1. To 20.11.2010
The Director
Gujarat Institute of Development Reaearch
Gota
Ahmedabad- 380 060
Sir,
Sub: CV for the post of Associate Professor in GIDR reg.
Ref No: Advt No: 1/2010
With reference to your advertisement in EPW- Nov-2010, I would like to apply for the
post of Associate Professor in GIDR, Ahmedabad. I have nearly 18 years of Research
experience in Rural Development and Micro Credit.
Herewith I am sending my CV for your kind perusal. It would be highly appreciated if
you consider my candidature for the above said post in your esteemed organization and
oblige.
Thanking You
Truly Yours
(Dr. PUGAZHENDI.P)
Dr. P.Pugazhendi
Senior Research Officer
Centre for Microfinance
Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD)
Sector H, LDA Colony
Kanpur Road
Lucknow – 226 012
E-mail: drfindia@yahoo.com
Cell: 08858338572

2. CURRICULUM VITEA
Application for the Post of : Associate Professor
Name : Dr. P.PUGAZHENDI
Address for Communication : Dr. P.Pugazhendi
Senior Research Officer
Centre for Microfinance
Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD)
Sector H, LDA Colony
Kanpur Road, Lucknow – 226 012
E-mail: drfindia@yahoo.com
Cell: 08858338572
Academic Qualification
Master of Arts (Development Studies) from Annamalai University (May 1985)
Master of Philosophy (Economics) Development Studies from Annamalai University
(August 1988)
Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) Development Studies from Annamalai University
(June 1995)
Impact of new technological change on development of agriculture with reference
to Paddy in Thanjure district, Tamil Nadu.
Other Qualification
Qualified National Educational Test (NET) conducted by University Grant Commission
(UGC), New Delhi in 1986.
Three weeks course on “ Methodology of Rural Social Research” at the National
Institute of Rural Development, (Ministry of Rural Development Undertaken),
Hyderabad in June 1989.
Work Experience
1. Assistant Director (Mar.’92-Dec. Jul’98) for the Beneficiary Assessment of National
Sericulture Project (BA of NSP) and “Social Monitoring of SERI 2000” funded by
World Bank and Swiss Development Cooperation, Institute for Social and Economic
Change, Bangalore.

3. Job Description: Study was carried out through the methods of participant observation,
and the use of questionnaires and conversational interviews. The main objective was to
provide a continuous feedback to the sericulture development agencies. The studies
carried out so far, has been widely appreciated both by the funding agencies as well as
the government implementing agencies.
Was involved in all the phases of the project, right from designing the study, field data
collection to report writing and presentation in National Sericulture workshop held every
year.
Main Development issues that BA of NSP studies covered:
a. Sericulture and livelihood systems.
b. Sericulture production, productivity, marketing, labour utilization, wage, cost and
returns of silk worm rearing vis-à-vis other crops etc.
c. Trafficking- Child labour, educational status, Women-their level of participation,
understand their views, values, problems, needs, infrastructural facilities, health
hazards, sanitation, difficulties of the beneficiaries.
d. Access to resources, technology, credit and their control over resources and income
from sericulture.
e. Poverty Alleviation through sericulture.
f. Irrigation practices in mulberry cultivation in Tamil Nadu- Identification and
charactierisation of the different sources of irrigation for mulberry across the different
economic categories of sericulturists and appropriately different agro-climatic zones.
g. Examination of water sharing practices and allocation of water for different crops.
h. Status of under ground water and surface water sources.
i. Farmers’ preference for drip irrigation and such other modern methods of irrigation
and scope for adoption among different categories of farmers.
2. Research Officer (Oct.’98-August.’99) for the project on “ National Family Health
Survey- funded by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Institute for Social and
Economic Change, Bangalore.
Job description: Conducted massive health survey, which was exclusively meant for
reproductive and child health throughout Karnataka in all the 27 Districts.
3. Research Officer (August.’99-Nov.’2000) at the Gender Study Unit, National
Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, for the External Evaluation project on
Literacy Completion Campaign in Karnataka.

