ABOUT THE COURSE
This course is
designed to introduce the role of infrastructure in economic growth.The broad view of physical as well as social infrastructure will be
dealt in depth which will be helpful for the students at UG level and
also for the M.Tech students in Civil and Engineering, researchers at
various infrastructure firms and Non Governmental organization in
social sector.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Nalin
Bharti is an Assistant Professor of Economics (in School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna)
and works in the field of Macroeconomic Reforms, WTO and India. After
finishing doctorate from JNU, New Delhi in 2005 he has served 12th
Finance Commission, Government of India and NALSAR University of Law
Hyderabad (India’s top Law School).He has a large contribution in
National as well as in international Journal and books. He has also
supervised projects for UNICEF. His
recent book Privatization Unbound, Bookwell, 2009 is
an important inclusion for India’s top economic and business
institution.
CERTIFICATION EXAM
Dates of exams: 26 March 2017
Time: Shift1 : 9am-12noon;Shift 2: 2pm- 5pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
The list of cities where the exam will be conducted will be available in the registration form.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATE
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of best 6 out of 8 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Patna It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
SYLLABUS OUTLINE
Week-1-
Economics and Infrastructure
Week-2- Finance for Infrastructure
Week-3- Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Week-4- Challenges for
Infrastructure Development
Week-5- Economic Model for Infrastructure
Development
Week-6- Infrastructure in an Open Economy,
Week-7-
Infrastructure Development in India
Week-8- A Comparison of
Infrastructure in India with world.