India’s Missile Man: APJ Abdul Kalam

Ravishankar Kumar Singh, M.A. (Eco.), B.Ed., PH.D., started his teaching career from Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Human Resource Development, New Delhi, during 1990s and currently he is a Faculty in the Deptt. of Economics, Mt. Olive College, Kohima, Nagaland. He has been recipient of merit scholarship. His own field of specialization is Econometrics and at present he is teaching Micro Economics and Developmental Economics. Meanwhile, he has presented several papers on “Economic Reforms”, “WTO and Agriculture”, “Poverty and Sustainable Development”, “Quality Education: Opportunities and Challenges” at various national and international level conferences. He is actively associated with a number of professional bodies like Indian Economic Association (Mumbai), All India Association of educational Research (Bhuvaneswar), Indian Institute of Economic Research (Allahabad) etc. Dr. Singh is the author of a number of popular and scholarly works, including: role of NGOs in Socio-Economic Development; Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Quality Education: Opportunities & challenges and Economic Reforms in India (2 Volumes) which have been well received by the intellectual community and policy makers in India and abroad.