4. Job description: Designing the interview schedule and test paper for the neo-literate,
training the investigators at the district level, executing the tests in all the districts of
Karnataka, data analysis and report writing.
4. Faculty-Research and Training (Dec.’2000-Aug.’2003) in Development
Communication Unit, SEARCH, Bangalore.
Job Description: Was executing the projects like Micro credit, Women Heath, Female
Child Education, Health-HIV/AIDS, Female Infanticide.
Conducted Poverty Alleviation Study and Impact of Dalit Development Programme
Study (Independent Research) in Tamil Nadu. Concentrating project appraisal and
evaluation.
5. Director-Programme (Sep.’2003- Aug.’2010), Development Research Foundation,
Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu.
Job Description: Executing the projects like Sustainable Agriculture (Natural
Resources Management), Micro credit, Women Heath, Female Child Education,
Health-HIV/AIDS, Female Infanticide, It is a center for women empowerment and
Human resource Development. DRF is concentrating project appraisal, evaluation of
projects and consultancy services.
6. Senior Research Officer (Aug.’2010- till date), Centre for Micro Finance, Bankers
Institute of Rural Development (NABARD), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Job Description: Centre for Microfinance Research, BIRD is take up research activities
in the field of microfinance for facilitating policy initiatives and improvements in design
and delivery system of microfinance services by NABARD. Currently I am heading the
project “Redesigning Modules on Training Interventions in Microfinance and
Financial Inclusion”.
Paper Presented
1.“ New technology and Agricultural Development”, Economic Colloquium, Department
of Economics, Annamalai University.
2.Sericulture Under Water Scarcity, National Workshop on “Sericulture and
Development”, I.S.E.C, Bangalore, February 1993.
3.Credit in Sericulture, National Workshop on “ Sericulture and Development”, I.S.E.C,
Bangalore, February 1994.
4.Productivity in Sericulture, National Workshop on “ Sericulture and Development”,
I.S.E.C, Bangalore, February 1995.

5. 5.Sericulture in New Areas of Tamil Nadu, National Workshop on “ Sericulture and
Development”, I.S.E.C, Bangalore, May 1996.
6.Sericulture Under National Sericulture Project “Karnataka” 1989-1996, National
Workshop on “ Sericulture and Development”, I.S.E.C, Bangalore, February 1997.
7. All that Glitters……………. The Dyeing Sector in Sericulture, 1996-1997. National
Workshop on “SERI 2000”, ISEC, Bangalore, March 1997.
8. Irrigation Practices in Mulberry Cultivation: A Study in Tamil Nadu, Workshop on
“SERI 2000”, ISEC, Bangalore, May 1998.
Project Reports
1. P.Pugazhendi (’92-‘93)- Sericulture Under Water Scarcity: A Study in three
clusters in three districts of Tamil Nadu.
2. P.Pugazhendi (’92-‘93)- Women’s Training in Sericulture
3. P.Pugazhendi (’93-‘94)-Credit in Sericulture: A Study of two clusters in Tamil
Nadu.
4. P.Pugazhendi (’94-‘95)- Productivity in Sericulture: A Study of three clusters in
Tamil Nadu.
5. P.Pugazhendi (’95-‘96)- Sericulture in New Areas of Tamil Nadu.
6. P.Pugazhendi (’96)- Review of BA Study Reports, 1991-1996: Tamil Nadu.
7. P.Pugazhendi (’96)- Sericulture Under NSP “ Karnataka”, 1989-1996: A Project
Completion Report.
8. P.Pugazhendi (’97)- All that Glitters……………. The Dyeing Sector in Sericulture.
9. P.Pugazhendi (’97-‘98)- Irrigation Practices in Mulberry Cultivation: A Study in
Tamil Nadu.
10. P.Pugazhendi (’99-‘00)- External Evaluation Project Report on Literacy
Completion Campaign in Karnataka (Mysore, Gadhag, Haveri, Gulbarga, Bangalore
Rural and Mangalore Districts).
11. P.Pugazhendi (’99-‘00)- Poverty Impact Assessment Study of Four Lanceing of
NH4: Tumkur-Haveri Section in Karnataka.
.
12. P.Pugazhendi (’2001)- Poverty Alleviation Strategies in Karimangalam Block,

6. Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu.
13. P.Pugazhendi (’2002)- Impact of Dalit Development Programme in Tamil Nadu
and Podicherry.
14. P.Pugazhendi (’2003)- Joint Action for Sustainable Agriculture Practices in
Tamil Nadu.
15. P.Pugazhendi (’2006)- Report on Trafficking in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu.
16. P.Pugazhendi (’2006)- Tsunami Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project in
Tamil Nadu.
17. P.Pugazhendi (2007)- Revival of Traditional Technology in Agriculture in
Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu.
18. P.Pugazhendi (’2009) – Implementation of non-formal education for democracy in
Villupuram dist, Tamil Nadu, India
Publications
1. P.Pugazhendi (’90) – Irrigation Behaviour- Determinants and Measurements, Indian
Journal of Social Research, Vol.XXXI, No.4,Pp. 387-391.
2. P.Pugazhendi (’91)–Problem and progress of new technology-The Indian experience,
Part A Humanitics, Journal of Annamalai University, Vol.37, No. ,Pp. 387-391.
3. P.Pugazhendi (’93) – “Sericulture under Water Scarcity” Paper in the book
“Sericulture and Development”. Development Sociology Series 1, Ed.J.Acharya,(Ed.
Advisor Prof. M.N.Srinivas), Indian Publishers Distributer, New Delhi (Co-othered).
4. P.Pugazhendi (’94) – Transfer of Technology through Training, Indian Silk,Vol.32,
No.11 ,Pp. 51-54.
5. P.Pugazhendi (’94) – Sericulture Under Water Scarcity: Micro Level Perspectives,
Journal of Applied Economics, Vol.4, No.1, Pp. 69-78.
6. P.Pugazhendi (’97) – Expansion of Sericulture in New Areas: A Study of Tamil
Nadu, Southern Economics, Vol.35(18).
7. P.Pugazhendi (’97) – Accessibility and Repayment of Credit in Sericulture: A
Study in Tamil Nadu, Southern Economics, Vol.36(10).
8. P.Pugazhendi (’98) –Sericulture Productivity and Regional Imbalance in Tamil
Nadu, Southern Economics, Vol.37(14).

7. 9. P.Pugazhendi (’99) – Institutional Credit in Sericulture: A Study in Rural Tamil
Nadu, Land Bank Journal, Vol.XXXVII(III), Pp 45-51.
10. P.Pugazhendi – Implementation of non-formal education for democracy in
Villupuram dist, Tamil Nadu, India (Sent for publication).
11. P.Pugazhendi – SHGs Bank Linkage Programme looking Ahead- The Road Map.
(Sent for publication).

8. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Dr. P.PUGAZHENDI
Permanent Address :Dr. P.Pugazhendi
Alangattan, M. Odaiyur Post
Kattumannarkoil Taluk
Cuddalore Dist
Tamil Nadu – 608 303
e-mail: drfindia@yahoo.com
Father Name : C.A.Paramanantham
Date of Birth : 26.05.1960
Sex : Male
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Religion : Hindu
Language Known : English, Tamil
(Read, Write, Speak)
Kannada
(Speak)
Computer Knowledge : Windows-2000, M.S-word, M.S-Excel, SPSS
Date: 20.11.2010
Signature:

9. Reference : Dr. E.SELVARAJAN, Ph.D.,
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalai Nagar- 608 002
Chidambaram and Taluk
Cuddalore Dt,
Tamil Nadu State
Dr. ANAND INBANATHAN, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor
Sociology Unit
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Dr. V.K.R.V. Road
Nagarabhavi and Post
Bangalore-560 072
Karnataka State
Dr. I. MARUTHI, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor
Agriculture Development and Rural
Transformation Unit
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Dr. V.K.R.V. Road
Nagarabhavi and Post
Bangalore-560 072
Karnataka State