National Council of Applied Economic Research
Nijara Deka is a Fellow at NCAER. She is an applied micro-economist with a passion for innovation and research in understanding the value of wellbeing and human development and the measurement of broader outcomes in the evaluation of different public policies, including capabilities and subjective wellbeing. She also has research interests in social inequality, labour and the informal sector, economics of education and health, and sustainable development.
Over the last six years, she has worked on many public policy projects. She obtained her Doctoral degree at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, on analysing Deprivation Characteristics of the Urban Poor, with a case study of Guwahati city, Assam.
She joined the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies in 2016. In 2018, she supported the data analysis and drafting of the report on a Study of a Road Infrastructure Project in North East India Borderland, conducted by the Special Centre for the Study of North East India, JNU.
She was awarded a Foreign Travel Grant by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) to attend the annual Conference of Human Development and Capability Association held at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, in 2015. She also received the Doctoral Fellowship of ICSSR and the Basic Scientific Research (BSR) Fellowship in 2013.
REPORT | NCAER
Tourism Satellite Account 2018-19, Uttarakhand
Poonam Munjal, Palash Baruah, Asrar Alam, Nijara Deka, and
Sundus Usmani
2021
REPORT | NCAER
A Pilot Study of Sindhudurg District of Maharashtra, for Boosting Economic Growth
Poonam Munjal, Deepak Sanan, D B Gupta, Somnath Sen, Nijara Deka, Asrar Alam, Rahat Hasan Khan
2021
REPORT | NCAER
A Pilot Study of Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra, for Boosting Economic Growth
Poonam Munjal, Deepak Sanan, D B Gupta, Somnath Sen, Nijara Deka, Asrar Alam, Rahat Hasan Khan
2021
REPORT | NCAER
A Pilot Study of Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, for Boosting Economic Growth
Poonam Munjal, Deepak Sanan, D B Gupta, Somnath Sen, Nijara Deka, Asrar Alam, Rahat Hasan Khan
2021
JOURNAL | JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOOMENT
Roads matter at the periphery: India’s Post liberalisation road projects in the Northeast
Rakhee Bhattacharya | Nijara Deka
August 6, 2021
JOURNAL | THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF LABOUR ECONOMICS
Rural non-farm employment in eastern India: Implication for Economic well-being
Anjani Kumar | Nijara Deka | Seema Bathla | Sunil Saroj | S K Srivastava
September 30, 2020
JOURNAL | JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOOMENT
Multidimensional poverty index for the poor in Guwahati city (Assam, India)
Nijara Deka
June 27, 2018
JOURNAL | JOURNAL OF MAN AND DEVELOPMENT
Occupational Deprivation in urban India: An Interstate analysis
Nijara Deka
March 1, 2018
JOURNAL | ASSAM ECONOMIC REVIEW
Urbanization and deprivation in Guwahati City (Assam)
Nijara Deka
March 1, 2017
JOURNAL | THE ASIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Residential deprivation of the urban households in India
Nijara Deka
September 1, 2016
OPINION | Deccan Herald
Women’s role key to demographic dividend
Nijara Deka and Palash Baruah
May 18, 2024 | NCAER
OPINION | The Print
India has a workplace creche problem. See how Karnataka, Assam, Odisha are taking action
Nijara Deka
May 14, 2024 | NCAER
OPINION | Aquapost
Fish consumption in India in 2022-23 and future prospects
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Laxmi Joshi and Nijara Deka
November 1, 2023 | NCAER
OPINION | QRIUS
Nutritional security: Fishery demand in India could have been better managed
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Nijara Deka, Palash Baruah, Laxmi Joshi, and Falak Naz
April 5, 2023 | NCAER
OPINION | THE ASSAM TRIBUNE
The Citizenship debate in Assam
Nijara Deka
February 03, 2017
OPINION | DOWN TO EARTH
COVID-19: Slums in India provide fertile ground for outbreaks
Nijara Deka | Gautam Kumar Das
May 11, 2020
OPINION | QRIUS
Why we need to boost Cashew Export in Konkan Region of the State?
Poonam Munjal | Nijara Deka
December 24, 2021
OPINION | DOWN TO EARTH
FIX FROM GROUND UP: A $5-trillion economy target by 2025 for India is not unachievable
Nijara Deka | Poonam Munjal
August 10, 2022
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