CSS ( Centre For Social Studies )

Former Director and Senior Professor of Economics of Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, (formerly Department of Economics) University of Mumbai.
Former Regional Director, ICSSR – Western Region, Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Expert for the Child Rights Commission, Government of Maharashtra.
Nominated Member, (by Ministry of Education) at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Her Excellency President of India’s Nominee in three Central Universities – Completed tenure in Manipur and Jammu & Kashmir; Tenure at Mizoram University is ongoing.
UGC Chairman’s nominee under various capacities in different universities. Had been part of thirteen Committees of UGC.
Former Nominated Chairperson and thereafter Elected Chairperson of Board of Studies of Economics, University of Mumbai.
Ph.D. from Department of Economics, University of Mumbai.
Post Graduate in Economics, Mathematics, Women Studies and Demography.
Best Teacher’s Award from University of Mumbai.
Best Teacher Award – Adarsh Shikshak Puraskar – of the State of Maharashtra.
The Award for Best presentation for the paper presented at Toronto, Canada.
The University of South Florida, USA, conferred on her the Best Research Paper award for the paper titled “Transforming India in the Gujarat Way: An Introspection through Data Envelopment Analysis”.
Certificate of Appreciation from Central Queensland University, Australia.
Authored 12 books which include text books for students of Economics.
Published more than 100 papers in reputed journals, which include journals from India, Singapore, USA, Australia, UK etc. This includes Marathi too.
Approved teaching experience of more than thirty five years.
Engaged lectures for Humanities, Arts, Commerce, Science, Management and Law Streams.
Worked in several committees from Undergraduate to Post Graduate and PhD.
Fifteen students successfully completed PhD and Eight more are pursuing PhD.
Employed different Econometric, Statistical and Mathematical techniques in Research based on India’s economic issues with the help of research Softwares in research papers authored.
Areas of specialisation include issues on employment, labour, gender, foreign direct investment and problems pertaining India and developing economies.
Acquainted with functioning of academic and administrative bodies of different Universities.
Introduced more than 200 revised papers for BA, BSc and MA programmes with the approval of Academic Council, wherein efforts are done to incorporate the thoughts of Indian Economists as well as Case Studies.
Organised several research related workshops, workshops on revised syllabus, special talk and conferences.
Presented papers in National and International Conferences and had been a delegate to different countries like Singapore, Turkey, UAE, USA, Thailand, Australia, UK, Canada.
As Former Regional Director of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) - Western, coordinated different activities with other Universities, R M Prabodhini as well as Universities/ delegates from abroad.
Acquainted with functioning of Colleges and had been part of several Committees.
Has been advisor/subject expert to various Interview Boards constituted by the State Government, Central Government, Universities and Colleges.
Had been the Co-ordinator of Group of Researchers in Diaspora (GRID), a Centre with Potential for Excellence (UPE) of University Grants Commission (UGC) in University of Mumbai.
Had been incharge of Quantitative Economics of Department of Economics of University of Mumbai.
Had been Member of Governing Body and Board of Management of Sri Sathya Sai University, Puttaparthy in Andhra Pradesh.
Closely associated with activities of various multilateral organisations like UNICEF, UN Women, Tribal Development Department of Government and VIDC. While functioning as Director of MSEPP and financial resources could be mobilised for Mumbai School.
Member of Indian Economic Association (IEA), Indian Labour Association (ILA), Indian Econometric Society (IES), Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal (BSM), Asia Pacific Economic Association (APEA) and Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI).