Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Change

• Development Experiences of Indian agriculture

• Poverty and Human Development

• Evaluation of Rural Development Programmes (Field Studies in Karnataka)

• Micro-level Studies of Processes of Rural Change (Field Studies in Karnataka).

• M.A.(Economics), University of Poona, 1956

• Ph.D (Economics), University of Bombay, 1963

• One year post-doctoral work in University of Chicago, U.S.A. 1964-65.

Recent Positions( after retirement in 1991)

• Devaraj Urs Visiting Professor in Development Studies, University of Mysore, Karnataka (September, 1995 to August, 1996)

• Hon. Visiting Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (from 1996 onwards)

• Visiting Professor, Centre for Micro-Planning and Regional Studies, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh (From September, 1996 to December, 1996).

• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, from April 14 to May 15, 1997 under ICSSR's IDPAD Exchange of Scholars Programme.

• National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (from August 1998 to July, 2000) affiliated to Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

• Chairman, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bombay (from January, 1999 to December,2004).

• Honorary Fellow, Indian School of Political Economy, Pune (from July, 1999).

• Member, Board of Directors, Public Affairs  Foundation, Bangalore  ( From June 2003)

• Member, Editorial Board, MARGIN (Journal of National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi)

• Member, Working Group on Poverty Elimination in 11^th Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India and member of the drafting committee (2006)

• Special Invitee, Expert Group on Farmer Indebtedness (Finance Ministry, Government of India), Member Drafting Committee and Chairman, Southern Regional Group set up by the Expert Group (2006-7)

• Member, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Government of India (1991 to 1995).

• Professor and Head, Rural Economics Unit, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (1975 to 1991)

• Faculty Member, Department of Economics, University of Bombay, ( from 1963 to 1975)

• Long association with Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Bombay, as honorary office-bearer.  Elected by the Society as President of the Annual Conference held in Hyderabad in 1991.

• Actively associated with Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi as referee, Visiting Committee Member etc.  Coordinated the IDPAD International Seminar on Liberalisation and the Poor held in Hyderabad, February, 1996.

• Member of many committees, study groups etc., set up by Government of India, Government of Karnataka, Planning Commission etc.

• Consultancy studies for the World Bank, International Labour Organisation, the Ford Foundation, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Reserve Bank of India etc.