Welcome! 


I am a PhD Candidate in the Economics area at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. I completed a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi and M.Sc. (Hons.) Economics with B.E (Hons.) Manufacturing Engineering from BITS Pilani.

As an empirical microeconomist, my work spans three domains: Financial Inclusion, Decentralization and Social networks. I make use of extensive primary and secondary survey data from rural India to answer questions within these broad topics.  

As part of my PhD thesis, I am examining the role of local governments in the governance and management of public health, particularly with respect to their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I make use of primary data spanning 380 Gram Panchayats in Tamil Nadu along with secondary data from several administrative sources. I am being advised by Profs. Hari K. Nagarajan (IIMA), Abhiman Das (IIMA), Pritha Dev (IIMA) and Andrew D. Foster (Brown University).

I am part of a team of researchers at IIMA who are investigating a variety of problems concerning the impact of Financial Inclusion policies on household and intrahousehold welfare. 

I was a member of the team that conducted the second round of the Financial Inclusion Survey which covered ~3700 households in rural Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. This was funded by IIMA Ventures and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation