Dr. A.Venugopala Reddy

Dr. A. Venugopala Reddy is currently Research Officer, Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore, India. His primary research interests are in public finance, fiscal decentralisation and panchayat raj and rural development.

Venu received his Ph.D. (Economics) from Sri Krishnadevaraya University Anantapur Andhra Pradesh. Prior to joining PAC, Venu was at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India.

Venu was involved in several Citizen Report Cards studies carried out by Public Affairs Centre in various states and cities of India. Recently he has been involved in conducting a pilot social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) in Gulbarga district, Karnataka. The major findings were presented to the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department, Government of Karnataka. He is also involved in the project entitled “Land as a Municipal Financing Option: A Pilot Study from India” the draft report for which was submitted to the Thirteenth Finance Commission, Government of India. Further, he worked in a project entitled “Designing & Implementing Knowledge, Attitude and Perception Survey on Labour Migration” sponsored by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India. Besides, Venu also participated in a project sponsored by the Department for International Development (DFID) on “Assessing Citizen Satisfaction on Urban Service Delivery of Urban Local Bodies in Kolkata.”

Dr. Reddy can be reached at Venu@pacindia.org