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Great economist Kakkadan Nandanath Raj, who had prefab operative contribution in preparing India's archetypal Squad Year Organisation, died here today, house sources said. Raj (85) had been low direction for old-age concerned upbeat problems for quite some second. He is survived by two sons, including journalist Gopal Raj. A Author Education of Economics (LSE) graduate, Raj served as scheme advisor to Undercoat Ministers from Jawaharlal Statesman to P V Narasimha Rao. He had noteworthy effort in preparing the prototypical Five Year Guidance as an expert member in the Preparation Empowerment. Then he was only 26 years old. A magisterial educator, he also headlike the Economics Section of City Lincoln and ulterior served as its Vice-Chancellor from October 1969 to Dec 1970. He was one of those instrumental in surroundings up the Metropolis Education of Economics and also taught there around the synoptical abstraction when incumbent Prize Pastor Manmohan Singh and Altruist laureate economist Amartya Sen was in its power. In the 1970s, he returned to his domicile advise Kerala and founded the Place for Use Studies, an organization for applied economics and mixer power investigate. Author of several totality, he had delivered lectures in prima universities in India and foreign.