Book Release by Sh Pallam Raju, Honourable Raksha Rajya Mantri

Online, July 2, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The book is a result of in depth research and analysis carried out and valuable contributions made by very learned and distinguished persons of the country.

Most of the contributors are senior ministers, former secretaries to the Govt of India, senior officers from the Army, Navy and Air force, noted academicians, industrialists, sociologists and learned strategists from leading think tanks of the country.

The book will be one of its kinds to define a Model for India for calculating National Power index and compare it with other countries.

Such a study has been carried out only by a few countries in the world which includes USA and China.

However, each country has chosen different measuring yardsticks to define the National Power Index.

This book will give an insight into India's way of thinking and help those in power to use it as a guideline for the growth of India towards world power to be reckoned with.

The contributors for the book are CONTRIBUTORS :

Dr Montek Singh Alhuwalia, Deputy Chairperson, Planning Commission

Lt Gen K Surendra Nath, AVSM, VSM, General Officer Commanding-in-
Chief, Headquarters Army Training Command, Shimla

Lt Gen PK Singh, PVSM, AVSM (Retd), Director, USI.

Rear Admiral K Raja Menon (Retd) - Team Leader

Shri Lalit Mansingh, IFS (Retd), Former Foreign Secretary

Shri Kanwal Sibal, IFS (Retd), Former Foreign Secretary

Shri KC Singh, IFS (Retd), Former Secretary, Economic Relations

Shri Prakash Singh, IPS (Retd), Former DG BSF

Dr Amitabh Mattoo, Former Vice Chancellor, Jammu University

Shri Mohan Guruswamy, Chairman & Founder, Centre for Policy
Alternatives

Lt Gen Vinay Shankar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

Lt Gen Aditya Singh, PVSM, AVSM & Bar (Retd)

Dr Rajiv Kumar, Secretary General, FICCI

Vice Adm Vijay Shankar, PVSM, AVSM (Retd)

Shri NC Saxena, IAS (Retd), Former Secretary, Planning Commission

Shri Amitabh Kant, IAS, CEO & MD, DMICDC

Shri Dipankar Gupta, Sociologist

Shri Jayadeva Ranade, IPS (Retd), Former Additional Secretary,
Cabinet Secretariat

Shri Zorawar Daulet Singh, Research Fellow, Centre for Policy
Alternatives

Shri Manohar Thyagaraj, Security Analyst

Dr V Siddhartha, Senior Fellow, CAPS

Shri Ashok Jaitly, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Maj Gen YK Gera (Retd), Consultant (Research), USI-CS3

Capt (Dr) PK Ghosh, IN (Retd), Senior Fellow, ORF

Cdr Sandeep Dewan, Research Fellow, USI-CS3

Shri Yogesh Joshi

Ms Maja Daruwala, Executive Director, Commonwealth Human Rights
Initiative