ECONOMICS

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT:

The department of Economics was established in the year 1884 with 6 faculty members. The department working with certain broad objectives, to train students in the sphere of economics and inculcated application of economic knowledge in the day-to-day life and in the public. Since its Inception the department of Economics has been trained hundreds of students in economics the students who studied in this college of various top positions at state and national level the person like B.V.Pattabhiram, a great writer, Psychologist and magician was a student of this great department.

After getting autonomous status in 2001 department of Economics changed its course of academic activities by adopting autonomous status rules the department of Economics is updating it syllabus by conducting Board of Studies meeting every year in the beginning of the economic in the board of studies through discussions have taken place to revise the curriculum to cattle the needs of stakeholder students the college administration provided a computer and also provided LCD room to use ICT in teaching and learning process

Now the department of Economics as 3 sanctioned post catering the needs of 500 Students by importing knowledge and making the students as good citizens

The department of Economics introduced a new course for BA students with Mathematics, Statistics and Economics during the academic year 2006-07 the Commissioner of Collegiate Education, Hyderabad, AP granted permission to start m a Economics during the academic year 2010-11 the college Development Council of Andhra University to which our college is affiliated extended its support to start MA Economics program from 2011-12 academic year. However, later on due to uneconomical strength MA Economics program has been stopped.

 Vision of the department

The vision of the department is to impart relevant knowledge, skills and equip a diverse group of students to deal with newly emerging challenges in Indian economy and Andhra Pradesh economy by involving them in policy framing.

Mission

The mission of the department is:

1. To provide our students with effective teaching that will make them productive in the future
2. To provide our students with appropriate analytical skills to lay the groundwork for lifelong learning
3. To make our students to understand microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts, and their applications;
4. To enable our students to become policy-literate and thus be more informed as citizens;
5. To prepare our students for successful careers as applied economists, and
6. To prepare our undergraduate students for postgraduate training in economics.

PROFILE OF THE DEPARTMENT