{"id":3365,"date":"2016-07-31T07:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2016-07-31T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:21:21","slug":"bharat-ratna-c-subramaniam-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award-posthumously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bharat Ratna\u2019 C. Subramaniam honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image002.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3366 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image002-300x210.png\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image002-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image002-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image002.png 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>C Subramaniam\u2019s son S.S. Rajsekar receives the award from Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Green Revolution, <b>Dr. Amrik Singh<\/b> <b>Cheema Foundation Trust<\/b> has bestowed the \u2018Life Time Achievement Award\u2019 on <b>Late Shri C Subramaniam<\/b>, Architect of India\u2019s Green Revolution and Bharat Ratna Awardee; for his contribution to India\u2019s Food Security. <b>Mr. S S Rajsekar<\/b>, son of C Subramaniam and Managing Trustee, National Agro Foundation received the award from <b>Hon\u2019ble Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki<\/b>, Governor of Haryana.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajsekar recalled, \u201cA drastic situation of famine prevailed in the country when my father C. Subramaniam (C.S.) took over as Minister of Agriculture. But, through his visionary leadership and techniques, he ensured success by bringing changes in India\u2019s agricultural policy, revamping ICAR, strengthening the extension system, creating Food Corporation of India, announcement of support prices, support to input industries and so on. In 1960s, When many did not believe that India can become self sufficient in food production, C.S. made sure the country\u2019s grain produce was ample enough, and when he became the Minister of Planning in 1971, the first resolution which was passed in the planning commission was that there is no more import of PL 480 wheat from U.S because India had become self-sufficient in food grains.\u201d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C Subramaniam\u2019s son S.S. Rajsekar receives the award from Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana On the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Green Revolution, Dr. Amrik Singh Cheema Foundation Trust has bestowed the \u2018Life Time Achievement Award\u2019 on Late Shri C Subramaniam, Architect of India\u2019s Green Revolution and Bharat Ratna Awardee; for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-hopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}