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Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is an advanced research institute established and fully funded by the Reserve Bank of India for carrying out research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.

IGIDR was registered as an autonomous society on November 14, and as a public trust in January On December 28, the campus was inaugurated by Late. Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India.

Subsequently, the Institute was recognized as a Deemed University under Section 3 of the UGC Act.

Starting as a purely research institution, it rapidly developed into a full-fledged teaching cum research organisation when it launched a Ph.D. program in the field of development studies in The objective of the Ph.D. programme is to produce researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds who can address issues of economics, energy and environment policies. In , the institute initiated the M. Phil programme. The programme commenced in to introduce students to the world of research at an earlier stage.

At present the Institute has about employees and students, that include about 26 full time faculty members, 22 non-academic staff and about students.

Prime Minister of India from to

This article is about the politician. For other uses, see Rajiv Gandhi (disambiguation).

Rajiv Gandhi (20 August – 21 May ) was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from to He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister. He served until his defeat at the election, and then became Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, resigning in December , six months before his own assassination.

Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi. Instead, he was from the politically powerful Nehru–Gandhi family, which had been associated with the Indian National Congress party. For much of his childhood, his maternal grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was prime minister. Gandhi attended The Doon School, an elite boarding institution, and then the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He returned to India in and became a professional pilot for the state-owned Indian Airlines. In , he married Sonia Maino; the couple settled in Delhi for a domestic life with their children Rahul and Priyanka. For much of the s, his mother was prime minister and his younger brother Sanjay an MP; despite this, Gandhi remained apolitical.

After Sanjay died in a plane crash in , Gandhi reluctantly entered politics at the behest of his mother. The following year he won his brother's Parliamentary seat of Amethi and became a member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's Parliament. As part of his political grooming, Rajiv was made general secretary of the Congress party and given significant responsibility in organising the Asian Games.

On the morning of 31 October , his mother (the then prime minister) was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguardsSatwant Singh and Beant Singh in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, an India

Aiyar’s account laboriously argues that on the issues of Shah Bano and Bofors, Rajiv Gandhi was not at fault. He points to the judicial pronouncements on these issues vindicating him. While the book also deals with Gandhi’s many domestic and foreign-policy initiatives, somewhat surprisingly, the author underplays his more dramatic initiatives in the very early phase of his leadership — the Punjab, Assam and Mizoram accords as also the initiative in the Gorkhaland issue and his agreement with Farooq Abdullah. Of course, many of these might be set aside as part of the broader policy of the Indian state but Rajiv Gandhi was leading the Indian state at a moment of distrust and uncertainty when the traditional policy of the state could have been easily trampled roughshod. Instead, he contributed to the strengthening of the spirit of democratic compromise through these accords.

Having disposed of the discussion of the accords in just over 30 pages, the book spares a hundred pages to the “controversies” in order to clear Rajiv Gandhi’s name and honour. For a political animal that Aiyar is, it should be evident that no amount of evidence will politically clear the air on these. In terms of Indian democracy and its bygone resilience, the accords showcase the advantage of naivete and optimism, as well as the continuity of the policy of accommodation and inclusivity. While others have written on those accords, an insider-outsider account would have been most welcome.

As this reviewer went through the stout, lawyer-like defence of Rajiv Gandhi over the Shah Bano issue and the strongly documented discussion of Bofors, many intriguing questions crowded the mind — and they are actually farther from those controversies so to speak. Aiyar’s account whets the appetite of the reader for a more convoluted suspense involving human life, party intrigues and demo

Indian non-profit organisation

The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was established on 21 June The foundation works on a wide range of issues stretching from development of knowledge, to health, disability, authorization of the destitute, livelihoods and natural resource management. Its current focus areas are community welfare, literacy, health and special programmes for children and women. All donations to the foundation are tax deductible to the extent of 50 percent under section 80G of the Income Tax Act.

The foundation is headed by Sonia Gandhi, who is also the leader of the Indian National Congress Party. In October , ministry of home affairs cancelled the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, license of Rajiv Gandhi foundation over allegations of violation of laws.

History

The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was set up to carry forward the legacy of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. The Jawahar Bhawan Trust, led by Sonia Gandhi met in July, and passed a resolution inviting the foundation to work in the Jawahar Bhawan.
The foundation constituted a group of 8 founding Trustees. They were Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Suman Dubey, N.K. Seshan and Sunil Nehru. In , P. V. Narasimha Rao, P. Chidambaram, V. Krishnamurthy, Sam Pitroda, Dr. Sekhar Raha, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and R. P. Goenka^{[citation need}