Professor K. Biswal has a PhD in Economics of Education from JNU, New Delhi. He has received training in educational planning from IIEP, Parisand . Currently, he is heading the Department. As In- charge, he has been managing the Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE) and the Student Database Management Information System (SDMIS) at NIEPA since January 2017.He specializes in Economics of Education, Educational Decentralization, Strategic Planning, Project Planning, and local level planning techniques – i.e. School Mapping, Micro Planning, & School Improvement Planning. He has been actively involved in programme planning and implementation of central sector flagship programmes like the SSA, RMSA and Samagra Shiksha. He is a co-author of the manual for formulating the DSEP under the RMSA entitle, “Secondary Education Planning and Appraisal Manual” first published in 2012. He had the opportunity to work in several working groups/sub-groups of the MHRD for formulation of five-year plans as well as development of implementation frameworks of flagship school education development programmes.

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Dr. P. Geetha Rani serves as Professor at Department of Educational Planning, NIEPA, New Delhi. She served as Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair Professor of Indian Studies Abroad at the PNG University of Technology, Papua New Guinea from 2021 to 2023. She has as well served as Professor and Head at Department of Economics, Central University of Tamil Nadu, from 2016 to 2018. Professor. Geetha Rani has delivered the online modules for Econometrics and Public Policy Management courses by securing the Handong Unitwin Fellowship offered by Handong Global University, South Korea. They are available at https://www.hufocw.org/Course/918 (for Econometrics) and https://www.hufocw.org/Course/1013 (for Public Policy Management). She has contributed to the financial memorandum for Right to Education Bill under Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE), the highest advisory body to advise the Central and State Governments in the field of education, constituted by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) and the financial implications of national and state wise estimates of Right to Education (RTE) Act, submitted to the 13th Finance Commission. She has co-edited a volume on Right to Education in India, published by Routledge, UK. Her core competencies include research, teaching, training, and consultancy in Development Economics, Economics and Financing of Education. She has published more than seventy research papers in national and international journals of repute. Further details can be accessedfrom the following link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geetha_Rani3

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Dr. Santwana G. Mishra is Associate Professor at Department of Educational Planning, NIEPA, New Delhi. She has completed her Master degree in Physics followed by Master in Education and Ph.D. in Education. She has done courses in software engineering and information technology. Her core competencies include teaching, training and consultancy in the area of research methodology, quantitative techniques and educational psychology. She has presented her research work at various national and international forums and published her research papers in reputed journals. Dr. Mishra has visited many countries for different academic purposes. She is actively involved in designing and testing innovative teaching-learning methods.

Dr. N. K. Mohanty has a PhD in Economics from IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand. He is Assistant Professor in the DEP. He specializes in economics of education, decentralized planning ineducation, strategic planning, manpower planning, project planning, quantitative techniques and forecasting methods. He has authored/co-authored two books and published several research papers articles in national and international journals of repute.

Dr. Suman Negi has a PhD in Population Studies from the Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Planning, at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. Dr. Negi during her PhD worked on spatial and socio-economic factors affecting access to education. Having specialized in population studies, she is currently working on a project on educational out-migration and her research work mainly focuses on education and its related aspects. She is also preparing an education atlas on gender. She is mainly involved in teaching and capacity building activities for students and officials from state education departments in the area of educational planning. She has also published several research papers in reputed journals.