Balmiki Prasad Singh is the present governor of Sikkim, India. He is a distinguished scholar, thinker and public servant. He was born on January 1, 1942 in Begusarai, Bihar.
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Education
He was educated in a village school and subsequently at the universities of Patna and Oxford. He passed his M.A. in Political Science from Patna University, Patna standing first in first class with record marks and several gold medals. He became a lecturer in Political Science in Patna University at the age of nineteen.This is record by any Indian who became a lecturer in age of nineteen.
Administrative Service
Shri B.P. Singh was appointed in 1964 to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Over the past four decades Shri B.P. Singh has held a variety of important positions within Assam as well as in the Government of India. He was Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forest (1993–95), Culture Secretary (1995–97) and Home Secretary (1997–99) in Government of India.
As an international civil servant, Shri B.P. Singh served as Executive Director and Ambassador at the World Bank during 1999-2002 representing India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Awards and fellowships
He has since been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship (1982–84) and Queen Elizabeth Fellowship (1989–90). He is also recipient of Gulzari lal Nanda Award for Outstanding public service from the President of India in 1998 and Man of Letters Award from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2003.
As Academician and Writer
Shri B.P. Singh has authored five books including The Problem of Change-A Study of North-East India (1987); India’s Culture: The State, the Arts and Beyond (1998) and Bahudha and the post-9/11 World (2008), all published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi. In addition he has authored several articles and monographs on politics, culture, ecology and public administration. He is also Chief Editor of the The Millennium Book on New Delhi, OUP (2001).
Shri B.P. Singh has also been Chancellor of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath (a Deemed to be University) and Chief Editor of the South Asia Series on “Perspectives on Economics, Technology and Governance” of Oxford University Press, New York. Until recently he was Mahatma Gandhi National Fellow at New Delhi.
List of Books
Authored
- India's Culture: The State, the Arts and Beyond, Oxford University Press
- The Problem of Change: A Study of North-East India, Oxford University Press
- Bahudha and the Post 9/11 World with a forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Oxford University Press
- The Indian National Congress and Cultural Renaissance, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd
- Threads Woven: Ideals, Principles and Administration, Virgo Publishers
- Democracy, Ecology, and Culture-the Indian Experience, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Edited
- The Millennium Book on New Delhi, Oxford University Press
