The Department teaches Economics at the post graduate (150 students) and doctoral level with highly qualified academic personnel; researches mainly in different aspects of Development Economics, Strategic Trade, Environmental and Resource Economics;offers Specialised training in Econometrics, International Economics, Industrial Organization and Public Economics; has developed interest in decentralised development, flexible specialization, frontier production functions and recently completed an World Bank-MoEF-EERC-IGIDR project; It has two Professors, six Readers and four Lecturers ,three officials and three Library staff.