Vision

The Department of Economics of Pithubar Girls’ Degree College, Khowang was established in 1989 with the beginning of the College with the vision to upgrade and strengthen women education, amongst the backward and rural people of the neighbouring villages and Tea Gardens. Some of its visions include –

To develop strong numeracy and statistical skill.

To promote women education in the society.

To educate the women on the basis of the upcreated_atd version of the modern curriculum.

To motivate and inspire female students to be self-dependent and confident.

To bring out entrepreneurial/leadership qualities amongst the female students and make them agents of social change.

To understand the socio-economic conditions of the society and to uphold the same.

Achievements

• Programme Outcomes

The students after completion of BA programme in economics will be able to develop understanding of the basic concepts and various principles of economics. Students will be able to develop in themselves the capability of critical way of thinking of economic matters. They will be able to analyse economic behaviour in practical field. They will have effective communication skill for clearly expressing economic matters with others. Through the use of   mathematical and statistical tools they will be able to resolve any issue of economics very clearly and scientifically. The students will be able to get employment in various specific services of Banking, Statistics, management and Planning etc. in State as well as Central Government departments.

Programme Specific Outcomes

Students of Economics in general will be able to identify and understand the past, present and forecast future economic conditions of the country. Through these knowledge, they can easily guess the outcomes of different policies and programmes adopted by the Government and other agencies in times. They are equipped with the techniques to find solution of the problem like mobilization of manpower and materials available in the country.

The Undergraduate programme under CBCS structure contains the fields like statistics, mathematics and economic principles, it enhances them to compute and assess the real situation of the economy including the size and changes of population, income pattern, nature and extent of employment, rate of development and pattern of savings and investments, changing economic policies internally and externally                    

 Basically, economic graduates are familiar with the knowledge and application of microeconomics and macroeconomics for the formulation of policies and planning.  They are equipped with all the relevant tools based on economic principles including market functions and structures, efficiency in manpower and resource management, need of credit and finance for initiating and accelerating projects.

Students have the knowledge of the product markets, money markets and capital markets and understand their functioning.  

Course Outcomes

The courses are designed to expose the students to the basic principles of microeconomic and macroeconomic theories. The emphasis will be on thinking like an economist and the course will illustrate how microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts can be applied to analyse real life situations. The objective of transmitting the body of basic mathematics into economics is to enable the students in solving any problem of economics easily using mathematical tools. Moreover, the courses on statistics and econometrics set out in this syllabus provide the students with a background to understand and analyse different chance phenomenon arising in different spheres of life and work.  In the course, particular economic models are not the ends but the means for illustrating the methods of applying mathematical techniques to economic theory in general. The course aims to introduce the students the basic concepts of macroeconomics. Macroeconomics deals with the aggregate economy. This course discusses the various concepts associated with the determination and measurement of aggregate macroeconomic variables like savings, investments, GDP, money, inflation and balance of payments etc. The other courses like Indian Economy, Development Economics, International Economics and Public Economics are there not only to acquaint the students about all branches of economics but also to guide them throughout the life in educating as well as facing every practical situation in the society.