Important Organizations & Comities and their Heads
UNESCO (United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organization ):
Head Quarters – Paris (France).
First Lady Head of UNESCO – Irina Bakova(from Bulgaria).oil :
U.N. Security Council:
Head Quarters- NewYork
Five permanent members of UN security council:
France, US, UK, Russia & China.
APEC(Asian Pacific Economic Co-Operation):
H.Q – Singapore
Member Countries -21
MGNREGA(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act)
Falls under Ministry of Rural Development.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization):
H.Q. -> Brussels (Belgium)
US is the head of NATO.
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations):
It is the group of 10 nations.
H.Q. – Jakarta (Indonesia)
BBIM PSLV TC (Burma, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia).
SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Co-Operation):
It is the group of 8 nations. I
AIM-B BSNP ( Afghanistan, India, Maldives, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal & Pakistan)
Head Quarters –Nepal (Katmandu).
ACU (Asian Clearing Union Nations formed in 1974 ):
It is the group of 9 nations.
H.Q. – Tehran (Iran).
WTO (World Trade Organization):
H.Q. – Geneva(Switzerland)
Head- Roberto Azevedo
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
14 nuclear reactors are kept under the guidance of IAEA.
Head – Yukiya Amano.
H.Q. – Geneva.
WHO (World Health Organization)
H.Q. –Geneva.
Head – Margaret Chan
BRICS (Brazil, India, Russia, China, South Africa):
1st BRICS Summit held at St. Peters Burg (Russia)
2nd – China
3rd –China
4th – New Delhi
5th – South Africa
6th –Brazil.
7th BRICS summit was held in Russia(Ufa, Bashkortostan) on 8th and 9th of July 2015.
8th summit – 2016 (New Delhi, India).
ADB (Asian Development Bank):
Head Quarters –Manila (Philip Hans)
Head – Takehiko Naka
SEBI(Securities & Exchange Board of India)
It is formed on 12th April 1992
H.Q. –Mumbai.
Present Chairman – U. K. Sinha (Upendra Kumar Sinha)
DRDO (Defence Reasearch and Development Organizations):
Director General of DRDO – S. Christopher.
H.Q. – New Delhi.
It is Established in 1958.
TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)
It is formed in 1997
www.tccms.gov.in -Telecom Consumers Complaint Monitoring System.
H.Q. – New Delhi.
New Chairman – Ram Sewak Sharma( R.S. Sharma) from Aug 10th, 2015.
Previous Chairman -Rahul Khullar.
IRDA (Insurance Regulatory Authority of India):