Macro Theory of Value, Production and Distribution

Macro Economics

Neo-Classical Theory of Value and Distribution

History of Political Economy

Statistics for Economists

Public Finance

International Economics and Econometrics

Population Education

Methodologies of English and Social Studies Teaching and

Theory of Development and Planning

Worked on a project, "Growth, cost and efficiency of public and private education: A study with special reference to secondary schools in Andhra Pradesh." Used a multi-stage sampling method to assess the efficiency of public and private education in India. Collected samples, weighted over rural and urban areas, from Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. Used exam pass-outs, wastage (drop-outs and failures), and unit cost of education as means of efficiency assessment. Found that growth of government funded schools in the initial days is more than the privately funded schools. Found that the privately funded schools were efficient compared to government funded schools. Concluded that private education in India has been on the rise recently, especially among middle class families, their responsibility and accountability being the primary contributing factors.

Studied the Balance of Payments (B.O.P.) deficit situation in India. Identified the specific initiatives and measures implemented by the government to reduce the deficit since India's independence from British. Sub-divided total time period into three categories depending on the initiatives introduced.

• Import Substitution (1949-50 to 1965-66)
• Import Liberalization, with an emphasis on Export Promotion (1966-67 to 1983-84)
• Import Liberalization (1984-85 to present)

Used the exponential growth trend equation with intercept and slope dummies to assess the trends of various components of B.O.P. Found that Import Liberalization suited most to impact the B.O.P. deficit in India.

Responsibilities include:

• Collection of government revenues (primarily taxes on intoxicants, etc.)
• Controlling excise crimes including

• Illegal sale of liquor
• Cultivation of Marijuana (Ganja), hemp, opium, heroin, etc. and
• Illegal transportation control of any of the above liquors

Responsibilities include:

• Collection of Socio-Economic data for the construction of whole sale price and consumer price indexes
• Drawing samples from the population/sample selection and formation, etc.
• Rural price collection and middle class price collection in the urban areas

• Successfully qualified in National Eligibility Test conducted by National Educational Testing for administering Research Fellowships, Universities Grants Commission, New Delhi, India, December 1996.
• Certified for Lectureship by Andhra Pradesh College Service Commission, Hyderabad, India, November 1995.
• Earned sixth rank at post graduate level during M.A. program in College of Arts and Sciences, Osmania University, June 1993.

1. Achanti, M.B., Reddy, B.S., 1998, "Financing secondary education in Andhra Pradesh," National Conference on Management of School Education in India, NCERT, New Delhi, April.
2. Achanti, M.B., 1996, "Balance of Payments behavior in India: A Time Series study," M.Phil. Thesis, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, June.

References and transcripts available upon request.