Manmohan Singh-Prime Minister of India is to-14

Manmohan Singh

Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India is to-14. He was born in Gah, West Punjab (now Pakistan), 26 September 1932; age 79 years, is a member of the National Congress Party of India. As prime minister of India's first Sikh ethnicity, Singh was sworn in on May 22, 2004. His mother tongue is Punjabi language.


He was born of poor Sikh family. He moved to the holy Sikh city of Amritsar in northern India when he was 14 years old. His father is a dried fruit peddler in Amritsar. Singh is a serious student learning. Not infrequently he learned to rely on street lights for the house was always violent and frequent power outages. "Our late father often scoff that Manmohan Singh would be prime minister one day because of Singh's harder to learn than others," said Surjit Singh (brother).


He began studying at the University of Punjab in 1948. After completing his undergraduate degree (1952) and get a master's degree (1954) from Punjab University, he earned a bachelor's degree (1957) from University of Cambridge (St. John's College) and his D.Phil (1962) from Oxford University (Nuffield College). He graduated First Class Honours in Economics with a thesis on the importance of the role of exports and export trade in India's economy.


In 1958, Shrimati Gursharan Kaur married and a father of three daughters. Singh to his profession as an economist and has worked at the IMF (International Monetary Fund). He was one of the prime minister of India are well educated. He was awarded the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award in 2002. Before becoming prime minister, he worked in the finance ministry during the reign of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao. He later served as Finance Minister of India in the 1990s, in the event of a financial crisis. He got a job at the UNCTAD Secretariat and the Secretary General of the South Commission in Geneva (1987-1990).


In 1971, Dr. Singh is a member of the Government of India as Economic Advisor in the Ministry of Commerce. This was soon followed by his appointment as Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance in 1972. Among the many who have held government positions are Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Advisor of Prime Minister and Chairman of the Commission of the University Fund.
He became leader of the opposition in the Upper House in the period 1998 - 2004 when India was ruled by a coalition of center-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

In the decade of the 1990s, he was dubbed the architect behind the reform of the Indian economy. He represented India at many international conferences and at several international organizations. He led the Indian delegation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Cyprus (1993) and the World Human Rights Conference in Vienna in 1993 and has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Upper India (the Rajya Sabha) since 1991 and Leader of the Opposition between 1998-2004.
Period 1991-1996, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao to rescue the economy amburandul balance of payments crisis. Her role in the improvement of India's economic policy leads observers recognized the world. Singh does not look like a politician and lost the parliamentary elections in 1999. In fact, he's never won an election and never sat in parliament.


Singh won seats in the Lok Sabha from the south of Delhi in 1999. He became prime minister of India because the members of the Lower House of Parliament approved it. He is also a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam since 1991. In times of political keguncangan, he was appointed Chairman of the First Congress Party Sonia Gandhi to mengisisi position of prime minister.
Before becoming finance minister, Singh served as Governor of the Central Bank of India. He obtained all the position after more than a decade of teaching at various universities in India and worked at the United Nations. India is regarded as one of the new growth location public knowledge that he was the thinker behind the current economic reform campaign finance ministers emerged as the Congress Party government.


He changed into the domestic-oriented economy into the open. It was able to make India's economy grew an average of 2-3% to an average of 6%. Singh opened the economy to foreign investment and trade barriers memangn cash. "The state is being threatened and there is no time to be missed in vain," he said in Parliament of India in 1991 when the Indian economy experienced a major problem. He then reduce subsidies and privatize the company in some countries.
He forced businesses to obtain government approval for any decisions. "If you manage the economy as a rigid and closed to the outside world, there would not be stimulated to reproduce and bring new ideas," he said. Incoming foreign investment, reduced inflation from 17% to 8.5% which was then only 4%. In a country that runs like the Soviet economic system, such action marks the beginning of India's economic revolution.


Nevertheless, he is a wild opponents of economic liberalization and believe that the market can not be fully trusted to bring prosperity to the poor of India. "It takes a human development policy," he said. He said, India needs emancipation from war, desire, and exploitation.


Dr career. Manmohan Singh

First Class Honours in Economics, University of Cambridge, (1957)
Punjab University, Chandigarh, India
Senior Lecturer, Economics (1957-1959)
Professor of International Trade (1969-1971)
Lecturer (1959-1963)
Professor (1963-1965)
D.Phil in Economics, Nuffield College of Oxford University, (1962)
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Honorary Professor (1996)
Chief, Financing for Trade Section, UNCTAD, United Nations Secretariat, New York
1966: Economic Affairs Officer 1966
Economic Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Trade, India (1971-1972)
Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, India, (1972-1976)
Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1976)
Director, Research Bank of India (1976-1980)
Director, Industrial Development Bank of India (1976-1980)
Secretary, Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs), Government of India, (1977-1980)
Governor, Bank Research India (1982-1985)
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, (1985-1987)
Advisor of Prime Minister of India the field of Economic Affairs (1990-1991)
Finance Minister of India, (June 21, 1991 - 15 May 1996)
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
Prime Minister of India (22 Mei2004 - Present)


Awards and Work

His book titled India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth [Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964] is an early critique inward-oriented trade policy of India.
Among the many prizes and awards the most outstanding is the second largest civilian honor of India (Padma Vibhushan in 1987), award 100 Year of Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Science Congress (1995), Asia Money Award for Finance Minister (1993-1994), Euro Appreciation Money for the Minister of Finance (1993), Adam Smith Award from the University of Cambridge (1956), and Special Execution of Award Wrightuntuk St. John's College, Cambridge (1955). Dr. Singh has also been awarded a number of other clubs including from Japan, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.