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On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 9:54 PM Swaminathan Sankaran <swamina...@gmail.com> wrote:
Mr. Bhoothalingam was not C. Subramaniam's secretary, but Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, GOI.
CS was the Finance Minister during the time Mr. B was Finance Secretary. Mr. B. belonged to the old ICS cadre,
which was there before it was Indianised and renamed IAS. After retiring from the Ministry of Finance, he was the Chairman or Director ( I don't remember the exact title) of the N(ational) C(ouncil) of A(pplied) E(conomic) R(esearch).or NCAER.
Dr. Paththamadai S. Lokanathan was its first Chairman/Director. Famous Indian economists like Dr. A.K. Dasgupta and Amartya Sen had all served in the NCAER.

Sankaran


Much before CS became Finance Minister of India, he was recruited by PM J. Nehru as a minister of steel (1962). Bhootalingam, ICS worked in Steel industry then.

https://www.drbgrpublications.in/IJBER%20-%20000016.pdf
"Rajaji the then Chief Minister of Madras State included him as a Minister of
Education. As a Minister of Education he Started many reforms in education for instance Free
primary education for all children and the provision of midday meals for poor children attending
schools, was a pioneer measures in all India level.5 As a Minister of Finance during Kamaraj
Ministry he became an instrument for promoting development of financial position in addition to
its conventional concerns for economy and efficiency.With his election to the Lok Sabha in
1962. C. Subramaniam entered a wider field of activity, Jawarharlal Nehru the then Prime
Minister of India appointed C.Subramanian as a Minister for Steel. He sought to give a new deal
to the steel plants by re-organising their managerial set-up and combining greater decentralization
and autonomy at the plant level with greater responsibility for production and
efficiency. After Nehru’s demise Lal Bahadur Shastri, got a Prime Ministership.6

He decided to bring a new cabinet accordingly, in Preparing his new team, found that
there were no takers for the food and Agriculture ministry. This ministry had earned the
reputation of being the graveyard of many in cumbents. Lal Bahadur Sastri wanted to put up
C.Subramaniam on that place. But the well wishers of C.Subramaniam advised not to take on an
assignment which might prove as exacting as it might be thankless. C.Subramaniam however,
manfully took up this assignment to draw up a new strategy to increase agricultural output and to
make the country self-sufficient in food grains. The year 1964 to 1967 when he was Minister for
Food and Agriculture were to prove crucial. It was an administrative achievement to avoid large
scale suffering and starvation from two successive years of drought. Undeterred by the severity
of the short-term problems, C. Subramaniam applied himself to the Long-term strategy of the
“Green Revolution”. In fact when the country was still in the throes of drought of 1966, he
confidently gave a pledge in parliament that within five years the country would be self-reliant in
food production. He was to see the fulfillment of this pledge in 1975 as Minister of Planning.7"

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/the-architects-of-green-revolution-from-tn/article65210677.ece
https://theprint.in/past-forward/hungry-india-a-nawabi-us-president-mexican-blood-the-real-story-of-green-revolution/835649/
https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/he-was-green-and-white-too/550611/
https://www.deccanherald.com/content/92231/c-subramaniam-saved-india-going.html

A recent book on how India tacked the famine and hunger problem. I've the book's PDF.
Hungry Nation
Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India
2018, Cambridge U. Press
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/hungry-nation/common-hunger-of-the-country-merchants-and-markets-in-plenty-and-want/A5A81B7047F8A7569420C6861E6A9A4B

also:
The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India
By David C. Engerman

Mina Swaminathan, who just passed way, was the daughter of Bhootalingam and Mathuram Bhootalingam. Naanjil NaaTTu veLLaaLar like Nammaazhvaar (9th century), S. Vaiyapuri Pillai, Kavimani Devi, Avvai Shanmukam, V. I. Subramonian, Naanjil NaaDan, ....

N. Ganesan 

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 9:37 PM N. Ganesan <naa.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
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