SKOCH Economics Award

Lekha S Chakraborty

Professor
NIPFP and Elected Member, Governing Board, IIPF

Lekha S Chakraborty

Professor, NIPFP and Elected Member, Governing Board, IIPF

Lekha S Chakraborty has been a multi-faceted economist who also emphasised linkages of macroeconomic policy and gender equality. She has been the one who incorporated gender concerns in public finance – gender budgeting has proven an effective tool for promoting gender equality in India since its adoption in 2005.

Her suggested model to address inequalities has been adopted by several nations in the Asia-Pacific region. She has also given new meaning and dimensions to fiscal policy measures for addressing the Unpaid Care Sector – that has remained neglected due to statistical invisibility – especially during the pandemic. She has led technical research towards a plausible introduction of child sex ratio as one of the indicators in the tax devolution formula by the Finance Commission.

Lekha S Chakraborty, Professor, NIPFP and Elected Member, Governing Board, IIPF

SKOCH Economics Award for Macroeconomics

SKOCH Award, independently instituted in 2003, is India’s honest civilian honour conferred by an independent organisation as a third party assessment. It is the only award in the country that is based on feltneeds assessment and outcome evaluation based on evidence. It therefore, recognises people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation.

SKOCH Award covers the best of efforts in the area of digital, financial and social inclusion. It encompasses the best of governance, inclusive growth, excellence in technology and applications, change management, corporate leadership, corporate governance, citizen service delivery, capacity building, empowerment and other such softer issues that get normally lost in the glamour and glitz of industry sponsored or advertising focused jamborees.

The SKOCH Award not only acknowledges exceptional achievers – organisations and individuals – but also spurs institutional guidance and best practices in the industry.

SKOCH Economics Award

Lekha S Chakraborty