Department of Economics

Year of Introduction of the Subject at HS level : 1978

Introduced Economics at the under graduate level (core) : 1984

Introduced Economics at the undergraduate level (Major) :1994

Importance of Economics as a core or Honours subject at the under graduate level of Arts and Commerce

The socio economic needs of the ever increasing global population, the potentialities for sustainable development at Local, Regional, National and International levels are the most important issues in the progressively shrinking global frontiers making economics as one of the most  important and challenging subjects of our time.

  The problems facing by the developing countries show many common features and this respect the NE Region of India is not different. In spite of having ‘plenty; of natural resources the development of this region has been slow over the years. In fact, even the problem of Margherita region is same where in spite of a huge resource base comprising water resource base comprising water resource, forest, coal, horticulture products, tea, blue hills and colourful tribal art and crafts ushering ‘eco & cultural tourism. the mass people in general and indigenous people, in particular, are lagging behind.

Vision

To become the most preferred department for studying Economics in the region.

Mission

• To make strides towards building human resources.
• To provide a strong theoretical base in Economic Analysis.

• To give students a feel of the socio-economic problems through field studies and interactions with the various grassroots institutions.
• To organize seminars, workshops, group discussions, exchange programmes, etc. so as to make the students familiar with the recent developments in the subject.