The Chief Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Dr Arvind Subramanian, will deliver the fourth Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) on November 21, 2015 at the NDDB campus in Anand.
Subramanian will deliver the lecture on the subject of 'Reforms in Indian Agriculture', which will be attended by academicians, practitioners, eminent thinkers, policy makers, students, and employees of IRMA, NDDB, GCMMF and other sister organisations.
The memorial lecture is an annual event to mark Dr Kurien’s birth anniversary and commemorate the exemplary work done by the father of White Revolution in India.
The first Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof M.S. Swaminathan, FRS, UNESCO chair in Ecotechnology and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), the second by Prof V S Vyas, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, and Member, Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister and the third by Prof Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, last year.