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The department, through an active participation of its faculty members, has attracted numerous research projects, especially from the governmental and semi-governmental organisations and research-funding agencies. The North-Eastern Region thrives on the service sector, ultimately drawing its inspiration and financial resources from the administrative and developmental expenditure of the central government for supporting those services. The contribution of the primary sector is much smaller, and that of the manufacturing sector too meagre. There are not many industries and, if there are any, they use the well-tested technologies rather than conducting research and development to invent and use new technologies. The same is true of their need to conduct or sponsor the market research activities to involve economists for the purpose of investigation and policy formulation. Thus there is a modest base to formulate projects and obtain their financial sponsorship from the manufacturing or industrial sector.

The research projects (either completed or ongoing) undertaken by the faculty members are listed below:

Dr. U.K. De

• Process of Empowerment of Women in Rural Areas: Case Studies in two North-Eastern States (Co-Investigator).
• Process of Empowerment of Women in Rural Areas: Case Studies in Jharkhand State (Co-Investigator).
• Empowerment of Women in Rural Areas: A Comparative Analysis of Tripura, Meghalaya and Jharkhand (Co-Investigator).
• Valuation of Some Tourist Sites in Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, (ongoing).

Prof. B. Mishra

• Problems of Border Areas in North-East India: Implications for Thirteenth Finance Commission (Meghalaya Chapter).
• Problem of Tax Efforts and Variations in Tax Responsiveness in India: Pilot Study in respect of North-Eastern States.
• Public Resource and its Utilization: Implications for Development of North-Eastern Region as a part of the study on "The structural Change and Strategy of development: Resource Industry linkages in North-Eastern Region".

Prof. S.K. Mishra

• Socio-economic Profile of Population in Mylliem Block, East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya" (UGC-UNFPA), 1989.
• A Survey of Physically Handicapped Persons in 100 Selected Villages of Meghalaya" (Govt. of Meghalaya), 1990.
• Status of Social Forestry in Arunachal Pradesh" (National Wasteland Development Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India), 1991.[under SFSO]
• Status of Social Forestry in Mizoram" (National Wasteland Development Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India), 1991. [under SFSO]
• Studies on Environmental Impact of Coal Mining in Jaintia Hills District" (Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board), 1993.

Prof. P. Nayak

• Structural Changes in the Rural Economy of South Assam, UGC, New Delhi, 1995 (Principal Investigator).
• Human Development in Meghalaya, UGC, New Delhi, 2006 (Principal Investigator).
• Functioning of Autonomous District Councils in the Sixth Schedule States of Northeast India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India, 2008 (Joint Investigator).

Dr. V. Pala

• Determinants of Post-Higher Secondary Enrolment in India. (with Amaresh Dubey), Sponsor: University Grants Commission, November 2007.
• Social Structure and Educational and Employment Achievements: Study of Disparities across Different Social Groups in India" (with Amaresh Dubey), Sponsors: Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, March 2006.
• Co-ordinated the data collection process in the entire North Eastern Region including Sikkim for the India Programme of Research on Human Development, 2003-2007 conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi.
• Co-ordinated the data collection process in the state of Meghalaya for the National Survey on Household Income And Expenditure (2005) conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi.
• Disparities in Consumption and Poverty among different Social Groups in India. (with Amaresh Dubey), Sponsors: The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, March 2004.
• Labour Profile of the Northeastern States of India. (with Amaresh Dubey), Sponsors: V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA, July 2003.

Dr. B. Panda

• Growth, Composition and Determinants of Rural Non-Farm Employment in North East India. (Sponsors: VGNLI), NOIDA, Rs. 5,75,500/.
• Evaluation of NREGA in the states of Sikkim and Meghalaya. (Sponsors: UNDP) , Project amount : Rs 12,80,000
• Comparative Study of Rural Non-Farm Employment in India and Thailand. (Sponsors: ASF), Thailand, Project amount : $18000
• Dynamics of Rural Non-Farm Employment in Arunachal Pradesh- A Case Study of Lohit District. (Sponsors : UGC), Project amount: Rs.50000
• Urban Informal Manufacturing Sector in a Tribal Economy-A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh. (Sponsors : UGC), India.

Prof. N. Srivastav

• Concurrent Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development program in the states Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. (Sponsors: The ministry of Rural and Agricultural Development), GOI, New-Delhi.
• Evaluation of Jawahar Rojgar Yojana in Meghalaya. (Sponsors: The ministry of Rural and Agricultural Development), GOI, New-Delhi.
• Review of Research in Economics in Northeast India. (Sponsor: ICSSR_NERC) Shillong
• Incidence of Unemployment and Child labour in NE states. (Sponsors:VV Giri National Labour Institute), NOIDA

Prof. E.D. Thomas

• Concurrent Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme (1st Round)for Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. (Sponsors: the then Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture), Govt. of India (Apr. 1986 - Dec. 1986).
• Concurrent Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme (2nd Round) for Meghalaya. (Sponsors: the then Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture), Govt. of India (Jan. 1987 - Nov. 1987).
• Concurrent Evaluation of National Rural Employment Programme for Meghalaya. (Sponsors: the then Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture), Government of India (Nov. 1987 - Jun. 1988).
• Concurrent Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme (3rd Round) for Meghalaya. (Sponsors: The Ministry of Rural Development), Govt. of India (Apr. 1989 - Apr. 1990).
• Perspective Land Use Policy for North-Eastern India - 2000 AD. (Sponsors: The Ministry of Agriculture), Govt. of India (5 year project) (As Joint Director).
• Research Study on Promotion of Tree Plantation vis-a-vis Forest Laws and Land Tenure System in Meghalaya. (Sponsors; Regional Centre, National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board), Shillong (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India) (December 1991 - June 1993).
• Concurrent Evaluation of Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (1st round) for Meghalaya. (Sponsors: The Ministry of Rural Development) Govt. of India (Mar. 1992 - Jul. 1992).
• Economic Survey of Iewduh, Shillong. ISponsor: Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council), Meghalaya (1992-93: 1 year project).
• Concurrent Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme and CDS (4th Round) for Meghalaya. (Sponsors: The Ministry of Rural Development), Govt. of India (Jan. 1993 - Dec. 1993).
• Concurrent Evaluation of Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (2nd Round) for Meghalaya, (Sponsors: The Ministry of Rural Development), Govt. of India (Oct. 1993- Apr. 1994).
• Informal Border Trade with Neighbouring Countries for Meghalaya. Conducted by Research and Information System for Non-aligned and Developing Countries, New Delhi, March-April 1996.
• Human Development in Meghalaya. (Sponsors: UGC), New Delhi (As Joint Director).
• Functioning of Autonomous Councils in the Sixth Schedule States of the North East of India. (Sponsor: The Ministry of Tribal Affairs), Govt. of India, 2007-08.

Dr. S. Umdor

• Functioning of Autonomous District Councils in Northeast India (with Prof. E. D. Thomas, Principal Investigator and Prof. P. Nayak.)
• Problems and Prospects of Development in Border Areas of Northeast India: Implications for the Thirteenth Finance Commission (Meghalaya Chapter), Govt. of. India (with Prof. B. Mishra, Principal Investigator).