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Mohan Sinha Mehta was founder of Vidya Bhavan group of institutions and Sewa Mandir in Udaipur

Udaipur

Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...

in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

. Dr Mehta did his PHD from London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

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He was devan of Princely state of Banswara

Banswara

Banswara is a city in Banswara District in south Rajasthan in India. Banswara princely state was founded by Maharawal Jagmal Singh. It is named for the "bans" or bamboo forests in the area. It is also known as 'City of Hundred Islands', due to presence of numerous islands in the Mahi River, which...

and a member of Constituent Assembly of India in 1947. He was India's High Commissioner to Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

in 1951. He was Vice Chancellor of University of Rajasthan

University of Rajasthan

University of Rajasthan is the oldest university in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was set up on 8 January 1947 as the University of Rajputana and was given its current name in 1956.- Introduction :...

in 1960. He did a lot of work in field of adult education. He was father of Indian diplomat Jagat Singh Mehta

Jagat Singh Mehta

Jagat Singh Mehta is a former foreign secretary of India.Jagat S. Mehta was born in 1922 to Mohan Sinha Mehta, and was educated at Allahabad and Cambridge Universities.A career diplomat he was foreign secretary from 1976 to 1979....

. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan

Padma Vibhushan

The Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India. It consists of a medal and a citation and is awarded by the President of India. It was established on 2 January 1954. It ranks behind the Bharat Ratna and comes before the Padma Bhushan...

, the second highest civil decoration of India.

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