Department of Economics

About the Department

The Department of Economics is as old as the college itself and has always been actively engaged in imparting quality and value based education in the field of Economics to facilitate students with excellent analytical skills. The department boasts of the finest quality of faculty, capable of competing and contributing professionally at the national and international levels. Over the years this department has achieved an enviable good name in the region as one of the best in its domain. We aspire to make a mark at the international levels. Another feather has been added to elaborate the stature of our glorious department. Our department has been allotted a Research Centre from the prestigious Panjab University w.e.f. September 2024.

COURSES OFFERED (MAJOR/MINOR/SEC/VAC/MDSC ONLY)

Post-Graduate Courses

S.NO Name of Course DURATION SEATS ELIGIBILITY
1. M.A. (Economics) 2 years 60 A Bachelor degree in Arts, commerce or BBA or BA with Hons. in Economics/ Mathematics or Statistics with at least 45% marks

Under-Graduate Courses

S.NO Name of Course Major/Minor/SEC/VAC/MDSC DURATION SEATS ELIGIBILITY PO/CO (AS PER NEP)
1. B.A./B.A. (Honours)/ B.A. (Honours with Research) Sem I
  • DSC-I: Introductory Micro Economics
  • SEC-I: Data Collection and Handling-I
  • VAC-I: Introduction to Health Economics
  • MDSC-I: Principle of Micro Economics
 4 years (8 semesters) 560 Must have passed 10+2 examination with English as one of the subjects.
Sem II
  • DSC-II: Contemporary Issues in Indian Economy
  • SEC-II: Data Collection and Handling-II
  • VAC-II: Introduction to Environmental Economics
  • MDSC-II: Indian Economy

Faculty & Staff Details

The Department of Economics at GGDSD College, Chandigarh stands as a beacon of academic excellence, comprising 22 distinguished faculty members. Our faculty represents a dynamic blend of experienced academicians and emerging researchers. Thirteen faculty members are doctoral degree holders, the remaining are majorly pursuing PhD from various universities. The faculty members have collectively published over 100 research papers in journals of repute; presented over 100 research papers at various national and international seminars and conferences and have 22 chapters published in various edited books. The faculty at the department have authored 12 books. With a zeal to learn and hone their skills they actively participated in over 140 workshops/ training programmes and FDPs. Some of our faculty members have successfully guided M.Phil. and Ph.D. scholars. The faculty has also undertaken research projects sponsored by UGC and ICSSR.

*CV’s of faculty members available.
Sr. No Name of the Faculty Designation Qualification Email ID Vidwan ID CV
1Dr Vivek SharmaAssociate ProfessorMA Hons, NET, MBA, PhD[email protected]276978Attachment
2Mr Ashutosh SharmaAssociate ProfessorMA, NET[email protected]276119Attachment
3Dr Gagandeep SharmaAssociate ProfessorMA, NET, M Phil, PhD[email protected]274975Attachment
4Dr Ruchi SharmaAssociate ProfessorMA, NET, PhD[email protected]147886Attachment
5Dr Madhur Mohit MahajanAssociate ProfessorMA, NET, PhD[email protected]275914Attachment
6Dr Niharika Sharma MahajanAssistant ProfessorMA Hons, NET, M Phil, PhD[email protected]275768Attachment
7Dr Arvuda MehtaAssistant ProfessorMA, NET, M Phil, PhD141117Attachment
8Dr Payal SharmaAssistant ProfessorMA, NET, PhD[email protected]141189
9Mrs Preeti VohraAssistant ProfessorMA, NET[email protected]141093Attachment
10Dr Megha DevganAssistant ProfessorMA Hons, NET, PhD[email protected]275506Attachment
11Dr Shipra BansalAssistant ProfessorMBE, NET, PhD[email protected]231261Attachment
12Dr Deepti ChawlaAssistant ProfessorMA, NET, M Phil, PhD[email protected]299225Attachment
13Ms Vaishali ChhabraAssistant ProfessorMA, NET[email protected]275728Attachment
14Ms Ramandeep KaurAssistant ProfessorMA, NET314335Attachment
15Dr Meenu BansalAssistant ProfessorMA, NET, M Phil, PhD[email protected]275455Attachment
16Ms Sharu ChabbraAssistant ProfessorMA, NETAttachment
17Dr Kajal GuptaAssistant ProfessorMA, NET, PhDAttachment
18Ms NamanAssistant ProfessorMA, NETAttachment

*Note that the following faculty list includes permanent, ad-hoc, contractual, and guest members.

Projects

S. No Title of Project and Sanction letter no. Sponsor/ Funding Agency Sanctioned Amount (Rs. In lakhs) Duration Supervisor/ Principal Investigator/ Co-supervisor No. of Research Fellows Brief Objective
1. Development of Commercial Banks in India: A Study of Inter-State Disparity’ IMPRESS/P1208 /2018-19/ICSSR ICSSR, New Delhi 5 Lakhs 2 years Dr Ruchi Sharma (Principal Investigator) 01 To identify the backward regions in India in terms of commercial banking development
2. Growth And Performance Of Co-Operative Financing In Agrarian Economies Of Punjab And Haryana: A Comparative Study U.G.C. 7.32 Lakh 3 years Dr. A. C. Vaid & Dr. Gagandeep Sharma
3. Nurturing Spiritual Capital in Management Education U.G.C 1.50 Lakh 2 years Dr. Garima Kamboj & Dr. Diksha
4. Socio Economic Characteristics Of Formal Sector Labour – A Case Study of Punjab and Chandigarh UGC 1.5 years Dr. Meena Jindal & Ms. Ruchi Sharma

