Barna Ganguli

Barna Ganguli is presently a faculty member at the Bihar Institute of Public Finance and Policy (BIPFP), the institute of the Department of Finance, Government of Bihar. Dr. Ganguli has done her PhD on Urbanisation and Environmental Degradation. She has been engaged in social science research for more than a decade and her areas of interest are human development, environment, public finance, rural economics, and regional economics.

She has played the main role in State Government (Bihar), preparing many policy documents including Gender Budget, Child Budget, etc. She has been actively associated with the preparation of the Annual Economic Survey of Bihar since 2010, the Memorandum of Fourteenth and Fifteenth Finance Commissions for Bihar, State Finance Commission reports, the Vision Document of SDG for Bihar, and other projects. Dr. Ganguli has articles on various issues like MGNREGA, climate change, food security, rural tourism, education and health, fertility trends and gender disparity.

Dr. Barna has published her research in many national and international journals like SAGE, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Journal of Indian School of Political Economy (JISPE), Arthik Charche (The Journal of FPI), Man and Development, and Bihar Journal of Public Administration (UGC care listed). She has also played the lead role in research projects funded by NUEPA, the Government of Bihar, and UNICEF. She has contributed articles in editorials of Times of India, Indian Express, Telegraph, Hindustan, Dainik Jagran and Prabhat Khabar on socio-economic issues, and has participated in many debates on ZEE News, News 18 and other reputed channels.

She gave trainings to the Bihar Administrative Services’ Officers at Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD). One of her prominent works in the field of industries is the study of Food Processing Industries in Bihar, a study done by the International Growth Centre (IGC). She is a member in the Board of Directors of BIPFP in the capacity of National-Level Economist, and a member of the State Government’s Gazetteer Evaluation Committee.