T. Karunakaran

T. Karunakaran
Born(1946-12-26)26 December 1946
Kanyakumari District, India
Died12 March 2019(2019-03-12) (aged 72)
Mumbai, India
Known forRural Economic Zone
Children3
Academic background
EducationThiagarajar College of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Doctoral advisorPrem Saran Satsangi
Academic work
DisciplineElectrical Engineering, Rural Economic Development

Thirumalayaperumal Karunakaran (26 December 1946 – 12 March 2019) was an Indian engineer, academic, social organizer and reformer who worked on rural development problems in India and other countries. He proposed a model of decentralized development called the Rural Economic Zone as an alternative to the Special Economic Zone model of development. He served as Vice-Chancellor of two Gandhian Rural Universities, and served as the director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI) and founded the Agrindus Institute in Wardha.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.