JNU’s Sukhdeo Thorat is new UGC chairman http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=87422 Thorat, at present a
member of the UGC and a professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU), Thorat said he would
use his experience in higher education to further the UGC’s mandate of
‘‘promoting quality and equitable higher education’’. He also said health
education would be an area of priority for the UGC. Thorat holds his M
Phil and PhD degrees in Economics from JNU. His areas of specialisation
include agricultural development, poverty, labour studies, caste and economic
discrimination, with special focus on discrimination in the labour market and
the economic problems of Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes. He has written
extensively on a variety of contemporary issues such as rural poverty, rural
development, child labour, caste-discrimination and urban slums. Thorat also
has a large of published papers on general economics, agricultural
development, rural poverty and related themes to his name. |
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