(TO BE PUBLISHED IN GAZETTE EXTRA ORDINARY, PART 1 SEC.1) Government of India Ministry of Culture (Special Cell) Notification New Delhi, the 24 th September, 2016 F.No. 19-1/2015- Special Cell To commemorate the Birth Centenary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya in a befitting manner, the Competent Authority has approved the constitution of a National Committee. The composition of the National Committee is as under:- NATIONAL COMMITTEE Chairman 1. Shri Narendra Modi, Hon ble Prime Minister of India Members 2. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Fr PM, Bharat Ratna 3. Shri H D Deve Gowda, Fr PM of India 4. Smt. Sumitra Mahajan, Speaker of Lok Sabha 5. Shri Rajnath Singh, Home Minister 6. Smt. Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister 7. Shri Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister 8. Shri Manohar Parikkar, Defence Minister 9. Shri Venkaiah Naidu, Urban Development Minister 10. Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways & Shipping 11. Shri Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Railways 12. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 13. Shri Kalraj Mishra, Minister of MSME 14. Shri Jual Oram, Minister of Tribal Affairs 15. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment 16. Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Human Resource Development 17. Ms Lata Mangeshkar, Bharat Ratna 18. Shri Mahesh Sharma, MoS (IC), Culture 19. Shri Anil Madhav Dave, Environment Minister - MoS (IC) 20. Shri L K Advani, Fr Dy. PM 21. Smt. Mridula Sinha, Governor of Goa 22. Prof. O P Kohli, Governor of Gujarat 23. Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana 24. Shri Acharya Devvrat, Governor of Himachal Pradesh 25. Shri Kalyan Singh, Governor of Rajasthan 26. Shri Ram Naik, Governor of Uttar Pradesh 27. Shri K.N. Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal 28. Shri Banwarilal Purohit, Governor of Assam 29. Shri Vijay Rupani, CM of Gujarat
30. Shri Pema Khandu, CM of Arunachal Pradesh 31. Shri T R Zeliang, CM of Nagaland 32. Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling, CM of Sikkim 33. Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, C M of Haryana 34. Ms.Vasundhara Raje Scindia, CM of Rajasthan 35. Shri Nitish Kumar, CM of Bihar 36. Shri Parkash Singh Badal, CM Punjab 37. Shri Raghuvar Das, CM Jharkhand 38. Shri Raman Singh, CM Chhattisgarh 39. Shri Sarbanand Sonowal, CM Assam 40. Shri Chandrababu Naidu, CM Andhra Pradesh 41. Shri Devendra Fadnavis, CM Maharashtra 42. Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, CM of Madhya Pradesh 43. Shri R C Lahoti, Fr Chief Justice of India 44. Shri Manohar Joshi, Fr CM Maharashtra 45. Shri Keshubhai Patel, Fr CM of Gujarat 46. Ms. Anandiben Patel, Fr CM of Gujarat 47. Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Fr CM of Uttarakhand 48. Shri Sunder Lal Patwa, Fr CM of Madhya Pradesh 49. Shri Arjun Munda, Fr CM of Jharkhand 50. Prof. Francois Gautier, French Political Writer and Journalist 51. Shri Ranjit Kumar Das, Speaker, Assam 52. Sardar Charanjit Singh Atwal, Speaker, Punjab 53. Shri Sharad Pawar, MP, President, NCP 54. Shri Murli Manohar Joshi, MP 55. Shri Harivansh. MP (RS) 56. Dr. Karan Singh, MP (RS) 57. Shri Sharad Yadav, MP, Fr President, JDU 58. Shri Amit Shah, President (BJP) 59. Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi, MP, Delhi 60. Shri Hukum Dev Narayan Yadav, MP, Bihar 61. Shri Tarun Vijay, MP, Uttrakhand 62. Shri Kariya Munda, MP (LS) 63. Shri Sambhaji Raje Chhatrapati, MP (RS) Nominated 64. Shri Mahesh Chandra Sharma, Chairman Integral Humanism Foundation, Fr RS MP 65. Dr.Narendra Jadhav, Fr MP, Pune 66. Shri Bhaiyyuji Maharaj, Spiritual Leader 67. Shri Bhante Dhamma Viriyo, Buddhist Monk 68. Shri V K Malhotra, Fr MP 69. Shri Shanta Kumar, Fr MP 70. Shri Sushil Kumar Modi, Fr Deputy CM of Bihar 71. Justice Dharmadhikari 72. Justice Rajendra Prasad, Retired Justice Patna High Court 73. Justice V.S Kokje, Retd Rajasthan HC, Indore 74. Shri A D N Bajpai, Vice Chancellor, Himachal Pradesh University 75. Mar George Alencherry, Spiritual Leader 76. Shri Brahmdev Sharma (BhaiJi), Indian educationist and the patron of Vidya Bhararti Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Sansthan Padma Shri 77. Shri Prasoon Joshi, Lyricist
