Ministers with Foreign Education in India's Council of Ministers in 2012
As India celebrates its NRIs, PIOs, OCIs in its 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas in Kochi, Kerala from January 7 to 9, 2013, it is worth knowing the current members of India’s governing Council of Ministers who have received foreign education like the historical names who achieved high aspirations for themselves and all Indians from 1913 to 2012.
Indian Leaders with Foreign Education listed below have the role models to follow who were also educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. The current leadership with foreign education has the challenge to meet today’s problems which relate to governance as against an opportunity to govern oneself which leaders like Mahatma Gandhi Ji and Chacha Nehru Ji, among millions of others, achieved for India and the world. Those are millennial goals and the leaders fighting for Swaraj got it.
It is notable that most of today’s leaders received their foreign education in the United States whereas most before the Independence were educated in United Kingdom. The shift from UK to USA began in the 1950s and accelerated in the last fifty years so that there are almost 100,000 Indians studying in the United States in 2012.
History will judge how the current leadership with foreign education did in making wise decisions and implementing them to achieve the stated goals of growth and its equitable and fair distribution for all Indians as equal human beings under the constitution in a democratic system with equal rights, opportunities, and access to private and public goods and services.
There are 81 ministers in the Council of Ministers in December 2012; 14 have foreign education as listed below with their portfolios and the countries where they received their education:
Some historical great minds and giants of the struggle for freedom, with foreign education, are listed below for easy reference and inspiration.
As India celebrates its NRIs, PIOs, OCIs in its 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas in Kochi, Kerala from January 7 to 9, 2013, it is worth knowing the current members of India’s governing Council of Ministers who have received foreign education like the historical names who achieved high aspirations for themselves and all Indians from 1913 to 2012.
Indian Leaders with Foreign Education listed below have the role models to follow who were also educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. The current leadership with foreign education has the challenge to meet today’s problems which relate to governance as against an opportunity to govern oneself which leaders like Mahatma Gandhi Ji and Chacha Nehru Ji, among millions of others, achieved for India and the world. Those are millennial goals and the leaders fighting for Swaraj got it.
It is notable that most of today’s leaders received their foreign education in the United States whereas most before the Independence were educated in United Kingdom. The shift from UK to USA began in the 1950s and accelerated in the last fifty years so that there are almost 100,000 Indians studying in the United States in 2012.
History will judge how the current leadership with foreign education did in making wise decisions and implementing them to achieve the stated goals of growth and its equitable and fair distribution for all Indians as equal human beings under the constitution in a democratic system with equal rights, opportunities, and access to private and public goods and services.
There are 81 ministers in the Council of Ministers in December 2012; 14 have foreign education as listed below with their portfolios and the countries where they received their education:
1.
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister; Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions; Ministry of Planning; Department of Atomic Energy; Department
of Space - United Kingdom
2.
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning
Commission - United Kingdom
3.
Shri Palaniappan Chidambaram, Minister of Finance - United
States
4.
Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs - United
Kingdom
5.
Shri Ajit Singh, Minister of Civil Aviation – United States
6.
Dr. M. Mangapati Pallam Raju, Minister of Human
Resource Development – United States
7.
Shri Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and
Information Technology –United States
8.
Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development –
United States
9.
Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar, Minister of State with
Independent Charge in the Ministry of Development
of Northeastern Region and Minister of
State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs – United Kingdom
10. Shri
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Minister of State with Independent Charge in
the Ministry of Power – United States
11. Shri
Sachin Pilot, Minister of Corporate Affairs – United States
12. Dr.
Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development – United States
13. Shri
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare - United States and Canada
14. Shri
Milind Murli Deora, Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology and the Ministry of Shipping – United States
Some historical great minds and giants of the struggle for freedom, with foreign education, are listed below for easy reference and inspiration.
1. Mahatma Gandhi – United Kingdom
2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel –
United Kingdom
3. Pt. Motilal Nehru – United
Kingdom
4. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru – United
Kingdom
5. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – United
States and United Kingdom
6. Muhammad Ali Jinnah – United
Kingdom
7. Vijayalaxmi Pandit – Switzerland
8. Indira Gandhi – United Kingdom
and Switzerland
9. Jaiprakash Narayan – United
States
10. Rajiv Gandhi – United Kingdom
11. Rabindranath Tagore – United
Kingdom
12. Sri Aurobindo – United
Kingdom
13. Krishna Menon – United Kingdom
14. Muhammad Iqbal – United Kingdom
and Germany
15. Ram Manohar Lohia – Germany
16. Bipin Chandra Pal – United
Kingdom
17. Dadabhai Naoroji – United
Kingdom
18. Subhash Chandra Bose – United
Kingdom
19. Surendranath Banerjee –United
Kingdom
20.
Romesh Chander Dutt –United Kingdom
21. Beharilal Gupta –United Kingdom
22. V. V. Giri – Ireland
23. K.R. Narayanan –United Kingdom
24. V.K. R.V. Rao – United Kingdom
25. Raj Krishna – United States
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