1000 students to be offered attractive fellowships and direct admission to PhD programmes in the IITs and IISc, to encourage indigenous research addressing national priorities.

For close to 15 years at IBM, Singh has held important positions at IBM including VP HR-resourcing; director-HR, IBM Daksh and area HR leader IBM (North); HR leader, Middle East and Africa, before finally donning the hat of VP and HR head, India and South Asia, IBM.