New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the first ‘Arun Jaitley Memorial Lecture’ on Friday at 6:30 pm in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi where he will also address the gathering. As per an official press release by the Prime Minister’s Office, the keynote address will be delivered by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister, Government of Singapore, on ‘Growth through Inclusivity, Inclusivity through Growth’.
A panel discussion is also scheduled to take place after the lecture by Mathias Cormann, OECD Secretary-General and Arvind Panagriya, Professor at Columbia University during the event.
The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance has organised the first ‘Arun Jaitley Memorial Lecture’ in recognition of the former union minister’s invaluable contribution to the nation, the PMO statement said.
Arun Jaitley was a union minister in the Modi cabinet who served as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs from 2014 to 2019. He passed away on August 24, 2019 after battling long years of illness.
The Prime Minister is also scheduled to interact with the delegates participating in Kautilya Economic Conclave (KEC), a three-day event being organised from July 8 to 10.
Among the eminent economists who will meet the PM Modi will include Anne Krueger, John Hopkins University; Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics; Robert Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School; John Lipsky, former acting Managing director, IMF and Junaid Ahmed, World Bank country director for India.
KEC is being organised by the Institute of Economic Growth with support from the Ministry of Finance.