The Union Finance Minister to inaugurate the one week Teachers W…

The Union Minister for finance,
defence and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley along
with the Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD), Shri Prakash
Javedkar will inaugurate the one week Teachers
Workshop at IIT Delhi on Sunday, 11^th June, 2017. The one week
workshop for Economic Teachers from different Universities and Colleges across
India is being hosted by the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA),
Ministry of Finance, in collaboration with the Ministry for Human Resource
Development (MHRD), Government of India. This is the first time that such a
workshop is being organised. The workshop is being organized from 11^th
to 17^th June, 2017 at Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Delhi.

Dr. Arvind Subramanian,
Chief Economic Adviser (CEA), Ministry of Finance will be delivering the
lectures during the one week Workshop on various aspects of the Indian Economy
based on the latest three Economic Surveys. The workshop will work in 3 ways; First,
about 165 Teachers from all over India will physically participate; Second, the
lectures will be Telecast Live on the official Facebook Page of the Ministry of
Finance and third, the lectures will also be recorded and converted into a self-paced
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and then posted on the SWAYAM platform of
MHRD besides being uploaded on YouTube for the wider public.

The course overview
and the syllabus outline are at as follows:

Course Overview

This course will cover the
history of Indian economic development and the current progress, challenges and
the strategy going forward.  It will cover these themes through the analysis
presented in the Economic Surveys of the previous three years (2014-15
to 2016-17). The detailed overview of the syllabus is provided below. This course
is suitable for students and teachers of Economics both at the undergraduate
and advanced levels as well as policymakers interested in the Indian economy.

Learning Outcomes:

This course will help in
developing an in-depth understanding of the Indian economy- its history, recent
developments, and impending challenges. The participants will become proficient
in understanding and analyzing macroeconomic developments and policy. They will
also become familiar with the current dominant thoughts and tools used for
Economic Policy making and research.

Syllabus Outline

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DSM/KA