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K.N. Prasad (Kedarnath Prasad) had his education in Patna University (established in 1917) from Matriculatin (1943) to Master of Arts in Economics (1949). He entered the Bihar Education Service in 1949 as a lecturer in Economics. Mr. Prasad was awarded the Ph.D. in Economics by the Cambridge University in 1960. In 1962 he became Reader and in 1964 University Professor. In 1975 he became Principal, Patna College. In January 1979 he moved to the university department of Economics as its Head. Between August 1979 and April 1987 he was Vice-Chancellor of Patna University twice (also Dean of the Faculty of Social Science for a term). After retirement from the University Service, in December 1989 he became Member (Economics) of the State Planning Board for a period of three years. He was also Member (Economics) of the Second Bihar Irrigation Commission upto August 1994. In the last five decades he has produced a large number of books (listed in the bibliography; extending those written in Hindi, of which five were reciplients of awards during 1952-54) as well as many research papers (a few of them in international journals). He directed a number of field studies. He supervised the research awarded research degrees. He was associated with numerous academic and administrative bodies and institutions, state and national. He is a widely travelled man. He was one of the earliest President of the Bihar State Economics Association.

Dr. K.S. Raghavan served as Dean (Academic) and Professor and Head, Department of Information Science, University of Madras, Chennai before joining the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore as Professor. His areas of interest include Knowledge Organization and Semantic Relations.