Singapore senior minister to deliver first Arun Jaitley Memorial Lecture

Annual lectures will be on economic issues affecting India and the global economy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on July 8 attend the first Arun Jaitley Memorial Lecture, which will also kick off the three-day Kautilya Economic Conclave organised by the Finance Ministry.

Senior Singapore minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, will deliver the lecture, which the government plans to hold every year, said Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth on Monday.

Seth said that the government has instituted the lecture in recognition of Jaitley’s contributions to the Indian economy. Jaitley was the finance minister between 2014 and 2019 as part of the first term of the Modi government. He died in August 2019.

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