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T. Karunakaran was born on 26 December, 1946 in Kanyakumari District, India, is an Indian engineer and reformer (1946–2019). Discover T. Karunakaran's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 26 December 1946
Birthday 26 December
Birthplace Kanyakumari District, India
Date of death 2019
Died Place Mumbai, India
Nationality India

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1946

Thirumalayaperumal Karunakaran (26 December 1946 – 12 March 2019) was an Indian engineer, academic, social organizer and reformer who worked on rural development problems in India and other countries.

He proposed a model of decentralized development called the Rural Economic Zone as an alternative to the Special Economic Zone model of development.

He served as Vice-Chancellor of two Gandhian Rural Universities, and served as the director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialization (MGIRI) and founded the Agrindus Institute in Wardha.

Karunakaran was born in Poovenkudiyiruppu village of Kanyakumari District of pre-Independence India.

1969

He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Thiayagarajar College of Engineering in 1969.

1975

He studied Mathematical System Theory from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he obtained a PhD in 1975 under Prem Saran Satsangi.

Karunakaran served for 19 years in four IITs in different research and academic positions.

1987

From 1987 until 1997, Karunakaran was the Director of the Rural Technology Centre at Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI), Tamil Nadu.

1997

He was the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya in Madhya Pradesh from 1997 to 2004, and returned to GRI in 2004 to serve as Vice Chancellor.

2008

He then became the Director of MGIRI in Wardha from 2008 until 2011.

Under his leadership, MGIRI launched solar-powered charkhas to increase the volume and quality of yarn that a farming household could produce.

This project was adopted and scaled up by the government of India to provide employment to 100,000 individuals in 50 sectors.

2019

Karunakaran was then founder-director of the Agrindus Institute until his death in 2019.

Agrindus trained children, primarily of farmers who had committed suicide, to become entrepreneurs and bring industrial value-added activities to the farm.

Karunaran's work at Agrindus built on Gandhian ideas of socio-economic development, including the work-based education principle known as Nai Talim, and Gandhi's vision of self-reliant village-centered economies.

Karunakaran developed the latter economic approach into the Rural Economic Zone concept, an alternate model of development to the Special Economic Zone.