Dr. Manmohan Singh
Personal Profile
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Date of Birth:
September 26, 1932Zodiac Sign:
LibraPlace of Birth:
Gah, British IndiaSex:
MaleHair Color:
WhiteEye Color:
BrownNationality:
IndianReligion:
SikhismEducation:
Panjab University
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Family
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Spouse:
Shrimati Gursharan Kaur - PresentDaughter:
Upinder Singh, Daman Singh, Amrit Singh
Career
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Awards
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Dr. Manmohan Singh
- Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 14th and current Prime Minister of the Republic of India.
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- He is the first person of Sikh faith to hold the office.
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- An economist by profession, Dr. Manmohan Singh was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1982 to 1985, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India from 1985 to 1987 and the Finance Minister of India from 1991 to 1996.
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- After serving as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India, he was appointed as the Union Minister of Finance in 1991 by then-Prime Minister Narasimha Rao.
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- During his tenure as the Finance Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh was widely credited for carrying out economic reforms in India in 1991 which resulted in the end of the infamous Licence Raj system.
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Biography
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Last Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dr. Manmohan Singh, an economist by profession, worked for the International Monetary Fund in his younger days. Dr. Singh calls himself, a "politician by accident". Dr. Singh is known to be an unassuming politician, enjoying a formidable, highly respected and admired image. Due to his work at the UN, International Monetary Fund and other international bodies, he is highly respected around the world. He was the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, from 1982 to 1985. He served as the Finance Minister under Narasimha Rao from 1991 to 1996, before becoming Prime Minister. He is credited with transforming the economy in the early 1990s during the financial crisis, dismantling License Raj, and allowing easier and more Foreign Direct Investment and beginning the process of the privatization of public sector companies.
Dr. Manmohan Singh served as Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha (upper house) from March 1998 to May 2004, when the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government was in office. His economic policies - which included getting rid of several socialist policies, especially the License Raj - were popular. He enjoys strong support among the middle classes of India due to his education. Singh lost the election in the Lok Sabha from South Delhi constituency in the 1999 general elections. He is thus the only Indian Prime Minister never to have been an elected member of the Lower House of Parliament. In fact he has not won a direct election. He has been a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam since 1995. He was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2001 and 2007.
Dr. Manmohan Singh is widely regarded as the architect of India's original economic reform programme, which was enacted in 1991 under Rao's administration. The economic liberalization package pushed by Singh and Rao opened the nation to foreign direct investment. The liberalization was prompted by an acute balance-of-payments crisis whereby the Indian government, left without sufficient reserves to meet its obligations, had begun preparations to mortgage its gold reserves to the Bank of England in order to obtain the cash reserves needed to run the country.