A high-level committee headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepared a 12-point plan to commemorate whose 150th birth anniversary in 2012?

Creation of Swami Vivekananda chairs in universities across the country and preservation of some of the important sites visited by him are among the key recommendations made by a committee set up to plan his 150th birth anniversary celebrations. The high-level committee headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in May 2010 prepared a 12-point plan to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary which falls in 2012. The committee suggested the idea of establishing a Vivekananda Chair at the Chicago University, where Swami Vivekananda gave his famous speech on Hinduism at the Parliament of World's Religions on September 11, 1893.