The School of HSS and M, IIT Bhubaneswar is conducting a short term course on “Productive Efficiency:Theory and Practice”, under GIAN programme of the MHRD from May 30 to June 8.
The course was inaugurated by Dean, IIT Prof Sujit Roy. Coordinator Dr Naresh Chandra Sahu highlighted the main objectives of the course and pointed out that Indian economy is growing at a very high rate vis-a–vis the industrially advanced countries of today’s world and the high-growth trajectory can be sustained by enhancing productive efficiency of different sectors of Indian economy.
He also said, “By improving productivity efficiency, we can achieve ‘green growth’, i.e., producing more
goods and services with less resource.”
A total of 64 participants, comprising of research scholars and faculty members are participating in the ongoing short term course from different premier institutes of the country like the IIT Kanpur, the IIT Khargpur, the IIT Indore, the Central University of Jammu, the Aligarh Muslim University, the University of Hyderabad, the Utkal University and the Ravenshaw University etc. Prof Kaliappa Kalirajan from Australian National University and Prof Biresh Sahoo of the XIMB, Bhubaneswar are the
international and national resource persons respectively.
Prof Kaliappa Kalirajan addressed the participants and focused on the importance of productivity efficiency for reducing poverty and maintaining high economic growth in India to achieve better standard of living.