Doon university was started by state government act of 2005
with an intention to bridge the gap which this state has in higher education
and school education. It was always felt need to have a high quality university
education. This city of dehradun ,the capital of Himalayan state of Uttarakhand
homes schools which have reputation of providing education and values which are
best of its times.
School of social sciences started in 2010 with economics as
post graduate subject. By 2011 university also started offering 5 years Msc
course in economics.
Before starting anything in written means that how to start?
Availability of modern technology enables one to write his or her views and
also do share it with peoples around world.
Already being so much written in economics clearly leaves every
possible chance of strong scrutiny.
When we started our first batch in 2011 we did come across
with scenario when USA did receive a rate cut from Standard and poor’s.
Gradually as we moved forward we found unstable situation in PIGS nation of
euro zone, and how Germany played it’s role ,,being the strongest economy of
the nation, There were times when Spain looked in troubles,, and then one of
strong economies of Europe ,Italy also under pressure. There were gross uncertainties
of future of euro currency and whether it would even survive or nations would
start drifting away from namely, Greece being the most probable one.
Prominent role of troika of IMF , ECB and European commission in attempts to
stabilise the euro zone. And revelations of global banking scandals, most
notable being the LIBOR [London inter banking offered rate] ,HSBC affair of
illegal laundering of money, and discussions about how the ethics have declined
in field of banking.
We also came across statements ‘’ earlier we feared china,
now we fear for them ’’.China which is very important in geo-economics spheres,
how was it manipulating its currency.
About our India, we looked all controversy as of
introduction of FDIs into retail sector, coal scam, rising budget deficit and
even introduction of food security bill . We are watching rupee touching low mark
as 68 against a dollar, and also appointment of new RBI governor.
Instabilities in middle east, Egypt, Syria,, conflicts
of USA and Iran over use of nuclear
energy for power generation, diplomatic conflicts between Japan and China,
Incidences of Indian subcontinent ,,with timely conflicts
along LOC between India –Pakistan, India –China, with whom we are intending to
increase our bilateral trade bridging up our import-export gap, and we landing
our super Hercules to ladakh,
With the arrival of 2014 US forces will leave Afghanistan,
we fear probabilities of uncertainties in strategic and political situations in
sub-continent.
Dehradun has
elaborated history and finds mention in historic and ancient Hindu scriptures like Mahabharata where ‘’dronanagari’’
is described as a place where guru drona ‘’guru’’ of pandavas resided .By 1800 it
hardly had a population of 1000 peoples. During British period this city
attained name of Doon valley and hill stations like mussorie attained
prominence of being an intellectual city having retired persons from all walks
of life living in peaceful Doon valley flooded with greenery and calm. This
city gave shelter to refugees who
migrated from west Punjab during unprecedented bloodshed of partition of India
in 1947.
This year we witnessed natural calamity at one of holy
shrines of Hindus Kedarnath, which resulted in loss of thousands of lives.
Unexpected and heavy rainfall ,cloud bursting and then heavy amount of water
accompanied with mud,,debris,,killed uncountable number of peoples,Significant
role of Indian army and Air force in
mass scale rescue operation was widely acclaimed. This state is prone to
sensitive seismic activities and being sitting on young Himalayan mountains
makes it vulnerable to incidences of landslide, earthquake, In fact this
‘’chardhaam ‘’ yatra had a very important role in the state GDP and it is
expected to take 3-4 years from losses that have generated out of decline in
services sector as of calamity of this gravity.
Subjects like regional economics leave immense opportunities
to explore the entire economy of uttarakhand as this is a newly born state in
November,2000,& many relevant data can be collected for future planning
formulation for the state.
This state homes many
Hindu shrines ,,gangotri ,,origin of river ganga & yamunotri,origin of
river Yamuna ,, ,,also known as ‘’devbhoomi’’ land where gods reside.
Studying at this place and aiming to gradually be known in
academic Diaspora is a tough task for us, we are starters, but we look forward
to attain a reasonable maturity in sharing contents in few months from now.
At some stage we had to start with this sharing process,
this is just an honest attempt in that direction.
As the time passes on we would also improve our quality of
blog.
Thanks
harsh vardhan pathak
batch 2011 msc integrated economics
doon university
