NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal met Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Friday and discussed issues relating to the city’s economy, employment and water security.
The Delhi government in a statement said that Kejriwal and Banerjee exchanged ideas of generating more employment in the city by setting up innovation clusters in existing industrial areas and explored possibilities of collaborating upon the mission of taking Delhi forward.
“He (Kejriwal) sought ideas from Professor Banerjee on tackling the pollution problem at a larger scale in north India. They also deliberated upon water security in Delhi. Kejriwal also talked about his mission of generating 20 lakh job opportunities under the Rozgar Budget,” the statement said.
Banerjee is the director of a global research centre working to reduce poverty and a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“The chief minister expressed his willingness to document his government’s work in healthcare and education as models for India and the world to adopt for the greater good of society,” the statement added.
