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Mr. Arjun Singh is the curent education minister.
Arjun Singh, (Hindi: เค
เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ เคธเคฟเคเคน born November 5, 1930, Madhya Pradesh) is a veteran Congress (I) Leader. He is the Human Resources and Development (HRD) minister in the current Indian government headed by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the same post that he held in 1991 in the Narasimha Rao government from which he resigned & left Narsimha Rao led congress on Babri Masjid demolition controversy, he formed All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) with the support of now CM of Uttaranchal Narayan Dutt Tiwari as President. they lost 1996 Loksabha elections and the Congress too lost power at the center. Later he returned back to Congress and lost again from Hoshangabad in 1999. He got elected for Rajyasabha in April 2000 which he is continuing. He twice served as a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government, and held the post of Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh three times & Governor of Punjab once for a short period. As Governor of Punjab worked for Rajiv-Longwal Accord for peace in Punjab. He was awarded the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2000. He takes keen interest in social work and has been closely associated with various social and cultural organizations
Achievements
HRD Minister Arjun Singh along with writer Mukun SinghSet up a private legal practice in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh in 1954;
leader of the independent group in the first elected Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh for three years;
Joined the Congress Party in 1960;
Founder-President of the Cosmopolitan Institute of Public Affairs at Bhopal;
Deputy Leader, Indian Delegation to the World Youth Congress held in Moscow in 1964;
Convener, Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress from 1965ยฌ70;
Member, Indian Delegation to the United Nations in 1969;
Represented India at the Human Rights Seminar organized by the United Nations in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) in 1970;
Under his leadership, Madhya Pradesh became the first State to give lease-hold rights upon plots and lands to urban slum-dwellers;
Pioneered a special training and emploYment Programme to improve the lot of the urban poor;
Credited with the abolition of absentee ownership of cycle rickshaws
The voluntary surrender of dacoits of the Chambal valley;
Paved the way for the "Rajiv-Sant Longowal Pact" also known as "Punjab Accord";
sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on 11 March 1985 and appointed as Governor of Punjab on the following day
[edit] Countries Visited
France, led the Indian delegation to the 26th General Conference of the U.N .E.S.C.O., October 1991;
China, led a high level Indian delegation, November 1992;
Geneva, led the Indian delegation to the 43rd Session of the International Bureau of Education, November 1992;
also visited U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Israel, Pakistan, Mauritius and U.K.
[edit] Positions Held
1957-85 Member, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly M.L.A.
Sept.1963-Dec.1967 Minister of State for Agriculture, General Administration Department (GAD) and Information & Public Relations, Government of Madhya Pradesh
1967 Minister of Planning and Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh
1972-77 Minister of Education, Government of Madhya Pradesh
1977-80 Leader of Opposition, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1980-85 Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh
March - Nov. 1985 Governor of Punjab
Nov. 1985 - Jan. 1986 Minister of Commerce, Government of India
Dec.1985- June 1988 Member, Eighth Lok Sabha
Oct. 1986 - Feb. 1988 Minister of Communications, Government of India
1988-91 Member, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Feb.1988ยฌ Jan. 1989 Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh
June 1991 - Dec. 1994 Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India
June 1991- May 1996 Member, Tenth Lok Sabha
April 2000 Elected to Rajya Sabha
15 May 2000 - Feb. 2004 Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs
31 August 2001- July 2004 Member, Committee on Rules
April 2002 - Feb. 2004 Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Purposes Committee
22 May 2004 onwards Minister of Human Resource
HRD Minister Arjun Singh
[edit] Appointed
(i) Vice-President of the Indian National Congress, 19 January 1986,
(ii) Member of the Congress Working Committee and Central Parliamentary Board,
(iii) Member of the National Integration Council and its Standing Committee,
(iv) Convener, All Party Committee on Punjab,
(v) President, Pradesh Congress Committee (P.C.C.), Madhya Pradesh on 9 December 1989
(vi) Working President of Indian National Congress (Indira) on 22 May 1995;
(vii) elected to the Congress Working Committee at A.I.C.C. Session, Tirupati in April 1992 with the highest margin of votes and again in July 1997;
(viii) attended the meeting of the Ministers of nine most populous developing countries in Paris, 1993;
(ix) resigned from the Council of Ministers on 24 December 1994;
(x) became Member of the Indian National Congress again in 1997;
(xi) nominated as Chairman of Minority Department, AlCC in April 1999;
(xii) Nominated Member of the Indo-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group on 28 November 2001 |
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