The Department of Economics at Sankardev College, Shillong, in collaboration with the Department of Commerce at Kiang Nangbah Government College, Jowai, organised a one day webinar yesterday on the ‘Indian Growth Model’, based on a book titled ‘The Mahalanobis Gowth Model – A Macrodynamics Approach’, written by Prof Chetan Ghate, Pawan Gopalakrishnan and Srishti Grover, who were also the resource persons for the webinar.
The event was organised with the objective to deliberate on the present day digital economy and the importance of mathematics for economics, the target group being faculty members of various colleges and universities as well as research scholars from the North East and the country as a whole.
Prof Ghate, is the Director of the Institute of Economic Growth in New Delhi, a recipient of the 2014 Mahalanobis Memorial Gold Medal for the best research economist in India under the age of 45, member of the Reserve Bank of India’s first Monetary Policy Committee between 2016-2020 and Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi, for over 18 years.
PM Passah, former Professor of the Department of Economics at North-Eastern Hill University moderated the webinar.
