MALOUT: Dr. Rajinder Kumar Uppal, a prolific writer, an outstanding academician and the more ingenious guide has been selected for Amity Excellence Award for Best Academic Author in the area of Banking to Professor Uppal.
It will be conferred during INBUSH ERA WORLD SUMMIT -2020 which is scheduled to be held on 18th Feb, 20th Feb 2020 at Amity University, Noida Campus. Presently, he is serving as an associate professor of economics at DAV College, Malout (Punjab) and Principal Investigator of a UGC-Funded Major Research Project on Indian Banking. He is considered as master of professional academic work.
As a matter of fact, his research fervor and academic zeal primarily focuses upon banking and finance. He heralded a new era of globally competitive Indian banking system. He authored/edited seventy two books and since 2014 some of his books earned global recognition with Google scholar citation such as 548 h-index 11 and i10 index is 15. Amongst his prominent books Indian Banking in the Globalized World-2013, Information Technology in Banks- A New Gateway for Sucsess-2018, E-Age Banking - A Future Outlook-2018, Banking with Technology- A New Vision 2020 have won an array of laurels. Through his books, he envisaged the challenges and opportunities regarding the use of e-banking particularly in public sector banks. He was instrumental in suggesting the reforms in e-technology. His prodigious research talent gave him leverage to write as many as two seventy five research papers on banking and finance.
He presented seventy two research papers in different national and international conferences. His claim as a researcher was never unfounded as eight of his research papers were lauded at different international conferences held at Hawaii, Indonesia, Finland, Costa-Rica, Australia, London and Pakistan respectively. His insatiable craving for research got stimulus under the aegis of UGC and HRD. As many as seven major post-doctorate research projects were funded by UGC, ICSSR and HRD, New Delhi.
He reciprocated successfully and harnessed his research skill with incredible finesse and ease.
. His academic and research works holds promise for his society as his plea of merger of banks eight years back has been implemented by the present Indian dispensation. The loss of human resources due to cancer has again caused a stir in his indefatigable research mind and he has embarked on a new project i.e “An empirical Study of Loss of Human Resources with the Extensive Penetration of Cancer in the Malwa Belt of Punjab and its Future Perspectives.” Infact, he is an asset for the society. His works and publications amply bore the insignia of his academic pedestal in a short span of time.