Dr Umakanta Mohapatra, presently serving as Public Relation Officer to Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha has around ten years of teaching experience at graduate and post graduate level both as a regular and guest faculty. He has wide acquaintance with developmental administration, management of peoples’ perception, and, activities of the grass root voluntary organizations. To his credit, Dr Mohapatra has research articles published in Scopus, Copernicus and ISSN indexed journals. He has delivered lectures in UGC cohesive programmes; co-authored the books
Social Change:
Themes and Perspectives and
Rural Sociology; co-edited the books
The Wonder that is Kendrapara and
Angul District Gazetteer; and, has authored the book titled
An Introduction to Indian Society. He has also guided evaluation studies on the impact of NGO interventions launched by a leading CSO.