Indian Economy @75

Session : Book Release (Collected articles from Abhijit Sen Interns)

Speakers : ASRI Advisory Committee- Ashwini Kulkarni, Amarjeet Sinha, Siraj Husain, Asmita Kabra, Amit Thorat, Poornima Verma, Virginius Xaxa, Srinavasan Iyer, Himanshu

High Tea

Session : Panel discussion on “Policy Making in an Uncertain World”

Chair/Moderator - Mahendra Dev, Chairman, Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council
Speakers:

• Prabhat Patnaik, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India
• VK Ramachandran, Vice Chairperson, Kerala State Planning Board
• Debashree Mukherjee, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India

Dinner

Session : Thematic session-Paper Presentation Labour, Employment and Structural Transformation
Chair – Surajit Mazumdar, CESP, JNU

Speakers :

• Regional Variations in Structural Change, Employment and Wages in Rural India
  Vinoj Abraham - Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum
• Informality, Surplus Labour, and Structural Transformation
  Surbhi Kesar, SOAS, University of London

Tea Break

Session : Presentation by Abhijit Sen Rural Interns (Structural Transformation) Chair- Surajit Das, CESP, JNU

Speakers :Uzma Sadmani, Archa Raj T R, Anusua Podder, Abhishek Singh

Session : Presentation by Abhijit Sen Rural Interns (Agriculture) Chair- Krithi. S, Jindal Global University

Speakers :Prathmesh Lanjewar, Somil Solanki, Darshna Kaur, Niharika

Lunch

Session : Panel Discussion on “Researching Rural India: Methods and Issues”

Chair/Moderator: Amarjeet Sinha, Former Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
Speakers:

• Alakh Sharma, Director, Institute for Human Development (IHD)
• Ravi Srivastava, Professor and Director, Centre for Employment Studies, IHD
• Ashwini Kulkarni, Director and Founder Trustee, Pragati Abhiyan, Maharashtra
• Praveen Jha, Professor, CESP, JNU

Tea Break

Session : Thematic session-Paper Presentation Agriculture Chair- Praveen Jha, CESP, JNU

Speakers :

• India's Agricultural Development: Reflections on the Legacy of Abhijit Sen
  R Ramakumar - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
• The Long and the Short of it: Some Reflections on Committees, Commitments and Abhijit Sen's Contributions to Agricultural Policy
  Mekhala Krishnamurthy - Ashoka University

Session : Panel Discussion on “Agriculture, Food Security, Poverty & Livelihood”

Chair/Moderator - Siraj Husain, Former Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
Speakers :

• Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Ranchi University
• Madhura Swaminathan, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
• Sudha Narayanan, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Dipa Sinha, Visiting Professor, Azim Premji University

Session : Dinner

Session : Thematic session-Paper Presentation Fiscal Federalism Chair- Santosh Mehrotra, University of Bath

Speakers :

• Political Economy of Industrialisation in Recentralising India: Some Insights from Tamil Nadu
  M. Vijayabaskar - Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai
• The centralisation versus decentralisation tug of war: Interrogating the dynamics of fiscal federalism in India
  Yamini Aiyar - Brown University

Tea Break

Session : Presentation by Abhijit Sen Rural Interns (Fiscal Federalism) Chair- Rohit, CESP, JNU

Speakers :Bhakti Shivaji Pitalewad, Sneha Deb Barman, Sushanta Majhi, Prachujya Pegu

Session : Presentation by Abhijit Sen Rural Interns (Poverty & Inequality) Chair- Arindam Banerjee, School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University

Speakers :Angelina Marndi, Anurag Bhaskare, Pavithra S R, Yashashree Sunil Amrutsagar

Lunch

Session : Thematic session-Paper Presentation Poverty and Inequality Chair- Madhura Swaminathan, ISI Bangalore

Speakers :

• The Great Indian Poverty Debate Gaurav Datt, Monash University, Melbourne
• The Case of Caste Reparations for India Amit Thorat, Centre for Study of Regional Development (CSRD), JNU

Tea Break

Session : Special Lecture: Poverty in India after 2011: An Assessment Chair- C. Rammanohar Reddy

Speakers :Peter Lanjouw Vrije University, Amsterdam

Closing Remarks

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