On the good governance day....

1. Atal
Bihari
Vajpayee
Purpose of my life: To play my part sincerely in every aspect of my life. And to see India take its place as a great nation

2. Personal Profile
Father's Name Shri Krishna BihariVajpayee
Date of Birth 25 December 1924
Place of Birth Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)
Marital Status Unmarried
Educational Qualification M.A. (Political Science)
Educated at Victoria (now Laxmibai) College, Gwalior
D.A.V. College, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
Profession Journalist and SocialWorker
Permanent Address A-302, Laplaz, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)
Present Address 6-A, Krishna Menon Marg, New Delhi-110011

3.  Eleventh Prime Minister of India
 First for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004.
 A leader of the centre-right Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP),.
 first Prime Minister from outside the Indian National
Congress party to serve a full five-year term.
 Elected to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's
Parliament) nine times
 Twice to the Rajya Sabha
 He also served as the Member of Parliament for
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, until 2009,

4.  Vajpayee was one amongst the founder members of
erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh
 Vajpayee restarted the Jana Sangh as the Bharatiya
Janata Party in 1980.
 As foreign minister, that year Vajpayee became the
first person to deliver a speech to the United Nations
General Assembly in Hindi.
 The BJP became the political voice of the Ram
Janmabhoomi Mandir Movement

5.  In May 1998, India conducted five
underground nuclear tests
in Pokhran desert in Rajasthan.
 24 yrs after India conducted its first nuclear
test Pokhran-I in 1974. This test is
called Pokhran-II.
 The tests were held just a month after the
government had been in power.
 In spite of the intense international criticism
and the steady decline in foreign
investment and trade, the nuclear tests
were popular domestically.

6.  In late 1998 and early 1999, Vajpayee began a push for
a full-scale diplomatic peace process with Pakistan.
 The historic inauguration of the Delhi-Lahore bus
service in February 1999,

7. ऑपरेशन विविजय
KargilWar
 An armed conflict between India and Pakistan took
place between May and July 1999
 The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani
soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions
 In OperationVijay, launched in June 1999, over 500
Indian soldiers were killed in the three-month long
KargilWar.
 It is estimated around 600-4,000 Pakistani militants
and soldiers died as well.
 Almost 70% of the territory was recaptured by India
under Atalji’s prime ministerial period.

8. Vajpayee introduced many domestic
economic and infrastructural reforms,
including
 encouraging the private sector and
foreign investments
 reducing governmental waste
 encouraging research and development
and privatization of some government
owned corporations.
 Vajpayee's pet projects were the National
Highway Development Project and
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.

9. Awards
•1992, Padma Vibhushan Award.
•1993, D.Lit from Kanpur University.
•1994, Lokmanya Tilak Award.
•1994, Best Parliamentarian Award.
•1994, Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Vallabh Pant Award.
•2014/24/12, Declared to be awarded with “BharatRatna”

10. Wishing our beloved
former prime
minister, much
happiness and
health,
on his birthday,
being celebrated
as…
“National Good Governance Day”

11. Thank
you
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