Alleviating urban poverty in India: the role of capabilities and entrepreneurship development

Dr Jaskirat Singh, an accomplished academician and researcher, has a wealth of experience in research, teaching, and administration. He is dedicated to leveraging his extensive knowledge to advance the development and dissemination of knowledge in social sciences. Dr Singh served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Education in New Delhi, where he collaborated with professors and researchers from across the globe to design and execute research projects. He conducted comprehensive literature reviews, gathered and analyzed data, and contributed to research proposals, reports, and publications. Dr Singh’s contributions to the field of management research have been significant, evidenced by the publication of a high-quality research paper with Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, Wiley and Inderscience, which he produced while holding the highly competitive ICSSR Postdoctoral fellowship in Management. Dr Singh has also served as a Post-Secondary Teaching and Research Assistant, assisting professors and researchers with their teaching and research tasks. In addition to his academic and research experience, Dr Singh has actively participated in various international conferences and workshops. He has presented research papers and contributed to discussions on various topics in social sciences, including Management, social and developmental economics, and entrepreneurship. Dr Singh has published his research in several reputable academic publishers, including Sage, ProQuest, EBSCO, Wiley, and Emerald. His publications have been widely cited, and his contributions have been instrumental in advancing the knowledge in his field.

Dr Manjit Singh is presently working as a Professor at the University School of Applied Management, Punjabi University, Patiala, and has 26 years of teaching experience in the field of Management and Commerce education at the university level. He has 105 research publications to his credit in national and international journals. He has got an opportunity to work with foreign universities on a UNDP assignment for more than two years (2002–2004) and has served as Head of the Department at Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management, RWANDA. He was actively involved in Teaching, Research, and Training at the international level. He has attended UNESCO (Paris) programs on University Enterprise Management and has also attended a program on “Competitiveness and Strategy” based on Harvard Business School case studies conducted by “On the frontier” (USA). He has been associated with the Curtin University of Technology, Australia as a course facilitator for the Accounting and Finance courses. He has also been associated with Infosys for the Campus Connect program as a soft skills trainer. He has participated and presented papers in more than 100 national and international seminars/conferences and has acted as Resource Person in various orientation and refresher courses conducted by various Universities in the region. Twenty-seven students have already completed Ph.D. degrees; eight more are pursuing doctoral research. He is currently also working as Director, Placements, and Coordinator of the Centralised Admission Cell of Punjabi University, Patiala.