Kerala - Thrissur   

Conference in honour of K.N. Raj to begin tomorrow

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR, SEPT. 30. A national conference on ``Planning and development: Institutions and Markets'' organised in honour of the eminent economist, K.N. Raj, will begin at the St. Thomas College here on Saturday.

Addressing a press conference here today, the organising committee office-bearers said the former President, K.R. Narayanan, who is a classmate of Dr. Raj, would attend the inaugural session and deliver a talk on ``Raj as a political being''.

The former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governors, I. G. Patel and Bimal Jalan, would attend the inaugural session and deliver talks on ``Raj as a policy adviser'' and ``Raj as an economist'' respectively.

The former West Bengal Finance Minister, Asok Mitra, will talk on ``Raj and the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)'', and the former Director of the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), A. Vaidyanathan, will talk on ``Raj as a builder of institutions''.

A.V. Jose of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and the economist, Sudipto Mundle, who are students of Dr. Raj, will give talks on ``Raj as a teacher'' at the opening session.

Technical sessions

The first technical session on ``Issues in Development and Planning— Indian experience'' will be chaired by Dr. Patel. The Deputy Governor of the RBI, K.S. Krishnaswamy, the former Deputy Governor of the RBI, S.L. Shetty, Ashoka Mody of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Mihir Rakshit of Presidency College, Kolkata, will present papers in the session. The second technical session on ``Issues in organisation and growth of agriculture'' will be chaired by the economist, G. S. Bhalla. Prabhat Patnaik of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and K. Narayanan Nair of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) are among those who will present papers in the session.

Mundle, economist, will chair the third session on ``Issues in industrial growth in India''. C.P. Chandrasekhar of the JNU, K.L. Krishna of the Delhi School of Economics and K. Sunil Mani of the CDS, will present papers in this session.

``Issues in globalisation: growth and income distribution in developing societies'', will be the title of the first session of the second day and Nirmal Chandra, economist, will chair it. Jose and J. Krishnamurty of the ILO, K. Sundaram of the Delhi University, and R. Nagaraj of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Development Studies, Mumbai, are expected to present papers in this session.

Kerala experience

``The Kerala Experience'' is the focus of the final technical session and P. S. Appu, economist, will chair it.

The noted economist, P.K. Michael Tharakan, T.M. Thomas Isaac, MLA, and K.P. Kannan, CDS Director, will present papers in this session. The students of St. Thomas College will present a study on decentralisation in this session. The concluding session is to remember the contributions of the late Krishnaraj, who was the editor of EPW and the inspiration behind the conference, the organisers said.

Dr. Michael Tharakan, A.M. Francis, Principal, St. Thomas College, T. S. Vijayasankar and T. P. Sreedharan, economists, and A. A. Baby, Head of Department of Economics, St. Thomas College, were among those who addressed the press conference.

See also Page 5

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Kerala

News: Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | Updates: Breaking News |

Stories in this Section

Conference in honour of K.N. Raj to begin tomorrow
Captive breeding of elephants mooted

Copyright © 2004, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu