GUEST LECTURE Dr. Nirupam Bajpai

opic: India’s Decade of Development: Looking Back at the Last 10 Years and Looking Forward to the Next 20? Speaker: Dr. Nirupam Bajpai -August 12

Dr. Nirupam Bajpai is Director of the Columbia Global Centers | South Asia and a Senior Development Advisor (Full Professor according to Columbia University norms) at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He is also a member of the United Nations Millennium Project on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.
Dr. Bajpai visited SSE on the occasion of the M.Sc Inaugural Day and the Foundation day on the 3rd of August, 2012. He gave a talk on India’s Decade of Development: Looking Back at the Last 10 Years and Looking Forward to the Next 20?. His elaborate and eloquent speech ranged from concocting a strategy to double Indian per capita income to power losses affecting out industrial output to a thriving telecom industry to the energy crisis and water wars in our impending future.Dr. Nirupam Bajpai - India's Decade of Development