Ph. D. (Economics) from I.I.T. Roorkee, Uttaranchal; trained in International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris, France; specializes in economics of education, decentralized planning in education, manpower planning quantitative techniques and forecasting of educational data; authored Impact of Agro-based Industries on Rural Economy; published articles in reputed journals and contributed papers in national and international seminars and conferences; currently working in micro and macro-level planning and secondary education.