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- PM Modi to speak at Arun Jaitley Memorial Lecture in Delhi on Friday
- Tharaman Shanmugaratnam, a senior minister in the Singapore government, will deliver the keynote address, said the PMO
- Finance Ministry organizes lecture in recognition of Jaitley’s invaluable contribution to India
PM Modi News UpdatesPrime Minister Narendra Modi will speak at the first ‘Arun Jaitley Memorial Lecture’ in the national capital on Friday (July 8), in which Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a senior minister in the Singapore government, will deliver the keynote address on ‘Development through Inclusiveness’. Inclusiveness through development,’ the PMO said.
The event will feature a panel discussion with OECD Secretary General Mathias Corman and Columbia University Professor Arvind Panagariya.
The PMO said that the Finance Ministry has organized the lecture in recognition of Jaitley’s invaluable contribution to the nation.
A prominent functionary of the BJP, Jaitley was the finance minister in the first Modi government. He was also a close aide of the Prime Minister. He passed away in 2019 at the age of 66.
During the programme, Modi will also interact with delegates participating in the Kautilya Economic Conference (KEC), a three-day event to be held from July 8 to July 10.
Economists Modi will meet include Anne Kruger of Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas Stern of the London School of Economics, Robert Lawrence of Harvard Kennedy School, John Lipsky, former executive managing director of the IMF and Junaid Ahmed, country director of the World Bank for India. . among others.
KEC is being organized by the Institute of Economic Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance.
(with inputs from agencies)
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