Mihir Shah
- January 9, 2024
- Economist
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Mihir Shah Biography
| Name | Mihir Shah |
| Birthday | Nov 25 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Gujarat |
| Birth Country | India |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
Mihir Shah is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on November 25, 1956 in Gujarat, India. Mihir Shah received a B.A. In 1976, he received a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi. He received an M.A. in 1978. He received an M.A. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. He was also awarded a PhD in Economics by Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum (affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru University), in 1984.
Expert on water and rural development, he is a member of several important committees, including the International Steering Committee for the CGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land, and Ecosystems (WLE). He also serves as chair of India’s Revitalising Rainfed areas Network. He was also the first president of the Bharat Rural Lifelihoods Foundation. This foundation supports innovative civil society actions in close collaboration with the state governments. He was also the Chair of the Government of India’s Task Force on National Social Assistance Programme, which produced a landmark report for 2013. Mihir Shah was the chair of the Advisory Council of the first India Rural Development Report published by the Ministry of Rural Development.
Shah is a visiting faculty member at Ashoka University, where he teaches a course on the Political Economy of India’s Development 1947-2014 for the Young India Fellowship students. With effect from 1 August 2016, Shah has been appointed the first Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Shiv Nadar University. Under Shah’s leadership, the Shiv Nadar University launched an M.Sc. Program on Water Science and Policy in August 2017, which aims to be a first-of-its-kind program globally. Few programs across the world are able to incorporate the essential multi-disciplinary character of water. Fewer still deal with the urgent policy requirements of the sector. This program, with a faculty drawn from leading water experts from across the world, seeks to address both lacunae. The main aim of the program is to create a critical mass of water professionals with a historically and socially contextualised, multi- disciplinary perspective and understanding of water. These water professionals would guide development of sustainable and just 21st century policies, programmes and solutions to the growing water crisis.
In December 2017, Shah was appointed Chair of the Task Group to draft the Karnataka State Water Policy. The Group submitted its report in December 2018.
Shah served as Member, Planning Commission of India from 2009 to 2014. He held the portfolios of Water Resources and Rural Development and Decentralised Governance. He is the youngest member of the Planning Commission. Shah was the main person responsible for the paradigm shift in water resource management enunciated by the 12th Five Year Plan. He was the Chairman of the Government of India’s Committee for Revision of MGNREGA Guidelines. This made MGNREGA the most important employment program in human history. It placed a renewed emphasis upon rural livelihoods based around the construction of productive assets.
Mihir Shah Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Economist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Mihir Shah is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mihir Shah 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He co-founded Samaj Pragati Sahayog in 1990. It is one of the most important grass-roots programs for water and livelihood security. The organization works with its partners to manage a million acres of land in 72 of India’s most backward areas. Mihir Shah spent almost three decades in central tribal India and has since been working and living there, helping to create a new paradigm for inclusive and sustainable development.
Mihir Shah and his colleagues wrote their experiences in India’s Drylands, Tribal Societies and Development through Environment Regeneration. Published by Oxford University Press, 1998. This book explains the importance of watershed programs for food security in India and guarantees employment. He also played an important role in shaping policies and the development of tribal areas within Madhya Pradesh. One of three chapters in the 1998 Human Development Report was co-authored by him.
In September 2015, Shah led a seven-member committee to restructure the Central Water Commission (CWC) and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), and achieve optimal development of water resources in the country The panel recommended disbanding the CWC and CGWB, two of the biggest water organisations, and creating a multi-disciplinary National Water Commission (NWC) in their place, and for greater involvement of social scientists, professionals from management and other specialised disciplines and reduce reliance on engineers who man the CWC. Full report of the committee is available in the Ministry of Water resources website. The highly rated social science journal, Economic and Political Weekly, devoted a whole issue (December 24, 2016) to a symposium on the Mihir Shah Committee Report with 12 renowned water scholars and activists commenting on it and Mihir Shah giving a response (http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/52).
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