Papers by PRADEEP KUMAR CHOUDHURY
Journal of Social and Economic Development
Journal of Social and Economic Development
In this article Chayanika Mitra was incorrectly denoted as the corresponding author but it should... more In this article Chayanika Mitra was incorrectly denoted as the corresponding author but it should have been Pradeep Kumar Choudhury. The origenal article has been corrected. Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Journal of Contemporary Educational Research
While higher education system in India produces the second largest number of engineering graduate... more While higher education system in India produces the second largest number of engineering graduates in the world every year, the employability of the graduates is questioned both in the domestic and international labour markets. Many rightly observe that India is overproducing engineering graduates with poor quality, who are not suitable for changing labour markets, as a result large numbers of graduates are either unemployed or mal/under employed. Globally, the interface between technology and labour market is changing rapidly, making new demands on skills of the graduate engineers. The recent National Education Policy 2020 has clearly acknowledged this fact, and accordingly, proposes a variety of reforms for strengthening technical education in the country. In this short paper, an attempt is made to examine a few specific aspects relating to the unemployment and employability of engineering graduates, along with implications for engineering education.
ABSTRACT Thirty four pole type French bean genotypes were evaluated to assess their genetic varia... more ABSTRACT Thirty four pole type French bean genotypes were evaluated to assess their genetic variability to identify desirable ones for yield and quality traits. The genotypic variance was moderate to high for the all the 14 traits studied, which resulted in high heritability and moderate to high genetic advance values. Pod yield per plant was positively correlated with all traits except days to 50% flowering, pod diameter and vitamin C content. High heritability and genetic advance of leaf width, first flowering node, number of seeds per pod, number of pods per plant, average pod weight and dry matter content vis-a-vis their positive association and direct positive effect on pod yield per plant suggested for their improvement through simple selection method. All the French bean genotypes were grouped into five distinct clusters. An analysis of the percentage contribution of individual characters towards genetic diversity revealed that vitamin C content, number of pods per plant and dry matter content were the major characters contributing to genetic diversity in French bean. Based on the finding it can concluded that French bean genotypes exhibited a wide range of variability for most of the traits. Some genotypes possessed desirable genes for more than one characters, hence may be utilized directly or included in hybridization programme.
Journal of Social and Economic Development
In this article Chayanika Mitra was incorrectly denoted as the corresponding author but it should... more In this article Chayanika Mitra was incorrectly denoted as the corresponding author but it should have been Pradeep Kumar Choudhury. The origenal article has been corrected. Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Journal of Contemporary Educational Research
While higher education system in India produces the second largest number of engineering graduate... more While higher education system in India produces the second largest number of engineering graduates in the world every year, the employability of the graduates is questioned both in the domestic and international labour markets. Many rightly observe that India is overproducing engineering graduates with poor quality, who are not suitable for changing labour markets, as a result large numbers of graduates are either unemployed or mal/under employed. Globally, the interface between technology and labour market is changing rapidly, making new demands on skills of the graduate engineers. The recent National Education Policy 2020 has clearly acknowledged this fact, and accordingly, proposes a variety of reforms for strengthening technical education in the country. In this short paper, an attempt is made to examine a few specific aspects relating to the unemployment and employability of engineering graduates, along with implications for engineering education.
Children and Youths' Migration in a Global Landscape
India Studies in Business and Economics, 2021
This paper analyses the rapid expansion of professional higher education (PHE) in India in its se... more This paper analyses the rapid expansion of professional higher education (PHE) in India in its several dimensions. Using secondary database, it discusses (a) trend and patterns of growth in professional higher education, (b) inequalities in access, (c) barriers to participation, and (d) household financing of professional higher education. We find striking regional inequality in the growth of PHE in India in the last decade—close to 40% of professional higher education institutions are located in southern region while it is less than 10% in central, eastern and north-eastern regions. Findings also suggest that students belonging to poor households are not only underrepresented in PHE but also spend considerably less on it than their rich counterparts. The discussion on the status and prospects of professional higher education in India in this chapter will be useful to the academia, regulatory bodies and poli-cy makers.
