Manmohan Singh is an Indian politician,economist,academician and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru,Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi. 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.
The University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India. Established in 1857,it is one of the oldest and among the most prominent universities in India,incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India under the British government.
Palaniappan Chidambaram,better known as P. Chidambaram,is an Indian politician and lawyer who currently serves as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha. He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs from 2017 to 2018. He also served as Interim Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 2022 to 2023 under Mallikarjun Kharge.
Paramasivan Subbarayan was an Indian politician,freedom fighter and diplomat and was the First Minister of Madras Presidency,India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He was the father of General P. P. Kumaramangalam,who served as India's Chief of Army staff,and of politician Mohan Kumaramangalam. He was also the grandfather of INC and BJP politician and Union Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam.
Palamadai S Lokanathan was the First Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE),which later became the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He also served as the first Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi.
Jayanthi Natarajan is an Indian lawyer and politician. She was a member of the Indian National Congress and has been thrice elected Member of Parliament representing the state of Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha. From July 2011 to December 2013,she was the Minister of Forests and Environment. She resigned as Minister of Environment and Forest on 21 December 2013. On 30 January 2015,she announced in a press conference at Chennai that she would be resigning from the Congress party alleging that "specific requests" by Rahul Gandhi were the basis of whether industrial projects were given clearances by her ministry,and that he shifted from a pro-environmental position to corporate-friendly stand for the elections in 2014.
Harris Sam Sahayam Lawrence was an Indian educationalist born in Nagercoil,Tamil Nadu.
Radhakant Nayak is an Indian politician,bureaucrat &educationist belonging to the Indian National Congress party. He served as a member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament between 2004 till 2010. Radhakant Nayak,a 1962 batch IAS officer. Nayak is also connected with YMCA and is one of the most high-profile Christians in Orissa
Madras School of Economics (Institute of Special Importance) is an institution of higher education in economics,located in Chennai,India. Madras School of Economics was founded in 1993 as a post-graduate institution for teaching and research in economics. MSE offers a two-year Master's program in General Economics,Financial Economics,Applied Quantitative Finance,Actuarial Economics and Environmental economics affiliated to the Central University of Tamil Nadu,and a Ph.D. programme affiliated to the University of Madras. In April 2018,the AICTE approved Technical Institution started two P. G. Diploma Programs in Financial Engineering and Research &Business Analytics.
Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and member of a number of government advisory bodies at national and international levels. As DG of CII,he is responsible for leading and contributing to many policy level dialogues and discussions to enhance the competitiveness of India Inc and towards the development of India.
Malcolm Sathiyanathan Adiseshiah,was an Indian development economist and educator. In 1976 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan,India's third-highest civilian award. In 1998,UNESCO created the Malcolm Adiseshiah International Literacy Prize in recognition of his contribution to education and literacy. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament of India,in 1978.
M. Muhammad Ismail Rowther Sahib was an Indian politician and social worker from southern Indian state Tamil Nadu. he was a founder of the Indian Union Muslim League party after the partition of British India. He was popularly known in Tamil Nadu and Kerala as the "Quaid-e-Millat". Ismail was a member of Madras Legislative Assembly and Leader of the Opposition (1946—52). He was also a member (1948—50) of the Constituent Assembly,the drafting body of the constitution of India. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha (1952—58) and Lok Sabha.
Arunachalam Vellayan is a member of the Murugappa family and the vice-chairman of the Murugappa Group,based in Chennai,India. In February 2018,he stepped down as chairman of the group,ceding the spot to his cousin M.M.Murugappan. He is the Chairman of Coromandel International Limited and EID Parry (India) Ltd. He is also the Chairman of the Fertiliser Association of India,and is a Director in AMM Educational Foundation and Kanoria Chemicals and Industries Ltd,Calcutta.
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy was an Indian civil servant. V. Krishnamurthy is known as the "Father of Public sector undertakings in India" for his leadership and successful contribution in turning around Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL),Maruti Udyog Limited (MUL),Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL),and GAIL (India) Limited (GAIL) into the most profit making industry in India and globally. He was chairman and CEO of BHEL,MUL,SAIL,and GAIL. He was Chairman of IIM Bangalore and Ahmedabad;IIT Delhi;Xavier Institute of Management,Bhubaneswar;and the Centre for Organization Development,Hyderabad. He has also been Chairman of the Technology Information,Forecasting &Assessment Council. He was Member of the National Advisory Council from 2004 to 2008. Among other positions,he has served as Member,Planning Commission and Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Industry. He was the Chairman of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council,holding the rank of a Cabinet Minister up to 2014. He was one of the founding trustees of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation headed by Sonia Gandhi with Rahul Gandhi,Priyanka Gandhi and other distinguished members as its trustees. He began working with the then Madras Electricity Board in 1944. Later he had the privilege of working directly with India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Planning Commission from 1954 in the Second Five Year plan incharge of power projects and then with former Prime Ministers Lal Bahadur Sastri,Indira Gandhi,Morarji Desai,Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh in various positions in the Government of India.
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (PMEAC) is a non-constitutional,non-permanent and independent body constituted to give economic advice to the Government of India,specifically the Prime Minister. The council serves to highlight key economic issues facing the country to the government of India from a neutral viewpoint. It advises the Prime Minister on economic issues like inflation,microfinance,and industrial output.
Moberly Manoah Rajendran was an Indian IAS officer who became Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu and Governor of Odisha. Earlier he was a member of UNICEF's executive board and vice chairman of its program committee at New York. He was sponsored by a Tamil Nadu-based political party for the post of President of India in 2012.
Narain Dass Gupta is Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha from NCT of Delhi,practicing chartered accountant,and former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He is a financial policy expert who has written several books on taxation.
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.
Baidyanath Misra was an Indian economist,educator,author,and administrator from the state of Odisha. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology,Deputy-Chairman of Odisha State Planning Board,Chairman of Odisha's First State Finance Commission,Secretary of Odisha State Welfare Board,founder Secretary and President of Orissa Economics Association,and the founder Director and Chairman of Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies. He wrote 16 books in English and 20 in Odia. He was also a columnist in several leading Odia journals and newspapers. He organised several camps across Odisha,for helping the cause of the poor and downtrodden.
