Opposed by India's then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the arrangement has proved remarkably effective.
He also sits on the review committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
In the first, under the founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, India pursued relatively liberal economic policies.
The leaders of the Congress party, including Jawaharlal Nehru, were insensitive to these fears.
"This is a propitious beginning, " says Aswini Ray, a political scientist at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.
His father, Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, were all prime ministers of India.
Any big metropolis can tap a central fund, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, for new infrastructure.
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Delhi, India.
The only child of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was herself elected prime minister in 1966.
To one side stood a photo of a youthful Harouni in a receiving line shaking the hand of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Don Stephen Senanayake in Sri Lanka both envisioned secular republics embracing different races, tongues and faiths.
On Tuesday, a footbridge under construction collapsed near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium - the main Games venue - injuring 27 workers.
The genius of Indian art, as Jawaharlal Nehru pointed out, also graced the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia and the Borobudur in Java.
Colleagues--including his main rival, India's future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru--accepted with some relief the reports that he had died in a plane crash.
India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, set up the first campus in 1950 to churn out engineers to build big public-works and infrastructure projects.
Nonetheless, the party remains the antithesis to the modern secular country envisaged by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.
India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, struck a deal with the maharaja, but thought that his (mostly Muslim) subjects should be the true masters of Kashmir.
Mr Gupta and others who are suspicious of reform seem to share the high-minded attitudes of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who once told J.
Independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, dreamed of a socialist society and created a vast public infrastructure, much of which became a burden on the state.
And before her, India had been governed by her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, who had taken over as leader of Congress from Mahatma Gandhi (no relation, in fact).
Mr Vajpayee has acquired the charisma that once belonged to members of Mrs Gandhi's dynasty: her martyred husband, Rajiv, his martyred mother, Indira, and Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist.
Earlier this week, 23 people were injured after a footbridge to the main Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Delhi collapsed, while part of a ceiling at a weightlifting sports venue also fell in.
Indira Gandhi (1917-84), who was no relation to the Mahatma but the daughter of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, put her baleful stamp on India in two times as prime minister, in 1966-77 and 1980-84.
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