Dr G Viswanathan elected president of Indian Economic Association Conference
4 Jan 2018 10:10 PM IST
New Delhi: Founder Chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Dr GViswanathan has been unanimously elected as President of the Centenary Second Year Conference of the Indian Economic Association.
The First Year of the Centenary Celebrations was held at Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh between December 27 and 30, 2017. The selection was made during the General Body to be President of Centenary Second Year Conference of IEA.
Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, inaugurated the first year centenary celebrations at Acharya Nagarjuna University. E S L Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate for Peace and Founder of Grameen Bank, former RBI Governor C.Rangarajan were among others present on the occasion in the inaugural function.
During the Conference, Dr G Viswanathan presided over a special lecture by Prof Jomo Kwane Sundaram, a leading World Bank and United Nations economist from Malaysia. Sundaram spoke on the importance of trade for economic development. Dr GViswanathan stated that good politics should ensure cooperation among numerous political parties of India to have a common development agenda and clean politics free from corruption. He invited the IEA to guide the nation with good ideas for optimum use of public expenditure and allied fiscal policies.
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