Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu (born 11 July 1953) is an Indian politician, and Chancellor of Rishihood University who was the minister of Civil Aviation, Railways, Commerce & Industry, Chemicals & Fertilizers, Environments & Forests & Power in the First Modi ministry.
He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). From 1996, Prabhu retained the seat as a Member of Parliament for the Rajapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra as a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party.
He resigned from Shiv Sena and joined the BJP on 9 November 2014. Since June 2016, he has represented Andhra Pradesh and Haryana in the Rajya Sabha. He is also the founding Chancellor of Rishihood University. He is also a visiting professor at London School of Economics.
Shri Prabhat Kumar is an IAS 1963 Batch Topper and Former Cabinet Secretary, Government of India. He had been serving as the first governor of Jharkhand. Shri Prabhat Kumar is currently the president of the IC Centre of Governance.
Shri Prabhat Kumar has done three MAs in Physics, mathematics, & Economics from the prestigious London School of Economics.
He is presently involved with several initiatives for ‘ Better Governance and Ethics in Public Life.
His book “Public Service Ethics-A Quest for Naitik Bharat” has recently been published. It encapsulated his rich experience as a public servant and enumerates his vision for ethics in public service in India.
Dr Shekhar Dutt started his career in the service of the nation as an officer of the Indian Army in August 1967. He took part in the 1971 Indo-Pak War in the Western (Sindh) Sector where he was the Forward Observation Officer of the 11 Infantry Division. He was awarded Sena Medal for Gallantry in this Operation.
He then joined the Indian Administrative Service, Madhya Pradesh Cadre, with the seniority of 1969. At Madhya Pradesh, in addition to serving as District Collector, Divisional Commissioner and Managing Director of M.P. Dairy Federation, he also served as Principal Secretary, School Education, Sports and Youth Affairs and Principal Secretary Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development and Welfare.
While serving in the Government of India, he was Director Command Area Development of all major Irrigation Projects of India. He also worked as Director (Navy) and then as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. As Joint Secretary he looked after the major projects of Integrated Guided Missile Development, Electronic Projects, Warship Building projects, T72 Tank and BMP Combat Vehicle projects.
Dr Shekhar Dutt played the key role in organizing the training and coaching of the Indian Contingent for the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games as Director General of Sports Authority of India (SAI) 2001-2003. Due to this the Indian Contingent won their highest ever medal tally of 69 medals in the Manchester Commonwealth Games 2002. He successfully organized the first Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad in 2003.
He retired as Defence Secretary, Govt. of India in 2007. As Defence Secretary he negotiated and brought into being the Indo-US Framework for Defence Cooperation. Prior to that, Shri Shekhar Dutt was Secretary, Defence Production and Secretary, Ministry of Health, Govt. of India. After retirement in 2007, he served as Deputy National Security Advisor till January 2010.
Shri Dutt assumed the office of the Governor of Chhattisgarh in January 2010 and served till July 2014. During this period he was Chancellor of 11 State Universities and Visitor of 6 private Universities. Presently, he is actively involved in the sectors of Education and Training, National Security and Defence, Renewable Energy as well as Sports and Culture.
Shekhar Dutt has been conferred with the Degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa by the University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata in September 2017.
He was also awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Swansea, U.K. in July 2018.
The Paul Appleby Award for 2016 was conferred upon Shekhar Dutt for rendering outstanding services in the field of Public Administration.
Shekhar Dutt has also been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by the International Society of Ethnopharmacology in 2017. He was given the Honorary Fellowship of The Institution of Engineers (India) in December 2011.
Dr. Shekhar Dutt served on the Board of Governors of DeSales University, USA from 2008 to 2010.
At present, Shekhar Dutt is associated with the following as:
● Vice President of the Indian Institute of Public Adminstration (IIPA)
● Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Joint Warfare, Ministry of Defence, GOI
● Member of the Governing Board of the University of Engineering and Management (UEM), Kolkata
● Director General of the Solar Power Developers Association
● Chairman of Angika Development Society for Education.
● President of the Advisory Board, South Asia Foundation.
● Member Central Board Harijan Sevak Sangh.
Shri Prakash Singh is a retired Indian Police Service officer, who rose to the highest rank of Director General of Police (DGP) in two states; Uttar Pradesh Police and Assam Police. He has served as the Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF). He is considered one of the best police officers for his role as a key architect of Police reforms in India. After his retirement from service in 1996, he filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India. The landmark verdict of PIL came in 2006, in which the Supreme Court has given specific directions to the central and state governments to carry out structural changes in the police with a view to insulating it from extraneous pressures and making it accountable to the people.
