Mainak Mazumdar is a Ph. D from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore and presently Fellow in the Economics Division at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. His Ph. D dissertation was on the Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sector of India in the post patenting scenario. Currently he is working on the growth and regional disparity of India and the linkages between the various sectors of the economy at different levels. Currently working on the following programs: – Product Patent and its implication on the Problem of Availability of Patented Drugs (as a coordinator) – Efficiency and productivity of Indian pharmaceutical industries since the reforms: Malmquist-Meta-Frontier approach (as a coordinator)