A. Vaidyanathan

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With the eclipse of the co-operative sector over the last two decades now engulfing sectors like co-operative banking, the pain and strengths of the sector are well known. The demise of a learned scholar like Vaidyanathan is even more tragic. He died at Coimbatore on Wednesday night.


Vaidyanathan is a former member of the Planning Commission and chairman of the Working Group, which reported to the government in 2004 after studying the current status of rural co-operative credit unions. This report is still known as 'Vaidyanathan Samiti Report'. After this report, Vaidyanathan had to see the affordability of those recommendations while also participating in the implementation. The news came while discussions were going on with the Governor of the Reserve Bank to revive the rural credit system - the government has given loan waivers to the farmers! In this situation, Vaidyanathan was ready to take the work forward, but his colleagues and some knowledgeable dignitaries also commented that 'nothing will happen now'. But Vaidyanathan continued to pursue. This memory of those close to him is a testament to his tenacity.

He graduated from St. Loyola College, Chennai, received his doctorate in economics from Cornell University in the United States, and returned home in 1956 to work for the National Council for Applied Economic Research. He was a member of the Planning Commission from 1962 to 1972, which was very important in terms of food security and rural and agricultural development in India. At the same time, his performance at the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) convention in Rome was significant. He got the next chance at the World Bank. After returning to India after working there from 1972 to 1976, he came to Thiruvananthapuram, rejecting the option of settling in Delhi. There he set up the Center for Development Studies. N. Along with Raj, he took the lion's share. Until recently, he was teaching at the same institute. However, he had freed himself from the administrative work of the organization.

Numerology is his favorite subject. He worked out the method of agricultural and rural studies in the 'National Sample Survey', the same study methods are still in use today. His books on the interrelationships between rural development, water-management and statistical studies have also been acclaimed by many scholars.

Vaidyanathan was at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai on the occasion of a meeting on 26/11, a black day in the history of the country, in early November 2008. He survived the attack, but the hotel was badly damaged and, like many others, suffered. He had to face the same dust in the 'planned' direction of the Indian rural economy in his lifetime.



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