Prof. N. R. Prasad Reddy has a Master's degree in Science (Statistics). He is specialized in preparation of profiles for low investment projects,promotion of MSMEs and Planning and Pomotion of Agro industries. Mr. Reddy's main achievements have been his contribution to the publication of "Handbook of Statistics on Small Scale Industries in India", and studies on concurrent evaluations of different government schemes, industrial potential survey of different states, impact studies on programmes. He was a member of the Institute's team that worked on "Design of Project Profiles for MSMEs", a consultancy project for the Government of Mauritius.