metro india news  I hyderabad

Winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (the Nobel Prize in Economics), Prof. Abhijit Banerjee met Chief Minister Revanth Reddy here on Saturday. He discussed several innovative ideas in urban development, economic growth, augmenting public revenues, fiscal discipline, large-scale skilling and jobs creation.

The Nobel laureate also accepted the invitation from the Chief Minsiter to join the illustrious and globally renowned list of Advisors of the TelanganaRising vision Board. While discussing mass scale jobs creation, Prof Banerjee spoke of the need to create unique short-term courses in traditional skills with modern design and appeal, marketing, use of social media technology to help traditional artisans turn into modern entrepreneurs. He also suggested to the Chief Minister to include crafts, arts and creativity as be a significant part of the Bharat Future City.

During the discussions, Prof Banerjee expressed great appreciation for the pioneering efforts of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in recruitment of transgenders into police and municipal departments, envisioning Hyderabad core urban area within the ORR as a pure-services zone, and creation of skills and sports university.