Eminent economist and Padma Bhushan awardee, Dr. Kirit S Parikh to visit IMT Nagpur for  the  Shri Mahendra Nath Memorial Lecture as part of their founders day celebration

Thursday, 10^th September 2015; IMT Nagpur today announced the first ‘Shri Mahendra Nath Memorial Lecture’ to be held on September 11, 2015 to commemorate the birth anniversary of its founder Late Shri Mahendra Nath, a self-made man, an eminent industrialist and philanthropist.

Dr. Kirit S Parikh, the eminent economist, educationist, policy maker and Padma Bhushan awardee will honour the occasion by delivering the inaugural ‘Shri Mahendra Nath Memorial Lecture on the topic of “Low Carbon Growth Strategy and Policies”

Dr. Parikh is currently the chairman of the Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) and has to his credit several national and international awards for his extensive contribution in the field of researches in energy policies and climate change, as also in policy prescriptions to the Central Government.

He has been a part of important government bodies as well as multilateral international development agencies like UNDP.

Date:  Friday, 11^th September, 2015

Time: 2.30 - 4.15 PM, LRC Hall, IMT Nagpur

For more details on Sri Kirit Parikh, please visit: http://www.irade.org/KiritParikh-detailedCV.htm#a2

About Indian Management Technology (IMT), Nagpur

IMT Nagpur is committed as an educational institute towards developing management programs that best suit the changing needs of the current global corporate market. The understanding that economic prosperity of a country depends greatly on the degree of partnership that exists between the educational institutions and the corporate world in creating pool of rich human capital has led to unique programs designed to cater to the increasingly complex skill need of industry in today's globalised environment.

Academics at IMT Nagpur therefore are centered on continuous dialogue with the industry, discussing contemporary management practices in classrooms, application oriented pedagogy, creating capacity of innovative thinking among the students and developing entrepreneurial acumen in them with an aim of eventually making technocrats out of naïveté.