Manmohan Singh conferred Lifetime Achievement Honour in UK

February 3, 2023

Every year the National Indian Students and Alumni Union presents the Lifetime Achievement Honour. The NISAU is a UK organization. It represents Indian students in the UK. This is the first time the NISAU is introducing the India UK achievers Honours. Over 75 highly qualified professionals will be honored with the award. Number 75 was chosen to mark the 75^th year of India’s independence.

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Dr. Manmohan Singh was born in Gah, today Pakistan. His family migrated to India during the 1947 partition. He obtained his doctorate from Oxford in Economics. He worked for the UN between 1966 and 1969. Between the 1970s and 1980s, Manmohan served as the Chief Economic Advisor of the Government of India, Head of the Planning commission, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, etc. He faced the economic crisis of 1991 during Mr. Narasimha Rao’s period. As a Prime Minister, Mr. Singh brought in several changes. His ministry executed UIA, National Rural Health Mission, the Right to Information Act, etc.

Nuclear Agreement by Mr. Singh

Of all the achievements of Mr. Singh, the nuclear agreement signed with the US is seen as historic. Under this agreement, India agreed to place its civil and military nuclear facilities under the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). With this India received an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group. NSG had controlled the nuclear exports to India following India’s first nuclear test in 1974. India faced difficulties in getting nuclear fuels because of this. The Civil Nuclear Agreement with the US helped India remove all the hurdles on its path to becoming a nuclear power.