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From economic advisor to becoming PM, here are his key achievements including MNREGA – India TV

From economic advisor to becoming PM, here are his key achievements including MNREGA – India TV

Image Source : INDIA TV Manmohan Singh’s key achievements, including MNREGA Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, often referred to as the architect of India’s economic reforms, passed away on Thursday at the age of 92. His demise has left the nation mourning the loss of a visionary leader who played a pivotal role in shaping modern India. Dr. Singh’s journey, from being an economist to serving as India’s Prime Minister for two consecutive terms, is a testament to his exceptional leadership and dedication to the country. Here’s a look at his key achievements: The architect of economic reforms Dr. Singh is widely regarded as the pioneer of India’s economic liberalization. As Finance Minister in 1991, he opened India’s economy to globalization and liberalization, introducing policies that transformed the country into a global economic player. Major milestones under his leadership Right to Information Act (2005): To promote transparency and accountability, Dr. Singh’s government implemented the Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005, empowering citizens to seek information from public authorities. Launch of MNREGA …

The great liberaliser: Manmohan Singh dies at 92 | Latest News India

The great liberaliser: Manmohan Singh dies at 92 | Latest News India

Manmohan Singh, a soft-spoken scholar of economics, who defeated poverty with education to rise to the highest echelon of politics, and transformed the Indian economy by unshackling growth as finance minister before becoming the country’s first Sikh prime minister, died in New Delhi on Thursday night. He was 92. Manmohan Singh, then India’s finance minister, in a photo from October 24, 1991. (HT Archive) Singh served with distinction as the deputy chief of the erstwhile Planning Commission and governor of the Reserve Bank of India before completing a landmark tenure as a Union finance minister who unveiled watershed reforms in 1991 that inaugurated India’s journey as a major world economy. The country’s 14th prime minister is survived by his wife, Gursharan Kaur, and three daughters Upinder Singh, Daman Singh, and Amrit Singh. “With profound grief, we inform the demise of former prime minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, aged 92,” said a press statement by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where the ailing leader was admitted earlier in the day with complications. The …

Manmohan Singh, The Technocrat Who Transformed India’s Economy

Manmohan Singh, The Technocrat Who Transformed India’s Economy

New Delhi: Manmohan Singh — former Prime Minister of India, renowned economist, technocrat and the architect of India’s liberalisation, which pulled the country out of economic atrophy – has died at 92. Dr Singh, who had been ailing for a while, died at Delhi’s AIIMS hospital this evening. Seen as a reluctant politician, Manmohan Singh was the automatic choice for Sonia Gandhi when, after an unexpected victory of the Congress-led UPA, she stepped away from the post of Prime Minister. Dr Singh’s background as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor and former finance minister, and his unimpeachable reputation made it an obvious decision. While the economy has never looked back after the liberalisation of 1991 that pulled it out of a phenomenal low of the balance of payments crisis, delivering an average growth rate of around 8.5 per cent, Manmohan Singh took the other huge step, in foreign policy, in 2008. The India-US nuclear deal was forged in the fire of a huge political row in the country, the withdrawal of support by the left …