Bimal Jalan
{{short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Bimal Jalan
| image = Bimal Jalan (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Jalan in 2013
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1941|8|17}}
| birth_place = Sadulpur, Bikaner State, British India
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| residence = Kolkata (West Bengal)
| nationality = Indian
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| education = Presidency College
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
| occupation = Economist
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| predecessor1 = C Rangarajan
| successor1 = Y Venugopal Reddy
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| signature = Bimal Jalan Signature-en.jpg
| website = http://www.bimaljalan.com/
|office = Member of Rajya Sabha
| term = 27 August 2003 - 26 August 2009
|term_start1 = 22 November 1997
|term_end1 = 4 September 2003
|office1 = 20th Governor of Reserve Bank of India
| office2 = 7th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
| term2 = 1981 - 1988
| predecessor2 = RM Honavar
| successor2 = Nitin Desai
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Bimal Jalan (born 17 August 1941){{citation needed|date=August 2020}} is a former Governor of Reserve Bank of India and
was a nominated member of the Upper House of India's Parliament, the Rajya Sabha during 2003–2009.{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx|title=Rajya Sabha members|access-date=31 December 2009}}
Education and career
Jalan graduated from Presidency College, Calcutta, and later attended Cambridge and Oxford but no further detail as to his course of study is known publicly.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}
Jalan held several administrative and advisory positions in the Government of India, namely, Chief Economic Adviser in the 1980s, Banking Secretary between 1985 and 1989 and Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance between January 1991 and September 1992. In 1992-93 and then from 1998–2008, Jalan was the President of the Governing Body of the [http://www.ncaer.org National Council of Applied Economic Research], Planning Commission in New Delhi.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}
He was the Governor of Reserve Bank of India for two terms. The Government of India reappointed Jalan as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, first for a period of five years commencing 22 November 1997 to 21 November 2002 and again for a further period of two years commencing from 22 November 2002 and ending 21 November 2004. He was succeeded by Y. Venugopal Reddy on 6 September 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/governors.aspx |title=List of Governors |access-date=8 December 2006|publisher=Reserve Bank of India|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916083919/http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/governors.aspx|archive-date=16 September 2008 }} During his tenure the Indian Rupee note of 1000 denomination was introduced.{{cite book| last = Jain| first = Manik| title = 2004 Phila India Paper Money Guide Book| publisher = Philatelia| year = 2004| location = Kolkata| pages = 77}}
Selected works
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=Gb7sAAAAMAAJ India's Economic Crisis: The Way Ahead] (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=dELXAAAACAAJ The Indian Economy: Problems and Prospects] (editor) (Penguin, 1993).
- India's Economic Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-first Century (Viking, 1996) examines some of the critical policy choices for India at the present juncture.
- The Future of India Politics, Economics and Governance (Penguin, 2005).
- [https://www.amazon.in/Indias-Politics-Backbench-Bimal-Jalan/dp/0143064223 India's Politics: A view from the backbench] (Penguin-Viking, 2007).
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Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
Category:20th-century Indian economists
Category:Governors of the Reserve Bank of India
Category:Rajasthani politicians
Category:University of Calcutta alumni
Category:Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha
Category:People from Churu district
Category:21st-century Indian economists
Category:21st-century Indian politicians