Tamil Nadu to form economic advisory council to CM with Esther Duflo, Raghuram Rajan and others as members
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government will constitute an “Economic advisory council to the chief minister” with leading economic experts from all over the world as its members.
The government assured that a white paper detailing the true state of Tamil Nadu’s finances will be released in July.
Addressing the state legislative assembly, governor Banwarilal Purohit said the council would consist of Nobel laureate Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan, former chief economic advisor to the central government Dr Arvind Subramanian, development economist Jean Dreze and former Union finance secretary Dr S Narayan.
