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Ashwini Vaishnaw
Politician

Ashwini Vaishnaw

Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting · Bhartiya Janta Party · Politician

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Born18 Jul 1970
FromJodhpur, Rajasthan, India
OccupationPolitician
PartyBhartiya Janta Party
Ashwini Vaishnaw

Overview

Ashwini Vaishnaw (born 18 July 1970) is an Indian politician, former IAS officer and a businessman who serving as 39th Minister of Railways, 35th Minister of Information and Broadcasting and 2nd Minister of Electronics and Information Technology since 2024.

Earlier, he served as 39th Minister of Railways, 35th Minister of Information and Broadcasting, 2nd Minister of Electronics and Information Technology since 2024. He is also a Member of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha representing Bharatiya Janata Party since 2019.

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Career

Civil servant
In 1994, Vaishnaw joined the Indian Administrative Service in the Odisha cadre.[9] He worked extensively in different parts of Odisha including serving as the District Collector of Balasore and Cuttack districts. At the time of super cyclone 1999, he managed to collect data related to real timing and place of cyclone, by collecting that data Government of Odisha took safety measurements for people of Odisha. [9] He worked in Odisha till 2003 when he was appointed as deputy secretary in the office of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After his brief stint in the PMO where he contributed to creating the public-private-partnership framework in infrastructure projects, Vaishnaw was appointed as Vajpayee's private secretary after the BJP-led NDA lost the election in…

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Media

References

  1. "Shri Ashwini Vaishnav | National Portal of India". www.india.gov.in. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav embraces engineer on finding out they are alumnus of the same college". 10 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  4. ^ "PM Modi Cabinet Expansion: जाति, क्षेत्र और समुदाय- पीएम मोदी की नई कैब‍िनेट के जरिये साधे जाएंगे सारे समीकरण". News18 Hindi (in Hindi). 7 July 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  5. ^ "मोदी की नई टीम में ये हैं 20 सबसे युवा चेहरे, कोई वकील तो किसी को मिल चुका है संसद रत्न पुरस्कार". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd (in Hindi). Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Ashwini Vaishnaw – Education". Ashwini Vaishnaw. 11 April 2024.
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b "BJP's Ashwini Vaishnaw elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Odisha". Hindustan Times. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  8. ^ Ashwini Vaishnav RS Candidature Fuels BJD-BJP Deal Talk Odisha Bytes - 23 June 2019
  9. ^ Jump up to:a b "Ashwini Vaishnav RS Candidature Fuels BJD-BJP Deal Talk". ODISHA BYTES. 21 June 2019. Archived from the original on 16 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  10. ^ Gupta, Moushumi Das (25 June 2019). "The ex-IAS officer who is bringing Narendra Modi and Naveen Patnaik together". ThePrint. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  11. ^ "In Odisha, BJD-BJP consensus candidate for Rajya Sabha bypoll joins BJP". Hindustan Times. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  12. ^ "BJP's Ashwini Vaishnaw elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Odisha". Hindustan Times. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  13. ^ Mohanty, Meera (24 June 2019). "Naveen Patnaik's support to BJP man raises brows". The Economic Times. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  14. ^ "Bureaucrats prefer MBA degree for better career prospects". www.businesstoday.in. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  15. ^ "2 from BJD, 1 from BJP elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha". www.theweekendleader.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  16. ^ "Odisha: Amar Patnaik, Sasmit Patra and Ashwini Baishnab elected to Rajya Sabha". Business Standard India. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  17. ^ "Jual Oram to head parliamentary panel on defence". The Times of India. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  18. ^ "Rajya Sabha Committees constituted; Prasanna Acharya to head the Committee on Petitions". OdishaDiary. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  19. ^ "Growth may have slowed, but there's no recession, says Nirmala Sitharaman". @businessline. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  20. CHAIRMAN, DEPUTY; YAJNIK, AMEE; VAISHNAW, ASHWINI; ROY, SUKHENDU SEKHAR; SATHYANANTH, VIJILA; YADAV, RAM GOPAL; ACHARYA, PRASANNA; SINGH, RAMCHANDRA PRASAD; PRAKASH, BANDA; SOMAPRASAD, K.; SIVA, TIRUCHI; SHANMUGAM, M.; VISWAM, BINOY; TUNDIYA, MAHANT SHAMBHUPRASADJI; REDDY, T. SUBBARAMI; SINGH, VEER; KUMAR, KANAKAMEDALA RAVINDRA; SINHA, R. K.; MISTRY, MADHUSUDAN; LOKHANDWALA, JUGALSINH MATHURJI (8 January 2021). "The Recycling of Ships Bill, 2019". Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  21. ^ Service, Uniindia News. "Bill to recycle ships introduced in Rajya Sabha". Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  22. ^ "एक्शन मोड में नए रेल मंत्री:अश्विनी वैष्णव ने मंत्रालय में काम करने के समय में बदलाव किया, अब दो शिफ्टों में होगा काम; रेलवे की कमाई बढ़ाने पर फोकस". Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi). 2021.
  23. ^ Livemint (17 May 2023). "Sanchar Saathi online portal to track, block lost mobile phones launched". mint. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  24. ^ "Modi cabinet rejig: Full list of new ministers". India Today. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  25. ^ ""One Of The Most Brilliant...": Wharton Classmate On New IT Minister". NDTV.com. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  26. ^ Barik, Satyasundar (8 July 2021). "New Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has a vast experience in bureaucracy and corporate world". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 July 2021.

Last updated on 13 Oct 2024, 00:18 (IST)

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