Public Economics: Theory and Problems of Federal Fiscal System, Economics of Taxation, and Public Expenditure, Economics of Public Utilities and services.

Academic Qualification

Ph.D. (Economics)
Title of thesis: Centre-State Financial Relations and Problems of Financing  Regional Development, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, 1975.

M.A. (Economics)

Books

1. Impact of Irrigation (Canal, Well, Tank), Nadkarni et.al, Himalaya, 1979.

2. Centre-State Financial Relations in India, Allied Publishers, New Delhi,1981.

3. Regional Disparities and Development in India, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, 1984.

4. Finance Commission and Centre-State Financial Relations (Jointly with Professor G. Thimmaiah), Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, 1985.

5. Financial Working of Public Enterprises, (A Study of Karnataka Electricity Board), Publishing House, Printwell Publishers, Jaipur, 1987.

6. Rural Energy Crisis : Problems and Prospects, Ashish Publication, New Delhi, January 1991.

7. Scheduled Castes & Tribes: Socio Economic Upliftment Programme, Ashish Publishers, New Delhi. 1994

8. Basic Assumptions, Principles and criteria of Federal Fiscal Adjustment in India, Ashish Publishers, New Delhi.1994

9. Industrial Development of Karnataka And The New Industrial Policy , with Kyoko Inoue. IDE , Tokyo, April ,1995. Joint Research Program series, No.112. 1995. IDE, Japan, Visiting Research Fellow series.1999.

10. Centre –State Financial Relations, in Kannada, Kannada Vishwa Vidyalaya, Hampi, 1998

11. Restructuring and Employment adjustment in Japan and in India, IDE Tokyo, March 1999.

12. A study of State Public Accounts in India: With special reference to State Provident Fund, Reserve Bank of India, DRG, Discussion Paper No.1, July 2001.

13. Value Added Tax: Tax Design and Policy Issues, Sun Publication, Bangalore 2002

Articles

• "Rural Energy-Agriculture Interaction Model", with J.P.Painuly and Jyoti Parikh. Pergamon, Energy vol.20,pp 219-233. London, March 1995.

• "Federal Fiscal transfers; An Alternative Approach" Indian Economic Journal, Bombay. Sept. 1993.

• "Should Criteria for the distribution of union Excise duties and Income Tax be different" Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XXVII.Nos.51 and 52, December 19-26 1992.

• "Inter-District Disparities in Education Development in Karnataka", by NIEPA 1990.

• "Rural Energy Consumption Pattern in a Backward Village", Regional Science Journal, vol. 1989.

• "Poverty Measures and Tax-Devolution", Economic and Political Weekly, September 1989, vol.XXVI No.37.

• "Financial Relations", Seminar 357, "Federalism" May 1989.

• "Are States getting their due share of Income Tax Proceeds", Economic and Political Weekly, vol., No.48, November 30, 1985.

• "Inter-Regional Disparities in Industrial Development", Regional Dispersal of Industries and Industrial Development, Deep and Deep, 1985, ed., Sreekantaradhya.

• "Inter-state Disparities in Development in India", Regional Structure of Development and Growth in India, ed. G P Mishra, Giri Institute, Ashish, 1985.

• "Identification of Backward Taluks and Delineation of Homogeneous Regions in Bangalore District", Regional Inequalities in India, ed., L S Bhat, et al., SSRD Publications, New Delhi, 1982.

• "Federal Fiscal Transfers in India, Criteria and their Application", Arthavijnana, vol., No.4, December 1978.

• "Identification of Backward Regions and the Trends in Regional Disparities in India", Arthavijnana, June 1977, vol.19, No.3.

• Member, Sales Tax Advisory Committee, Government of Karnataka, since 1996. (To date)

• Member, Steering Committee on Resource Mobilization, State Planning Board, Government of Kerala, 1996-97.

• Member Task Force ( Finances) State Planning Board, Kerala

• Member, Indian Committee for Indo-Japan Collaboration in Social Sciences and Humanities, since May 1997.

• Member, Committee on Environmental Protection, Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Karnataka.

• Member Taxation Committee, FKCCI since 1998 till date