Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao (born 15 May 1929) is an Indian economist and writer. He was a member of the National Advisory Council 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 in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

, 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 university, collegiate Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, issued a ''firman'' calling f ...

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

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

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, 1966–67.

Career

Rao is the Chairman of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad. He remained a member of the Seventh and Eighth Planning Commission and also the Finance Commission of India. 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 and N.S. Siddharthan)

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Profile

Article by C. H. Hanumantha Rao

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