Today, September 26, is the 90th birthday of Dr. Man Mohan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India.- Let us look at a few interesting things about the great economist who changed the way India's economy works:

Dr. Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister, needs no introduction. He was one of the most important intellectuals who built India's socialist economy, and he is one of the few Indian politicians of our time who is respected and has a good reputation for being honest.

Manmohan Singh was born in Gah, West Punjab, India, on September 26, 1932. When India was split up in 1947, his family moved there. When he was very young, he lost his mother. His father's mother raised him, and he was very close to her.

Singh went to school at the Hindu College in Amritsar. Then, he went to Panjab University to get his B.A. and M.A. in economics. He got his Economic Tripos from the University of Cambridge and his Economics Ph.D. from The Oxford University. From 1957 to 1959, he taught economics as a senior lecturer at Panjab University. From 1969 to 1971, he taught international trade at the University of Delhi's Delhi School of Economics.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Singh was Chief Economic Advisor (1972-76), governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1982–85), and head of the Planning Commission (1985–87). Between 1966 and 1969, he worked for the UN. Singh was a consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Lalit Narayan Mishra put him in charge of that job. During the time that V. P. Singh was Prime Minister of India, Singh was his economic advisor. He became the head of the University Grants Commission in March 1991.

When Singh was India's finance minister from 1991 to 1996, he got rid of the Licence Raj. After an unheard-of economic crisis in 1991 and 1992, he changed the Indian economy by making big changes called liberalisation, globalization, and privatization. Under the leadership of then-Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, he started a new era of economic growth with ground-breaking reforms. He and Rao also worked together to open up India's economy. He is the one who comes up with ideas for foreign investments and growing the economy outside of the country's political borders. The budget for 1991-1992 was one of the most change-making budgets the country has ever seen.

During the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, from 1998 to 2004, he was the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Manmohan Singh was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1991. In 1995, 2001, 2007, and 2013, he was re-elected. He ran for the Lok Sabha from South Delhi in 1999, but he didn't win the seat.

The first Sikh to be Prime Minister of India took the oath of office on May 22, 2004. He did not run for the general election for the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014, and on May 17, 2014, he resigned as prime minister at the end of his term. He was the acting prime minister until Narendra Modi became the new prime minister on May 25, 2014.

Singh has also been given a lot of honorary degrees. In March 1983, Panjab University gave him a Doctor of Letters degree, and in 2009, the university's economics department made a Dr. Manmohan Singh chair. In 1997, he got an honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Alberta. In July 2005, the University of Oxford gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law. In October 2006, the University of Cambridge followed with the same honour.  Dr. Manmohan Singh Scholarship, the PhD scholarship, was named after him by St. John's College as another way to honour him. In 2010, King Saud University gave him an honorary doctorate degree. In 2017 he was awarded Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.

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