India

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 4 November 1946

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

President of the Republic of India: H.E. Ms Pratibha PATIL
Prime Minister: H.E. Mr Manmohan SINGH

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Ms Bhaswati Mukherjee
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (9/20/2004)

Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux M1.42/M1.38 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.29.88
01.45.68.30.14
Fax: 01.47.34.51.88
E-mail: dl.india@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Hon. Shri Kapil Sibal *
Secretary-General: Ms. Vibha Puri Das
Deputy Secretary-General: Mr Amit Khare
Director: Ms. Manisha Verma

Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO
Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Secondary and Higher Education Government of India Shastri Bhavan NEW DELHI 110 001 INDIA
Telephone: (91.11) 23 78 26 98 (President); (91.11) 23 38 64 51 (SG) (91.11) 23 38 26 98
Fax: (91.11) 23 78 20 28 (President); (91.11) 23 38 58 07 (91.11) 23 38 13 55
E-mail: secy.dhe@nic.in (SG); maniverma100@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.education.nic.in

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1946-1951	1-26
Chairperson	Mr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1948-1949	13-17
Member	Mr Arcot Laxamanswami Mudaliar	1951-1956	27-45
Chairperson	Mr Arcot L. Mudaliar	1954-1956	40-45
Member	Mr Zakir Husain	1956-1958	46-51
Member	Ms Hansa Mehta	1958-1960	51-57
Member	Ms Indira Gandhi	1960-1964	58-68
Member	Mr Prem N. Kirpal	1964-1972	69-90
Chairperson	Mr Prem N. Kirpal	1970-1972	86-90
Member	Mr Gopalaswami Parthasarathi	1972-1976	91-100
Member	Mr Sarvepalli Gopal	1976-1980	101-110
Member	Mr Triloki Nath Kaul	1980-1985	111-122
Member	Mr Swaran Singh	1985-1989	123-132
Member	Mr Natarajan Krishnan	1989-1993	133-142
Representative		1993-1997	143-152
Representative		1998-2001	154-162
Representative		2001-2009	163-181

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2013)


• International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Country of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Headquarters Committee
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 34th session

Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

• Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
  Member (Term expires : 2010)


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Vice-President

Member (Term expires : 2011)

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa
  Vice-Chairperson : Mr. Bikas SANYAL (Term expires : September 2013)

Celebration of anniversaries

100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa (1910-1997) (India, with the support of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) (2010)

150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, thinker, philosopher and poet (1861-1941) (2011)