Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: Charandeep Singh, Additional Secretary in Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir Government, has been awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal of Public Policy for the year 2014 for his pioneering work on the policy intervention for the development of Eco-industrial towns in Thailand with particular reference to Rayong province of Thailand.
He was selected as one of the candidates to undergo Masters of Public Administration in 2014 under the Domestic Funding for Foreign Training Programme (DFFT) of Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India. He went to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, and Asia’s number one University for undergoing the said course.
He is the only officer of India who has been awarded the LKY medal of Public policy. The award has been coined after the name of the former Prime Minister of Singapore.
It is pertinent to mention that Map ta Phut is a district in the Rayong Province of Thailand which has serious environmental problems and lot of deaths have been caused due to the industrialization in the area. The Thailand Government had been contemplating the development of Eco-industrial towns so that the industrial wastes are reduced to the minimum.
Mr Singh, who is a KAS officer of 2001 batch, worked on the topic “Eco-Industrial Towns in Thailand: New Approaches for Sustainable Co-existence of Industries & Communities and Performance Monitoring Strategies for Key Management” and made policy for the development of Eco-industrial towns in Thailand. His work has been accepted by the Ministry of Industries of Thailand and Government shall be implementing the same.
While in NUS, Singapore, he was one of the public policy students who were selected to go to Japan for framing policy for the disaster management after the triple disaster of earthquake, Tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
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