AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Prof. M. J. Manohar Rao Award for Young Researchers

At the 48th Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society, held at Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, it was resolved to institute an award in memory of Prof MJ Manohar Rao. This award, which is based on contributions from the students and friends of Prof Manohar Rao, would consist of a cash prize and a certificate and would be given to young scholars below the age of 35. This award would be given every year during the annual conference. A search Committee is appointed in advance (a) to invite nominations for the award, and (b) to recommend to the Council the names of persons who in their judgement are fit to receive the award.

Award winners for 2012 :

  1. Dr. Binoy Goswami, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh
  2. Dr. Tonmoy Chatterjee, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkatta

Award winners for 2013 :

  1. Dr. Gourishankar Hiremath, IIT, Kharagpur
  2. Dr. Chandan Sharma, IIM, Lucknow
  3. Dr. Inder Shekar Yadav, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad.

Award winners for 2014 :

  1. Dr. Wasim Ahmad, IIT, Kanpur
  2. Dr. Aviral Kumar Tiwari, IBS, Hyderabad
  3. Dr. Amalendu Kumar Dubey, IIT, Delhi

Award winners for 2015 :

  1. Dr. Neha Gupta, Delhi University
  2. Dr. Krishna Reddy Chettedi, Central University of Tamil Nadu
  3. Dr. Sabuj Kumar Mandal, IIT, Chennai

Award winners for 2016 :

  1. Sudharshan Reddy Paramati, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China
  2. Debayan Pakrashi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  3. Souvik Ray, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
  4. Swati Dutta, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi

Award winners for 2017 :

  1. Ajay Sharma, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
  2. Arif Billah Dar, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University
  3. Sartaj Rasool Rather, BITS, Dubai Campus
  4. Ritesh Kumar Mishra, Delhi University
Prof. A. L. Nagar Award Scheme

With the financial support from the family and friends of Prof. A. L. Nagar, the TIES has instituted the following schemes to commemorate the contributions of Prof. Nagar.

  1. Prof. A. L. Nagar Fellow

    2. This would be an annual award to be given to an outstanding Indian scholar between the age of 45 to 65 years. The TIES/TIES Trust would receive nominations based on advertisement. A selection committee constituted by TIES Trust would select the suitable scholar based on his/her contributions to theoretical/applied econometrics research.
    The selected scholar shall give a minimum of two lectures during the year in any of the reputed Indian institutes/universities chosen by the TIES/TIES Trust and one lecture during the annual TIES conference.
    The selected scholar would be honored with a citation and a suitable cash prize during the annual conference.
    The entire cost of selection, travel, and cash prize involved would be financed from the interest income generated from the corpus fund.

    The awardees are :

    • Dr. Kaushik Basu for the year 2015
    • Dr. Bhaskar Dutta for the year 2016
    • Dr. Dilip Mookherjee for the year 2017

     

  2. Prof. A. L. Nagar Visiting Fellowship

    3. This would be an annual fellowship to be given to a maximum of two young research scholars in a year who are pursuing their Ph.d in India. The research scholars who are below the age of 30 years are eligible for this fellowship. Under this fellowship, the research scholar would spend one to two months with an expert/institution/university within India that can contribute substantially to the thesis work.
    A selection committee constituted by TIES Trust would receive the nominations/applications and select the research scholar based on the research proposal, confirmation from the host expert/institute/university and also based on the present status of the thesis.
    The TIES/TIES Trust would provide travel and moderate living expenses to the selected scholars and also a token honorarium to the host expert.

Mahalanobis Memorial Medal

At the 13th annual conference of the Society held on January 10,1974 at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, it was resolved to institute gold medals in memory of Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and rise donations to meet the expenses of the medals and fellowships to deserving young scientists.

A search Committee is appointed at least one year in advance (a) to invite nominations for the award of the medal, (b) to recommend to the Council the names of persons who in their judgement are fit to receive the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (M3), and (c) to provide citation for the award in each individual case.

International Award: A gold medal in memory of the late Professor P.C.Mahalanobis will be awarded once in four years to a person anywhere in the world who is not above the age of 45 years at the time of the award and who has made outstanding contributions to quantitative economics.

National Award: A gold medal in memory of the late Professor P.C. Mahalanobis will be awarded once in two years to an Indian who is not above the age of 45 years at the time of the award and who has made outstanding contributions to quantitative economics, while working in India.

The recipients of the International award include :

  • Professor Marc Nerlove, Northwestern University, U.S.A. (1975)
  • Professor T. N. Srinivas, Yale University, U.S.A. (1975)
  • Professor Peter Diamond, Yale University, U.S.A. (1980)

The national awardees of M3 include the following :

  • Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University, U.S.A. (1974)
  • Professor Sukhamoy Chakravarthy, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi (1974)
  • Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University, U.S.A. (1976)
  • Professor N.S. Iyengar, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (1978)
  • Professor Pranab Bardhan, University of California at Berkely, U.S.A. (1980)
  • Professor V.K. Chetty, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi (1982)
  • Professor Nanak Kakwani, University of New South Wales, Australia (1984)
  • Professor Prasanta Pattanaik, University of Birmingham, U.K. (1986)

Recipients of Mahalanobis Memorial Award :

YEAR NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL
2000 Prof. Arunava Sen , ISI, New Delhi Dr. Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Dr. Alan Kreugner of Princeton
2002 Dr. Sugata Marjit Dr. Daron Acemoglu of MIT and Dr Steven D Levitt of University of Chicago
2004 Dr. Arup Mitra of Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi  
  Dr. Bharat Ramaswami of ISI, Delhi  
2006 Dr. Rajat Acharya of Jadavpur University, Kolkatta  
  Dr. G. P. Samanta of RBI, Mumbai  
2008 Dr. Shalabh, IIT Kanpur  
  Dr. Abhiman Das, RBI  
2010 Dr. Kausik Chaudhri, Madras School of Economics, Chennai Dr. Raj Chetty, Harvard University
  Dr. Vinish Kumar Kathuria, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai Dr. Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2012 Dr. Manipushpak Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkatta  
  Dr. Uday Bhanu Sinha, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi  
2014 Dr. Pulok Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Dr. Paresh Kumar Narayan, Deakin University, Australia
  Dr. N. R. Bhanumurthy, NIPFP, New Delhi  
  Dr. Chetan Ghate, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi  
2016 Debasis Mishra, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi  
  S Chandrasekhar, Professor, IGIDR, Mumbai  

“Prof Sukhomoy Chakravarty Memorial Lecture” :

Recently, Prof Sukhomoy Chakravarty Memorial Trust has been merged with the TIES Trust.  Under this, the TIES/TIES Trust needs to organize the annual Memorial lecture.  Under this new arrangement, the first Memorial lecture was given by Dr Vijay Kelkar during the annual conference at NISM Mumbai.


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