Yoginder K Alagh (14 February 1939 – 6 December 2022) was an Indian economist and

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of Government of India. He was the Chairman of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) from 2006 to 2012. He was the Chancellor of the

Central University of Gujarat Central University of Gujarat is a public central university in Gandhinagar, Gujarat offering courses at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. The university includes 16 schools, 14 academic departments, and 2 other special centres ...

, Gandhinagar.

Early life

Alagh was born at Chakwal in Punjab, now in Pakistan, to Bhagat Ram. He studied at Maharaja's College, Jaipur and Department of Economics at University of Rajasthan. He held a doctorate in Economics from the

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, USA.

Career

Academic career

Alagh taught Economics at the University of Rajasthan,

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established, and has been recognized as an Instit ...

University of Jodhpur Jai Narain Vyas University (JNVU, formerly known as University of Jodhpur) is an educational institution in Jodhpur city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Established in 1962, the university took over the four colleges of Jodhpur run by the sta ...

, Swarthmore College and the

. He acted as the 7th Vice-Chancellor of the

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. He was founding member of Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad presently one of India's pioneering Planning and Public policy institutes.

Political career

Alagh was elected to

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from Gujarat in November 1996 and continued till April 2000. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Planning and Programme Implementation, Science and Technology and Power for Government of India. He headed various institutions and Commissions and acted as expert with a number of UN organisations. He was also the Member of Planning Commission, Govt. of India.Symposium Profile from the Institute for Human Development (IHD) http://www.ihdindia.org/PDFs/symposium_profile_website.pdf

Personal life

Alagh was married to Raksha Alagh on 9 June 1967. He had a daughter, Tavishi Alagh (an independent filmmaker) and a son, Munish Alagh (post doctoral fellow at IIM Ahmedabad). Alagh died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 83.

Awards

#V K R V Rao Prizes in Social Science Research in 1981 in Economics discipline. The award is instituted by Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. ^Fellow, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Elected First Fellow of the Society in 2011

Publications

*''Indian Development Planning and Policy, Wider Studies in Development Economics'', 1991, Second Edition, 1995 *''Sustainable Development : From Concept to Action, Techniques for Planners, Geneva, UNCED, reprinted in Land and Man : Essays in Sustainable Development'', Delhi, Har Anand, 1995 *''Growth Performance of the Indian Economy'', Journal of Developing Economics, Tokyo, Vol. XXX, n° 2, pp. 97–116 *''Indian Development Models, in Essays in the Honour of P.C. Mahalonobis'', Indian National Science Academy, 1995 *''Fuel for Power'', Lovraj Kumar memorial lecture, 1996, Current Science, Nov. 1996 *''State of the Indian Farmer: An Overview'', Academic Press and Ministry of Agriculture, 2004 *''On Sherpas and Coolies: The L20 and Non Brahmanical Futures'', in John English, R.Thakur and A.F.Cooper ed., ''Reforming From the Top, A Leaders 20 Summit'', UNU Press, pp. 169–186 *''Agriculture in A Rural Urban Continuum'', ''Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics'', April 2011, pp.165-177 *''Green Revolution, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Vol.1'', p. 301, Oxford University Press, 2012 *''India2020, Journal of Quantitative Economics'', Jan. 2006, pp.1-14 *''The Future of Indian Agriculture'', 2013, National Book Trust *'Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy:The Indian Case', Springer Economic Policy Briefs, Springer Macmillan, 2018.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alagh, Yoginder K 1939 births 2022 deaths Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Rajasthan alumni Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat 20th-century Indian economists Academic staff of the Institute of Rural Management Anand