Sanjeev Kumar is an faculty in the Department of Economics, University of Lucknow, Lucknow. He was previously working at Dyal Singh College (DSC), University of Delhi. He obtained his doctorate (Ph.D) in Economics from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. He had qualified NET-JRF (UGC) in Economics and was recipient of junior and senior research fellowship from University Grants Commission, New Delhi, for his doctoral work. He has published several books (05) and research papers (45) in reputed journals and has done seven major research projects from ICSSR, MHRD, NIAP-ICAR and Delhi University. His research interests are in the field of agricultural and rural development.