Examination ScholarshipProgrammes
Admission 2023-24

Dr. Biman Kumar Nath

nathbiman2012@gmail.com
9401739348
ECONOMICS
male
Download CV

Dr. Biman Kumar Nath

Assistant Professor
Education - M.A., Ph.D.
Area of Interest - Resource Economics, Human Development, Informal Economy
Research
Academic/Administrative Responsibilities
Awards
Workshop Attended/ Conducted
Other Informations

Publications

Nath, B.K. (2022). Research Methods in Economics, Registrar, Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Nagaon, Assam.

Gurung, DB & Nath, B.K. (2020). Gender and Work Burden in Rural Arunachal Pradesh of India: A Time use Survey in Selected Districts, in Sengupta Partha Pratim (Eds.), Contemporary Issues On Globlalization and Sustainable Development (Vol.II), Serial Publications, New Delhi.

Nath, B.K. (2021). Determinants of Sales Turnover of Unorganised Enterprises in Selected Urban Places of Assam, The Indian Journal of Economics, Vol.CI, Part-III, No. 402, January 2021, Allahabad, India.

Nath, B. K. (2015). A Study of Urban Informal Sector Workers in Urban Tezpur of Assam. (P. V. Upadhyay, Ed.) Rajiv Gandhi University Research Journal , 14 (1 & 2), 122-133.

Nath, B. K. (2020). Determinants Of Earnings and Living Conditions of Labourers in Commercial Passenger Three Wheelers in Lakhimpur Town of Assam. (V. K. Sharma, Ed.) Shodh Sanchar Bullettin , 10 (38 (IV)), 399-405.

Nath, B. K. (2019). Income, Vulnerability and Empowerment of Women Street Vendors in Haflong Town of Assam. (D. S. Kumar, Ed.) IJRTE , 8 (4), 5151-5154.

Nath, B. K. (2019). Teaching and Learning Microeconomics at Post Graduate Level Under ODL System in India. In P. A. Ghosh, D. P. Saikia, G. P. Anirban, & D. P. Saikia (Eds.), ODL: Issues and Perspectives From East and North East India (pp. 84-92). Guwahati and Kolkata: KKHSSOU and NSOU, Kolkata.

Nath, B. K. (2017). Urban Informal Sector Workers and Condition of Employment in Urban Assam: NSS Results. (D. G. Shukla, Ed.) Research Journal of Social and Life Sciences , XXXII (I), 124-131.

Nath, B. K. (2018). Wage Disparity in selected North Eastern States of India with special reference to Assam. (D. S. Chelliah, Ed.) International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews , 5 (2), 394-399.

Research Papers Presented

  1. Seminar / Conference-  59th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) , 16th to 18th December, 2017
  • Organizer- Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) Thiruvananthapuram in collaboration withn Department of Economics, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram and Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
  • Title of the paper- Employment Patterns and Working Conditions of Urban Informal Sector Workers in Guwahati and Tezpur Town of Assam
  • Mode of Participation- Paper presented as Single Author.
  1. Seminar / Conference- 58th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) , 24th to 26th November, 2016
  • Organizer- Department of HSS, IIT-Guwahati, OKDISCD and TISS- Guwahati, Assam
  • Title of the paper- Non Agricultural Informal Sector Workers and Condition of Employment in Urban Assam
  • Mode of Participation- Paper presented as Single Author.
  1. Seminar / Conference- 17th Annual Conference of North Eastern Economic Association(NEEA) at RGU, Arunachal Pradesh, 30th to 31st October, 2015
  • Organizer- Department of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
  • Title of the paper- Urban Informal Sector and condition of employment in Assam: View from NSS results
  • Mode of Participation- Paper presented as Single Author.
  1. Seminar / Conference- Two days ICSSR Sponsored International Seminar on Socio-economic Development of South Asian Countries- Past, Present & Beyond
  • Organizer- Department of Economics and History, Rangiya College in association with NEEA & Department of Political Science, Bodoland University
  • Title of the paper- Service Sector led Informal Employment in Assam
  • Mode of Participation- Paper presented as Single Author.
  1. Member of Board of Studies, Department of Economics, MSSV since 2017
  2. Member of Research Advisory Committee, Department of Economics, MSSV since 2017
  3. Member of Research Advisory Committee, Department of Education, MSSV since 2017
  4. Member of Research Council, MSSV since 2017
  5. Member of Vice Chancellor’s nominee of Board of Studies, Department of Economics, Nagaon College (Autonomous) since 2021 for a period of three years
  6. Worked as a Presiding Officer at Meghalaya Assembly Election, 2013 and Assam Legislative Assembly Election, 2016.
  7. Worked as an Assistant Officer in Charge (AOC) in HS Final examination 2014 and 2015 of AHSEC at Haflong Govt. College.
  8. Worked as an Assistant Officer in Charge (AOC) in TDC Odd Semester Examination 2015 of Assam University at Haflong Govt. College center.
  9. Worked as a Corresponding Editor of the National Research Journal “ESTIA” published by Haflong Govt. College in Vol-I and Vol-II
  10. Worked as a Research Assistant in the preparation of the report on State of Panchayati Raj (SoPR) for 2010-11 (Arunachal Pradesh) sponsored by Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR), Government of India, New Delhi under the Principal Investigator Prof. Vandana Upadhyay, Rajiv Gandhi University.
  11. Worked as a Research Assistant in the preparation of the report on Evaluation of Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) in the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh sponsored by Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi under the Principal Investigator Prof. Vandana Upadhyay, Rajiv Gandhi University.
  12. Worked as an Academic Counselor in Economics at KK Handiqui State Open University, Haflong Govt. College study centre during 2014-2016
  13. Worked as a Reviewer of a UGC CARE Journal during 2021 and Member of Advisory committee of a National Research Journal since 2019 till date.
  14. Worked as a visiting faculty in the Department of Management, Rajiv Gandhi University in 2012.
  15. Worked as an Associate Editor, MSSVJHSS for Vol. VI Issue I

