Dr K.N. Raj Expired

Dr K.N. Raj, a brilliant scholar of international repute and influential economist died on 10 Feb 2010. He was born in Thrissur district on May 13, 1924 and received his education at Madras Christian College and the London School of Economics.  Dr Kakkadan Nandanath Raj became the member of the economics wing of the First Planning Commission of India at the age of 26 and helped to draft the country's First Five-Year Plan. Raj remained the financial adviser to prime ministers from Nehru to Narasimha Rao. He was one of the founding members of the Delhi School of Economics where he taught there for 18 years. Later he became Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University. He was also invited by the then Chief Minister of Kerala, C. Achutha Menon, to help found the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram  which went on to be known as the ‘Kerala model' of development in 1972. He received the prestigious award Padma Vibhushan in 2000.