Rajesh Shukla is Director of NCAER Center for Macro Consumer Research (NCAER CMCR). He is a Statistician, who has specialised in sample survey and data analysis. He has been involved for over 15 years in primary and secondary data based socio-economic studies (baseline, impact evaluation and longitudinal) and has executed over 25 national level studies covering a range of topics such as household income, expenditure and saving; tourism, science and technology, public understanding of science, youth as human resource and energy.He has worked as technical advisor to several reputed national and