Samar Singh
| Samar Singh | |
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| Born | Dungarpur |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
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Samar Singh Dungarpur is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of 1962 batch from Madhya Pradesh Cadre.[1]
He is the Ex-Secretary, Government of India and Member of National Board for Wildlife.[2] and Foundation for Ecological Security[3] and member of Prime Minsiter’s Tiger Task Force.[4]
Samar Singh was the Member Secretary of the National Land Board, the National Commission for Conservation and Development of Land Resources and the Court and Executive Council of the Forest Research Institute and Colleges.[5]
Early life and Career[edit]
Samar Singh is the son of the Late Maharaj Virbhadra Singh, younger brother of Maharawal Laxman Singh of Dungarpur and the last Dewan (Prime Minister) of erstwhile Dungarpur State from 1918 to 1949.[6]
Shortly after, in 1962, Singh enlisted in the Indian Administrative Services. Later, he had a number of responsible and senior posts with the Government of India, first in the Ministry of Agriculture and later the Ministry of Environment & Forests.[7]
During this period, he served as the Member Secretary of the National Board for Wildlife chaired by the Prime Minister of India and was among the five members of the Tiger Task Force appointed at the initiative of the Prime Minister.[8][9] In 1984 he played a key role in successfully organizing the project of translocating by air some Rhinos from Assam to the Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh.[10]
Singh had important responsibilities in the international sphere, serving three terms (1981–1986) as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).[11]
Samar Singh was India’s Whaling Commissioner in the International Whaling Commission from 1981 to 1985.[12] He has also worked as IUCN Regional Councillor and Vice Chairman of the IUCN Commission for National Parks and Protected Areas for the Indo-Malayan Realm in 1982.[13][14] He was on deputation with the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India), the largest national non-government organization in the field of conservation, as its Secretary General/ Chief Executive and retired in June 2000 at the level of Secretary to the Government of India.[15][16][17]
After that, he became actively involved with numerous non-governmental organisations working to protect the environment and the natural world. He also spent three years working for the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) as Senior Advisor and Principal Director (Natural Heritage).[18]
Singh has served as the President of the World Pheasant Association – India, the Wildlife and Tourism Society of India[19][20][21] and the Samarpan Foundation, Tourism and Wildlife Society of India[22] and is a Founder Trustee of the Foundation for Ecological Security.[3]
Bibliography[edit]
Samar Singh wrote a book Dungarpur: A Glorious Century published in 2022. In his book Samar Singh provides a succinct historical account of the three notable kings of the Guhilot-Ahada dynasty who ruled the former Dungarpur State (now Dungarpur District) in south Rajasthan from 1846 to 1948. The Dungarpur state was ruled without a break by a single family.[23][24]
Awards[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "DM List | District Ujjain, Government of Madhya Pradesh | India". ujjain.nic.in.
- ↑ "The report of the Tiger Task Force" (PDF). ntca.gov.in.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "FES | Foundation for Ecological Security". fes.org.in.
- ↑ "The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum". www.tribuneindia.com.
- ↑ "Encyclopedia of Indian Natural History" (PDF). cambridge.org.
- ↑ "Bookstrapping: 'Dungarpur - A Glorious Century' By Samar Singh". Forbes India.
- ↑ "Shri Samar Singh | District Khargone, Government of Madhya Pradesh | India". khargone.nic.in.
- ↑ "Notification: New Delhi, the 22nd September 2003" (PDF). parivesh.nic.in.
- ↑ "Tiger Task Force, Objectives of the Tiger Task Force, Principles of the Tiger Task Force : Eco India". Ecoindia.com.
- ↑ "Rhinos from Pobitara Sanctuary in Assam relocated to Dudhwa National Park in UP". India Today.
- ↑ "CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA" (PDF). cites.org.
- ↑ "Workshop on MAIUNE MAMMAL STRANDING" (PDF). cmfri.org.
- ↑ "Conserving Asia's Natural Heritage" (PDF). portals.iucn.org.
- ↑ "World Conservation" (PDF). IUCN.org.
- ↑ "STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS" (PDF). cmsvatavaran.org.
- ↑ "Human problems". downtoearth.org.in.
- ↑ "The fifty Year Journey of WWF India" (PDF). WWFIN.
- ↑ "Project to identify heritage, reserve trees stuck in limbo". Hindustan Times. 8 August 2014.
- ↑ "World Pheasant Association - India" (PDF). wpa-india.in.
- ↑ "News & Views - Indian Wildlife Club Ezine - May, 2004". indianwildlifeclub.com.
- ↑ Mahalanobis, Surojit. "Rs 79 lakh approved for pheasant conservation | Delhi News - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ↑ "CMS-ADVISORY COUNCIL | CMSINDIA". cmsindia.org.
- ↑ "Bookstrapping: Dungarpur: A Glorious Century by Samar Singh". cnbctv18.com. 15 November 2022.
- ↑ "Bookstrapping: 'Dungarpur - A Glorious Century' By Samar Singh". Forbes India.
- ↑ "Mr Samar Singh". cmsvatavaran.org.
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