• Population Geography

• Health and Environment

• Gender and Development issues

M.A. Ph.d  Bangalore University (1998)
Ph.D thesis "Population Change and socio-economic Development of Tumakur District".

Books

• "Tumakuru Gilleya Bhougolika Parisara matthu Abhivruddi", Darshan Prakashana, Tumkur, 2000.

Articles

• Spatial Dimensions of Literacy and Index of Development in Karnataka, Working Paper No 163, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2005

• "Tumakuru Gilleya Bhougolika Lakshanagalui", Kannada Sahitya Parishattu, Bangalore, 2002.

1.  Population Change in Karnataka: A Decadal Overview

2. Changes in Occupational Structure: A Selected Urban centers in Karnataka

3. Changing Child Population and Health Care Infrastructure in Karnataka

4. Demographic Change and Gender In-equality: A Comparative Study of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka

5. Geographical Scenario of Sex-ratios in Karnataka in the last two decades of 20th century

6. Spatial Dimensions of Literacy and Index of Development in Karnataka

7. Effects of Population Growth on Environmental Degradation: With Reference to India

8. Population Dynamics and Crude Literacy Deprivation among STs in India

• Changing Child Population and Health infrastructure in Karnataka

• "Sex-Ratios Trends in Karnataka -A Demographic Perspective", International Seminar on Demographic Changes and Implications, which was held at Department of Demography University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, INDIA (7^th to 9^th December 2004).

• "Patterns of Population Growth and Development in Karnataka", in the international Conference at Central College Bangalore university which is organized by the Centre for Adult and continuing Education, Bangalore University, Bangalore-56 from 1-3 Aug, 2005.

• "Effects of Population Growth on Environmental Degradation: With Reference to India", at IIPS, International Conference, at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, Dec 10-13,2006

• Life member, Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), New Delhi

• Life Member Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)

• Member (2006-2007), International Union of Scientific Study of Population, USA.

• Member, Population Association of America (PAA), USA

•  Member, Asian Population Association, Bangkok, Thailand