Economics

Department of Economics is one of the oldest departments established simultaneously with Lal Chakradhar Shah College, Ambagarh Chowki in 1970 with B. A.in Economics and Master of Arts in Economics in the year 2007. In 1973 government took the college in its Setup, currently the college is affiliated to Hemchand Yadav University Durg (State University). Since its inception, the Department has been offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Economics. It attracts the largest number of students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels from within and outside the District. The Department has a long tradition of imparting quality education and conducting in-depth research. Many of its alumni hold prominent positions both in academics and administrative spheres across the state and the country - a small testimony, perhaps, to the excellence of training that we provide to our students.

The teaching programmes in the Department are focused on proper blending of 'quality' and 'relevance'. This is sought to be achieved by periodic updating of syllabi in conformity with the advancement of the knowledge in the subject with equal emphasis on theoretical and applied economics. Department introduces new courses from time to time and makes tutorials more effective by establishing close student-teacher contact. The research programmes give special attention to economic problems of the local area and whole country. The thrust areas include the various fields of Development Economics, Economic Growth, International Economics, Financial Economics, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Industrial Economics, Health Economics, Monetary Economics, Labour Economics, History of Economic Thought, Public Finance, and Population Studies.