DR. L M SINGHVI TO REPRESENT INDIA ON THE UNESCO BOARD

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Eminent jurist and Member of Rajya Sabha Dr. L. M. Singhvi to represent India on the Executive Board of UNESCO. The government nominated Dr. Singhvi in place of Shri T N Chaturvedi who has now been appointed Governor of Karnataka.

Dr. Singhvi is an elected member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague and also President of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts.

Dr. Laxmi Mall Singhvi is also a leading constitutional expert, an expert in public and private international law, a prominent exponent of human rights, a doyen of the Indian Bar, a citizen-statesman, an author, poet, publicist, linguist and litterateur besides being eminent jurist and a distinguished parliamentarian.

The list of laurels won BY him is very long. While serving as High Commissioner in the UK he was chosen as Rotary International’s first recipient of the Ambassador of Excellence award "as a scholar-statesman for his exceptional, personal and professional accomplishments and humanitarian service, which best exemplifies the standards of Rotary and represents the highest ideas of international service and service above self". In that same year he was also awarded the U Thant Peace Award. He crusaded for the ombudsman system in India and coined the words "Lokpal" and "Lokayukta" which have become a part of the legislative vocabulary of India. He is at home with many languages. His books in English, "Freedom on Trial" and "A Tale of Three Cities" have won world-wide acclaim.