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Shri Pranab Mukherjee
Father’s Name: Late Shri Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee
Mother’s Name: Late Shri mati Rajlakshmi Mukherjee
Date of Birth: December 11, 1935
Place of Birth: Mirati, Kirnahar, District: Birbhum, West Bengal
Marital Status: Married
Spouse’s Name: Smt. Suvra Mukherjee
Children: Two sons and one daughter
Educational Qualifications: M.A. (History), M.A. (Political Science), LL.B., D. Litt.
(Honoris Causa), Educated at Vidyasagar College
Permanent Address: Flat No. 2-A, First Floor, 60/2/7, Kavi Bharti Sarani, Lake Road,
Kolkata-700 029 West Bengal, Tel. (033) 24648366
Present Address: Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, 110 004., Tel: 011-23015321
Profession: Political and Social Worker, Teacher, Journalist, Writer
Family Background: Father was a freedom fighter, was imprisoned for more than 10 years,
participated in all Congress movements from 1920, was a member of AICC, and West Bengal Legislative Council (1952-64), President, District Congress Committee, Birbhum (WB).
Positions Held:
Elected to Rajya Sabha (July 1969)
Union Deputy Minister, Industrial Development (Jan 1973-Jan 1974)
Union Deputy Minister, Shipping and Transport (Jan 1974-Oct 1974)
Union Minister of State, Finance (Oct 1974-Dec 1975)
Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (2nd term) (July 1975)
Union Minister, Revenue and Banking (Independent Charge) (Dec 1975-Mar 1977)
Deputy Leader, Congress Party, Rajya Sabha (1978 -1980)
Member, Congress Working Committee (INC) (27 Jan 1978-18 Jan 1986)
Treasurer, All India Congress Committee; Treasurer, Congress (I) Party in Parliament (1978-1979)
Member, Central Parliamentary Board, AICC (1978-1986)
Union Minister, Commerce and Steel and Mines (Jan 1980-Jan 1982)
Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha (1980-1985)
Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (3rd term) (Aug 1981)
Union Cabinet Minister, Finance with additional charge of Ministry of Commerce and Supply (Jan 1982-Dec 1984 and Sept-Dec 1984)
Chairman, Campaign Committee of AICC for Conducting National Election to Parliament (1984-1991), (1996) and (1998)
Chairman, Economic Advisory Cell, AICC (1987-1989)
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (June 1991-May 1996)
Union Cabinet Minister, Commerce (Jan 1993-Feb 1995)
Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (4th term) (1993)
Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs (Feb 1995-May 1996)
Member, Business Advisory Committee, Rajya Sabha (1996-2003)
Member, Committee on Privileges, Rajya Sabha; Member, Committee on Rules, Rajya Sabha (1996 -2004)
Member, Consultative Committee for External Affairs (1996 -1999)
Chairman, Departmentally related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forest (1997)
Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (5th term); Former Chairman, Central Election Coordination Committee, AICC (1999)
General Secretary, AICC; Former Member, Congress Working Committee (INC) (1998-1999)
Chairman, Departmentally related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs; Former President, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee; Former Member, Central Election Committee, AICC (June 1998-May 2004)
Elected to 14th Lok Sabha (13 May 2004)
Union Cabinet Minister, Defence (23 May 2004-24 Oct. 2006)
Leader of the House, Lok Sabha (25 May 2004)
Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs (25 Oct 2006-23 May 2009)
Ministry of Finance (additional charge) (24 Jan 2009-23 May 2009)
Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term); Former Leader of the House, Lok Sabha (20 May 2009)
Former Union Cabinet Minister, Finance (23 May 2009-26 Jun. 2012)
Books Published:
Mid-term Poll, 1969;
Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy, 1984;
Off the Track, 1987;
Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice, 1992; and
Challenges Before the Nation (On Indian National Congress), 1992.
Awards: Padma Vibhushan, 2007.
Countries Visited: Widely travelled
Contact Details:
The President’s Secretariat
Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi,110 004.
Phone: 011-23015321
Fax : 011-23017290/011-23017824
Dr. Manmohan Singh
India’s fourteenth Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh is rightly
acclaimed as a thinker and a scholar. He is well regarded for his
diligence and his academic approach to work, as well as his accessibility and his unassuming demeanour.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a village in the Punjab province of
undivided India. Dr. Singh completed his Matriculation examinations from the Punjab University in 1948.
His academic career took him from Punjab to the University of Cambridge, UK, where he earned a First Class
Honours degree in Economics in 1957. Dr. Singh followed this with
a D. Phil in Economics from Nuffield College at Oxford University in 1962.
His book, “India’s Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth” [Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964]
was an early critique of India’s inward-oriented trade policy.
Dr. Singh’s academic credentials were burnished by the years he spent on the faculty of Punjab University
and the prestigious Delhi School of Economics. He had a brief stint at the UNCTAD Secretariat as well,
during these years. This presaged a subsequent appointment as Secretary General of the South Commission
in Geneva between 1987 and 1990.
In 1971, Dr. Singh joined the Government of India as Economic Advisor in the Commerce Ministry.
This was soon followed by his appointment as Chief Economic Advisor in the Ministry of Finance in 1972.
Among the many Governmental positions that Dr. Singh has occupied are Secretary in the Ministry of Finance;
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission; Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Advisor of the Prime Minister;
and Chairman of the University Grants Commission.
In what was to become the turning point in the economic history of independent India, Dr. Singh spent five years
between 1991 and 1996 as India’s Finance Minister. His role in ushering in a comprehensive policy of economic
reforms is now recognized worldwide. In the popular view of those years in India, that period is inextricably
associated with the persona of Dr. Singh.
Among the many awards and honours conferred upon Dr. Singh in his public career, the most prominent are India’s
second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan (1987); the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award of the
Indian Science Congress (1995); the Asia Money Award for Finance Minister of the Year (1993 and 1994); the Euro
Money Award for Finance Minister of the Year (1993), the Adam Smith Prize of the University of Cambridge (1956);
and the Wright’s Prize for Distinguished Performance at St. John’s College in Cambridge (1955). Dr. Singh has also
been honoured by a number of other associations including the Japanese Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Dr. Singh is a recipient
of honorary degrees from many universities including the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
Dr. Singh has represented India at many international conferences and in several international organizations.
He has led Indian Delegations to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Cyprus (1993) and to the World
Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993.
In his political career, Dr. Singh has been a Member of India’s Upper House of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha)
since 1991, where he was Leader of the Opposition between 1998 and 2004. Dr. Manmohan Singh was sworn in as
Prime Minister on 22nd May after the 2004 general elections and took the oath of office for a second term on
22nd May 2009.
Dr. Singh and his wife Mrs. Gursharan Kaur have three daughters.
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