78. Swami RamdevJi, Yog Guru, Patanjali Yogpeeth 79. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev 80. Shri Kundanbhai Vyas, Journalist 81. ShriMahadev R Desai, Navsari, Vanche Gujarat Campaign 82. Shri J K Bajaj, Director Centre for Policy Studies 83. Shri Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor, Spiritual Leader, Parsi Temple, Gujarat 84. Shri Jagmohan Singh Rajput, Fr NCERT Director 85. Shri Jawahar Lal Kaul, Padma Shri, Professor at Law Center Delhi University 86. Shri Kishor Kunal, retired IPS Officer and Sanskrit scholar Chairman of the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts 87. Shri Mukul Asher, Prof LKY School of Public Policy, Singapore Fellow Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Foundation 88. Shri Prakash Shah, Assoc Prof (Civilizational, Historical issues) Queens Mary, University of London + Director Centre of Culture & Law 89. Shri Suryakant Bali, National Professor (MHRD) eminent Hindi Thinker & Writer 90. Syadna Muffaddal Saifuddin, Spiritual Leader 91. Shri Ved Prakash Nanda, - Prof (International Law) - University of Denver 92. Prof. Chaman Lal Gupt, Jammu, Fr. BJP MLA 93. Prof. Aniruddh Deshpande, Pune 94. Prof. Vinod Mishra, Jabalpur 95. ShriKrishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Space Scientist 96. Shri Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, Film Director 97. Shri Anup Jalota, Spiritual Singer 98. Shri Narendra Kohli, Hindi Writer 99. Shri H M Mangal, Dean, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Medical College, Rajkot 100. Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, Spiritual Leader, All India Muslim Personal Law Board 101. Shri Vimlesh Chaudhary, Vice Chancellor, Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Shekhawati University, Sikar 102. Shri Alok Kumar, Dy Speaker Delhi Assembly 103. Shri Bajrang Lal, RSS, New Delhi 104. Shri Praveen Dabhalkar, Jt Gen secretary, Vivekananda Kendra, Kanya Kumari 105. Shri Sanjay Gupta, Editor & CEO, Dainik Jagran 106. Shri Deepak Kumar Barthakur, Guwahati 107. Shri Rahul Dev, Journalist (Gurgaon) 108. Shri Rajat Sharma, Chairman India TV 109. Prof. Vaidyanathan, Member SEBI Advisory Committee on Secondary Markets, Bangalore 110. Shri Dhanraj Pillay, Fr India Hockey Player 111. Shri Pullela Gopichand, Fr Indian Badminton Player 112. Shri Subhash Kashyap, Fr Secy General, Lok Sabha and Political Scientist, Sainik Farm, New Delhi 113. Shri S Krishnaswamy, Air Chief Marshal, 19th Chief of Air Staff (India) from 2001 to 2004 114. Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Environmentalist, Social Activist - Gandhi Peace Prize winner
115. Mr. Michel Danino, Indologist 116. Shri Ashok Bhagat, Padma Shri Ranchi, Secretary of Vikas Bharti, Social Worker 117. Shri Bindeshwar Pathak, Founder, Sulabh Movement 118. Shri Chiranjeev Singh, Rashtriya Sikh Sangat 119. Shri Dattatreya Hosable Ji, Sangh Parivar, Rajendra Nagar, Patna 120. Shri Krishan GopalJi, Sangh Parivar, Jhandewalan 121. Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa, Founder, Akshaya Patra + Governing Body, ISKCON Bangalore 122. Shri Surendra Singh Kaimbo, Chairperson, Minority Commission, Chhattisgarh 123. Shri Parmatamanand Ji, Geeta Scholar, Rajkot 124. Swami Avdeshanand Ji, Harihar Ashram, Haridwar 125. Swami Gautamanand Ji, Ramkrishna Math, Mangalore, Karnataka President of Sri Ramkrishna Math 126. Swami Satyamitranand Ji, Bharat Mata Mandir, Haridwar 127. Shri Virender Heggde, Philanthropist, Dharmadhikari of the Dharmasthala Temple 128. Shri S. Gurumurthy, Chennai Swadeshi Jagran Manch 129. Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, New Delhi 130. Dr. Suryaprakash, New Delhi 131. Shri N. Gopalaswamy, Fr CEC 132. Shri K. Arvind Rao, Retd. Govt. Officer 133. Shri Y.P. Anand, CRB (Retd.) 134. Shri Abhay Mahajan, Chitrakoot 135. Ms. Saroj Bala, Delhi (Retd IRS Officer), Director, I-SERVE 136. Shri Pranav Pandya, Gayatri Parivar 137. Dr. Subramanian Swamy 138. Shri S.L. Bhairappa Kannada Novelist 139. Sri Sri Ravishankar 140. Smt. Kusumlata Kedia, Bhopal Historian, Writer 141. Shri K. Rajashekharan, Kerala BJP Chief 142. Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Ex-Chairman, KVIC 143. Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Delhi 144. Shri K N. Govindacharya, Delhi 145. Dr. Ashok Tandon, Delhi Plastic Surgeon 146. Shri Ram Madhav, Delhi 147. Shri Ravindra Mahajan, Mumbai 148. Shri Atul Jain, General Secretary, DRI, Delhi 149. Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi, DG, RIS, Delhi 150. Shri Hitesh Shankar, Panchjanya 151. Shri Prabhat Kumar, Prabhat Prakashan, Delhi 152. Shri Madan Das, ABVP invited member, Mumbai The Mandate of the National Committee will be as under: (i) (ii) Approve policies/plans, programmes and super-wise and guide the Commemoration of the Birth Centenary of Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya including preparatory activities. Decide on the broad dates for the detailed programme of Celebration.
The recommendations of the Committee will be considered by the Government for implementation, subject to extent Rules, instructions and practices. Ms. Shefali Shah Joint Secretary to the Government of India