Jawaharlal Nehru secular country; his secularist policies remain a subject of debate. As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with sound foreign policy. He is praised for creating a system providing universal primary education, reaching children in the farthest corners of rural India. Nehru's education policy is also credited for the development of world-class educational institutions such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology, and the Indian Institutes of Management. In addition, Nehru's stance as an unfailing nationalist led him
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India administrative chief of the Prime Minister's Office, and as a result, wields a significant amount of power over the daily affairs of the Government of India. The main functions of the officeholder often include, but are not limited to: The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister is generally considered the latter's most crucial aide. Some principal secretaries are considered more powerful and influential than senior government ministers. List of office holders of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. A prime minister—through the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet—can also appoint an additional principal secretary. In May 2014, Pramod Kumar Misra,