P.N. Dhar, eminent economist passes away


On Thursday, Professor Prithvi Nath Dhar aged 94 years an eminent Economist who served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970's passed away owing to age-related problems.
Dhar was a Professor of Economics in Delhi University for many years, Dhar was one of the founders of the Delhi School of Economics.
He has served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Research and Policy Analysis, in New York from 1976 to 1978.
Dhar, who was the only person in the Prime Minister's Office those days who was not from either IAS or IFS, had joined the PMO in 1970.
He was with Indira Gandhi in Shimla when the famous Shimla accord was signed with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1971 war.
Dhar's wife Sheila was a well known singer writer who was honored with Padma Bhushan, India's highest civilian award in the year 2008.
His journal 'Indira Gadhi, the Emergency and Indian Democracy' is considered as an authoritative documentation of events of the important period in the modern India's history.

News reported by AR for News Vision online news blog

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