We as Indians often hear paeans in the praise of so-called visionary leader Jawaharlal Nehru, who also happened to be country’s first Prime Minister. Hence, the article tries to shed some light with actual facts of how Nehru ji plagiarized to claim as his contributions in which he had zero or no role to play. The deeply researched information credit goes to a Twitter user named Sanskar Rao, who goes by the username @SanskarBarot.

GOI, on the initiative of Sir Ardeshir Dalal, appointed a twenty-two-member committee of industrialists, scientists, and educators, under the chairmanship of N. R. Sarkar, to consider the development of higher technical institutions in India.

The committee recommended the establishment of at least four “higher technical institutions”—one each in the north, south, east, and west—with the first to be located near Calcutta (Kolkata) and another near Bombay (Mumbai).

In May 1950, Sir J. C. Ghosh, who succeeded Sir C. V. Raman as director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was appointed founding director for the first such institute. Named the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, it was inaugurated at Kharagpur in West Bengal.

Under the Chief Minister ship of Dr BC Roy, who was the one responsible for initiating a working committee and ensuring development of first and largest IIT which India saw! Nehru as always just jumped the ship to get credit.

Initiative of IIMA was led by space scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and an eminent industrialist and philanthropist Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai, and proactively supported by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Dr. Jivraj Mehta, a group of enlightened individuals set up IIMA in 1961.

“On February 18, 1956, the then minister of health, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, introduced a new bill in the Lok Sabha. She had no speech prepared. But she spoke from her heart. “It has been one of my cherished dreams that for post graduate study and for the maintenance of high standards of medical education in our country, we should have an institute of this nature which would enable our young men and women to have their post graduate education in their own country,” she said.

“It has been one of my cherished dreams that for post graduate study and for the maintenance of high standards of medical education in our country, we should have an institute of this nature which would enable our young men and women to have their post graduate education in their own country,” she said.

The creation of a major central institute for post-graduate medical education and research had been recommended by the Health survey of the government of India, a decade ago in 1946. Though the idea was highly appreciated, money was a concern.

It took another 10 years for Rajkumari Amrit Kaur to collect adequate funds, and lay the foundation of India’s number one medical institute and hospital. As a Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru didn’t even bothered to help with funding the idea of setting up AIIMS.

But, as always just came up to take credit! And thus the clever leader was successful in carving a legacy for his heirs to claim for drawing a political mileage in centuries to come.

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