Thursday, 29 August 2013

an introduction to doon university economics and school of social sciences

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

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