Rural Decentralisation; Rural Development and Public Economics

MA (Economics), Bangalore University

Books

• Decentralised Governance and Planning: A Comparative Study in Three South Indian States (with Abdul Aziz, N Sivanna, Madhushree Sekher and C Charles Nelson), 2002, Macmillan, New Delhi.

• Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Socio-Economic Upliftment Programmes) (Co-author), 1994, Ashish, New Delhi.

Monographs

• “Decentralised Planning in Karnataka: Realities and Prospects”, (Monograph No. 19), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2010

Articles

• Financial Empowerment of Local Governments in the Indian Context: A Myth or Fact? – A Macro Inquiry, Asian Studies Review, No.7, November 2009.

• Decentralised Planning in India: Are the Panchayati Raj Institutions Really Empowered?, The Grassroots Governance Journal, No. 2, Vol. V, December 2007.

• State Finance Commissions: Their Role and Impact on Local Government Finances - The Case of Karnataka, in M R Biju (Ed), `Financial Management of Panchayat Raj System', New Delhi, Kanishka, 2008.

• `Decentralised Planning: Status in Karnataka’, in G Palanithurai (Ed.), Dynamics of New Panchayati Raj System in India, Concept, New Delhi, 2006.

• `Management of Irrigation Tanks under Decentralised Governance: The Karnataka Experience’, in Yatindra Singh Sisodia (Ed.), `Functioning of Panchayat Raj System',Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research, Ujjain and Rawat, Jaipur, 2005

• `Financial Relations between State and Local Governments: A Study of Karnataka State’ (with N Jayaramaiah), The Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. L, No. 3, 2004.

• `Decentralisation: Status in Three South Indian States’, Journal of Karnataka Studies, Vol.1, No.2, 2004.

• `Decentralisation and Devolution Criteria: The Position in Karnataka’, IASSI Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2003.

• `Report of the Karnataka State Finance Commission: Status and Implications’ The Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXXII, No. 326, 2002.

• `Eleventh Finance Commission’s Recommendations and the Local Bodies: Impact Across the States’ Management in Government, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, 2002.

• ‘Governance, Planning and Development: The Case of PRIs in Karnataka’, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, 2001.

• ‘State Level Public Sector Reforms - Status and Case Studies’, The Journal of Institute of Public Enterprise, Vol. 23, No.1 & 2, 2000.

• 'Fiscal Empowerment of Panchayats in India: Real or Rhetoric?', No. 229, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2009.

• 'Finances of Panchayats in Karnataka: A Policy Paper’, No. 143, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2004.

• `Working of Gram Sabhas in Andhra Pradesh: Problems and Prospects’, No. 103, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2002.

• Comprehensive District Development Plan for Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12) - Bangalore Rural District (M Devendra Babu, B S Sreekantaradhya and D Rajasekher)

• Decentralised Planning: Evidence from Karnataka, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2007.

• A Study of Karnataka Schemes and Policies for Rural Development, Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation, (Co-author), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2008.

• The Indian Economic Association (Life Member)

• Indian Regional Science Association (Annual Member)

• The Andhra Pradesh Economic Association (Life Member)