, presented before the concern department and is archived for future references.

May-July 2008 (10 Weeks)                    Prof. Piero Manfredi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy                  

Project: "Neoclassical growth under (endogenous) changing age distribution "

Aim of the project:

1)    To study growth models and identify their significance in calculating the economic growth.

3)    To analyse and find relationship between productivity and age.

4)    Develop a model which takes care of technological progress while calculating growth taking into consideration average age distribution of the country.

Report was prepared and my findings were included in a paper which was accepted at the first workshop on Dynamics, Optimal Growth and Population Change: Theory and Applications, University of Milan.

PROJECTS (at Institute)                                                                                               

My Master's Dissertation  (To be presented in May 2011)                                                                           

"Indian Demographic Transition and its Possible Impacts on Future Indian Economic Performances: Labour Supply, Consumption Profile and Environmental Issues"  Supervisors: Prof. N. C. Nayak, IIT Kharagpur (India), Prof. Piero Manfredi, University of Pisa, Italy

Current Project Association                                                                                                                           

“Capital Dilution effect and Age Structure in India ” Faculty guide: Prof. N C Nayak

January - April  2010                                                                                                                                      

"Appraisal of Process and Procedures of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Orissa", Principal Investigator : Dr. N C Nayak and Dr. B Behera, Co-Principal-Investigators:Dr. P Mishra, Sponsor: Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of India. Project is funded by UNDP and NREGS is the largest employment guarantee scheme running in any country.

December 2009                                                                                                                                              

A  Report on “Implications of Sub Prime Crisis on Indian Financial Sector” under faculty guide Prof. J. Mahakud, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur.

April 2009                                                                                                                                                      

A  Report on “Effect of institutional expenditure on human development of any country” under faculty guide Prof. N. C. Nayak, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur.

December 2008                                                                                                                                             

A term project on "Modelling growth and labour supply" under Prof. B. Behera, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, India. The project was about defining the economic growth, its significance and incorporating labour supply parameter in a growth model. In the final sections the labour supply of India in coming decades and its effective productivity was discussed.

November 2008                                                                                                                                            

A term project on "Optimization of family budget under given Income Using Genetic Algorithm" under Prof. N. Chakraborti, Department of Metallurgy and Material Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India. 

August 2008                                                                                                                                                   

A presentation on "French Economy: A case study of inductive planning" as a project report. It was a literary survey which involved some data analyzing under Prof. Bhagirath Behera, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur.

October 2007                                                                                                                                                 

A presentation on “Fractional Reserve Banking" It was a part of my work on banking sector where I tried to understand the causes of virtual money creation in the market. Under Prof Bani Chatterjee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. 

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS                                                                                      

-  I have a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 7.51/10 at the end of my fourth year.

-  I was invited as a speaker at All Mediterranean Students Symposium on "Culture Of Peace And Sustainability” organised by Center for Peace Studies, University of Pisa, Italy

- Had a percentile of 98.9 among more than 300,000 aspirants in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination 2005.

- I received a distinction certificate in mathematics and certificate of merit in science by the University of New South Wales, Australia in my ninth standard.

-  I am a recipient of the merit-cum-means Scholarship at my Institute.

SKILLS                                                                                                                          

Computer                                                                                                                                                        

-          Software environment          Stata 10, MS Excel, R, MATLAB, Lindo, Tora

-          Operating systems                Windows, Linux, Mac

-          Programming languages       C (Advance), C++ (Learning)

-          Graphics designing                Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, AutoCAD

Language                                                                                                                                                        

-          English (Fluent)

-          Hindi (Fluent)

-          Bengali (Intermediate)

-          Italian (Beginner)

RELEVANT COURSES UNDERTAKEN                                                                           
  

Economics           -        Micro  Economics  I  II           -        Macro Economics  I  II           -        Development  Economics           -        Economics of growth -        Comparative development perspective -        History of Economic Thought -        Econometric analysis I -        International trade -        Sociology of Economics -        Public finance and policy -        Industrialisation and Social Change -        Advance Economic Theory Statistics -        Probability and statistics -        Regression analysis -        Probability and statistics -        Statistical Inference -        Time series and forecasting -        Computational statistics

Finance   -        Economic appraisal of project  -        Financial institutions and markets   -        Financial management  -        Equity research -         Derivatives               Software Labs                 -        Programming and data structure       -        Economic appraisal of project lab       -        Operation research lab       -        Econometrics lab       -        Computational statistics lab       -        Time series and forecasting lab       -        Database management & File Org.              Optimisation Techniques      -        Genetic algorithm      -        Operation research

 

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS                                                    

Been actively winning accolades in various dramatics competitions.

-        Won gold medal at Open IIT Dramatics (2007)

-        Played a lead role in Bronze winning play at Open IIT dramatics 2008

-        My 3-minute film won best short film competition at Kshitij 2009

Played Cricket, Hockey and Waterpolo at different levels including state level tournaments in cricket

-        Won Man of The Match Award in Inter -school cricket tournament final

-        Playing member of the Gold Winning Inter-hall Hockey Team (2008)

-        Playing member of the Silver Winning Inter-hall Water Polo team (2008)

-        Enrolled in National Sports Organization in Athletics (2007)

Been working and leading various teams at school and at college festivals

-        Worked as a volunteer in Spring Fest 2007 (The Social & Cultural fest of our college)

-       Sub-head of Design Team in Kshitij‘08. (One of the most popular techno-management fest in India)

-        Worked for a year under National Social Scheme (2006) as a part of my extra academic activity

-        Captain of dramatics team of my hostel

-         Auditor of our Hall Mess for financial year 2008-09

A quizzer and designer by hobby

-        Designer for Kshitij 2008 and 2009

-        Designer for my department placement committee. Designed brochures and presentation

-        Member of Biz Quiz team of my hall

In my spare time

-      I enjoy finding efficient algorithms and solve mathematical mind twisters. I like coding and was finalist at Overnight, a C coding competition at Kshitij 2007. I enjoy solving geometry challenges and like creating them.

-        I enjoy travelling and photography.