Harjit Singh Anand

Education

Career

• Service with the International Labour Organization at its India Office for over two years as Mission Leader for the Informal Sector.
• 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, 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 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. The CSAR is an NGO dealing with Food Security, Alienation, Marginalisation& Poverty, Inequality, Natural Calamities& man-made disasters and Exclusion.