A National Leader with over 48 years of contribution to nation building and having the distinction of being the Chief of Army Staff and later Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. He is a distinguished international personality and a public speaker with vast experience.
He has a strategic perspective on foreign policy and defence relations particularly with neighboring countries. Global insight and vision for strategic defence relations, indigenization of the defence industry and modernization of Defence Forces, his perspective and knowledge is a valued national assets which can use to steer long-term national defence and security policy.
The General rose to be Chief of Army Staff and commanded the second largest Army in the world from 31 Jan 2005 – 30 Sept 2007. In 2007 he held the appointment of Chairman Chiefs of Staff of the three armed forces equivalent to the present CDS. He has handled an army of 1.2 million soldiers and managed defence assets of many billion rupees as the Army Chief. He has done all the professional courses including Defence Services Staff Course, Senior Command, Higher Command and National Defence College Courses and holds a master's degree in Defence Science. He has also had the privilege of being the first Indian Defence Attaches in Algeria.
The General served as Governor of the State of Arunachal Pradesh from 2008-2013. He was instrumental in the implementation of the Prime Minister’s development package of Rs 20,000 crores for the development of the state in major infrastructural projects related to road, rail, air connectivity and power. During this tenure of 5 1⁄2 years, he experienced politics at the state level. He swore in 4 Chief Ministers and many other ministers oversaw one Vidhan Sabha election and one Lok Sabha election. Fond of sports and outdoors General Singh was perhaps the only Governor who played badminton with the CM Dorjee Khandu quite regularly in Itanagar. By the end of his tenure, he was often described as a ‘people’s governor’. Since 2017, he has been very active in Punjab politics. He contested against Capt. Amrinder Singh from Patiala but did not succeed. He also contested for the Khadoor Sahib Parliament seat in 2019 but had to withdraw for political reasons. His autobiography ‘A Soldiers General’ was published in 2012 by Harper Collins, India. The book has been translated into Hindi and other languages. India’s national security challenges such as Siachen, Kargil, J&K and the North-east and relations with our neighbors, Pakistan and China, in particular, have been analyzed logically in this book. The General Officer is widely travelled and has been to over 50 countries and significantly enhanced mil-to-mil co-operation. His second book ‘The McMahon Line’ deals with India-China relations and the boundary issue and was launched in June 2019. He was honored with an Achievers Award by the Punjab State Government on 9 November 2019 on The On the occasion of 550 the Prakash Diwas of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He is the first Sikh to be elevated to the rank of the Army Chief of India.
A thinking General who has distinguished himself as a professional who leads from the front. He believes in the credo ‘Fight to Win’; a warrior and a winner, he is an achiever against odds and was recently conferred the “Legion d‘ Honneur” is one of the highest decorations by the President of France.
Dr Yogendra Narain is a 1965 batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He is a former Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha. He also served as the Defence Secretary of India, Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, and Surface Transport Secretary of India. He is the current Chancellor of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (HNBGU) situated in the Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. Dr Yogendra Narain served in various key positions for both the Government of India and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, like as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, first Chairman of Greater NOIDA, Principal Secretary (Information), Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Principal Secretary to the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Secretary (Power and Irrigation) and as the District Magistrate and Collector of Lucknow and Muzaffarnagar districts in the Government of Uttar Pradesh, and as the Union Defence Secretary, Union Surface Transport Secretary, first Chairman of National Highways Authority of India and as the Joint Secretary (Ports) in the Ministry of Surface Transport in the Union Government.
Shri Shashank is a former foreign secretary of India. He was secretary from December 2003 to July 2004. He also served as India’s Ambassador to Denmark, South Korea and Libya. In 1966 he joined the Indian Foreign Service. From 1968 to 1971 he was 3r Sec/2nd Secy in the City of Brussels (Belgium).
● From 1972 to 1973 he was 1st Secy in Hanoi.
● From 1974 to 1976 he was Under Sec/Dep Sec in the Ministry of External Affairs (India).
● From 1976 to 1979 he was Dep Sec in the Permanent Mission of India before the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City
● From 1979 to 1982 he was 1st Secy/Counsellor in Cairo.
● From 1982 to 1986 he was a minister in Islamabad.
● From 1986 to 1991 he was Junction Secretary in charge of the Passport Office of the Ministry of External Affairs (India).
● From 1991 to 1994 he was Ambassador to Tripoli (Libya) and concurrently High Commissioner to Valletta (Malta).
● In 1994 he was Ambassador to Seoul (South Korea).
● From 1994 to 1999 he was Ambassador to Jakarta (Indonesia).
● From March 1999 to 2001 he was Ambassador to Copenhagen (Denmark).
