Asrar Alam is an Associate Fellow at the NCAER States, Sectors, Surveys, and Impact Evaluation division. He has worked on a wide variety of studies, including both survey and non-survey-based studies, some major studies include; Assessment of Faceless Assessment Scheme of Income Tax Department, Education Satellite Account, Tourism Satellite Accounts, Gems & Jewellery sector of India, the N-SIPI investment index, Concurrent Monitoring & Impact Assessment of Handloom Clusters across India, Impact Evaluation of MoMA Scholarship Scheme, National Survey of Household Income & Expenditure, and a number of other studies. In recent years, he has focused extensively on the Monitoring and Impact Evaluation Studies.
He has a rich experience of primary data collection for large-scale surveys including both household and industry survey, qualitative interviews, questionnaire designing, data management and analysis and handling large scale data sets like PLFS, NSSO employment & consumption data sets, ASI, etc. His research interests include quantitative and qualitative assessment of government schemes, human development, income, expenditure, poverty, demography.
Laxmi Joshi is a Fellow at NCAER with research interests in agriculture and rural development. She has worked on issues related to the Agricultural Outlook Situation Analysis, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, economic benefits of weather and marine services, air pollution issues in agriculture, India’s cotton revolution, dairy development, convergence and agricultural intervention in Maharashtra, farm mechanization, the National Policy for Farmers and fisheries sector. Also worked in Cement and Refinery and Petrochemicals. Before NCAER, she worked at the National Commission on Farmers and the National Institute for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NAIP). At NAIP worked on various innovative research areas namely; ‘Radar Approach’ to measure sustainability; ‘ Meta- Analysis’ to assess impact of watershed, ‘Total Factor Productivity’ to measure the technological change; Congruence approach for priority setting in Uttaranchal agriculture; Diversification of agriculture in India and in South Asian countries and Resource Allocation in Agricultural Research.
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Fellow at NCAER. He has undertaken a wide variety of studies, including; Railways Passenger and Freight, Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals, Cement, etc. in the Infrastructure Sector; Agriculture Outlook, Convergence of Agricultural Intervention in Maharashtra, National Cooperative Development Council, National Dairy Development Board, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Fishery, Animal Husbandry & Dairying in the Rural Economy Sector and, also in the area of Skill Economy, Direct Benefit Transfer, setting up of a separate office for the Central Registrar of Cooperative Society, amongst others. Dr Bandyopadhyay started his career at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi and has more than 25 years of research experience. He has a Ph. D in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
Poonam Munjal is a Professor at the NCAER. She has worked on a wide variety of studies, including the N-SIPI investment index, tourism satellite accounts, impact of investment in housing sector and a number of research studies based on input-output models. Previously, she worked as an Associate Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd. and as an Economist in the Economic Research Team of CRISIL Ltd.
Her research work has been in the area of macro-economic analysis, tourism economy, national and regional tourism satellite accounts, input-output modelling, social accounting matrix, inter-industry linkages, labour market analysis, and analyses of large sample surveys to draw socio-economic linkages.
Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal, Fellow at NCAER. He has been the Principal Investigator for an evaluation study of MGNREGA by the Planning Commission. His expertise is survey-based research in the social sector with strong skills in qualitative research methods.
