INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MANPOWER RESEARCH

 

 


 Faculty

Thankachan, Thankamma  

 


M.Phil.
, Economics (Madurai Kamaraj University)

 IAMR-Commonwealth Post-graduate Diploma in Human Resource Development and Planning (PGDC in HRD&P)

 Academic   Affiliation  Professional Affiliation Area of  Research

 Current Research

 Publications/Articles/Cases

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Academic Affiliation

Research Officer, Institute of Applied Manpower Research.


Professional Affiliation
NIL

Area of Research
Technical Manpower Planning, Gender Issues, Employment and Unemployment, District Development Studies and the Informal Sector
 

Current Research
Technical Manpower Planning focusing on engineers and diploma holders


Publications/ Articles/ Cases
List of some important publications follows:


LIST OF SELECT PUBLICATIONS (not a complete list) as on 29.01.2008

A. Articles in Referred Journals/ Popular Magazines/Edited Books

A.1. Engineering Education and Employability’(Pages  92-96) in  S.K. Patel (ed.) Proceedings in All India Seminar on Challenges for Quality and Reliability, National Institute of  Technology Rourkela 2006.

A.2. Technical Manpower Planning and Employment Scenario of Women Engineers in India’(as first author, co-authored with Seema Singh) Pages 128-143 in M. Sudhir Reddy(eds.) Globalisation and Manpower Planning, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi , 2005 

A.3. ‘Impact of Globalisation and Engineering Manpower Planning’ (co-authored with Seema Singh),Pages 278-286 in M. Sudhir Reddy, Globalisation and Manpower Planning, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, 2005.

A.4. ‘Women in Engineering Education’ (as first author, co-authored with S. Singh) Page 105-111, in S.K. Patel Proceedings in National Seminar on Technical Manpower Development  and Utilization,  National Institute of Technology Rourkela, 2004. 
 

B.  Reports

B.1. ‘Women Engineers in Professional Labour Market in India’ (IAMR Report No.1/2007 

B.2. ‘Distribution of Employed Engineers in India During the Post-Liberalization Period (By State,  Sector and Discipline)’, IAMR Report No.2/2007 

 

B.3. ‘Issues in Engineering Education in India’(IAMR Report No.NTMIS-2/01/2002)

 

B.4. Review of Urban Employment Programmes (Coauthored with  S.B. Lal  Saxena and  I.C. Awasthi) IAMR Report No. 6/1998

B.5. Employment Generation Through Decentralised Development of Agriculture : A Case Study of Sindhudurg District of Maharashtra (Coauthored with  S.B. Lal Saxena, I.C. Awasthi and  Gayatri Pande)  IAMR Report No.8/1996

B.6. Employment Generation through Decentralized Development of  Agriculture in the District of Shimla Himachal Pradesh, Co-authored with U.S. Bhandari and Jyotsana Sahay)  IAMR Report No.10/1995

B.7 Employment Generation    through Decentralized Development of  Agriculture in the District of Purulia, West Bengal (Co-authored with Sant Lal Arora, Jyotsana Sahay) IAMR Report No.8/1995

B.8. Employment GenerationThrough Decentralized Economic Planning - A Case Study of Nasik District of Maharashtra. This study comprise of four reports      

  1. Industries (Co-authored with Sant Lal Arora, U.S. Bhandari and Jyotsana Sahay) IAMR Report No. 7/1995

  2. Social Infrastructure(Co-authored with Sant Lal Arora, U.S. Bhandari and Jyotsana Sahay)IAMR Report No.  5/1995

  3. Economic Infrastructure (Co-authored with Sant Lal Arora, U.S. Bhandari and Jyotsana Sahay) IAMR Report No. 4/1995

  4. Agriculture and Allied Activities (Coauthored with I C Awasthi, Sant Lal Arora and U.S. Bhandari) IAMR Report No.2, 1993.

 

Sponsored Studies

C.1   Avenues for Employment Generation in Nagaland State- Report on Non-agricultural Sector (Co-authored with Sant Lal Arora and  US. Bhandari)– Report submitted to the Sponsoring Agency (North Eastern Council)  

C.2 Pricing of Minor Forest Products Procured by the Girijan Cooperative Corporation (GCC)- Report submitted to the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh . I was a Member of the study Team.

Consultancy Studies

D1. Productivity Linked Bonus Scheme of Department of Post.  Report submitted. I was a member of the Study    Team

 D2. Project on HRD Consultancy to Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) Report submitted to ICFRE.  I was a member of the Study Team

 

Edited and published nearly 50 Annual Technical Manpower Reviews

      

Dissertation and Other academic theses  

C.1. M.Phil. Dissertation : ‘Participation of Women Engineers in Professional Labour Market: A Case Study of Delhi and Haryana’,

C.2   PGDC Project in Human Resource Development & Planning ‘Gender and Employment in India: Trends, Patterns, Policy Issues and Implications’

 

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