Jairam Ramesh
Jairam Ramesh ಜಯರಾಮ್ ರಮೇಶ್ | |
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 Jairam Ramesh in Gurgaon in 2009 | |
| Minister of Rural Development | |
| Assumed office July 13, 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
| Cabinet Minister of Ministry of Rural Development (India)|Rural Development | |
| In office 2004 – July 12, 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | Manmohan Singh |
| Succeeded by | Jayanthi Natarajan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 April 1954 Chikmagalur, Karnataka |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| Alma mater | IIT Bombay Carnegie Mellon University M.I.T. |
| Website | Jairam Ramesh |
As of 25 January, 2007 Source: [1] | |
}} Jairam Ramesh (Kannada: ಜಯರಾಮ್ ರಮೇಶ್) has been an elected member of the Indian Parliament representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since June 2004. He has been the Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011. In the cabinet reshuffle of July, 2011, he was moved to Rural Development ministry with an elevation to Cabinet rank. He was also a member of the first National Advisory Council, 2006-2008. From January 2006 to February 2009, he was the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and from April 2008 to February 2009 was also the Minister of State for Power in the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.[1][2]
Personal
He married K. R. Jayashree, on 26 January 1981. He and his wife currently reside at Lodi Gardens, Rajesh Pilot Marg, in New Delhi. Their permanent residence is at Khairatabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.[3][4]
He considers himself a student of Buddhism.[5]
Education
Ramesh attended St. Xavier School, Ranchi in 1961-1963 in classes 3 to 5. He graduated in 1975 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) with a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering. In 2001, IIT-B presented him with their Distinguished Alumnus Award.[6]
Between 1975-77 he studied at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and received a Master of Science in Management and public policy. In 1977-78, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he studied technology policy, economics, engineering, and management, as part of the newly-established inter-disciplinary technology policy programme.[1][4]
He is a founding member of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Asia Society. Ramesh has been an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi since 2002.[citation needed]
Career
In 1978, Jairam Ramesh joined the World Bank for a short assignment. He returned to India in December 1979 and worked as assistant to economist Lovraj Kumar at the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices. From 1983 to 1985 he was Officer on Special Duty in the Advisory Board of Energy. He then worked in the Planning Commission (advisor to Abid Hussain), Ministry of Industry and other economic departments of the Central Government, including: analyzing energy policy during 1983-85, reorganizing the CSIR in 1986 and implementing technology missions during 1987-89.[citation needed]
In 1990, he worked as an "Officer on Special Duty" during the National Front administration of the V.P. Singh government. He reorganized India's international trade agencies in 1990 and was advisor to the Prime Minister in 1991. In 1991 he worked in Manmohan Singh’s finance ministry in the Narasimha Rao administration.[citation needed]
In recent years he has advised Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress party.[citation needed]
Ramesh participated in India's economic reforms in 1991 and 1997. He was advisor to the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission in 1992-94, served on special mission to Jammu and Kashmir during 1993-95 and was advisor to Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram between 1996-98. The central government invited him to join the official delegation to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999.[1]
From 2000-2002, Ramesh served as Deputy Chairman, State Planning Board, Government of Karnataka and on the Economic Advisory Council of Andhra Pradesh. He also served on the eminent persons group of the Union Ministry of Power and other key government committees.
Ramesh has also served as Secretary in the All India Congress Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Karnataka Planning Board (2000–2002), member of the Rajasthan Development Council (1999–2003), and Economic Advisor to the government of the state of Chhattisgarh (2001–03).[1] He was a member of the Congress Party's electoral strategy team for the 2004 Lok Sabha cycle.
In June, 2004, he was elected to represent Adilabad District, Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha. Following the formation of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2004, he joined the National Advisory Council, where he helped put together UPA's National Common Minimum Program. From Aug. 2004 - Jan. 2006 he was a member of three committees of Parliament: the Public Accounts Committee, the Standing Committee on Finance and the Committee on Government Assurances and was a member of the Court of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
In February, 2009, with the 15th Lok Sabha elections approaching, he led the party's Poll Strategy Panel. At that time he resigned his posts as Minister of State for Power and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.[citation needed]
Following his 2009 re-election to the Indian Parliament, on 28 May 2009 Ramesh was given independent charge of Environment and Forests as Minister of State in the Congress-led administration. He was chief negotiator for India at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 to 18 December 2009.[7]
Mr. Ramesh is part of the 19-member 'Foundation Day Committee' of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), under the chairmanship of party president Sonia Gandhi, for planning the 2010 year-long celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the Congress Party.[8]
On July 12, 2011, Mr. Ramesh was elevated to Cabinet minister for Rural Development.[9]
Journalism
Mr. Ramesh has been a columnist for the Business Standard, Business Today, The Telegraph, Times of India and India Today, sometimes under the pen-name "Kautilya".
He has also anchored a number of popular television programmes on business and the economy including Business Breakfast and Crossfire. Ramesh is an eminent author as well. He is the author of the books:
- Making Sense of Chindia: Reflections on China and India (2005), Foreword by Strobe Talbot.[10]
- Mobilising Technology for World Development (Co-editor, 1979)[11]
References
- ^ a b c d Ramesh, Jairam (2001). "Profile". Website of Jairam Ramesh. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ Jairam Ramesh quits ministry, to devote full time to poll
- ^ "WebPage of Shri Jairam Ramesh". Members of Rajya Sabha. New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Secretariat. 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ a b Churumuri (7-19-2009). "18 things you might like to know about Jairam". Wordpress.com. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Elliot, John (12 September 2009). "Jairam Ramesh sets the pace on India's climate change and environment policies". Riding the Elephant. New Delhi: WordPress.com. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Awardees 2001".
- ^ "Copenhagen Accord does not affect sovereignty: Govt". Indian Express.com. New Delhi: The Indian Express Limited. 12-22-2009. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ PTI (12-27-2009). "PM, Sonia to lay foundation for Cong HQ tomorrow". The Hindu. Kasturi & Sons Ltd. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Jairam elevated to Cabinet, moved out of Environment". The Hindu. Kasturi & Sons Ltd. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ Jairam Ramesh. Making Sense of Chindia: Reflections on China and India. New Delhi, India Research Press, 2005. ISBN 81-87943-95-5
- ^ C. Weiss and R. Jairam ,Mobilising technology for world development , Praeger, New York (1979)
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