Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao (born 15 May 1929) is an Indian economist and writer. He was a member of the

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from 2004 to 2008 and chaired the Technical Committee on Drought prone Areas Programme and Desert Development Programme of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the president of India in 2004, for contributions in the field of Literature and Education.

Early life

Rao was born in Sircilla of present-day

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

, India. He completed his B.A in 1955 at Nizam College, Hyderabad, M.A.(Economics) in 1957 at

Osmania University Osmania University is a collegiate public state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farman to establish OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on the day of 28 August 1918. It ...

, Hyderabad and his PhD (Economics) in 1962 at the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

; He was also Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics,

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

, 1966–67.

Career

Rao is the Chairman of the

Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad The Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) is an Indian autonomous research institute, established in 1980 to facilitate research activity in Economics and Social Sciences. It was a brain child of B.P.R. Vithal, IAS (Retd)., a former Princi ...

. He remained a member of the

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and Eighth Planning Commission and also the

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. On receiving the Padma Bhushan from the president of India in 2004 he said in his felicitation speech: “I learnt precision in writing from Professor Dr Vikas Mishra (economist) who was my supervisor for Ph.D thesis. Prof. Mishra used to say, ‘one should always ask whether the sentence that one has written is really necessary’. After reading the first draft of my thesis, he suggested deletion of a number of passages by putting round brackets indicating the portions to be deleted. On one occasion he picked up from his shelf an old draft of his own thesis and showed me the similar round brackets placed by his supervisor, Arthur Lewis who was later to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.”

Bibliography

* ''Economic Reforms and Poverty Alleviation in India''. * ''Regional Disparities, Smaller States and Statehood For Telangana'' *''Indian Economy and Society in the Era of Globalisation and Liberalisation: Essays in honour of Prof. A.M. Khusro'', Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2004 (eds. jointly with

B. B. Bhattacharya Barid Baran Bhattacharya (9 March 1945 – 14 February 2017) was an Indian economist and educationist. He was vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also Director and Professor at the Institu ...

and N.S. Siddharthan)

References

External links

Profile

Article by C. H. Hanumantha Rao

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