He is the Chairman of GIT and CDER. He is a retired Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, Bharathiar University Coimbatore. He has 40 years of Teaching and Research experience in Higher Educational Institutions and University. He has published around 50 articles in reputed Indian and International Journals. His areas of research specialization is mainly on Public Economics and Environmental Economics. He has guided 7 Ph.D scholars and 40 M.Phil scholars. He has conducted 4 Major research projects funded by UGC and Govt. of Tamilnadu and has also served as consultant for NUEPA university project on Financing of Secondary Education and also served as research consultant for Environmental project and programmes of Water Resource Organisation, PWD, Govt. of Tamilnadu.
He has also served as Director of School of Distance Education, Dean of Centre for Online and Participatory programmes, headed Community College division, acted as incharge of the office of Registrar and COE in Bharathiar University, Coimbatore on few occassions. He has also served as Programme Co-ordinator for NSS programmes of Bharathiar University covering 85 colleges. He is awarded as the best NSS Programme Officer, Govt. of Tamilnadu and also received Environmental Management research award by Deptment of Environment, Government of Tamilnadu.. He has visited Canada, Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia, and presented paper in International conference.