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GMC Meet The Press - 2
February 4, 2007 : Professor Y K Alagh
Topic: India 2020: The Challenges (With a
focus on Gujarat)
PROFILE OF PROF. Y K ALAGH
Yoginder K Alagh, born February 14, 1939,
Chakwal (India) is currently Chancellor,
Nagaland University, Chairman, Institute of
Rural Development and Vice Chairman of
Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and
Social Research, Ahmedabad. He is a Trustee
of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He is an
Independent Director of Tata Chemicals and
Shree Cements. He was earlier Minister of
Power and for Planning & Programme
Implementation with additional charge of the
Ministry of Science & Technology. He has
been Member, Planning Commission (in the
rank of Minister of State). He has been
Chairman, Bureau of Industrial Costs and
Prices, Ministry of Industry and Secretary
to the Government of India. He holds a
Doctoral Degree in Economics from the
University of Pennsylvania and Master's
Degree in the same subject from that
University and the University of Rajasthan.
He has taught Economics at the University of
Rajasthan, Indian Institute of Management,
Calcutta, University of Jodhpur, Swarthmore
College and the University of Pennsylvania.
He has seven books and over a hundred
articles to his credit published both at
home and abroad. He has been Chairman
Agricultural Prices Commission of India,
Director, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic
and Social Research, Ahmedabad, Adviser to
the Planning Commission of India and
Chairman of the Economic Group of Indian
Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has
travelled widely and represented India in a
number of high level official delegations
and seminars. He was Member of the Council,
United Nations University and also Chairman,
Scientific Steering Committee of the
International Social Science Programme of
UNESCO. He was President of Gujarat Economic
Association, Member, India Council of Social
Science Research, President, Indian
Econometric Society, and Indian Society of
Labour Economics, Member of University
Senates at Jodhpur, Vallabh Vidyanagar,
Ahmedabad, and on the governing bodies of
the International Institute of Labour
Studies, Geneva, Indian Institute of
Management, Calcutta and the Giri Institute
of Development Studies of which he is
currently Chairman. He has been Chairman /
member of a number of official committees at
the State / National level and is currently
Chairman of a Committee to reposition the
CACP after WTO and a Committee on
fertisliser price reform. He has been
awarded the VKRV Rao Award in Economics for
1981. Prior to the charges as the Union
Minister of State (Independent Charge), he
was Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru
University and was Senior Fellow, World
Institute of Development Economic Research,
United Nations University, Helsinki. He was
the Coordinator for South Asia Technology
Network of the Commission of European
Communities at Brussels, Vice Chairman,
State Planning Commission of Gujarat in the
rank of Minister and Special Adviser to the
Secretary General of the UN (RIO) Conference
on Environment and Development. He is
President of the Human Development Institute
and Shirdi Sai Rural Institute, Loni. He
chaired the Expert Group of Cauvery Dispute,
constituted by the Prime Minister of India,
and was Consultant to the Mekong River
Commission. He has been Senior Adviser
Consultant to FAO, UNFPA, ILO, ESCAP World
Bank and UNDP and Visiting Professor at the
prestigous Sc.PO of Paris in 1995,
Distinguished Fullbright Lecture in the U.S
in 1994 and Shastri Lecturer in Canada in
2000. He is,Senior Fellow of CIGI in Canada,
Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, Delhi and the World Innovation
Foundation, UK. He writes a coloumn for the
Indian Express on agriculture and rural
development.
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