107th Annual Indian Economic Association Conference begins at KU
A three-day 107th Annual Conference "Sustainable, Developed and Atmanirbhar Bharat" organised by the department of economics, Kurukshetra University, in collaboration with Indian Economic Association (IEA) started on Friday.
The chief guest of the inaugural session, Kurukshetra University Vice-Chancellor Prof Som Nath Sachdeva said Indian economists would have a significant contribution in realising PM Modi's vision of developed India by 2047.
He said “India has made its own identity in the whole world in the field of digital payment, arms export, space technology and entrepreneurship. Today, India is the fifth largest economy in the world and by 2030 India will be established as the third largest economy in the world and self-reliant Indian model is setting new dimensions in the field of entrepreneurship today.”
President of Indian Economic Association and Vice-Chancellor of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Prof Tapan Kumar Shandilya said the Indian education tradition was inherent in the modern Indian economic system. Kautilya's Arthashastra and Chanakya Niti were the pillars of the Indian cultural economy.
Vice-Chancellor of Atal Bihari Vajpayee University, Bilaspur Chhattisgarh, Prof ADN Bajpai said the credit for the modern form of India's economy went to former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
The vice-president, north zone of the Indian Economic Association, Dr Jothi Murugan, and academic coordinator, IEA, DR BP Chandramohan also addressed the conference.
Conference organising secretary Prof Ashok Chauhan said in the conference, 780 research papers would be presented in 16 technical sessions.
A special issue of Indian Economic Journal and IEA membership profile and some books: Women empowerment in India (perspective, issues and challenges), Viksit Bharat @ 2047: The vision, empowering lives for a prosperous tomorrow, The untold story: The quest for development in the desert: A study of HRRL Impact, Sthaniye Nagar Nikaay Ka Vitiya Swarup, and Bharat to Viksit Bharat opportunities and challenges were released in the inaugural session of the conference.
