London, June 19: Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia has been awarded the honorary degree of doctor of civil law at the University of Oxford.

Mr Ahluwalia, who played a key role in accelerating India's economic reforms since the early 1990s, was a Rhodes scholar and studied for MA and MPhil degrees at the university.- PTI

He was among six distinguished personalities in various fields honoured at a special ceremony at Oxford on Wednesday evening.