Monday, October 21, 2013

PlanCom member Narendra Jadhav keen to contest on Congress ticket

............ “The Congress high command will take a final decision on Jadhav's nomination. In Jadhav, the party will nominate an educationist with a reckoning at the global level.” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called Jadhav, “a role-model for the disempowered millions in our country.” As an economist, Jadhav worked with Reserve Bank of India, the International Monetary Fund, the Afghan and Ethiopian governments. As vice chancellor of Pune University, Jadhav transformed it to a model state university in India. In 2008, the Maharashtra chief minister appointed him as the chairman of a one man high powered committee in the context of farmers’ suicides. The Jadhav Committee Report has been accepted by the government and is being implemented.......

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