Delhi: Bibek Debroy, a prominent economist and Chairman of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Economic Advisory Council, has passed away. Debroy was instrumental in shaping the country’s economic policies. His family migrated from Bangladesh to India in the late 1940s.
He was born in 1955 in Shillong, Meghalaya, and studied at Presidency College in Kolkata, later attending the Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. He showed an affinity for Sangh Parivar ideologies and was the mind behind several economic policies implemented after the Modi government came into power. When the Planning Commission was dissolved and replaced by the NITI Aayog, Debroy was appointed as one of its initial members.
Alongside his role as the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Debroy also led the Finance Ministry committee for the Amrit Kaal initiative. A scholar in Sanskrit, he translated classical texts such as the *Mahabharata* and the *Bhagavad Gita* into English. In 2015, he was honored with the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