Refresher Course (SWAYAM)

  1. Completed an AICTE approved FDP on ‘Development Research Methods’ conducted by NPTEL and IIT Guwahati under SWAYAM during September-November, 2020
  2. Completed an AICTE approved FDP on ‘Handling Large Scale Unit Level Data; conducted by NPTEL and IIT Roorkee under SWAYAM during January-March, 2021
  3. Completed an AICTE approved Refresher Course in Economics conducted by Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi for CAS under SWAYAM during 2020

Workshop

  1. Workshop-  Ten days workshop on Capacity building in social science research and training course on SPSS from 1st to 10th March 2011 at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
  • Organizer / Venue-  ICSSR-NERC, Shillong
  • Theme of the Workshop-  Capacity Building in Social Science Research and Training Course on SPSS
  1. Workshop- One Week Workshop on Econometrics- Practice and Research (For Faculty and Researchers) from 24th March, 2014 to 28th March, 2014
  • Organizer / Venue- Centre For Development Studies, Department of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
  • Theme of the Workshop- One Week Workshop on Econometrics- Practice and Research (For Faculty and Researchers)
  1. Workshop- One Week Summer School on Research Methodology from 23rd May, 2016 to 29th May, 2016
  • Organizer / Venue- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT-Durgapur (West Bengal) in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society (TIES)
  • Theme of the Workshop- Summer School on Research Methodology: Applications of Econometrics and Statistics
  1. Workshop- Five days Workshop on Labour Studies, sponsored by V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida in association with North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
  • Organizer / Venue-  Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong Econometric Society (TIES)
  • Theme of the Workshop- Research Methods in Labour Studies
  1. Workshop- Five days Workshop on Labour Studies at V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida
  • Organizer / Venue- V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Sector-24,Noida
  • Theme of the Workshop- Course on Research Methods in Labour Studies for Research Scholars from North Eastern States
  1. Workshop- SPSS Certification Course, 22nd to 31st July, 2020
  • Organizer / Venue- Bharti Publications
  • Theme of the Workshop- Online Training and FDP on Basic Statistical Analysis using SPSS Software
  1. Workshop- Five Days online FDP on Recent Trends in Research, Inferential Statistics and Tools, 17th to 21st August, 2020
  • Organizer / Venue- Capital University, Jharkhand and Dr. Datta’s Academy, Kolkata
  • Theme of the Workshop- Online FDP on Recent Trends in Research, Inferential Statistics and Tools
  1. Workshop- One Week Workshop on Data analysis in Social Science Research, 20th to 26th July, 2020
  • Organizer / Venue- Gargaon College, Simoluguri in association with ICSSR Sponsored Major Research Project, Gargaon College (2020-2021)
  • Theme of the Workshop- Data analysis in Social Science Research
  1. Workshop- Second JNU Workshop for Empowering Teaching through Online Mode (JNU-WETOM-II), 9th and 10th May, 2020
  • Organizer / Venue- Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  • Theme of the Workshop- Second JNU Workshop for Empowering Teaching through Online Mode (JNU-WETOM-II)
  1. Workshop- Third JNU Workshop for Empowering Teaching through Online Mode (JNU-WETOM-III),13th  and 14th  June, 2020
  • Organizer / Venue- Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  • Theme of the Workshop- Third JNU Workshop for Empowering Teaching through Online Mode (JNU-WETOM-III)
  1. Workshop- Fourth JNU Workshop for Empowering Teaching through Online Mode (JNU-WETOM-IV),11th  and 12th  July, 2020
  • Organizer / Venue- Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  • Theme of the Workshop- Fourth JNU Workshop for Empowering Teaching through Online Mode
  1. Workshop- Swayam ARPIT Online Course in Economics for Career Advancement Scheme (CAS)
  • Organizer / Venue- ARPIT, 2020, Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi
  • Theme of the Workshop- Refresher Course in Economics.

Seminar Conference organised

. Worked as a Joint Coordinator of National Seminar on “TODAY’S YOUTH: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN NORTH EAST INDIA” on 6th and 7th April,2018, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Nagaon. 

Worked as a coordinator of a workshop titled ‘LaTex: Document preparing tool of Research’ on 3rd July, 2021 organised by the Department of Economics, MSSV, Nagaon

Worked as a coordinator of a one-day Popular talk on ‘Mental Health Stress and Resilience during Pandemic Time’ on 7th June, 2021 organised by the Department of Economics, MSSV, Nagaon

  1. Invited as a speaker at the seminar on “Lasting Peace in North East: Political Identity versus Economic Development- A Reality Check” representing 21 sector HQ Assam Rifles, Dima Hasao organised by Inspector General Assam Rifles (East) at Agartala, Tripura
  2. Invited as a Resource Person at the workshop on “Life Skills and Career Guidance” sponsored by RGNIYD, Tamilnadu and organised by Raha College, Nagaon, Assam during 2nd and 3rd January, 2016.
  3. Invited as a Resource Person in a National Seminar on ‘Impact of Covid 19 Pandemic on Human Relations’ organised by Hatichong College, Nagaon on 5th September, 2021
  4. Invited as a Resource Person on World Environment Day, 2019 organised by NABARD, Nagaon
  5. Invited as a Resource Person on 'Workshop on Statistical Package for Social Sciences' organised by IQAC, Rangapara College on 12.01.2022

Membership of Professional Bodies

  1. Life member of North Eastern Economic Association (NEEA)
  2. Life Member of Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE)
  3. Life member of Indian Economic Association (IEA)