UNIT - I

1. Statistics : Meaning, Nature and Limitations 2. Statistics : Scope and Importance 3. Statistical Investigation 4. Types and Collection of Data 5. Questionnaire and Schedule 6. Sample Survey 7. Editing of Collected Data 8. Classification and Tabulation of Data 9. Diagrammatic Presentation of Data 10. Graphic Presentation of Data 11. Construction of Frequency Distribution 12. Measures of Central Tendency 13. Geometric Mean and Harmonic Mean 14. Partition Values 15. Measures of Dispersion 16. Measures of Skewness 17. Moments 18. Measures of Kurtosis 19 Correlation.

UNIT – II ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Economic Development : Meaning, Measurement, Indicators and Determinants 2. Developed and Under-developed (Developing) Economy 3. Obstacles in Economic Development or Causes of Under development 4. Terms of Trade and Economic Development 5. Human Resources and Economic Development 6. Factors affecting Economic Growth : Labour, Capital and Technology 7. Socio-economic Infrastructure and its importance 8. Myrdal's Theory of Circular Causation 9. Nelson's Theory of Low-Level Equilibrium-Trap 10. Rodan's Theory of Big Push 11. Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth 12. Harvey Leibenstein's Theory of Critical Minimum Effor 13. Theory of Economic Growth-Marx 14. Theory of Economic Growth-Schumpeter 15. The Harrod-Domar Growth Models 16. Doctrine of Balanced and Unbalanced Growth 17. Saving, Investment and Capital Formation 18. Disguised Unemployment and Saving Potentiality-Nurkse Model 19. Lewis's Theory of Unlimited Supplies of Labour 20. Problem of Choice of Technique or Technology 21. Foreign Capital and Economic Development 22. Growth, Poverty and Income Inequalities 23. Monetary Policy of India 24. Fiscal Policy of India 25. Price Policy of India 26. Income Policy in Economic Development 27. Resource Mobilisation in Economic Development 28. Black Money-Parallel Economy in India 29. Export-Import Policy of India 30. New Economic Policy-Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation.

UNIT – III PLANNING

1. Investment Criteria in Economic Development 2. Fundamental Principles of Planning 3. Types and Techniques of Economic Planning 4. Project Evaluation and Cost-Benefit Analysis 5. Planning in India : Objectives, Strategies and Achieve-ments 6. Changing Role of State and Market Mechanism in Economic Policy of India 7. Formation of Five Year Plans in India and Gadgil Formula 8. Economic Growth and Social Injustice in Indian Plans 9. Sectoral Allocation of Resources in Indian Plans 10. Financing of the Plans 11. Industrial Development during Planning Period 12. Industrial Policy in India 13. Agriculture and Agriculture Policy in India 14. Unemployment in India 15. Poverty in India 16. Ninth Five Year Plan, 1997-2002 17. Tenth Five Year Plan, 2002-2007 18. The Economy of Uttarakhand : A General Study.