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IG Patel as Deputy Economic Adviser

As the Chairman of the Planning Commission, Prime Minister Nehru signs the draft first five year plan in 1951. To his right is Gulzarilal Nanda, Deputy Chairman. Behind Nanda is RK Patil (ICS, 1931), Member, who resigned from the service in 1943 for social work. Partially covered behind him is probably N Raghavan Pillai (ICS,1922), Cabinet Secretary and ex-officio Secretary to the Commission. To his right is Tarlok Singh, the Deputy Secretary, who served for long on the Commission earning it the moniker, Tarlok Sabha. Behind him is a young KN Raj, 27, who prepared the draft. To Nehru’s left are, in that order, CD Deshmukh, Finance Minister and Member, GL Mehta, later Indian Ambassador to the US (1952-58), and VT Krishnamachari, who we meet again and will encounter again.

Dr IG Patel’s tenure as Deputy Economic Adviser lasted from 1954 to 1959. By then, the first five year plan was already in progress. The work on the second plan had started. In the third part on IG’s life, we discuss a few major developments and other anecdotes. A detailed discussion on the second plan follows in another post. Continue reading “IG Patel as Deputy Economic Adviser”

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IG Patel: IMF and a Bengali family

Dr IG Patel presumably during his IMF days

On the occasion of Dr IG Patel’s centenary, I gave an overview of his life and career (see here). I promised to elaborate in different parts. In the first part (see here), I covered IG’s early life and education. We concluded the first part by referring to IG being seconded to the International Monetary Fund as part of efforts to train young economists who could come back and serve the Government of India. In this second part, I discuss his time at the IMF. At the end, I narrate about his getting to know in Washington, D.C., a Bengali family from Dacca in present-day Bangladesh. Continue reading “IG Patel: IMF and a Bengali family”

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