Ms swaminathan

Ms swaminathan Biography

1. DR. M.S. SWAMINATHAN

2. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan is a renowned Indian geneticist and administrator, who made a stellar contribution in the success of India's Green Revolution program. He was deeply influenced by his father who was a surgeon and social reformer. After graduating in zoology, he enrolled in Madras Agricultural College and graduated with a B.Sc. in Agricultural Science. Philanthropic by nature, he wanted to help poor farmers increase their food production .

3. He began his career by joining the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi and eventually played the lead role in India’s ‘Green Revolution’, an agenda under which high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice saplings were distributed to poor farmers. In the decades that followed, he held research and administrative positions in various offices of Government of India and introduced the Mexican semi dwarf wheat plants as well as modern farming methods in India.

4. He has been acclaimed by the TIMEmagazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the twentieth centuary . He has also beenhonoured with several national and internationalawards for his contribution to the field of agricultureand biodiversity.

5. CHILDHOOD Dr. Swaminathan was born on 7 August, 1925 in Kumbakonam , Madras Presidency, to Dr. M.K. Sambasivan and Parvati Thangammal Sambasivan . His father was a surgeon and social reformer. He lost his father at the age of 11 and thereafter he was brought up by his uncle, M. K. Narayanaswami who was a radiologist. He studied at Little Flower High School in Kumbakonom and later at Maharajas College in Trivandrum. He graduated in 1944 with a degree in zoology.

6. M.S.Swaminathan  is married to Mina Swaminthan , a keen theatre person and supporter of woman's rights, who he met in 1951 while they were both studying at Cambridge. They have three daughters -  Soumya Swaminathan ,  Madhura Swaminathan  and  Nitya Rao.Soumya is a doctor by profession and practices in Chennai. Madhura is an economist based in Kolkata and Nitya is based in England, teaching at the UEA. He has 5 grandchildren:  Anandi  (20),  Shreya  (18),  Kalyani  (16),  Akshay  (15) and  Madhavtipu  (11). FAMILY

7. CAREER 1972–79 – Director-General,  Indian Council of Agricultural Research  (ICAR), established the National Bureau of Plant, Animal, and Fish Genetic Resources of India. [8] 1982–88 – Director General,  International Rice Research Institute  (IRRI), organised the International Rice Germplasm Centre, now named  International Rice Genebank . 1984–90 – President of the  International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources   IUCN , develop the Convention on Biological Diversity  CBD .

8. 1986–99 – Chairman of the editorial advisory board,  World Resources Institute , Washington, D. C. 1994 – Chairman of the Commission on Genetic Diversity of the World Humanity Action Trust. 2002 – 2005 – Co-chairman with  Pedro Sanchezof  the UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger. 2004 – 2014 – Chairman,  National Commission on Farmers . Over 68 students have done their PhD thesis work under his guidance.

9. AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS He has received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1971, the Albert Einstein World Science Award in 1986, the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Prize in 2000, and the Lal Bahadur Sastri National Award in 2007, among other achievements. He is the recipient of national honours like Padma Shri in 1967, Padma Bhushan in 1972 andPadma Vibushan in 1989. Moreover, he has received over 70 honorary PhD degrees from worldwide universities.

10. MS SWAMINATHAN REPORT The National Commission on Farmers, chaired by Prof. M. S. Swaminathan , submitted five reports through the period December 2004 - October 2006. Following from the first four, the final report focused on causes of famer distresses and the rise in farmer suicides, and recommends addressing them through a holistic national policy for farmers. The findings and recommendations encompass issues of access to resources and social security entitlements.

11. PROTEST AGAINST FARMER’S BILL 2020-2021

12. GOVT MUST IMPLEMENT SWAMINATHAN COMMISSION REPORT TO ALLAY FARMERS’ ANXIETY Before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the prime minister had promised that if voted to power, his government will change the way MSP is set. It will follow a new formula — the entire cost of production plus a guaranteed profit of 50 percent which was one of the key recommendations of the 2006 M.S. Swaminathan Commission on farmers. The government wrongly claims that it has already implemented the key Swaminathan Commission recommendation. Agricultural producers’ bodies say that MSP for crucial crops such as paddy and wheat is only 12 percent and 34 percent higher than their respective production costs. For other products too, MSP is far lower than the price recommended by the Commission.