{"id":6908,"date":"2019-10-16T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:40:56","slug":"bengal-government-to-felicitate-abhijit-vinayak-banerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bengal-government-to-felicitate-abhijit-vinayak-banerjee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal government to felicitate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government is planning to organise a grand felicitation for Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, who won this year\u2019s Nobel Prize for Economics along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.<\/p>\n<p>Senior minister in the Mamata Banerjee government Partha Chatterjee said that the government was planning a felicitation for Banerjee.\u00a0The date of the felicitation programme is yet to be finalised.<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer won the Nobel \u201cfor their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chief minister Mamata Banerjee called up Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee\u2019s mother Nirmala Banerjee and expressed her desire to pay a visit. The Governor, Jagdeep Dhankar also called her and said that he would visit when Abhijit Banerjee is here.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the CM took to Twitter to congratulate Banerjee: \u201cHearty congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, an alumnus of South Point School &amp; Presidency College Kolkata, for winning the Nobel Prize in Economics. Another Bengali has done the nation proud. We are overjoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banerjee won this year\u2019s Nobel Prize for Economics along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}