Chandigarh: Panjab University (PU) has offered the Dr Manmohan Singh chair to its alumnus Ajit Singh, professor emeritus at University of Cambridge.
Singh, who is a lifetime fellow at Queen's College in Cambridge, has been recommended by a committee set up by the varsity Vice-chancellor under the chairmanship of R P Bhambah, a university spokesman said here today.
The recommendation was “unanimously” accepted during the PU syndicate meeting held recently, he said.
The chair was instituted in 2009 in the department of economics and the PU had so far not found a suitable candidate for it.
Earlier, PU had extended the same offer to Nobel Prize winner and renowned economist Amartya Sen, who did not accept the offer, the spokesman said.
Singh had passed out of the PU and started teaching economics at Cambridge in 1965, the spokesman said.
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