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Union Home Minister releases the book ‘India 2017 Yearbook’

| | May 23, 2017, at 01:24 am
New Delhi, May 22 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has released the book ‘India 2017 Yearbook’ authored by the Union Home Secretary, Rajiv Mehrishi, hereon Monday.

The CEO, NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant was also present on the occasion. The book was published by the Mc Graw Hill Education India.

Rajnath Singh said that the richness in contents and novelty of approach used by the author and other panel contributors including Vasundhara Raje,  Arvind Subramanium, Arvind Panagariya,  Kamal Kishore, Rajiv Kumar,  Ila Patnaik, Ruchir Sharma and Amitabh Kant who have earned names for themselves in their respective fields.

The Book would be extremely useful for all competitive exams besides being a storehouse of knowledge stretching over a history of 300 years, he added.

The Union Home Minister said that the book is written in a very professional manner and have important persons on the panel of contributors.

He also said that Mehrishi could do this work despite his extremely busy official responsibilities.

He further said that the approach of  Mehrishi to handle different situations in a cool and calm manner with efficiency and accuracy reflects his time management abilities.

A serving member of the Indian Administrative Service, thus, enters into the league of writers, who will be remembered as an intellectual apart from his administrative capabilities and long stint in Government service, he added.

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