O. P. Sharma is a Consultant at the NCAER, specializing in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently working in the project ‘India Human Development Survey-III. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertilizer Consumption and Quality Seeds, India Human Development Survey-I 2004-05, Rural Economic and Demographic Change in India, India Human Development Survey-II 2011-12 and Third Census of Handloom Weavers. Between 1988 and 2005, he headed the NCAER Field Office at Bhopal recruiting, training and supervising field staff and editing primary data
Palash Baruah is a Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He is a Statistician by training and is involved in sampling design for various studies conducted by the NCAER. He has been involved in many large-scale studies at the NCAER relating to agriculture, households income & expenditure, youth, impact of communication on economy, small borrowing, tourism economy, health satellite accounts, economic impact of airport operations, fisheries etc. His areas of research interest includes morbidity and public health, demography, inequality, etc. Prior to joining NCAER, he was associated with the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi.
Falak Naz is working as a Research Analyst at NCAER. She has a degree in urban planning from Amity University. Her primary area of research includes urban planning and mapping. She has undertaken a wide variety of studies, including the NCAER Land Records Services Index (N-LRSI), 2020 and 2021, Evaluation Study of the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA), Assessment Study of Own Source of Revenue (OSR), Study to assess the Demand for Fisheries, and Designing and Proposing the Revised Fares for L&T Metro. She is also well-versed in software such as STATA, SPSS, ArcGIS, and AutoCAD.
Sadhna is a Research Team Assistant with the Computable General Equilibrium Modelling and Policy Analysis with Dr. Sanjib Pohit. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Kalindi College, University of Delhi. With over 26 years of experience, she has successfully led strategic initiatives.
She assists the team with various research related work including report formatting and helps in overall coordination as per the projects and team’s demands.
Nishika Pal is working as a Research Analyst at NCAER. She qualified for the UGC NET examination in Economics in 2019. She has an MSc in Financial Economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, and a BA (Honours) in Economics from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. She contributed in index computation and data analysis for the ‘NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI), 2020 and actively participated in pre-testing of the field survey and analysing data from the pre-testing and pilot stages of the ‘NCAER Prindex Survey 2021’. She is now working in the areas of macroeconomics and international trade. She is well-versed in softwares such as MS-word and Excel, STATA, and eviews.
She has co-authored working paper on “Assessing the Use of Land as Collateral for Accessing Credit from Institutional Sources in Rural India.”
