- Ajay Singh
Ajay Singh is the present
High Commissioner ofIndia toFiji , having been appointed to this position on16 December 2004 , succeeding Professor I.S. Chauhan. [ cite news| title=Shri Ajay Singh appointed next High Commissioner of India to Fiji| url=http://meaindia.nic.in/pressrelease/2004/12/16pr01.htm ]Family's link to Fiji
Singh has continued his family's link to Fiji. His great grandparents, Ram Chander and Padam Kumar, came to Fiji in 1885 as
indenture d labourers and his grandfather, Bere Singh, was born inRakiraki . Bere Singh returned to India, in 1905, with his parents but after his education came back to Fiji to serve in the Fiji colonial civil service for 25 years. Bere Singh's son and Ajay Singh's fatherBhagwan Singh was born in India in 1916 and came to Fiji as High Commissioner of India to Fiji,Tonga ,Nauru and other South Pacific countries from 1971 to 1976. Ajay Singh also lived inSuva at that time, worked as a journalist at theFiji Times and married aFiji Indian woman.gHis accomplishments
He was minister of state for railways in the Indian government in 1989 and 1990. On 14 July 2005, he was also appointed as the High Commissioner of India to the Government of
Tuvalu . [ cite news| title=Shri Ajay Singh concurrently accredited High Commissioner of India to Tuvalu| url=http://meaindia.nic.in/pressrelease/2005/07/14pr02.htm ]See also
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Indian indenture system References
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