Who is ManMohan Singh? Read this. This man - who was introduced at the ASEAN Business Forum meeting as “the world’s most qualified Head of Government” - will be remembered by the History as one of the greatest son of India and perhaps the architect of Modern India. WHENEVER he was asked for the secret of his professional success Manmohan Singh would say only one thing, “I am what I am because of my education.” He has often thanked his family for ensuring that he went right up to college and then had opportunities to win many scholarships that finally helped him get a PhD from Oxford University. Manmohan Singh was born into a family of modest means in the village of Gah in Pakistan. For the first 12 years of his life he lived there, a village which had no electricity, no school, no hospital, no piped drinking water. He walked for miles every day to school and studied at night in the dim light of a kerosene lamp. When asked once why he had poor eyesight he confessed that it was because he had spent hours reading books in that dim light. It was his hard work that enabled him to finish his schooling and attend college in Amritsar, where he lived after the Partition. He then won a scholarship to go to Cambridge University in England to do his Master’s in Economics. Another scholarship helped him complete his PhD. He won the coveted Adam Smith Prize in Economics for his outstanding academic record. He always stood first and was a brilliant student. For all his brilliance, he was a very shy boy. He once told Mark Tully, the famous BBC correspondent in India, that throughout his stay in Cambridge he used to bathe with cold water because the moment hot water was available in the hostel all the other students would come in to bathe and he felt shy to show them his long hair. As the only Sikh student in the hostel he felt inhibited to remove his turban in front of others. It is this shy boy who became the darling of his teachers because he was such a good student. He returned to India to teach at his college in Amritsar. One day, his neighbour, renowned writer Mulk Raj Anand, took him to meet Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Panditji asked him to join the government. But he had a commitment to teach at the college and so he could not accept that offer. Later, when he was working at the United Nations under the famous economist Raul Prebisch, he got an offer to join Delhi School of Economics as a lecturer. He immediately accepted that invitation and decided to return to India. Dr. Prebisch was shocked. So many brilliant economists would be delighted to get a UN job and this young man was giving it up to teach in India? “You are being foolish,” Prebisch told Manmohan Singh, adding, “But, sometimes in life it is wise to be foolish!” Manmohan Singh returned home first to teach and then to work in the Government. He has held every important job in the field of economic policy making in India: Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India, Finance Secretary, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Union Finance Minister and now Prime Minister! In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, newly elected Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao surprisingly inducted the apolitical Singh into his cabinet as Finance Minister. Over the next few years, despite strong opposition, he as a Finance Minister carried out several structural reforms that liberalised India's economy. These measures proved successful in averting the crisis, and enhanced Singh's reputation globally as a leading reform-minded economist. In 1991, India's fiscal deficit was close to 8.5 per cent of the gross domestic product, the balance of payments deficit was huge and the current account deficit was close to 3.5 percent of India's GDP.[10] India's foreign reserves barely amounted to US$1 billion, enough to pay for a few weeks of imports, in comparison to US$283 billion today.

Successful workshop supported by DHR, was organized at AIIMS New Delhi by AIIMS, ICMR & DHR experts on systematic reviews and meta-analyses. This hands-on training is vital for synthesizing evidence to meet India's healthcare needs. #Healthcare #SystematicReviews #MetaAnalysis

DHR supported workshop “SARANSH” in AIIMS New Delhi. This flagship initiative focused on regional capacity building in systematic reviews & meta- analysis and enhanced evidence-based healthcare across seven northern states and Union Territories. #Healthcare #SARANSH

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“What was the point of learning calculus as I never apply it anywhere?” said my IIT Bombay junior He seems right. Not only calculus, but fluid dynamics, atomic structure and particle physics are useless. Even things taught in school like trigonometry, mitochondria (yes, I know you remember), or Julius Caesar are all irrelevant. Instead, they should have taught us about personal finance, how to make money, how to do better at the workplace. Except, the thinking is all wrong Education is not supposed to teach you how to do a job or how to make money. It is to teach you how to think. Limiting education to the narrow pursuit of making money is the biggest disservice you can do to yourself. This is why I always worry about the obsession with college placement statistics and packages. Colleges are places to learn and build relationships, not be placement agencies All the apparently useless stuff taught to you teaches you thinking, problem-solving, curiosity, and mental models. People asked me if my B Tech was wasted after I did my MBA. I usually tell them this. - By the age of 1, I had “wasted” one year learning how to crawl. I may never crawl again, but did it help me develop the ability to run? Most definitely yes. - By the age of 11 I had “wasted” two years learning how to cycle. I may hardly ever cycle again, but did it help me develop road sense to drive? Most definitely yes. - By the age of 21, I had “wasted” four years learning physics. I may rarely read about physics again, but did it help me develop a structured and analytical thought process? Most definitely yes. Running is very “different” from crawling, in theory. Cycling is very “different” from driving, in theory. Engineering is very “different” from an MBA, in theory. Were they a waste? Most definitely not. You will realize one commonality in rich and/or successful people. They know a lot of apparently useless stuff. Einstein was a great violinist. Gates knows way too much about nuclear fusion. Zuckerberg can MMA. This is a feature of success, not a bug. Curiosity and an obsession with learning got them where they are. Money was simply a by-product. School, college, and postgrad should all teach you how to think. If you don't know how to think and apply your mind to a variety of situations, you will be boring. That's the definition of a robot. Instead, try to be all curious like a human