Welcome to Padma Shri Dr.Bajpai

PadmaShri awardee Dr. Nirupam Bajpai is visiting Medak district from 15^th April to 17^th April. Sri Nirupam Bajpai is a senior development advisor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York and Director of the South Asian Program. He is also a member of the United Nations Millennium Project on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.

          Dr. Bajpai has been working at different U.S. universities beginning with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992. He worked at Harvard University from 1995 to 2002 and since July 2002 till date at Columbia University. Dr. Bajpai worked at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations before moving to the Economics Department at MIT. Prior to his arrival at Columbia University, Dr. Bajpai worked for seven years at Harvard University, most recently at the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for International Development leading the Harvard India Program and prior to that at the Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University. During this period, Dr. Bajpai also worked at MIT's Media Lab Asia (MLA) as a Senior Fellow.

A macroeconomist by training, Dr. Bajpai’s research interests include the links of health and development, economic geography, globalization, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries. His work focuses on economic policy reform in India, China, sub-Saharan Africa and the South and East Asian regions. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the journal Asian Economic Papers, published by MIT Press and is also on the Editorial Board of the journal Economic Change and Restructuring published by Springer.

Dr. Bajpai is considered to be a leading economic advisor of his generation. For almost two decades, Dr. Bajpai has been studying the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and globalization and advising governments, both at the federal and the state levels. In India, Dr. Bajpai is also working towards combining economic development with environmental sustainability to promote the mitigation of anthropogenic climate change.

Since June 2004, Dr. Bajpai has had the high honor and privilege of advising the Honorable Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India and several of his cabinet ministers, including the Minister of Health and Family Welfare. Earlier, between 1999 and 2004, Dr. Bajpai served as an economic advisor to the Honorable Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India and to several of his cabinet ministers, including the Ministers of Finance, Commerce and Industry, and Information Technology.

Dr. Bajpai has led several teams of social and physical scientists to conduct research and advice several State Governments on “Scaling up Services in Rural India” wherein teams led by Dr. Bajpai were working with Rural Communities in India. As far as his work in India is concerned, Dr Bajpai's work most notably along with Professor Jeffrey Sachs has helped advice policymakers on a variety of issues relating to the Indian economy and India’s economic reforms, both at the federal and state levels.

Dr. Bajpai is the recipient of several honors and awards. On the eve of India’s 59th Republic Day on January 25, 2008, Dr. Bajpai was awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ by the President of India, which is a high civilian honor bestowed by the Government of India. In the category of ‘Literature and Education’, Dr. Bajpai is the youngest awardee ever since the Padma Awards were instituted in 1954 having been conferred the award at the age of 45.

Padma Shri Dr. Bajpai is launching education project in Medak district on 17^th April. The district administration of Medak welcomes Dr. Bajpai, with honor.

Ayushman bhava! Mathru Devo Bhava!!

'Ayushman Bhava' and 'Mathru Devo Bhava' are the programmes intended to extend medical facilities to every nook and corner of the district. These programmes are meant to prevent maternal deaths and to provide medical services to mothers and children. A call centres works under National Rural Health Mission to provide these services to people of Medak District. To get services under this programme, any person can make call to 77022002111. the concerned  medical officers will get the information. The call centre will make arrangements to provide medical facilities to the needy mothers and children. 'Ayushman Bhava' is the term used to bless to live long life. 'Mathru Devo Bhava' is recognizing divinity in mother. Hence these flagship programmes of Medak District are correctly named after these traditional sanskrit says. 

Ayushman Bhava! Mathru Devo Bhava!!