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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Liberalisation' of qualifications -Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

'Liberalisation' of qualifications -Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

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published Published on Jul 12, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 12, 2018
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Controversy has again enveloped the bailiwick of the chief economic adviser to the finance ministry amid suggestions that the Narendra Modi government has lowered the academic credentials and experience for the next incumbent who will replace Arvind Subramanian.

Congress leader Ahmed Patel stirred the pot with a tweet: "Why has government diluted the educational and professional requirements for the post of chief economic advisor? Economist positions, even in banks have more rigorous requirements. What is their ulterior motive?"

He was immediately trolled by Modi's army of acolytes at a time the government is under attack on another education-related controversy over Reliance Foundation's Jio Institute featuring on a list of potential "Institutes of Eminence".

On the economic adviser, the Modi government may have diluted qualifications considerably, at least in terms of the years of experience it is seeking in the new incumbent.

The advertisement for the CEA post seeks an economist who has at least a master's degree in economics, preferably with a doctorate, and six years of experience in economic research or giving economic advice or evaluating economic reforms. The economist should be at the most 50 years old if he is coming from outside the government and 56 years of age if he is from within the government.

Interestingly, soon after another eminent and young economist, Sanjeev Sanyal, was appointed as principal economic adviser, a job one notch below that of the CEA's, the government came out with new draft rules for recruiting principal economic advisers which set as essential qualifications a doctorate degree in economics and 10 years' experience.

Another coveted public sector economist's job - that of chief economic adviser with the State Bank of India - requires a master's degree and 12 years' experience.

While finance ministry officials said the educational qualifications for the new CEA had not been lowered, they admitted that the experience criteria had been diluted.

Sources said they had actually been halved from an earlier requirement of 12 years. However, they also pointed out that the person who was picked for the position almost never emerged from the crop of applicants.

"A search committee is set up for such senior jobs and eminent economists who have not even bothered to apply are called up and asked to consider the job," an official said.

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The Telegraph, 12 July, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/liberalisation-of-qualifications-244346?ref=hm-ft-stry-5


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