Scheme and Syllabi

Facilities and Equipments

  • Centralized Research Facility-cum-Digital Library has 15 i5 computers for students and 10 i7 computers for the staff to access e-resources, e-contents, and databases.
  • Library – 4,614 books, 09 Journals, and 16 Magazines
  • A digital collection of the library includes:
    • 10,39,774 e-books (INFLIBNET N-List programme: a college component of e-ShodhSindhu consortium, NDLI, EBSCO eBook academic collection, and McGraw Hill) and
    • 6,000+ e-journals through INFLIBNET N-List programme: a college component of e-ShodhSindhu consortium
  • CMIE-ProwessIQ Database is India’s largest corporate database, featuring detailed financial and operational information on over 105,650 companies. https://prowess.cmie.com/
  • JAWS: a screen reading software has been installed on two computers for facilitating persons with visual disabilities.
  • WebOPAC provides the facility of searching, browsing, and reserving physical materials available at the library.
  • Library Blog gives the latest updates regarding library collections, activities and services. htps://libraryggdsd.blogspot.com
  • Upkar Krishan Sharma Digital Repository: The college library’s digital repository contains college annual reports, prospectus, e-newsletters, newspaper clippings, and other electronic content. To access these resources, you can log in to the repository from outside the campus using the following link:http://103.187.96.74:8080/jspui/
    For accessing the repository from within the campus network, you can use the following: http://192.168.9.10:8080/jspui/
  • IRINS Portal of GGDSD College: To augment the visibility and impact of the college and its faculty, College library has initiated integrating faculty members’ profiles into the IRINS and Vidwan databases. To visit the GGDSD IRINS page click on https://ggdsd.irins.org
  • DrillBit Plagiarism Detection Software for Plagiarism checking.
  • Knimbus eLibrary (Remote Access Facility) enables faculty and students to access library online resources when they are off campus. https://ggdsd.knimbus.com

Awards/Achievements

(YEAR WISE OF LAST FIVE YEARS)

Dr Ruchi Sharma – Added member of the Faculty of Arts, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Invited Member Board of Studies, Chandigarh University. Dr Madhur Mohit Mahajan- member of Post Graduation Board of Studies in Economics. Dr Arvuda Sharma-member of Graduation Board of Studies in Economics. Ms Preeti Vohra- Member of Post Graduation Board of Studies in Economics.

Departmental Activities

(SEMINAR/WORSKHOP/LECTURE/CONFERENCE/OUTREACH/ANY OTHER)

(YEAR WISE OF LAST FIVE YEARS)

SNO. Date Name of the activity Details of the activity Key Speaker / Guest Activity Type Remarks
2024-2025
1. 27 Sept, 2024 Time Series & Panel Data Analysis Students were instructed on how to use the Eviews software with multiple datasets. Dr. Ajay Kumar Chauhan Workshop
2023-2024
1. 27 Feb, 2024 Sustainable development in India: Strategies and way ahead Seminar underlined the need for sustainable development taking into account the climate change and other related issues. Professors from India & Abroad. International Seminar
2. 15 February, 2024 Talk on “Careers with RBI” The functions of RBI and career opportunities in RBI were discussed Mrs. Rajni Bindal (AGM), Ms. Sakshi Kaushal (Dept. Of Supervision), Ms. Jyoti (Asst.) Lecture
3. 23 January, 2024 Talk on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” An interactive session attended by 150 students Mr. Ashish Chawla (CEO 1729 Digital) Lecture
2022-2023
1. 24 Jan, 2023 Currency management in India & CBDC The life cycle and ecosystem of Indian currency . GM, DGM & AGMs- RBI. Seminar
2. 1 March, 2023 SPSS, MINITAB, EXCEL and Hypothesis Testing The PG Department of Economics, organized a 15 days “workshop on Empircal Economics & Tools” Various Faculty of Department. Workshop
2021-2022
1. 17-18 Sept, 7-9 Oct, & 29-30 Oct, 2021 Research methodology- Excel, SPSS, Reference management and language correction & publishing in quality reference management journals. Couldn’t find records Workshop
2. 28 March, 2022 Criptocurrency Focus on technical aspects of crypto infrastructure and its implications. Dr. Mandeep Kaur Seminar
2019-2020
1. 9 August, 2019 Behavioral economics Use of technology to collect and organise data in simple and efficient manner in the area of behavioural economics. Aashish Chawla (KPMG) Workshop
2. 14 Nov, 2019 Entrepreneurship Development Students were deliberated about various issues like idea, finance, problems, nature and scope of entrepreneurship. Sameer Sharma Workshop
2018-2019
1. 8 April, 2019 Lecture- “Agri-Business – the next big thing” Students were enlightened about existing market demand, problems and challenges faced by dairy farming industry. Mr. Tajinder Kaushal (Co-founder Trideal Shoutlo and Unengage) Lecture
2. 16 January, 2018 Guest lecture cum Discussion “Importance of Entrepreneurship in Today’s time” Eye opening lecture on entrepreneurship, including discussion on employment generation, sources of finance, etc. Mr. Sameer Gupta from CII Lecture
3. 9 February, 2018 Guest Lecture on “Current state of Indian economy with special reference to Agriculture sector” Discussion on farmer suicides, mandies, seasonal unemployment, and status of agricultural employment Shri Dipinder Singh (IAS) Lecture
4. 8 September, 2018 Guest Lecture on “Problems of Unemployment in India-Policy and Planning” Students learnt about lack of employability of productive population and complexities of employment scenario in Punjab Dr. Sucha Singh Gill (CRRID) Lecture

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