Patralika Bhattacharjya

Assistant Professor - Economics

(M. A) Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University M. Phil (Economics), Jadavpur University Kolkata.

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Patralika Bhattacharjya carries a combined 28 years of teaching, research, administrative and industrial experience with her. She is an alumnus of CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University (M. A) Economics and Jadavpur University Kolkata, M. Phil (Economics).

She carries industry experience with Liz Claiborne, New Jersey, USA and Price Waterhouse Coopers, Kolkata.

 She has also been selected as Empaneled Resource Person Eastern Region with SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), having conducted 23 Financial Planning Workshops for specific target groups across the population.

Ms. Bhattacharjya has been founding faculty in Economics in Amity School of Economics with Amity University, Kolkata carrying a total of 6.5 years’ experience and has been a Founder Member of the Entrepreneurship Cell at AUK.

She has also held Visiting Faculty roles with IBS, ICFAI, Techno India Group and Annex College of Management Studies. MS Bhattacharjya is currently pursuing her PhD from SNU, Kolkata. She has a keen interest in Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Digital Financial inclusion and Financial Gender Divide and has multiple publications to her credit.

She is a Member of SNU’s Institutional Innovation Council and has played a key organizing role in conducting IIC Regional Meet on 12th January 2024 conducted by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell, Government of India and AICTE

She has played a supporting role in establishing the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Innovation and Incubation namely Udyog which provides all necessary support to young innovators and has three parallel wings Innovation. Entrepreneurship and IPR. She has enabled regular seminars and workshops to facilitate an ecosystem favorable for innovators and budding entrepreneurs at SNU.

She has co- found an entrepreneurial venture named Kheti@Home at SNU which is interdisciplinary in nature and is work in progress.

She has been selected as Empowering Women Globally (EWG) Scholar 2024 from S.N.U under an initiative managed by the Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Bradley University, U.S.A and supported by the U.S. Department of State which involves Empowering Women through Education and Entrepreneurship.

This gives her the opportunity to participate in the capacity-building “train-the-trainer” model with a semester at Bradley University , designed to expand entrepreneurship opportunities for Indian women while strengthening entrepreneurial skills for Sister Nivedita University (SNU) students.

DR. NAVIN KUMAR JHA

Head - Economics

Email: navin.j@snuniv.ac.in

A graduate with a first-class degree in Economics Honours from TNB college, Bhagalpur, Dr. Jha had his Postgraduate and Ph.D. from BRA Ambedkar Bihar University. Dr. Jha has a total of 20 years of teaching experience at degree and Masters level in different prestigious institutions. He served for more than a decade at the Royal University of Bhutan, where he received the Civil Service award of the Royal Government of Bhutan in 2015. Prior to joining Sister Nivedita University, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Christ University, Bangalore. His research interest and areas of specialization include Public Policy, Macro Economics, Economic History, and Health Economics. He has published 19 research papers in national and International reputed peer-reviewed journals. He has presented 14 research papers in national and international seminars and conferences. He has also authored a book on the problem of Child Labor. Dr. Jha has supervised research work of Post-Graduation and MPhil students. He has also developed a curriculum of Economics Honors and MA Economics for Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan.

DR. GOPA GHOSH

Visiting Faculty - Economics

M.Phil. from Jadavpur University

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Dr. Gopa Ghosh had joined Sister Nivedita University in September 2019. She received the degree B.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics from Bidhannagar College in 2007 and pursued her M. Sc. from the Department of Economics, Calcutta University in 2009. She has done M.Phil from Jadavpur University (2012) under the guidance of Prof. Joyashree Roy and her research work was on the Status of Mitigation Strategies of Manufacturing Industries for West Bengal. She is UGC- NET qualified. She has done her Ph.D. Degree under the guidance of Prof. Madhumati Dutta from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur in April 2019, and the title of her thesis is “Using Decomposition Analysis to Determine the Causes of the Increased Use of Energy in Production: A Case Study of West Bengal”. She has also published research papers in different peer-reviewed journals and edited book till date and presented her research paper in national and international seminars. She has the knowledge of database of official statistics; CSO database, National Industrial Classification Code (NIC), database of Energy Statistics, Census of India, RBI database, database of Statistical Abstract, and Statistical Handbook of West Bengal and India. Her research interest includes Energy Economics and climate change and Environmental Economics.

PROF. FARHAT NAAZ

Visiting Faculty - Economics

P.hD. from Burdwan University

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A postgraduate with a first-class degree and P.hD. from Burdwan University. She has a core interest in the field of Migration, poverty, and employment. She has many publications in some reputed journals.