Triloki Nath Chaturvedi spent almost 70 years of his life in the administrative and political system of independent India. He was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS),held the constitutional position of Comptroller &Auditor General of India,was an elected member of the Indian Parliament,and was appointed by the President of India to the constitutional office of Governor of Karnataka and Kerala. He was honored with the Padma Vibushan for public service in 1991. He was associated with numerous academic,research,literary and philanthropic institutions as a member and in various leadership capacities.
Manmohan Singh is an Indian retired politician,economist,academician and bureaucrat who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. A member of the Indian National Congress,Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. Singh is also regarded as the most educated prime minister of India.
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states. IAS officers are also deployed to various government establishments such as constitutional bodies,staff and line agencies,auxiliary bodies,public sector undertakings,regulatory bodies,statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
The National Capital Region (NCR) is a planning region centered upon the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi in India. It encompasses Delhi and several districts surrounding it from the states of Haryana,Uttar Pradesh,and Rajasthan. The NCR and the associated National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) were created in 1985 to plan the development of the region and to evolve harmonized policies for the control of land-uses and development of infrastructure in the region. Prominent cities of NCR include Delhi,Faridabad,Ghaziabad,Gurgaon and Noida.
The Ministry of Finance is a ministry within the Government of India concerned with the economy of India,serving as the Treasury of India. In particular,it concerns itself with taxation,financial legislation,financial institutions,capital markets,centre and state finances,and the Union Budget.
Naresh Chandra was a 1956 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India,Defence Secretary of India,Home Secretary of India,Water Resources Secretary of India and Indian Ambassador to the United States. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour the Padma Vibhushan for civil service in 2007.
Vinod Rai is a former IAS officer who served as the 11th Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He assumed office on 7 January 2008 till 22 May 2013. He is the current chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors and Honorary Advisor to the Indian Railways and a member of the Railway Kaya Kalp Council.
Arvind Panagariya is an Indian economist who is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and is also the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He served as first vice-chairman of the government of India think-tank NITI Aayog between January 2015 and August 2017. He has been appointed as the chairman of 16th Finance Commission by the government of India. He is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2012 for his contributions in the field of economics and Public Policy.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank and international financial institution that aims to collectively improve economic and social outcomes in Asia. It is the world's second largest multi-lateral development institution. Headquartered in Beijing,China,the bank currently has 109 members,including 14 prospective members from around the world. The breakdown of the 109 members by continents are as follows:42 in Asia,26 in Europe,22 in Africa,9 in Oceania,8 in South America,and 2 in North America. The bank started operation after the agreement entered into force on 25 December 2015,after ratifications were received from 10 member states holding a total number of 50% of the initial subscriptions of the Authorized Capital Stock.
Rajiv Mehrishi was born on 8 August 1955 in Rajasthan. He was the 13th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors. He is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1978 batch belonging to the Rajasthan cadre.
Arvind Lal is an Indian billionaire,pathologist,medical administrator and the chairman and managing director of Dr Lal PathLabs,a medical diagnostic centre in Delhi. A medical graduate and a medical academic,he is reported to have modernized Indian medical diagnostics and initiated the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the field of laboratory testing in India. He holds the rank of a Brigadier in the Indian Armed Forces,an honorary rank conferred by the Army. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri,in 2009,for his contributions to Medicine.
Kelkar committee to evaluate PPP in India was a committee set up to study and evaluate the extant public-private partnership (PPP) model in India. The committee was set up by India's central government and headed by Vijay Kelkar. The committee was set up following 2015 Union budget of India by the then finance minister of India Arun Jaitley. It comprised 10 members. The committee submitted its recommendations to Jaitley on 19 November 2015.
Sunil Arora was the 23rd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is also the chairman for Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB). He is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Rajasthan cadre. He also served as a secretary to the Government of India in two ministries.
D. Jagatheesa Pandian is an Indian civil servant from Nagercoil. He is the current Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously served as IAS officer of Gujarat cadre and Chief Secretary of Gujarat.
Shaktikanta Das is serving as the current &25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20. Das is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Subhash Chandra Garg is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. He served as Economic Affairs Secretary and Finance Secretary of India. He has also served as an executive director in the World Bank.
Ashok Lavasa is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India,Environment,Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. He served as the Vice President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from August 2020 to August 2023.
Rajesh Khullar is an Indian bureaucrat and Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,Haryana. Previously,he was Executive Director at the World Bank Group representing India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,and Sri Lanka. Khullar is a retired 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
Atanu Chakraborty is currently the chairperson of HDFC Bank,India's largest lender by market capitalization. He was appointed by the Reserve Bank of India in April 2021 on the board of bank. He is a retired 1985 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service,of the Gujarat cadre,and has served as Economic Affairs Secretary of India till his retirement in April 2020. Chakraborty has also been in the energy sector At the central and state governments,his current role includes the chairmanship of start-up entities in Fintech.
