CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Earlier, in the month of April this year, NCAER’s Governing Body announced the appointment of Poonam Gupta as its next Director General. In a statement issued to the media, Nandan Nilekani, President of NCAER said “We are delighted to have Poonam succeed Shekhar at the end of his successful tenure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poonam Gupta is the Director General of NCAER, and a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. She specialises in Macroeconomics, and issues related to the Emerging Market Economies.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2022, Poonam was awarded a Ph. D. in International Business and Marketing at Ecole Supérieure Robert de Sorbon. She arrived in the west of Scotland after marrying Puneet Gupta, a Belfast-born pharmacist of Indian descent.

Detailed explanation-4: -At present, Dr Poonam Gupta is the Director General of NCAER, the first woman to occupy this position and Dr Anil K Sharma is the Secretary of NCAER.

Detailed explanation-5: -1. ABOUT THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF APPLIED ECONOMIC. RESEARCH (NCAER) The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) was founded in 1956 as an independent, board-run body to give support to both the government and the private sector in empirical economic research.