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University of Mysore (UoM) Vice-Chancellor N.K. Lokanath released ‘Contemporary Development Debates successful India: A Festschrift’ successful honour of precocious economist Prof. V.K. Nataraj astatine a relation organised by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Research and Extension Centre and Department of Studies successful Economics and Cooperation, UoM.
The measurement comprises 17 well-researched papers addressing modern improvement challenges crossed 4 wide themes: Inclusive Development, Sectoral Perspectives connected Development, Decentralisation and the Political Landscape, and Stimulating New Development Debates.
Speaking aft releasing the publication astatine Vishwajnani auditorium connected December 20, Prof. Lokanath said the essays prosecute with argumentation interventions for women, tribal communities, poorness and employment, acquisition with peculiar notation to close to education, outcomes of nationalist concern successful societal sectors, employability concerns among engineering graduates, municipality improvement and colonisation pressures, Swachh Bharat, improvement budgeting and financing.
“They besides critically analyse the effectiveness of decentralised governance pursuing the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments and interrogate the governmental dimensions of development,” helium said.
Prof. Lokanath described Prof. Nataraj arsenic a “distinguished scholar, whose beingness and enactment near an enduring imprint connected the tract of improvement economics and connected nationalist argumentation sermon successful India”.
The world travel of the precocious economist, who pursued his aboriginal acquisition astatine UoM and aboriginal astatine Pembroke College, Oxford, wherever helium earned aggregate degrees successful economics, was “both affluent and inspiring”.
For implicit 3 decades, Prof. Nataraj was intimately associated with the Institute of Development Studies, Mysuru, wherever helium served with favoritism arsenic a lecturer, reader, professor, and director. He besides served arsenic registrar astatine UoM and subsequently, arsenic manager of Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai.
