Dr.
K. Puttaswamaiah who has had a brilliant academic
record during his educational career, is a prolific
writer both in English and Kannada. He has authored
about 30 books, most important among them are listed
separately. He has translated into Kannada the celebrated
work Value and Capital of the Nobel Prize Winner Prof.
J.R. Hicks. His book on Unemployment in India-An Analysis
in Kannada has received the Mysore University’s
Award of First Prize. He has specialised in Project
Formulation, Appraisal, Evaluation and Cost-Benefit
Analysis. Besides the books on these subjects, he has
formulated a large number of projects for the Government
of Karnataka for World Bank’s assistance and conducted
evaluation of several projects and programmes. He has
to his credit about 250 articles published in various
journals of repute.
Dr. Puttaswamaiah was the technical Chief of the Planning
Department (Senior Director), Government of Karnataka
and was incharge of Planning, Project Formulation, Appraisal,
Evaluation and Rural Development. He has over three
decades’ practical experience in these fields.
He held the post of Director, Drought-Prone Areas Programme,
Rural Development Department concurrently with the post
of Senior Director, Planning Department for over a decade.
Earlier, he was Editor, State Gazetteers. He has widely
travelled abroad and has attended a number of international
and national seminars and conferences. He has worked
on a number of national level advisory and steering
committees.
At present, he is the Chief Editor, Indian Journal of
Applied Economics, Bangalore, and a Member of the Karnataka
State Gazetteers’ Advisory Committee.
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