India 2024 - 23 Jan 2024

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23 2024

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M K Narayanan

Dr S Narayan, IAS (Retd)

N Sathiya Moorthy

Synopsis The New Year is already upon us. It is also that time of the year when nations, like individuals, take stock of the year that has gone by. While individuals also resolve what to do and what not to do in the New Year, nations can at best evaluate what is in store for them and their people – and the larger global comity and community.

When we are talking about our own nation, India, definitely there is the all-important election to the Lok Sabha, which in turn shapes the nation’s politics and also the policies and programmes for the next five years – and maybe beyond. While in terms of history, five years is less than a drop in the ocean, in contemporary terms, it suddenly becomes too important and even more critical.

Apart from domestic issues that can change with a new government or even a new leader, so to say, there are aspects of policy-making where there are certain constants. In the case of post-Cold War, post-Reforms India, there has been a broad consensus on two specific areas – namely, Economy and National Security. Tweaking or re-fabricating them periodically does not change the basic character, but at times can update them to the present with a perception for the future deriving from it.

As has happened from time immemorial, a nation’s economy and national security go in hand in hand. In the post-Cold War, postReforms India, they have at times become two sides of the same coin. A composite understanding of them both becomes desirable and at times absolute.

After all, the world does not stop for India. For instance, the wars in Ukraine and West Asia, and more so China’s behaviour as an adversarial nation are all issues that impacts the nation’s economy as national security.

At a time when political leaderships in the country are going to be busy with the all-important elections and later the post-poll rearrangements, if any, and the bureaucracy too is likely to be stymied for the period, an independent assessment of what has been achieved and what awaits the nation in the short to long terms is in order.

Programme 5:15 PM

Registration & High Tea

6:00 PM Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association Opening Remarks Mr N Sathiya Moorthy Convenor, Policy Matters - Chennai Address by the Distinguished Speakers Mr M K Narayanan Former National Security Advisor of India (NSA) & Governor of West Bengal Dr S Narayan, IAS (Retd) Former Economic Advisor to Prime Minister & Finance Secretary, Government of India

Q&A 7:30 PM Vote of Thanks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM

Profile

Mr M K Narayanan Former National Security Advisor of India (NSA) & Governor of West Bengal Mayankodu Kelath Narayanan is a former Indian Police Service officer. He was National Security Adviser of India from 2005 to 2010 and also served as 19th Governor of West Bengal from 2010 to 2014. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1992.

Narayanan did schooling from Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School. He completed his graduation from Loyola College, Chennai.

M. K. Narayanan joined the Indian Police Service in 1955 and passed out with the highest marks. After a brief stint as SubDivisional Police Officer in the erstwhile State of Madras, he went on deputation to the Intelligence Bureau in February 1959. The rest of his service career was spent under the Government of India, mainly in the Intelligence Bureau, in which he dealt with a whole range of issues concerning internal and national security.

He headed the Intelligence Bureau (IB) from 1987 to 1990, before heading the Joint Intelligence Committee for a year. He became Chief (a four-star rank, equivalent to an Army general) of the IB again in 1991, before retiring in 1992. He was then appointed Special Adviser (a non-Civil Service appointment) for Internal Security to the Prime Minister of India beginning in May 2004. He was Indian National Security Adviser with the rank of Minister of State from 2005 to 2010. He played a significant role in the negotiation of the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement.

Profile

Dr S Narayan, IAS (Retd) Former Economic Advisor to Prime Minister & Finance Secretary, Government of India Dr. S. Narayan obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. He has an M.Phil (Development Economics) from Cambridge University and a Master of Business Management (Finance) from the University of Adelaide. He graduated with an M.Sc (Physics) from the University of Madras (Madras Christian College).

He is a graduate of the Indian Administrative Services (1965 batch), and spent nearly four decades (1965 to 2004) in Public Service in the State and Central Governments, in Development Administration, and served as the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister (Sri Atal Bahari Vajpayee) during 2003-04. He was responsible for implementation of economic policies of over 30 ministries.

Before this assignment, Dr. S. Narayan served the Government of India as Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Secretary in the Departments of Revenue, Petroleum, Coal and Industrial Development. His special interests include public finance, energy policy, governance issues, and international trade.

He belongs to the Tamil Nadu cadre of three IAS, and spent nearly two decades in the state, in several positions including district collector, Secretary Planning and Development and several years in Rural Development’ working closely with the political establishment.

Dr. Narayan has single-authored one book, edited two books and written numerous policy papers, reports, and book chapters. He also writes regularly in newspapers, both locally and internationally on issues relating to Public Policy, Governance, Public Finance, Trade, and Energy. Another single-authored book is due in 2018.

He was a lecturer at the Madras Christian College Tambaram between 1963 and 1965.

He has been the visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore since 2005, which includes teaching and pedagogy responsibilities. Subjects include public finance and policy and energy economics.

Profile

Mr N Sathiya Moorthy Convenor, Policy Matters - Chennai N Sathiya Moorthy is a policy analyst & political commentator, specialising in the study of India’s southern neighbours, namely, Maldives and Sri Lanka, and also on Indian politics and political systems, with particular reference to native Tamil Nadu. He has written extensively on these subjects, both as books and newspaper columns and commissioned articles.

Sathiya Moorthy is associated with major newspapers and TV channels, both in India and Sri Lanka and also headed the Chennai Initiative of the Observer Research Foundation since inception in 2001.

A veteran journalist and author, he is the convenor of ‘Policy Matters-Chennai’.

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