Harjit Singh Anand is a former senior administrator in the Government of India

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 and co-president of the EuroIndia Centre

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, Professor at the Centre for Study of Administration of Relief (Delhi) and President of the Working Group on Famine and Society of the International Sociological Association

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Education

After obtaining a BA (Honours) in Political Science with Economics, an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Administration, he joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1973. Among the various posts he has held, the following are particularly noteworthy:

Career

• Service with the International Labour Organization at its India Office for over two years as Mission Leader for the Informal Sector.
• Director General of the Haryana Institute of Public Administration from 2002 to 2005.
• As Member Secretary, leading the National Capital Region Planning Board to adopt an environmentally progressive policy and to finance innovative urban development projects with a Regional planning approach.
• Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation of the Government of India
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  , in which capacity he was instrumental in preparing the National Housing and Habitat Policy with a clear focus on social exclusion and inclusion and low income housing.
• Close association with the formulation of the National Street Vendors Policy, with refining India’s employment programmes for the urban poor and with implementing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
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• Close association with the drafting of the Nehru Rozgar Yojna launched by the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
  Rajiv Gandhi
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   for improving the lot of the urban poor.
• Chairman of the committee which prepared a report on Housing – A new pattern of development based on Public-private partnership, commissioned by the Lt. Governor of Delhi.

Throughout his career, Anand has represented his country, often in a high-profile capacity, at various international events and bodies. Anand is a director of the National Krav Maga

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Federation (NKMF).