Overview
- Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the three-day international conference in Thiruvananthapuram, organised by the Kerala State Planning Board.
- The program rolls out 18 thematic seminars across nine venues, with the Chief Minister slated to deliver the closing address on Tuesday at the State Assembly complex.
- Vijayan framed Vision 2031 around a productive knowledge economy, an inclusive and just society, climate resilience, and participatory democracy.
- He pointed to Kerala’s top rank on India’s SDG index and its lowest multidimensional poverty rate, while underscoring borrowing limits and revenue centralisation as persistent hurdles.
- Nobel laureate Amartya Sen addressed the inaugural session online, lauding Kerala’s human-development gains and urging the state to help strengthen secularism across India.