"Healthy and extensive interaction" with Nobel prize winner Abhijit Banerjee

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics, at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence in New Delhi.

After meeting, PM Modi said in a tweet that they had a "healthy and extensive interaction on various subjects".

“Excellent meeting with Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee. His passion towards human empowerment is clearly visible. We had a healthy and extensive interaction on various subjects. India is proud of his accomplishments. Wishing him the very best for his future endeavours,” PM Modi tweeted.

The meeting becomes more significant with the fact that many news reports claimed a tiff between the ruling government and Abhijit Banerjee after he criticized Indian government’s economic policies recently.

Banerjee had earlier stated that the Indian economy is on shaky ground and the data currently available does not hold any assurance for the country’s economic revival anytime soon. “In the last five-six years, at least we could witness some growth, but now that assurance is also gone,” Banerjee, who bagged the coveted prize jointly with his Esther Duflo and another economist Michael Kremer for his ‘experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’ had said in conversation news channel from the US.