The Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) is organising a two-day national seminar ‘Post-COVID Development Challenges and Response: Kerala through the lens of State budgets’ from Tuesday (August 5).
Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal will inaugurate the seminar on Tuesday. GIFT director K.J. Joseph said that the seminar would focus on development issues that Kerala has been addressing since the pandemic. More than 50 experts in various disciplines would share their thoughts on different aspects of the subject over the two days.
“The seminar also aims to foster an informed academic and policy discourse on how Kerala’s recent budgets has functioned as an instrument for responding to developmental challenges and as a blueprint for structural transformation of the State,” GIFT said in a statement.
Kerala, a top achiever in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has several top rankings to its credit especially in sectors like education, health and social welfare. But the State is also facing developmental challenges. The State’s susceptibility to climate change-induced natural calamities has increased in recent years. Against this background, the seminar aims to deliberate on issues of how the State’s perspective on development has evolved in the context of the challenges.
M.A. Oommen, distinguished professor, GIFT, will preside over the inaugural session.
Published – August 03, 2025 06:22 pm IST
