Current Affairs - Obituary - Discussion

The former member of the Planning Commission, advocate of data quality and economist, Dr. A. Vaidyanathan passed away at the age of 88 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. He worked as a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies and the Centre for Development Studies .He joined the National Council of Applied Economic Research in 1956. He worked at the Food and Agricultural Organisation at Rome and World Bank from 1972 to 1976.