Economic and Societal Transformation in Pandemic-Trapped India: Emerging Challenges and Resilient Policy Prescriptions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789811657573)

Dr. Subrata Saha was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Bengal. Dr. Saha specializes in issues of fiscal policies and effects of Structural changes on fiscal relationships in Southeast Asian Countries and India. The area of research interest is Public Finance, health and education, and Time Series Econometrics. He is a member of the editorial board of UGC CARE listed journal ENSEMBLE and a life member of the Indian Econometric Society and Indian Economic Association. Dr. Saha is presently working as an Associate Professor of Economics at Raiganj University, West Bengal, India. He has supervised four M. Phil. and one Ph.D. and presently supervising four Ph.D. scholars at Raiganj University. He has contributed several research papers to National & International Journals and edited research volumes. Besides, he has authored two books to his credit. IRDP, India, has awarded him with the prestigious Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Lifetime Achievement National award in 2018 in recognition of his contribution to his research activities, and in 2021, World Education Congress has awarded him West Bengal Education Leadership Award 2021 toward promoting educational excellence.

Dr. Mukunda Mishra is an Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, and designated Vice Principal of Dr. Meghnad Saha College in West Bengal, India. The college is affiliated with the University of Gour Banga. Dr. Mishra completed his postgraduate studies in Geography and Environmental Management at Vidyasagar University (receiving top rank in both the B.Sc. and M.Sc. panels of merit) and held a Ph.D. in Geography from the same University. He was selected for the prestigious National Merit Scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. His research chiefly focuses on analyzing unequal human development, regional planning, and multi-criteria predictive model building. He has more than twelve years of hands-on experience in dealing with development issues at the ground level in various districts of eastern India. Dr. Mishra has in his credit to publish one monograph and three edited research volumes so far from the house of Springer-Nature. Dr. Mishra has more than thirty research articles and book chapters published in the journals and books of international repute. Besides serving as the reviewer of several reputed journals published by Springer-Nature and Elsevier Inc., he is continuing as the Managing and Publishing Editor of Ensemble, a UGC-CARE (India) enlisted journal of repute, since its inception to date.

Professor Anil Bhuimali, M.A. (Economics), Ph.D. (Economics), D.S.A, D.Litt., is presently the Vice-Chancellor of Raiganj University in West Bengal, India. Prior to this, he was designated as the Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, North Bengal University. Alongside, Prof. Bhuimali also had served as the Coordinator in the Centre for Differently-Abled Persons of North Bengal University; Coordinator of SAP-DRS-II and SAP-DRS-III in the Department of Economics of the same University. He has a long 34 years of teaching experience, of which 15 years as a full professor. He has, to his credit, more than 30 Years of research experience in the area of Microeconomics, Gender Economics, International Economics, Rural Economics, Dalit Studies, Gandhian Economics, Development Economics, IT Policies & Management. Prof. Bhuimali supervised 20 M.Phil. dissertations, 35 Ph.D. theses and one Post-Doctoral thesis under his supervision. He has published more than two hundred research articles and book chapters in reputed journals and 50 books. Prof. Bhuimali is a Member of the Research Board of Advisors, the American Biographical Institute, North Carolina, USA, and a Visiting Fellow at Kannur University, Kerala. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards like the Banga Ratna Award by the Government of West Bengal in 2016; Life Time Achievement Award by the Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU) in 2016; Paul Samuelson Royal Economist Award by South Asia Management Association in 2016; Ambedkar Social Service Award by Indian Academic Researchers' Association(IARA) in 2016; The Outstanding University Administrator and Academic Excellence Award 2017 by Society for Research Development, Kuala Lumpur and many more.