NEW DELHI: Economist Abhijit Sen, a former Planning Fee member and one of many nation’s foremost consultants on rural financial system, died on Monday night time. He was 72.
“He suffered a coronary heart assault round 11 PM. We rushed him to the hospital, however it was throughout by the point we received there,” stated Dr Pronab Sen, his brother.
In a profession spanning greater than 4 a long time, Prof Abhijit Sen taught economics at Oxford, Cambridge and New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru College, and held a number of necessary authorities positions, together with the chair of the Fee of Agricultural Value and Costs.
He was a member of the Planning Fee from 2004 to 2014, when Manmohan Singh was the prime minister. In 2010, he was awarded the Padma Bhusan for public service.
When the NDA got here to energy in 2014, it appointed Sen to move a excessive stage job pressure to border a long run grain coverage. Sen was a vocal advocate of a common public distribution system for rice and wheat.
He would argue that the burden of meals subsidy on the exchequer was usually exaggerated and that the nation had sufficient fiscal headroom to not solely help a common PDS, but additionally assure a good worth to farmers for his or her produce.
Sen had additionally been related to a number of world analysis and multilateral organisations such because the UNDP, Asian Growth Financial institution, Meals and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN, Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Growth and OECD Growth Centre.
Sen, whose father Samar Sen was a World Financial institution economist, studied physics at New Delhi’s St. Stephen’s school earlier than switching to pursue a doctoral diploma in economics from Cambridge College.
Sen had been affected by breathing-related illnesses for the previous years, which received aggravated in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, stated his brother, Pronab.
He’s survived by spouse, Jayati Ghosh — additionally a well known economist — and daughter Jahnavi.
