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Abhijit Sen, Leading Economist of Indian Agriculture, Passes Away

-TheWire.in

Apart from teaching at JNU, he was a member of the Planning Commission from 2004-2014 and headed the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices, 1997-2000.

New Delhi: Professor Abhijit Sen, a leading expert on the rural economy and a former member of the Planning Commission, died here on Monday night after a brief illness. He was 72 years old.

In an academic career spanning over four decades, Sen taught economics at Sussex, Oxford, Cambridge and Essex before joining the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1985. There, along with economists like Krishna Bharadwaj, Prabhat Pattnaik, C.P. Chandrashekhar, Amit Bhaduri and his wife Jayati Ghosh, he helped build the department’s reputation as a leading centre for development economics and the study of the Indian economy.

Apart from his teaching and research, Sen played a crucial role on the policy side too. In 1997, the United Front government appointed him chairman of the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices – the ministry of agriculture body tasked with recommending minimum support prices for a number of farm commodities. When his term ended three years later, he was asked by the National Democratic Alliance government to head the High-Level Committee of Experts on Long Term Grain Policy. Among the recommendations the committee made was to introduce a universal public distribution system (PDS) for rice and wheat for all consumers across India, and for the CACP to be made an empowered, statutory body.

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