Harjit Singh Anand

After obtaining a BA (Honours) in Political Science with Economics, an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Administration, he joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1973. Among the various posts he has held, the following are particularly noteworthy:

• Service with the International Labour Organization at its India Office for over two years as Mission Leader for the Informal Sector.^[3]
• Director General of the Haryana Institute of Public Administration from 2002 to 2005.
• As Member Secretary, leading the National Capital Region Planning Board to adopt an environmentally progressive policy and to finance innovative urban development projects with a Regional planning approach.
• Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation of the Government of India,^[4] in which capacity he was instrumental in preparing the National Housing and Habitat Policy with a clear focus on social exclusion and inclusion and low income housing.
• Close association with the formulation of the National Street Vendors Policy, with refining India’s employment programmes for the urban poor and with implementing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
• Close association with the drafting of the Nehru Rozgar Yojna^[5] launched by the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for improving the lot of the urban poor.
• Chairman of the committee which prepared a report on Housing – A new pattern of development based on Public-private partnership, commissioned by the Lt. Governor of Delhi.
• Chairman of the Center for the Study of Administration of Relief (CSAR). The CSAR is an NGO dealing with Food Security, Alienation, Marginalisation& Poverty, Inequality, Natural Calamities& man-made disasters and Exclusion.

Throughout his career, Anand has represented his country, often in a high-profile capacity, at various international events and bodies. Anand is a director of the National Krav Maga Federation (NKMF).^[6]