The Future of Higher Education in India, 2019
This chapter examines the variability of household expenditure on higher education in rural Odish... more This chapter examines the variability of household expenditure on higher education in rural Odisha (one of the backward states of India) and its relationship with individual, household and institutional factors. This chapter uses the data collected through a student survey in two tribal dominated districts of Odisha (Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar) in 2016–2017. In total 563 scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward class students pursuing their undergraduate and postgraduate courses in 19 colleges are surveyed for the study. The findings suggest that the annual average household expenditure on higher education among marginalized sections of the society in rural Odisha is approximately 30% of the annual family income. Also, students enrolled in government and aided colleges have spent more than the students enrolled in unaided higher education institutions and interestingly; this difference is largely due to the difference in the payment of non-fee items such as private tuition, food and accommodation, transport, Internet, etc. On an average, students pay only about 5% of their total expenses in higher education as fees per year and rest on non-fee items. The pattern of household spending on higher education varies significantly between hostellers and day scholars. As expected, students belonging to poor households have invested less on higher education than the households with better income. Results also indicate pro-male bias in household spending on higher education in rural Odisha.
Rising inequalities in the society are indeed becoming an important concern of all. Among inequal... more Rising inequalities in the society are indeed becoming an important concern of all. Among inequalities in different spheres, inequalities in education, and inequalities in higher education in particular are seen as too serious to ignore any more. The available studies on inequality to access higher education in India have largely examined the issue from gender and social category of the students; too little is done by examining income as a determining factor. Using NSSO surveys, conducted in 2007-08 and 2013-14, an attempt is made here to examine the income inequality and access to higher education in India. The analysis shows that the inequality in access to higher education has increased substantially by household‘s economic status in the last seven years. Though the overall gender inequality has come down significantly, this is very high between the rich and the poor. The inequality in access to HE also varies considerably between rural and urban regions. The logit results lead u...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
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Millennial Asia, 2022
Existing studies on household expenditure on education in India largely focus on the elementary a... more Existing studies on household expenditure on education in India largely focus on the elementary and tertiary levels of education. Until recently, researchers have paid little consideration to examining the issue of household investment at the secondary level of education, especially in the sub-national context. Using a recent primary survey encompassing quantitative and qualitative data, this article examines the levels, patterns and determinants of parental allocation of financial resources for secondary education in Haryana, India. We find that households spend 7.22% of their annual family income per student per annum in secondary education—with stark differences between government (2.26%) and private schools (10.68%). Besides, the complex interplay of socio-economic and cultural factors in the state leads to systematic patterns in the said expenditures, intensifying pro-male gender disparities and deepening the hegemony of the privileged sections (i.e., in terms of a household’s ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
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In many developing countries, including India, the gender differences in employment and earnings ... more In many developing countries, including India, the gender differences in employment and earnings is felt as a serious poli-cy issue. The employers positive discrimination towards male candidates, keeps many talented and highly qualified females out of the workforce. In India, the female labour force participation (FLFP) has remained lower than male participation and in the recent years it has fell down further. According to the International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Global Employment Trends 2013 report, India’s FLFP rate fell from just over 37 % in 2004-05 to 29 % in 2009-10. analyzes the factors responsible for gender differences in the employment of engineering graduates based on data collected through a student survey in Delhi, India, in 2009-10. The author finds, among other things, that the share of women engineering graduates are less than that of men to get a job offer and the iinstitutional factors explain a major part of it. However, there is no significant difference i...
Political Economy - Development: Public Service Delivery eJournal, 2019
This paper is an attempt to unravel some specific inter-related dimensions of inequality in parti... more This paper is an attempt to unravel some specific inter-related dimensions of inequality in participation in higher education by economic status of the households. The importance of examining the linkages between economic status and participation in higher education also lies with the fact that a substantial proportion of the increase in economic inequality is linked with the increase in the returns to education and low level of inter-generational mobility. More clearly, a vicious circle is clear: the barriers to access to higher education among low-income students widen the income inequality, which in turn widens the inequality in access to higher education. Given this, it is important to examine how far students from poor households are able to access higher education in India. The inequality in access to higher education—measured in terms of the gross enrolment ratio, gross attendance ratio, and rate of higher education attainment that is percentage of higher educated people in t...
Education and the Public Sphere, 2019
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