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DR Manmohan Singh

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 Dr Manmohan Singh is an economist, scholastic, and politician who filled in as the

thirteenth Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. As of now, he is a Member of


Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, addressing the state of Rajasthan. An individual from
the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh Prime minister of India. Dr
Singh was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected in the
wake of finishing an entire five-year term.
 Dr Manmohan Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a family of Shri Gurmukh
Singh & Smt. Amrit Kaur in Gah, Punjab (present-day Pakistan). During Partition, his
family migrated to Amritsar in India. In the year 1958, Manmohan Singh wedded
Gursharan Kaur. They are honoured with three girls, Amrit Singh, Daman Singh, and
Upinder Singh.
Education
Manmohan Singh studied at the Hindu College. He has a glowing educational career and
stood first from the beginning. He achieved his master's and graduate degrees from
Punjab University in the year 1952 and in 1954, respectively. In 1957, he bagged an
honour's degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and in 1962 he
completed his D.Phil. in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford University.
Professional career
 Manmohan Singh served as a Senior Lecturer in Economics for 1957 – 1959, a
Reader from 1959 – 1963 and a professor from 1963 - 1965.
 In the year 1966, Manmohan Singh was Honorary Professor at Delhi School of
Economics
 Manmohan Singh worked with UNCTD from 1966 to 1969 and served in
International Trade as a Professor from 1969 - 1971
 Manmohan Singh was appointed by Shri Lalit Narayan Mishra as an advisor of the
Ministry of Foreign Trade and in the year 1972, became the Chief Economic Advisor
to the Ministry of Finance and was promoted to the Secretary in Ministry of Finance
in 1976
 Later In the year 1976, Manmohan Singh was the Honorary Professor at Jawaharlal
Nehru University and after that in 1976 – 1980, Manmohan Singh was the Director of
the Reserve Bank of India with an additional charge as the Director of the Industrial
Development Bank of India. In the year 1982 - 1985, he was promoted as the
Governor of RBI
 For the period 1985 - 1987, Manmohan Singh served as Deputy Chairman of the
Planning Commission and in 1987 - 1990, Manmohan Singh was transferred to the
Secretary-General of the South Commission
 Manmohan Singh was the Union Public Commission's Chairman in the year 1991 &,
after that became the University Grants Commission's Chairman.
 He was the Union finance minister of the Government of India from 1991 to 1996.
 He was the leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha from 1998 to 2004.
 He was the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

In 1991, Singh, as Finance Minister, abolished the License Raj, a wellspring of slow
monetary development and defilement in the Indian economy for quite a long time. He
changed the Indian economy, permitting it to accelerate improvement drastically. During
his term as Prime Minister, Singh kept on empowering development in the Indian market,
appreciating broad accomplishment in these issues. Singh directed a period where the
Indian economy developed with an 8–9% monetary development rate. In 2007, India
accomplished its most noteworthy GDP development pace of 9% and turned into the
second quickest developing significant economy on the planet. Singh's service authorized
a National Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2005.

Singh's administration proceeded with the Golden Quadrilateral and the highways
modernization program that was started by Vajpayee's government. He likewise pushed
the policies for transforming the banking, monetary areas, and public sector undertaking.
The Finance ministry worked towards relieving farmers from their obligation and ran
after favourable to industry policies. In 2005, Singh's administration presented the worth-
added charge, supplanting deals charge. In 2007 and mid-2008, the worldwide issue of
expansion affected India.
But Singh's second service government confronted various defilement accusations over
the association of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2G spectrum case and the
allocation of coal blocks. In addition to that, the 2012 report documented by the CAG in
Parliament of India expresses that because of the distribution of coal blocks to specific
privately owned businesses without bidding process, the country experienced an expected
loss of Rs 1.85 trillion (short scale) between 2005 and 2009 in which Manmohan Singh
was the coal minister of India.
Dr Manmohan Singh Books
Manmohan Singh wrote a book named India’s Export Trends & Prospects for Self –
Sustained Growth in 1964. He also wrote multiple articles that were published in a range
of economics journals.

Achievements & Awards of Dr Manmohan Singh

 2000: Manmohan Singh was conferred  Annasaheb Chirmule Award by the W.LG.
alias Annasaheb Chirmule Trust setup by United Western Bank Limited, Satara,
Maharashtra
 1999: Manmohan Singh received  H.H. Kanchi Sri Paramacharya Award for
Excellence
 1999: Manmohan Singh received Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural
Sciences New Delhi
 1997: Manmohan Singh was conferred Lokmanya Tilak Award by the Tilak Smarak
Trust, Pune
 1997: Manmohan Singh received Justice K.S. Hegde Foundation Award for 1996
 1997: Manmohan Singh awarded Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth by Nihon
Keizai Shimbun Inc. 1996: Manmohan Singh became Honorary Professor, Delhi
School of Economics
 1995: Manmohan Singh received Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award of Indian
Science Congress Association for 1994 - 95
 1994: Manmohan Singh received Asia money Award for Finance Minister of the Year
 1994: He was elected as Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Asia Economy, London
School of Economics, Politics & Society
 1994: Manmohan Singh was elected Honorary Fellow, Nuffield College, University
of Oxford
 1994: Manmohan Singh was elected as the Honorary Fellow, All India Management
Association
 1993: Manmohan Singh was awarded the Euromoney Award, Finance Minister of the
year
 1993: Manmohan Singh was awarded Asiamoney Award, Finance Minister of the
Year
 1987: Manmohan Singh was awarded Padma Vibhushan by the President of India
 1986: Manmohan Singh was awarded National Fellow, National Institute of
Education by N.C.E.R.T.
 1985: Manmohan Singh was elected President, Indian Economic Association
 1982: Manmohan Singh was elected Honorary Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge
 1982: Manmohan Singh was elected Honorary Fellow, Indian Institute of bankers
 1956: Manmohan Singh was awarded Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge,
U.K.
 1955: Manmohan Singh was awarded Wright’s Prize for distinguished performance
 1954: Manmohan Singh was awarded Uttar Chand Kapur Medal for standing first in
M.A.(Economics), Panjab University, Chandigarh
 1952: University Medal for standing First in B.A. Hon., Panjab

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