PM reconstitutes National Committee to commemorate the 125th Birth Anniversary of Shri Jawaharlal Nehru

PM reconstitutes National Committee to commemorate the 125th Birth Anniversary of Shri Jawaharlal Nehru

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has reconstituted the National Committee to commemorate the 125th Birth Anniversary of India's first Prime Minister, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru. The Prime Minister will himself chair the Committee.

The first meeting of the Committee will be held soon after Deepawali.

The composition of the reconstituted committee is as follows:

        Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Chairman

        Home Minister Ex-officio Member

        Minister of External Affairs Ex-officio Member

        Finance Minister Ex-officio Member

        Minister of Human Resource Development Ex-officio Member

        Minister of Culture Ex-officio Member

        Minister of Information & Broadcasting Ex-officio Member

        Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, MP Member

        Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, MP Member

        Shri B.P. Singh, Ex-Governor, Sikkim Member

        Shri Ram Naresh Yadav Member

Governor of Madhya Pradesh

        Shri M.K. Rasgotra, Member

Ex-Foreign Secretary

        Dr. Subash Kashyap Member

Ex-Secretary General, Lok Sabha

        Dr. Lokesh Chandra Member

        Dr. Karan Singh, MP, Rajya Sabha Member

        Shri Suman Dubey Member

        Shri Naresh Chandra, Member

Ex-Cabinet Secretary

        Prof. Madhavan Palat, Editor, Member

Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru,

Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust, New Delhi

        Dr. Chandrasekhar Dasgupta, Member

The Energy & Resources Institute, New Delhi

        Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Member

Former Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Trust

and Senior Fellow, NMML, New Delhi

        Vice Adm. K. K. Nayyar Member

        Shri C. R. Gharekhan, IFS (Retd.) Member

        Gen. V. P. Malik, Retd. Chief of Army Staff Member

        Shri Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Member

Centre for Policy Research

        Shri Rajat Sharma, Senior Journalist Member

        Shri Swapan Dasgupta, Senior Journalist Member

        Shri M. J. Akbar Member

        Shri Sudarshan Agarwal Member

Ex-Governor, Uttarakhand

        Director General Member

National Archives of India

        Maulana Md. Madani, MP Member

        Shri Ravindra Singh, Member Secretary

Secretary, Ministry of Culture

 

Apart from the full Committee, the Prime Minister has also approved the constitution of a National Implementation Committee comprising of the following:

 

        Home Minister Chairperson

        Minister for External Affairs Member

        Finance Minister Member

        Minister of Human Resoruce Development Member

        Minister of Culture Member

        Shri Naresh Chandra, Ex-CS Member

        Shri C. R. Gharekhan, Ex-IFS Member

        General V. P. Malik, Retd. Chief of Army Staff Member

        Shri Swapan Dasgupta Member

        Shri Subhash Kashyap Member

        Shri Ravindra Singh, Convenor

Secretary, Ministry of Culture