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Sheila Bhalla
Born
Sheila Scott

1933 (1933)
Canada
DiedSeptember 25, 2021(2021-09-25) (aged 87–88)
Puducherry, India
Occupations
  • Economist
  • Union activist

Sheila Bhalla (1933-25 September 2021) was a Canadian-Indian labor economist and trade union activist.

She was professor emerita at the School of Social Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and also taught at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her work focused on agricultural and labor economics in the Indian state of Haryana.

Biography and education

Sheila Scott was born in 1933 in Canada. Her father, J.C. W. Scott, was a physicist. She met her husband, the Indian economist, G.S. Bhalla, while they were both undertaking post-graduate research at the London School of Economics. After her marriage, she moved to India with Bhalla, and lived there for the rest of her life. During her time in India, she became fluent in the Panjabi language. She died in 2021, in Puducherry, India.[1][2][3]

Career

In 1969, Bhalla and her husband both joined the faculty of Panjab University, where they taught economics. They were closely involved in establishing a teachers' union at Panjab University.[1] In the late 1970s, they both moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University, where Bhalla taught until her retirement in 1992. At Jawaharlal Nehru University, she headed the then newly-established Centre for Economic Studies and Planning. She also taught at the Institute of Human Development.[2]

Bhalla's research and work related to agricultural economics, with a special focus on the state of

informal labor for the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector.[3] Her contributions to Indian agricultural and labor economics are notable, particularly for her use of large data sets and field surveys in analyzing labor participation.[4] Bhalla's research has been published in Economic and Political Weekly,[5] The Journal of Peasant Studies,[6] Social Scientist,[7] and the Indian Journal of Labor Economics.[8]

Bhalla was also closely involved with agricultural labor movements and unionization, and worked with the

MNREGA , which is a rural employment guarantee scheme in India.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Agricultural economist Sheila Bhalla was a life-long supporter of peasants' rights". The Indian Express. 2021-09-16. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  2. ^ a b c d "Remembering Professor Sheila Bhalla, a Canadian who made Punjab and India her home". The World Sikh News. 2021-09-26. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Sheila Bhalla: A Committed Scholar and Activist". The Wire. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  4. ^ "RAS | Remembering Professor Sheila Bhalla (1933-2021)". www.ras.org.in. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
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  8. ^ Bhalla, Sheila (1993). ""Test of some propositions about the dynamics of changes of the Rural Workforce Structure."". Indian Journal of Labor Economics. 36 (3): 428–439.
  9. ^ "Behind the Post-1991 'Challenge' to the Functional Efficiency of Established Statistical Institutions". Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (7): 7–8. 2015-06-05.
  10. ^ "'MGNREGA Being Systematically Undermined': 250 MPs, Eminent Citizens Write to Modi". The Wire. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
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